Harold Malmgren
Harold Malmgren is an American economist and long-serving senior government adviser who worked in close proximity to multiple US administrations and intelligence figures. He is associated with the Institute for Defense Analysis, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) connected to the broader national security apparatus. Malmgren's name entered UAP research primarily through claims he made about conversations with Richard Bissell Jr., the first co-director of the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office).
| Role | Economist; senior US government adviser; alleged UAP legacy program member |
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Role in UAP Programs
Malmgren has claimed that Richard Bissell Jr. confirmed to him the reality of a 1933 UFO crash in Magenta, Italy, and briefed him on otherworldly technologies associated with that event. UAP researchers cite Malmgren as evidence that knowledge of UAP crash recovery programs extended into senior advisory and FFRDC circles connected to the NRO's founding leadership. His account is treated as corroborating the assertion that the NRO was connected to UFO legacy programs from its inception, and that individuals at the intersection of government advisory roles and intelligence community FFRDCs served as nodes in the legacy program knowledge network.