User:Valoem/Boyd Bushman

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Boyd Bushman was a senior scientist for Lockheed Martin, in the Fort Worth Division which produced the F-22 stealth and F-16 fighters for the U.S. Air Force. At the time of his retirement in 2000, Bushman had 28 patents in his name, many of which contained classified technologies.

An October 2014 video testimony of Boyd Bushman went viral where he claimed to have proof of extraterrestrials living and working at Area 51.

News articles soon released pictures of dolls looking similar to Boyd's images of aliens to answer his claims, but from unsourced origins ( see news articles ). The doll manufacturer quoted in news reports, Halloween FX Props, was started by Guy Kitchell: "In 2009, he started building Halloween props for his home. Family and friends loved the products so he began selling them.  That led to more props and more sales and what is now Halloween FX Props, a company that supplies haunted attractions and home haunts and shares the building with Klima." This news article conflicts with the reported date of a doll made by the same manufacturer and offered at Walmart / Kmart in 1997.

In the October 2014 YouTube video, Boyd claims having top-secret clearance and describes evidence apparently forwarded to him by colleagues having direct personal contact and experience with UFOs and aliens at Area 51.

The accounts in the October 2014 video were in the form of descriptions, explanations, pictures of spacecrafts, pictures of alien beings and pictures of unique alien materials. In the video testimony, he speaks about images of alien spacecraft having a heads up display similar to modern human aircraft, but more advanced. Boyd also states the beings held at Area 51 come from a planet called Quintonia, mentioning location in the universe and sharing images of their planet and images of earth from their planet. He mentions how there are two species who stand between four and a half to five feet tall, having five toes and five fingers like humans. Boyd further states the aliens do not communicate verbally but instead through telepathy. He further says there are currently 18 aliens at Area 51 and they can live to be over 200 years old. He shares some photos of an alien who died. He also shares a photo of a friend of his posing with the spirit of the deceased alien, saying their spirit, like that of humans, stays near the body for up to three days, maybe more. Boyd also shares a varied account of the Roswell UFO incident and some other information, like performing anti-gravity experiments on his own with alien materials he knows how to use.

The claims were widely circulated by UFO enthusiast blogs and Oliver Darcy of the Blaze, which stated they were made on the man's "deathbed." The claims were similar in nature to inferences made by Boyd during an earlier appearance he made in the 1999 Discovery Channel program "Billion Dollar Secret", whose premise was to chronicle a purported government UFO coverup. At a running time of 22:50 in the "Billion Dollar Secret," Boyd is interviewed and introduced as a "Lockheed Martin Defense Contractor" and speaks briefly about the subject matter, mentioning a real-world demonstration he did regarding anti-gravity. "If you're interested in anti-gravity, then talk to Bushman, they'd said" writes Nick Cook in The Hunt For Zero Point: Inside The World of Anti-Gravity Technology.

A subsequent inquiry by Quebec news website TVQC reported the photos shown by Boyd Bushman were similar to those of a plastic collectible figure sold by Walmart. This story was also repeated by the San Antonio Express News. Urban legend index Snopes has rated the claim "Former Lockheed Martin engineer Boyd Bushman provided evidence of human contact with alien life before his death in August 2014" as "FALSE", citing a YouTube video showing a model of an alien which looks similar to the alien shown in Boyd's film. A German newspaper Bild reports the opinion "whether Bushman had actually worked at Lockheed Martin could not be confirmed. And the aliens he is shown with are, in all probability, fake. That raises questions about his other statements, as well."

There has been analysis of the alien photos mentioned on a radio broadcast not ruling out such dolls may have been based on the physiology of authentic aliens.

Boyd Bushman's obituary includes references to his career, his photo and a link to his birth certificate.