Summary

Dr. Robert Sarbacher was a physicist and Research and Development Board consultant who, in a September 1950 meeting with Canadian scientist Wilbert Smith, allegedly confirmed that recovered flying saucers were real and classified above the hydrogen bomb. His claims went largely unnoticed for over 30 years until a 1983 letter to researcher William Steinman re-confirmed the substance of Smith's original meeting memo, making Sarbacher one of the few credentialed U.S. scientists to provide written corroboration of government crash recovery knowledge.

Roles

• -President and Chairman, Washington Institute of Technology
• -Research Consultant, U.S. Research and Development Board (1950s)
• -Dean of Graduate Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology

Organizations

Education

• -Ph.D. Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• -Author of 'Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Electronics and Nuclear Engineering' (1959)

Early Career

• -Conducted research in physics and electronics in the post-WWII era
• -Appointed as a research consultant to the U.S. Research and Development Board, a senior scientific advisory body to the Secretary of Defense
• -Served as Dean of Graduate Studies at Georgia Institute of Technology
• -Founded and led the Washington Institute of Technology

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