Civilian Contractors & Companies

Alfred O'Donnell

1950

EG&G engineer who worked on nuclear-test firing systems and was Annie Jacobson's key anonymous source for the contested Roswell claim in her 2011 book. Per TD Barnes, O'Donnell later said he invented the lurid Soviet-Mengele mutilated-children craft story to give Jacobson something juicy. The claim is disputed and uncorroborated.

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Connections (3)

confirmedEG&G

EG&G engineer (nuclear-test firing systems)

Source: Annie Jacobson, Area 51 (2011)

reportedAnnie Jacobson

the anonymous EG&G source for the Roswell claim in her 2011 book

Source: Annie Jacobson, Area 51 (2011)

disputedRoswell Incident

source of the disputed Soviet-child-experiment Roswell claim; per Barnes he later said he invented it

Source: TD Barnes interview (Danny Jones podcast, 2026); Annie Jacobson, Area 51 (2011)

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