He became embroiled in the controversy over unidentified flying objects (UFOs) after serving briefly on the Robertson Panel, a Central Intelligence Agency–sponsored committee of scientists assembled in Washington, D.C. from 14–18 January 1953 to study the available evidence on UFOs.

[1] After his WWII service, Thornton Page served as a professor of astrophysics for the University of Chicago from 1946 until 1950.

[5] In 1952, Thornton Page became the first editor of Journal of the Operations Research Society of America.

[1] He resigned from Wesleyan in 1971 and began working for the United States Naval Research Laboratory until his retirement in 1976.

[9] In late 1961, he was seriously injured in an automobile accident where he broke several bones and lost sight in one eye.