Brief
Harry Turner
The claims the writer was given for Harry Turner, in the order they were given.
1
Bill Chalker visited Oliver Harry Turner, a retired Australian government scientist, at his home in the summer of 2001.
“In the course of my research into the UFO phenomenon, I visited Oliver Harry Turner, a retired Australian government scientist, at his home in the summer of 2001.”
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2
By the early 1970s Oliver Harry Turner was a scientific analyst with the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence of the Joint Intelligence Bureau.
“By then he was a scientific analyst with the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence of the Joint Intelligence Bureau.”
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Vicki Klein told Oliver Harry Turner that the signal for the beginning of the end would be the disappearance of a small island followed by a larger one, which she suspected would be in the New Guinea area, with the ensuing chaos lasting three days and getting progressively worse, after which the world would be cleansed and a new development would take place in lands newly arisen.
““The signal for the beginning of the end will be the disappearance of a small island followed by a larger one—she suspects the New Guinea area. The chaos itself will last three days getting progressively worse. The world has to be cleansed, and a new development will take place in lands newly arisen.””
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4
Bill Chalker found what followed in Oliver Harry Turner's notes striking for how closely it resembled the alien abduction accounts that would come to dominate UFO controversy fifteen years later.
“It’s what follows in Harry Turner’s notes that really struck me—how the story strikingly resembles the alien abduction accounts that would come to dominate the UFO controversy fifteen years later.”
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5
Oliver Harry Turner was not sure what to make of Vicki Klein's information in the early 1970s and was simply trying to make an accurate report of her claims.
“Turner wasn’t sure what to make of this information in the early seventies. At the time he was simply trying to make an accurate report of Vicki Klein’s claims.”
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During his 2001 visit, Oliver Harry Turner handed Bill Chalker ten pages of his handwritten notes on his 1971-1972 investigation of a Canberra woman named Mrs. Klein.
“During our discussions he handed me what turned out to be a particularly remarkable document—ten pages of his handwritten notes—devoted to his investigation during 1971 and 1972 of a Canberra woman named Mrs. Klein.”
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7
Ron Summers confirmed to Bill Chalker the basic story that Vicki Klein had revealed to Oliver Harry Turner.
“Ron graciously agreed to an interview. He confirmed the basic story that Vicki had revealed to Harry Turner.”
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8
Oliver Harry Turner was a nuclear physicist.
“A nuclear physicist, Turner was the chief health physics officer for the controversial Maralinga atomic bomb trials”
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Oliver Harry Turner was the chief health physics officer for the Maralinga atomic bomb trials during the 1950s and early 1960s.
“Turner was the chief health physics officer for the controversial Maralinga atomic bomb trials during the 1950s and early 1960s”
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Oliver Harry Turner's 1971-72 notes on Vicki Klein's experiences prefigured several extraordinary elements of the alien abduction phenomenon that would not become public until researcher Budd Hopkins first described them in his 1987 best-selling book Intruders.
“Harry Turner's 1971-72 notes revealed that Mrs. Klein's bizarre experiences actually prefigured several extraordinary elements of the UFO abduction phenomenon that would not become public for more than a decade and a half, when researcher Budd Hopkins first described them in his 1987 best-selling book Intruders.”
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11
Oliver Harry Turner wrote a classified scientific appreciation report on UFOs for the Australian Department of Defense Directorate of Air Force Intelligence in 1954.
“He had written a classified "scientific appreciation" report on UFOs for the Australian Department of Defense Directorate of Air Force Intelligence in 1954”
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Oliver Harry Turner's notes of his interviews with Vicki Klein do not record the date of her fourth UFO sighting.
“Harry Turner’s notes of his interviews with Mrs. Klein do not record the date, but list the following information”
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Oliver Harry Turner corresponded with fellow Australian scientist Dr. Michael Duggin, who also had a deep interest in the UFO phenomenon, to supplement details of Vicki Klein's fourth sighting.
“This brief description was supplemented in some detail via correspondence Harry Turner had with Dr. Michael Duggin, a fellow Australian scientist who also had a deep interest in the UFO phenomenon.”
