And if that doesn't fully vindicate Brown's aerospace legacy, here's an official 2004 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center patent under a senior engineer named John Campbell for a barrel-shaped asymmetrical capacitor.
His story was leaked to the public by a CIA pilot, a close friend of his named John Lear, who flew cargo planes for the CIA and set all sorts of aviation records of the 70s.
Good evening, this is John Lear.
It was a day in 1987, into the studio comes a guy named John Lear.
But after doing a little more research on John Lear, I kind of just think he was doing the bidding of the CIA.
What I am saying is that clearly someone on the inside, someone likely connected to John Lear, obviously wanted this story out.
John Lear and his good friend, an aviation photographer and journalist named Jim Goodall, are camping out of Area 51 and Groom Lake constantly.
At the time, Area 51 security is very aware of John Lear and know exactly who he is by Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp's own admission.
They also don't seem to care that John Lear has been systematically spilling secrets about their core UFO program.
While hanging out one day, John Lear shows Lazar a tape of Billy Meyer, a Swedish UFOlogist who has been caught in multiple known hoaxes.
In 1989, Bob Lazar goes public with John Lear introducing him to George Knapp.
But perhaps to get a much clearer understanding of John Lear's potential motivations,
Yes, John Lear had a personal falling out with his father who cut him out of his will.
But by all accounts, John seemed pretty proud of his father's work.
And actually, when John Lear saw this footage of his father with Townsend Brown, he was reportedly very emotional.
John Warner IV, the grandson of CIA founding member Paul Mellon, also has a story he likes to tell.
The Avrocar was a joint venture between the US and Canada, run by a guy named John Frost, to build basically a functional flying saucer.
later skunkworks director ben rich apparently said this on his deathbed to john andrews of testers motor