Niemtzow declines McDonnell study
From the UAP Encyclopedia, the open encyclopedia of UFO and UAP history · 🗓️ Event
Contents 4
| Date | 10 January 2002 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Jacques Vallée, Richard Niemtzow, Robert M. Wood, Christopher "Kit" Green |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 146 |
| Year | 2002 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2002 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
Niemtzow declines McDonnell study — A retired colonel tells Vallée he declined to join a secret McDonnell UAP study.
According to Jacques Vallée's journals, in January 2002 retired Air Force physician Richard Niemtzow told him that in the 1970s he had been invited to join a private UFO study at McDonnell Douglas, but turned it down.
The entry fits other accounts of McDonnell Douglas's quiet interest in UFOs, including Robert Wood's in-house study in the late 1960s and Kit Green's 1974 remark about a group of engineers in the Midwest.
No company documents about a 1970s study have been released, and Niemtzow's account is a private conversation recorded by Vallée.
People and topics
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Richard Niemtzow — Air Force physician interested in UFO-related injuries.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- McDonnell Douglas — The aerospace company that ran several quiet studies of UFOs and propulsion.
- Robert M. Wood — McDonnell Douglas engineer who ran an in-house UFO study and later promoted the MJ-12 documents.
- Christopher "Kit" Green — CIA physician and analyst who became a long-time contact of Jacques Vallée and studied UAP-related injuries.
On the Timeline
- Puthoff on black-budget physics (2002) (2002) — Puthoff tells author Nick Cook there is solid evidence of secret aerospace programs.
- Two Roswell materials claim (2002) (1 March 2002) — A general reportedly tells Eric Davis two unusual materials were recovered at Roswell.
See every 2002 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
- 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
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.
No discussion yet.