William Bill Mills Tompkins

Timeline

 

Special thanks to Robert M. Wood for bringing to light the following Timeline of William Mills Tompkins’ life. This was taken from Volume Two of the Selected by Extraterrestrials series (emphasis added).

  • 5/30/1923 Born in Los Angeles, lived in Hollywood
  • 9/1/1934 Attended Gardener Junction Grade School in Hollywood
  • 7/1/1935 Moved to Long Beach, CA, near the Rainbow Pier
  • 9/1/1936 Started to make some models
  • 9/1/1937 Attended Long Beach Trade School
  • 2/1/1938 Moved back to Hollywood, made more models
  • 9/1/1938 Attended Bancroft Junior High, Hollywood
  • 5/1/1939 A few models were displayed at Hollywood High School
  • 8/1/1939 Many models displayed at Broadway Dept. Store, Hollywood Blvd.
  • 9/1/1939 Starting 11th grade at Hollywood High School
  • 10/1/1939 Was a speaker in Hollywood Bowl on Naval ships
  • 1/1/1940 Cdr Perry reviews ship model documentation
  • 3/26/1941 Interrogated by Navy, March 26, 1941 Evening Outlook clipping
  • 6/1/1941 Navy got him a job at a secret facility, Vultee Aircraft Co., Downey, waiting for top secret clearance.
  • 2/25/1942 February 25, 1942, saw the Battle of LA at Long Beach
  • 4/1/1942 Sworn into the Navy, boot camp, then staff to Admiral Rico Botta, secret head of Naval Intelligence on alien threats to Earth. Had top secret “Q” clearance.
  • 6/1/1942 Pilot of multi-engine aircraft and was electronics officer
  • 6/10/1942 Flew admiral’s plane to Douglas El Segundo, Lockheed Burbank, and China Lake for four years
  • 7/1/1942 1942-44, visited classified Douglas Santa Monica and Cal Tech facilities, 3 to 4 times each
  • 1/1/1943 1943-45 Spent much time at China Lake facility modifying rockets for testing (40 visits) and working on their alien projects.
  • 6/1/1943 Knew Army was developing and testing BW, “Some that are bacterial and some that are lethal viruses”
  • 3/1/1946 Left Navy, Honorable Discharge, Pasadena
  • 3/1/1946 Sold hosiery for his father, Real Silk Hosiery Mills
  • 6/1/1946 Worked for father selling roofing materials
  • 5/1/1947 Stopped working for his father
  • 6/1/1947 Got a job at Northrop with security clearance in laboratory designing airplanes without wings
  • 6/6/1949 Bill quit, went to work for North American Aviation (old Vultee facility), making prototypes from some extraterrestrial materials on a classified project. Allegedly “well-known” in that facility that some were extraterrestrial source.
  • 11/1/1949 Left North American, worked for Lockheed for four months
  • 3/1/1950 Bill got “flash” (remote viewing?), went to work at DAC, used his model expertise to get a job in the wind tunnel model shop
  • 4/1/1950 By this time, his models were famous, and he was asked to build a model of Endymion Yacht
  • 5/1/1950 Met Mary at Aragon ballroom in Santa Monica, married Sept 8, 1951 [16 months]
  • 3/1/1951 1951-1963 in the Think Tank for 12.5 years, worked for W. B. Klemperer and Elmer Wheaton
  • 4/3/1951 Transferred by Donald W. Douglas Sr. to Engineering as a draftsman, working for Pete Duyan
  • 6/4/1951 Sent to a Think Tank to begin study of aliens; great Government secrecy; conceived Naval moon base and planetary Naval Stations
  • 8/4/1951 Upgraded to associate engineer after 6 weeks working in secret tank
  • 9/1/1951 Worked with Ed Sullivan, Dr. Walther Riedel, and Gerald Heard of CSI (Civilian Saucer Investigation)
  • 9/8/1951 Married Mary
  • 7/3/1952 CSI interactions, allegedly met young Jacques Vallee in this context, time unclear
  • 8/1/1952 Conceived NORAD Command/Control Center, underground
  • 1/1/1953 Think Tank concluded UFOs were extraterrestrial spacecraft
  • 6/1/1953 Conceived NOVA type space trucks in the Tank before Apollo
  • 12/1/1954 Began to help establish requirements for Naval spaceships in Think Tank
