Inman recording in Dreamland
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| Date | 7 July 2007 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Bobby Ray Inman, Bob Oechsler |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 164 |
| Year | 2007 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2007 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 7 |
Researcher Bob Oechsler's recording of a 1988 telephone call with retired Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, former director of the National Security Agency and deputy director of the CIA, reached a wider audience when it was played in the documentary Dreamland. The testimony dates this to 2007, when a DVD edition was released; the call itself took place in May 1988.[1][2][3]
The recording
In the call Oechsler asked Inman for advice on obtaining information about recovered craft. According to the testimony, Inman named a CIA official as the best person to ask about the subject. In the best-known exchange, published by Timothy Good in 1991, Inman said he did not know whether recovered vehicles would be made available for research but that ten years earlier the answer would have been no.[1][3]
Interpretation
Oechsler took Inman's remarks as hinting that recovered craft existed. Others noted that the phrase "recovered vehicles" was introduced by Oechsler and that Inman never said anything about UFOs or aliens; a British researcher who obtained the full tape reported that it contained no reference to UFOs. Inman said Oechsler had totally misrepresented their conversation.[3]
Inman's later view
According to the testimony, Inman said in later years that he had found plausible explanations for UFO reports. The recording remains one of the most-cited items involving a very senior intelligence official, though it contains no explicit statement about UFOs.[3][4]
People and topics
- Bobby Ray Inman — Former NSA director and CIA deputy director.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Bob Oechsler — UFO researcher who recorded a conversation with Adm. Bobby Ray Inman.
- National Security Agency — The U.S. signals intelligence agency, which holds UFO-related intercepts.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Area 51 — The secret Nevada test site where spy planes and stealth aircraft were developed.
On the Timeline
- DARPA zero-point energy test (2007) (27 May 2007) — Haisch tells Vallée a DARPA-funded zero-point energy test is negative so far.
- Puthoff locates the hardware program (2007) (4 August 2007) — Puthoff tells Vallée he thinks he knows where the secret UFO hardware program hides.
See every 2007 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Dreamland — a UFO documentary" (YouTube) · youtu.be · archived copy
- "Dreamland" (DVD), Amazon · amazon.com · archived copy
- Armen Victorian, "Curious liaisons", Lobster 23 (1992) · lobster-magazine.co.uk · archived copy
- Bobby Ray Inman — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- The Oechsler–Inman taped conversation · whitehouseufo.blogspot.com · archived copy
- The Independent, 19 Dec 1993 — Patrick Gross · ufologie.patrickgross.org · archived copy
- youtu.be · youtu.be · archived copy
Further reading
- UFO documents — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
- Bobby Ray Inman — 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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