1993 in UFO history

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1993 in UFO history
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Year1993
Events7
Decade1990s
TopicsDisinformation & hoaxes (topic), Government programs (topic), Congress & law (topic), Crashes & retrievals (topic)
Timeline1993 on the UAP Timeline

1993 in UFO history — the UAP Timeline records 7 events in 1993, mostly about disinformation & hoaxes and government programs. People named in these events include Laurance Rockefeller, Bill Clinton, C. B. "Scott" Jones, John Gibbons, Richard Weaver.

Events

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  • Rockefeller Initiative (15 April 1993) — White House science office papers show CIA interest in a UAP researcher's work.
  • FBI MJ-12 espionage file (22 July 1993) — The FBI says it has a closed 'Majestic-12' file labelled espionage.
  • MARAUDER (1 August 1993) — The Air Force tests its MARAUDER plasma railgun in public.
  • Richard Weaver on MJ-12 (1993) (12 October 1993) — An Air Force colonel calls MJ-12 and its documents bogus but can't say how that was decided.
  • Earl Zimmerman affidavit (2 November 1993) — A radio operator's affidavit describes 1947 flying saucer rumors at his base.
  • Dan Sherman's transfer papers (December 1993) — Dan Sherman provides transfer papers he says relate to Project Preserve Destiny.
  • Project Condign (2 December 1993) — A UK Ministry of Defence memo discusses a proposed UAP study.

People

Laurance Rockefeller: Photograph of Laurance S. Rockefeller, at champagne party, in Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center. Original image cropped by Emiya1980 using…
Laurance Rockefeller: Photograph of Laurance S. Rockefeller, at champagne party, in Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center. Original image cropped by Emiya1980 using… Photo: New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Bottega, John, photographer. · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
  • Laurance Rockefeller — Philanthropist who lobbied the Clinton White House for UFO disclosure.
  • Bill Clinton — 42nd U.S. president, lobbied about UFO files by Laurance Rockefeller.
  • C. B. "Scott" Jones — Former naval officer and Senate aide who worked on the Rockefeller Initiative.
  • John Gibbons — President Clinton's science adviser.
  • Richard Weaver — Air Force officer who wrote the 1994 Roswell report.
  • Nick Redfern — British author of books on government UFO secrecy including Final Events.
  • Earl Zimmerman — Roswell radio operator who signed a 1993 affidavit.
  • Roger Ramey — Eighth Air Force commander who presented the Roswell balloon in 1947.
  • John Petersen — Futurist who founded the Arlington Institute.
  • Dan Sherman — Former Air Force sergeant who claimed in Above Black that he was trained to communicate with aliens.

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