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Garry Nolan

Garry Nolan is a Stanford University pathology professor and biotechnology entrepreneur who has analysed purported anomalous materials and examined brain scans of self-described UAP experiencers alongside William Livingston and Jacques Vallée.

Stanford University · Professor, Department of Pathology

Garry Nolan is a Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University,1 where he holds a chaired position and runs his own laboratory investigating human genetics with postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.2 He has published more than three hundred papers3 and developed around forty patents,4 and has started more than half a dozen companies based on technologies from his laboratory.3 He has also applied techniques from his laboratory to the analysis of purported exotic materials, publishing the first peer-reviewed paper to examine such materials.5

Nolan has said that human civilisation was transformed by something as small as a grain of silicon or germanium, the element underlying the integrated circuits that underpin modern computation and artificial intelligence.6 He has argued that studying even small samples of purported anomalous material could lead to benefits for humanity that are currently inconceivable.7 In his words: “What might be represented here could be hundreds of technology revolutions ahead of us. It could be more transformative for humanity than what the microprocessor accomplished. Imagine what we could do with even a grain of knowledge about how they operate."8

Colleagues have nominated Nolan for the Nobel Prize.9 Through Nolan, Luis Elizondo met the entrepreneur Sean Parker and the entertainer Lady Gaga, both of whom fund cancer research.10

William Livingston flew to California with a team that included Colm Kelleher and Jacques Vallée to meet Nolan.11 Livingston’s team brought MRI images of the brains of self-described UAP experiencers - all servicemen and intelligence officials - to Nolan’s office at Stanford.12 According to Elizondo, Nolan concurred with Livingston that the experiencers had suffered brain scarring known as white-matter disease.13 According to Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs, all 105 patients in the study were high-functioning individuals with high IQs,14 and all had an overdeveloped caudate-putamen, a brain region some researchers associate with intuition.15

Livingston identified a second subset of patients for Nolan: military employees recruited into a programme originally run by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).16 Many of these patients had been associated with an elite military Remote Viewing (RV) programme, and some of the United States Army’s psychic spies were found to share the same hyperdeveloped caudate-putamen seen in the UAP experiencers.17 Nolan worked with Livingston to develop a programme studying the questions raised by the circumstances of Livingston’s patients,18 but never briefed the Pentagon-based Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) team directly, working instead for Livingston.19 Nolan also set up a project for graduate students to compare caudate-putamen scans across a control group, a group diagnosed with autism, and a group with schizophrenia,20 which found that the autistic and schizophrenic groups both showed slight pathological differences in their caudate-putamens compared with the average person.21 According to Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs, Nolan theorised that if psychic ability exists, it would have to be connected in some way to the caudate-putamen,22 and considered the region to be the “hardware” that allows the brain to perform intuitive or psychic functions, with DNA as its blueprint.23

Nolan kept a battery of instruments in his laboratory that he thought would help Vallée better understand a metal sample recovered from the 1977 Council Bluffs, Iowa UAP incident.24 According to Elizondo, Nolan and Vallée analysed the elemental and isotopic composition of the molten metal aggregate recovered from that incident.25 Nolan, a friend and colleague of Elizondo, was included on Tom DeLonge’s advisory board.26 He is a professor at Stanford University’s medical school, and the Nolan/Vallée Iowa Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) materials paper marked the first time he had published in an aerospace journal.27

