Martin Marietta
Martin Marietta was an American aerospace and defense corporation founded in 1961 through the merger of the Glenn L. Martin Company and the American-Marietta Corporation. It was acquired by Lockheed Corporation in a March 15, 1995 merger to form Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defense contractor. Martin Marietta and its predecessor, the Glenn L. Martin Company, are implicated in early US anti-gravity research and carry documented corporate lineage relevant to alleged UAP reverse engineering programs.
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Glenn L. Martin Company and Anti-Gravity Research
The Glenn L. Martin Company — the predecessor that contributed to the creation of Martin Marietta — was a site of documented anti-gravity research in the mid-1950s. In 1955, George Trimble, the company's Vice President for Aviation and Advanced Propulsion Systems, recruited physicist Lou Whitten into the Research Institute for Advanced Studies (RIAS), the company's internal advanced research organization. Trimble's explicit brief was to develop anti-gravity propulsion. Whitten later stated that the research team discovered techniques to harness anti-gravity, including experiments with isotopes of bismuth. Journal records confirm the research activity took place.
Mergers and UAP-Relevant Acquisitions
Prior to merging with Lockheed, Martin Marietta made several acquisitions in the early 1990s that are significant in the context of alleged UAP legacy programs:
- 1993: Acquired General Electric Aerospace. GE has been implicated in UAP-related programs since World War II.
- 1993: Acquired General Dynamics Space Systems Division.
- 1993: Acquired management contracts for Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy FFRDC repeatedly implicated in UAP material exploitation and alleged reverse engineering of TR-3B propulsion systems.
The 1995 Lockheed-Martin Marietta merger therefore consolidated two corporations with separate and decades-long alleged UAP program involvement under single management, with Sandia National Laboratories management included in the package.
Other Connections
Susie Payton, who is referenced in other UAP Legacy Program contexts, worked at Martin Marietta before the Lockheed merger.