Bobby Ray Inman on plausible explanations (2022)
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| Date | 16 March 2022 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Bobby Ray Inman, Bob Oechsler |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 205 |
| Year | 2022 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2022 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 7 |
According to the testimony, retired Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, former director of the National Security Agency and deputy director of the CIA, said in a 2022 interview that during his career he had found plausible explanations for UFO reports. The remarks came in an interview with the Project Unity channel about his intelligence career, geopolitics and UFOs.[1][2]
Inman
Inman directed the NSA from 1977 to 1981 and was deputy director of Central Intelligence in 1981–82. He had earlier been director of naval intelligence. President Bill Clinton nominated him as Secretary of Defense in December 1993, but he withdrew the following month.[3]
The Oechsler tape
UFO researchers had long cited a telephone call recorded in May 1988 by researcher Bob Oechsler, in which Inman, asked whether any recovered vehicles might become available for research, said he did not know but that ten years earlier the answer would have been no. British writer Timothy Good presented this in 1991 as a hint that such vehicles existed. A reviewer who obtained the full tape reported that it contained no reference to UFOs, and Inman wrote in 1991 that Oechsler had "totally misrepresented" the conversation and that he knew of no MJ-12 group.[4][5]
Significance
Inman's 2022 comments support the view that his earlier remarks were polite answers rather than disclosures. Video of him discussing crash-retrieval claims has continued to circulate, and he remains one of the most senior intelligence officials to have been drawn into UFO discussions.[1][2][4]
People and topics
- Bobby Ray Inman — Former NSA director and CIA deputy director.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- National Security Agency — The U.S. signals intelligence agency, which holds UFO-related intercepts.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Bob Oechsler — UFO researcher who recorded a conversation with Adm. Bobby Ray Inman.
On the Timeline
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- Nuclear lure plan claim (18 March 2022) — A reporter says a plan exists to draw UAP out using nuclear materials.
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References
- "Admiral Bobby Ray Inman: intelligence career, geo-politics & UFOs", Project Unity (YouTube) · youtu.be · archived copy
- "Admiral Bob R. Inman on crash retrievals" (YouTube) · youtu.be · archived copy
- Bobby Ray Inman — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Armen Victorian, "Curious liaisons", Lobster 23 (1992) · lobster-magazine.co.uk · archived copy
- Elizabeth Nash, "Cosmic cover-up alleged", The Independent (19 Dec 1993) · ufologie.patrickgross.org · archived copy
- youtu.be · youtu.be · archived copy
- archive.org · archive.org · archived copy
Further reading
- UFO documents — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
- UFO documents — NSA · nsa.gov · 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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