Jim Goodall and Groom Lake black programs
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Contents 7
| Date | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic), Bases & Area 51 (topic) |
| People | James Goodall |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 106 |
| Year | 1990 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1990 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 9 |
James "Jim" Goodall is an aviation writer who has written two dozen books on Lockheed's Skunk Works, the SR-71 Blackbird and secret aircraft. According to the testimony, around 1990 he said his interviews with aerospace workers pointed to at least eight different secret aircraft programmes flying from Groom Lake, the base known as Area 51.[1][2]
Goodall
Goodall says he first saw a Blackbird on 10 March 1964, at the age of 18. Over the years he has interviewed Skunk Works leaders Kelly Johnson and Ben Rich, early test pilots and surviving A-12 and SR-71 pilots, and has long watched activity around Area 51 with friends including pilot John Lear. His 2018 book on the SR-71 included hundreds of photographs, dozens never published before.[2]
Black aircraft
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Goodall's comments came during a period of intense interest in classified aircraft. The F-117 stealth fighter was acknowledged in 1988 and the B-2 bomber rolled out the same year, while observers near Area 51 and other test sites reported strange aircraft. Several once-secret designs flown at Groom Lake have since been revealed, among them the HAVE BLUE stealth demonstrator, TACIT BLUE (unveiled in 1996) and Boeing's Bird of Prey (2002). Aviation historian Peter Merlin has estimated that at least seven, and possibly as many as eleven, classified manned aircraft flown there since the mid-1980s have still not been unveiled.[3][4]
UFO connection
According to the testimony, Goodall has said that some people he interviewed hinted at things beyond conventional aircraft, though he has been careful about what he claims. Most of the programmes he described are presumed to be classified U.S. aircraft, and the CIA has acknowledged that its own spy planes accounted for many UFO reports in the 1950s and 1960s.[1][4][5]
People and topics
- James Goodall — Aviation historian of Area 51 and the Skunk Works.
- Area 51 — The secret Nevada test site where spy planes and stealth aircraft were developed.
- Lockheed Martin — The aerospace company whose Skunk Works built the U-2, SR-71 and F-117.
On the Timeline
- Eric Walker interview (1990) — An interview attributed to scientist Eric Walker discusses secret UAP knowledge.
- TRESTLE facility and Ron Blackburn (1990) — A Lockheed engineer tells Vallée he helped build the TRESTLE facility.
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References
- Richard Dolan, *The Secret Space Program and Breakaway Civilization* (2016), Amazon · amazon.com · archived copy
- George Knapp and Matt Adams, "I-Team: New book reveals secrets of spy planes developed in Nevada", 8 News Now (Aug 2018) · digital-release.8newsnow.com · archived copy
- Peter W. Merlin, "Black projects at Groom Lake: into the 21st century", Dreamland Resort · dreamlandresort.com · archived copy
- Area 51 — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Gerald K. Haines, "CIA's role in the study of UFOs, 1947–90", Studies in Intelligence (1997) · cia.gov · archived copy
- 'The truth is out there' — Air & Space / Smithsonian · smithsonianmag.com · archived copy
- Area 51's black jets — Air & Space / Smithsonian · smithsonianmag.com · archived copy
- The truth is out there (Groom Lake secret aircraft) — Air & Space · airspacemag.com · archived copy
- amazon.com · amazon.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Area 51 — 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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