Bushman made a number of claims that sounded plausible, but he also revealed to the UFO research community and to the world’s media tales that were downright bizarre.
Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies
Bushman, who died on August 7, 2014, left an amazing and controversial legacy behind him. It was a filmed statement from him on what he knew about an alien presence at Area 51, antigravity technology in the hands of personnel at the base, one-on-one contact with E.T.s, and much, much more. Was Bushman telling the truth, was he nothing but an outright liar, was he spreading disinformation on behalf of those who run Area 51 as a means to muddy the waters of what really goes on there, or do all three scenarios have some degree of validity attached to them? Let’s take a look at the life and work of Bushman and his incredible revelations—if that’s what they really were.
First, it’s important to note that Bushman was no fantasist. He was a respected figure in the world of aviation, having worked as a senior scientist with Lockheed Martin. He also had more than a few patents to his name. Those patents included, as UFO researcher Michael Lee noted, “a system to detect aircraft or missile exhaust plumes, a metal detection system, and an apparatus for detecting radiation.” He also claimed to have worked on top-secret antigravity- based programs for the U.S. government. To a degree, this has been confirmed, since his heavily redacted, declassified FBI file references his research in the field of antigravity. Magnetic drives and a thermally energized electrical power source were also patented by Bushman.
Bushman made a number of claims that sounded plausible, but he also revealed to the UFO research community and to the world’s media tales that were downright bizarre. In 2007—seven years before he passed away— Bushman was filmed speaking about what he knew (or what he claimed to know) about all things alien and a great deal about Area 51. The footage was filmed by a UFO researcher named David Sereda, but it remained behind closed doors until all hell broke loose in 2014.
According to Bushman, aliens were both working and living at Area 51
We’re not talking about just dead aliens recovered from crashed UFOs, such as those allegedly recovered from outside of Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947. This, to a degree, you will recall, echoes a brief aside made by Bob Lazar back in 1989 when he claimed to have very briefly seen a small, humanoid figure at the S-4 site. It’s important to note that Lazar himself suspected that this may have been a deliberate, fabricated, stage-managed incident designed to make Lazar think that aliens were at Area 51. Obviously, this has a bearing on the Bushman story, too, specifically in relation to the possibility that Bushman may also have been deliberately fed faked data by disinformation specialists at Area 51.
Still on the matter of Bob Lazar, it’s intriguing to note that—to a degree— Bushman backed up Lazar’s claims of having worked on the antigravity systems of the alleged UFOs held at S-4. According to Bushman, such research was indeed actively and secretly underway at Area 51. Interestingly, Bushman also asserted that both the Chinese and the Russians had been brought into the fold, to a certain degree, anyway. This, too, mirrors the words of Bob Lazar, way back in the 1980s, when he said that while working at Area 51, he heard whispers of the Russians having been invited to work on the program but at some point were slung off the project.
As for the aliens themselves, this is where Bushman’s story got really weird. He claimed that they came from a planet called Quintumnia (on some occasions, he called it Quintonia), which is said to be around sixty-eight light years away. Incredibly, Bushman maintained that the aliens were able to make the journey from their world to ours in less than an hour. Their life span, said Bushman, was far in excess of ours. Indeed, he said that the average Quintumnian lived on average of around 230 of our years. They were not too dissimilar to us, with hands and feet like ours. As for their height, it was around five feet. They didn’t speak English, though, or, in fact, any Earth-based language. They didn’t need to. They communicated solely by telepathy.
Certainly, one of Bushman’s most controversial claims (and he had many of them) was that he had interacted with the E.T.s personally to the extent that he said that he gave them a camera so that the aliens could take pictures of their home planet and bring the pictures back to him! Whether Bushman preserved those priceless pictures in a dedicated photo album is anyone’s guess. He also maintained that the Quintumnians were the alien race responsible for the ongoing cattle-mutilation phenomenon on our planet.
Much of what Bushman had to say was not just far-fetched and unlikely but downright laughable, too. In a rather telling situation, few people in the field of UFO research endorsed the words of Bushman. For example, Alejandro Rojas of the Open Minds website said: “Like so many stories in the UFO field, Bushman’s is enigmatic. The whole affair could easily be written off as the delusional ramblings of an old man.” Indeed.
Rojas made a valuable observation on this issue that should not be overlooked: “The only thing that causes one to pause is Bushman’s background. Why would a high level scientist begin making up such wild stories?” Regardless of which side of the fence you might be on, that question, as posed by Rojas, is a very important one.
Nigel Watson, an English UFO researcher, said of the revelations: “This story has been received with equal measures of enthusiasm, curiosity, confusion and skepticism in the UFO community.” Certainly, the most outrageous aspect of the Bushman affair came when he revealed a color photo of what was said to have been one of the Quintumnians.
In no time at all, the UFO research was able to offer a definitive “Gotcha!” The photo that Bushman touted as proof of alien visitations to Earth in general and to Area 51 specifically was not evidence of anything of an extraterrestrial nature at all.
It was actually a picture of a quite sophisticated alien doll sold by none other than Walmart! For many people in the field of ufology, the issue of the “Walmart alien” (as it quickly and inevitably became known) was enough for them to walk away from the controversy and brand Bushman as either a liar, a joker, or someone descending into a state of senility. Maybe one of those scenarios was indeed the correct one. On the other hand, though, one has to give some thought to the distinct possibility that Bushman was still highly astute and not suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Significant thought must be given to a theory that cannot be ruled out. In fact, we might be very wise to rule it in. It goes as follows.
Let’s say that Area 51’s overlords were concerned by the ever-increasing attention paid to the secret base. After all, it had appeared in The X-Files, in Independence Day (something that senior personnel at the Pentagon were far from happy about), and in the movie Area 51, which was released in 2015. Add to that the growing number of people who have been detained and fined for getting too close to Area 51, and one can see that the personnel at Area 51 might have come up with an intriguing plan—or perhaps “plot” would be a far better term to use.
It’s not at all unlikely or implausible that Bushman was groomed by personnel at Area 51 to divulge an amazing and astounding faked story of aliens at Area 51, of crashed UFOs, of cattle mutilations, and even of alien–human interaction at the installation. The staff at the secret facility would surely know how the UFO research community works. They could have made a good guess that certain elements of the more gullible and paranoid side of ufology would be jumping up and down with excitement.
More importantly, those same ufologists would likely spread the story here, there, and everywhere on social media and radio shows. This is exactly what happened, but when the Walmart angle surfaced, for many people in ufology (if not the vast majority), the entire saga collapsed. The result? Ufologists were laughed at and derided by fellow ufologists. The mainstream media poked fun at the field of UFO research.
That just may have been the desired result.