Former TRW employee reverse-engineering claim
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| Date | 8 May 2000 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Military encounters (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Jacques Vallée, Harold Puthoff, Eric W. Davis, Christopher "Kit" Green |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 143 |
| Year | 2000 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2000 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
According to Jacques Vallée's journals, on 8 May 2000 Vallée, physicist Eric Davis and Hal Puthoff discussed a former employee of the defence contractor TRW who said she had been part of a secret reverse-engineering project called "Zodiac". An attorney friend of hers had gathered her testimony.[1]
The journal entries
On 22 March 2000 Vallée recorded that Davis had spoken openly about his efforts to find a woman who had worked at TRW around the time of Roswell and might confirm crash data. At the 8 May meeting Vallée wrote that Davis had compiled his own file, but that it did not lead to the verifiable hard facts they needed. On 3 March 2001 Davis retold the Zodiac story at Joe Firmage's home, naming real people including Jerry Rosenberg and Dale Graff.[1]
Background
TRW, later bought by Northrop Grumman, appears repeatedly in UFO rumours. In 1998 a series of UFO Magazine articles by "Greg Halifax" described a CIA-linked recovery program called Zodiac, which Puthoff believed were lightly fictionalised.[1]
Later claims
Notes attributed to Davis and dated October 2002 say the TRW witness's account was found credible. Researchers have suggested names for the witness and her lawyer, but neither has confirmed it, and no one has publicly interviewed her.[1]
Assessment
The woman's identity and claims were never made public or verified.[1]
People and topics
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- Reverse engineering — Studying a recovered object to learn how it works and copy it.
- Eric W. Davis — Physicist who worked on AAWSAP and has said the U.S. holds recovered craft.
- TRW — A U.S. aerospace and defence contractor often named in UFO claims.
- Non-human intelligence — A term for intelligent beings of non-human origin, used in UAP legislation.
- AAWSAP — The Defense Intelligence Agency's UAP research program of 2008–2010, carried out by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Christopher "Kit" Green — CIA physician and analyst who became a long-time contact of Jacques Vallée and studied UAP-related injuries.
On the Timeline
- Henry Dakin's San Francisco building (20 February 2000) — Vallée describes a building in San Francisco renting to paranormal research groups.
- Kit Green's three landings briefing claim (8 May 2000) — They also discuss Kit Green's claim of a briefing on three alien landings.
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References
- Keith Basterfield, "Zodiac", UFOs – scientific research (July 2023) · 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
- 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
- Jacques Vallée — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Harold E. Puthoff — 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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