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

DARPA

1958-01-01year known, day not recorded

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - the Pentagon's frontier R&D agency; a career waypoint for several special-programs directors.

In neither threadRuled on 3 September 2026 as belonging to NEITHER thread. It is on this map through the black-programme oversight apparatus. AN EMPTY SUBJECT IS A RULING, NOT A GAP - a missing field would have meant nobody had looked.

None of this entity's 4 connections has a source you can open.

1 note on how this record was made

Documents4 that name it

Also named in documents we hold

This entity's name appears in the 4 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. 2
…ability development (accomplished via HQ SGRD funding and a DARPA MIPR).
named on a page we have read · p. 6
…ability development (accomplished via HQ SGRD funding and a DARPA MIPR).
named on a page we have read · p. 1
…ability development (accomplished via HQ SGRD funding and a DARPA MIPR). (S/NF/SS-2) The R/D link, via SRI Internation…
named on a page we have read · p. 5
…ability development (accomplished via HQ SGRD funding and a DARPA MIPR). (S/NF/SS-2) The R/D link, via SRI International, h…

4 connections

ColourGovernmentOrganizationsFFRDCs
  • Thomas J. Masiello names a source we do not hold
    led the Adaptive Capabilities Office at DARPA
    af.mil biographies; post-service company/board listings (archive.org)
  • Herbert York names a source we do not hold
    ARPA's first chief scientist (1958)
    Wikipedia: Herbert York; DARPA history
  • Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) names a source we do not hold
    IDA provided technical analysis for ARPA and administered the JASON group
    Institute for Defense Analyses / JASON history
  • Stanford Research Institute names a source we do not hold
    major ARPA/DARPA research contractor; the ARPANET's second node (1969) and home to Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center
    ARPANET / SRI history; Doug Engelbart Institute

Notes on this record

The category

Recatalogued from "org" on 2026-08-21. A US government agency, office or installation; it was filed with private organisations, which meant the Central Intelligence Agency did not read as governmental anywhere on this map.