Garry Nolan on crash materials and contractors
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| Date | 3 August 2022 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Congress & law (topic) |
| People | Garry Nolan, Christopher "Kit" Green |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 207 |
| Year | 2022 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2022 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 8 |
Garry Nolan, a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, is one of the most prominent academic scientists involved in UAP research. According to the testimony, in 2022 he said he had heard claims that materials from crashed craft had been passed to Lockheed and other aerospace companies.[1][2]
Nolan
Nolan (born 1961) is a highly cited immunologist who has founded several biotechnology companies, among them Rigel and Akoya Biosciences. He became involved in UFO questions around 2012 by analysing the "Atacama skeleton", which he showed to be a human foetus with bone abnormalities. He has said that afterwards people associated with the CIA and aerospace companies approached him for help analysing the blood and medical scans of pilots, ground staff and intelligence officers who had suffered harm after reported encounters with anomalous craft.[1][2]
Medical study
Nolan has said that, working with former CIA scientist Kit Green, he reviewed about 100 such patients, mostly defence, government or aerospace personnel. Many had brain lesions resembling those of "Havana syndrome", and Nolan attributes at least some cases to a hostile state rather than UAP. He has also described finding unusually dense neural connections between the caudate and putamen in some of the people, which he suggests may have been present before any incident. The work has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal.[2][3]
Materials analysis
Nolan has analysed about a dozen alleged UFO materials. In 2021 he said a fragment attributed to the 1957 Ubatuba, Brazil, case showed magnesium isotope ratios far from normal, while another piece from the same case did not. In 2022 he, Jacques Vallée and colleagues published a review of analytical techniques in Progress in Aerospace Sciences, using material from a 1977 incident in Council Bluffs, Iowa, as a case study; the isotope ratios measured were essentially those expected of terrestrial material. Critics on the skeptic forum Metabunk argued that the paper offered no protocols for its proposed "aerospace forensics".[2][4][5]
Later activity
In 2023 Nolan said he was certain that extraterrestrials had visited Earth and that governments had retrieved their artifacts, and he vouched for whistleblower David Grusch. That August he co-founded the Sol Foundation, a UAP research and policy group, which held its first symposium at Stanford. In June 2026 he was named to a White House UAP science advisory council. He has said he has not personally seen any craft.[1]
People and topics
- Garry Nolan — Stanford immunologist who studies UAP-related injuries and claimed materials.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Lockheed Martin — The aerospace company whose Skunk Works built the U-2, SR-71 and F-117.
- 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.
- Sol Foundation — A UAP research and policy group co-founded by Garry Nolan in 2023.
On the Timeline
- Ultraterrestrial hypothesis paper (31 July 2022) — Puthoff releases a paper on the 'ultraterrestrial' hypothesis.
- Calvine UFO photograph (12 August 2022) — Researcher David Clarke publishes the 1990 'Calvine' UFO photo from MoD files.
See every 2022 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Garry Nolan — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Stanford professor Garry Nolan is analyzing anomalous materials from UFO crashes", EXO (Dec 2021) · exo.substack.com · archived copy
- "People who claim seeing unidentified aerial phenomenon have something unique in their brains", Science Times (Dec 2021) · sciencetimes.com · archived copy
- G. P. Nolan, J. F. Vallée, S. Jiang and L. G. Lemke, "Improved instrumental techniques, including isotopic analysis, applicable to the characterization of unusual materials with potential relevance to aerospace forensics", Progress in Aerospace Sciences 128 (2022) · doi.org · archived copy
- Discussion of the Nolan–Vallée paper, Metabunk · metabunk.org · archived copy
- The search for alien artifacts — Search for Life in the Universe · searchforlifeintheuniverse.com · archived copy
- ORNL analysis of an alleged UFO metal specimen (PDF) — The Black Vault · documents2.theblackvault.com · archived copy
- youtu.be · youtu.be · archived copy
Further reading
- Skunk Works — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- U.S. congressional hearings on UFOs — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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