Lawmakers and advisers tied to President Trump’s UFO disclosure efforts are publicly identifying private companies they say may be involved in alleged programs to recover nonhuman craft, as they seek to bring government contractors into the administration’s push for greater transparency.
Avi Loeb, who leads Trump’s UAP Science Advisory Council, made the claim during an appearance on Rep. Eric Burlison’s (R-Mo.) podcast, “Fresh Freedom,” saying a senior figure formerly associated with defense giant Lockheed Martin told him the company had been involved in a crashed-UFO retrieval effort.
“I had a [former] high level executive from Lockheed Martin visit my home and I asked him, ‘Is there any truth to these claims?’ And he said ‘It’s not wrong,’” Loeb said on the podcast.
Loeb has argued that any recovered technology, if verified, could provide evidence that humans are not the only intelligent beings associated with Earth. He also said he believes private firms may now be more willing to cooperate with the Trump administration’s disclosure initiative.
“If such materials exist, we would love to analyze them. With just a gram of material, we will be able to determine if it originated outside the solar system,” Loeb told The Post.
“Historically, the US government and its contractors were not willing to engage with leading scientists. President Trump’s directive to disclose UAP data that does not compromise National Security changes the narrative, leading to a mindset of cooperation,” Loeb said.
Hal Puthoff, a former member of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, also appeared on the podcast and suggested Lockheed had been prepared to transfer materials to AATIP sometime between 2008 and 2012. According to Puthoff, the proposed handoff was blocked by the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology.
Luis Elizondo, who previously led AATIP, made a similar assertion in congressional testimony, claiming that a craft of unknown origin was being kept in Lockheed laboratories and was expected to be moved to the Navy’s Pax River facility in Maryland.
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“Specifically, the PAX River hangar was designed to facilitate the transfer of future materials via air and river. The hangar was purpose-built to meet the requirements of a Special Access Program Facility and was capable of accommodating materials at any classification level,” Elizondo said, adding the hangar had $10 million in funding.
Burlison, on his tour of government facilities rumored to be housing UFOs, visited Pax River earlier this year.
“I was able to see facilities that . . . explain some of the stories that I’ve heard,” Burlison cagily said on the Weaponized podcast in March.
Burlison further put Northrop Grumman, also rumored to have a UFO crash retrieval program, on notice — posting the viral meme of Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham with the caption “Me with Northrop Grumman.“
The Show Me State rep has also demanded specific documents from both MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and the MITRE Corporation including a video of 1952 meeting where a US general supposedly briefed a room of scientists on a mass UFO sighting in Washington, DC, that same year.
Burlison said MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and MITRE Corp. appear to be cooperating with his requests.
“Its gonna take making it clear to our major companies that do business with the United States that it’s okay to come forward. And I think we’re going to have to have a discussion on if they do have — if they’re reverse engineering stuff that they got because it was from non-human intelligence — we need to make sure we can have that conversation about intellectual property,” said Burlison.
Chris Mellon, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense intelligence during the Clinton and Bush administrations, claimed that the best evidence is still being held back by the government and by private corporations.
“We believe decisive UAP data remains hidden behind a wall of classification at the Air Force CIA, DOE and elsewhere,” Mellon said at the Disclosure Foundation event.
Neither Lockheed Martin nor Northrop Grumman responded to request for comment.