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Oliver Harry Turner and Dr. Michael Duggin were part of a secret invisible college of scientists conducting research into the UFO mystery.
“Harry Turner and Mike Duggin were part of the secret “invisible college” of scientists conducting research in the UFO mystery.”
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The rash of Canberra-area UFO sightings in mid-1971 prompted Oliver Harry Turner to contact the local civilian UFO society in Canberra, which had been formed in 1967.
“This activity had prompted Turner to contact the local civilian UFO society in Canberra, formed in 1967.”
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Oliver Harry Turner told Bill Chalker that while Vicki Klein told the Canberra UFO group of her sightings, she was careful not to mention the unfolding alien dynamic happening in her own house.
“Turner told me that while Vicki told the group of her sightings, she was careful not to mention the unfolding “alien” dynamic happening in her own house.”
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17
Following Oliver Harry Turner's contact with the Canberra UFO group, Vicki Klein privately made contact with him and, during a series of meetings at her home between July 1971 and February 1972, described her unfolding alien contact calling.
“In the wake of Turner’s contact with the group, she privately made contact with him and, during a series of meetings at her home between July 1971 and February 1972, Vicki Klein described her unfolding alien contact calling.”
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18
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Oliver Harry Turner fought a secret battle to encourage a more scientific and comprehensive examination of the UFO mystery within the clandestine world of intelligence and the military.
“During the late 1960s and early 1970s Turner had fought a secret battle to encourage a more scientific and comprehensive examination of the UFO mystery within the clandestine world of intelligence and the military.”
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Harry Turner was privately pushing at the highest levels of Australia's Defence Department for a scientific military investigation into the UAP phenomenon while sightings were being played down in the media and by the air force.
“Turner was privately pushing at the very highest levels of Australia's Defence Department for a scientific investigation by the military into the UAP phenomenon.”
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Harry Turner's declassified 1971 paper 'Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem' asserted that unidentified objects were real.
“His now declassified 1971 paper, *Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem*, asserted not only that these unidentified objects were real”
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21
Harry Turner's 1971 report asserted there was an ongoing deliberate official US policy to ridicule UFO sighting events in order to stifle public awareness of the phenomenon.
“that there was also an ongoing deliberate official US policy to ridicule sighting events in order to stifle public awareness of the phenomenon.”
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22
Harry Turner considered that by erecting a facade of ridicule, the US hoped to allay public alarm, reduce the possibility of the Soviets exploiting UFO mass sightings for psychological or actual warfare purposes, and cover for a real US programme developing vehicles that emulate UFO performance.
“'By erecting a façade of ridicule, the US hoped to allay public alarm, reduce the possibility of the Soviets taking advantage of UFO mass sightings for either psychological or actual warfare purposes, and act as a cover for the real US programme of developing vehicles that emulate UFO performance,' Turner declared.”
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23
Harry Turner asserted that in 1953 the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations persuaded the US Air Force to use the Project Blue Book investigation as a means of publicly debunking UFOs.
“He asserted that in 1953 the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations persuaded the US Air Force to use the Project Blue Book investigation into UAPs as a 'means of publicly "debunking" UFOs'”
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24
Harry Turner asserted that while publicly debunking UFOs, the US was secretly launching a crash programme into anti-gravity power.
“while at the same time the US was secretly launching a crash program into anti-gravity power.”
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25
Harry Turner's paper criticised the 1968 Condon Committee Report, the US Air Force-funded study of UFOs directed by physicist Edward Condon.
“Turner's paper eviscerated the 1968 Condon Committee Report, the US Air Force–funded study of UFOs under the direction of physicist Edward Condon.”
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Harry Turner considered that the conclusions of the Condon report conflict with its own contents and have been discredited by many reputable scientists.
“'The conclusions of the Condon report conflict with its own contents and has been discredited by many reputable scientists . . . It would appear wrong for Australia to remain ignorant of the true situation.'”
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27
Harry Turner dismissed the official Project Blue Book UFO investigation, which had been shut down by the US Air Force in 1969.
