Part 2 :Selected by Extraterrestrials...The Divorce & the Think Tank...Naval & Planetary Star Systems...

Selected by Extraterrestrials 

My life in the top secret world of UFOs.,

 think-tanks and Nordic secretaries 

William Mills Tompkins

CHAPTER 4 

THE DIVORCE AND THE THINK TANK 

I had been flying up to Douglas, from Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, since spring 1943. I was staff to Admiral Rick Obatta, Commander, Naval Intelligence. I had his high wing DH-2 aircraft assigned to me as needed for these and other local, western missions. I visited Douglas several times back then. 

Now, seven years later, it had been over a year since the divorce. The atmosphere in the Tank was thick with overwhelming tension and resentment. The personnel who had been forced to stay with the family were hit the hardest. Those who wanted to stay, but who had to leave, also had strong feelings. Just like in any hostile build-up to a separation, the children were hurt the worst. 

Being two of those children, Jim and I were hit hard. This was because nobody ever discussed the divorce with us. We were totally unaware that this strange, out-of-this-world thing had ever existed inside a classified engineering area, inside an aircraft company, one which, in turn, must have existed inside another classified area. Another Think Tank, comprised of other people, was also tasked also to evaluate the unbelievable events. Who were they? Who were we? For years, this was a thorn in our sides. We were subjected to continuous interruptions in our conference rooms, by other people who appeared there to evaluate our studies and concepts. 

Our Army Air Force and Navy pilots have reported over one hundred and sixty different, unknown alien craft that vary from race to race. Some of these are massive spaceships that are obviously capable of crossing the galaxy. I guess both groups have been tasked to counter not just one rival military force of hostile beings. There appear to be different alien civilizations in the galaxy, all engaged in bizarre, dangerous wars, the outcomes of which might, one day, determine the future of humanity on our planet. 

Even more important than that, we must defend this planet against aliens whose stars and planets could have developed millions of years before our sun. They have developed the technical ability to move off their planet and conquer worlds, with space ships and weapons so advanced it could take us thousands of years to even understand them, possibly even millions of years. 

With the divorce, it was difficult for me at least, to be assigned to conceive and design the next generation of cold war ICBM chemical rocket, because information continued to appear in my mind suggesting we were being confronted by military forces from out in the galaxy. We should not even be considering hostilities against the Soviet Union or any other country on the planet. All technically advanced countries should be allied together against the warring aliens. 

The confusion of changing task requirements in the Tank was a specific result of the divorce. It forced me and others to rethink the missions and conceive new projects to meet the extraterrestrial threats that our Army and Navy pilots were reporting. I, at times, visualized large, hostile, alien ships off-loading attack vehicles with missions against our fighters. Using Dr. Klemperer’s unconventional propulsion schemes we conceived new space transportation systems, methods of communication, other star and planets, and their biological environments – ones that would produce advanced intelligence totally different from us, probably capable of lifetimes in the hundreds or even thousands of years longer than humans. 

In spite of the divorce, at that time, some of us in the Tank were aware of an extremely advanced Naval camouflage program, called “The Philadelphia Experiment.” During World War II, the Navy was conducting research that utilized an experimental electronic system that would encompass the entire ship, preventing the enemy from seeing it. But something went horribly wrong. Under advisement by Albert Einstein (an advisor to the Tank), this program had accidentally transferred a Navy destroyer escort, the U.S.S. Elgin, bodily from the Philadelphia Navy Yard to the Newport News Naval Base, in Virginia. It did disappear as intended, but in doing so, its electromagnetic transportation system teleported the ship, killing over sixty men. It was, however, a successful application of collaboration of academic and Naval research into the previously unknown arena of teleportation. 

As Jim and I were waiting for the 7:00 a.m. meeting to begin, we overheard a group of PhDs stating that Einstein had been assisting the Navy in this teleportation research. Some of what had been published about Einstein was nothing compared to what he had really accomplished in above top secret programs. (I was aware that the Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, in California, had been developing more advanced research on this concept and others). 

The PhD’s elaborated on the idea that some members of the Tank were now aware of the possibility that several different extraterrestrial races, including “the Grays,” had underground research and development bases in the western United States, some of which might have been operating on this planet for hundreds of years. It was thought that they had been coerced and agreed to mutual research under the management of our Navy. 

Jim turned to me. “Holy cats Jim; this is a whole new ball game. Where do these aliens come from and what kind of research are they developing?” 

We strained our ears and listened hard. We heard that Walker Pass Valley – an area off of highway 178 and 395 north of Ridgecrest California - was possibly one of those facilities where the research was conducted. It lay northeast of the China Lake Naval Research Center. This had apparently been assigned the task of monitoring threats of hostile extraterrestrial races from deep space. Was Walker Pass working with our scholars on classified technology studies? They were using a combination of an advanced telepathic communication system and an experimental Combat Information Control (CIC). It was the job of the China Lake facility to report back to Naval Intelligence with specifics on these internal threats. 

“Bill, they’re saying some friendly aliens are actually here, underground?” Jim asked me. 

“Well, in World War II, I used to fly a lot to China Lake from Naval Air Station North Island. This was a major task of my advanced research programs,” I replied, thinking about it. “And let me tell you, personnel working in some of the laboratories said, over and over: ‘There are a lot of smaller-than normal people working way back in some of the hangars there.’ I never got close enough to see them. Strangely they were always working the dark areas.” 

“You mean aliens could have been involved with Naval research back then?” Jim asked, continuing: Continuing, “Why would aliens build an underground facility across the street from the Navy’s largest advanced weapon development center?”. 

“Well, maybe the aliens were there first. It’s possible.” I held up a hand to calm him down. “Some of this makes sense. Remember Klemp’s slip in the program meeting, back in March? "

“Yeah.” 

“…that some of the Reptilians were really getting hard to deal with.” 

“That Dr. Selson from their CalTech office: I thought he was going to have Klemp fired!” 

“Never mind firing Dr. Klemperer. How is the Navy going to fire an alien - and a hostile one at that - if they hired him in the first place and it’s the alien’s own facility?” 

“The Navy must have a hell of a good JAG lawyer,” I answered. 

“But, Bill, there are other scuttlebutts going on about Grays and Reptilians in there, too.” 

“Yes, Jim Cooper, propulsion rep at White Sands, told me that there are Reptilians managing Grays in underground facilities in several Western states, and that the Navy is monitoring them.” 

“Who the hell are the aliens that have been shooting down all our fighters and transports?” 

“There are a lot of unanswered questions. Not just who are they, but what are their agendas?” 

1 Real mission to Moon and Mars, 1952 

At 2:00 a.m., Jim said, “I don’t believe this, Bill. Is this really happening?” 

I slipped on my World War II-era Navy flight jacket, without pulling up the zipper, and held the top closed around my neck. I said to Jim, “This top secret Advanced Design area that we are in may have many secret compartments. We could be just a part of something really important. Maybe we should not talk about aliens to our friends?” 

“We shouldn’t.” 

“I don’t know which of the PhD’s came up with this project either. But, come on, after evaluating the new reality we’ve found ourselves in, specifically that our planet is under attack by extraterrestrials, who may be thousands of years more advanced than us…” 

Jim interrupted: 

“Holy cats, Bill, we’ve been working fifteen to eighteen hours a day, for three weeks now, to counter this thereat.” 

“It’s determined in here,” I finished, “that there is an urgent need for a large Naval base to be constructed on the Moon, and also a smaller one on Mars. Apparently, we’ve been given the task of assisting this effort by coming up with configurations for the heavy vehicles needed to get the materials up to the Moon, via liquid propelled rocket trucks, then define the mission elements required to build the Moon base.” 

Suddenly, I said: “I just got a flash that there is a massive facility on the back side of the Moon, I am frozen all over.” 

Where did that come from?” 

“I don’t know, but it’s gone now.” 

“What did you mean, we’re ‘assisting?’” asked Jim. 

“There have to be other designers conceiving similar projects somewhere in here. We can’t get into those areas down the hall,” I said. 

“Maybe. That one-eyed Dr. Creswell: I’ve seen some of his heavy space transport configurations. They’re pretty good.” 

“Yes, but think about it. After completing those NOVA heavy rocket vehicle proposals, and those trade-off studies, we were the ones who conceived the major elements required for the base on the Moon. We prepared the unsolicited proposals for what we speculated would be submitted to the Naval Air Development Center (NADC).” 

“Actually, we really don’t know who these proposals are for,” Jim said. 

“Yes, but that’s just another unanswered question.” 

Up until that point, we had been defining requirements and vehicles for defensive missions against extraterrestrial combatants, using systems engineering management procedures from our ballistic missile and anti-missile systems. I had used the same design methods and the system engineering planning approaches as the major elements in our lunar Naval base. 

Several years later, in 1956, Army Lieutenant General Arthur Trudeau, the Director of Army Research and Development and former commander of Army Intelligence, would propose a program called Project Horizon, the title page of which is shown nearby. Project Horizon was designed to place an Army base on the Moon. It was implemented four years after our designs for a Navy base and five years before President John Kennedy’s 1961 plan to go to the Moon - which later became known as the Apollo Moon program. 

