Howard C Cross
Dr. Howard C. Cross was a researcher at Battelle Memorial Institute involved in the organization's classified UFO investigation work during the early 1950s. Cross is most directly associated with Project Stork, the Battelle-contracted parallel UFO investigation program commissioned by the Air Force Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC).
| Role | Researcher, Battelle Memorial Institute |
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Project Stork Memorandum (1953)
On January 9, 1953, Cross authored a memorandum — classified Secret — proposing that Project Stork "assist the Air Force in reassuring the public that everything is well under control with respect to the UFO problem." The memo referenced Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, then director of Project Blue Book, indicating the coordination between Battelle's parallel investigation and the official Air Force public-facing program.
The memo is significant because it explicitly frames Battelle's UFO investigation role not as dispassionate scientific inquiry but as public reassurance management — establishing early and in writing that Battelle understood its parallel UFO work as serving a disinformation and narrative-control function alongside any genuine analytical work.