Oke Shannon and Los Alamos UAP interest

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Oke Shannon and Los Alamos UAP interest
Portrait of Dr. Charles McMillan, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory
Portrait of Dr. Charles McMillan, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory Photo: Los Alamos National Laboratory · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
Date24 September 2022
TopicsBeings & bodies (topic), Nuclear & missile sites (topic)
PeopleJames Shannon, John B. Alexander, Thomas Wilson, Eric W. Davis
TestimonyShellenberger testimony, p. 209
Year2022 in UFO history
Timeline2022 on the UAP Timeline
Sources4

Oke Shannon and Los Alamos UAP interest — A former Los Alamos manager says staff studied UAP unofficially.

James "Oke" Shannon is a former special projects manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2022, he said that some lab staff had studied UAP unofficially, and that by the mid-1980s some had concluded the phenomenon might be "interdimensional" rather than simply extraterrestrial.

Shannon was involved with John Alexander's 1985 Advanced Theoretical Physics group. He also said that Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson, former DIA director, had contacted him about Eric Davis, which connects to the disputed Wilson/Davis notes. Wilson denies the notes' account.

Shannon's statements give an inside view of informal interest at the nuclear labs. They're based on his recollections and haven't been confirmed by documents.

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