William Mills Tompkins - Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks and Nordic secretaries

Selected by

Extraterrestrials

Selected by

Extraterrestrials

My life in the top secret world of UFOs.,

think-tanks and Nordic secretaries

William Mills Tompkins

Edited by Dr. Robert M. Wood

Associate Editor: Nick Redfern

Copyright 2015

Author: William Mills Tompkins

Citizen of: United States

Year Born: 1923

ISBN: 1515217469

ISBN 13: 9781515217466

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015916547

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform,

North Charleston, South Carolina

PREFACE

B ill Tompkins has been writing his autobiographies in his mind for many years and this book is the first of several eras in his life, taking his story from childhood years to the late 1960s when he was hired by TRW. I first met Bill on November 24, 2009 when he summarized his life for a couple of hours. One of the things that excited me was that he had worked at Douglas Aircraft Company from 1950 to 1963, and I had worked there the summers of 1949, 1950, 1953 through April 1954 and then from January 1956 until retirement in 1993. He and I had not met each other during our six years of overlapping time because he was initially a draftsman working in Ground Support Electronics, with whom I rarely had contact since I was involved in aerodynamic and thermodynamic issues. Nevertheless, we both worked for many of the same VPs and I knew or had met nearly all of the people he referenced, especially the key persons he worked for in a think tank, Elmer Wheaton and his German scientific advisor, Wolfgang B. Klemperer. His story of the work he did exactly coincides with what I remember, although I was not aware that there was a think tank at that time at that location. For example, we both worked on the Thor missile for the Air Force, the Nike Zeus for the Army and Saturn Program for NASA.

He showed me some of the pages of drafts of this autobiography and it was clear to me that Bill, while being quite articulate in his mind and speech, never obtained the skill of hearing words and knowing how to spell them. He asked me if I would help him get the first one of his autobiographies published, offering me of course a portion of any profit. Motivated more by his story than the potential money, I became his friend as he told me more and more near-incredible things about what he did in work related to UFOs, alien technology, sexy Nordic secretaries, Naval spacecraft carriers, what Armstrong saw on the Moon and other secret projects.

For those of you who try to follow the timeline of the book with precision, you may find a few anachronisms. For example, reference to the Apollo program before it was officially begun. Probably the author is remembering the Saturn Contract that was later used to launch Apollo. Most of Bill Tompkins report comes from his memory, and very few of us can remember things 40 or so years ago except in reference to other things. We are reading the thoughts/memories of a man looking back more than 60 years, and who is offering insights and recollections here and there, but which are sometimes out of chronological order - because of the passage of time.

He is eager to get started on his next volume on what he did after he left Douglas, but that will come later. Now, you are able to read about amazing details of his professional career, interspersed with rather personal aspects of his interaction with those involved.

I have been accused of Never having met a conspiracy I didnt like. Bills life story skirts the edge of believability, but in this case I have total confidence that he is honestly telling the story as he best remembers it. Fortunately, Bill had kept some copies of some photos and documents that support this story and are included as figures as they apply. They do indeed enhance the credibility of this mans amazing life so far.

Robert M. Wood, PhD

Cornell University

PROLOGUE

We must prepare ourselves for the most earth shattering news the world has ever known.

CARL SAGAN 7-16-02

I DID NOT KNOW THAT I KNOW THINGS THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW.

A t the outset, its important I note that while this book is my autobiography, it does not tell my entire lifes history. It only addresses my personal work in, and my knowledge of, the field of aerospace technology from 1950 to 1969. It was a microscopic period of space-time, but one in which a massive change in mans understanding of his place in the universe occurred. The subject matter contained in this volume is so important that it cannot be covered in just one book alone. The story of the rest of my fantastic life, and corresponding adventures, will be included in subsequent volumes.

My dad was good with a camera - hed taken a lot of photos for his high school yearbook and he became an excellent photographer. While he was developing movie film at Universal Pictures in Hollywood, California, he conceived a major breakthrough for processing film. It was so brilliant that nearly every movie director in Hollywood insisted that he process all of their movies. By 1920, the demand for hundreds of movies to be distributed worldwide became so great that dad built the Standard Film Laboratories, situated on Hollywood Boulevard. This massive production laboratory employed hundreds of technicians, as well as language interpreters to convert English-language versions. These foreign language versions were distributed worldwide to more than 140 countries. Dad remained at the helm of Standard Film Laboratories until his company underwent a financial takeover and he was no longer involved.

With no money coming in to support what had previously been a lavish lifestyle for our family, my father, mother, brother and I moved in with my aunt and uncle. Their large, two-story home was shared with their three daughters. My Uncle, Dr. Harding, was the head surgeon at the Santa Monica Hospital at that time. He and my three cousins made many trips to the pyramids in Egypt. Nearby is a photo of my uncle on one of those trips. Surprisingly, there appears to be a UFO in the background of the photo, which was not noticed by them at the time. Their goal in Egypt was to interpret the hieroglyphics. Uncle Harding arranged with historical organizations there to have hundreds of documents, photographs and artifacts shipped to his home. All five of my uncles family members were convinced that deciphering the hieroglyphics would result in identifying the true builders of the pyramids, and that they were related to people from the stars, specifically in the Orion Nebula.

Living in their large home, surrounded by every type of Egyptian antique except mummies, was an adventure and an education. They even had hand-held, three-dimensional wooden photo-viewers that we would use to decipher the symbols.

My three cousins were fascinated with what the young Egyptian girls wore to entice their older male friends. Sometimes, my cousins made skimpy Egyptian princes outfits. They would run around the house, and out into their large backyard, with jeweled necklaces flying. The cousins had copied them from photos of the teenage Egyptian royalty on the walls in the pyramids. They were acting out what must have been a very elegant Egyptian lifestyle in their elaborate temples.

Uncle Hardings home was only a few blocks from the high rise hotel and beach club located below the Santa Monica palisades on the beach. Our mothers, and all five of us children, spent most of the summers at the club, where we experienced some of the finest weather on the planet. Instead of wearing their bathing suits, our cousins frequently wore different clothing, similar to that which the young Egyptians were thought to wear around their enormous pools, palaces and gardens. My head, a sponge, I became fascinated.