Flickinger autopsy material claim
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Contents 9
| Date | 5 March 2002 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Christopher "Kit" Green, Jacques Vallée, Donald Flickinger |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 147 |
| Year | 2002 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2002 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 11 |
Former CIA physician Kit Green has said that a retired senior Air Force general who was also a physician told him in the 1980s that stories of alien incursions and recoveries were true. Researcher Keith Basterfield has suggested the unnamed officer was Brig. Gen. Donald D. Flickinger.[1]
Green's account
In a July 2019 interview published by Richard Dolan, Green said the man was a recently retired Air Force general officer and senior physician who acted as liaison on a classified manned spaceflight program. Green said he hired him for a CIA science board in 1982, and that in 1983 or 1984 the man told him the stories were true and promised to get him cleared for the programs, partly because few physicians were cleared. The clearance never came, though the promise was repeated after Green left the CIA for General Motors. Green said the man died in 1997.[1]
Flickinger
Flickinger, a Stanford-trained surgeon, directed human factors planning for putting a man in space and later headed Air Force bioastronautics and life sciences. He left the Air Force in 1961, consulted for NASA and other agencies including the CIA, served as medical adviser to the U-2 program for over a decade, helped select the Mercury 7 astronauts, and died on 23 February 1997.[1]
Basterfield's findings
Basterfield found Flickinger by searching Air Force biographies for physicians who died in 1997, and judged his career consistent with Green's description. He found no official record of Flickinger joining a CIA science board and no sign that Flickinger had any interest in UFOs.[1]
The autopsy claim
Some summaries of Vallée's journals add that Green wrote in 2002 that Flickinger had once seen alien autopsy material. That entry has not been published online and cannot be checked here.[1]
Assessment
The identification is Basterfield's inference, and Green has not named his source. No document supports the claim.[1]
People and topics
- Christopher "Kit" Green — CIA physician and analyst who became a long-time contact of Jacques Vallée and studied UAP-related injuries.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Alien autopsy film — A 1995 film of an alleged alien autopsy, admitted in 2006 to have been staged.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Donald Flickinger — Air Force physician and space medicine pioneer named as a source by Kit Green.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Crash retrieval — The alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
On the Timeline
- Disguised UFO sensor network claim (2 March 2002) — Kit Green says hidden UAP sensors were disguised as environmental monitoring stations.
- Will Miller's offer to Davis and Puthoff (25 April 2002) — A retired Navy commander offers his services researching crash retrievals.
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References
- Keith Basterfield, "Kit Green's USAF UFO mentor", UFOs – scientific research (Aug 2019) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.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
- Kit Green in Vallée's journals — Forbidden Science Dispatches · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
- Kit Green, Garry Nolan and UAP-related injuries — IBTimes · ibtimes.co.uk · archived copy
- Former CIA officer on UFO-related injuries — TweakTown · tweaktown.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
- Kit Green — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Garry Nolan on UFO materials and Kit Green's patient studies (Vice interview) · exo.substack.com · archived copy
- amazon.com · amazon.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Jacques Vallée — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Harold E. Puthoff — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- UFO documents — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · 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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