William Mills Tompkins
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| William Mills Tompkins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 29 May 1923 Los Angeles, California |
| Died | 21 August 2017 (94) San Diego, California |
| Nationality | American |
William "Bill" Mills Tompkins (May 29, 1923 - August 21, 2017) was an American aerospace designer who late in his life claimed involvement with secret government space programs and contacts with extraterrestrial beings.
Selected Publications
- Tompkins, William Mills (2015), Selected by Extraterrestrials: My Life in the Top Secret World of UFOs, Think-Tanks, and Nordic Secretaries, Createspace (self-published), https://www.amazon.com/dp/1515217469/?tag=apopheniacs-20
Bill Tompkins was embedded in the world of secrecy as a teenager, when the Navy took his personal ship models out of a Hollywood department store because they showed the classified locations of the radars and gun emplacements. He was personally present at the “Battle of L.A.” when a thousand rounds of ammo were fired at UFOs, and one of the Nordic craft may have selected him to be their rep in the evolving aerospace race. This book is a partial autobiography about his life to the beginning of the 1970s including some of his early work for TRW. Selected by the Navy prior to completing high school to be authorized for research work, he regularly visited classified Naval facilities during WWII until he was discharged in 1946. After working at North American Aviation and Northrop, he was hired by Douglas Aircraft Company in 1950, and when they found out about his involvement in classified work, he was given a job to create design solutions as a draftsman with a peripheral assignment to work in a “think tank”. This work was partly controlled by the Navy personnel who used to work for James Forrestal, who was allegedly assassinated because he was going to publicly reveal what he knew about UFOs. Bill Tompkins was asked to conceive sketches of mile-long Naval interplanetary craft designs. Later, as he became involved in the conventional aspects of the Saturn Program that later became the Apollo launch vehicle, his insight to system engineering resulted in his offering some critical suggestions personally to Dr. Wernher von Braun about ensuring more reliable checkout using the missiles in their vertical position and also some very efficient launch control concepts adopted by both NASA and the Air Force. This story is peppered with very personal interactions with his co-workers and secretaries, some of whom the author believes to be Nordic aliens helping the “good guys” here on Earth. Towards the end of this volume of his autobiography, he sketches what he personally saw on TV when Armstrong was landing on the moon.
Resources
- The William Tompkins Model Ship Collection, craftsmanshipmuseum.com, https://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/TompkinsCol.htm — representing part of a collection of 307 ship models built in 1:600 scale by Tompkins