rich

Yeah. I mean, at that time I was studying, uh, ceramics at the program in artisanry. I was working with two amazing, um, potters. One's name was Bill Sachs, who was a potter in Western Massachusetts out in West Hadley. The other one was a guy named, uh, Rich. What was Rich's? Richard Hirsch.

And then you have Ben Rich, former head of Lockheed Skunk Works, saying things like,

Rich even claimed we have things out in the desert that are 50 years beyond what you could possibly comprehend.

So if Rich is right, then by the early 2000s, the public was still gawking at smart dust,

pick up on an electromagnetic signal. Remember the words of Lockheed's Ben Rich, who said exotic

again to Lockheed Skunk Works CEO Ben Rich, who allegedly compared advanced propulsion to ESP,

And Ben Rich, the director of Lockheed Skunk Works at the time, would openly express frustration at all the money he had to spend on tech protection.

later skunkworks director ben rich apparently said this on his deathbed to john andrews of testers motor

interestingly andrews who has photographic evidence of his correspondence with rich said this it was ben

rich's opinion that the public should not be told about ufos and extraterrestrials he believed they

In 1993, former Lockheed Skunk Works director Ben Rich was speaking at a UCLA alumni event. Rich had overseen programs like the U-2, the SR-71, and the F-117.

At the end of his presentation, according to multiple attendees, Rich's final slide showed a black disc-shaped craft flying into space.

Was he just messing with the audience? Rich would end up dying just two years later.

Just before Ben Rich passed away, when I was talking to him, he told me, at the end of a 45-minute conversation, he said,

Ben Rich's son, Michael Rich, was the president and CEO of RAND Corporation for decades.

profit. There's no doubt about it. Yeah. Well Ben Rich is the president of Skunk Works. Their most

you know, Ben Rich's successor at Skunk Works. He emails between him and Tom DeLong that were

was the day that rich or nixon knew he was going to be the republican nominee in 1960