Index
Names
Every person Hume named in connection with a file, program, interview, or FOIA — witnesses, officials, contractors, journalists, and family sources.
65 people
RG Hume
Independent FOIA researcher
UK researcher who files FOI/FOIA against MOD, DSTL, AARO, NNSA, DOE, FBI, CIA-adjacent holdings, EPA, CBP and police. Publishes as @rgh_ufos. Has said his name is on requests, has appeared in BBC and Mail Online, and was cited by Jesse Michels for the NNSA Starfish Prime response.
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.
Jerry Rosenberger
TRW, 1974
Hume corrects Vallée Forbidden Science 5: the Zodiac participant listed as 'Jerry Rosenberg, currently at IDA' is Jerry Rosenberger, at IDA in 2001 and TRW in 1974, working Navy underwater detection. That career is Hume's hinge for Zodiac-as-USO-tracker.
Mary Elliot
TRW
Eric Davis's most detailed public comments on 'Mary Elliot (real name?)' of the TRW & Zodiac story, per Hume. Hume treats MEE as the possible source for Davis's claim that many recoveries were maritime.
James T. Ramey
AEC Commissioner, 1962–1973
Hume interviewed the commissioner's grandson. The family account: Ramey sat on a top-secret AEC program investigating landed UFOs so the USSR would not gain a nuclear advantage. The team found nothing credible and, per the grandson, also fanned UFO rumours as cover for prohibited weapons work.
Dr. James Ramey II
Grandson of James T. Ramey
Hume's source on the AEC UFO program. Confirmed the family story including the cover/disinformation function around Area 51-era weapons and the claim that nothing extraterrestrial was found.
R. Evans Hineman
CIA Deputy Director for Science & Technology, 1982–1989
Hume got Hineman on record acknowledging involvement in UFO programs in the 1980s — after Blue Book. Hume's standing demand: release the CIA DS&T UFO program files from that decade. He has urged AARO and later declassification tranches to interview him.
Tim Phillips
Deputy Director, AARO
Told Hume, in his official AARO capacity, that he had been briefed by the UK on 'mystery drones' and specifically on RAF Lakenheath. Hume's subsequent AARO FOIAs returned no records of those briefings. Phillips also denied to Hume that Richard Doty was interviewed for Yankee Blue.
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick
Former director, AARO
Hume says Kirkpatrick ignored questions about discrepancies in Gen. Sheehan's MFR to AARO. A WSJ story citing Kirkpatrick on a 1989 Russian laser-weapon investigation is contradicted, Hume says, by AARO's claim of no such investigation records.
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.
Dr. Eric Davis
Physicist
Said many recoveries were maritime. Hume asks whether the source is MEE of TRW and whether Zodiac was tracking USOs off California in the 1970s.
Larry McGuire
Letter writer — leaked FVEY FMP / UFO letter
His leaked letter discussing FVEY Foreign Materiel Program and UFOs is, per Hume, how FMP entered public UFO discourse. Hume then FOIA'd MOD and DIA on FVEY FMP.
Jonathan Weygandt
USMC Stinger/Avenger gunner
Disclosure Project witness. Hume interviewed him for the 2023 Medium reconstruction of a March/April 1997 crash near Pucallpa, Peru: teardrop/egg object, DOE-jacketed recovery team, 15-hour interrogation. Weygandt still stands by the account.
MSgt Chris Diggons
USMC, MACG-28 command, Laser Strike
Named in Weygandt's chain of command at Pucallpa during the 1997 deployment Hume reconstructed.
Maj Bob Cole
USMC, MACG-28, Laser Strike
Named with Diggons as command at Pucallpa in Hume's Peru reconstruction.
Lt Col Gayla Briles
USAF, Iquitos / 'deep in the bush'
Hume identifies the USAF lieutenant colonel who received Weygandt after the CH-47 lift as Gayla Briles, likely at Iquitos.
SSgt Montealegre
USMC E6, Laser Strike
Weygandt named Montealegre, Sgt Allen and Sgt Adkins as the NCOs who took a team to a downed aircraft. Hume reached Montealegre; no reply on the UFO account.
Sgt Adkins
USMC E5, Laser Strike
Replied to Hume: confirmed Peru / Laser Strike and securing a crash — but of a friendly mapping aircraft in Oct/Nov 1996, not a 1997 UFO. Said he was not in-country in 1997.
Sgt Allen
USMC E5, Laser Strike
Contacted by Hume on three platforms; read the message, did not reply.
Lisa Gordon-Hagerty
NEST Director, 1992–1998
Ran NEST in the window of the Peru event. Hume maps NEST composition (LLNL, LANL, Sandia, EG&G, Raytheon, Army/Navy tactical) onto the recovery team Weygandt described.
