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- Note: The following is a 3 page excerpt from the paper entitled,
- "UFOs, MJ-12 AND THE GOVERNMENT", which is co-authored by
- researchers Grant Cameron and T. Scott Crain Jr. This brief
- excerpt gives additional background information on Dr. Eric
- Walker's professional activities during the last 60 yrs, along
- with a short example of one of Dr. Walkers' initial responses
- to correspondence from UFO researcher, William Steinman.
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- - Tom Mickus <<UFONET I>>
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- Enter Dr. Eric A. Walker. Dr. Walker's name was deliberately
- kept secret by a small group of investigators, the authors of this
- paper included, in hopes that Dr. Walker would discuss his past
- association with MJ-12, the research and development hierarchy they
- directed, and the set of Top Secret meetings held at Wright Patterson
- Air Force Base dealing with a recovered flying saucer.
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- Researcher Stanton Friedman in speaking of Dr. Walker stated
- "he has all the credentials" and Dr. Walker's credentials are indeed
- impressive. Born in England in 1910, he received his B.S. degree in
- Engineering in 1932, his M.B.A. degree in 1933 and D.Sc. degree in
- 1935, all from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Dr. Walker taught mathematics and electrical engineering, and
- for two years was chairman of the department of electrical engineering
- at Tufts College. He then joined the University of Conneticut where
- he taught electrical engineering and established courses for a special
- war training program.
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- Once the U.S.A. had entered WWII, Dr. Walker joined the Under-
- water Sound Laboratory at Harvard University. He was promoted to
- assistant director, and then associate director, where he was in
- charge of ordnance weapons. Dr. Walker had studied the industrial
- use of acoustics. These studies were applied to the homing torpedo,
- which was successfully used against the German submarines. For his
- work Dr. Walker was awarded the Naval Ordnance Development Award, and
- also a Presidential Certificate of Merit.
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- In 1944 Dr. Walker was a civilian with the Office of Scientific
- Research and Development. In 1945 Dr. Walker was persuaded by the
- Dean of Engineering at Penn State University to accept at Penn State,
- the position of head of the department of electrical engineering. In
- addition, the ordnance section of the Harvard Underwater Sound
- Laboratory was transferred to Penn State, and became the Ordnance
- Research Laboratory with Dr. Walker as director.
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- This move involved moving most of the staff (200) and their
- families, building a laboratory building and family housing.
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- In 1951 Dr. Walker became Dean of Engineering and Architecture
- where he directed the construction of a research reactor on the
- campus. In 1956 Dr. Milton Eisenhower, then the President of Penn
- State, named Dr. Walker as Vice-President. Part of Dr. Walker's job
- would be to coordinate and stimulate research on the Penn State campus.
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- Dr. Walker's term as Vice-President would actually be minus
- two days as he became President before Vice-President because of
- the resignation of Dr. Eisenhower who moved to John Hopkins University.
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- In addition to his earned degrees, Dr. Walker has honorary
- degrees from Temple, Lehigh, Hofstra, Lafayette College, University
- of Pennsylvannia, University of Rhode Island, Elizabethtown College,
- Jefferson Medical College, Wayne State University, Thiel College,
- University of Notre Dame, and the University of Pittsburgh.
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- Dr. Eric Walker wrote two prize papers for the AIEE, and
- was inventor of the coliolithophone which is a device for the
- acoustical detection of gallstones.
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- Dr. Walker's awards include the Navy Distinguished Public
- Service Awared; American Legion Distinguished Service Award; Fellow,
- Institute of Radio Engineers; Benjamin Franklin Fellow; Fellow,
- American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Fellow, Royal Society
- of Arts (London); Fellow, American Physical Society; Fellow, American
- Acoustical Society; Horatio Alger Award; Tasker H. Bliss Award of the
- American Society of Military Engineers, Golden Omega Award of the
- Electrical Insulation Industry; Lamme Award and honorary member from
- the American Society for Electrical Education; the White House
- Citation from President Nixon; and Department of Defense Distinguished
- Public Service Medal.
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- Dr. Walker's professional activities include: member of the
- Army's Scientific Advisory Panel, member and chairman of the Naval
- Research Advisory Committee, Vice-Chairman of the President's
- Committee for Scientists and Engineers, member and former Chairman
- of the National Research Council's Committee on Undersea Warfare,
- Executive Secretary of the former Research and Development Board,
- Chairman of the National Science Foundation's Committee for
- Engineering; Chairman, Engineering College Research Council;
- President, Engineers Joint Council; appointed in 1957 by President
- Dwight Eisenhower as General Chairman of the Conference on Technical
- and Distribution Research for the Benefit of Small Business; member
- of the board of visitors, Naval Academy; member of the board of
- visitors, U.S. Military Academy; trustee for the Institute for
- Defense Analysis starting in 1958; elected to the chairman of the
- board at IDA in 1981, retiring in 1986 to become Chairman Emeritus;
- President Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities;
- member, Advisory Committee on Higher Education; member, Commission
- on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges
- and Schools: Vice-President and President of the American Society
- for Engineering Education, Chairman National Science Board of The
- National Science Foundation.
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- Dr. Walker was one of the founding members of the National
- Academy of Engineering. He served as Vice-President and President.
- He was a member of the Board of the Engineering Foundation; member
- of the board of trustees, Science Service; President, Commonwealth
- Industrial Research Corp; Board of Directors, Mid-State Bank and
- Trust Company; Board of Directors, Girard Trust Company; Board of
- Directors, Westinghouse Air Brake Co.; Chairman, Board of Directors,
- Melpar, Inc.; consultant on research and engineering to Koppers Corp.,
- Borg-Warner, Bendix Aviation, Hughes Aircraft, IBM, and others.
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- Dr. Walker initiated the Conference on The Administration of
- Research in 1947. He has published numerous articles in various
- periodicals and co-authored a book entitled "The Physical Bases of
- Electrical Engineering". Dr. Walker wrote a column for "The Center
- Daily Times" in the early 70's. Dr. Walker directed a nation wide
- study for the ASEE on the "Goals of Engineering Education."
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- Dr. Walker's first reference to UFOs came in a speech he
- made in 1969 at the Franklin Lectures (Approaching the Benign
- Enviroment, Eric A. Walker, Franklin Lectures in the Science and
- Humanities, First series, @1970 lectures April 1969 at Auburn U.)
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- "We will soon spend millions to probe the
- atmosphere of Venus and Mars, while here
- on earth it remains polluted with dust and
- heat with which we cannot cope. Indeed it
- may be a good thing that ships from another
- planet are not sampling our atmosphere - the
- conclusion might be that life cannot possibly
- exist on earth."
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- Researcher William Steinman was not given Walker's phone
- number by researcher Stanton Friedman, so his first attempt to
- contact Dr. Walker came in the form of a letter, dated March 19,
- 1984. He got a response, but not what he expected. Steinman
- explained how Dr. Walker responded in a letter to Grant Cameron,
- dated September 8, 1987.
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- Steinman writes:
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- "The answer to my correspondence was very strange;
- it stated "STOP! DON'T TRY TO FIND ME I CAME ON
- THAT MACHINE I WILL LEAVE MAY 15 ERGOT QUIET QUIET
- QUIET." The above was typed on the lower portion
- of my letter that I sent to Walker, as evidence by
- my signature and "very sincerely yours." My return
- address was cut from the upper portion of my own
- letter to Dr. Walker and was taped to the front of
- his stamped envelope to me!"
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