Boyd Bushman
Boyd Bushman (1936–2014) was a Senior Research Scientist at Lockheed Martin in Department 60-8, the Special Programs Division, holding Top Secret/SCI/SAP clearances throughout his career. He is known primarily for a video recorded shortly before his death in which he claimed Lockheed possessed recovered non-human craft materials and conducted anti-gravity research, and in which he displayed photographs he identified as alien bodies — photographs subsequently identified as images of a commercially available toy figurine.
| Role | Senior Research Scientist, Lockheed Martin Special Programs Division; UAP whistleblower |
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Career at Lockheed Martin
Bushman was a verified senior specialist at Lockheed Martin's Special Programs Division, a position that required and confirmed his Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information/Special Access Program clearances. He was an inventor of significant standing, holding numerous patents in advanced physics and engineering. Among the most notable is a 1997 patent for a device that generates a magnetic monopole beam capable of emitting pulses, levitating objects, disrupting electronics, and separating materials. Magnetic monopoles — isolated north or south poles of a magnet — have never been proven to exist under standard physics, making this patent an extraordinary technical claim by any measure.
Deathbed Claims
Shortly before his death in August 2014, Bushman gave a video interview in which he made several specific claims about Lockheed's involvement with non-human technology:
- Debris and materials recovered from crash sites in New Mexico — referencing Roswell and possibly the 1953 Kingman, Arizona UFO Crash — were held by Lockheed.
- Lockheed conducted research on anti-gravity propulsion, consistent with what other Lockheed-connected sources alleged about the company's black programs.
- UAP craft studied by Lockheed were composed of three key materials: thoride, germanium, and palladium. Bushman noted these have genuine material science properties: pure germanium was the first metallic material to become a superconductor in the presence of an electromagnetic field; palladium is essential to capacitors; and thoride alloys possess thermoelectric and photovoltaic properties. The combination could theoretically be used to construct a thermoelectrical/photovoltaic generator with semiconductor and capacitor elements.
- Bushman displayed photographs he claimed depicted alien bodies, describing beings approximately 4.5 to 5 feet tall with elongated fingers. These photographs were subsequently traced to a toy figurine sold at Kmart as a Halloween decoration, a claim originating from an Above Top Secret forum thread in 2008. No verifiable commercial listing for the toy has been produced, leaving open the question of whether the similarity was coincidental, deliberate disinformation by a third party, or deliberate fabrication by Bushman.
FBI Investigation (1999)
In 1999, Bushman came under FBI investigation for suspicious foreign contact while at Lockheed. The investigation centered on contacts in Prague, Czech Republic; available evidence suggests his outreach was related to anti-gravity research rather than any foreign espionage of a national security variety. Lockheed became concerned about potential unauthorized sharing of sensitive information. The ultimate outcome of the investigation is not publicly documented.
Credibility Assessment
UAP Gerb rates Bushman as the second most credible of the four principal Lockheed-connected insiders discussed in their review (after Bernard Haisch), ahead of Don Phillips. His verified Lockheed employment and SAP-clearance level, combined with the substantive material science reasoning behind his claimed UAP composition, lend partial credibility to his testimony. However, the alien body photographs — whether a deliberate hoax by Bushman or planted disinformation — represent a serious credibility problem that the video acknowledges without resolving. UAP Gerb presents three interpretive options: the government had toy companies make alien-resembling models to discredit legitimate whistleblowers; the photo was planted to discredit Bushman; or Bushman knowingly included fraudulent material for unexplained reasons.