Thread by @mrjeffknox

#ufotwitter #ufohistory #seti #tesla #Space
Today In UFO/ET Histoy - Space Signals?
November 13, 1962 - Am. Rocket Society
1/Two IBM engineers, C. D. Jackson and Robert E. Hohmann, present a paper at the American Rocket Society annual meeting in Los Angeles, California, noting

2/the alleged extraterrestrial signals detected by Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi, and David Todd between 1899 and 1924. They speculate that the signal source was 11 light years away, perhaps the Epsilon Eridani system. [Eberhart]

Sources:
"Rocket Society Report on Space Signals", NICAP U.F.O. Investigator Jan./Feb. 1963 Vol.II, No.7, pg.4;

The actual paper was very difficult to find, it seems to have been wiped from most places on the internet. But I have provided it here.

Sources cont.:
C. D. Jackson and Robert E. Hohmann, “An Historic Report on Life in Space: Tesla, Marconi, Todd,” paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the American Rocket Society, Los Angeles, November 13–18, 1962;

Sources cont.:
David Darling, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, "The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia", 2015 eBook, pg.89;
Jerome Clark, "Conversations With Martians", International UFO Reporter 29:3, pg.19-23;

Sources cont.:
Jacques Vallee, 'Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969', Second Ed., November 1972, pg.269,273;
Friedman, Stanton and Marden, Kathleen, “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience”, New Page Books,2007,pg.54-54,61-62;

Jackson and Hohmann were intimately involved with the Betty and Barney Hill case, and believed Betty had become a 'transducer' who could call UFOs down and predict their appearance.

A DRAMATIC UFO ENCOUNTER IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, NEW HAMPSHIRE
THE HILL CASE - SEPT. 19-20, 1961
Walter N. Webb
nicap.org/reports/610919…
[pg.13]

Michael Swords has written on the Hill case and discusses Hohmann and Jackson's involvement on his blog, here:

thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2010/06/from-b…

Another article about the Hill case, also mentions Hohmann and Jacksons involvement:

cryptidcampfire.com/blog/betty-and…

@hollywoodufos article on the Hills also mentioned Hohmann and Jackson

medium.com/on-the-trail-o…

I was able to find a 20+ year old website with a transcription of the paper I included through @isaackoi chronology here:

isaackoi.com/ufo/19621100-t…

You can find the transcription here [The images I included came from Michael Swords files and includes the actual diagrams this Wayback copy doesnt have]
web.archive.org/web/2007010616… and
web.archive.org/web/1999050505…