Project Blue Heaven claim
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Project Blue Heaven claim
| Interview | 11 April 1990 (follow-up interview late 1990 or 1991) |
|---|---|
| Source | Pseudonymous "Dr. Epigoni", a retired physicist then nearly 80 |
| Published | Leonard Stringfield, UFO Crash/Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum, Status Report VI (July 1991), pp. 203–207 |
| Claim | Headed a project at Edwards AFB in the late 1960s–early 1970s studying a landed disc and twelve humanlike occupants |
| "Blue Heaven" | A false name the source substituted for the real project name |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, pp. 106–107 |
| Date | 1990 |
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Leonard Stringfield, Linda Moulton Howe, Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Year | 1990 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1990 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
The Project Blue Heaven claim comes from a pseudonymous retired physicist, called "Dr. Epigoni", who said that in the late 1960s and early 1970s he headed a secret project at Edwards Air Force Base in California. It studied a flying disc that had landed there and its humanlike crew. The interview was carried out in 1990 by a Houston researcher acting for the ufologist Leonard Stringfield, who published it in his Status Report VI in July 1991.[5] Linda Moulton Howe later republished the report on her Earthfiles site.[3] According to Stringfield, "Blue Heaven" was not the project's real name: the source deleted the true name and substituted a false one.[5] No record of any such project has surfaced.
The source
- Stringfield wrote that the source claimed to have been "influentially active" during the Manhattan Project, with colleagues including Einstein, Oppenheimer and Teller. The interviewer described him as a retired physicist nearing 80 and in declining health. He said he had worked at two New Jersey research laboratories from 1939, then at a Navy post under John von Neumann, and at "the top of the Manhattan Project" on the atomic and hydrogen bombs.[5] None of this is confirmed, since his identity was never revealed.
- The earlier version of this article called him an engineer. Howe's Earthfiles reprint does label him "Engineer 'Dr. Epigoni'", but Stringfield's report calls him a physicist.[3][5]
- The name. Stringfield wrote that because of the secrecy of his work, the source deleted some of what he had disclosed, "such as the name of a UFO project he headed, substituting a false name, 'Blue Heaven'". He also revised other details in a later interview, and Stringfield published both versions.[5] The earlier version of this article said it was unclear what "Project Blue Heaven" referred to. By the source's own account, it is a cover name.
The account
- The recorded interview took place in the source's home on 11 April 1990, the pair's second meeting after one in June 1989.[5]
- The landing. He said he had been told the disc landed at Edwards. "Legs came down out of it and held it up", a stairway came down, and its crew walked out to where people were, before the stairway and legs retracted. He said it had been held for seven years when he saw it.[5][3]
- The craft. It was kept in a big hangar behind "four rows of guards" and twelve electrified fences. It had no seams, rivets or welds, and a clear dome on top through which he could see four seats and controls. Scientists said the material was one they had "never dreamed could exist", and they had not found a way to cut a hole in it.[5][4]
- The occupants. He said there were about twelve beings, roughly five feet tall and light brown, with eyes "like a dog's eyes, one color", ears, a nose and teeth. They wore an untarnished silvery material that contained "elements that we don't have on Earth". A blood sample under 1 cc "looked like oil", although he also described it as milky. Because the bodies did not decompose, the scientists decided to leave them alone in case another craft came to "rejuvenate or reactivate them". They were kept in a controlled room upstairs in the hangar.[5]
- The programme. He said it was run by the Defense Department, with the Navy having two or three similar projects. Security went "from the President, through the Director of the CIA to us", and he had attended meetings in Washington with President Nixon's "Special Committee" of scientists. He said he investigated about 25 landing sites, out of 40 or 50 landings between New Mexico and California over about five years, before leaving around 1971 or 1972. He said the project was still active in 1990, and that some bodies had been held near Homestead AFB in Florida.[5][4]
- The later interview. In a later session he described a craft about 40 feet across, with a turret rather than a glass dome. He said he believed it came from another planet and that he "saw robots. Robotic type beings." He also said a new Washington office had been set up six to eight months earlier, around late 1990, to deal with "foreign matter" and UFOs.[5][4]
Stringfield's view
- Stringfield noted that a physicist would not normally have had need-to-know access to alien anatomy. He also noted that humanlike crews with noses, ears and teeth did not fit the "little grays" in most crash and abduction reports. He found the idea of beings landing in suspended animation hard to explain, and suspected that the source was leaving out important details.[5]
- He wondered whether the beings were robots. He also speculated that some of the "40 to 50" landings might have been staged to test recruits.[5]
Assessment
- The account rests on one anonymous source, interviewed second-hand, who changed his story between interviews and admitted to using a false project name.[5] Earthfiles' reprint of the report is behind a paywall.[3] The full text is in Stringfield's report.[5]
- Edwards is the Air Force's main flight-test centre and a frequent setting for UFO stories. The earlier version of this article cited the claim that President Eisenhower secretly met aliens there in 1954 during a supposed dental visit to Palm Springs. That story is not covered in the sources read here.
- No official record of the project, under any name, has surfaced.
People and topics
- Edwards Air Force Base — The Air Force flight test center in California.
- Leonard Stringfield — Former Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 to 1994.
- Linda Moulton Howe — Journalist and filmmaker who runs the Earthfiles website and has reported many crash-retrieval claims.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — 34th U.S. president, named in the MJ-12 briefing document.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
On the Timeline
- TRESTLE facility and Ron Blackburn (1990) — A Lockheed engineer tells Vallée he helped build the TRESTLE facility.
- Naval Research Laboratory parapsychology claim (21 February 1990) — A journalist claims the Naval Research Laboratory had a parapsychology unit.
See every 1990 event on the UAP Timeline →
Further reading
- UFO documents — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
- Edward Teller — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Edwards Air Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
References
- Linda Moulton Howe — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Earthfiles — Linda Moulton Howe's news site · earthfiles.com · archived copy
- earthfiles.com · earthfiles.com · archived copy
- Michael Shellenberger, written testimony to the House Oversight Committee (13 November 2024), pp. 106–107 · oversight.house.gov
- Leonard H. Stringfield, UFO Crash/Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum, Status Report VI (July 1991), pp. 203–207 · archive.org
Facts in this article are drawn in part from the Wikipedia article “Linda Moulton Howe”, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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