Senior scientist at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth division, the plant that built the F-16 and F-22, and the man Lockheed Martin’s own press contacts suggested to Nick Cook when he asked about gravity research. Bushman was known inside the company for levitating paper clips on his desk and for talking about nature rather than science. The interview took place with three company minders in the room and produced nothing on or off the record.
He matters to The Hunt for Zero Point out of proportion to that: in the epilogue Cook names Bushman as the man who encouraged him to follow the data that let him reach definitive conclusions about antigravity. He is the only named source Cook credits that way, and the encounter is the book’s clearest picture of what a corporate minder does to an interview.