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Northrop Grumman

2023-11-01what this date marks is not recorded

Major aerospace and defense contractor; named by Luis Elizondo as allegedly involved in reverse-engineering retrieved non-human technology, a claim the company has not substantively addressed.

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: "reverse-engineering retrieved non-hu". An editorial classification of which thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to.

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5 connections

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  • ← Luis Elizondo names a source we do not hold
    named it as a legacy-program contractor
    Elizondo legacy-program statements; company responses (2023-24)
  • ← TRW names a source we do not hold
    acquired by Northrop Grumman in 2002
    Corporate M&A records
  • ← James G. Roche names a source we do not hold
    former Northrop Grumman executive before becoming SecAF
    U.S. Air Force, A History of SAF/AA (Jones & Williams, AF Historical Support Division, 2019); Roche official bio
  • ← Richard S. Stapp names a source we do not hold
    later Corporate Chief Technology Officer at Northrop Grumman
    af.mil biographies; post-service company/board listings (archive.org)
  • ← Thomas J. Masiello names a source we do not hold
    later a Corporate Director at Northrop Grumman (2018)
    af.mil biographies; post-service company/board listings (archive.org)

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What this is

Classified `form: person` by the August 2026 pass and corrected on 23 August 2026. This is a company, not a human being. The pass was tuned to stop people being read as institutions and nothing tested the opposite direction; a list of every person on the map was what finally put it beside fourteen other companies. `cat` is untouched.