Marconi director claim (2004)
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| Date | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 158 |
| Year | 2004 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2004 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 3 |
At the 2004 UFO Crash Retrieval Conference in Las Vegas, researcher Ryan Wood claimed in a talk on UFO-related deaths that a Marconi director who died in 1988 had been working on a cross-universe communications system and was seen as a leak concerning a simple, self-sustaining and unlimited power source. Wood's slides attributed these claims to "RV answers" — information obtained by remote viewing.[1]
The talk
Wood's presentation, "Murder and Majestic 12: An Investigation of UFO-Related Deaths", was published in the conference proceedings. Its slides listed a "John Ferry", described as a Marconi director and former Army brigadier, married with four children, who died in August 1988 when he was electrocuted in his flat, the day after narrowly escaping death when a runaway lorry hit his car. The "RV answer" given was that he had been working on an "instantaneous, transverse-complex, cross-universe communications transmission system". The same talk offered remote-viewing explanations for the deaths of British MP Martin Redmond and President John F. Kennedy.[1]
The Marconi deaths
Between 1982 and 1990 about 25 British scientists and engineers connected with GEC-Marconi, many working on defence projects such as the Sting Ray torpedo and work related to the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, died in circumstances that attracted press attention and conspiracy theories. Most deaths were ruled suicides or accidents, and police found them unconnected, though some received open verdicts. Brigadier Peter Ferry, who had worked on a new gun project and sat on a NATO industrial advisory group, died by electrocution in August 1988 in a death recorded as suicide; contemporary reports also called him John Ferry.[2][3]
Assessment
The claim that the director was working on exotic communications or energy technology derives from remote viewing, which reviewers of the government's programme concluded never produced reliable intelligence. No documents support it.[1][2]
In the testimony
The testimony cites: 2nd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference, p208.
People and topics
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
On the Timeline
- Ramey memo (2004) — A 1947 photo of Gen. Ramey holding a message is enlarged, and its text is debated.
- Wesley Clark on faster-than-light travel (3 November 2004) — Gen. Wesley Clark says faster-than-light travel is possible.
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References
- Ryan Wood, "Murder and Majestic 12: an investigation of UFO-related deaths", 2nd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Proceedings (Nov 2004), Internet Archive (PDF) · archive.org · archived copy
- GEC-Marconi scientist deaths conspiracy theory — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Marconi scientists' deaths lead to conspiracy theories", LBC/IRN, Learning on Screen · learningonscreen.ac.uk · archived copy
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