Few figures sit closer to the strange borderland where national security, human physiology, and UAP research meet than Dr. Christopher “Kit” Green.
Trained as a physician and neuroscientist, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst and program manager, and later a senior executive in private industry and academic medicine, Green has spent decades documenting the human consequences that can follow close encounters with anomalous aerospace systems and other extraordinary events.
He is at once a careful clinician and a heterodox insider. His career threads together pivotal UAP-era institutions and personalities, from the early SRI remote viewing work to the Defense Intelligence Agency’s AAWSAP contract and the “Invisible College” network of scientific collaborators.
His published DIA paper on acute and subacute injuries associated with “anomalous vehicles” has become foundational in the “human effects” wing of UAP studies and is one of the very few primary-source documents that shows how government-sponsored analysts approached the physiology of UAP exposure. (IRVA)
Early scientific formation and first brush with the Intelligence Community
Public biographical sketches compiled by professional organizations and scientific bodies paint a consistent picture. Green’s federal career began in 1969 at the CIA as a neurosciences analyst.
During the 1970s he served as the Agency’s first analyst and program manager overseeing the early remote viewing research monitored by the U.S. government. He rose through management as a Branch Chief, Deputy Division Director, and Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology.
In 1985 he left government service and moved into senior technology roles at General Motors, later returning to academic medicine and forensic neuroimaging while maintaining advisory roles on defense and National Academies panels. (IRVA)
Those same biographies, together with archival media, locate Green inside the era’s most controversial government-adjacent research: the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) remote viewing program, later known under umbrella terms like “Stargate.”
Declassified ABC Nightline transcripts and CIA reading-room materials confirm that the CIA ran and evaluated remote viewing during the Cold War, with SRI scientists Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff among the principal investigators. Green is cataloged by SRI and later histories as the CIA contract monitor and program manager on aspects of this work. (CIA)
Why does this matter for UAP?
The SRI program was less about “psychics” and more about a small cadre of scientists and intelligence officers who learned to evaluate unconventional claims with structure and discipline.
That culture, and those working relationships, carried forward into the UAP milieu of the 1990s through the 2010s. Several of Green’s later collaborators on UAP biomedical and materials questions trace back to that same network.
Government involvement, 1969–2000s: From CIA analyst to National Academies leadership
Green’s government service was not limited to the 1970s.
After leaving CIA in 1985, he spent about 20 years in General Motors’ research and technology leadership, then returned to medicine in Detroit.
A contemporaneous email he wrote in 2004 notes that he “resigned in 1985,” then “ended up [at GM] as Chief Technology Officer” after post-CIA years in technology intelligence and Asia-Pacific operations. (meselsonarchive.hsites.harvard.edu)
Parallel to his corporate and medical work, Green served widely across National Academies boards and committees.
The National Research Council’s consensus report Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies was produced by a committee focused on military and intelligence applications of the brain sciences.
Biographical notes across Academies pages describe Green as an NRC chair and board leader on Army Science and Technology and related panels during this period.
The Academies’ catalog and executive summaries position his committee’s work squarely at the intersection of national security and neuroscience. (National Academies Press)
Relevance for UAP
These civilian science roles show the arc of Green’s expertise: analyze frontier brain and sensor science for defense, translate it into risk and opportunity, then advise policy. When the Pentagon sponsored a broad inquiry into unconventional aerospace threats, Green was a natural fit to examine the medical side.
The AAWSAP medical study: injuries near “anomalous vehicles”
In 2010, under the Defense Intelligence Agency’s AAWSAP contract, Green authored a 38-page technical paper, Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues, now available through the DIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room.
The paper’s summary is blunt.
It reviews evidence that human observers in close proximity to “anomalous advanced aerospace systems” have suffered injuries and neurological effects, identifies electromagnetic field effects as a principal injury pathway, and enumerates pathophysiology ranging from burns and neuro-otologic effects to disabling cognitive changes.
