Project Zodiac
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| Date | 3 March 2001 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Eric W. Davis, Jacques Vallée, Dale Graff |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 144 |
| Year | 2001 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2001 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 12 |
"Zodiac" is the name given in UFO circles to an alleged secret program for recovering and reverse-engineering crashed craft. According to Jacques Vallée's published journals, physicist Eric Davis told the story of Zodiac at a gathering at Joe Firmage's home on 3 March 2001, naming real people including Jerry Rosenberg and Dale Graff.[1]
Earlier journal entries
Vallée's journals record that on 22 March 2000 Davis was trying to find a woman who had worked at the defence company TRW around the time of Roswell. On 8 May 2000, Vallée, Davis and Hal Puthoff discussed a former TRW employee who said she had been part of a secret reverse-engineering project called Zodiac; Vallée noted that the file did not yet lead to the verifiable hard facts they needed. In the March 2001 telling, Davis said ten bound volumes of Roswell data were supposedly kept at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.[1]
The "Halifax" articles
The story had already appeared in 1998 in three UFO Magazine articles by "Greg Halifax", which described Zodiac as a CIA-linked recovery program. In a 1999 email Puthoff suggested they were lightly fictionalised accounts of a source's archival research at Wright-Patterson. Researcher Richard Dolan said the articles were written as fiction and that the author was probably a corporate lawyer connected to TRW, though he was not certain.[1]
Later claims
Notes attributed to Davis and dated 16 October 2002, known as the Wilson memo, say the TRW witness's account was found credible. Researchers have suggested names for the witness and the lawyer, but neither has confirmed it, and no one has publicly interviewed the witness.[1][2]
Assessment
Researcher Keith Basterfield concluded there is no definitive proof that Zodiac existed. Dale Graff, who directed remote-viewing work that grew into the government's Stargate program, has not publicly confirmed it.[1][3]
People and topics
- Eric W. Davis — Physicist who worked on AAWSAP and has said the U.S. holds recovered craft.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Remote viewing — The claimed ability to describe distant places by mental means.
- Dale Graff — Physicist who managed remote viewing at Wright-Patterson and later the Stargate program.
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — The Ohio air base that housed Project Blue Book and is linked to the Hangar 18 legend.
- Defense Intelligence Agency — The Pentagon's military intelligence agency, which ran AAWSAP.
- Stargate Project — The U.S. government's remote-viewing program, which ran from the 1970s until 1995.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
On the Timeline
- Army helicopters and cattle mutilations (2001) (24 February 2001) — Vallée hears of cattle mutilations linked to Army helicopters.
- Disclosure Project briefing to Congress (2001) (April 2001) — CSETI briefs members of Congress that a covert group controls parts of the UAP issue.
See every 2001 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Keith Basterfield, "Zodiac", UFOs – scientific research (July 2023) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
- "The Wilson memo", Anomaly Archives · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- Stargate Project (U.S. Army unit) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Forbidden Science — the journals of Jacques Vallée (Anomaly Archives) · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- Forbidden Science series — Anomalist Books · anomalistbooks.com · archived copy
- Parapsychology research at SRI — Wikipedia · Www.Wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Ingo Swann — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Puthoff, 'CIA-initiated remote viewing at Stanford Research Institute' · newdualism.org · archived copy
- Stargate Project — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Review of Forbidden Science 6 — SFCrowsnest · sfcrowsnest.info · archived copy
- Forbidden Science Dispatches — Tanner Boyle (journal summaries) · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
- amazon.com · amazon.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Roswell incident — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- UFOs and the Air Force: records — National Archives · archives.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
- Jacques Vallée — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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