Puthoff's report of a new secret study (1972)
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| Date | 7 October 1972 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Harold Puthoff, Jacques Vallée |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 75 |
| Year | 1972 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1972 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
Puthoff's report of a new secret study (1972) — Hal Puthoff tells Vallée a former NSA colleague said a new secret UAP study was underway.
In his journals, published as Forbidden Science 2: California Hermetica (1970–1979), Jacques Vallée recorded that on 7 October 1972, physicist Hal Puthoff told him a former colleague from the National Security Agency had said a new, secret UFO study was under way. Puthoff had served in Naval Intelligence and worked at NSA in the 1960s before joining SRI.
No such study has been documented, and the NSA colleague isn't named. The entry is one of several in Vallée's journals from the 1970s reporting rumours of continued government interest after Blue Book closed in 1969.
Supporters of a hidden program point to these entries as evidence that official study continued in secret. Others see them as reflecting rumours circulating among intelligence-linked scientists. Puthoff's involvement in UAP research continued for decades, including the 2007–2012 AAWSAP program.
People and topics
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- National Security Agency — The U.S. signals intelligence agency, which holds UFO-related intercepts.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Forbidden Science — Jacques Vallée's published journals.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- SRI International — The research institute where the government's remote-viewing studies began.
- Project Blue Book — The Air Force's public UFO investigation from 1952 until its closure in December 1969.
- AAWSAP — The Defense Intelligence Agency's UAP research program of 2008–2010, carried out by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.
On the Timeline
- Ingo Swann's magnetometer test (1972) (June 1972) — Ingo Swann's remote-viewing test with SRI leads to a CIA contract months later.
- Howell McConnell and post-Blue Book analysis (28 October 1972) — An NSA official tells Vallée a Wright-Patterson office kept secretly analyzing UAP after Blue Book.
See every 1972 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
- Harold E. Puthoff — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Review of Forbidden Science 6 — SFCrowsnest · sfcrowsnest.info · archived copy
- Forbidden Science Dispatches — Tanner Boyle (journal summaries) · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
- abovetopsecret.com · abovetopsecret.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Jacques Vallée — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- UFO documents — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
- UFO documents — NSA · nsa.gov · archived copy
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