The analysis argues that clinical patterns can, in principle, back-infer aspects of the unknown propulsion or energy systems.
The report lists heating injuries, ionizing and non-ionizing effects, central and autonomic nervous system involvement, cranial nerve impacts, and characteristic “white matter disease” presentations in neuroimaging as central patterns to watch.
It also frames, in sober clinical language, a key hypothesis. Enough incidents have been accurately reported and medically documented to support “a hypothesis that some advanced systems are already deployed” yet remain opaque to full U.S. understanding.
That language, while cautious, is among the highest-grade primary-source confirmations of the human effects problem at the heart of UAP.
Downstream impact. The paper became a touchstone. Popular Mechanics’ long investigation into AAWSAP and AATIP highlighted this study as one of the contract’s outputs.
Independent analysts and historians of the program have repeatedly used Green’s paper to reconstruct what the government was actually examining. (Popular Mechanics)
Clinical research threads: From “anomalous experiencers” to the caudate–putamen
Beginning around 2013, Green worked with Stanford pathologist Dr. Garry Nolan to analyze medical imaging and other biomarkers from defense and intelligence personnel and aerospace workers who reported unusual exposures. In an extensive 2021 interview, Nolan described receiving about 100 cases at Green’s request, many with serious neurological findings, and some consistent with what later became known as anomalous health incidents.
Nolan reported a striking pattern in the basal ganglia: unusually dense connectivity across the head of the caudate and the putamen in a subset of high-functioning individuals, which he associated with intuition and rapid goal setting.
Nolan characterized roughly a quarter of the earliest cohort as ultimately fatal, with others carrying symptom clusters similar to later “Havana syndrome” cases. (VICE)
The same interview shows the connective tissue of modern UAP inquiry. Nolan explicitly names Green as part of the “Invisible College” cohort, alongside Jacques Vallée, Eric Davis, and Colm Kelleher, who sought to evaluate alleged UAP materials and physiological effects with rigorous instrumentation. (VICE)
Why this matters
Whether one sees these cases as UAP-adjacent field exposures, targeted energy incidents, or both, the clinical workflow Green helped organize created the first modern repository of “anomalous injuries” linked to aerospace and national security work.
That corpus now anchors efforts to define exposure standards and triage protocols for front-line personnel.
Books, reports, and film
Green’s most consequential “book-length” contributions are edited volumes and consensus reports for the National Academies and closely related bodies, not personal monographs.
His footprint appears across NRC board work, especially on Army Science and Technology, and in the Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies report. These publications track frontier brain science against defense needs, a lens through which Green later framed UAP-associated injuries and cognitive effects. (National Academies Press)
On film, Green appears as himself in the 2019 documentary Third Eye Spies, which chronicles the SRI remote viewing program and its intelligence sponsors.
The cast list and summaries identify him by name, and the film itself treats Green and colleague Hal Puthoff as key CIA-linked interlocutors who bridged classified programs and laboratory work.
The film’s closing montage explicitly connects those earlier networks to post-2017 Pentagon UAP assessments. (IMDb)
Known associates and the “Invisible College”
Green’s professional circle across five decades includes a who’s who of heterodox aerospace and consciousness research.
