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Thomas Marshall Olsen
» Born 1931, Highland Park, Illinois
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» B.S., Liberal Arts, Northwestern University, 1953; M.S., Physics and Math from University of Wisconsin, 1955
» 1956 - 1968: nuclear reactor analyst at Martin Aircraft Company and Lead Engineer on U.S. Army Package Power Reactor design and design-software development; 1968 - 1980: radiological safety engineer at Teledyne Energy Systems, also engineering the shim-free magnetic compensation loop for radioisotope thermoelectric generators on-board NASA Pioneer 10 / 11 spacecraft to Jupiter and beyond; 1980 - 1995: software engineer at Karsten Mfg. Corp; 1995 - : still working part-time as a software developer
» Student of UFO phenomenon since 1947; collection of 160 reports (1), partially based on gleaning USAF Project Blue Book files 3 - 7 August 1964 at WPAFB (with thanks to encouragement of J. Allen Hynek); seven references to that collection in Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics -- pgs. 40, 84, 215, 219, 222, 231, and 234 (2); mention on pg. 23 of Condon report (3), pgs. 135, 198 of "Forbidden Science" (4), pg. 3:230 of "UFO Encyclopedia" (5) ; seven contributions to "Encyclopedia of UFOs" (6); Web site since 2000 (7)
The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, UFOIRC-6601, November 1966, UFO Information Retrieval Center, see Website below
Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, U.S. House of Representatives, 27 July 1968, U.S. Government Printing Office
Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, LC 73-77914, March 1969, E. P. Dutton & Co.
Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science: Journals 1957 - 1969, ISBN 1-55643-125-2, 1992, North Atlantic Books
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, ISBN 1-55888-742-3, 1996, Omnigraphics
Ronald D. Story, Ed., The Encyclopedia of UFOs, LC 77-15174, 1980, Doubleday & Co.
