Clinton witness order claim (1995)
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| Date | 31 March 1995 |
|---|---|
| People | Jacques Vallée, Bill Clinton, John Petersen, Gordon Cooper, Ingo Swann, Tim Cooper |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 122 |
| Year | 1995 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1995 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
Clinton witness order claim (1995) — Vallée says he was told President Clinton signed an order protecting certain witnesses.
According to Jacques Vallée's journals, on 31 March 1995 he had lunch with futurist John Petersen, founder of the Arlington Institute, a think tank that worked with defence and intelligence clients. Petersen claimed that President Clinton had signed an order allowing certain people, including Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper and remote viewer Ingo Swann, to speak freely about what they knew of UFOs.
No such executive order has ever been found in the public record, and neither Cooper nor Swann said they had been released from secrecy obligations by presidential order. Cooper had long spoken publicly about UFOs, including in a 1978 letter to the UN.
The testimony notes that Swann suggested non-human intelligences might be operating a kind of "control system" humanity wasn't aware of, a theme he explored in his book Penetration (1998), which describes a supposed secret remote-viewing assignment involving the Moon. Petersen's claim remains unverified.
People and topics
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Bill Clinton — 42nd U.S. president, lobbied about UFO files by Laurance Rockefeller.
- John Petersen — Futurist who founded the Arlington Institute.
- Arlington Institute — The futurist think tank founded by John Petersen in 1989.
- Gordon Cooper — Mercury astronaut who spoke publicly about UFOs.
- Remote viewing — The claimed ability to describe distant places by mental means.
- Ingo Swann — Artist and psychic whose tests at SRI led to the government's remote-viewing program.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Tim Cooper — California researcher who said he received many MJ-12-style documents from anonymous sources in the 1990s.
- Non-human intelligence — A term for intelligent beings of non-human origin, used in UAP legislation.
On the Timeline
- Dan Sherman's second assignment (1995) (Early 1995) — Sherman says he moved to a second Preserve Destiny location.
- America West Flight 564 sighting (25 May 1995) — An airliner crew and an F-117 both see a huge cigar-shaped object over the Southwest.
See every 1995 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- 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
- amazon.com · amazon.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Stargate Project — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Stargate collection — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
- Jacques Vallée — 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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