Dr. Robert M. Wood Professional Biography and UAP-Related Activity Summary

This document provides a detailed professional biography of Dr. Robert M. Wood, covering his education at the University of Colorado and Cornell University, and his extensive career in aerospace engineering and management at General Electric, Douglas Aircraft, and McDonnell Douglas. The biography highlights his work on various missile and space programs, including the Nike Ajax, Nike Zeus, and the Space Station project. Beyond his corporate career, the document details his professional memberships in organizations such as the Center for UFO Studies, the Fund for UFO Research, and the Mutual UFO Network. It also lists numerous publications authored by Dr. Wood related to both aerospace engineering and the study of extraterrestrial hypotheses. The document concludes with an entry from the UAP Document Archive (Case #189), which notes that in 1967, while at McDonnell Douglas, Dr. Wood was assigned to a project code-named BITBR (Boys in the Back Room) to explore gravity propulsion and examine UAP literature. The archive entry states that Dr. Wood recommended the cancellation of this project in 1969 due to a lack of technological payoff. Additionally, the archive entry references a separate 1967 incident involving a source 'AF' whose brother allegedly witnessed a saucer at the Naval Air Base in Yuma, Arizona.