We, in Advanced Design, had conceived and designed a two thousand-man Naval Base both on and under the surface of the Moon, way before the Army had established a need for a Moon base. Our program would be the largest planned technical effort ever attempted in the history of the planet. It was to include the most complicated, advanced Naval and Marine space operations center ever conceived. The plan was for the Moon base to have a telescope observatory, an advanced medical and drug research center, food farming and processing facilities, critical mineral mining and processing plants, lunar living-shopping-and-entertainment centers, lunar surface and subsurface transportation systems, advanced material development laboratories, lunar commercial spaceport facilities, and systems for distributing lunar commutations, air, water, electrical, power generation. We were not only planning Earth’s greatest surveillance system, but also the first human colony away from the planet. 

To configure just one small element of a lunar medical research laboratory is enormous. To design the advanced medical facility, we needed to build and test a 30x30x60- foot, prefabricated laboratory unit-like trailer. We would assemble it on our planet, then disassemble it, and then install the units in a pre-NOVA type rocket. We would then fire it to the Moon, soft-land it at a lunar commercial spaceport, transport it via the Moon transportation system, and install it in the lunar medical research building. This mission scenario was typical of many we designed for the colonization of the Moon. Similar proposals existed for the other planets in our solar system, as well as the planets of other local stars. 

2 In the tank 1953-4 

It was noon on a bright, sunny California morning. Most of the people in engineering were outside, on their lunch break, standing near the runway. There was a good wind blowing off the beach. . . 

The deafening roar of a giant, overloaded, two-level, Douglas-built Air Force four-engine C-124 transport filled the air. It barely made it off the end of the short Santa Monica airport runway. It almost dropped out of sight, just as it would when taking off from an aircraft-carrier. These were strange, monthly C-124 Air Force visitors, only unloading and loading at night. The girls were plugging their ears, shouting and clapping their hands over and over: “They made it!” Fortunately, the airport is on a hill with a 300 foot drop on the west end of the runway, facing the Pacific Ocean. After watching the takeoffs, everyone walked back into engineering. 

“I’d hate to live in those houses under the runway,” Jim said. 

“Yes,” I agreed. “They’re only three blocks from the end.” 

Jim hollered over the noise of a smaller military aircraft, which was following the C-124: “Hold on, Bill, did I understand Corporate yesterday?” 

“Referring to what?” I asked. 

“If I got it straight, Truman made a deal with the aliens?” 

“Now, Jim, wait until we get inside.” Walking into the extended raised entry area, I grabbed my top secret clearance card. I shoved it into the double-door slot-lock, which provided access into the Think Tank hall. I ushered Jim inside. 

“Like I was saying, right after the Roswell crash in 1947,” said Jim, “I think Truman said they allowed a limited number of our citizens to be kidnapped every week, in exchange for advanced extraterrestrial technology, including new propulsion schemes, laser weapons, and extended life.” 

“You heard right, Jim; Elmer said the same thing.” 

“But, Bill, Truman said that the fucking aliens dug in the ground, started tunneling under New Mexico and a bunch of other western States.” 

“That’s right, there have been other aliens living under there in massive facilities for hundreds of years,” I said. 

“The way I get it, it’s these new guys that are the abduction problem. After Truman gave away the store, they’ve been kidnapping hundreds of people a week, on a massive scale.” 

“Okay, but what he didn’t tell you is that President Eisenhower sat down with aliens in a hangar out at Edwards Air Force Base in earlier this year. He tried to make them live up to the pact. But the aliens got up from their chairs around the conferences table, literally flew to the top of the hangar, turned upside-down over the conference tables, and gave Ike the finger. That brings it down to what Sorenson was getting to.” 

“Then what was he trying to say?” Jim asked. 

“Well, Elmer Wheaton and others above him, in the shadow group, understand that there is a plan to implement an anti-interplanetary vehicle program, with our NIKE ZEUS anti-missile as the defense. Not against the ‘evil empire,’ but against the alien menace, to take down any hostile alien spaceships entering our orbit.” 

“I’m feeling worried,” Jim said. 

“Me too,” I agreed. I thought, grimly, that they must have Flash Gordon-style motherships, which have been cruising the galaxies for thousands of years. That meant they were technically thousands of years ahead of us. Maybe millions. Damn those aliens! Didn’t they realize what doors they were opening? My jaw tightened, but I forced myself to relax. I drew a deep, cleansing breath. It didn’t help very much.

“It’s believed by the shadow group in the Tank,” I continued, “that they are stationed somewhere between the Moon and Mars. UFOs could be operating from mother ships that are two miles long. We don’t know why, but for some reason Klemp thinks these guys may be from the central section of our galaxy.” 

“You’ve got to be kidding,” Jim said. “This changes everything. I don’t know who these aliens are, but if they have large warships, should we still be concentrating on the NOVA heavy payload truck vehicles for the Moon base?” 

“I agree with your priority,” I said. "You talk with Klemp. I’ll hit Wheaton in the morning.” 

The figures following show two original drawings of Naval spacecraft carriers and battle cruisers that were visualized in Advance Design, in 1954, from dozens of alternate configurations. Scale models of these kilometer-long craft were subsequently made. 

What we learned, much later, is that the nineteen different extraterrestrial entities who are here on the, are not invisible planet, right now, but have the ability to control our minds and can prevent us from seeing them. In much the same way that their vehicles have stealth systems on board to prevent us from seeing them. 

3 Star ships 

After receiving our unsolicited proposal for star ships [the Navy put out a sole source request for a proposal for exploratory star mission vehicles (This was before NASA existed)]. Actually we didn’t even get an RFP (Request for Proposal); it was just slipped in under the floor door to our Advanced Design. Well, that’s what that cute little thing in the lobby told me, Alessandra. She said that on the envelope it only said. “To whom it may concern.” 

Even though we conceived the Navy’s exploratory missions, we had absolutely no idea of the magnitude and importance of the Think Tank missions. Unknown to us in the Advanced Design Tank, concept definers in the same building’s Think Tank during the late 1940’s actually defined RAND’s contract mission. One part of the mission was dedicated to designing the communications receiver antennas that would potentially identify alien vehicles entering earth’s air space, in similar fashion to a highly advanced version of the Navy’s World War II-era “friend or foe” identification operation. By the early 1950’s, during the in and out Advanced Design game they had Jim and me playing, I did find one study extremely interesting. 

Before the Cold War, and still very concerned that we would find eventually find ourselves in World War Three, several of us in the Tank continued implementing these defense systems. In our studies, we combined the alien identification antenna operation with several configurations, to allow us to identify incoming high speed vehicles, which would hopefully provide us with the ability to discriminate radar blip data. I designed an underground command center that would utilize these data to control all U.S.- based military operations involved in defending us against alien attack. Later, I got a requirement to actually design the Air Force command center in Omaha, Nebraska. Unaware of the real requirement of the Tank, we found ourselves taking new approaches to the old programs. As we penetrated what seemed, to us, to be a major need, we conceived programs to solve those problems. Not being aware of the overall Tank mission specifically, we worked independently as required on most of the star ship programs. 

4 Big question: green floor? 

In Advanced Design, we were constantly trying to integrate data acquired from what was left of the CSI files, into Dr. Klemperer’s Unconventional Propulsion Schemes reports. It was 10:40 a.m., one morning, when Jim hit me at the coffee machine: “What’s with the CSI and the spooky missions?” 

We had just come out of the Tank conference room, where Klemp was reporting to Wheaton that I had barely scratched the surface of the CSI. The meeting had been cut short again.

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“I wonder why,” I said, “whenever the topic of the CSI is breached, someone cuts the subject short? The CSI is dead. Almost all the files have been confiscated by somebody; we think it was the Air Force. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: for whatever reason, I feel like I’m being assimilated into God-knows what dark, government scheme. The wheels in the know - the Air Force - debunked the CSI. And they were the most knowledgeable about the extraterrestrial presence. North American, Northrop, CalTech, JPL, Dr. Gerald Heard, Dr. Walther Riedel, and Dr. Jacques Vallee: they all seemed to be of the opinion I’m some sort of important element in their technical investigation, the alien threats, and all these other problems.” 

I scratched my head: “Jim, who arranges these offsite lunches? Who are they? They present me with their ‘unofficial’ technical evaluations on these so-called ‘extraterrestrial problems. They always ask for my opinion. None of these experts are from Douglas. But they must have ideas that we’re disseminating and designing spacecraft, which make up potentially the most comprehensive proof of extraterrestrial involvement and interference information on the planet: Klemp’s Unconventional Propulsion Schemes MTM-622 reports.” 

“What else is new?” Jim sipped his coffee. 

“Damn it, Jim, at times you and I are so close to Klemp’s propulsion schemes that we miss the fantastic implications of what we’re really designing! Why are these guys - the 1,442 all over the planet - desperately trying to skip rockets and concentrate on electromagnetic anti-gravity propulsion for their spaceships, in a way that defies even Einstein’s theories? Why are they trying so hard to get off the planet?” 

“Wait a minute, Jim,” I said, "Back off. Let’s clear things up and look at what the 1,442 really encompasses.” 

“What we know about them?” 

“Yes, Jim. 

"And it really goes back to one of your hobbies in Navy intelligence when you flew up to Douglas during WW-II, remember?" 

“Yes,” I said. “The Navy agents (spies) in Germany discovered what all those ‘out of this world’ aliens gave Hitler: UFOs, antigravity propulsion, beam weapons, extended life and plenty of mind controlled willing girls programs. The reptilians made a deal with the Third Reich SS giving them this big box full of toys in exchange for letting Hitler enslave the rest of the planet. Oh, yes and don’t forget that the reptilian thugs had already stolen our sun and solar system planets from another alien gang’s civilization long ago, and added it to their gang territory." 

