Howard Cross's own sighting
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| Date | 17 December 2001 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Government programs (topic) |
| People | Jacques Vallée, Colm Kelleher, Howard C. Cross |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 146 |
| Year | 2001 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2001 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
Howard Cross's own sighting — A researcher finds a Blue Book file showing a Battelle scientist reported his own sighting.
According to Jacques Vallée's journals, in December 2001 NIDS researcher Colm Kelleher told him he had found a Project Blue Book file in which Howard Cross, a scientist at the Battelle Memorial Institute, reported his own UFO sighting in October 1951.
Cross is the scientist who, on 9 January 1953, wrote the "Pentacle memo", recommending that Battelle's analysis be completed before the Robertson Panel drew conclusions and proposing controlled observation experiments. Vallée had published and named the memo.
Finding that Cross had seen something himself added a personal dimension to the memo. It's an example of how archival work in Blue Book's records continues to reveal new details.
People and topics
- Project Blue Book — The Air Force's public UFO investigation from 1952 until its closure in December 1969.
- Battelle Memorial Institute — The Ohio research institute that analysed Air Force UFO reports.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- NIDS — Robert Bigelow's research institute (1995–2004) that studied UFOs and other anomalies.
- Colm Kelleher — Biochemist who helped run NIDS and BAASS and co-wrote Skinwalkers at the Pentagon.
- Howard C. Cross — Battelle scientist who wrote the 1953 "Pentacle" memo.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Pentacle memo — Pentacle memo
- Robertson Panel — Robertson Panel
On the Timeline
- NIDS black triangle study (3 November 2001) — Over 150 black triangle sightings are tallied at a NIDS meeting.
- Puthoff on black-budget physics (2002) (2002) — Puthoff tells author Nick Cook there is solid evidence of secret aerospace programs.
See every 2001 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
- Project Stork / Battelle and the Pentacle memo — CUFON · cufon.org · 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
- Project Blue Book — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Project Blue Book records — National Archives · archives.gov · archived copy
- Project Blue Book files — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- Jacques Vallée — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Pentacle memorandum — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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