File
Lundahl 1952 DC-flap fragment — IBM analysis trail
Central Intelligence Agency · 1952 / recounted 1989
Missing from AARO historic search
Request
Not a single FOIA number — a document trail Hume assembled from Vallée (Lundahl 1989), AARO historic report part 1, and Grusch's LMSSC remark.
Outcome
AARO interested, could not locate the piece. Hume's reconstruction: CIA NPIC → IBM (Vogel et al.) → CIA 1950s pieces to LMSSC WUSAP storage.
The missing physical exhibit in the 1952 Washington case.
Names on this file
Arthur C. Lundahl
Founding director, CIA NPIC
Told Jacques Vallée in 1989 that he possessed a fragment shot off a UFO during the 1952 Washington, D.C. flap and that IBM analysed it. AARO later looked for the piece for its historic report and could not locate it. Hume argues CIA then passed 1950s fragments to LMSSC, which is why AARO came up empty.
Dr. Marcel Vogel
IBM research chemist
Named by Hume as one of the people who examined UFO pieces at IBM for the CIA. Later-life crystal work is flagged by Hume as a curious coda, not as evidence.
David Grusch
UAP whistleblower
On Rogan, said CIA gave 1950s UFO pieces to LMSSC — Hume's proposed destination for the missing Lundahl fragment. Also described FMA/FME under DoD FMP as off-books umbrellas and said crash-retrieval files sit at NASIC.
Jacques Vallée
Scientist
Source for Lundahl's 1989 fragment remark and for Zodiac names in Forbidden Science 5. FS4 also has Rockefeller telling Vallée that Detlev Bronk wrote a disclosure-impact paper.
Cases
Source posts
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- 2025-07-27
Art Lundahl had a piece of material that was shot off a ufo during the 1952 DC flap. It was given to IBM to do analysis.