Government / Military

Bobby Ray Inman

1977-01-01year known, day not recorded

Retired U.S. Navy admiral; former Director of the National Security Agency (1977-1981) and Deputy Director of the CIA (1981-1982). UFO researchers say he told a NASA mission specialist seeking information on crash-retrieval programs to consult R. Evans Heinman, an NRO program director - a claim that remains second-hand and unverified.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "ufo", "crash-retriev". 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.

None of this entity's 4 connections has a source you can open. 1 carries no citation at all.

4 connections

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→ NURO (Natl. Underwater Reconnaissance Office) names a source we do not hold

reportedly tied to the Navy-CIA undersea-reconnaissance world NURO coordinated (podcast claim; NURO's named director was the Secretary of the Navy)

UAP roundtable podcast; Wikipedia (NURO)
→ SAIC names a source we do not hold

served on its board of directors (until 2003)

Wikipedia: Bobby Ray Inman
← Mike McConnell names a source we do not hold

both former directors of the NSA

NSA director records
→ Dan Sherman nothing behind it

both discussed at length in the same 2026 UFO researcher interview