It starts sixty-three years before the timeline does

When it happened

The strip pinned at the top of this page is one bar per decade, 1882 to 2021. A grey bar is a decade the front-door timeline cannot show at all. The 1940s is not grey and is half outside it: von Neumann and Wigner arrive in 1943, before the timeline starts, and the CIA is founded in 1947, well inside it. The 1970s hold 30 of the 87 — that is the decade the American government funded this work, and it is the reason the psi programmes appear in the first column of the timeline.

The thread, year by year

Every entity in its own year, with the reason it is counted — written one by one during the review of 88 candidates, never generated. The two sets have a column each and are never merged: 71 whose identity is this subject, 17 who cross into it from elsewhere.

57 of the 205 connections inside this thread have a document you can open. That is thinner than the map as a whole, and it is the honest state of it.

And Congress has never asked about it

Every argument on this page is made out of agency paper — CIA, DIA, INSCOM, SRI. None of it is made out of congressional testimony, and that is not for want of looking.

The 4 modern hearings, 2022 to 2025, were read in full — 201 printed pages. They were then searched for this thread using 94 terms taken from the roster on this page — the names and aliases of the 71 core entities, plus the concept words that are not names: remote viewing, psychoenergetics, parapsychology, telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, extrasensory perception. The vocabulary is the map’s own, so the question asked is literally whether any part of this thread appears in that room.

It appears once.

The other 3 hearings this project holds are older, and they were searched too. The April 1966 Unidentified Flying Objects (88 pages held) and the April 2023 Hearing to Receive Testimony on the Mission,… (50 pages held) were searched over every held page, and returned nothing. The July 1968 Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects (238 pages held) is the open one — only printed pages 3 to 40 are searchable here; the rest of the volume is held without a text layer — and the part that is searchable is clean. It is also where this claim is most exposed, because it is the hearing that put a Stanford psychologist, a sociologist and a university counselling psychologist in front of the committee.

These 3 were read from the OCR text of the September sweep, not page by page: OCR text produced in the 3 September 2026 sweep, searched as whole files with line-break hyphenation rejoined first. A hit here locates to a FILE, not to a page. That is a weaker grade than the 201 printed pages above, and it is kept as a separate figure rather than added to them.

The one hit is kept here rather than argued away, because anyone who searches these four files will find it too, and a claim that survives that is worth more than a rounder one that does not.

• “paranormal” — Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection, printed page 6
  rter in 1981. Since 1995, he has been the chief investigative reporter for that channel. He also hosts a national radio show you can listen to on Coast to Coast AM, which covers many of the paranormal topics that you all are discussing. Over the years, George has been, as I said, recognized for his

A search that finds nothing looks exactly like a search that is broken, so the same 94 terms were run over the pages this project has already read out of its other documents, where hits are certain. They struck 230 times across 48 documents. The instrument works; the hearings are the ones that are quiet.

This is the honest shape of the correlation this site argues for. The institutional overlap is on the agency record and it is documented here. It has never been put to a witness under oath.

Measured 2026-09-05 by scan-psi-vocabulary.mjs, from the held files. This page prints nothing here if that scan has not run.

Where it touches the rest of the map

129 connections cross between this thread and everything else on this map — the UFO record, the contractors, the agencies, the witnesses. This is the evidence for treating the two subjects as one story rather than two.

42 of those 129 have a document you can open. The black bar marks the rest. A crossing this project cannot source is still a crossing it is asserting, and it should be read as exactly that.