“Turner also dismissed the official Project Blue Book UFO investigation shut down by the air force two years earlier in 1969.”
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28
Harry Turner said many intelligence officers associated with the UFO problem, including former CIA director Roscoe Hillenkoetter, had stated that the US government knew UFOs were extra-terrestrial but was withholding this fact from the public.
“'Many intelligence officers associated with the UFO problem,' he said, including former CIA boss Admiral Hillenkoetter, had 'stated that the US government knew UFOs were extra-terrestrial but was withholding this fact from the public'.”
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Harry Turner met the Project Blue Book expert Dr J. Allen Hynek when Hynek visited Australia.
“Turner also met the Project Blue Book expert Dr J. Allen Hynek when Hynek visited Australia.”
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Harry Turner told his superiors that J. Allen Hynek, along with many other reputable scientists, did not accept the US Air Force explanation of misidentification, hysteria or hoax for UFO sightings.
“'It is quite clear that Dr Hynek along with many other reputable scientists do not accept the USAF explanation of misidentification, hysteria or hoax,' Turner told his superiors.”
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31
Harry Turner obtained access to the Australian Air Force's UAP sightings reports.
“Harry Turner obtained access to the Australian Air Force's UAP sightings reports.”
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Harry Turner proposed an Australian 'rapid intervention team' to investigate UFO events, for which an aircraft was to be on standby.
“He even proposed an Australian 'rapid intervention team' to investigate 'UFO' events, for which an aircraft was to be on standby.”
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Harry Turner had the approval of Australia's Chief Defence Scientist for his proposed rapid intervention team to investigate UFO events.
“says Turner had the approval of Australia's Chief Defence Scientist for this idea, so this was no idle flight of fancy on Turner's part.”
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34
Harry Turner's concern about UFOs was taken very seriously, possibly because sightings of strange unidentified objects at the Woomera test site were still occurring.
“His concern was being taken very seriously, possibly because the sightings of strange unidentified objects at the Woomera test site were still happening.”
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There was bad blood between Harry Turner and the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence (DAFI) because Turner had criticised DAFI's past handling of UAP sightings reports.
“But there was bad blood with DAFI – air force intelligence – because Turner had criticised DAFI's past handling of sightings reports.”
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36
By 1971, Australian Defence Department scientist Harry Turner was firmly convinced the UAP phenomenon was real and required urgent investigation.
“By 1971, Australian Defence Department scientist Harry Turner, whose curiosity had been piqued by the mysterious UAPs seen at Maralinga in the South Australian desert 11 years earlier, was now firmly convinced the phenomenon was real and required urgent investigation.”
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The Australian Air Force withdrew Harry Turner's access to their UAP sightings files.
“Eventually, the Australian Air Force withdrew his access to their sightings files.”
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Harry Turner's plan for a rapid intervention team to investigate UFOs was subsequently spiked.
“Not long after that, Turner's plan for a rapid intervention team was also spiked.”
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Bill Chalker considers that Harry Turner was actually arguing for the air force to be given more resources and help to investigate UFOs so their reports would be more scientific, but that the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence (DAFI) took it as criticism and shut him out out of sheer bloody-mindedness.
“Bill Chalker told me, 'Harry was actually arguing for the air force to be given more resources and more help to investigate UFOs. That way their reports would be a lot more scientific. They took that as a criticism. It was sheer bloody mindedness by DAFI to shut him out.'”
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Harry Turner's curiosity about UAPs was piqued by the mysterious sightings at Maralinga in the South Australian desert in 1960.
“whose curiosity had been piqued by the mysterious UAPs seen at Maralinga in the South Australian desert 11 years earlier”
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Harry Turner was the head of the nuclear science section of the Australian Joint Intelligence Bureau's Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence (DSTI).
“He was now the head of the nuclear science section of the then Australian Joint Intelligence Bureau's Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence (DSTI).”
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Harry Turner was rebuffed in 1954 when he made findings about UAPs being extra-terrestrial in his original report to the Royal Australian Air Force's intelligence branch.
