1972 in UFO history
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1972 in UFO history
| Year | 1972 |
|---|---|
| Events | 5 |
| Decade | 1970s |
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic), Congress & law (topic), Propulsion & physics (topic) |
| Timeline | 1972 on the UAP Timeline |
1972 in UFO history — the UAP Timeline records 5 events in 1972, mostly about secrecy & cover-up and government programs. People named in these events include Harold Puthoff, Jacques Vallée, J. Allen Hynek, Franklin Mead, Ingo Swann.
Events
- Hynek's The UFO Experience (May 1972) — Blue Book adviser J. Allen Hynek writes that Blue Book was a cover-up and the problem was glossed over.
- Project Outgrowth (June 1972) — An Air Force propulsion lab report, Project Outgrowth, examines advanced propulsion ideas.
- Ingo Swann's magnetometer test (1972) (June 1972) — Ingo Swann's remote-viewing test with SRI leads to a CIA contract months later.
- Puthoff's report of a new secret study (1972) (7 October 1972) — Hal Puthoff tells Vallée a former NSA colleague said a new secret UAP study was underway.
- Howell McConnell and post-Blue Book analysis (28 October 1972) — An NSA official tells Vallée a Wright-Patterson office kept secretly analyzing UAP after Blue Book.
People
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- J. Allen Hynek — Astronomer and Air Force UFO consultant from 1948 to 1969 who later founded the Center for UFO Studies.
- Franklin Mead — Air Force propulsion engineer who edited Project Outgrowth and commissioned advanced propulsion studies.
- Ingo Swann — Artist and psychic whose tests at SRI led to the government's remote-viewing program.
- Pat Price — Remote viewer at SRI who described four alleged alien bases in 1973.
- Howell McConnell — NSA official who told Jacques Vallée of continued UFO analysis at Wright-Patterson.
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