Sandia uncle crashed saucer story (1982)
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Contents 4
| Date | 29 September 1982 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Propulsion & physics (topic), Congress & law (topic) |
| People | Harold Puthoff, Jacques Vallée |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 95 |
| Year | 1982 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1982 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
Sandia uncle crashed saucer story (1982) — Puthoff relays a story of a scientist who studied a crashed saucer and copied an antigravity device.
According to Jacques Vallée's journals, on 29 September 1982 Hal Puthoff told him a story he had heard from a colleague at Sandia National Laboratories. The colleague's uncle had supposedly studied a crashed saucer in the 1950s and copied an anti-gravity device from it.
The story is at least third-hand: from the uncle to the colleague, to Puthoff, to Vallée. No names, documents or technical details were given. Vallée recorded it as one of many such anecdotes he heard over the years.
Sandia, in Albuquerque, is one of the main U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories and is next to Kirtland Air Force Base, where the Bennewitz affair was unfolding at the same time.
People and topics
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- Anti-gravity — The idea of cancelling or controlling gravity for propulsion.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Sandia National Laboratories — A U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory in Albuquerque.
- Kirtland Air Force Base — The Albuquerque air base at the center of the Bennewitz affair.
- Bennewitz affair — Bennewitz affair
On the Timeline
- Pat Price's alien base reports (July 1982) — The Army's remote viewing chief finds 1973 reports of claimed underground UAP bases.
- Hutchison Effect (1983) — An Army intelligence group studies the 'Hutchison Effect', claimed to produce antigravity.
See every 1982 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
Further reading
- Jacques Vallée — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Sandia National Laboratories — 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.
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