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Gene Poteat

1960-01-01Project Palladium

S. Eugene Gene Poteat - CIA electronic-warfare officer (later first president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers) who ran Project Palladium. In a 2019 War Zone interview he and TD Barnes argued that Cold-War radar-deception techniques are a plausible conventional explanation for the Navy Tic Tac encounters.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 3 September 2026 by reading this entity's record, after the automated screen proposed "neither" for it. The screen's "neither" only means that no term from its vocabulary fired; the deciding phrase here is this entity's own: "the Navy Tic Tac encounters". An editorial classification of which thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to.

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  • → Project Palladium names a source we do not hold
    the CIA electronic-warfare officer who ran the program
    The War Zone, Area 51 Veteran & CIA EW Pioneer on Navy UFO Encounters (2019); CIA reading-room, Stealth/Countermeasures/ELINT 1960-75
  • → Central Intelligence Agency names a source we do not hold
    CIA electronic-warfare officer who ran Project Palladium
    Wikipedia: Gene Poteat