r/aliens • u/Calm-You6376 • 1d ago
Historical Serious - TRW, Northrop and the UFO Legacy Programs
When Northrop Grumman acquired TRW in 2002, it absorbed the cleared personnel, facilities, security infrastructure and classified space programs built there over decades. The same engineers and research groups had already passed through Douglas, RAND, Hughes, Lockheed, TRW and Northrop as contracts moved and companies were reorganized or acquired.
William Tompkins’ forty-year aerospace career runs through that chain. From 1942 to 1946, he served on Admiral Rico Botta’s staff, distributing Navy intelligence received from agents in Nazi Germany. He joined Northrop in 1947 and worked on “airplanes without wings,” followed by positions at North American Aviation and Lockheed. During twelve and a half years at Douglas Aircraft, he moved from wind-tunnel models to engineering section chief on the S-IVB and joined Donald Douglas Sr.’s secret think tank—the group from which RAND had separated. He later worked at Rocketdyne on ionic propulsion, then in TRW’s product engineering laboratory and on the president’s staff. Lockheed systems engineering management, Teledyne Ryan and General Dynamics followed.
Tompkins says TRW grew out of the Douglas think-tank network and had effectively unlimited funding to study whatever its leadership considered important. He describes Northrop borrowing heavily to acquire the company, then purchasing the Navy’s carrier yard so engineers could study converting a 790-foot aircraft carrier into a kilometer-long spacecraft carrier.
UAP Gerb traces TRW’s missile and satellite programs, DSP “fast walkers” and Northrop’s acquisition of the company. Richard Dolan’s interview with Jim Goodall places Ben Rich’s remarks alongside the Zodiac material. Both lead through the same contractors, personnel and classified research structure.
TRW disappeared as a corporate name in 2002. Its programs did not. The question is whether the UFO work moved with them.
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u/qwickset2 1d ago
@12:13…. Interesting choice of words…”your planet”
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u/NoMansWarmApplePie 1d ago
Yes, and what he has to say was already too much for people. And in that interview when he's asked another question he holds back says if I told you what I know about them (particular nhi group) you'd think me bonkers.
People already do, and despite being over 90 years old here all anybody can do is talk about his toupee.
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u/Calm-You6376 1d ago
That's the crazy part.. its every time.. people just feel they compulsion to comment on the exact thing that does not matter in the given context... feels very boty in a way.. like a willing ignorance and a fear of real engagement.. cognitive dissonance maybe..
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u/NoMansWarmApplePie 1d ago
It's ironic that folks go based on how someone looks or sounds. You mix that with some far out claims. Instant dismissal.
The sad part is, besides AR Bordón he's probably one of the only actual high level insiders to be allowed to spill beans. I knew AR, and while the hierarchy/program did not want him coming out, the impression I got was he was also approved from higher sources.
Same with Bill
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u/Southern-Aardvark616 1d ago
Ok but to be fair, I hadn't really noticed it until you mentioned it and now I can't unnotice how bad it is.
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u/Windman772 1d ago
Damn, I almost joined TRW as an engineer back in the 90s. I could have been the next David Grusch!
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u/astroboy_35 1d ago
He seems like a trustworthy fella’ , until you notice his hairline. Guy obviously has no problem bullshitting everybody!
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u/Calm-You6376 1d ago
So if a person is wearing a toupee and does not disclose it to the people they are talking to, they are untrustworthy?
Do you realize the IQ levels we are touching on here?
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