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Lockheed Skunk Works (Palmdale / Helendale)

Also: Skunk Works; Plant 42; Helendale RCS range

contractor storage well-supported 1943–2026 status · verified entity United States, Palmdale, California

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Helendale, California from the air
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Helendale, California from the air

The Mojave Desert around Helendale, seen from an airliner. Lockheed's radar cross-section range sits in this desert; the pole-mounted test articles that gave rise to 'saucer over the desert' photographs are not in this picture. Location photograph · context.

Doc Searls · 2012 ↗CC BY 2.0Licence terms ↗
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Nick Cook · 1:04:35

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Jesse Michels · 0:51:55

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Jesse Michels · 0:53:34

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Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs at Plant 42, Palmdale, with the Helendale radar-cross-section range to the east. Nick Cook says he interviewed Skunk Works head Jack Gordon inside the secret part of the site; other guests tie the company to alleged reverse-engineering work. Helendale itself is never named in the interviews.

Where the pin is

34.6290, -118.0840 exact

Public gazetteer: Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California (Skunk Works headquarters). Helendale range lies ~70 km east.

Palmdale, California, United States

What is claimed

  • Cook says he was invited to interview Skunk Works head Jack Gordon in the headquarters building on the secret part of the site.

    FACT well-supported Nick Cook journalist 2024

    • 1:04:35 “We Have Antigravity UFOs!” (ft. Nick Cook) · Nick Cook
      Jack Gordon um was then the head of the Skunk Works. So, I went to interview him and in a rare dispensation, they invited me to go and interview him in the headquarters building, which is actually on the secret part of the Skunk Works site.
  • Michels says Lockheed Martin held craft materials that Harry Reid asked to have transferred to Bigelow's BAASS under AAWSAP, and that the CIA and Defense Department blocked the transfer.

    INFERENCE contested Jesse Michels journalist 2024

    • 0:51:55 “Multiple Alien Groups May Be Visiting Earth!” (Lue Elizondo Documentary) · Jesse Michels
      Harry Reid's request to get the material transferred to the assap program was totally killed because of bureaucracy and kind of fom stuff so ASAP was actually set up to transfer a UFO held by locking Martin to a special Access
  • Jesse notes that openly discussed UFO program budgets (AAWSAP's ~$22M; Kona Blue proposal scale) are implausibly small if the US actually possesses operable non-human craft — an economic inference, not a document.

    INFERENCE contested Jesse Michels journalist 2026

    • 0:53:34 How The UFO Phenomenon Has Engineered Human History · Jesse Michels
      Kona Blue and this idea that we were transferring assets between Lockheed Martin who had UFO material to Bigelow Aerospace. But the budgets associated with these programs are on the order of, you know, it's 20 we're talking about $22 million.
  • Battelle is a verified org; Gerb's reverse-engineering babysitter implication is unverified hearsay.

    FACT unsupported UAPGerb researcher 2026

    • 1:50:12 The Pentagon’s UFO Program Is Real [Here’s How It Works!] ft. UAPGerb · UAPGerb
      Battel Memorial Institute or Lockheed Martin." Uh, one his do his gray beard babysitter who would kind of have to walk him through would always appear fatigued after sometimes he he'd meet him and this guy would when he would appear fatigued.
  • SPECULATION: Aerospace companies hold UAP physics knowledge not shared with academia (Prasad 'knows' it).

    SPECULATION unsupported Deep Prasad scientist 2022

    • 0:04:13 The 26 Year Old Prodigy Reverse Engineering UFOs (Ft. Deep Prasad) · Deep Prasad
      physics knowledge held by aerospace companies that is not there certainly is materials knowledge which involves topological physics eric and i had a pretty trippy conversation with the guy that briefs all of the presidents on ufos a guy named hal put off for more of that

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Named in 37 uploads (automatic name matching, 91 mentions)

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Lockheed Skunk Works (Palmdale / Helendale). Open the full map filtered to this record.

Sources on this record

  • Lockheed Skunk Works (Palmdale / Helendale) — Wikipedia Wikipedia
  • 1:04:35 “We Have Antigravity UFOs!” (ft. Nick Cook) · Nick Cook
    Jack Gordon um was then the head of the Skunk Works. So, I went to interview him and in a rare dispensation, they invited me to go and interview him in the headquarters building, which is actually on the secret part of the Skunk Works site.
  • 0:51:55 “Multiple Alien Groups May Be Visiting Earth!” (Lue Elizondo Documentary) · Jesse Michels
    Harry Reid's request to get the material transferred to the assap program was totally killed because of bureaucracy and kind of fom stuff so ASAP was actually set up to transfer a UFO held by locking Martin to a special Access

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