The UFO Phenomenon

Have private corporations been running UFO retrieval programs?

By T.K. Randall
July 9, 2026

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) The concept might have been popularized by 90s TV show The X-Files, but the idea that the government has been retrieving and reverse-engineering crashed extraterrestrial vehicles has never truly gone away.

Just recently, whistleblowers testified in front of Congress to state that such activities had been going on at the highest levels of government and may still be going on.

Now, speaking on Eric Burlison's podcast Fresh Freedom, Avi Loeb - who was recently appointed to head up Trump's UAP Science Advisory Council - has claimed that aerospace giant Lockheed Martin had been running its own UFO retrieval program.

"I had a [former] high level executive from Lockheed Martin visit my home and I asked him, 'Is there any truth to these claims?' And he said 'It's not wrong,'" Loeb explained.

Crucially, if the existence of exotic materials could be confirmed, it would go a long way toward proving that at least some UFOs are extraterrestrial in nature."If such materials exist, we would love to analyze them," Loeb told the New York Post. "With just a gram of material, we will be able to determine if it originated outside the solar system."

"Historically, the US government and its contractors were not willing to engage with leading scientists."

But if companies such as Lockheed Martin have had access to materials from crashed UFOs, what exactly did they do with them ?

Could they have already been implemented into their latest aerospace projects ?

We may never know for sure.

Source: New York Post

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