TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH DR. JOHN A. WHEELER

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005515945
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: January 6, 1953

C00015350
Jamuerv 1953
SUeD.T11:Ts Teler-hone Ccnversation with Dr. John A. Wheeler
1. At L,311 today T called Dr. Wheeler at Princeton, New
Jerse (1231^) to thank hin for his Interest in possible affilia-
tion as a consultant in the CIA attack on the "flying saucer"
problen. I told bin we regretted that the urgency of his current
work for AEC (2?;&TT :c'ici?r j prevented association at this tirte.
2. Dr. Wheeler stated that he ndrht not be able to actively
assist even after rarch 1053 because of his work on "particle
research". However, he would be n_eased at an tir'e to discuss
ye after briefly. He wentioned two foreign nationals who
were cur*ently outstandir. in related fields. One was Dr. Chapman,
a British sub;ect who is an wuthcritr- on the aurorae and its
associated "^,rstericus uroble-.s" of "ion math" and "magnetic
focrossfn". D. ("Day- (Director of Research at Cambridge,
Massachusetts USAF Rese rch Curter!*rtaht be able to suggest
?U. S. subjects in this field. It an ears that the Air Force
has been stud-ire uprer atn s,aeric nhenonena there with
conslde=abls viror. Dr. Cha=an's believed to be currently at
Ca b ides University, ,-land.
3. Another mg:restion was Dr. ria .ues Alf"ven, an "original
th;:.iar and outstanding, resee>c::er". He has written "Cosmological
:do--d Un3.--crsity Press. Dr. Wheeler thought
sorts method of using one or both of these nen night be devised
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