“I am getting confused, Bill.” 

I continued, “Which of the reptilians owned us? They worked a deal with Hitler, and the aliens got permission to interbreed with everybody. So now Germany can put all of these toys in production for their German space navy. Then join the reptilian navy and go way back out into the Galaxy and do it all over again.

“OK, that’s enough, Bill,” Jim said. “I get it but where does the 1,442 come in?” 

“Oh, yes, the 1,442 people. Well, there is an incorrect understanding of who those people were and where they lived on the planet. Most of them lived in European countries as early as 1830 and were bugged to get off the fouled-up planet. But as late as even 1890 Norway and the American guys were driven on clear nights to go out and stare at the stars. They were fascinated: ‘What’s out there? Who is out there? No, not here, I don’t belong here; this is the wrong place. Out there – that’s where I belong. Not just me – my entire family.’ And other things came into their minds: ‘That’s where we belong. I must come up with a way to accomplish it. I have got to do it; there must be some way, a vehicle with some type of energy. I don’t know anything about that but maybe I could…?’ Keeping his job to pay his bills but keeping every second of free time, this farmer in France along with friends had the same drive to get out there. They took loans on their farms to pay for whatever was necessary to build a vehicle that would get their families out there. In attempting to develop a craft to get out there they frequently contacted engineers and even scientists with the same drive.” 

“Do you think one of them – say an engineer who was nearly successful building a working prototype contacted others and that is where the number 1,442 came from?" Jim asked. 

“Could be. I am nearly convinced that for some reason aliens that have been monitoring our planet for a very long time are encouraging all those people to leave Earth. 

“Who, Bill?” 

“Maybe the white hat guys did it. This all happened before the rise of Germany and the Third Reich. When the SS discovered inventors recharging energy and building prototypes, they arrested them – confiscated everything they had including them and their documents. Shipped it all to an underground mountain research plant. By threatening to kill their families the SS forced them as slaves to continue their space vehicle development." 

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“Okay Bill, I know Wheaton selected you to disseminate all the CSI stuff in Douglas Engineering and that’s a lot of exposure…” 

I interrupted: “I don’t tell the CSI kingpins about our star ship missions and concepts, either.” 

“Answer the question, Bill!” exclaimed Jim. “Who cut off our review meeting again this morning? And why?” 

“I don’t know,” I replied, “but these CSI offsite meetings and extraterrestrial concepts they’re presenting me with…none of this makes sense.” 

“Those CSI guys are top in their fields,” agreed Jim. “They’re convinced Douglas is dealing with insurmountable extraterrestrial threats. But why? Officially, we’re just another aircraft company in competition with them. I wish I knew what was really going on. Then there’s the fact that we only discuss Northrop’s involvement with the extraterrestrials internally, in the Tank, and not with Northrop.” 

I pulled Jim to the side: “Look, the Tank defines these extraterrestrial problems. The conclusions get sent to someone, but I don’t know who. We’ve been doing this for six years and neither one of us really knows who all this galactic stuff is submitted to. Maybe it’s filtering up to some higher-level Think Tank. They then throw holy water on it, and then give it back to us to accomplish the total development program.” I had to laugh. “And we think it’s a Navy space-based program, but we really don’t know. I think there’s a whole lot of stuff going on out there and it’s affecting our planet.” 

“I agree,” said Jim. "Your design for the NIKE ZEUS anti-missile, underground command and launch center, and the Army plans to build outside of Boston, came from nowhere. And your fantastic perspective drawings of the NOVA mission control centers. And those massive assembly and vehicle checkout buildings. Hell, I’ll bet you had at least twenty different configurations of those big rectangle shoe boxes alone. Launch control center‒did you take them out of the air, or did you take Mary (my girlfriend) to the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood and sit there like a dumb weight in space instead of watching the movie?” 

“Boy, you’re getting nosey,” I told Jim. “For your information, it was the Grauman’s ‘Egypt,’ not the Grauman’s ‘Chinese.’ Jim, it just comes as a picture in my head. Don’t deny it; you get some of your stuff the same way. We’ve talked about this before. I’m convinced some of those white hat aliens are pushing us. They want us to develop spacecraft carriers and help their Naval space battle groups combat the black hat aliens. 

“Holy cats, Bill, where did you get that from?” 

“Last month, it popped into my head.” 

“I wish I knew why.” 

As has been noted before, others had come up with the concept of building vehicles and propulsion systems to go to the stars long before my time; it’s in Klemp’s bible. In the 1890s, European farmers and engineers mortgaged their houses and conducted fieldwork on their own time, in order to come up with similar theories. But one question always plagued me: why? Who told them to do this? Was it human genius? Or intergalactic communication? 

“Hey, have you ever looked at the floor in Engineering?” I asked Jim, one day. 

“Oh, come off of it, Bill,” Jim retorted. “Why would I want to look at the floor? Is that all you’ve been doing this morning?” 

“No,” I said. “I was talking with Stu Wilson in Structures out in the Engineering hangar when he dropped a file on the floor. We both reached down to pick it up. Well, we noticed a different colored floor section, indicating where a wall had been. You know, Engineering is in a converted hanger.” 

“Okay, so what?” 

“The floor tiles are white, with a green color splashed on them.” 

“What’s your point, Bill?” 

“Stu and I followed the discolored wall all around Engineering.” 

“You and Stu could be locked up in straight jackets if security caught you guys crawling all over the floor and under the drafting boards.” 

“We weren’t down on the floor! We were just looking. And, Jim, the entire hangar is covered with that discolored area where there were walls. Really. You’ve got to come out there after work tonight, and I’ll show you. You’ve got to see it. Jim, there must have been offices covering the entire hangar, just like Klemp’s PhD’s offices along the front of the Tank, in here.” 

After work, we went back out into the hangar. “Holy cats, Bill, you’re right! This is weird. If something really big was going on in this old hangar before, what are we doing now?”

“Stu thinks he knows what happened. It’s that damn Manufacturing. They probably pushed Engineering out into that old storage building by the dump, at the other end of the runway, and then leased the entire hangar out to one of their subcontractors, for office space, at a big discount.” 

“I wouldn’t put it past them,” Jim said. 

“You know, Jim, sometimes I get nervous wondering what’s really going on in here.” 

“Well, they never tell us anything. Every time we try to put this together, Bill, it still never makes sense.” 

I agreed. Somehow, our team of scientists and engineers in Advanced Design had acquired the RAND contract from the Army’s Air Force. I heard it was for research and development, that it involved the development of space satellites to orbit the earth, and that it would be capable of taking preventive measures against the threat of attack. Neither Jim nor I had ever read the contract, but it seemed that high ranking Naval officers in civilian clothes were monitoring it. 

“I overheard Dr. Dell say that RAND has been set up to research and analyzing matters affecting national security and the public welfare,” I said.

“Anyway, we’ve got an Army project being run by the Navy. That’s a hell of a way to start out.” 

“But listen,” I said, “maybe that’s not too far off. If we’re trying to address the threat of hostile extraterrestrials here, the Navy would be the better choice to handle it out in space, rather than waiting to have the Army fight them here.” 

“You’re right,” Jim agreed. “But it’s still confusing, what we’re really trying to accomplishing in the Tank.” 

“Some of the staff may not be aware that Forrestal was hospitalized for so-called stress-induced paranoia around this time,” I said, “and was pushed out of his top floor hospital room window during the night. He died on impact. If he was running the show, who is running it now? Are they the 1,442?” 

“Take Klemp’s 1,442,” Jim agreed. “That’s got to be the most astounding disclosure ever documented!” 

“That’s right. It presents fascinating answers for why the Germans were trying the same thing we are doing, even before World War II and in 1950 and why qualified experts all over the world were so driven to generate methods for space travel. And all these guys are doing the same thing at the same time! Even within the Tank’s compartmentalized and secluded operating environment, we’ve been able to conclude that there are potential extraterrestrial threats, collectively, by studying the MTM-622, and that this will require the highest priority need to conceive the most capable Naval intergalactic combat ships ever created. We’ll need to utilize a totally new type of unconventional propulsion system. Am I off base here, Jim?” 

“No, that’s the way I see it, too. And this will lead to hundreds of primary design concepts and configurations for every conceivable threat. Wow!” 

“We’re not just conceiving spacecraft carriers, here,” I continued. “I’d bet we’re going to have to define every possible mission for cruise and attack starships. Jim, I think you and I are going to be pushed into defining missions to the southeast quadrant spiral of our Milky Way Galaxy.” 

“Holy cats, Bill! Where are you getting this from?” 

Ignoring Jim, I continued thinking about what was clear in my mind, that we would be primarily utilizing a Naval attack destroyer taskforce and Navy/Marine assault spacecraft carrier configurations. 

“You do agree, though, Jim?” I asked. “At this time - I mean right now - I think the Navy is totally unaware of our findings in MTM-622. After we define extensive potential configurations, Advanced Design could submit unsolicited bids directly to them!” 

“Wow…again, I’m game,” Jim agreed. “Let’s do it. But, Bill, the German scientists and engineers have been designing space-type vehicles, too, utilizing what appears to be extraterrestrial information, since the 1920s. We have had access to classified documents that detail the exposure of the Nazi’s to extraterrestrial technology.” 

“Sure.” 

