William Tompkins - Selected by Extraterrestrials Volume 2: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, Think Tanks and Nordic secretaries

Selected by

Extraterrestrials

Volume 2

My life in the top-secret world of UFOs, Think Tanks and Nordic secretaries

William Mills Tompkins

Edited by Robert M. Wood, Ph.D.

Assistant Editors:

Michael Salla, Ph.D.

Wil Wakely, B.S.

John Wenger, Ph.D.

Copyright 2020

Author: William Mills Tompkins

Text, photographs, drawings, and artwork are all the copyright of the author

Citizen of the United States

Year born: 1923

Kindle Direct Publishing

U.S.A.

PREFACE

I f you have read Selected by Extraterrestrials by Bill Tompkins (his first book) you will have noted in its preface that I met with Bill in 2009 after I realized that we had worked at the same place at the same time in our aerospace careers. Although we didnt meet each other then, we worked for and knew and interacted with many of the same key people during our careers.

He said he had been trying to write his autobiography since the mid-90s but that his story was too unbelievable, and his words were so misspelled that three editors had given up on him. He had written on his computer what he remembered of the interesting events in his life. Struggling to get something published before too much time elapsed, he and I decided to chop his first autobiographical book off at about 1970, when he was with TRW. There were thousands more words for the stories from then on, as well as extensive elaborations on various events included in the period of the first book. The purpose of this book is to share these with you. Since Bill passed in late 2017, we can no longer ask him to fill in the blanks or answer any questions. Therefore, what you will read here are his words as he wrote them on his computer.

The words that Bill saved in his computer needed quite a bit of work to make the sentences and grammar proper, and I have been fortunate to have had the assistance of researchers Wil Wakely and John Wenger doing that in preparing this volume for publication. In addition, the extensive interviews that Michael Salla had with Bill on several occasions, together with his encouragement to publish Book Two have been both helpful and motivational.

This book consists of Bills words, modified only for spelling and grammar. In several situations there will be editorial remarks to place his words in context, and those will be italicized in the normal custom. You will also find there are some passages that are nearly identical to those in his first book, placed there for reasons of continuity or clarity for those who have not yet read his first book.

After Bills first book was published, he was in great demand on the Jeff Rense radio show and was also interviewed by David Wilcock and Corey Goode by GAIA TV on their excellent program, Cosmic Disclosure. Those interviews are being transcribed, and with the permission of the intellectual property owners, will become Bills Selected by Extraterrestrials Volume 3.

Bill was one of those people who kept copies of everything that was not classified. For example, he had Week at a Glance calendars complete essentially from 1969 through 2016. When he died, all 21 of his file boxes were turned over to me, and they are occasionally helpful to tell his story or offer a relevant image. However, he was meticulous to NOT include any materials that were U.S. Government classified documents, consistent with his inherent integrity and loyalty to his country. On the other hand, he is telling the story of the development or revelation of events that are inherently classified in the minds of some agencies. So why did he want to complete this autobiography? The answer is that he was told by a Navy League Admiral whom he respected immensely, Bill, TELL IT ALL!

Bill is telling it in his own words. The chapters are taken from words he typed on his computer, arranged more or less chronologically. Each of these chapters were edited versions of the words he typed on his computer from about the year 2000 to 2017. Bills recollections are often spiced up with his recollections of specific real (no imaginary) conversations with others, whose names he said were rarely the real ones. The Editors have added chapter titles in the form of a question to provide a hint to the subject content.

Robert M. Wood, Ph.D., Cornell University 1953

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INDEX

TABLE OF FIGURES

Figure 1. Bills father, Sherrill Mills Tompkins

Figure 2. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest one to the Milky Way, about 2.5 million light years.

Figure 3. Bill Tompkins created exceptionally accurate models of Navy warships

Figure 4. Bill Tompkins was given a job with Vultee working on "X" aircraft

Figure 5. This embossed property pass shows the Admiral's personal signature

Figure 6. Admiral Rico Botta was reporting directly to Forrestal for this work with Navy spies in Germany

Figure 7. Bill enjoyed the companionship of the secretaries while working at North Island.

Figure 8. Imagine the coincidence of Wood and Tompkins appearing on the same page of the Douglas Companys Airview News, 60 years ago!

Figure 9.This is Bill Tompkins drawing of a naval galactic battlecruiser done under contract with the Navy at the Douglas Think Tank in 1954.

Figure 10. These are images thought to have been drawn by Bill Tompkins when he was at TRW circa 1969.

Figure 11. This list is from a copy found in The Bill Tompkins files. Its authenticity is unknown, may be associated with Project Serpo material.

Figure 12. This is a drawing made by Bill Tompkins from a TV screen he was watching in real time during the first Moon landing.

Figure 13. A high energy laser clipping found in Bill's notes

Figure 14. This photo was taken by some couples to show the homes below which they were buying. They did not see the craft or the white spray.

Figure 15. This 44-page TRW high speed ground transportation document defined the parameters that are now used in bullet trains all over the world.

Figure 16. As President of the local Navy League, Bill was clearly providing quality leadership.

Figure 17. This Zumwalt image is consistent with Bill's words.

EULOGY FOR BILL TOMPKINS

by Robert M. Wood

I am exceptionally honored to be able to offer some thoughts about Bill Tompkins today. Bill called me up in 2009 and said he had a great many stories he wanted to tell about his life, and they would take six books to cover it all, mentioning some incredible things he had been personally involved with. Naturally, I didnt believe him until he started telling me about how he got started and then that he knew some of the same people I knew at Douglas Aircraft Company. He and Mary invited me to visit with them, and I immediately learned that Lays lightly salted potato chips were way better than what I was used to, and Mary made sure that we never ran out of cookies when Bill and I were talking.

After Bill and I agreed that we should start with one book instead of six, I received a huge download of words from his computer on which he had been typing his life story for about 20 years. Bill had done a nice job of documenting things along the way, and he gave me a variety of photos, many of which you can see at the reception later today, showing him before and after his marriage to his wonderful Mary for more than sixty five years.

Bills remarkable story began when he was about eleven or twelve years old and his uncle drove him to Long Beach Harbor to look at the ships there so he could make models of them. He had an exceptional memory of what was where and took good sketches and notes, so he could build quite precise models of these U.S. Navy vessels, including the details of their gun emplacements and radar locations. His models were so successful that they wound up being displayed in a Broadway department store on Hollywood Boulevard, where some alert Naval officers realized they showed information that should have been kept secret. After they concluded he was just a talented youngster instead of an evil spy, they kept track of him so that he was encouraged to join the Navy when he was eighteen.