Television Engineer, Inventor and Speaker Norman S. Bean knew of Crash Retrievals (C/R’s) and UAP Wreckage in Dayton Ohio — in 1954

Richard Geldreich, Jr.
4 min readJul 3, 2022

Here’s an accomplished engineer with a very impressive level of accurate (or modern) knowledge about the UAP situation for 1954.

I randomly found this newspaper article on a UAP presentation given by engineer Norman S. Bean. He was on the NICAP Panel of Special Advisers (which was apparently a CIA front of some sort), invented the first walkie-talkie, and he helped the U.S. Navy develop America’s first radio-controlled bomb during World War II. He also gave presentations to the US Air Force in Florida.

Key excerpts:

Biographical background information (from here):

In 1953 he was described as a “Naval Radar Expert” here:

Was Norman S. Bean really involved in television engineering? Yup — a quick text search at archive.org shows he was:

There’s more biographical information in this article:

Did he really give presentations to the Air Force? Apparently he did (I found more evidence of this too in other articles):

So Norman knew that UAP’s were real and the subject was being covered up, that UAP’s were highly interested in our nuclear weapon programs, that multiple Crash Retrievals (C/R’s) had occurred, that the wreckage was held by the Air Force at (presumably) Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, and there was some sort of “investigation” being conducted by an Army major for the US Air Force— all this way back in 1954. (Wow!)

In 1966 he said the wreckage had been at “Wright Field for years”, and the Air Force was engaged in “studies” of the wreckage:

That is an incredible level of knowledge for that time period. How did he know?

There are a bunch of newspaper clippings mentioning Bean here. This paragraph caught my eye: In 1966 he speaks of the US gravity control propulsion research program. He is also correct: “The nation which unlocks this secret first will have a power far greater than any atomic bomb device”. He is talking about “Metric Engineering” (more info on Metric Engineering is in this YouTube video).

Here, in 1975, Bean says something very similar to what Lue Elizondo said in an interview a few months ago (sorry I don’t have the link handy) — about why there’s been so much secrecy:

This engineer was incredibly well informed for his time. We are just barely learning about this information today. Here’s the NY Times, July 28 2020 (press escape during loading to skip the nag screen). Key except:

Bean also speaks of “rocks” dropped from UAP “exhaust stacks” here. In 1966 he spoke of cattle disappearances having some relation to UAP’s. This was not common knowledge way back in ’66 .

I’ll be researching this fellow extensively, to see what else he knew.

Having read a few “flying saucer” books from the early 50’s, I’m skeptical that he would know all this information from just reading the available literature. Given the large number of lectures he gave in Florida and Wisconsin, I suspect he (and later his associates at NICAP) were able to speak with people who knew what had happened and they discretely filled him in. He was clearly very intelligent and able to filter the signal from the noise (as time has shown).

This information leaked ~70 years ago. It also shows how little actual new information we know of today in 2022. Many of the things we’ve been recently told (by people with security clearances, like Elizondo etc.) were being discussed in Norman’s 1950’s-era lectures he gave all over Florida and Wisconsin.

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Richard Geldreich, Jr.

Lover of mysteries, UAP OSINT/history buff, software developer. Mottos: We will never be swampgassed again. See Beyond.