  1. Nolan is a Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University
    “Dr. Garry Nolan, a Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University”
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  2. Nolan holds a chaired position and runs his own laboratory investigating human genetics with postdocs and graduate students
    “Garry P. Nolan had a chaired position and his own laboratory at Stanford University, where an army of postdocs and graduate students investigated various mysteries of human genetics.”
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  3. Nolan is a renowned inventor and entrepreneur with more than 300 published papers and has started over half a dozen companies from his laboratory's technologies
    “and a renowned inventor and entrepreneur with more than three hundred published papers, has started over half a dozen companies based on technologies out of his laboratory.”
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  4. Nolan has published more than 300 research articles and developed 40 patents
    “Garry had published more than three hundred research articles, developed forty patents, and invented several of the experimental instruments in his lab.”
    Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs ch18:12771-12919 View the source record →
  5. Nolan applied his laboratory's technologies to exotic materials analysis, publishing the first peer-reviewed paper on such materials
    “Nolan has previously applied some of those technologies to the analysis of exotic materials, publishing the first peer-reviewed paper examining such materials.”
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  6. Nolan said human civilisation was transformed by something as small as a grain of silicon or germanium, underlying integrated circuits and AI
    ““Human civilization was utterly transformed by something as small as a grain of silicon or germanium—creating the underpinning of the integrated circuits that underly computation and now even artificial intelligence,” Nolan said.”
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  7. Nolan said studying small samples of purported anomalous material could lead to currently inconceivable benefits for humanity
    “Studying even small samples of purported anomalous material could lead to currently inconceivable benefits for humanity, he said.”
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  8. Nolan's quote about 'hundreds of technology revolutions ahead of us' and 'a grain of knowledge'
    ““What might be represented here could be hundreds of technology revolutions ahead of us. It could be more transformative for humanity than what the microprocessor accomplished. Imagine what we could do with even a grain of knowledge about how they operate.””
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  9. Colleagues have nominated Nolan for the Nobel Prize
    “Colleagues have nominated Garry for the Nobel Prize.”
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  10. Through Nolan, Elizondo met Sean Parker and Lady Gaga, who fund cancer research
    “I had the privilege of meeting the billionaire entrepreneur Sean Parker and the entertainer Lady Gaga, to name two people who are doing more for humanity than they will ever take credit for.”
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  11. Livingston flew to California with a team including Kelleher and Vallée to meet Nolan
    “Will flew to California with a small team that included Colm Kelleher, a biochemist who was the deputy administrator for BAASS during AAWSAP, and the French scientist Jacques Vallée, who had US government clearances related to the investigation of UAP.”
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  12. Livingston's team brought MRI images of UAP experiencers' brains to Nolan's office at Stanford
    “Will’s team had brought MRI images of the brains of the UAP experiencers—all servicemen and intelligence officials—who had given them permission to share their medical data.”
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  13. Nolan concurred with Livingston that experiencers had brain scarring known as white-matter disease
    “At first glance, Garry concurred with Will that all these people had suffered brain scarring. I was told that this is what doctors call white-matter disease because the scars appear as white in medical images.”
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  14. All 105 patients in the study were high-functioning with high IQs
    “All 105 of the patients were high-functioning and had high IQs.”
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  15. All 105 patients had an overdeveloped caudate-putamen, linked by some researchers to intuition
    “All had an overdeveloped part of the brain known as the caudate-putamen. This is the area of the brain that many researchers have begun to associate with intuition”
    Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs ch18:15892-16046 View the source record →
  16. Livingston identified a second patient subset: military employees recruited for a programme originally run by the CIA
    “The people in this data set were military employees recruited for an unusual program originally run by the CIA.”
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  17. Second-group patients were tied to the military remote-viewing programme; Army psychic spies shared the hyperdeveloped caudate-putamen
    “It turned out that many of the patients in this specific study group had been associated in the past with the elite military operation that trained soldiers to become remote viewers... some of the Army’s psychic spies had the same hyperdeveloped caudate-putamen in their brains.”
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  18. Nolan worked with Livingston to develop a programme studying the questions raised by his patients
    “At the same time, Garry was also working with Will to flesh out a program to study the questions raised by Will’s patients’ circumstances.”
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  19. Nolan never briefed the Pentagon-based AATIP team, working instead directly for Livingston
    “Though I knew of him and his work with us, he never briefed us at the Pentagon because he was working directly for Will.”
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  20. Nolan set up a graduate student project comparing caudate-putamen scans across control, autism, and schizophrenia groups
    “He set up a project for some graduate students to look at the brain scans of three sets of people—a control group, a group that had diagnosed autism, and those with schizophrenia.”
    Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs ch22:7740-7905 View the source record →
  21. The team found slight pathological caudate-putamen differences in the autistic and schizophrenic groups
    “Sure enough, Nolan’s team of grads found that autistic people and schizophrenic people both had slight differences from the average person, pathologies, in their caudate-putamens.”
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  22. Nolan theorised that psychic ability, if real, would connect to the caudate-putamen
    “If psychic ability really exists, Nolan theorized, it would have to be connected in some way to the caudate-putamen.”
    Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs ch22:8756-8864 View the source record →
  23. Nolan considered the caudate-putamen the 'hardware' for intuitive or psychic function, with DNA as its blueprint
    “The way he saw it, the caudate-putamen was the “hardware” that allowed these brains to perform their work. DNA was the blueprint for the hardware.”
    Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs ch22:9141-9278 View the source record →
  24. Nolan kept instruments in his lab intended to help Vallée analyse the 1977 Council Bluffs, Iowa material sample
    “Nolan had a battery of instruments in his laboratory that he thought would allow Jacques to get a better understanding of the sample in his possession.”
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  25. Nolan and Vallée analysed the elemental and isotopic composition of the molten metal aggregate from the Iowa incident
    “Nolan and Vallée had explored the composition of the 1977 Iowa molten metal aggregate and had uncovered another mystery for us to solve.”
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  26. Nolan was a friend and colleague of Elizondo and was included on Tom DeLonge's advisory board
    “my friend and colleague from Stanford University, Dr. Garry Nolan”
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  27. Nolan is a professor at Stanford's medical school; the Iowa UAP materials paper was his first in an aerospace journal
    “It was the first time that Nolan, a professor at Stanford’s medical school, had ever published in an aerospace journal”
    Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs ch31:38451-38562 View the source record →

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