Lockheed Martin is America’s largest defence contractor by revenue and the company most consistently named in UAP reverse engineering testimony. The Wilson-Davis memo — one of the most significant UAP documents in the research corpus — describes Admiral Thomas Wilson being denied access to a Lockheed-held program. Congressional witnesses name Lockheed alongside SAIC, Boeing, and BDM as the “keepers of secrets.” The company itself publishes: “Some of our most important work isn’t in the headlines — by design.”
The Wilson-Davis Memo
In 1997, Admiral Thomas Wilson — then Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency — attempted to access a classified UAP reverse engineering program held by a major aerospace contractor. He was denied. The contractor’s attorneys told him he did not have a need to know. The program existed outside of his authority as a senior intelligence official. Dr. Eric Davis briefed Wilson on the encounter in 2002, and his notes form the Wilson-Davis memo — a document that names Lockheed Martin’s Special Projects division as the likely contractor holding the program.
Current Programs — Public
Lockheed Martin’s public portfolio as of 2026 includes:
- Hypersonics: 60 years of development. Mach 5+ weapons in joint Army-Navy testing (March 2026). DARPA, Air Force, Army, and Navy partnerships. Described as “a game-changer for national security.”
- Golden Dome: Homeland missile defence system. Layered intercept capability against ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic threats.
- Precision Strike Missile (PrSM): Production capacity quadrupled in 2026 under Department of War contract.
- Orion spacecraft: NASA lunar and deep space exploration vehicle.
- GOES-R weather satellites: Space-based earth observation and early warning.
What Isn’t Public
The Skunk Works section of Lockheed’s website explicitly acknowledges classified programs beyond public knowledge. The Wilson-Davis memo places a UAP reverse engineering program inside Lockheed’s Special Projects structure. Former Skunk Works director Ben Rich stated before his death that UAP technology is “in the hands of Special Projects.” A flat dark hexagonal aircraft was filmed at Lockheed’s Helendale radar testing facility in 2025 — no publicly acknowledged program matches the description.
Lockheed Martin has been at the centre of America’s most classified aerospace programs since the U-2 in the 1950s. The SR-71. The F-117. The F-22. In each case, the program existed for years — sometimes decades — before public acknowledgement. The pattern is consistent. The question is not whether Lockheed holds classified programs beyond public knowledge. The question is what those programs contain.
Sources: lockheedmartin.com, Wilson-Davis memo (documented), Shellenberger congressional testimony 2024, Ben Rich documented statements, The Sun (Helendale facility, 2025).