Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin is a U.S. aerospace and defense contractor. Harry Reid and David Grusch have each repeated a claim that it held crash-retrieval material. No primary record has surfaced that confirms it.

In 2021 Reid said he had been "told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials" and that the Pentagon would not let him look. It had declined his 2009 request for a new special access program for the Defense Intelligence Agency's AAWSAP; no document shows Reid refused entry to an existing one, and his letter does not name Lockheed. On a 2023 podcast, Grusch relayed Reid's remark and added that "Lockheed Martin wanted to divest itself from this material." He stated no source and did not name Lockheed in his sworn testimony at the July 2023 hearing.

A further account, told but not documented, says a Lockheed Martin vice president arranged to send material to AAWSAP and a former CIA science and technology director vetoed the transfer. It appears in journalist George Knapp's 2025 congressional testimony and in an unnamed interviewee's claim in AARO's 2024 historical report. AARO did not corroborate it. No agreement, meeting record or clearance file has surfaced. The related Kona Blue story is also disputed: it rests on Eric Davis's statements, and AARO's account of it does not mention Lockheed.

A documented tie: Martin Marietta, part of Lockheed Martin from 1995, ran Sandia National Laboratories from 1993 to 2017.