- Hal Puthoff, PhD. Physicist and SRI cofounder of the remote viewing program, later a principal in AAWSAP-related work. Public histories and “Third Eye Spies” place Puthoff and Green in frequent collaboration. (IMDb)
- Dr. Garry Nolan. Stanford immunologist and inventor who analyzed Green’s patient cohort and later UAP-associated materials. Nolan has repeatedly credited Green with catalyzing this research and delivering the early MRIs and clinical histories. (VICE)
- Dr. Eric W. Davis and Dr. Colm Kelleher. Physicist and biochemist, respectively, who worked with Bigelow-affiliated institutes. Nolan groups both with Green and Vallée as central to the contemporary Invisible College. (VICE)
- Jacques Vallée, PhD. The astronomer and computer scientist whose “Invisible College” concept describes a distributed, quiet network of scientists examining UAP and related anomalies. Nolan names Vallée and Green in the same short list of primary nodes. (VICE)
Green’s academic and policy associates are equally important. Biographies and Academies rosters place him alongside defense technologists and neuroscientists on boards and committees that assessed emerging cognitive technologies for military applications. That mainstream service legitimizes the methods he later applied to UAP human effects. (National Academies Press)
The “alien autopsy” correspondence and how Green explains it
One of the most contested chapters in Green’s public story emerged when a 2001 email thread discussing the notorious 1995 “alien autopsy” film surfaced in 2019.
In a detailed on-the-record interview, Green confirmed the authenticity of the email thread and explained his position.
He acknowledged that in the late 1980s he was shown still images and autopsy reports in a Pentagon briefing that he believed to be authentic at the time and that some of those stills appeared identical, or near identical, to shots used later in the Santilli film.
Green nevertheless concluded in the early 2000s that the Santilli film itself was a hoax and now believes he was hoaxed during the 1980s briefing as part of a deceptive operation. (Richard Dolan Members)
This explanation puts Green in a paradoxical but consistent stance.
He acknowledges being persuaded by certain materials when they were first shown. He later retracted belief in those materials as biological evidence while maintaining that elements he saw in the 1980s mapped uncannily onto a hoax that appeared years later.
In other words, the overlap is real, but proves little about origins. Whatever one makes of that, it demonstrates how Green reports and reassesses evidence over time. (Richard Dolan Members)
The Wayne State years: forensic neuroimaging and pro bono triage
Green’s academic roles anchored him in practical clinical work.
Public biographies describe him as a professor of diagnostic radiology and of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Harper University Hospital, and Assistant Dean for Asia Pacific.
They also note a private forensic medical practice in neuroimaging, neurogenomics, and neurotoxicology, with a declared 20 percent pro bono caseload devoted to patients “injured by anomalous events.”
That language, in an institutional context, is unusually direct. (IRVA)
The Fetzer Franklin Fund profile and related materials show Green positioned as a cross-boundary figure: a National Intelligence Medal recipient, Academies insider, and clinician who uses high-field MRI to solve complex diagnostic puzzles, sometimes under national-security sensitivities.
The imagery associated with these profiles even shows Green at a workstation with brain scans, emblematic of his applied approach. (Fetzer Franklin Fund)
Impact on the UAP community
1) A firm, clinical language for “human effects.” Before 2010, discussion of UAP and health often drifted into rumor.
Green’s DIA paper gave researchers a lexicon of measurable signs, diagnostic codes, and exposure-effect hypotheses, which allowed program managers and clinicians to treat UAP encounters as an occupational risk.
This reframed pilots, aircrew, and ground personnel not as “witnesses” but as potential patients.
2) A living case repository. The Green-Nolan pipeline built a case-based understanding of neurological, immunological, and psychiatric sequelae following unusual exposure events, including patterns later recognized in anomalous health incidents.
Regardless of the eventual attribution in any single case, the corpus exists and is medically nontrivial. (VICE)
3) A bridge between heterodox and mainstream. Green’s seats on National Academies committees, his corporate CTO experience, and formal academic roles gave cover to colleagues who might otherwise shun UAP topics. He normalized the idea that you can be a serious scientist or physician and still triage “impossible” injuries if the data require it. (National Academies Press)
4) A shared network. Through Third Eye Spies and subsequent AAWSAP-era work, Green helped carry forward the “Invisible College” model into the 21st century, linking government consumers, private contractors, and academic labs. (IMDb)
Controversies and critiques
Remote viewing and SRI. The CIA’s remote viewing experiments remain polarizing. Yet the existence of the program and the CIA’s evaluation of it are not in dispute, and Green’s role as a CIA contract monitor and program manager is documented in IRVA’s biographical account and reflected across declassified media.
