Place

Stanford, CA

United States

37.43 N, 122.17 WView on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)

3 events here, 1977 to 2023, in date order.

  1. Close encounters

    Sturrock survey of American Astronomical Society members

    Stanford's Peter Sturrock mailed a UFO questionnaire to 2,611 American Astronomical Society members; 1,356 replied. Most said the subject certainly, probably or possibly deserved study, and 62 said they had seen or recorded something unidentified they thought might be UFO-related.

  2. Media

    Genome study shows the Atacama 'alien' skeleton is human

    Stanford and UCSF researchers published a whole-genome study in Genome Research showing that 'Ata', a tiny skeleton from Chile's Atacama Desert promoted in a 2013 UFO documentary as possibly alien, was a human female, likely a fetus, carrying rare bone-related mutations.

  3. Whistleblowers

    Sol Foundation holds its first UAP symposium at Stanford

    The Sol Foundation, a UAP research and policy group led by Stanford's Garry Nolan, held an invitation-only two-day symposium at Stanford. Speakers included former NOAA official Tim Gallaudet and Army Col. Karl Nell, and David Grusch appeared remotely. Lecture videos were later posted.