DOE-UAP-D003: Pajarito Astronomers Meeting Invitation (1986) — Dr. John Warren, LANL
Date
May 20, 1986 (invitation); meeting May 29, 1986
Document Type
Correspondence
Authentication
Official PublicationRedaction Status
✓ Fully ReleasedIssuing Authority
U.S. Department of Energy — Los Alamos National Laboratory (Pajarito Astronomers / Club 1663)
Summary
A 1986 meeting invitation from the Pajarito Astronomers — a Los Alamos National Laboratory-affiliated amateur astronomy club (Club 1663) — announcing a presentation by LANL physicist Dr. John Warren (AT-6 division) titled 'Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFOs?' at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, May 29, 1986 at 7:30 p.m. AARO notes that Los Alamos has no official record of the subject matter discussed at this meeting. The document is the third of three clustered DOE records in PURSUE Release 2.
Significance
DOE-UAP-D003 is contextually significant but not directly evidentiary. It establishes that LANL-affiliated scientists were formally organizing discussions of UFO science through institutional channels in 1986, with a credentialed physicist (Dr. John Warren, LANL AT-6) presenting on the scientific legitimacy of UAP investigation. The absence of an official meeting record suggests these discussions occurred informally and outside official recordkeeping — despite taking place at a facility-adjacent venue with LANL staff. This document's significance lies in what it implies: LANL scientists were engaging with UAP as a scientific question at least through 1986, through channels that did not generate official records.