Topic
People who made claims from inside government or its contractors, in public or under oath. Their claims are reported as claims. 50 events, newest first.
Whistleblowers2002
Walter Haut, who issued the 1947 Roswell 'flying disc' press release, signed an affidavit to be opened after his death claiming he saw alien-like bodies at the base. It was first published in a 2007 book. The claim is uncorroborated, and a 1993 Haut affidavit mentioned no bodies.
Photo: US Govt (Roswell Army Air Field staff), Public domain
Whistleblowers9 May 2001
Steven Greer's Disclosure Project presented about 20 former military, government and security workers at the National Press Club who said they had witnessed UFO evidence, and called for congressional hearings. Their claims of a secret program were not substantiated.
Photo: Emadmoussa, Public domain
WhistleblowersAug 2000
Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper's memoir Leap of Faith, written with Bruce Henderson, says that in 1957 at Edwards AFB camera crew filmed a saucer-shaped craft landing, and that the film was sent to the Pentagon on orders and never heard of again. No official record of it has been confirmed.
Photo: NASA, Public domain
WhistleblowersJul 1997
Retired Army Lt. Col. Philip Corso claimed in a Pocket Books memoir that Roswell debris seeded technologies such as lasers and fiber optics. Sen. Strom Thurmond, who wrote the foreword, said he had been told it was a memoir and knew of no cover-up; the claims are unverified.
Photo: US Army, Public domain
Whistleblowers1996
Nick Pope, who handled UFO reports for a Ministry of Defence division from 1991 to 1994, published a nonfiction account of official reactions to UFO reports drawn from that posting. The MoD's position was that it looked at reports only for defence significance.
Photo: David Howard, CC BY 2.0
Whistleblowers1995
Hampton Roads published Unconventional Flying Objects by Paul R. Hill, a retired NASA Langley research manager, after his death. It applied aerospace engineering to reported UFO flight behavior; its conclusions are outside mainstream science.
Whistleblowers15 May 1989
Las Vegas station KLAS aired George Knapp's live interview with a man called 'Dennis', who said alien technology was being tested at a hidden site near Area 51. Months later he went public as Bob Lazar. His account and background have never been independently verified.
Photo: Doc Searls from Santa Barbara, USA, CC BY 2.0
Whistleblowers1986
Ralph Noyes, a retired senior Ministry of Defence official, wrote to the MoD in 1986 that in 1970 he had been shown RAF Venom gun-camera film of UFOs at a secret screening in MoD Main Building. The letter is among MoD UFO files released by The National Archives.
Whistleblowers29 Jul 1978
At the MUFON symposium in Dayton, researcher Leonard Stringfield presented 'Retrievals of the Third Kind', relaying claims from informants he kept anonymous that the U.S. military had recovered crashed craft and alien bodies. The claims were never verified.
Whistleblowers16 Jan 1957
NICAP board chairman Delmer Fahrney, a retired rear admiral who once ran the Navy guided-missile program, told reporters that reliable reports showed fast objects entering the atmosphere under apparent intelligent guidance. The Air Force said most reports had ordinary explanations.