“But, for the moment, let us assume that we are the aliens. We’ve been observing Earth’s warlike history, along with its very slow progress over the course of thousands of years; slow progress, spent on looking for a potential intelligence that is willing to help it get its act together. We might start with what appears to us, as aliens, to be the most technically evolved group of people on that planet.” 

“You know, this really sounds like Think Tank stuff,” I agreed.

“Well, we probably would have observed people like the Wright Brothers and their first flight and say ‘Aha!’ But it’s possible that we might also have given even more credit to that large group of mechanical engineers on the other side of the planet, and so start telepathy-assisting them as well.” 

“Remember Jim,” I said, “Germany has been building and flying the enormous dirigibles designed by the ‘Crazy Count Zeppelin,’ all over their skies, since 1895, and their futuristic cities had overhead monorail trams.” 

“That’s my point,” said Jim. “Who got them started? Assuming, of course, that the political element in their area wasn’t a major problem?”

“It’s worth noting,” I said. “It exactly suggests that the aliens can make mistakes too, and that they may not be that far ahead of us. They may not have given enough credit to the possible warlike attitude developing in some advancing areas, like Hitler, thereby setting off a technical monster with Heavy Water and the V-2 Rockets.” 

Or could it be the other way: maybe the aliens started all the wars to control us? I got the shudders again. 

“Bill, are you really up on some of that pre-alien acceptance? Well, the U.S. Navy really did build the first aircraft carrier during the 1862 Civil War: the balloon boat, the U.S.S. Washington. But that was more like the ‘non powered’ balloons people had been flying since 1783. That was when the villagers of Lyons, in France, thinking it was some sort of monster from outer space, attacked the Montgolfier Brothers and deflated the balloon.” 

“Well, Jim you’re not so bad either, in your knowledge of extraterrestrial history. But for whatever reason, in recent history, it has appeared to me that some kind of aliens really did, at one point, start helping the Nordic nations. The USA and the UK first.” 

“But which aliens?” asked Jim. “Even Klemp said only a fool would fail to recognize that there could be hundreds of different extraterrestrial cultures out there, and some may be extremely hostile.” 

“Think about it, Jim. With all this unrelated stuff we have been hit with this past year, it’s got to lead to an enormous new set of facts and principles. Our life as we know it is gone.

CHAPTER 5 

                 NAVAL AND PLANETARY STAR MISSIONS 

In support of what we thought were Naval intelligence requirements, we continued to combine Dr. Klemperer’s suggestions for the spaceship propulsion with our concept engineering designs. Sometimes bypassing Klemp, Elmer Wheaton – our VP of engineering - hit up Jim Jenkins and me. Jim was my sharply dressed Errol Flynn look-alike, as well as the other June grad concept guy in the Tank. He caught us both running for the door one evening at 6:30 pm, trying to get out early for the engineering dance that night at the Beverly Hills Hilton. 

“Okay, you two; you’re not getting out of here this early,” he said. 

“What do you mean early?” I said, catching Elmer’s grin. “Quitting time is 4:42.” (Quitting time was 4:42 in Engineering.) 

“It’s never been five o’clock for you two. Get your butts back in here. It will just take a minute. Admiral Conway from NADC has a separate Naval space group now, and he’s coming out in three weeks. I would like you two to clean up our missions concepts. You will have to make do with your current assignments for now. You guys will also be involved in the presentations.” 

“Okay, Elmer, you’re the boss,” I said, “See you at the dance.” 

The next morning, Jim and I pulled all our Naval space files, specifications, sketches, layouts, configurations, and drawings. Having done this before, I said, “Let’s split the tasks right down the center.” 

“Okay,” Jim agreed. 

I read our original mission statement aloud, which we wrote the previous year. 

“The modus operandi of Naval vehicle systems in space has its military justification in supplying our planet with offensive and defensive spacecraft. Such systems will be needed if missions into space are to extend beyond the very occasional scientific expedition. The existence of methods of affecting such combat craft will also provide an incentive in addition to the present ones, which may be classed as military and scientific. 

“It is pointed out that, while short transit times are important for manned flights, longer, and consequently more complicated, flights are conceivable for manned missions. It is worthy of note that various vehicle missions can be simulated in the laboratory and, where that is not possible - as in the case of stress-free frameworks - the problems are susceptible to mathematical analysis.” 

We laid out all of our files and drawings on three references tables and four drafting boards. 

“Jim,” I said, “do you remember when we got pulled off all these Naval spaceship projects?” 

He nodded. “It was last September.” 

“Well, why don’t we define, or at least lay out, where we were then, and try to pick out what items Admiral Conway will hit us on the most?” 

“Yeah, great, then let’s start with the battle group and its support.” 

Tilting my head, I redefined a standard Naval space battle group complement, stating that it would consist of one 2.5 kilometer spacecraft carrier, with a two-star on board as flag, three to four 1.4k heavy space cruisers, four to five 1k space destroyers, two 2k space landing assault ships for drop missions, two 2k space logistic support ships, and two 2k space personal transports. 

Jim shrugged: “That’s the configuration we agreed on, sure. But, I think the space personal transports should be called ‘space marine transports.’ and I remember we planned to have at least three space scout ships out front.” 

I agreed. 

“Stop me if I’m off-base here,” said Jim. “But, we agreed that all the ships in the Space Battle Group would be powered by electromagnetic or anti-gravity.” 

“Yeah,” I agreed, reaching for the advanced light beam weapons file. 

“Also, the entire Space Battle Group will be protected by an electromagnetic shield, using antimatter from Einstein’s invisible ship system, each ship protected by an individual shield.” 

“Except the scouts; they’ll have their own shields.” 

“Yeah, if Einstein can make it work, we can use his invisible ship system in all of our attack craft and drop-ship missions.” 

“We have documentation requirements and configurations on all six classes, and a personnel list.” 

“I believe we also have seven, as yet undefined, offensive classes.” 

“Jim, stop,” I said, “They’re different.” 

“Who is different?” 

“The aliens. They live longer than us, much longer. Two thousand, maybe even four thousand years.” 

“Slow down, Bill, you’re scaring me,.” 

“They’re like grasshoppers,” I said. “Really big, taller than us. They lost their wings and middle legs eons ago. They multiply faster than us and they’re doing something to us to make us have very short lives. It’s awful!” 

“Bill, are you okay?” 

Stepping backwards, I nearly fell. I’d got that tingling again. It was a sort of dizzying paralysis, where I felt like I was dying. 

“Is this another one of your visions?” asked Jim. 

“Uh…yes. It’s very clear now: hundreds of space ships. Swarming… thousands of marines in combat gear… Oh God, their slimy reddish eyes look like open, dripping guts. They cover half of their greenish heads! 

“Staring into… inside of me. They’re here or coming here.” Grabbing my old flight jacket off the drafting chair, I pulled the fur around my neck. I was both freezing and sweating. 

“Where’s this coming from?” Jim wanted to know. 

“I don’t know. It was just a flash, but it’s gone now…I think I’m okay.” 

“How do you see these things?” 

“I don’t know, Jim; it just hit me when we were trying to get the data together for the briefing. Let’s just get back to it.” 

“No, we should wait until you’re over it.” 

“It never lasts long,” I said. “I’m all right now.” 

“You sure? I get them sometimes too, but they last longer for me.” 

I folded the jacket over the back of the chair and got into it again. “Yes, I’m sure. It’s time to review the other requirements now.” 

“We didn’t complete our file of extraterrestrial attack ships. We only got our solar system recon patrol and the galactic system recon patrol. We didn’t finish the one for our Naval spacecraft either." 

“It’s a start,” Jim said, “but Admiral Conway will demand tonnage.” 

Boy, I thought, we had a lot to do. So, I suggested that we review Klemp’s requirements for the lighter space destroyer escorts, and then get into the heavy ships. 

“I think around 3,000 tons,” Jim said. 

I found the document and read it aloud: 

“During the evaluating of potential military vehicle propulsion needs in the Douglas Advanced Design, the foundation for the concept to design some type of non-rocket, non-nuclear system, ion, electromagnetic and or anti-gravity, has become evident. Launching smaller vehicles from the Moon base to Mars, with the implementation of ionic, must be established first and then later missions to Saturn can be established.” 

“Okay,” Jim said, giving me the “move-ahead” signal with his finger. 

“Transit times and acceleration requirements, considering a typical spaceship 2,000 tons mass, on an interplanetary journey such as one from an Earth satellite station to the low-gravity satellite of Mars. The transit time would be 135-145 days. 

“The ion gun propulsion is deemed the most promising approach. Klemp considers powers of the order of 10,000kw are necessary and feels that high conversion efficiency, such as 70 percent, is possible. Various ion sources are discussed and a mass/power ratio of ½ g/kw is held feasible. Many ion guns in parallel on one space vehicle are envisioned.” 

“That’s Kemp’s old part,” Jim said. “He revised those three weeks ago.” 

“All right, I’ll ask him about it in the morning.” 

“That doesn’t apply; it’s for the heavy ships.” 

“Yeah, that’s for the battle cruiser class,” I agreed and continued: “More realistic assessment of the weight of so large a spaceship’s structure and machinery would tend to place all of the so seriously proposed schemes in the realm of fantasy for a long time to come.” 

“Hey, that doesn’t apply either! Maybe we should just start at the other end, with spacecraft carriers.” 

“No, let’s do the lighter-ton ship, first.” 

“Boy,” said Jim, “we got a two-month task to finish in three weeks.” 

