C. Richard D'Amato's warning to Vallée (1991)
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| Date | 1991 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Congress & law (topic) |
| People | C. Richard D'Amato, Jacques Vallée, Robert Byrd |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 108 |
| Year | 1991 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1991 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
C. Richard D'Amato, counsel for international and national security on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, told Jacques Vallée in 1990 and 1991 that the intelligence community was hiding UFO data from Congress and that a secret project spreading false information was acting illegally, according to Vallée's journals.[1]
The first meeting
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Writer Whitley Strieber suggested the meeting in June 1990, saying D'Amato believed there was illegal intelligence activity involving UFOs and would speak only in confidence. On 21 June 1990, Vallée wrote, D'Amato told him the intelligence agencies had been hiding UFO data from the legislative branch for years, appearing only to get money for secret projects such as "discoid platforms", and were not authorised to deceive the public or stage UFO hoaxes with taxpayers' money. He said that in Washington you must find out the truth before holding hearings.[1]
"A felony"
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On 24 May 1991, after meeting writer Timothy Good, journalist George Knapp and Bob Lazar, D'Amato told Vallée that what the secret group was doing was a felony: a government employee knowingly spreading false information should go to jail, and spending appropriated or private money on projects Congress did not know about was worse. He asked who was running the country if senators could not find out about a project, and whether a contractor such as Battelle or Lockheed was deciding the nation's fate.[1]
With Kit Green
At a later lunch with former CIA physician Kit Green, Vallée summarised their conclusion that the secret project was illegal, outside any government agency, small, and used high-level leaks to feed false data to researchers. Basterfield noted that Vallée's journals do not show what evidence D'Amato's statements rested on.[1]
The official version
D'Amato's later public statement says a senior committee chairman asked him to make a preliminary inquiry into alleged 1940s crashes in New Mexico, and that he concluded the allegations did not merit a Senate investigation.[2]
People and topics
- C. Richard D'Amato — Senate Appropriations Committee counsel who looked into black budgets for Sen. Robert Byrd.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Robert Byrd — Senate leader for whom C. Richard D'Amato and Christopher Mellon investigated black programs.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
On the Timeline
- Aviation Week secret aircraft report (1990) (1 October 1990) — Aviation Week reports 45 sightings of craft in the Southwest that hover, then go supersonic.
- Radio caller's underground base claim (1991) (1991) — A radio caller claims he wired a deep underground site holding military personnel and creatures.
See every 1991 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Keith Basterfield, "More on C. Richard D'Amato and 'black' UAP programs", UFOs – scientific research (Apr 2019) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
- Christopher Sharp, "Former chief for defense contractor that ran Area 51 claimed knowledge of recovered 'flying saucer' and 'live being'", Liberation Times (Feb 2023) · liberationtimes.com · archived copy
- Forbidden Science — the journals of Jacques Vallée (Anomaly Archives) · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- Forbidden Science series — Anomalist Books · anomalistbooks.com · archived copy
- Review of Forbidden Science 6 — SFCrowsnest · sfcrowsnest.info · archived copy
- Forbidden Science Dispatches — Tanner Boyle (journal summaries) · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Jacques Vallée — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- U.S. congressional hearings on UFOs — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · 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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