Puthoff's "front door" attempt
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| Date | 10 September 2003 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Bernard Haisch, Harold Puthoff, Jacques Vallée, Thomas Wilson |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 154 |
| Year | 2003 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2003 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 4 |
Puthoff's "front door" attempt — Lockheed's Bernard Haisch says Puthoff tried official channels to reach a secret UFO program.
According to Jacques Vallée's journals, in September 2003 Lockheed Martin scientist Bernard Haisch told him that Hal Puthoff had tried the "front door", writing to officials through official channels, to gain access to a suspected secret UFO program, without success.
Haisch, an astrophysicist, had worked with Puthoff on the zero-point field theory of inertia and was himself interested in UFOs. He later founded the website ufoskeptic.org, arguing for open-minded study of the subject.
Similar access attempts are described in the Wilson/Davis notes, in which Adm. Thomas Wilson supposedly tried to get into a contractor's program and was refused. Neither attempt is documented in official records.
People and topics
- Lockheed Martin — The aerospace company whose Skunk Works built the U-2, SR-71 and F-117.
- Bernard Haisch — Astrophysicist at Lockheed who co-developed the zero-point field theory of inertia.
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- 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.
- Zero-point energy — The lowest possible energy of a physical system, which some hope to tap for power.
- Wilson–Davis notes — Wilson–Davis notes
- Thomas Wilson — Former DIA director named in the Wilson–Davis notes.
On the Timeline
- One black UFO operation claim (2003) (23 August 2003) — Puthoff and Petersen tell Vallée there is only one 'black UFO operation', about hardware.
- Arlington Institute contact scenario exercises (14 September 2003) — Puthoff took part in a think tank's role-play of possible alien contact scenarios.
See every 2003 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Forbidden Science — the journals of Jacques Vallée (Anomaly Archives) · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- Forbidden Science series — Anomalist Books · anomalistbooks.com · archived copy
- Harold E. Puthoff — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- amazon.com · amazon.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Skunk Works — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · 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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