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