A fascinating passage has surfaced in the newly published memoir of Colonel Richard E. “Butch” Sheffield, an SR-71 crewman who later worked closely with Lockheed’s Skunk Works and reportedly held hundreds of codeword clearances. According to Sheffield, Ben Rich once brought him into his office, closed the door, and asked him to quietly investigate whether the government possessed anything connected to UFOs. Rich had apparently heard that individuals within the aerospace industry had organized...

I have just received a copy of the "autobiography" (apparently "as told to" his daughter Linda Marie Sheffield) of the late Colonel Richard E. "Butch" Sheffield, one of the SR-71 pilots. The title is "Ohio to Supersonic: Flying the SR-71 Blackbird to the Secret World of the Skunk Works." (London: Helion and Company, 2026) The book is almost like a "stream of consciousness" type of writing, anecdotally driven. After Sheffield left active service in the USAF, he worked with Lockheed-Martin, and...