But before I could answer, in she strutted, with that bright silly grin, wearing her uniform of the day - a short dress and 4-inch high glass slippers. It was Barbara of Corporate.

“What are you two boys doing now?” she asked. “Oh, dirty pictures? I just love this alien stuff you boys play with every day.” 

“How did you get in here?” said Jim. “You aren’t cleared.” 

Playing with her long blond locks, Barbara just said, “Oh, yes, I can, because Earl-boy told me to. So there.” Sitting on top of a drafting board, she reached over to get the files from another tray. 

“Damn it, Barbara, leave that file alone,” Jim said. "They’re in sequence. Go play with Bill’s stuff.” 

“Hey, don’t send her over here! She’ll mess up my ship logs!” 

“Oh my gosh, Barbara, you’re sitting on Bill’s spacecraft carrier SCA-32 layout. You can’t do that, it’s an original. And you got pencil lead all over your little bottom.” 

Uncrossing her legs, Barbara twisted around, then hopped down. 

“You little bitch; just look.” 

“You messed up my vellum, smeared lead all over the primary elevation.” 

“Oops. Sorry Billy, I’ll fix it. Do you have any eraser?” 

Oh boy, I thought, we were in trouble again. But at that moment, in walked Elmer Wheaton. “Who let that spy from Corporate into Advanced Design?” he asked. 

“Well, you did, Doctor Wheaton,” Barb said. “Remember, at the finance meeting last month?” 

“Don’t call him Doctor,” Jim whispered, “he doesn’t want people to think he can’t manage, haha.” 

“You said you would have Security make me a double-lock entry card into the Think Tank, just like Billy’s got,” Barbara said. Standing on her tiptoes, she stretched her arm towards the ceiling and held up the card. “See, I got one. Oh, but stop calling it ‘Advanced Design. We’re part of that CalTech turnkey operation,” she said. 

Cutting her off, Elmer added: “You have to clear everything you come up with here, with Stella or me first.” 

Oh, boy, I thought this week we’re CalTech? 

This was really strange. Turning to Jim, I asked: “Are the other PhD’s that sometimes meet with us from RAND? Do they just drive over from CalTech in Pasadena or do they have offices in here somewhere?” 

Scratching his head, he said, “I am more confused every day.” 

I felt my heart beat faster; something very important was behind all this. 

“It might be a good idea to keep the relationship confidential, lest someone get the wrong idea.” 

Rolling his eyes, Jim repeated, “Wrong idea?” 

1 Reality of aliens 

They pulled Jim Jenkins and me, both with top secret clearance, back from Advanced Design and into my old engineering electronic section for another panic design. It was on an electronic warfare system using a Navy four-engine long range C-118B aircraft, a version of the Douglas commercial DC-6. I looked out over the nearly 500 engineers with bachelor, master and doctorate sheep skins (degrees) that were totally unaware of the extraterrestrial presence on our little planet. They were all in their white shirts and ties bending over all those 500 drafting boards upstairs, in that recently converted hangar with the windowless noisy 2 x 6 x 12 rough wood flooring. While talking to Jim, I was contemplating all that we at Northrop, and now here at Douglas in Advanced Design, knew about the astonishing fact that UFO’s and aliens presented a real threat to this planet. This sounds insane but I wanted to stand up on my drafting board and yell that it’s true, that we must all devote our energies to developing Naval spaceships with light beam weapons that are capable of stopping them. After telling Jim of my feelings at that time he agreed and suggested, “But not right now, Bill.” 

In 1953, we were very naive about the aliens; that is, we were aware that they were investigating our planet, but assumed that they were just one civilization. Not what we now know that we have at least nineteen types either here now, or that have made a short visit as part of their cruise through our galaxy. I knew that they existed and was very aware of a number of extraterrestrial problems. (I had no knowledge then of what we all know now today about abductions. It is estimated that there are (in 2015) 30,000 abductions per year in the U.S. alone. This is primarily focused on interbreeding, which, of course, is both unethical and illegal.-Author Tompkins) 

2 Chemical sensing 

1954 U.S. ARMY CHEMICAL SENSING SYSTEM 

During the early Cold War, the Douglas Think Tank had been analyzing strangely-colored clouds that reflected almost the full color spectrum. These clouds first appeared along the West Coast, but then, at times, appeared in several locations across the United States. After an extensive study, the Think Tank contacted the Army Chemical Warfare Division’s General Stelson, who had also been concerned with the strange “gas-like” clouds. The chemical analysis branch of the U.S. Army contracted Douglas Engineering to design several sets of chemical sensing and analysis system mobile laboratories. I was pulled out of design as one of the principal system engineers to implement the program. Later, at TRW, this became a massive program that resulted in the analysis of the extraterrestrial gases that have been continually dropped on our planet to control our minds. We are somehow controlled to allow them to use us as their crop. This is like crop-dusting a field. 

It was questioned as to why there were so many new infectious diseases appearing, first on the west coast, and then moving east across the United States every year. It seemed that the medical advisers who assisted us were extremely concerned as to why they were forced to combat several new and completely unknown flu-like bacteria every year. We acquired six white standard Fruehauf commercial trailers for our first two prototype mobile laboratories. They were towed by standard diesel tractors (trucks) with modified engines to control their exhaust systems. These trailers were to be stationed all over the country and were equipped with the most advanced chemical sensing, analyzing, and compute documenting medical laboratory instrumentation available. 

We designed receiving and transmitting antenna systems equipped to provide past, present and future forecasting of weather data; the sensors were also used to establish rates of time required for the chemicals to cross the country and disperse throughout communities. Diverse sensors were installed to acquire alien bacteria that were then analyzed to establish their combined, as well as individual, effect on the animal and human population. We also assisted in defining flow charts covering all the central Pacific Ocean, east over Mexico, the United States, Canada and out over the Atlantic Ocean and the entire Gulf of Mexico. At the time this project was conducted in a closed-off area and with a secured atmosphere. I do not know what the real reason was for all the security involved in its establishment, but it appeared to have an extremely high priority. 

3 The star girl and the mind sweeper 

HAROLD ADAMS, AIRCRAFT SECTION CHIEF 

I was back in Engineering again in 1956 on the DC-8 aircraft. Harold Adams had many years of drafting on the board. He was a big, heavy man with a little gray hair, and in his late sixties. He was an excellent listener but was limited in presenting his ideas. He depended on others in design to conceive methods that would accept integration into the aircraft design. That’s where I came in. He managed with weekly design meetings. I reviewed all of his section’s problems, then drafted a configuration of the major DC-8 design problem on the cover of the meeting memorandum. Then, during the meeting, I explained the problem to the participant section chiefs for Adams and recommended a solution based on configurations, such as the one shown here. 

Let’s talk a little about the influence that the aliens have had on military and commercial aircraft design. The first time that I was aware of that was when an unusually exquisite Asian girl was at a design meeting that was chaired by Harold Adams, the Chief Engineer of the proposed new commercial jetliner (later DC-8). She just seemed to appear when we were designing the Air Force’s XC-132 Heavy Transport. This girl, who at the time appeared to be taking notes, gave me the impression that she was some sort of recorder or assistant. She was a tall, slim, statuesque person, dressed in a plain dress; a little tight but not unusual. She was, however, extremely striking. She had beautiful Asian features, and seemed to be about nineteen years old. I was unaware of her background, but the Air Force required a secret clearance to work on the advanced XC-132. 

Like Donald Douglas senior, Harold Adams was married, with grown children, and lived up the coast in Malibu. And like Douglas, Adams did not conceive the XC-132 or the DC-8, the first American Jet Airliner. They were conceived in Advanced Design, but the thoughts and suggestions from the girl assistant were uncanny. They were always precise and well presented, to the point that it seemed that she was the entire engineering department. It did not appear that she was limited in any areas of propulsion, aerodynamics, structures or electronics. It was uncanny; it even seemed unnatural or impossible. She also seemed to just show up and not be there at times. Was she, in some way, related to aliens? A number of the engineering section chiefs thought that was exactly what she was. I later learned she may have been only thirteen years old at that time. She was only seventeen years old much later when she and Harold took off in his converted navy minesweeper on their cruise around the world. 

On September 5, 2012, during the celebration of our 62nd wedding anniversary/family reunion in Norfolk, Virginia, my wife and I ate at a trendy coffee restaurant in town. Our waitress was a striking, tall Asian girl in short-shorts and with legs that never stopped. I knew it right away. She was the absolute image of Harold Adams’ girl. Still in her teens, her name was Turban and was from Turkmenistan, near Russia. She was, of course, also a dancer at the ballet theater there. No question: a carbon copy of Harold’s alien. A sister maybe? How do they do that?

CHAPTER 6 

UNBELIEVABLY BEAUTIFUL GIRL 

EVERYTHING CHANGED.Just before I resigned from Northrop, my brother and I joined the Engle Airs Club in Inglewood. They had one of their dances at the Aragon Ballroom in Santa Monica. It was a clear, Saturday night when we arrived. We were surprised at how many dancers were on the floor. There was this beautiful blond girl in a gorgeous yellow dress, dancing out in the middle of the floor. Her hair was pulled back in waves. With the ballroom ceiling lights shining on her, she looked like a debutante. She left her partner and went to the side of the dance floor and sophisticatedly sat down, straightening her dress. She glowed so sophisticatedly in what was obviously an expensive, tailored, yellow dress. It had a wide, turned-up, collar, which was high in the back, and which complemented her beautiful, blond ponytail hair. 