  • 12/1/1954 Made drawings of a kilometer-long Naval spacecraft
  • 12/17/1954 Sent to White Sands Proving Ground to evaluate V-2’s and launcher designs
  • 12/20/1954 MTM-622 declassified publication in Think Tank
  • 1/1/1955 Transferred to a new DM-18 missile design group, promoted to Assistant Group Engineer
  • 1/1/1955 DM-18 firing at Cape 17B
  • 3/1/1955 Unclassified Part 2 of MTM published
  • 2/1/1956 Learned of Project Horizon by General Trudeau to put a base on the Moon
  • 3/1/1956 Developed Naval space cruiser and combat spacecraft design concepts
  • 7/1/1956 Worked with Harold Adams on DC-10 design
  • 9/12/1957 NORAD created, Tompkins command center design used
  • 5/1/1958 Promoted to Engineering Section Chief on the S-IVB Project for Apollo
  • 6/1/1959 Army produces Project Horizon, to put an Army base on the moon
  • 9/1/1960 Stated “industry has had access to a sizeable level of extraterrestrial space vehicle parts since 1959”
  • 1/1/1961 Designed equatorial launch facility for NOVA
  • 2/1/1961 Began Apollo design work
  • 2/1/1961 Pre-NASA briefing on vertical checkout concept
  • 1/1/1962 Began working on the Saturn program
  • 7/1/1962 NASA presentations to Drs. Debus and von Braun
  • 8/1/1962 Douglas published a new packaging concept for the Saturn S-IVB Apollo
  • 4/4/1963 1 April 1963, NASA facilities memo written by Tompkins and Smith
  • 4/7/1963 Watered-down briefing to DAC Corporate
  • 5/14/1963 Fired by Douglas in 1963
  • 5/22/1963 Recommended by Dr. Debus to work for North American Aviation, still on management committees at NASA, started to work for Rocketdyne
  • 5/24/1963 Responsible for ionic propulsion facilities for Rocketdyne
  • 6/1/1964 Shows on Rocketdyne organization chart
  • 12/15/1965 First successful launch of Saturn C-1
  • 5/1/1966 1963-1966 Stayed with Rocketdyne for 3 years, left Rocketdyne
  • 6/1/1966 Architectural office in Kern County, American Institute of Building Design, became Mayor of Lake Isabella, briefings on architecture and design for six months.
  • 12/1/1966 Formed W. M. Tompkins and Associates, corporate development, systems engineering
  • 7/1/1967 TRW career begins in product engineering lab; staff to the president
  • 7/1/1967 TRW July 67 to March 71
  • 12/21/1968 “Aliens have bases on the Moon”
  • 7/21/1969 Witnesses live video of Neil Armstrong
  • 10/18/1970 Commendation letter written about Bill Tompkins by TRW
  • 3/1/1971 Left TRW
  • 3/1/1971 Formed Land Ocean Systems Corporation (LOSC)
  • 3/1/1971 LOSC President March 71-Sept75
  • 6/1/1976 Left Land Ocean Systems Corporation
  • 6/2/1977 Joined Lockheed. TRW friend told him to talk to a Lockheed guy working on ASW (anti-submarine warfare) with Lockheed P-3s. Using Systems Engineering management programs, Bill put together a program with four blocks, presented to the Navy, then AF for DM-18s. Navy Commander wanted it, Did complete program. “It’s massive!” Worked on systems engineering for seven months.
  • 2/1/1977 Joined American Jet Corporation
  • 1/1/1979 Left American Jet Corporation
  • 1/1/1980 Started at Teledyne Ryan in San Diego
  • 1/1/1981 Joined General Dynamics
  • 1/1/1984 Left General Dynamics
  • 1/1/1984 Moved to Medford, Oregon
  • 2/16/1984 Attended Navy League 1984 National Convention, Seattle
  • 1/1/1985 Created Southwest Navy League Council with thirty-seven top Navy officers, the “special projects” group, pilots from various employers, all working on alien interaction projects
  • 12/1/1985 80-99 Navy League State VP
  • 9/11/1991 Interviews with John Timmerman/Mike Swords of CUFOS
  • 1/15/1994 Attended Navy League 1994 National Convention, San Diego
  • 1/1/1999 Moved from Oregon to San Diego
  • 3/17/2002 Interviewed by Brad Sparks and Tom Tuleet (Bob  Wood now has transcript)
  • 11/1/2009 Interviewed by phone by Bob Woo