1987 in UFO history
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1987 in UFO history
| Year | 1987 |
|---|---|
| Events | 2 |
| Decade | 1980s |
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Crashes & retrievals (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Military encounters (topic) |
| Timeline | 1987 on the UAP Timeline |
1987 in UFO history — the UAP Timeline records 2 events in 1987, mostly about secrecy & cover-up and crashes & retrievals. People named in these events include Bruce Maccabee, Ron Pandolfi, Jaime Shandera, Budd Hopkins, John Lear.
Events
- Bruce Maccabee's CIA talk (1987) (7 July 1987) — Navy physicist Bruce Maccabee says he lectured about UAP at CIA headquarters.
- John Lear's ParaNet statement (1987) (29 December 1987) — Pilot John Lear claims the government has worked with gray aliens since the 1960s.
People
- Bruce Maccabee — Navy optical physicist and leading analyst of UFO photographs.
- Ron Pandolfi — CIA scientist who appears in several UFO stories.
- Jaime Shandera — TV producer who received the MJ-12 film in 1984.
- Budd Hopkins — Artist and abduction researcher.
- John Lear — Pilot and son of Bill Lear who spread claims of alien treaties in the late 1980s.
- Paul Bennewitz — Albuquerque physicist targeted by Air Force disinformation in the Bennewitz affair.
- Bob Lazar — Man who claimed in 1989 that he worked on alien craft at S-4 near Area 51.
- George Knapp — Las Vegas journalist who broke the Bob Lazar story and co-wrote Skinwalkers at the Pentagon.
Programs, places and terms
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