I told you this book was a love story. Even though I knew that she was a slumming debutante from Beverly Hills and would never, ever give me a chance, I went over to this beautiful girl and said, “Would you like to dance?” 

Somehow, to my surprise, she gave me a beautiful smile and said “Yes.” 

It was wonderful; we left this planet, dancing all evening. Having gotten her name, I asked her for her phone number and she gave it to me. Giving me another beautiful smile, she said good night and went home with her girlfriend. I was in heaven all of the following week, but when I called her on the phone a nice lady answered saying that there was no one there by that name. 

The next three Saturday nights I went back to the Aragon Ballroom to find her. She showed up, in another beautiful dress, on the third Saturday with her girlfriend. So, while we were dancing, I asked her to give me her real phone number. She gave me a cute sheepish smile and said “Alright.” I called her the next week and we went dancing at the Palladium Ballroom in Hollywood. She didn’t live in Beverly Hills, but she looked as if she should. She was as beautiful as a model on the front page of Vogue. Her home was in Santa Monica, with a nice Italian family from New York. On our drive to the Palladium in Hollywood, she said there was a nice road where people could look out and see the beautiful lights of the city. Now, remember, this casual comment came from an absolutely gorgeous, sophisticated, well-dressed girl. So, I assumed she was referring to Mulholland Drive - up in the Hollywood Hills - and so I drove up there. 

What do couples do up there, besides look at the lights? She was right: the lights were beautiful and so was she. I kissed her and kissed her again. She said “enough” and tried explaining that this was not the road she was referring to. A little confused, I drove to the Palladium. We danced very close, all night, with her beautiful eyes sparkling the whole time. On our drive back to her home we stopped twice to kiss and this was our first date. 

1 Alien technology 

Standing in the hallway, waiting for the morning’s rain dance to start, I said to Jim, “We have been receiving repeated and shocking disclosures for the last three years. Like Kenneth Arnold’s accurate report in June, 1947, about those nine interplanetary saucers in formation; east of Seattle. Then one crashed near Roswell, New Mexico.” 

“Exactly. And, in 1950, that first meeting where Truman gives the store away.” 

I replied, “You forgot the two weeks before the crash; that’s even stranger.” 

“How so?” 

“Well, on July 7, 1947, the Los Angeles Times reported that ‘airline pilots had seen mysterious flying saucers, much larger than transports, flying in loose formation at high speeds. The objects had been reported every day since, by observers in thirty-three western states. Military aircraft are still hunting the skies over the Pacific Coast states for sight of the flying discs.’ 

“And check out what else the Times said: ‘Then five P-51’s of the Oregon National Guard cruised over the Cascade Mountains in the Washington area, where the strange objects were first reported. They all carried photographic equipment. A Lockheed P-80 jet fighter at Muroc Army Air Field in California, and six regular fast-fighters in Portland, Oregon, stood ready to take off at an instant’s notice should any flying saucers be sighted in those areas. General Carl Spaatz, Commandant of the Army Air Force was in the Pacific Northwest, denied knowing anything about the flying discs or plans to use AAF planes to look for them. ‘I’ve been out of touch with things for four or five days, he said. Then he went to Medford Oregon, on a fishing trip.’” 

“Can you believe that frigging General?” Jim said. “He’s out of touch. He wasn’t fishing. He was scared out of his pants and looking for a new job, because he couldn’t do a damn thing about the aliens.” 

“Then we’ve got this Eisenhower thing with the aliens, in early March 1954,” I continued. 

“And your continued feelings of things you seem to see in your head, like thousand-mile-wide, massive, alien Naval bases floating in our section of the galaxy.” 

“Well, not just me; you said you see strange space things, too.” 

“Yes, but you see ten times the things that I do.” 

“Well, Jim, some of the images I see make me consider that we should rethink what is possibly going on out there. Remember when those five alien ships landed at Edwards Air Force back in fifty four? They asked Ike if it was okay to continue selecting some of us and stuffing our heads with what is going on in our part of the galaxy.” 

President Eisenhower answered; “Well, I can’t stop you transmitting information to selected listeners.” 

"They may be sending information to just one person, on some sort of a single beam that can only be heard by that individual,” I whispered to Jim. “You know when you and I have been working on a project, and I stop right in the middle? It’s as if someone hits my brain with a message concerning our project. And you don’t hear any of it.” 

“That’s right Bill; last month you and I both got one of those messages stating we must continue micro-computerizing our computers, to the extent that they are so small that they can power themselves right into our blood system. Flow out from our brain to the problem of a blown-off leg.” 

“Yes” I added, “grow an entirely new leg with a foot and five toes in several minutes. I blew you away with that one.” 

“I can’t stop thinking about it.” 

“Me too,” I said, getting anxious. “These aliens may be so advanced in all technologies, even futuristic medicine, that they have already controlled every type of medical problem and possibly live thousands of our years.” 

Later, in the hallway before a major meeting, I said, “Well, I think that’s the last of them; all those PhD’s from the other side. We better get in the conference room, too.” 

The review had gone on for three hours. After finishing my part of the antigravity briefing charts for Dr. Klemperer, I hit them hard in the Tank. I presented an understanding of the compelling issues surrounding the now-accepted fact that extraterrestrials had been operating their ships through the galaxy for thousands of years, not by nuclear means, but by overcoming gravity. This was disturbing to some in the semi-weekly meeting, because the rumors I was referring to concerned President Eisenhower’s meeting with an elite, highly advanced squadron of extraterrestrials at the Muroc Army Air Base (now Edwards Air Force Base). This occurred in the desert of California in February, and was not yet substantiated. That meeting had been prearranged and permission to land had been agreed upon. 

The Nordic alien squadron had taken some control over planet Earth; it consisted of two large cigar-shaped ships and three 100 foot disc shaped ships. They were commanded by several alien battle groups, human-like admirals operating in uniform with their crewmembers. They demonstrated their military ability to make their vehicles disappear, reappear, and overcome gravity. Their message to General Eisenhower was essentially: “We have taken your planet and are requesting permission to tell your people about us and that we will make it better for them.” 

“What a line of bullshit,” I whispered to Jim. “What about the control the reptilians and the grays have had?” They also basically told Ike, the most powerful leader on the planet, that he had surrendered. Now, to say that Ike was pissed is an understatement: He had never surrendered. But, at that time, before reverse engineering of the crashed alien vehicles, Ike had no weapons capable of stopping them or the grays. 

For some reason, however, I was convinced the alien take-over was true. I recommended to Elmer Wheaton, on the side, that it should be on our agenda for the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the next day, as well. Dr. Fitzgerald, from the Tank’s “Craggy Brow,” rose and shook his head. 

“No, stop, stop, and stop. There you go again, Tompkins, with your rumors. You people in Advanced Design are always listening to trash information, which is totally without technical justification. Stop this nonsense and get back to reality! This hearsay thinking has absolutely no justification with my research program.” 

I thought: your research? Who the fuck did he think he was? This was our proposal. 

Before I could kick Fitzgerald’s ass out of our conference room, Jim pulled my arm. “Not now, Bill.” 

Elmer spoke up, “No offense, doctor, but you are out of order. Assuming you’re right about Eisenhower, Bill is attempting to have us consider the possibility that the nuclear option is not the way to the stars.” 

“Bill, I think these guys, the PhD’s, I whispered, could be CalTech,” Jim said. 

This was all taking place in our large meeting room that was located inside the Top secret, walled off area, in the Engineering hangar near the Santa Monica Airport runway. 

Thinking I remembered that different aircraft would taxi right up to the hangar’s special secluded entry, primarily at night. I often wondered why the engineering hangar was built so close to the runway. 

After the other PhD’s left, at the conclusion of this particular meeting, Elmer Wheaton, our VP of Engineering and the Tank, summed up our session with a directive to Dr. Klemperer. 

“You’re aware that those people from ONR laboratories will be here at 07:00 tomorrow morning? I hope you and Dr. Hurtling have all your documentation on electromagnetism and counteracting gravity prepared. Because Admiral Roscoe Donley, three-star, Commander of ONR, is bringing along Captain Steve Thorson and Dr. Jacque Tools of the Philadelphia laboratory. They’re working with Einstein on their program to prevent enemies from locating our ships.” 

Dr. Klemperer started to speak, but I stepped in: 

“Are they coming to see us or those assholes at RAND?”

“Now, Bill, relax,” Klemp said. “Not all of them are limited between the ears.” 

“Remember, Bill,” Elmer agreed, “We are a part of RAND.” 

“Yes,” I replied, “but we’re still accomplishing most of the work and they’re getting all of the credit!” 

“Getting back to the briefing,” said Klemp, “Sheppard may be slow on briefings, but Bill is an expert on presenting the overall basic concept.” 

“Thanks for the roses, Klemp,” I said. “And, yes, I can handle it with my briefing charts.” 

“Bill, you’re good, I know,” Elmer admitted, “but these people will be into stuff that even I don’t understand.” 

“Bill is an expert at presenting the physical concept, backing off at the right time, and letting me or Sheppard step in with the undocumented theory,” Klemp said firmly. “And he’s familiar with the five and six-dimensional concepts.” 

“Fine,” Elmer said. “It’s your show, Klemp.” 

“Jim, did you see that Navy R40-2 parked around the side of the Engineering hangar this morning?” 

“No. What’s an R40?” 

