Selected by Extraterrestrials Quotes

“They’re looking at the details and missing the entire picture.”
― William Mills Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“I remembered what president Theodore Roosevelt said, when confronted with threats, “Carry a big stick and talk softly.”
― William Mills Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“Dr. Gerald Heard, author of Is Another World Watching?,”
― William Mills Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“broad-shouldered, hunk”
― William Mills Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“A.F. WS-315A medium-range missile system), Douglas acquired access to several German V-2 Rockets. These were the wonder weapons of the day, notable for their sizable documentation packages. They”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“design for the Saturn S-IVB Stage”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“To our progresses with the Apollo S-IVB. I”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“long-range fighter called the XP-45. I”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“These gigantic, silver vehicles were the USS Akron ZRS-4 and the USS Macon ZRS-5 dirigibles. These monsters roamed the skies over America for just five years, being based at the Naval Air Stations at Sunnydale and North Island California.”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“ominously,”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“automated DM-18 missile system, Von”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“The entire WS-315A program was deployed, in England and Italy, in large numbers during the Cold War. What is most interesting is that two weeks after we won the Air Force contract to design for the DM-18 against the Army’s Missile Development Center at Huntsville, Alabama (headed by Dr. Von Braun, the senior concept designer of the German V2 missile) we also won the contract to build the whole system to deploy”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“Air Force THOR WS-315-A, IOC”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“German A9 and A10 long range missiles. We designed a ballistic missile and mobile launch system, the”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“Vitruvian Man by Leonardo”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“Lockheed, who used our drawings and specifications to build the C-5A that is still the backbone of the U.S.’s heavy lift air transports system. In 1955, Douglas began a furious design program to build a large commercial jet transport. It”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“resigned Douglas and became President of the new Lockheed Missile Division, where he designed and developed the U.S. Navy’s UGM-278/c Polaris and UGM-73A Poseidon missiles, which were launched from large submerged submarines like the U.S.S. Alaska Class. Many years later, as Oregon State Vice President of the Navy League of the United States, I arranged”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“Navy’s SLBM UGM-27, a 32 ft. high Polaris and UGM-73 34 ft. Poseidon C-3 solid-fuel rockets + boosters. This”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“balloon boat U.S.S. Washington, during the 1862 Civil War, that was just for non-powered balloons.”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“appearing in such publications as Aviation Week (McGraw - Hill) and professional notes prepared twice weekly (by Aviation Studies International Ltd, London)”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“theories such as those advanced by Le Sage (1782), W. Thompson”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“were very enthused; they said”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“meso-field,” as”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“contrabaric state of a meso field.”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“infrequent Tank”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“substantiated. That”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“thereat.”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“Dr. Klemperer’s propulsion schemes that”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“makeshift lab. It”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries

“Rocketdyne Division. In 1949 his associates”
― William Tompkins, Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries