EG&G Senior Manager: ‘They Had a Flying Saucer and a Live Being From New Mexico’ — The Area 51 Contractor Who Saw It
Alfred O’Donnell, a senior manager of EG&G — the defence contractor that managed Area 51 operations — told investigative journalist George Knapp that the government possessed ‘a flying saucer recovered from New Mexico’ and a ‘live being.’ When asked about the being, he said ‘we didn’t know what it was… we couldn’t communicate with it.’
Who Was O’Donnell
EG&G (Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier) was the primary operations contractor at Area 51 from its inception. EG&G personnel operated the facility’s most classified test programmes, maintained security protocols, and managed the contractor workforce. O’Donnell’s seniority within EG&G placed him with direct access to programme-level knowledge.
They did have a flying saucer that had been recovered from New Mexico. We didn’t know what it was. To tell you the truth, we couldn’t communicate with it. In the beginning, we didn’t know what it was, we didn’t know where it was from. And we didn’t know what to do with it.
— Alfred O’Donnell, EG&G senior manager, to George Knapp
The Congressional Investigation
The O’Donnell accounts prompted Richard D’Amato — a Congressional staffer overseeing Special Access Programmes, working for Senators Byrd and Reid — to investigate. D’Amato visited Area 51 and, according to Knapp, concluded it was ‘entirely feasible that this UFO cover-up exists within a private company’ such as Lockheed, EG&G, or Northrop Grumman. D’Amato’s public statement was cautious but not a denial.
The EG&G Network
EG&G appears across the UAP evidence architecture: managing Area 51, contracting for Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, filming nuclear tests at which anomalous objects appeared (Bluegill Triple Prime 1962), and being named in Annie Jacobsen’s testimony as having ‘direct interactions with beings recovered from crash sites.’ O’Donnell’s account is one of the few on-record statements from a named senior contractor official.