“That’s the Navy’s high-speed transport; it’s related to a Lockheed Hudson bomber.” 

“So?” 

“That means we probably got stars – admirals – here, last night.” 

“Well, it’s about time they came here to find out how to stop the black hat aliens,” Jim added. 

I went on, “Our admirals at the top now know that those aliens are stationed out there in their twenty kilometer long mother ships, just waiting for their admiral to give the word to attack us...” 

Jim commented: “They are shaking in their boots, by now.” 

“You got that right, Jim,” I added. 

Later that morning in Advanced Design Dr. Klemperer said, “Well boys, we finally got the Navy brass out here and into our Tank conference room to brief them on our unsolicited antigravity propulsion proposal.” 

We all headed into our conference room – after introductions to the three-star Admiral Roscoe Donnelly Commander, Office of Naval Research (ONR) and laboratory director Dr. Jacques Tools. 

I took the floor. 

At 6:50 a.m. the following morning, in the conference room, some of our infrequent Tank research consultants (DAC), got to business. Dr. Tools took the floor first. 

“Using your research, we have come to an impasse on electromagnetism as it applies to thrust,” he stated. 

Jim leaned over and whispered to me, “What does he mean, ‘using our research?’” 

“Got me,” I replied. “I still don’t understand what RAND is exactly, or what our responsibility is to them.” 

Jim agreed. “Something really big is going on and we’re in the middle of it.” 

Dr. Klemperer started his briefing: “From a well-assured assumption that chemical rocketry will suffice for Earth satellite missions and interplanetary expeditions to the close planets in our solar system, we accept the conclusion that space vehicles sent to destinations further than, say, Mars, will have to be propelled by a new energy source. I definitely question whether nuclear heating of an inert working fluid will ever become practical, because of the high temperatures involved.” 

“Yes, the shielding required for the starship’s crew and their electronic equipment is unacceptable,” I agreed. 

“My studies have convinced us to seek an entirely new approach that does not employ the principles of rocket propulsion,” continued Klemp, “but rather the direct transformation of electromagnetic energy into kinetic energy by means of the contrabaric state of a meso field. The German, B. Heim, independently arrived at this concept by different mathematical approaches than I.” 

Klemp then expounded on the meso-field theory by postulating a 6-dimensional field describing not only the gravitational and electromagnetic phenomena, but also a third manifestation duly named “meso-field,” as those in the meeting could see on my chart No. 1. 

“We envision this meso-field as capable of two different actions via the contrabaric state,” said Klemp. “The contrabaric state transforms a material phenomenon directly into propulsive action by emission of gravitational waves, resulting in an accelerated motion. It also transforms material phenomenon into the dynabaric state, through which purely electromagnetic energy is liberated from matter.” 

“Without any waste product or heat,” I added. “Propulsion is achieved by first liberating electromagnetic energy and then transforming it directly into accelerated motion, as shown on chart No. 2.” 

“Do you want to give the briefing?” Dr. Klemperer asked me. 

I didn’t answer. He continued: 

“To see what principles might be used in an electromagnetic spaceship, let us recall how a rowboat goes forward when its oars push on the surrounding medium of water, something not connected to the boat. In empty space, or in the ether, there is nothing that seems capable of playing the role of the oar by pushing on the ether, since we are discounting the negligible direct mechanical pressure of electromagnetic radiation. But suppose that an object is immersed in space, filled with electromagnetic radiation, as on chart No. 3. Even if the radiation comes from the object itself, as soon as it leaves the surface of the object, it has an independent existence in space. 

“The question arises, then, as to whether an object can emit electromagnetic waves,” he continued, “and at the same time, have other electrical effects produced independently on a portion of its surface, so that those surface effects may interact with the electromagnetic waves and give rise to repulsion. Of course, that repulsion would be paid for by energy additional to that producing the electromagnetic waves.” 

“I’m glad somebody else is going to pay for it besides Douglas,” Dobson of Corporate said. 

Dr. Klemperer rolled his eyes. 

He continued: “There could be many ways of removing a large amount of charge from a surface quickly, without too much energy, and then bring it back again. So, suppose that this charging and discharging were done in synchronization with an electromagnetic wave. An electromagnetic wave is emitted from another part of the body in such a way that the negative charge appears on the part of the body of the spaceship, and in such a way that the negative charge appears on the plates for a fraction of a period, exactly in the instant when the largest negative part of the electrical component of the radiation was over the plate. Naturally, a charge remaining for a complete oscillation will receive no net push or pull, as shown on chart No. 5. 

“Conceivably, there would be a repulsion of the plate. No bootstraps here, because the wave is disconnected from the object. There may be even more than one way of expending energy into the ether and obtaining successive repulsions to maintain motion. For example, even though electromagnetic momentum is very small, we might devise an apparatus that will emit radiation whose rate of change of momentum is extremely larger, which would result in a large repulsive force for the spaceship.” 

At that point, Klemp asked me to present yet another approach: the propulsive force. 

“This concept may be in keeping with the idea that near the surface of an oscillator, the effects are more inductive,” I said, “whereas a few wavelengths away, the effects are more radiative.” 

“Radiative” meant “to send out waves.” 

“As shown on Chart No. 6.” I said, “the propulsive force of a spaceship might be obtained from synchronized oscillators - one of them suitably shielded on one side, in order to avoid symmetry and nonet propulsion, so that the inductive effect on one will react with the electromagnetic waves produced by the other. As shown on chart No, 7.” 

“In every spaceship design using electromagnetic propulsion or anti-gravity, there is essentially no fuel required, unlike with conventional rockets. All that is required is a very small, slow, and controlled atomic reactor, as shown on Chart No. 8. This scheme accomplishes the requirements for successful antigravity propulsion for our large Douglas-Navy spacecraft carriers. As shown on Chart No. 9.” 

Dr. Klemperer took over: “It is our opinion that if successful, such an electromagnetic rocket will be the most practical and likely method of counteracting gravity for the near future. And it would have the five advantages, ‘a’ through ‘e,’ mentioned above, when compared with liquid rockets. The details of these schemes, and several trade-off studies, are covered in our unsolicited proposal.” 

Admiral Donley said: “It seems you people are on the right track with answering the propulsion problems for our flagships. MJ-12 is on our back because of the extraterrestrial threats. What is your time frame for the prototype of your anti gravity spaceship propulsive force configuration, the one shown on chart 9?” 

“Well, Admiral,” I answered, “as you know, we - here on the working side of the DAC/RAND Think Tank - are proposing to build a large spaceship development and manufacturing plant in Utah. It can handle your two-kilometer spacecraft carriers, with the capability to expand the facilities to accommodate ships that are ten times that size. We’ll need the funding, of course. That’s where you come in, Admiral.” 

2 Spy and little green apples 

“There she is again,” Jim said. 

“Where?” I countered. 

“She’s down the aisle by hydraulics. See, some of those guys are bent over their drafting boards. I think she is tempting them. Hey Bill, look at that short skirt she’s wearing today.” 

“Yeah, who is she?” Jim asked. 

Larry said, “She’s Barbara. Barbara from corporate. She’s snooping around engineering trying to find out who knows what we’re doing.” 

“I wish she could come inside advance design and show those gorgeous legs to us.” 

I said, “She can’t do that Jim, this area doesn’t exist. Ha.” 

3 SAC underground 

“It will be necessary to cross both the Mississippi and the San Andreas Fault, to accomplish phase three,” I said. 

Bob slid his chair away from our conference table and put his arms behind his head. He said: “The Mississippi hasn’t busted out since 1857, but it is the biggest earthquake on record. It split the country in two back then, according to this geology report I got here.” 

“Okay, I understand that, Bob, but read the Air Force SAC report. It specifically requires that high-speed tunnels that run from the Pentagon in Washington D.C. to Edwards Air Force Base in California, and then to Vandenberg, on the coast, be provided.” 

“It’s right there in section seven.” 

Joann from Corporate walked in, returning another bundle of our secret files ‘that are not to leave the tank.’ 

“Okay, girl, when did you steal all that stuff?” I asked. 

“I didn’t steal it; somebody dropped this stuff in my in basket.” 

“Oh, come off of it Joann; you are the general of the corporate spy command.” 

“No I am not; I am just a private. It isn’t a spy group; just a friendly gossip bunch. Will, maybe that isn’t quite right either; more like a sex club. Most of the stuff is done under the table.” 

“That’s your best talent, Joann.” Bob answered.

Bending over Bob’s desk, giving me her best view, she added, “What is this stuff on your desk Bobby?” she asked: “What are you two boys doing now?” 

Grabbing our photos, Joann said, “Oh dirty pictures! I love all this stuff you guys play with in here.” She grabbed a photo: “What are you doing with a photo of Billy’s Apollo S-IVB stage, out in space, with all of those aliens trying to get in?” 

“Turn the damn photo over, Joann; that’s an Air Force boring machine,” I said, adding, “Why do they all do that?” (The photos they were looking at can be seen in this boring machine, part of a large underground technical monster. It created a network of tunnels connecting extensive alien bases all over the western states.)

“Just look at all those little people climbing on them. Oh, my God, they’re Grays! Bill, we’re really in trouble.” (She was still looking at the photo upside down!) 

“No, Joann, those are Air Force operational personnel. Do I have to tell everyone?” 

“Are the machines for digging tunnels?” she asked. “Tell me, they’re boring machines, aren’t they? But, how can the Air Force fly their big bombers through those tunnels? I just don’t understand.” 