• Eric Davis   7 crossings
  Hal Puthoff — mentored him at NIDS; close scientific collaborator
  NIDS — worked there for several years
  Robert Bigelow — his boss during NIDS/BAASS-era research
  Edgar Mitchell — Mitchell received his Wilson-memo notes
  Christopher "Kit" Green — fellow member of the NIDS/BAASS scientific circle
  Jacques Vallee — discusses physics with him, including the arbitrary nature of space and time
  Oke Shannon — the Los Alamos physicist who brokered Davis's meeting with Adm. Wilson
• BAASS   4 crossings
  Robert Bigelow — its owner, described at the 2025 hearing as "the DIA's contractor"
  Christopher "Kit" Green — contracted advisor
  Hal Puthoff — contracted advisor
  Defense Intelligence Agency — received George Knapp's Soviet UFO files through it, under the AAWSAP program
• James Clapper   3 crossings
  John Alexander — asked him, as DNI, to grant amnesty to military UFO witnesses
  Stargate Project — signed for it as Program Manager, reporting to the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1994
  Sam Nunn — reported to him on Project STARGATE as its Program Manager, 23 May 1994
• George Knapp   3 crossings
  John Alexander — frequent Coast to Coast AM guest interviewed by him
  Robert Bigelow — testified he negotiated with Lockheed Martin executives for retrieved material
  Robert Bigelow — reported on his ranch research and co-wrote a book about it with Colm Kelleher
• Thomas Wilson   3 crossings
  Edgar Mitchell — the memo describing him was found in Mitchell's estate after his death
  Oke Shannon — per the memo, allegedly vouched for Davis to Adm. Wilson
  Defense Intelligence Agency — he served as its Vice Admiral and a director
• Edward Teller   3 crossings
  John Alexander — commended John Alexander's non-lethal-weapons work in a documented letter
  John von Neumann — fellow Hungarian-emigre Martian; Manhattan Project and Cold-War defense-science colleagues
  Eugene Wigner — fellow Hungarian Martian and Manhattan Project physicist
• Office of Technical Service   3 crossings
  Stanford Research Institute — jointly funded and monitored its paranormal perception research project with the Office of Research and Development
  Central Intelligence Agency — an office of the Agency
  MK-ULTRA — supervised by
• Colm Kelleher   2 crossings
  Robert Bigelow — hired to lead research
  Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies — administered the 2021 BICS essay contest with Bigelow
• L. Ron Hubbard   2 crossings
  Hal Puthoff — both reached Scientology's highest level in the 1970s
  Ingo Swann — both were high-level Scientologists
• J. Allen Hynek   2 crossings
  Ted Owens — corresponded with him until Hynek grew wary of his self-promotion
  Jacques Vallee — mentor & lifelong collaborator, co-wrote "The Edge of Reality"
• Stanton Friedman   2 crossings
  John Alexander — organized Roswell interviews together at NIDS
  Jacques Vallee — collaborated on Roswell research
• Philip Corso   2 crossings
  John Alexander — organized his Roswell interview at NIDS
  Jacques Vallee — interviewed him on Roswell claims
• Department of Energy   2 crossings
  John Alexander — received its 1994 Award for the Nuclear Weapons Program
  DTI-S — conducted episodic operations in support of it, among other agencies
• Sleeping Dog (2026 documentary)   2 crossings
  Edgar Mitchell — featured
  John Alexander — featured
• Will Miller   2 crossings
  Hal Puthoff — addressed his 2002 offer to Davis and Hal Puthoff jointly (Warp Drive Metrics)
  Edgar Mitchell — the memo alleges he relayed the account to Edgar Mitchell, who told Davis in 1999
• Robertson Panel   2 crossings
  Central Intelligence Agency — convened by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence (1953)
  Central Intelligence Agency — two pages of its file record that a document was withdrawn from it and where it went
• Robert Oppenheimer   2 crossings
  John von Neumann — colleagues at the IAS, which Oppenheimer directed
  Eugene Wigner — Manhattan Project physicists
• Whitley Strieber   2 crossings
  Jeffrey Kripal — co-authored The Super Natural (2016) with him
  John Mack — central figures in the experiencer/abduction discourse
• James T. Ryder   2 crossings
  Robert Bigelow — is said in an anonymous secondhand account to have proposed transferring claimed UAP crash-retrieval material to his team (AAWSAP era, circa 2009); NO NAMED SOURCE, and this project holds nothing supporting it
  Defense Intelligence Agency — the purported material was allegedly offered into the DIA AAWSAP program via Bigelow
• George H.W. Bush   2 crossings
  CENTER LANE — was briefed on it for thirty minutes as Vice President, 31 March 1983
  Jack Vorona — briefed him on CENTER LANE as a DIA official, 31 March 1983
