YouTube video · UAP Gerb · 23 February 2024
UFOs in the Private Sector - Lockheed Martin
An earlier, shorter version of Gerb's later Lockheed episode. He ranks Lockheed's UFO witnesses (Haisch, Bushman, Phillips), covers Ben Rich and Edgar Fouché, and builds a paper trail: Reid's 2021 NYT quote, a 1953 Lockheed pilots' sighting sent to Blue Book, the 1986 GAO testimony on Lockheed's special-access document control, the Aurora budget lines, Nick Cook's 'Astra' chart, the MoD Condign 'Astra/Aurora' slide label that includes Calvine, and the 1992 embassy cable on an 'incensed' Air Force Secretary.
On the record
- GAO testimony of 24 Jul 1986; the Rich letter; the Aurora budget lines; the 1992 embassy cable.
Open questions
- Don Phillips's background cannot be verified.
- Bushman's toy-photo problem.
Leads to follow
- The 1953 Lockheed sighting in the Blue Book files.
- The Condign slide list.
Timeline
On the recordWitness testimonyAlleged / one person's word
FY1986-87
Aurora budget lines$80M then $2.3B.
22 Dec 1992
Embassy cable: Rice 'incensed'Aurora speculation.
The claims, checked
On the record (6)
Ben Rich replied by hand in 1986 to John Andrews: 'Yes, I'm a believer in both categories. I feel everything is possible. Many of our man-made UFOs are unfunded opportunities.'Gerb calls the correspondent 'John Alexander'; the letter is to John Andrews of Testors.firsthandBen Rich
GAO's Frank Conahan testified on 24 Jul 1986 that Lockheed's control of special-access documents was poor: 1,460 discrepancies in 40,000 documents, 46 destroyed and 17 transferred without record.firsthandGAO testimony, 24 Jul 1986GAO testimony on Lockheed's special-access document control (24 July 1986)Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
Aurora appears in DoD budgets as about $80M for FY1986 and $2.3B for FY1987.firsthandDoD budget documents (cited by UAP Gerb)
The MoD Condign file lists the Calvine photo among 35 mm slides labelled 'Astra/Aurora'.To check against the released Condign volumes.firsthandMoD Condign file (cited by UAP Gerb)Calvine: the diamond-shaped object and the Harrier
A British Embassy cable of 22 Dec 1992 said SecAF Donald Rice was 'incensed' by renewed speculation that he had lied to Congress about Aurora.firsthandBritish Embassy Washington cable, 22 Dec 1992 (cited by UAP Gerb)
Edgar Fouché was assigned to Det 3 AFFTC, which ran Groom Lake.firsthandFouché's service record (cited by UAP Gerb)Edgar Fouché
Witness testimony (10)
'I was told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials'; Reid sought a classified approval to see them and was refused.New York Times, 2021.secondhandunnamed sources → Harry Reid → told itHarry ReidLockheed Martin Skunk Works
At UCLA in 1993 Rich ended with a slide of a disc and 'We now have the technology to take ET home'.No recording exists; the wider quote rests on Linda Moulton Howe and Tom Keller (MUFON 2010).secondhandJan Harzan (MUFON)Ben Rich → Jan Harzan → told itBen Rich
Don Phillips told the Disclosure Project in 2001 that Lockheed holds extraterrestrial technology and worked on anti-gravity, and that the military recovered craft at Roswell.Gerb could not verify his Skunk Works or CIA background.firsthandDon PhillipsLockheed Martin Skunk WorksSteven Greer
Boyd Bushman said in a 2014 video that material came from crash recoveries in New Mexico and that Lockheed worked on anti-gravity.His alien photo matches a toy; see his record.firsthandBoyd BushmanLockheed Martin Skunk Works
Bernard Haisch (2018): 'sources tell me' four related but separate unacknowledged SCI programs, tracing to a 1947 Truman memorandum, were housed as of the 1990s in firms such as Lockheed, TRW, Raytheon and Aerospace Corp, with budgets of $10 billion and up.He labelled it conjecture from sources.secondhandunnamed sources → Bernard Haisch → told itBernard HaischLockheed Martin Skunk WorksTRW Inc.Raytheon (RTX)The Aerospace Corporation
Physicist Lou Witten said George Trimble of the Glenn L. Martin Company recruited him to RIAS in 1955 for anti-gravity research.Glenn L. Martin later became part of Lockheed Martin.firsthandLou WittenLockheed Martin Skunk Works
Ron Blackburn, ex-Skunk Works and co-founder of BDM's ATP group, received a 22 Aug 1998 patent including a disc sketch, and later said he reverse-engineered sonic-boom suppression from videos of disc craft.firsthandRon Blackburn (patent; podcast)Lockheed Martin Skunk WorksBDM Corporation
Lockheed test pilots and ground crew saw a disc with anomalous acceleration in 1953; three swore statements and the report went to Blue Book.firsthandLockheed witnesses (Blue Book file, cited by UAP Gerb)Lockheed Martin Skunk WorksProject Blue Book
Nick Cook saw a Skunk Works lineage chart listing 'Astra', a triangular reconnaissance craft; Jack Gordon called it an old airliner.firsthandNick CookLockheed Martin Skunk Works
Will Miller told attorney Peter Gersten in 2000 that the keepers of the secrets are DoD middle management and contractors such as SAIC, Boeing and Lockheed.firsthandWillard Miller
Alleged / one person's word (2)
The 1986 audit is the 'audit' that nearly outed the program in the Wilson-Davis notes.speculationGAO testimony on Lockheed's special-access document control (24 July 1986)The Wilson–Davis memo
Lockheed is as much a player in reverse engineering as Battelle, but harder to trace.Gerb ranks witnesses Haisch, then Bushman, then Phillips.speculationLockheed Martin Skunk Works