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Pentacle Memorandum (1953)

1953-01-09what this date marks is not recorded

A two-page Battelle memo dated Jan 9, 1953 (Project Stork) sent to Miles E. Goll at Wright-Patterson AFB, attn Capt. Edward Ruppelt. It proposed a controlled experiment in which aerial activity would be secretly and purposefully scheduled over high-incidence areas under radar/photo observation. Jacques Vallee found it in 1967 among J. Allen Hynek's papers and codenamed its anonymous author Pentacle in his 1992 book Forbidden Science.

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: "Project Stork". An editorial classification of which thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to.

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→ Battelle Memorial Institute names a source we do not hold

authored at Battelle under Project Stork

Vallee, Forbidden Science (1992); CUFON
→ Project Stork names a source we do not hold

written under Project Stork

CUFON, Pentacle Memorandum
→ Wright-Patterson AFB names a source we do not hold

addressed to Miles E. Goll at Wright-Patterson AFB

CUFON, Pentacle Memorandum text
→ Edward Ruppelt names a source we do not hold

addressed to the attention of Capt. Edward Ruppelt

CUFON, Pentacle Memorandum text
→ Robertson Panel names a source we do not hold

believed to reference the Washington meeting held days before the CIA Robertson Panel convened Jan 14, 1953

Vallee, Forbidden Science; Gralien Report
→ Jacques Vallee names a source we do not hold

discovered and codenamed by him in 1967

Vallee, Forbidden Science (1992)
→ J. Allen Hynek names a source we do not hold

found among his research papers

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

believed to be the memo's author (sender initials HCC)

Vallee, Forbidden Science (1992)

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Recategorised from "incident" to "contractor" on 26 August 2026. It is a document, not an incident: cat "incident" had become the destination for anything with no affiliation, and 18 of the 29 nodes in it were documents, programmes, concepts or patterns whose own `form` field already said so. The destination is read from this node's own role text, which says "Battelle memo".