• DIA Scientific Evaluation Team (1983)   2 crossings
  GRILL FLAME — evaluated it at the House Intelligence Committee's request and found the evidence too impressive to dismiss
  Hal Puthoff — concluded that his team at SRI International warranted cautious continued fiscal support
• Stuart Twemlow   2 crossings
  Gateway Process — quoted his EEG studies of the Monroe tapes as measurement of the technique's effect
  The Monroe Institute — described by the 1983 US Army report as a research associate of it
• SUN STREAK   2 crossings
  CENTER LANE — its unit was transitioned to DIA under this project, on a 1985 action plan
  Defense Intelligence Agency — an in-house project of the agency, for an operational remote-viewing capability
• Harry Reid   1 crossing
  Robert Bigelow — longtime friend
• Brandon Fugal   1 crossing
  Robert Bigelow — sold ranch to
• To The Stars Academy   1 crossing
  Hal Puthoff — co-founder
• SAIC   1 crossing
  Edwin May — moved the program there when SRI closed in 1990
• Gordon Cooper   1 crossing
  Edgar Mitchell — fellow astronaut making similar public ET claims
• Haim Eshed   1 crossing
  Edgar Mitchell — both drew similar public skepticism for late-career claims
• Jimmy Carter   1 crossing
  Stanford Research Institute — asked it to lead a White House UFO study, reportedly pressured to drop
• Bill Clinton   1 crossing
  Laurance Rockefeller — his 1993 UFO Disclosure Initiative petitioned Clinton's White House
• Roswell Incident   1 crossing
  Laurance Rockefeller — treated it as the key test case for his disclosure push
• Lord Hill-Norton   1 crossing
  Laurance Rockefeller — funded a UFO briefing document distributed to him
• Steven Greer   1 crossing
  Laurance Rockefeller — provided funding support to his Disclosure Project
• AARO   1 crossing
  Institute of Noetic Sciences — framed its mission around 2024 UAP disclosure law
• Trinity Test   1 crossing
  Jacques Vallee — co-authored "Trinity: The Best Kept Secret" about an alleged 1945 crash there
• Douglas Dean Johnson   1 crossing
  Jacques Vallee — Johnson's investigation found his witness account's credibility "implodes"
• Dan Farah   1 crossing
  Hal Puthoff — featured him prominently in "The Age of Disclosure"
• Chris Bledsoe   1 crossing
  John Alexander — Alexander endorsed his memoir on the cover
• Advanced Theoretical Physics Project   1 crossing
  John Alexander — founded it in 1985
• Al Gore   1 crossing
  John Alexander — friend since 1983; Gore took his NLP course
• Paul Wolfowitz   1 crossing
  John Alexander — his non-lethal-weapons advocacy informed Wolfowitz's 1991 memo
• Bobby Ray Inman   1 crossing
  Dan Sherman — both discussed at length in the same 2026 UFO researcher interview
• Paul Hellyer   1 crossing
  Edgar Mitchell — fellow witness at the 2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure
• Paola Harris   1 crossing
  Jacques Vallee — introduced him to the Trinity story and co-authored the book with him
• Bob Lazar   1 crossing
  Jacques Vallee — his book "Revelations" suggested Lazar may have been an MK-Ultra subject with induced false memories
• Buzz Aldrin   1 crossing
  Edgar Mitchell — fellow Apollo moonwalker with starkly contrasting public views on UFOs
• Mike Gold   1 crossing
  Robert Bigelow — spent 13 years there and received a NASA award for the BEAM module
• Daniel Sheehan   1 crossing
  John Mack — his legal counsel in Harvard's academic-freedom inquiry
• Wilson-Davis Memo (2002)   1 crossing
  Edgar Mitchell — the notes surfaced from his estate after his 2016 death
• Bernard Haisch   1 crossing
  Hal Puthoff — zero-point-field physics collaborator; co-founded the California Institute for Physics & Astrophysics with him
• Donald Kerr   1 crossing
  Central Intelligence Agency — CIA Deputy Director for Science & Technology (2001-2005)
• In-Q-Tel   1 crossing
  Central Intelligence Agency — the CIA's not-for-profit venture-capital arm
• Marshall Chadwell   1 crossing
  Central Intelligence Agency — the CIA's Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence who drove the 1953 Robertson Panel
• Gene Poteat   1 crossing
  Central Intelligence Agency — CIA electronic-warfare officer who ran Project Palladium
• Allen Dulles   1 crossing
  Central Intelligence Agency — Director of Central Intelligence (1953-61)
• John McCone   1 crossing
  Central Intelligence Agency — Director of Central Intelligence (1961-65)
• Los Alamos National Laboratory   1 crossing
  John von Neumann — Manhattan Project scientist there
• Pentacle Memorandum (1953)   1 crossing
  Jacques Vallee — discovered and codenamed by him in 1967
• Leslie Kean   1 crossing
  Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies — served as a judge on the 2021 BICS essay contest
• RAND Corporation   1 crossing
