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George S. Trimble

1956-01-01year known, day not recorded

Vice President of the Martin Company (later Martin Marietta); ran its RIAS (Research Institute for Advanced Study) anti-gravity division. Told a 1956 aviation magazine that "beating gravity" could be achieved on roughly the same timeline as the first atomic bomb.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 3 September 2026 by reading this entity's record, after the automated screen proposed "neither" for it. The screen's "neither" only means that no term from its vocabulary fired; the deciding phrase here is this entity's own: "Research Institute for Advanced Study". An editorial classification of which thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to.

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  • Thomas Townsend Brown names a source we do not hold
    Trimble's Martin Corporation division funded his research
    Paul Schatzkin, The Man Who Mastered Gravity: T.T. Brown (2020)
  • Louis Witten names a source we do not hold
    both in the Martin Company (RIAS) gravity-research milieu
    Wikipedia: Louis Witten; The War Zone