The US Navy’s Secret Space Program and Nordic Extraterrestrial Alliance
In The US Navy’s Secret Space Program and Nordic Extraterrestrial Alliance, political scientist and exopolitics researcher Michael Salla argues that the U.S. Navy, rather than the Air Force, has operated a long-standing and highly classified space program developed independently from publicly acknowledged military and NASA initiatives. According to Salla, the origins of this program trace back to the 1942 Los Angeles Air Raid, which he presents as the catalyst for covert naval research into exotic propulsion and antigravity technologies. The incident is framed as the moment U.S. military planners realized conventional explanations were insufficient, prompting decades of secret development outside public oversight.
The book includes a foreword by aerospace engineer Robert Wood, known for his work examining Majestic-12–related documents and classified aerospace records. Wood states that aspects of William Tompkins’ testimony align with documents and internal programs he encountered during his own career, and he presents this as contextual support for taking the claims seriously within exopolitics research, even if they remain outside mainstream verification.
Salla states that his conclusions are based on whistleblower testimony, alleged insider accounts, declassified documents, and recurring patterns he identifies across compartmentalized military and corporate projects. He maintains that these programs operate beyond normal chains of command and civilian accountability, protected by extreme secrecy, black budgets, and privatized management structures.
A central claim of the book is that the U.S. Navy entered into a cooperative relationship with so-called Nordic extraterrestrials. These beings are described as human-like, tall, fair-featured, and technologically advanced, and are associated with off-world civilizations linked to the Pleiades or nearby star systems. Salla asserts that this alliance provided direct technological assistance rather than merely recovered hardware, with knowledge transfers intended to counter hostile non-human groups influencing human institutions.
According to the book, the roots of this alliance lie in World War II–era intelligence operations. Salla claims that U.S. Navy operatives embedded in Nazi-occupied Europe uncovered German flying saucer programs receiving assistance from non-human groups with opposing agendas. One group is described as benevolent and aligned with the Nordics, while the other is portrayed as adversarial extraterrestrials that aided Nazi technological development. These discoveries are presented as a decisive factor shaping postwar U.S. naval strategy and the urgency of developing an independent space-based defense capability.
Salla claims the Navy’s secret space fleet operates craft capable of antigravity flight, inertial mass reduction, faster-than-conventional space travel, advanced directed-energy systems, and jump-style or portal-based transit. He argues that these capabilities far exceed anything acknowledged in public defense programs and are operated by specialized naval divisions outside standard oversight structures. The book describes large-scale deep-space battle groups that allegedly became operational in the 1980s, coinciding with major Cold War military expansions.
The book further alleges that many of these technologies originated from a combination of recovered non-human craft, direct Nordic technology transfers, and intelligence gathered from German aerospace programs at the end of World War II. Salla maintains that major corporate defense contractors played a central role in translating these technologies into functional systems, allowing the program to remain concealed within private industry. He emphasizes an extensive body of documentary material, including naval service records, declassified memoranda from Naval Air Station San Diego, technical sketches of massive spacecraft, and corroborating testimony from additional insiders.
A central figure in the book is whistleblower William Tompkins, whose career forms the backbone of the narrative. Tompkins served in naval intelligence during World War II and later worked at Douglas Aircraft Company, TRW, and Rand Corporation. According to Salla, Tompkins was tasked with disseminating classified briefing packets on advanced aerospace and extraterrestrial technologies to corporations, think tanks, and universities. He later claimed to receive telepathic design assistance from Nordic beings while working at Douglas Aircraft, communicated through human-like intermediaries described as Nordic operatives embedded within the company to counter adversarial interference.
Salla presents Tompkins as a long-lived and consistent witness, noting that he lived to the age of ninety-four and passed away in 2017, shortly after the book’s publication. The book draws heavily on Tompkins’ own memoir, Selected by Extraterrestrials, cross-referencing autobiographical details such as his early model-building work for naval intelligence and his later involvement in designing kilometer-scale spacecraft carriers. Salla argues that Tompkins’ influence extended beyond classified programs and into publicly acknowledged efforts, including indirect contributions to the Apollo missions.
Rear Admiral Rico Botta is identified as a senior naval figure who oversaw intelligence debriefings and coordination related to these programs at Naval Air Station San Diego. The book describes a broader industrial infrastructure supporting the program, including underground facilities, shipyards, and long-term corporate partnerships funded through unacknowledged budgets.
The book links the U.S. Navy’s program to earlier Nazi and German secret space efforts established in Antarctica during the 1940s. These efforts are described as a precursor rather than a separate civilization, providing technological foundations that were later absorbed and expanded by U.S. naval and corporate interests. Antarctica is positioned as a strategic hub for concealed installations and legacy infrastructure, a theme Salla expands further in Antarctica’s Hidden History: Corporate Foundations of Secret Space Programs.
Whether viewed as insider disclosure or speculative exopolitics, The US Navy’s Secret Space Program and Nordic Extraterrestrial Alliance occupies a central position in modern secret-space-program literature. It presents disclosure not as a future event, but as an ongoing reality concealed beneath layers of military classification, corporate influence, and alleged non-human diplomacy. Salla suggests the program’s long-term objective is to level the universal playing field and argues that political shifts, particularly during the Trump presidency, could create conditions for unprecedented public revelation of these activities.