  John von Neumann — an early RAND consultant on game theory and nuclear strategy
• Freeman Dyson   1 crossing
  John von Neumann — colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
• NURO (Natl. Underwater Reconnaissance Office)   1 crossing
  Central Intelligence Agency — jointly run by the U.S. Navy and the CIA
• Hillary Clinton   1 crossing
  Laurance Rockefeller — the Rockefeller UFO Initiative lobbied her and the Clinton White House in the 1990s
• Albert Einstein   1 crossing
  John von Neumann — colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
• Diana Walsh Pasulka   1 crossing
  Jeffrey Kripal — fellow religion scholars studying the UAP/paranormal
• James Lacatski   1 crossing
  Defense Intelligence Agency — he initiated its AAWSAP program
• DARPA   1 crossing
  Stanford Research Institute — major ARPA/DARPA research contractor; the ARPANET's second node (1969) and home to Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center
• Theodore von Karman   1 crossing
  Eugene Wigner — fellow Hungarian Martian
• Von Neumann Probe (UAP hypothesis)   1 crossing
  John von Neumann — his self-replicating automata theory gave rise to the concept
• Andrew Gallimore   1 crossing
  Jeffrey Kripal — both featured on the Third Eye Drops podcast; each argues DMT / anomalous 'entity contact' points to a real non-physical reality
• Rick Strassman   1 crossing
  Jeffrey Kripal — Kripal engages his DMT 'entity' research in arguing anomalous contact is a real non-physical phenomenon
• Glenn Gaffney   1 crossing
  Central Intelligence Agency — led its Directorate of Science & Technology
• Wernher von Braun   1 crossing
  Uri Geller — reportedly said Geller bent his ring 'without ever touching it... I have no scientific explanation' (Geller's account)
• Fairchild Industries   1 crossing
  Uri Geller — Geller's demonstration for von Braun is associated with Fairchild (Geller's account)
• Wright-Patterson AFB   1 crossing
  Stanford Research Institute — its Foreign Technology Division funded the SRI psychoenergetics program, 1976-79
• William Perry   1 crossing
  GRILL FLAME — restricted P-6 funding for it as Under Secretary of Defense, March 1980
• Karl Pribram   1 crossing
  Gateway Process — took his holographic model of mind, with David Bohm's, as the basis of its own account of consciousness
• David Bohm   1 crossing
  Gateway Process — took his physics, paired with Karl Pribram's neuroscience, as the basis of its own account of consciousness
• Office of Research and Development   1 crossing
  Stanford Research Institute — jointly funded and monitored its paranormal perception research project with the Office of Technical Service
• W.E. Colby   1 crossing
  Stanford Research Institute — approved the recommendation that a paranormal perception research project be initiated with it
• Dr. R. W. Lucky   1 crossing
  Stanford Research Institute — named in a CIA memorandum as among those said to have replicated its remote viewing tasks
• AATIP   1 crossing
  Defense Intelligence Agency — cancelled it in 2012 "due to lack of merit and the utility of the deliverables"
• NAVELEX   1 crossing
  Stanford Research Institute — funded its psychoenergetics program in 1975-76, the only Navy entry in the program's own funding table
• MIA, Redstone Arsenal   1 crossing
  Stanford Research Institute — funded its psychoenergetics program in 1977-80, the largest single entry in the program's own funding table before the joint program
• AMSAA, Aberdeen Proving Ground   1 crossing
  Stanford Research Institute — funded its psychoenergetics program in 1978-80, the second of two Army technical organisations in the program's own funding table
• AAWSAP   1 crossing
  Defense Intelligence Agency — the Defense Intelligence Agency programme under which the work was contracted; 95 percent of what it produced is testified to be unreleased
• Richard Helms   1 crossing
  MK-ULTRA — ordered its records destroyed, January 1973
• Adm. Stansfield Turner   1 crossing
  MK-ULTRA — disclosed the seven recovered boxes to the Senate
• Frank Olson   1 crossing
  MK-ULTRA — his 1953 death is why the cryptonym became public
• Rendlesham Forest   1 crossing
  Central Intelligence Agency — the only trace held here is a cancelled FOIA request to the Agency for the file
• Green mass over Sary Shagan (1973)   1 crossing
  Central Intelligence Agency — the observation survives only inside a CIA report on Soviet warhead handling
• N.A. Kozyrev   1 crossing
  Central Intelligence Agency — the only account this project holds of his position on the reports is a CIA report of a US scientist's visit to him
• Soviet committee on unusual phenomena   1 crossing
  Central Intelligence Agency — its existence is attested here only by a CIA report of a conference talk