Ocean & underwater (topic)
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Ocean & underwater (topic)
| Type | Topic overview |
|---|---|
| Events | 16 |
| Years | 1951–2022 |
| Timeline | Show on the Timeline |
Ocean & underwater is one of the twelve topics on the UAP Timeline. It covers objects seen entering, leaving or moving under the sea. The Timeline lists 16 events on this topic, from 1951 to 2022.
Key people
- Donald Keyhoe — Retired Marine officer, author and director of NICAP who campaigned against UFO secrecy.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Dewey Fournet — Pentagon Air Force intelligence liaison to Project Blue Book who produced a 1952 study of UFO motions.
- Edward Ruppelt — Head of Project Blue Book in 1952–53 and author of The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects.
- Michael Swords — Historian of the Air Force UFO projects.
- Wolfgang Klemperer — Douglas Aircraft missile engineer who led a 1954–55 study of unconventional propulsion.
- William Tompkins — Douglas Aircraft draftsman who claimed late in life that he worked on a secret space program.
- John E. Henderson — Ohio congressman briefed by the Air Force on UFOs in 1958.
- Robert Jacobs — Air Force officer who said he filmed a UFO intercepting a test warhead at Big Sur in 1964.
- Florenz Mansmann — Air Force major who confirmed parts of Robert Jacobs's Big Sur story.
- Kingston George — Engineer who argued the Big Sur film showed ordinary missile hardware.
- John F. Kennedy — 35th U.S. president, named in disputed MJ-12 memos.
- James Kopf — Navy yeoman who described a 1971 encounter aboard the USS John F. Kennedy.
- Timothy Good — British author of books on UFO secrecy including Above Top Secret and Need to Know.
- Kevin Thomas — Navy photographer who described a black triangle rising from the sea near the USS Nimitz in 1991.
- David Fravor — Navy pilot who saw the 2004 Tic Tac object.
Programs, places and terms
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- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- NICAP — The leading U.S. civilian UFO group of the 1950s and 1960s.
- AARO — The Pentagon office set up in 2022 to investigate UAP.
- Transmedium — Able to move between air, space and water.
- Remote viewing — The claimed ability to describe distant places by mental means.
- NASA — The U.S. civilian space agency, created in 1958.
- Project Blue Book — The Air Force's public UFO investigation from 1952 until its closure in December 1969.
- Robertson Panel —
- Air Force Regulation 200-2 —
- McDonnell Douglas — The aerospace company that ran several quiet studies of UFOs and propulsion.
- Vandenberg Space Force Base — The California missile and space launch base.
- Disclosure Project — Steven Greer's campaign for UFO disclosure, best known for its May 2001 press conference.
Events
- Dewey Fournet's motion study and Navy inquiry (1951) — A Blue Book officer reportedly runs a private, Navy-assisted inquiry into undersea and aerial UAP.
- Navy FLYOBRPT reporting instruction (1954) (23 July 1954) — A new Navy directive orders UAP sighting reports sent to several intelligence commands.
- Douglas Aircraft unconventional propulsion study (1955) — An aerospace executive claims he worked in a UAP group at Douglas Aircraft from 1955.
- Henderson UFO briefing (1958) (20 June 1958) — The Air Force briefs members of Congress on handling constituent questions about UAP.
- Big Sur UFO film (September 1964) — An officer says he studied film of a UAP downing a test warhead over the Pacific; the CIA took it.
- USS John F. Kennedy encounter (1971) (June/July 1971) — A Navy yeoman says the USS John F. Kennedy's systems failed during a UAP encounter in the Caribbean.
- 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.
- DSP "fast walker" detection (1984) (5 May 1984) — An anonymous source says a U.S. spy satellite detected a UAP passing close by.
- Kevin Thomas and the Nimitz black triangle (1991) — A Nimitz petty officer says he saw a huge black triangle rise out of the ocean.
- Stubblebine's Mars lecture (1992) (22 May 1992) — Gen. Albert Stubblebine allegedly claims there are structures beneath the surface of Mars.
- Norton AFB UFO files claim (1 September 2002) — A couple tells Vallée they saw a large collection of UFO files at Norton AFB in 1985.
- Fort Worth HFGW jamming claim (2008) — An anonymous website claims UAP communications jamming was tested near Fort Worth.
- Navy underwater-object program claim (2017) (19 September 2017) — An astronomer with Navy contracts claims the Navy runs a secret underwater-object project.
- Coast Guard silver disc claim (30 November 2020) — A Coast Guard retiree says he saw a silver disc pulled from the ocean.
- NRO underwater objects claim (Forgotten Languages) (23 August 2022) — An anonymous website posts claims about the NRO and underwater objects.
- Kit Green psychic interview tape (20 October 2022) — Cameron releases a tape of Kit Green interviewing a psychic about UAP hotspots.
Other topics
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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