Don Phillips testimony
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Contents 8
| Date | April 2001 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Congress & law (topic) |
| People | Don Phillips, Steven Greer |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 144 |
| Year | 2001 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2001 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 10 |
Don Phillips (Donald H. Phillips, 1941–2007), described as a former Lockheed Skunk Works employee and Air Force and CIA contractor, told Steven Greer's Disclosure Project in December 2000 that he had watched UFOs over a Nevada radar site and that the United States had made major technological advances by studying extraterrestrial craft.[1][2]
The radar-site sighting
Phillips said that while in the Air Force he was stationed at Angels Peak, a classified radar installation near Mount Charleston northwest of Las Vegas. One night in 1966 or 1967, around 1 a.m., he said he and about five others saw lighted objects moving at what he estimated were 3,000 to 4,000 miles per hour, making sharp angular turns before forming a circle and disappearing. He said the chief radar operator told him the radar had tracked six or seven solid objects at speeds of about 3,800 to 4,200 mph, and that the duty security sergeant said they should not talk about it.[1]
Other claims
Phillips said he had worked with Kelly Johnson at Skunk Works on the U-2 and SR-71. He said there were records and film of a 1954 meeting in California between extraterrestrials and U.S. leaders including President Eisenhower, that a NATO study had identified twelve alien races, and that technologies such as computer chips, lasers, night vision and bulletproof vests had come from studying alien craft. He said he could corroborate much of Philip Corso's The Day After Roswell, and that his own company, Light City Technologies, founded in 1998, aimed to develop clean energy systems.[1][3]
Publicity
Phillips appeared in the Disclosure Project's May 2001 press conference at the National Press Club, and his testimony was published in its briefing document and videos.[1][2][4]
Assessment
A researcher has found records of his work as an engineer and businessman, but not of the programs he described. Phillips was born in 1941, while the U-2 was designed in the mid-1950s. Lockheed has not commented. His claims rest on his own testimony.[1][3]
People and topics
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- Don Phillips — Engineer who gave Disclosure Project testimony about Lockheed.
- Lockheed Martin — The aerospace company whose Skunk Works built the U-2, SR-71 and F-117.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Steven Greer — Physician who founded CSETI and the Disclosure Project.
- Disclosure Project — Steven Greer's campaign for UFO disclosure, best known for its May 2001 press conference.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Vandenberg Space Force Base — The California missile and space launch base.
On the Timeline
- Disclosure Project briefing to Congress (2001) (April 2001) — CSETI briefs members of Congress that a covert group controls parts of the UAP issue.
- Westwood on MJ-12 disinformation (2001) (5 May 2001) — A consultant tells Vallée the MJ-12 documents are disinformation.
See every 2001 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Disclosure Project Briefing Document (2001), Internet Archive (PDF) · archive.org · archived copy
- "Group calls for disclosure of UFO info", ABC News (May 2001) · abcnews.com · archived copy
- Richard Geldreich Jr., "The background of a real ex-USAF/CIA/Lockheed whistleblower: Donald H. Phillips (1941–2007)", Medium · medium.com · archived copy
- "Technology from extraterrestrials (Lockheed Skunkworks & more)", Steven Greer (YouTube) · youtu.be · archived copy
- 'Group calls for disclosure of UFO info' — ABC News (2001) · abcnews.go.com · archived copy
- Greer's Disclosure Project — Patrick Gross · ufology.patrickgross.org · archived copy
- A historian on the Disclosure Project — History News Network · historynewsnetwork.org · archived copy
- youtu.be · youtu.be · archived copy
- corporationwiki.com · corporationwiki.com · archived copy
- pastebin.com · pastebin.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Skunk Works — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- UFO documents — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · 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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