Peter Zavattaro
EG&G
Told Hume he had no knowledge of UFOs during Dominic or Fishbowl, despite measuring Starfish EMP from the air. Did not answer Hume's question about Al O'Donnell's Roswell Nazi/Soviet craft claim.
Al O'Donnell
EG&G
Central to Hume's reading of the Knapp-to-Jacobson flip: O'Donnell's Roswell story shifting toward a Nazi/Soviet glider after congressional investigator D'Amato and Herb Grier got involved.
Herb Grier
EG&G
Congressional investigator D'Amato spoke with Grier. Hume thinks that conversation is why the O'Donnell Roswell narrative changed.
Alfonse D'Amato
US Senator
Hume places D'Amato on both the O'Donnell/Grier Roswell inquiry (c. 1992–93) and as a figure who should have been asked about EG&G nuclear-contractor UFO claims.
George Knapp
Investigative journalist
Original interviewer of Al O'Donnell. Hume treats the Knapp vs Jacobson versions as a documented narrative split worth studying, not as a gotcha. Hume also points at Knapp's Needles 2008 reporting as the public spine of that crash-retrieval case.
Glenn Gaffney
CIA
Named in the AAWSAP-era story of CIA stopping a Lockheed remnant transfer to BAASS. Hume connects this to Kona Blue, Dugway interest, and later LMSSC storage of 1950s CIA pieces.
Steve Ryder
Lockheed
The Lockheed side of the failed Ryder/Lockheed/Gaffney transfer Hume dates before a February 2011 AAWSAP Dugway interest note.
Jesse Michels
Documentary journalist
Cited Hume's NNSA Starfish Prime FOIA on a public stage (initially calling the requester anonymous). Hume replied with his name. Michels apologised.
Lewis Goodall
Journalist
Hume says Goodall is being misled or lied to about the UK's association with AARO, given Phillips's verbal confirmation of UK briefings and UK attendance at an FVEY UAP/AARO event versus MOD NCND answers.
Don Riggs
Source in The Pyramid and the Pentagon
Told the story of his father Harold Riggs and archaeological/out-of-place artifacts (Noah's Ark). Hume calls this the most interesting archaeological-UFO case and notes Lundahl's involvement.
Harold Riggs
Father of Don Riggs
Subject of the Riggs family account Hume highlights for CIA archaeological interest.
Lee Nicholson
Independent researcher, Pendle, UK
Flagged CIA Reading Room DOC_0000728028 (Mount Ararat / Noah's Ark). Hume credited him.
Larry Lemke
NASA engineer
Keith Basterfield's article on Lemke's UFO interest led Hume to Lemke's father, who was allegedly investigating UFOs privately and for government before WWII — Ghost Flyers / Scareships territory.
Keith Basterfield
Australian UFO researcher
Wrote the Lemke article Hume used to open the pre-WW2 investigation thread.
Detlev Bronk
Scientist
Per Vallée FS4, Nelson Rockefeller told Vallée that Bronk wrote a paper for Rockefeller University/Institute on alien life and the impact of disclosure during the Clinton/Roswell 1990s. Hume emailed the university; no reply. Could not find the paper in open search.
Geoff Cruickshank
Researcher / BG3P
Worked with Hume on identifying a Navy diver from Whitecrow's Operation Dominic account. Both requested the man's NARA NPRC records. The family, per Hume, does not want the name public.
Whitecrow
Source on Operation Dominic Navy diver
Spoke of a Navy diver in the Dominic 1962 context. Hume and Cruickshank identified the man via NPRC; family asked the name not be used. Hume previously wondered if it was Carl Brashear (it was not; Brashear died of natural causes).
Carl Brashear
US Navy master diver
Hume initially thought Whitecrow's Gitmo master diver who died in an electrical accident might be Brashear; Brashear's death was natural causes. Listed here because Hume published the correction.
Richard Doty
Former AFOSI
Tim Phillips denied to Hume that Doty was interviewed by AARO or was the source of the USAF Yankee Blue (Phillips said 'Yankee Black') program.
Rep. Mike Turner
US Representative
Hume's speculation: Turner was told NASIC FMP/FME files could not be separated from Russian/Iranian/Chinese drone and missile crash-retrieval/reverse-engineering programs, which is why he opposed the UAP Disclosure Act.
Jonathan Grey
NASIC (per Hume / Forbidden Science 7)
Hume notes p.367 of Forbidden Science 7 is the only Vallée mention of Grey and suggests he may be a first-hand materials witness. Grey and Sullivan both placed at NASIC.
Sullivan (NASIC)
NASIC
Named with Grey as a NASIC officer in Hume's FMP/Bolivia-Kecksburg comments. Hume does not believe a claimed avalanche destroyed FTD holdings.
