Eric Walker and the Penn State alumnus
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| Date | 6 September 1990 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Eric Walker, Robert Sarbacher |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 108 |
| Year | 1990 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1990 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
On 6 September 1990 Penn State's student newspaper, the Daily Collegian, reported that a new book co-written by alumnus T. Scott Crain Jr. suggested former university president Eric A. Walker had attended top-secret meetings about UFO investigations.[1]
The report
The article, headlined "PSU may have investigated UFOs", said Crain's book contained transcripts of alleged conversations in which Walker discussed UFO sightings with officials, and that Crain believed Walker had attended the meetings while serving as executive secretary of the federal Research and Development Board in the 1950s. Crain called Walker "the first scientist to admit knowledge" of MJ-12.[1]
Walker's denial
Walker, then still living in Centre County, Pennsylvania, denied any knowledge of or involvement in government UFO investigations. Crain said the book contained evidence of his involvement and suggested Walker still held security clearances that an admission could jeopardise.[1]
The book
The book, UFOs, MJ-12 and the Government, also covered the 1965 Kecksburg incident in Pennsylvania. Crain was a lumber company manager, local MUFON director and investigator with the Pennsylvania Association for the Study of the Unexplained.[1]
Walker
Walker, an engineer, was associate director of Harvard's Underwater Sound Laboratory during the Second World War and president of Penn State from 1956 to 1970.[2]
Assessment
The claims about Walker rest on second-hand accounts that he publicly denied. He died in 1995.[1][2]
People and topics
- Eric Walker — Penn State president and Institute for Defense Analyses chairman named in MJ-12 claims.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Crash retrieval — The alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
- Robert Sarbacher — Physicist who wrote in 1983 that he heard recovered UFO materials were studied.
On the Timeline
- SAIC electromagnetic-gravity coupling study (1990) (August 1990) — An SAIC study tests whether electromagnetism and gravity can be coupled for space propulsion.
- Aviation Week secret aircraft report (1990) (1 October 1990) — Aviation Week reports 45 sightings of craft in the Southwest that hover, then go supersonic.
See every 1990 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Kim Baxter, "PSU may have investigated UFOs", The Daily Collegian (6 Sept 1990) · collegian.psu.edu · archived copy
- Eric A. Walker (engineer) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- 'PSU may have investigated UFOs' — Penn State Collegian · psucollegian.com · archived copy
- Dr. Eric A. Walker and MJ-12 claims · strangetextsbutcher.blogspot.com · archived copy
- Confirming MJ-12: Dr. Eric Walker — Gaia (documentary) · gaia.com · archived copy
- collegian.psu.edu · collegian.psu.edu · archived copy
Further reading
- UFO documents — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
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