Editing William F. Tompkins (section)

== Alleged involvement with extraterrestrial technology ==
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| name = William F. Tompkins

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| role = Aerospace engineer, alleged whistleblower

| affiliation = [[U.S. Navy]]; Douglas Aircraft Company; North American Aviation; TRW Inc.

| affiliation_in_practice = Alleged involvement with [[secret space programs]] under U.S. Navy directives

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| status = Retired (deceased)

| status_date = Retired in 2000s

| experience_date = 1940s–1980s

| experience_location = United States, military bases, ships

| experience_type = Compartmentalized top-secret, helped to develop [[Solar Warden]]

|technology_encountered = [[Electrogravitic]] [[spaceship]]s, [[Solar Warden fleet]]
| beings_encountered = [[Nordics]], [[reptilians]]

| alleged_activities = Designing advanced spacecraft; reverse engineering alien technology; collecting intelligence on [[Nazi electrogravitic development programs]]

| claims = U.S. Navy's covert development of black budget programs to militarily patrol the solar system in cooperation with non-human intelligent beings, other claims

| physical_evidence = Unknown

| disclosure_type = [[Controlled disclosure]]

| alleged_retaliation = Unknown

| first_public_account_date = 2015

| suppression_of_evidence = Unknown

| suppression_of_account = Official denial

| suppression_of_corroboration = Unknown

| public_accounts = ''Selected by Extraterrestrials'' (2015); various interviews and lectures

| known_for = Claims about U.S. secret space programs and extraterrestrial technology

| notable_contributions = Public understanding of [[secret space program]] and advanced spacecraft, [[History of interaction of governments and corporations with NHIBs and ETs]]

| notable_works = <!--''Selected by Extraterrestrials'' (2015)-->
| attempts_to_debunk = Criticized by skeptics for lack of evidence; considered part of conspiracy theories

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Tompkins is known for his claims that the [[United States government]], through the [[U.S. Navy]], established covert programs to [[reverse engineer]] extraterrestrial technologies acquired from alleged [[UFO crash retrieval|UFO crashes]] and [[NHIB cooperation|cooperation with extraterrestrial beings]]. According to Tompkins, he was tasked with collecting information from German scientists involved in [[Electrogravitics development in Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany|Nazi Germany’s alleged UFO programs]], a project allegedly overseen by [[Operation Paperclip]] personnel. This included claims about the [[Nachtwaffen|Nachtwaffen, or Dark Fleet]].