Rockefeller UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence (1995)
Date
December 1995
Document Type
Private Briefing
Pages
169
Authentication
Confirmed AuthenticRedaction Status
○ Never ClassifiedIssuing Authority
Laurance S. Rockefeller - Rockefeller UFO Disclosure Initiative
Summary
A privately commissioned briefing document prepared for philanthropist Laurance S. Rockefeller and presented to the Clinton White House through Science Advisor John H. Gibbons. Written by aviation journalist Don Berliner and researcher Marie Galbraith with scientific consultation from Stanton Friedman, the document presented seven high-quality UAP cases and argued for government disclosure of classified UAP records. It represented the culmination of the Rockefeller Initiative - a multi-year private effort to introduce the UAP disclosure issue into the Clinton administration.
Significance
The Rockefeller Briefing Document is the most serious private-sector attempt to bring UAP evidence to a sitting US president. Its delivery to the White House Science Advisor through the personal access of a Rockefeller family member demonstrates the breadth of serious interest in UAP among elite circles, and it established the disclosure-advocacy framing that later researchers and insiders would build upon. The document preceded the Clinton administration's limited FOIA-era UAP transparency efforts and informed public disclosure campaigns of the late 1990s and 2000s.