Puthoff–Green emails on a pseudonymous article
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| Date | 31 July 1999 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Harold Puthoff, Christopher "Kit" Green, Jacques Vallée, Eric Walker |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 141 |
| Year | 1999 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1999 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 12 |
On 31 July 1999, physicist Hal Puthoff emailed former CIA physician Kit Green and Green's partner, engineer Kristin Zimmerman, asking whether Green had read a set of UFO Magazine articles about crash retrievals by a group called "Zodiac", and whether he had ever heard the name.[1]
The articles
Three articles by "Greg Halifax" appeared in UFO Magazine in 1998, in the May/June, September and December issues. They told the story of "Sedge Masters", a man recruited by the CIA and briefed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base about two craft recovered at Roswell in 1947. In the story, Zodiac was the usual code name for the MJ-12 group and program, said to have recovered eleven more craft by the early 1980s. The magazine's editor warned that the material was largely unverified.[1]
The email
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Puthoff wrote that he had reason to believe the articles were only lightly fictionalised versions of a source's experience writing up records for the archives at Wright-Patterson, and that Zodiac was supposed to be a true name. No reply from Green appears in the surviving thread.[1]
How it became public
The email was part of a thread attached to a memo from physicist Eric Davis to Robert Bigelow dated 23 March 2001, which surfaced online in 2019. The memo itself concerned Green's views on the "alien autopsy" film, which Green later said were mistaken.[1][2]
Later history
Davis went on to look for a former TRW employee said to have worked on Zodiac. Researcher Richard Dolan later said the Halifax articles were written as fiction and that their author was probably a corporate lawyer for TRW. No document has confirmed that a program called Zodiac existed.[1]
People and topics
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- Christopher "Kit" Green — CIA physician and analyst who became a long-time contact of Jacques Vallée and studied UAP-related injuries.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Project Zodiac — Project Zodiac
- Eric Walker — Penn State president and Institute for Defense Analyses chairman named in MJ-12 claims.
- TRW — A U.S. aerospace and defence contractor often named in UFO claims.
On the Timeline
- Cold fusion and the Energy Department (1999) (17 May 1999) — A journalist reports concerns about the Energy Department and cold fusion research.
- Will Miller on senior officials kept in the dark (2000) — A retired Navy commander says senior officials are kept away from UAP knowledge.
See every 1999 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Keith Basterfield, "Zodiac", UFOs – scientific research (July 2023) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
- "Infamous '90s alien autopsy film is being sold as a million-dollar NFT", The Debrief (May 2021) · thedebrief.org · archived copy
- Kit Green in Vallée's journals — Forbidden Science Dispatches · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
- Kit Green, Garry Nolan and UAP-related injuries — IBTimes · ibtimes.co.uk · archived copy
- Former CIA officer on UFO-related injuries — TweakTown · tweaktown.com · archived copy
- Kit Green — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Garry Nolan on UFO materials and Kit Green's patient studies (Vice interview) · exo.substack.com · archived copy
- imgur.com · imgur.com · archived copy
- richarddolanmembers.com · richarddolanmembers.com · archived copy
- ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
- johnclarkson.com.au · johnclarkson.com.au · archived copy
- youtu.be · youtu.be · archived copy
Further reading
- Majestic 12 — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Majestic 12 file — FBI Vault · vault.fbi.gov · archived copy
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Hangar 18 (the legend and 1980 film) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Harold E. Puthoff — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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