George Trimble
George Trimble was Vice President for Aviation and Advanced Propulsion Systems at the Glenn L. Martin Company in the 1950s. He is notable in UAP-adjacent research for recruiting physicist Lou Whitten into the Research Institute for Advanced Studies (RIAS) in 1955 to conduct anti-gravity propulsion research — establishing documented corporate-funded anti-gravity R&D within what would eventually become Lockheed Martin.
Role in Anti-Gravity Research
In 1955, Trimble recruited Whitten to the RIAS with an explicit brief to develop anti-gravity propulsion. The research was conducted at the corporate level within the Glenn L. Martin Company, one of the major American aerospace manufacturers of the postwar era. Journal records confirm the research activity took place. The Glenn L. Martin Company later evolved into Martin Marietta, which merged with Lockheed Corporation in 1995 to form Lockheed Martin, creating a direct institutional lineage between Trimble's 1955 anti-gravity program and modern Lockheed Martin's advanced research divisions.