Nick Redfern
Author
Hume recommends Redfern on alleged Moon Dust interest in biblical relics and the hunt for missing Nazis, tying that bundle to O'Donnell / Grier / D'Amato / Knapp / Jacobson.
Gen. Wesley Clark
USSOUTHCOM, Operation Laser Strike
Command context for the 1997 Peru counter-narcotics deployment in Hume's reconstruction.
Cdr Will Miller
US Navy (ret.)
Discussed Weygandt's Peru case with Joe Murgia; named in Hume's source list.
Steven Greer
Disclosure Project
Recorded Weygandt in 2001. Hume used that testimony as the spine of the Peru reconstruction, then tried to verify named Marines.
William "Bill" Pawlec
Recurring name across incidents (Hume)
Hume compares Pawlec to 'the Octopus' — a name that weaves through multiple incidents, people and claims.
Michael Riconosciuto
Claimed knowledge of Aquarius / MJ-12
Hume flags him as a fascinating character: Project Aquarius, MJ-12, an alien autopsy claim, and a family link to Maury Island / Crisman. Hume wants a direct interview; does not vouch for the claims.
Leon Panetta
Former CIA Director
Hume asked whether ODNI UAP investigators spoke with Panetta, Hineman, Gaffney and BRI — all still alive — and if those interviews will be public.
Tom DeLonge
To The Stars
Hume notes DeLonge mentioned Starfish Prime and that McCasland briefed him on Nazi flying saucers from Argentina — material Hume thinks may overlap NASIC folklore Vallée was unimpressed by.
Gen. Neil McCasland
USAF / AFRL
Source, per Hume, of the Nazi-saucer-from-Argentina briefing DeLonge received; Hume links that to NASIC/FTD lore.
Daniel Sheehan
Attorney
Hume joked about the shift from 'loose lips Sheehan' to tight-lipped, and noted a Greer Disclosure Project witness who claimed to remember a young BRI on a Navy vessel during a UFO sighting.
Jeremy Corbell
Filmmaker
Hume's EPA Lockheed-storage FOIA predates Corbell's documentary involving Derrel Sims / FUDS / EPA. Hume later connected FUDS listings for Rye Canyon and a joint Navy & LMSC site.
Ross Coulthart
Journalist
Sources told Coulthart the El Paso object was not a drone or balloon. Hume had already FOIA'd CBP for the incident report after messy official messaging.
Matthew Brown
Immaculate Constellation report author
His Immaculate Constellation report cites a 1978 NSA document by serial number. Hume FOIA'd that serial; NSA would not confirm or deny the document's existence, omitted the subject line, and the appeal lost. Hume notes the same item appears in Oke's 1985 notes.
James Clapper
Former Director of National Intelligence
Per a podcast Hume cites with former NSA director Mike Rogers, Clapper as DNI asked Rogers to review NSA UFO holdings. Hume emailed Clapper for clarification and got no reply. He also tracks Clapper's 2015–16 window (pre-NYT 2017) and a claim that Clapper brought Elizondo to the Pentagon in 2008.
Adm. Mike Rogers
Former NSA director
Said on a podcast that DNI Clapper asked him to review NSA UFO holdings. Hume contacted him; no reply.
Dr. Pete Worden
Former USAF / NASA Ames director
Told Hume he introduced Tom DeLonge to Gen. Neil McCasland, and that he (Worden) is a skeptic. Hume posted Worden's explanation of why the introduction happened after McCasland's wife confirmed he was a DeLonge source.
Daniel Goldin
NASA Administrator, 1992–2001
Hume tried three times to get Goldin on the record about UFOs / possible NHI knowledge and received no reply. Hume's opinion: probably the last NASA administrator with knowledge of the subject.
Teg
Independent researcher
Credited by Hume for a 'massive amount of help' on the Peru 1997 reconstruction. Hume has also said he and Teg submitted FOIAs together (including on later drone incidents).
1stSgt Powell
USMC, Cherry Point (named by Weygandt)
Named in Weygandt's account as the first sergeant at Cherry Point whom Jonathan told after returning from Peru. Listed because Hume's Medium reconstruction treats him as a named Marine in the chain, not as a confirmed interview.
Roger Leir
Podiatric surgeon
Claimed he saw paperwork of a Brazil–NASA agreement on space debris/material while investigating Varginha. Hume FOIA'd NASA for agreements active in 1995–96; the released list contained nothing close to that agreement.
Howell McConnell
NSA (historical UFO-community source)
Named by Hume as a likely historical source of NSA UFO information for civilian researchers. Hume asked whether a document under discussion was an NSA message and whether McConnell (RIP) had been the group's source.