The controversy is less about whether this happened and more about how to weigh its scientific merit. (IRVA)
Alien autopsy and briefing claims. Critics point to Green’s early credence in the Santilli film and argue that his later explanation does not fully resolve why he believed the images in the first place.
Green’s own account, however, is internally consistent. He affirms the emails, denies the film’s authenticity, and asserts that he was exposed to look-alike materials in a briefing he now believes was deceptive.
Researchers disagree on what this implies about 1980s-era information operations, but the core chronology is on the record. (Richard Dolan Members)
AAWSAP and AATIP ambiguity. Journalists who reconstructed the Pentagon’s UAP programs under BAASS and DIA have noted shifting official narratives and confusing program boundaries.
Some critics say the medical work extended too far into fringe territory.
The Popular Mechanics investigation put primary documents like Green’s medical report into the public record precisely to cut through this ambiguity. (Popular Mechanics)
Predictions and claims
1) Field-effect injuries will map to unconventional energy systems. Green’s AAWSAP paper predicts that studying clinical injury patterns can back-infer the physics of “anomalous vehicles.”
He argues that the biophysics required are not miraculous, but unconventional, and that the most informative cases involve near-field exposure to intense RF or related fields.
The paper even sketches thresholds and mechanisms to guide future work.
2) Some advanced systems already exist. The AAWSAP summary states that enough cases exist to support a hypothesis that advanced systems are deployed but opaque to full U.S. understanding.
Taken literally, that implies nontrivial capabilities by unknown actors or artifacts, and it logically underwrites the push for clinical surveillance of exposed personnel.
3) The basal ganglia signal matters. Green’s collaboration with Nolan surfaced an unexpected pattern in the head of the caudate and putamen among a subset of experiencers and high-functioning personnel.
Nolan framed it as a possibly innate trait rather than damage in some individuals, and Green’s funneling of cases made such hypothesis generation possible.
The claim is testable and has since motivated further imaging research on intuition and rapid decision-making circuits. (VICE)
Working style and methodology
Across roles, Green displays several hallmarks.
- Clinical triage first. Whether the exposure is UAP-related or otherwise, stabilize the patient, document signs and symptoms, and order imaging that can distinguish neuroinflammatory scarring, demyelination, or basal ganglia anomalies.
- Pattern recognition across cases. The AAWSAP paper groups diagnoses and environmental conditions into clusters. Nolan’s lab then quantified subsets more precisely with blood immunophenotyping and high-resolution MRI.
- Institutional memory. From CIA to NRC panels, Green cultivates continuity. He brings the “what did we already learn in a different domain” question to every anomalous problem. (National Academies Press)
Where he stands now
Public profiles continue to list Green as a professor associated with Wayne State University School of Medicine and Harper University Hospital, with a private forensic practice and active national-security consulting.
IRVA’s speaker profile highlights his ongoing pro bono work for patients reporting injuries from anomalous events and notes a Lifetime National Associate designation by the National Research Council. (IRVA)
Given the maturation of the UAP conversation since 2017, Green’s pragmatic stance has unusual weight.
He refrains from sweeping cosmological claims and focuses on what the medicine says. If exposure patterns and clinical signatures can be extracted and validated, they may become the most hard-edged, reproducible handles we have on UAP interaction with humans.
He is since 2024 a board member of uNHIdden, a London-based non-profit dedicated to reducing stigma, encouraging compassionate conversations and promoting care and support for people affected by Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
Timeline highlights
- 1969–1985. CIA neurosciences analyst through Assistant National Intelligence Officer for S&T; early program manager and contract monitor for remote viewing research at SRI. (IRVA)
- 1985–early 2000s. Senior technology roles at General Motors; global CTO responsibilities. (meselsonarchive.hsites.harvard.edu)
- 1990s–2000s. Service on National Research Council boards and committees, including Army Science and Technology leadership; work culminating in cognitive neuroscience reports for military and intelligence audiences. (National Academies Press)
- 2002–present. Academic medicine in Detroit; forensic neuroimaging; Assistant Dean for Asia Pacific; sustained defense-science advisory work. (IRVA)
- 2010. Authors the DIA AAWSAP medical paper on field-effect injuries associated with anomalous aerospace systems.