“Turner had been rebuffed in 1954 when he made his controversial findings about UAPs being extra-terrestrial in his original report to the Royal Australian Air Force's intelligence branch.”
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Australia's Director of Air Force Intelligence said Harry Turner had erred in quoting Donald Keyhoe because Keyhoe supposedly gave the misleading impression his books had some official US government sanction.
“He said Professor Turner had ‘erred’ in quoting Keyhoe because the former marine major supposedly gave the misleading impression his books had some official US government sanction.”
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The Royal Australian Air Force elected to heed its American ally and play down Harry Turner's flying saucer extra-terrestrial hypothesis.
“But the Royal Australian Air Force elected to heed its American ally and play down Turner’s ‘flying saucer’ ET hypothesis.”
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Bill Chalker befriended Harry Turner late in Turner's life.
“He befriended Harry Turner late in his life”
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Bill Chalker considers that political myopia from both the US and Australian military effectively scuttled Australia's first serious flirtation with scientific investigation of UFOs.
“says of Turner’s efforts, ‘Political myopia from both the US and Australian military effectively scuttled Australia’s first serious flirtation with scientific investigation of UFOs’.”
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47
Now-declassified files show that Oliver Harry Turner, the same Professor Harry Turner hired in 1954 to conduct the classified UAP review for Australia's Defence Department, took part in the British nuclear tests at Maralinga from 1956 to 1963 as a health physics officer.
“One of the scientists whom now-declassified files show took part in the British tests from 1956 to 1963 was a health physics officer named Oliver Harry Turner, the same Professor Harry Turner hired in 1954 to do the classified review of UAP sightings for Australia’s Defence Department.”
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Previously secret files in Australia's National Archives reveal that Harry Turner investigated strange sightings of anomalous objects in the skies over Maralinga throughout the British atmospheric nuclear bomb testing.
“Previously secret files in Australia’s National Archives reveal Turner investigated11 strange sightings of anomalous objects in the skies over Maralinga throughout the British atmospheric nuclear bomb testing.”
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49
Harry Turner concluded that the light seen during the 1960 Wewak Maralinga UAP sighting was not the result of a natural phenomenon but was caused by an unidentified flying object, either a cone from a satellite or a flying saucer.
“‘He is of the opinion that the light was not the result of a natural phenomenon but caused by an unidentified flying object, either a cone from a satellite or a “flying saucer”,’ the Range’s security officer wrote in his report.”
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The Range's security officer ignored Harry Turner's conclusion about the 1960 Wewak Maralinga UAP sighting and instead speculated that the light was either a meteor or static electricity.
“He ignored Harry Turner’s conclusion and went instead with the safer option, speculating that it was either a meteor or static electricity.”
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In 1954, Harry Turner, a Melbourne University nuclear physics professor with an existing security clearance, approached the air force asking to read its UAP files, and was hired by the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence to do a classified review of recent sightings.
“In 1954, Harry Turner, a Melbourne University nuclear physics professor, approached the air force asking to read its UAP files. Because the air force was being hammered to provide an explanation, Turner (who already had a security clearance) was hired by DAFI to do a classified review of recent sightings.”
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Harry Turner's report to the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence concluded that the evidence presented by the Royal Australian Air Force tends to support the conclusion that certain strange aircraft have been observed to behave in a manner suggestive of extra-terrestrial origin.
“Turner’s report to DAFI subsequently concluded that ‘The evidence presented by RAAF tends to support the conclusion . . . that certain strange aircraft have been observed to behave in a manner suggestive of extra-terrestrial origin.’”
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Because Harry Turner quoted US flying saucer author and National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena director Donald Keyhoe in his research, Australia's Director of Air Force Intelligence dismissed Turner's findings after consulting with the US Air Force.
“because Harry Turner quoted US best-selling flying saucer author and National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena director Major Donald Keyhoe in his research, Australia’s Director of Air Force Intelligence dismissed Professor Turner’s findings, after consulting with the US Air Force”
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