SUBJECT: BIBLOGRAPHICAL INFO ON DR. ERIC A. WALKER FILE: UFO1184
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Note: The following is a 3 page excerpt from the paper entitled,
"UFOs, MJ-12 AND THE GOVERNMENT", which is co-authored by
researchers Grant Cameron and T. Scott Crain Jr. This brief
excerpt gives additional background information on Dr. Eric
Walker's professional activities during the last 60 yrs, along
with a short example of one of Dr. Walkers' initial responses
to correspondence from UFO researcher, William Steinman.
- Tom Mickus <<UFONET I>>
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Enter Dr. Eric A. Walker. Dr. Walker's name was deliberately
kept secret by a small group of investigators, the authors of this
paper included, in hopes that Dr. Walker would discuss his past
association with MJ-12, the research and development hierarchy they
directed, and the set of Top Secret meetings held at Wright Patterson
Air Force Base dealing with a recovered flying saucer.
Researcher Stanton Friedman in speaking of Dr. Walker stated
"he has all the credentials" and Dr. Walker's credentials are indeed
impressive. Born in England in 1910, he received his B.S. degree in
Engineering in 1932, his M.B.A. degree in 1933 and D.Sc. degree in
1935, all from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dr. Walker taught mathematics and electrical engineering, and
for two years was chairman of the department of electrical engineering
at Tufts College. He then joined the University of Conneticut where
he taught electrical engineering and established courses for a special
war training program.
Once the U.S.A. had entered WWII, Dr. Walker joined the Under-
water Sound Laboratory at Harvard University. He was promoted to
assistant director, and then associate director, where he was in
charge of ordnance weapons. Dr. Walker had studied the industrial
use of acoustics. These studies were applied to the homing torpedo,
which was successfully used against the German submarines. For his
work Dr. Walker was awarded the Naval Ordnance Development Award, and
also a Presidential Certificate of Merit.
In 1944 Dr. Walker was a civilian with the Office of Scientific
Research and Development. In 1945 Dr. Walker was persuaded by the
Dean of Engineering at Penn State University to accept at Penn State,
the position of head of the department of electrical engineering. In
addition, the ordnance section of the Harvard Underwater Sound
Laboratory was transferred to Penn State, and became the Ordnance
Research Laboratory with Dr. Walker as director.
This move involved moving most of the staff (200) and their
families, building a laboratory building and family housing.
In 1951 Dr. Walker became Dean of Engineering and Architecture
where he directed the construction of a research reactor on the
campus. In 1956 Dr. Milton Eisenhower, then the President of Penn
State, named Dr. Walker as Vice-President. Part of Dr. Walker's job
would be to coordinate and stimulate research on the Penn State campus.
Dr. Walker's term as Vice-President would actually be minus
two days as he became President before Vice-President because of
the resignation of Dr. Eisenhower who moved to John Hopkins University.
In addition to his earned degrees, Dr. Walker has honorary
degrees from Temple, Lehigh, Hofstra, Lafayette College, University
of Pennsylvannia, University of Rhode Island, Elizabethtown College,
Jefferson Medical College, Wayne State University, Thiel College,
University of Notre Dame, and the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Eric Walker wrote two prize papers for the AIEE, and
was inventor of the coliolithophone which is a device for the
acoustical detection of gallstones.
Dr. Walker's awards include the Navy Distinguished Public
Service Awared; American Legion Distinguished Service Award; Fellow,
Institute of Radio Engineers; Benjamin Franklin Fellow; Fellow,
American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Fellow, Royal Society
of Arts (London); Fellow, American Physical Society; Fellow, American
Acoustical Society; Horatio Alger Award; Tasker H. Bliss Award of the
American Society of Military Engineers, Golden Omega Award of the
Electrical Insulation Industry; Lamme Award and honorary member from
the American Society for Electrical Education; the White House
Citation from President Nixon; and Department of Defense Distinguished
Public Service Medal.
Dr. Walker's professional activities include: member of the
Army's Scientific Advisory Panel, member and chairman of the Naval
Research Advisory Committee, Vice-Chairman of the President's
Committee for Scientists and Engineers, member and former Chairman
of the National Research Council's Committee on Undersea Warfare,
Executive Secretary of the former Research and Development Board,
Chairman of the National Science Foundation's Committee for
Engineering; Chairman, Engineering College Research Council;
President, Engineers Joint Council; appointed in 1957 by President
Dwight Eisenhower as General Chairman of the Conference on Technical
and Distribution Research for the Benefit of Small Business; member
of the board of visitors, Naval Academy; member of the board of
visitors, U.S. Military Academy; trustee for the Institute for
Defense Analysis starting in 1958; elected to the chairman of the
board at IDA in 1981, retiring in 1986 to become Chairman Emeritus;
President Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities;
member, Advisory Committee on Higher Education; member, Commission
on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges
and Schools: Vice-President and President of the American Society
for Engineering Education, Chairman National Science Board of The
National Science Foundation.
Dr. Walker was one of the founding members of the National
Academy of Engineering. He served as Vice-President and President.
He was a member of the Board of the Engineering Foundation; member
of the board of trustees, Science Service; President, Commonwealth
Industrial Research Corp; Board of Directors, Mid-State Bank and
Trust Company; Board of Directors, Girard Trust Company; Board of
Directors, Westinghouse Air Brake Co.; Chairman, Board of Directors,
Melpar, Inc.; consultant on research and engineering to Koppers Corp.,
Borg-Warner, Bendix Aviation, Hughes Aircraft, IBM, and others.
Dr. Walker initiated the Conference on The Administration of
Research in 1947. He has published numerous articles in various
periodicals and co-authored a book entitled "The Physical Bases of
Electrical Engineering". Dr. Walker wrote a column for "The Center
Daily Times" in the early 70's. Dr. Walker directed a nation wide
study for the ASEE on the "Goals of Engineering Education."
Dr. Walker's first reference to UFOs came in a speech he
made in 1969 at the Franklin Lectures (Approaching the Benign
Enviroment, Eric A. Walker, Franklin Lectures in the Science and
Humanities, First series, @1970 lectures April 1969 at Auburn U.)
"We will soon spend millions to probe the
atmosphere of Venus and Mars, while here
on earth it remains polluted with dust and
heat with which we cannot cope. Indeed it
may be a good thing that ships from another
planet are not sampling our atmosphere - the
conclusion might be that life cannot possibly
exist on earth."
Researcher William Steinman was not given Walker's phone
number by researcher Stanton Friedman, so his first attempt to
contact Dr. Walker came in the form of a letter, dated March 19,
1984. He got a response, but not what he expected. Steinman
explained how Dr. Walker responded in a letter to Grant Cameron,
dated September 8, 1987.
Steinman writes:
"The answer to my correspondence was very strange;
it stated "STOP! DON'T TRY TO FIND ME I CAME ON
THAT MACHINE I WILL LEAVE MAY 15 ERGOT QUIET QUIET
QUIET." The above was typed on the lower portion
of my letter that I sent to Walker, as evidence by
my signature and "very sincerely yours." My return
address was cut from the upper portion of my own
letter to Dr. Walker and was taped to the front of
his stamped envelope to me!"
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