- 2013–2018. Begins funneling complex clinical cases to Garry Nolan’s lab; MRI patterns and immunological profiles explored; subset later overlaps with anomalous health incidents. (VICE)
- 2019. Appears in Third Eye Spies; alien-autopsy correspondence surfaces; Green explains his view on the record. (IMDb)
- 2020s. AAWSAP/AATIP reporting brings his medical analysis into mainstream coverage of UAP programs. (Popular Mechanics)
Assessment: Green’s lasting contribution
Dr. Kit Green’s UAP legacy is not a single dramatic revelation. It is a clinical method and a risk-management posture for an era that can no longer pretend anomalous aerospace interactions never happen.
He has focused attention on the human interface of the UAP problem.
He positioned MRIs, neurological exams, and carefully coded medical charts as evidence streams that stand independent of debate over radar signatures or cockpit videos.
That reframing helps protect service members and defense workers while creating data that can, in time, guide physics.
For a field long mired in declarative belief, this is a quietly radical act. Green treats experiencers as patients and exposure events as occupational hazards that demand a response plan.
Whatever the ultimate provenance of UAP, this is a durable and humane contribution.
References
Defense Intelligence Agency. (2010). Anomalous acute and subacute field effects on human biological tissues [AAWSAP technical report by C. C. Green]. DIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room. https://www.dia.mil/FOIA/FOIA-Electronic-Reading-Room/FileId/170026/
International Remote Viewing Association. (n.d.). Christopher Green, M.D., Ph.D. https://www.irva.org/speaker/green-christopher (IRVA)
Mungia, L. (Director). (2019). Third Eye Spies [Documentary film]. Conscious Universe Films. IMDb cast listing: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5112424/fullcredits/ (IMDb)
Nolan, G. (Interviewee). (2021, December 10). Stanford Professor Garry Nolan is analyzing anomalous materials from UAP crashes [Interview by T. Campion]. VICE/Motherboard. https://www.vice.com/en/article/stanford-professor-garry-nolan-analyzing-anomalous-materials-from-ufo-crashes/ (VICE)
Popular Mechanics Staff. (2020, February 14). Inside the Pentagon’s secret UFO program [Investigation by T. McMillan]. Popular Mechanics. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a30916275/government-secret-ufo-program-investigation/ (Popular Mechanics)
Richard Dolan Members. (2019, August 24). Dr. Kit Green, on the record [Interview transcript and analysis]. https://richarddolanmembers.com/davis-wilson-memo/dr-kit-green-on-the-record/ (Richard Dolan Members)
National Research Council. (2008). Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies. The National Academies Press. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12177/emerging-cognitive-neuroscience-and-related-technologies (National Academies Press)
Fetzer Franklin Fund. (n.d.). Christopher Green | Person. https://www.fetzer-franklin-fund.org/media/christopher-green/ (Fetzer Franklin Fund)
ABC Nightline transcript. (1984). CIA FOIA Reading Room. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp88-01070r000201070002-8 (CIA)
Meselson Archive. (2004, October 19). Email from Christopher Green to Matthew Meselson. Harvard University. https://meselsonarchive.hsites.harvard.edu/file_url/3148 (meselsonarchive.hsites.harvard.edu)
Filmdb entry listing Green as cast. Third Eye Spies (2019) | FilmTV.it. https://www.filmtv.it/film/210916/third-eye-spies/
Notes on scope: A number of secondary discussions also reference Green’s work, including independent blogs that connected his AAWSAP paper to historical cases.
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