Organisation

Battelle Memorial Institute

1929-01-01year known, day not recorded

Founded 1929 by Gordon Battelle in Columbus, Ohio; largest US nonprofit applied-science R&D institute (~$14B revenue). Co-manages a string of DOE national labs including Pacific Northwest, Oak Ridge (UT-Battelle), Brookhaven, Idaho, Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos. In UAP history it ran the classified Project Stork contract that produced Blue Book's 1955 Special Report No. 14, and its scientists authored the 1953 Pentacle Memorandum. Named among the contractors in Rep. Eric Burlison's 2026 records demand to MITRE.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "uap", "blue book". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01

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This entity's name appears in the 3 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.

Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects

named as the issuing body

…t Blue Book Special Report No. 14, prepared for the USAF by Battelle Memorial Institute

Report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, 17 January 1953, with TAB A, TAB B, covering letter of 12 March 1953 and two handwritten notes

named on a page we have read · p. 6

…bject). 3. Progress Reports of Project STORK (code name for Battelle Memorial Institute contract work supporting ATIC). 4. Summary Report of Sighti…

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume Ialready cited above

named on a page we have read · p. 16

…Chief of Project GRUDGE, to a contract he created with the Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) to provide scientific support to the new Project GRUD…

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Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I

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was the contract with it; the institute did the work and its report went out under another name

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BMI released a report under the cover of ATIC to maintain its anonymity. Completed in late 1954, the report was titled "Special Report No. 14."

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
printed p. 16 · read off the page footer; the printed number matches the PDF page on every page held from this report
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Caveat THE ANONYMITY IS THE POINT OF THIS EDGE. Battelle did the work - witness-recall reliability, a better debriefing questionnaire, a punch-card system for the statistics - and its report was published "under the cover of ATIC to maintain its anonymity" as "Special Report No. 14". A reader meeting Special Report No. 14 as an Air Force product is meeting it as it was designed to be met. There is no node here for Special Report No. 14 itself.
→ Project Blue Book names a source we do not hold

conducted the statistics for Special Report No. 14

USAF Project Blue Book records; Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956)
← Eric Burlison names a source we do not hold

named it in his records demand to MITRE

Rep. Eric Burlison 2026 records demand to MITRE (FFRDC investigation)
→ MITRE Corporation names a source we do not hold

both cited as pivotal FFRDC-ecosystem contractors

Rep. Eric Burlison 2026 records demand to MITRE (FFRDC investigation)
→ Project Stork names a source we do not hold

ran the classified Air Force contract

CUFON / Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (1955)
→ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory names a source we do not hold

co-manages it via Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC

Battelle.org, National Lab Management
→ Los Alamos National Laboratory names a source we do not hold

co-manages it via Triad National Security LLC

Battelle.org, National Lab Management
→ Department of Energy names a source we do not hold

operates a string of DOE national laboratories

energy.gov National Laboratories; Battelle.org
← Pentacle Memorandum (1953) names a source we do not hold

authored at Battelle under Project Stork

Vallee, Forbidden Science (1992); CUFON
← H. C. Cross names a source we do not hold

scientist at Battelle Memorial Institute

badufos.blogspot / theufochronicles