Boyd Bushman's final interview
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Contents 8
| Date | August 2014 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Boyd Bushman |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 179 |
| Year | 2014 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2014 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 4 |
Boyd Bushman was a retired senior scientist at Lockheed Martin who, in a video interview recorded shortly before his death on 7 August 2014, claimed that aliens had worked at Area 51 and showed a photograph of what he said was an alien. The photograph was quickly identified as a Halloween toy, and the claims are rated a hoax.[1][2]
Career
Bushman's career spanned more than forty years at Lockheed Martin and earlier at Hughes Aircraft, General Dynamics and Texas Instruments, and he was awarded many patents, including one for a magnetic beam technique.[2]
The interview
In the video, which surfaced online in October 2014, Bushman spoke about Area 51, UFOs, aliens and anti-gravity, claiming that aliens had worked there, that UFOs used special materials, and that he knew about alien technology. He showed a photograph of a supposed alien. The video was later largely taken down after copyright claims.[1][2]
The photograph
Within days internet users identified the "alien" in the photograph as a Halloween prop doll sold at the Kmart chain, and researcher John Greenewald of The Black Vault and the fact-checking site Snopes rated the claims a hoax or false.[1][2]
Aftermath
After Bushman's death, Greenewald obtained FBI records showing that the bureau had investigated Bushman's contacts out of concern that he had shared secrets with foreign entities; he said the motive for the alien story was unknown and suggested the investigation as one possible factor. The testimony notes that Bushman named specific materials, such as bismuth telluride and germanium, which have real thermoelectric or semiconductor properties, but this does not support his alien claims. His real engineering career makes the episode puzzling, and some suggest he was confused or misled late in life.[2][3]
People and topics
- Lockheed Martin — The aerospace company whose Skunk Works built the U-2, SR-71 and F-117.
- Boyd Bushman — Lockheed Martin engineer who gave a disputed deathbed interview about aliens.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Area 51 — The secret Nevada test site where spy planes and stealth aircraft were developed.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- The Black Vault — John Greenewald's online archive of government documents.
On the Timeline
- Vietnam "enemy helicopters" and HMAS Hobart (22 June 2014) — A former analyst says some Vietnam-era 'enemy helicopters' were actually UAP.
- Oechsler on Navy EMP experiments (18 August 2014) — Bob Oechsler links Navy EMP experiments to UAP recoveries.
See every 2014 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Lockheed scientist gives deathbed interview about UFOs", Gizmodo (Oct 2014) · gizmodo.com · archived copy
- "Boyd Bushman's last interview: a documentary on Area 51 and UFOs", The Black Vault (Mar 2015) · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- "Boyd Bushman aliens", Snopes · snopes.com · archived copy
- youtu.be · youtu.be · archived copy
Further reading
- 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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