Carlyle Group
The Carlyle Group is a major American private equity and asset management corporation founded in Washington, D.C. in 1987 by David Rubenstein. The firm manages over $400 billion in assets and has historically focused heavily on defense, national security, and aerospace investments. UAP researchers have identified the Carlyle Group as a likely node in the private infrastructure surrounding UAP legacy programs, given its senior membership roster, its acquisition of companies deeply embedded in UAP lore, and the connections between its leadership and the classified aerospace world.
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Senior Membership and Advisers
The Carlyle Group has attracted a notable concentration of former senior statesmen as board members and advisers, including:
- Frank Carlucci — 16th US Secretary of Defense; Carlyle chairman from 1992 to 2003
- George H.W. Bush — Former US President
- James Baker — Former US Secretary of State
- John Major — Former UK Prime Minister
This roster of senior defense and intelligence officials in a private investment firm with deep aerospace holdings is viewed by UAP researchers as structurally consistent with the privatized management of classified legacy programs.
EG&G Ownership (1999–2001)
From 1999 to 2001, the Carlyle Group owned EG&G, a defense contractor whose name appears repeatedly in UAP lore: as the alleged operator of the mysterious airline shuttling workers to classified test sites, as the employer of physicist Bob Lazar at his claimed S-4 work site near Area 51, and as the company whose parking lot hosted the alleged meeting between Admiral Thomas Wilson and Eric Davis (the Wilson-Davis memo). The Carlyle Group's ownership of EG&G during this period places it in direct proximity to multiple claimed UAP program connections.
Other Defense Investments
Carlyle also acquired the electronics division of General Dynamics and invested in Northrop Grumman — the latter being a company UAP researchers have directly implicated in the construction of classified anti-gravity craft including the TR-3B Black Manta.
UAP Program Connections
UAP Gerb has assessed the Carlyle Group as "highly suspect" of deep involvement in UAP programs. Additionally, Ronald S. Moltry, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security who oversaw AARO and its director Sean Kirkpatrick and played a central role in public UAP denial at the 2022 Congressional hearings, was a board member of iCapital (a Carlyle-invested group) and served on the board of the Better Angels Society, funded by Carlyle founder David Rubenstein.