Puthoff's "front door" attempt

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Puthoff's "front door" attempt
Hal Puthoff
Hal Puthoff Photo: CIA · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
Date10 September 2003
TopicsSecrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic)
PeopleBernard Haisch, Harold Puthoff, Jacques Vallée, Thomas Wilson
TestimonyShellenberger testimony, p. 154
Year2003 in UFO history
Timeline2003 on the UAP Timeline
Sources4

Puthoff's "front door" attempt — Lockheed's Bernard Haisch says Puthoff tried official channels to reach a secret UFO program.

According to Jacques Vallée's journals, in September 2003 Lockheed Martin scientist Bernard Haisch told him that Hal Puthoff had tried the "front door", writing to officials through official channels, to gain access to a suspected secret UFO program, without success.

Haisch, an astrophysicist, had worked with Puthoff on the zero-point field theory of inertia and was himself interested in UFOs. He later founded the website ufoskeptic.org, arguing for open-minded study of the subject.

Similar access attempts are described in the Wilson/Davis notes, in which Adm. Thomas Wilson supposedly tried to get into a contractor's program and was refused. Neither attempt is documented in official records.

People and topics

Jacques Vallée 2024
Jacques Vallée 2024 Photo: Cmichel67 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
  • Lockheed Martin — The aerospace company whose Skunk Works built the U-2, SR-71 and F-117.
  • Bernard Haisch — Astrophysicist at Lockheed who co-developed the zero-point field theory of inertia.
  • Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
  • Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
  • Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
  • Zero-point energy — The lowest possible energy of a physical system, which some hope to tap for power.
  • Wilson–Davis notes — Wilson–Davis notes
  • Thomas Wilson — Former DIA director named in the Wilson–Davis notes.

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