Nick Cook's Skunk Works chart
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Contents 7
| Date | Late 1990s |
|---|---|
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Nick Cook, C. Richard D'Amato, Christopher Mellon |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 131 |
| Year | 1990 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1990 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 9 |
Nick Cook, aviation editor of Jane's Defence Weekly in the 1990s, describes in his 2001 book The Hunt for Zero Point glimpsing a chart that traced the lineage of aircraft developed by Lockheed's Skunk Works, which he suggests included entries for secret programmes. The account comes from the book and has not been independently documented.[1][2]
The book
The Hunt for Zero Point recounts roughly a decade of Cook's investigation into claims of secret anti-gravity research. It begins with a 1956 newspaper clipping, "The G-Engines Are Coming", and takes in Thomas Townsend Brown's electrical experiments, Gen. Nathan Twining's 1947 memo on flying discs, the legend that Nazi Germany developed flying saucers under SS Gen. Hans Kammler and that the technology passed to the United States, Eugene Podkletnov's superconductor experiments, zero-point energy, Roswell, Bob Lazar and Hal Puthoff. Cook also visited aerospace sites, including the Skunk Works at Palmdale, California.[2][3]
Reception
Reviewing the book in Lobster, writer David Hambling said it relied on anonymous, uncheckable sources and contradictory material while assuming a "kernel of truth"; he argued that the sightings in the Twining memo matched U.S. reconnaissance balloon projects, that rumours about the B-2 bomber reflected Northrop's plasma aerodynamics research, and that the book "adds another layer of cover".[3]
Later
Cook later became a defence industry consultant, presented a 2005 UFO documentary and, after winning an essay prize from Robert Bigelow in 2020, became a director of the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies. The testimony connects his work to British files mentioning "Astra/Aurora" photographic evidence and to the views of Senate counsel Richard D'Amato and Christopher Mellon that some triangular UAP may have been secret human programmes.[1][4]
People and topics
- Nick Cook — Jane's Defence Weekly aviation editor and author of The Hunt for Zero Point.
- Lockheed Martin — The aerospace company whose Skunk Works built the U-2, SR-71 and F-117.
- Anti-gravity — The idea of cancelling or controlling gravity for propulsion.
- The Hunt for Zero Point — Nick Cook's 2001 book on secret anti-gravity research.
- C. Richard D'Amato — Senate Appropriations Committee counsel who looked into black budgets for Sen. Robert Byrd.
- Christopher Mellon — Former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who helped release the Navy UAP videos.
- Black triangle — A large, dark, triangular craft often reported since the 1980s.
On the Timeline
- Zero-point field theory of inertia paper (1998) (August 1998) — Puthoff and Lockheed researchers publish a paper on inertia and vacuum energy.
- Edgar Fouché and the TR-3B (1998) — An Air Force sergeant claims a secret facility lies beneath Groom Lake.
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References
- Nick Cook, *The Hunt for Zero Point* (2001), Internet Archive · archive.org · archived copy
- Nick Cook (writer) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- David Hambling, "Another layer of cover", Lobster 42 (2001/2) · lobster-magazine.co.uk · archived copy
- "C. Richard D'Amato and black UFO programs", UFOs Scientific Research (Mar 2019) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
- The Hunt for Zero Point — Anomaly Archives · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- archive.org · archive.org · archived copy
- uapmedia.uk · uapmedia.uk · archived copy
- imgur.com · imgur.com · archived copy
- youtu.be · youtu.be · archived copy
Further reading
- Belgian UFO wave — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Skunk Works — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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