Kit Green's Air Force physician source
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Contents 8
| Date | 1982 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Christopher "Kit" Green, Donald Flickinger |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 94 |
| Year | 1982 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1982 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
In a July 2019 interview published by researcher Richard Dolan, former CIA physician Kit Green said that a retired Air Force general who was also a physician had told him in the 1980s that stories of alien incursions and crash recoveries were true.[1]
Green's account
Green said that while he was a CIA intelligence officer, he worked with a recently retired senior Air Force general officer and senior physician who had been a liaison on a classified manned spaceflight program. Green said he hired the man for a CIA science board in 1982. In 1983 or 1984, according to Green, the man said the stories about alien incursions, recoveries and information were true, and said he would get Green cleared into the programs, partly because so few physicians were cleared.[1]
The clearance that never came
Green said the clearance never happened, even though the man kept repeating the promise after Green left the CIA in 1985 and joined General Motors. Green said the man died in 1997 and did not name him.[1]
Identification
Australian researcher Keith Basterfield searched Air Force biographies for physicians who died in 1997 and found Brig. Gen. Donald D. Flickinger, a Stanford-trained surgeon who had directed Air Force bioastronautics, consulted for NASA and the CIA, and advised the U-2 program. Basterfield judged him consistent with Green's description, but found no record of Flickinger joining a CIA science board and no sign that he had any interest in UFOs.[1]
Assessment
The account is second-hand, told decades later, and the source cannot be asked. No document supports it.[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.
- Crash retrieval — The alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Donald Flickinger — Air Force physician and space medicine pioneer named as a source by Kit Green.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
On the Timeline
- Fort Hood hidden opening claim (1982) — An Air Force captain describes a pilot seeing a hidden opening in the ground at a Texas airfield.
- Ground Saucer Watch and the State Department (1982) (25 February 1982) — A civilian FOIA group gets no answer from the State Department about UAP records.
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References
- Keith Basterfield, "Kit Green's USAF UFO mentor", UFOs – scientific research (Aug 2019) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.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
- 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
Further reading
- 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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