Ben Rich from 1975 to 1991, was the Director of Lockheed’s Skunk Works, the division responsible for development of several advanced technological aircraft including the U-2, the SR-17 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk stealth bomber, and the F-22 Raptor.

In a presentation about the infamous Skunk Works program, Rich made several unusual comments that had many in the audience scratching their heads.

During the presentation, Rich hinted on more than one occasion that more, undisclosed, top-secret advanced technologies have been developed since the F-117 was introduced. Of course, Rich could not go into specifics.

Jan Harzan, director of Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), attended the March 1993 lecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, with fellow UCLA engineering alumnus and UFO enthusiast Tom Keller.

Keller, an aerospace engineer who has worked as a computer systems analyst for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, wrote about it in the May 2010 issue of “MUFON UFO Journal” and Harzan shared his story in a January 2012 interview with Web Talk Radio Network, and another with Alejando Rojas of Open Minds UFO News and Investigations in July 2013.

Jan Harzan told:

“He intimated that there was a lot of other stuff going on that he could not talk about. He ended his talk with a black disk zipping out into outer space, and he ended it with these words: ‘We now have the technology to take ET home.’”

Harzan says that after the lecture ended a few people remained behind to ask questions. Some wanted to know more about the technology to “take E.T. home.”

Several in attendance believed that Rich’s final comment inferred that aliens had visited Earth, could possibly still be here, and that we possess the technology to take them across the vast expanses of space.

From there, the conversation got even stranger. As Rich was leaving the stage, an engineer asked him if he thought it was theoretically possible to travel to the stars. Rich responded:

“We found an error in the equations and we now know how to travel to the stars, and it won’t take us a lifetime to do it.”

Another engineer promptly asked, “I have a real interest in the propulsion you are talking about that gets us to the stars. Can you tell me how it works?”

Rich stopped and looked at him, then asked: “Do you know how ESP works?”

The engineer responded: “I don’t know, all points in space and time are connected?”

To which Rich replied, “That’s how it works.”