From a 1971 Australian intelligence memo often cited by UFO whistleblower David Grush, we basically now know that Bonson and his Institute of Field Physics at North Carolina, Chapel Hill, were just academic satellites of the CIA tasked with studying anti-gravity.
And the guy who's running University of North Carolina's Institute of Field Physics with this guy Bryce DeWitt, one of the top theoretical physicists in the world at the time, was a guy named Ognew Bonson.