Bob Oechsler

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Bob Oechsler
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Also known asOechsler
On the Timeline4 events, 1989–2022

Bob Oechsler (1950–2018) was an American engineer and UFO researcher from Maryland. He claimed he had worked for NASA as a mission specialist, a description NASA did not confirm.

Research

Bobby Ray Inman (b.1931), former director of the NSA and deputy director of the CIA.
Bobby Ray Inman (b.1931), former director of the NSA and deputy director of the CIA. Photo: Unidentified photographer · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

In 1989 Oechsler recorded a phone conversation with retired Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, a former NSA director, about whether the government held recovered UFO technology; the recording is often cited as a sign that Inman knew something. Oechsler also investigated the 1987 Gulf Breeze sightings in Florida, the Cosford incident in England, and claims about secret facilities, and co-wrote Silent Invasion (1991) with Ellen Crystall. Many of his claims about his own background and sources remain unverified.

On the UAP Timeline

Gulf Breeze UFO incident: The Gulf Breeze UFO model, on display and photographed in 2024
Gulf Breeze UFO incident: The Gulf Breeze UFO model, on display and photographed in 2024 Photo: Tbrighamphd · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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