The 1971 Turner Memo: Real UAPs Linked to a U.S. Program and Australia’s Analytic Gap

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Oliver Harry Turner, an Australian defense intelligence scientist, said in a 1971 memo that unidentified flying objects are real and linked to a U.S. program involving anti-gravity research and top American physicists, a view shaped by his 1950s work on nuclear tests and his later push to launch rapid, cross‑agency investigations in Australia that stalled due to Air Force resistance and a shift toward relying on American assessments.