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Robert Oppenheimer
1945–1967
Director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project; named and oversaw the July 1945 Trinity nuclear test, the event AARO's official historical review of UAP uses as its starting point. Later credited (with Einstein) as co-author of a widely disputed 1947 document on extraterrestrial contact.
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directed and named the test
Source: Manhattan Project records
Manhattan Project physicists
Source: Manhattan Project records
fellow physicist, later jointly credited on the disputed 1947 report
wartime director who led the Manhattan Project there
Source: Wikipedia: Robert Oppenheimer
colleagues at the IAS, which Oppenheimer directed
Source: Institute for Advanced Study history
both named in a 1971 Australian intelligence memo on anti-gravity research
predecessor AEC he later advised
Source: AEC/DOE history
both named in a 1971 Australian intelligence memo on anti-gravity research
credited as co-author of a document with no verified provenance
Source: MJ-12 documents (widely regarded as disputed/forged); Stanton Friedman analysis
testified against Oppenheimer at his 1954 security hearing, helping strip his clearance - a defining rift in physics
Source: Wikipedia: Edward Teller