Person · 10 November 1895 – 18 February 1981
Jack Northrop
Also known as John K. Northrop, John Knudsen Northrop, Northrop
- Aircraft designer and industrialist; founder of the Northrop Corporation (1939)
Jack Northrop (1895–1981) was an American aircraft designer who worked at Douglas and Lockheed, where he was chief engineer on the Lockheed Vega, and founded the Northrop Corporation in 1939, later known for flying-wing designs. The Age of Disclosure uses archival footage of him calling for serious scientific study of UFO propulsion.
Sources: Wikipedia · The Age of Disclosure (2025)
Facts and claims
- claimed In archival footage used in The Age of Disclosure, Northrop says UFOs show “a source of power of which we're not acquainted” and a unique propulsion, hovering and accelerating without sonic booms, and that the subject “deserves the highest type of scientific study”. — Jack Northrop Source: Jack Northrop on UFO power and propulsion (archival, in The Age of Disclosure) at 0:00