Person · Registry ID 166
Col. Gilkey (first name not given)
Not assessed
Rank Colonel (as given in correspondence) Documented1 evidence record
Registry record
- Past roles
- U.S. Army Air Forces officer at Muroc AAF (1947)
- Credentials
- Military officer
- UAP involvement
- Called attention to the noon object on 1947-07-08 seen by Maj. Richard R. Shoop
- Principal disclosures
- Later suggested the object could have been paper
- Evidence contributed
- Correspondence
- Knowledge type
- Firsthand witness
- Corroboration
- FBI UFO Part 5; correspondence transcription
- Assessment
- Documented; offers a conventional alternative from a witness
- Rank source
- FBI UFO Part 5 as summarized in Jason's V96 Muroc tab
- Last reviewed
- 2026-11-12
Evidence (1)
- Gilkey later suggested the noon object could have been paper DocumentedFirsthand