Eric Walker interview
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Contents 3
| Date | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic) |
| People | Eric Walker, Robert Sarbacher, William Steinman |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 106 |
| Year | 1990 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1990 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 4 |
Eric Walker interview — An interview attributed to scientist Eric Walker discusses secret UAP knowledge.
Eric Walker was a prominent engineer and scientist who served as president of Pennsylvania State University from 1956 to 1970 and chaired the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Pentagon-funded research centre. In his 1983 letter, physicist Robert Sarbacher named Walker as someone who attended secret meetings about recovered UFO material around 1950.
Researcher William Steinman says Walker told him by phone in 1987 that he had known about MJ-12 for 40 years. Another researcher, using the pseudonym "Armen Victorian" (later identified as Henry Azadehdel), recorded further conversations with Walker around 1990, in which Walker reportedly hinted at knowledge of the subject while refusing to give details. The testimony cites an interview attributed to Walker from that period.
Walker died in 1995. His family and colleagues didn't confirm the claims, and the recordings have been interpreted very differently: as a guarded confirmation by supporters, and as an elderly man humouring persistent callers by skeptics.
People and topics
- Eric Walker — Penn State president and Institute for Defense Analyses chairman named in MJ-12 claims.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Robert Sarbacher — Physicist who wrote in 1983 that he heard recovered UFO materials were studied.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- William Steinman — Researcher who corresponded with Robert Sarbacher and Eric Walker.
- MJ-12 — Disputed documents describing a secret committee managing crashed saucers.
On the Timeline
- Dan Sherman on programs above special access (1990) — Sgt. Dan Sherman says some secret programs are hidden above the usual special access level.
- Jim Goodall and Groom Lake black programs (1990) — Writer James Goodall says at least eight secret programs fly from Groom Lake.
See every 1990 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- 'PSU may have investigated UFOs' — Penn State Collegian · psucollegian.com · archived copy
- Dr. Eric A. Walker and MJ-12 claims · strangetextsbutcher.blogspot.com · archived copy
- Confirming MJ-12: Dr. Eric Walker — Gaia (documentary) · gaia.com · archived copy
- amazon.com · amazon.com · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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