Laurance Rockefeller's two UFO projects
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| Date | 10 December 1994 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic) |
| People | Jacques Vallée, Laurance Rockefeller, Steven Greer, Bill Clinton, John Gibbons, John Petersen |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 121 |
| Year | 1994 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1994 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 8 |
According to Jacques Vallée's journals, by December 1994 the billionaire philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller was funding two separate UFO efforts: Steven Greer's CSETI project and another research effort known to Vallée. Rockefeller was one of the most significant private backers of UFO research in the 1990s.[1][2]
The projects
Greer's CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) collected testimony from military and government witnesses and organised attempts at "contact"; it later became the Disclosure Project, which held a press conference in Washington in 2001. Vallée recorded that Rockefeller was also funding a separate research effort.[1][3]
The White House initiative
Both efforts ran alongside Rockefeller's lobbying of the Clinton White House from 1993, in which he and his niece Anne Bartley pressed for the release of government UFO files, with the 1947 Roswell incident as the first test case. Rockefeller briefed Clinton on the initiative's results in 1995.[2]
Other funding
Rockefeller also funded a privately produced report, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, given to officials; the research of Harvard psychiatrist John Mack into abduction experiences; and the largest survey of crop circles in Britain.[2][4]
Connections
The testimony connects this to futurist John Petersen, whose Arlington Institute was involved in related networks. Rockefeller died on 11 July 2004 in New York, aged 94.[2]
People and topics
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Laurance Rockefeller — Philanthropist who lobbied the Clinton White House for UFO disclosure.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Steven Greer — Physician who founded CSETI and the Disclosure Project.
- CSETI — The organization founded by Steven Greer in 1990.
- Bill Clinton — 42nd U.S. president, lobbied about UFO files by Laurance Rockefeller.
- John Gibbons — President Clinton's science adviser.
- Roswell — The New Mexico town at the center of the 1947 crash story.
- John Petersen — Futurist who founded the Arlington Institute.
- Arlington Institute — The futurist think tank founded by John Petersen in 1989.
On the Timeline
- Boscombe Down incident (26 September 1994) — A magazine reports an object crash-landed at Boscombe Down, UK, followed by unmarked jets.
- Dan Sherman's second assignment (1995) (Early 1995) — Sherman says he moved to a second Preserve Destiny location.
See every 1994 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Forbidden Science — the journals of Jacques Vallée", Anomaly Archives · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- Laurance Rockefeller — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Steven M. Greer — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence", Sacred Texts · sacred-texts.com · archived copy
- Forbidden Science series — Anomalist Books · anomalistbooks.com · archived copy
- Review of Forbidden Science 6 — SFCrowsnest · sfcrowsnest.info · archived copy
- Forbidden Science Dispatches — Tanner Boyle (journal summaries) · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
- johnlpetersen.com · johnlpetersen.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Jacques Vallée — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Steven M. Greer — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Laurance Rockefeller — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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