Person
John Piña Craven
Navy chief scientist of the Polaris-era Special Projects Office who led the Deep Submergence Systems Project. In his memoir The Silent War he describes the 1965 Sand Dollar effort to recover objects from the seabed and an inventory of such objects worldwide. UAP Gerb reads Sand Dollar as the Navy's first UFO-retrieval cover.
Claims (4)
He ran the Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project (1964), which produced the Lockheed-built DSRVs Mystic and Avalon.firsthandOn the recordpublic bios and records (cited by UAP Gerb)
In 1965 a naval intelligence officer briefed him in a SCIF on Sand Dollar, hidden inside Polaris, to retrieve sensitive objects from the seabed: 'I was shown an inventory itemizing the items known to be on the seabed and a map of their distribution throughout the world'.The Silent War: John Pina Craven on Project Sand Dollar (2001)firsthandSourced, unconfirmedJohn Piña Craven
Halibut and Seawolf carried 'teams of industry specialists... the performers and the performances were invisible'.The Silent War: John Pina Craven on Project Sand Dollar (2001)firsthandSourced, unconfirmedJohn Piña Craven
Sand Dollar was the Navy's first UFO legacy program and improved USO retrieval.US Navy UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering ProgramsspeculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
What John Piña Craven said (4 claims)
On the record 1Witness testimony 2
“In 1965 Craven was shown an inventory of items on the seabed under a programme hidden inside Polaris to recover objects of national-security interest.”Witness testimony80 Years of UFO Crash Retrieval and Reverse Engineering: A Timeline
Craven's own book, The Silent War.
“In 1965 a naval intelligence officer showed Craven an inventory and world map of items on the seabed.”Witness testimonyThe Manhattan Project 2.0 - the Secrecy of UFO Crash Retrieval Programs [VOL.1]
Craven's own book, chapter 'Spooked'.
“John Craven was shown an inventory and a world map of militarily sensitive objects on the seabed under Project Sand Dollar.”On the recordUS Navy UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering Programs
Craven's memoir The Silent War.
“The Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project (1964) produced the DSRVs Mystic and Avalon (Lockheed, 1970-2008); Craven wrote that DSRVs were also available for intelligence 'mission impossible' tasks.”firsthandOn the recordThe triangle raised from the North Atlantic (DSRV, 1991)
Connected
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works orgThe Silent War: John Pina Craven on Project Sand Dollar (2001) document
Sources
- UAP Gerb: US Navy crash retrieval and USO programs
- UAP Gerb: 80 Years, the legacy-program timeline
- UAP Gerb: The Manhattan Project 2.0, Vol. 1
Mentioned on (4)
- UAP Gerb: 80 Years of UFO Crash Retrieval and Reverse Engineering: A Timeline
- UAP Gerb: Current Work, Return of the PowerPoint & QnA - UAP Gerb Live
- UAP Gerb: The Manhattan Project 2.0 - the Secrecy of UFO Crash Retrieval Programs [VOL.1]
- UAP Gerb: US Navy UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering Programs