Garry Nolan
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| Type | Person |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Nolan |
| On the Timeline | 6 events, 1974–2022 |
Garry Nolan (born 1961) is a British-born American immunologist and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for developing technologies to analyse single cells and for founding several biotechnology companies. Since the 2010s he has also become a prominent scientific voice in the study of unidentified anomalous phenomena, including injuries reported by people near UAP and analysis of claimed anomalous materials.[1]
Education and scientific career
Nolan was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in Windsor, Connecticut. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology at Cornell University in 1983 and a PhD in genetics at Stanford in 1989 under Leonard Herzenberg, a pioneer of flow cytometry, and did postdoctoral work with Nobel laureate David Baltimore at MIT from 1990 to 1993. He joined Stanford's faculty in 1993, became a full professor in 2009, and has held the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professorship since 2011. His research covers immunology, cancer, blood-cell development and systems biology.[1][2]
Nolan has co-founded several companies, including Rigel (1996), Nodality (2003), BINA Technology, bought by Roche in 2014, and Akoya Biosciences (2015), which sells the CODEX tissue-imaging technology developed in his laboratory. He received the U.S. Department of Defense Teal Innovator Award in 2012 and the Hans Sigrist Prize in 2021.[1]
The Atacama skeleton
From 2012 Nolan studied the "Ata" skeleton, a tiny mummified body from Chile's Atacama Desert that some had claimed was alien. In 2018 his team reported in a peer-reviewed study that it was a human fetus with rare genetic mutations affecting bone growth, findings widely covered by The New York Times and Science.[1][3][4]
UAP research
Nolan has said he was approached by people representing the government and an aerospace company about medical harm suffered by personnel after reported encounters with anomalous craft. Working with Christopher "Kit" Green, a physician and former CIA analyst, he studied the medical records and blood of such patients, and said they found, in brain scans, unusual dense connections between the caudate and putamen regions in some of them.[1][5] In 2022 he co-authored, with Jacques Vallée and others, a peer-reviewed paper in Progress in Aerospace Sciences describing techniques for analysing materials claimed to come from UAP.[6]
In August 2023 he co-founded the Sol Foundation with anthropologist Peter Skafish, a research and policy group on UAP; its first symposium was held at Stanford that year. In May 2023 he said he was "100 percent" certain that non-human intelligence had visited Earth.[1][7] He appears in the 2025 documentary The Age of Disclosure, and in 2026 he was reported to have been named to a White House UAP science advisory council.[1][8]
Reception
Supporters see Nolan as a credible scientist bringing rigorous methods to the subject; critics note that his statements about non-human visitors go beyond the published evidence. His work on the Atacama skeleton is often cited as an example of a sensational claim resolved by careful science.[1][3]
On the UAP Timeline
- Livermore scientists' paranormal experiences (1974) — Kit Green says he worked with scientists who reported orbs and entities in their homes.
- Kit Green's Wayne State encounter study (19 August 2003) — Kit Green shows Vallée a study of people who believed they had encounters.
- Kit Green's injury database (2005) — Kit Green begins a database of people injured in close encounters.
- American Cosmic (20 February 2019) — Diana Pasulka's book describes a scientist, 'Tyler', who handled claimed non-human artifacts.
- Vallée on a contractor controlling the issue (2020) (4 December 2020) — Vallée says a private contractor controls the UAP issue.
- Garry Nolan on crash materials and contractors (3 August 2022) — Stanford's Garry Nolan discusses claims that crash materials went to aerospace companies.
References
- Garry Nolan — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Garry Nolan — Stanford Profiles · profiles.stanford.edu · archived copy
- Carl Zimmer, "Was a Tiny Mummy in the Atacama an Alien? No, but Its Genes Tell a Tragic Story", The New York Times (22 Mar 2018) · nytimes.com · archived copy
- "This strange 'alien' skeleton is actually a human fetus with genetic bone defects", Science (2018) · science.org · archived copy
- "Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials From UFO Crashes", Vice (2021) · vice.com · archived copy
- G. Nolan, J. Vallée et al., "Improved instrumental techniques…", Progress in Aerospace Sciences 128 (2022) · doi.org · archived copy
- "Stanford prof Garry Nolan says aliens are '100%' living among us", New York Post (23 May 2023) · nypost.com · archived copy
- "Michael Shermer Named to White House UAP Science Advisory Council", Skeptic (2026) · skeptic.com · 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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