Tim Taylor

Tim Taylor is a NASA mission controller who has supervised launches at Cape Canaveral since the Challenger era. He is the author of the autobiography Launch Fever and plays a central role in the government and intelligence circle that formed around UFO contactee Chris Bledsoe beginning in 2013. Diana Pasulka wrote about Taylor pseudonymously as "Tyler D" in her 2018 book American Cosmic, a treatment that preceded Bledsoe's public identification of Taylor by several years. Pasulka described "Tyler" as someone who worked for an unacknowledged Special Access Program, held clearances from multiple agencies including the Department of Defense and NASA, and served as a mission controller through the entire Space Shuttle program — adding that he "seemed to be above the law" and was consulted by astronauts when SpaceX launches failed.

NASA career

Taylor's console at Cape Canaveral is designated "Dragon Control," and his role gives him access to the full observation chain that tracks each rocket from launch to orbital insertion: ground cameras, WB-57 aircraft at 50,000 feet, F-104 Starfighters at 100,000 feet, and National Reconnaissance Office satellites beyond that altitude. According to Bledsoe, every rocket launch attracts unidentified aerial phenomena, which NASA tracks through this observation chain: "Every time they send one up, it attracts them. And they'll come up and look at it if it has weapons on board."

Involvement with the Bledsoe case

Taylor first visited Bledsoe at his home carrying credentials spanning Area 51, CIA, and NASA, and conducted tests on the entire family using a piece of exotic metal — a postage-stamp-sized dull-gray slab and a second piece resembling non-creasable foil — to verify the authenticity of Bledsoe's abduction claim.

Taylor and Bledsoe subsequently traveled to Zanesville, Ohio — birthplace of mid-century electrogravitics researcher T. Townsend Brown — where they recovered a piece of glowing red metal that had appeared in a private individual's yard fifteen years earlier during a UFO sighting. Bledsoe later escorted Tom DeLonge and Luis Elizondo to the same property to obtain their own sample.

During his first visit to Bledsoe's burned tree, a silver snake emerged from the hollow interior; Taylor, whose grandmother was full-blooded Choctaw, stated his grandmother had told him that if he ever saw a silver snake, it would be a message from God.

Secret time-travel group and T. Townsend Brown

Taylor told Ryan Bledsoe that he was part of a secret time-travel group based in the Bahamas — sometimes called "the NASA group" — of which T. Townsend Brown was president. Independent research by according to Danny Jones, Brown spent extensive time in Nassau and was deeply interested in time travel, and that Brown's daughter Linda Brown (Linda Leach) left an Amazon review on Taylor's Launch Fever years before Pasulka's publication — establishing a documented connection between the two men. He told Bledsoe to watch the 2011 film The Adjustment Bureau — based on a Philip K. Dick story — as an analogy for his own role, stating: "I work for the Hammer, and the Hammer works for God," referring to an archangel-like character in the film who redirects human fate.

Vivek Biotechnology

Taylor helped develop stem cell research through a company called Vivek Biotechnology, which was sold for $88 million. The research involved what Bledsoe describes as recovered exotic metal infused into a biological scaffold — a "biograph" — which in the first US operation of its kind was used to regrow bone removed from a cancer patient's thigh in approximately sixty days.

Presidential briefing

Taylor gave Bledsoe a dinner napkin bearing the presidential seal from Camp David, Maryland, which Bledsoe and former intelligence analyst Bob McGuire concluded was documentary evidence that Taylor briefed Barack Obama on the Bledsoe case.