The Red Thread Files
UFO / UAP · Consciousness
1945–2026621 entities437 of 1390 connections sourced138 documents held
The Red Thread Files
Government / Military

John Alexander

1985-01-01year known, day not recorded

Retired Army colonel (32-year career, Special Forces in Vietnam); leading advocate for non-lethal weapons and military applications of the paranormal, later a Los Alamos National Laboratory program manager. Sat on NIDS's advisory board and was the first researcher to spend a night at Skinwalker Ranch. Subject of "The Men Who Stare at Goats."

In the consciousness threadClassified 25 August 2026 from this entity's own role text, which reads: "or non-lethal weapons and military applications of the paranormal, later a Los Alamos National Laboratory program manager. Sat on". An editorial classification, the same kind of field as cat - it rests on no page and does not claim to.

None of this entity's 23 connections has a source you can open. One is bound to a document this project holds and quotes but cannot republish, so it does not count above. 3 carry no citation at all.

Documents1 behind a connection2 more that name it

Also named in documents we hold

This entity's name appears in the 2 documents below. That is the entire claim. Nothing here is evidence for anything on this map, no connection rests on it, and it says nothing about what the document is about. It is a place to look next.

named on a page we have read · p. 1
…atements by; Barbara Honegger, Hal Puthof, Russel Targ, LTC John Alexander, Congressman Rose, Ingo Swann, G. Gordon Liddy, and two add…
named on a page we have read · p. ii
…literature on the subject. Special thanks are extended to: John Alexander, Christopher Bird, Brenda Dunne, William Gough, Patrice Kea…

23 connections

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  • Oke Shannon attached, not counted
    This map says
    the memo references his ties to John Alexander and the BDM/NIDS remote-viewing circle
    The document says
    EWD: ... No mention of NIDS!! Oke mentioned JA, me, NIDS in '99, but that's all that was said
    EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002, 2002
    printed p. 5  ·  read off the page footer
    Caveat ADM. THOMAS WILSON DENIES THAT THIS MEETING TOOK PLACE. This link is sourced to what these private notes record, not to anything established. The document is marked support:false and is not counted toward this project's sourcing figure.
  • NIDS names a source we do not hold
    advisory board
    NIDS / Skinwalker Ranch research history; Kelleher & Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker
  • Stanton Friedman names a source we do not hold
    organized Roswell interviews together at NIDS
    NIDS / Skinwalker Ranch research history; Kelleher & Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker
  • Philip Corso names a source we do not hold
    organized his Roswell interview at NIDS
    NIDS / Skinwalker Ranch research history; Kelleher & Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker
  • Jacques Vallee names a source we do not hold
    Vallee wrote the foreword to his 2011 UFO book
    Alexander, UFOs (2011) - Vallée foreword
  • James Clapper names a source we do not hold
    asked him, as DNI, to grant amnesty to military UFO witnesses
    John B. Alexander accounts
  • Robert Bigelow names a source we do not hold
    worked for his NIDS; first to overnight at Skinwalker Ranch
    NIDS / Skinwalker Ranch research history; Kelleher & Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker
  • Department of Energy names a source we do not hold
    received its 1994 Award for the Nuclear Weapons Program
    John B. Alexander bio (1994 DOE award)
  • Advanced Theoretical Physics Project names a source we do not hold
    founded it in 1985
    Alexander bio (ATP Project, 1985)
  • Al Gore names a source we do not hold
    friend since 1983; Gore took his NLP course
    Alexander bio (Gore/NLP, since 1983)
  • International Remote Viewing Association names a source we do not hold
    founding board member
    International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA) records
  • Hal Puthoff names a source we do not hold
    fellow Aviary member ("Penguin" and "Owl")
    UFO-community accounts of 'The Aviary' (reported)
  • Christopher "Kit" Green names a source we do not hold
    fellow Aviary member ("Penguin" and "Bluejay")
    UFO-community accounts of 'The Aviary' (reported)
  • Jack Vorona names a source we do not hold
    fellow Aviary member
    UFO-community accounts of 'The Aviary' (reported)
  • Ron Pandolphi names a source we do not hold
    fellow Aviary member
    UFO-community accounts of 'The Aviary' (reported)
  • Albert Stubblebine names a source we do not hold
    co-founded the remote-viewing company PSI-TECH
    U.S. government remote-viewing program (Grill Flame/Stargate) history
  • Edward "Ed" Dames names a source we do not hold
    co-founded PSI-TECH
    Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997)
  • Uri Geller names a source we do not hold
    Geller wrote the foreword to his 2017 book
    John Alexander, Reality Denied (2017), foreword by Uri Geller
  • Sleeping Dog (2026 documentary) names a source we do not hold
    featured
    Sleeping Dog documentary (2026)
  • Edward Teller names a source we do not hold
    commended John Alexander's non-lethal-weapons work in a documented letter
    Teller-Alexander correspondence
  • Chris Bledsoe nothing behind it
    Alexander endorsed his memoir on the cover
  • George Knapp nothing behind it
    frequent Coast to Coast AM guest interviewed by him
  • Paul Wolfowitz nothing behind it
    his non-lethal-weapons advocacy informed Wolfowitz's 1991 memo