“Joann, you couldn’t get away with half of what you do around here if you didn’t look so damn cute in that little black dress,” Bob said. 

“Both of you guys are very naughty boys. You’re playing with Air Force stuff in here, but you charge your time to Admiral Clark’s contract.” 

“Oh shit,” I blurted, as Klemp came in with two ONI Navy guys with scrambled eggs. 

“I told you so,” Joann said. “Your asses are in deep shit now.” 

Standing in front of our Air Force drawings, in that micro-mini, with that naughty smile of hers, and as Bob and I tossed a Naval block diagram over our Air Force stuff, she announced: “Hi, Commander Davis. And who is your cute buddy?” 

4 The MTM-622 

10:00 a.m. coffee break in the Tank: 

“You know, Jim,” I said, “Dr. Klemperer’s Unconventional Propulsion Schemes?” 

“Yes Bill. All of us in and out of Advanced Design have spent years on it, right?"

"It’s still sort of unreal.” 

“In what way, Bill?” 

“I don’t mean to bring this up so much.” 

“Oh yes, you do, Bill; you do it all the time. Unconventional stuff, right?” 

“Okay, but some of those guys in Europe, the 1,442, were just average people.” 

“Well, some of them were science and engineers but lot of them were farmers or shoe salesman.” 

“Yet they all were driven to figure out how to build a propulsion system and a space ship?” 

“Load their families and friends in it, and then fly to some far-off, other star’s planet. Hey, isn’t that really crazy, Jim?” 

“Yes, that’s star people stuff, Bill.” 

“A lot of people do dumb stuff; but you’re right, Bill.” 

I went on, “When you think about it, for some reason they wanted to leave here. Start up a new life.” 

“That’s got to be really weird?” 

“Well, now that really is unreal.” 

In walked Dr. Klemperer. 

“Klemp, I am confused.” 

“All right Bill, calm down. You have asked me that same question several times.” Klemp said, rubbing his chin; he went on, “Several of us feel that certain extraterrestrials for whatever reason were influencing these people telepathically to develop the capability to move off this planet.” 

“Okay, we know that too, but why sneak back?” 

Klemp went on, “You two approach the Tank’s requirements differently from us.” Pausing, as if trying to express his feelings, Klemp continued, “I have thought about it and I still don’t know why, but you encompass more. You, in a way, are sort of like the 1,400; sometimes you look through a much larger window. You see things in three, four, five dimensions. 

“I have said this before, Bill; even Elmer Wheaton confirms that you have gained the reputation of thinking far ahead of most of us here in the Tank. You seem to always ponder on deep questions about our presence and place in the galaxy. When you start a new project, you seem to actually be an observer, living in an element that allows you to view and conceive every new mission; a program that precisely meets the requirements for galactic operations. And, in the same time frame, utilizes the system engineering our Navy’s spacecraft carriers with an even far greater success throughout the next ten generations. 

“We are living through the most complicated problem confronting civilization as we know it: the extraterrestrial threats.” 

“I see it as if we are looking over a fence, holding on by our finger nails, and seeing this massive universe for the first time.” 

“Wow, Bill, that’s just what I mean about you; that comment is awesome,” Klemp said. 

Leaving the Tank to go outside by the airport runway, Jim and I walk briskly, hoping to see the Navy’s C-I18 land with brass on board: a four star and a three star Admiral from the Naval Air Development Center in Warminster, Pennsylvania. They were invited by Dr. Klemperer for another review of our ion, electromagnetic and antigravity propulsion proposals. Some others from the top of engineering (not tank people) were already out there waiting for the airplane to land. 

“Look there; they are flying up the beaches, making their first turn to enter the Santa Monica Airport approach pattern,” Jim said. He added, “Before we have to brief the Admirals; what are your thoughts about the other really way out possible functions of your project 2104 antigravity propulsion concept?” 

“I believe, if we can use the right settings, it could actually provide the function of a machine to operate across time.” 

“Holy cats, Bill; do you understand what you just said? Do you really think we could move out there and into the future with your other configuration?” 

Ignoring him I went on: “Oh, I don’t know how to say it, but I’ll call it; a time zone?” 

”Yes, and I showed the concept to both Klemp and Elmer who were very enthused; they said with further analysis it could possibly work. And before you ask, no, we can’t tell the four-stars yet, because the coming of free antigravity to replace nearly all methods of creating energy will bankrupt the oil and electrical cartels. And, assuming my concept works - it’s not really my concept; the aliens stuck it in my head - it will have the capability for us to move through time, which, I think, is part of the aliens’ secret technology.” 

Shaking, Jim said, “Oh, my God, Bill; a time machine.” 

The Douglas/RAND scientists and concept conceivers were studying topics actually way above top secret. They were in a Think Tank, deep inside the Douglas Aircraft Company’s Engineering Department A-250, that nobody knew existed at the Santa Monica, California Airport. 

What you are reading is one of the most astounding disclosures ever published, starting in 1889 in Germany and later in the U.S. in 1919. This disclosure presents the fascinating questions as to why, from 1942 to 1950, technically-qualified experts all over the planet were so driven to conceive methods to leave this planet and penetrate the galaxies, all at the same time in our recent history. 

In the Tank this document was our bible. It was titled: THE INCREDIBLE DOUGLAS MTM-622 UNCONVENTIONAL PROPULSION SCHEMES. The MTM-622 consisted of a five-part document. Part 2 was unclassified and is the only part discussed in detail below. The other four parts are believed to reflect the technical principles and processes developed by the Germans about the technology of the aliens and are not included in this book. 

Studying the MTM-622 provided the Douglas Advanced Design group with a knowledge of potential extraterrestrial threats. They were threats of the highest priority, which is why we needed to conceive the most capable space threat. Naval intergalactic combat ship, one with a totally new type of propulsion system. This led to hundreds of primary design concepts and configurations for everything conceivable 

Every possible mission was considered for spacecraft carriers, battle cruisers, and support star ships capable of missions to the southeast quadrant, spiral arm of our Milky Way Galaxy and its stars and planets. By conceiving naval space missions utilizing Think Tank Naval attack destroyer and Navy / marine assault space ship carrier configurations, it was thought, at that time, that the Navy was totally unaware of the findings of MTM-622. And that after extensive configurations were established by the Tank, unsolicited bids could be submitted to the Navy by Douglas. This was accomplished with other programs over the five years that I was conceiving and designing in Advanced Design. I even designed Naval missions to build Naval communication stations on major planets and their moons, located in the inner planets and on the outer reaches of our solar system. These designs included the space vehicles, ground support checkout, launch equipment, and the on- surface and subsurface Naval space bases. 

To provide you, the reader, with a feel of the complexities of this world-shaking, unique document, extracts from MTM-622 are reproduced below. It is necessary, however, to understand that we are only addressing part-two of a five-part MTM-622 document. I have read some of the data in the first copy. It’s important to understand that we really don’t know what Dr. Klemperer’s conclusions or recommendations were in the MTM-622. Having worked with him for nearly four years, it is my opinion that he supported anti-gravity as a method of energy. 

The extract begins: 

Astronautics Literature Review 

Title: DIE BEWEGUNGSENERGIE DER KORPUSKEL DES WELTRAUMES ALS EINHEIRLICHE GRUNDLAGE ALLER STRAHLUNGS – UND KRAFTFELDENERGIEN (THE KINETIC ENERGY OF COSMIC CORPUSCLES AS A UNITARY BASIS OF ALL RADIATION AND FORCE FIELD ENERGIES) 

Author: Hans Schier, edited by Benno Fiala-Fernbrugg (Vienna) 

Source: Manuscript (in German) 

INTRODUCTION 

This document is one of a few extant carbon copies of a ponderous typewritten manuscript of a cosmic theory purporting to explain gravity along with radiation. This opus was prepared by Benno Fiala (von) Fernbrugg (a World War I aviator in the Austrian Air Force an later engineer of the Junkers Works in Dessau, Germany and friend of the later Professor Hugo Junkers.) Fiala resides in Vienna; he gave me this copy at the occasion of my last visit there in 1950, requesting that I bring it to the attention of appropriate American authorities. The manuscript is written in German in a vein and style for which Fiala appears to be the responsible author. The fundamental theories, hypotheses and calculations which are expounded in this treatise are stated to have been conceived and developed by Hans Schier, who taught physics in Prague during the thirties and lives in Vienna as a refugee from Czechoslovakia. 

His scheme is based on and referenced to older (nearly forgotten) “classical” theories such as those advanced by Le Sage (1782), W. Thompson – Kelvin (1873), Preston (1877) and Maxwell (1879), but allegedly independently developed, during the years 1925-1933 and amplified since then. 

DAC ABSTRACT 

The fundamental principle of Schier’s mechanistic cosmos is the postulation of an all-pervading cosmic gas consisting of sub-nucleonic particles (which he calls “Ergons”). They behave like the molecules of a real gas according to the kinetic gas theory, only that the ergons fly at the universal velocity of light, in random straight free paths of enormous length (average of 2 light years) with rare collisions; they are extremely small and have “biomaterial” nature to which are attributed both inertial and electro-magnetic properties. They are also envisaged as the last building stones of matter, its protons, electrons, neutrons etc. The ergon is pictured as having a shape, viz., a subnucleonic sphere of “protene” to which is tied a “streamlined shell of electrene”, carrying the positive and negative charge principle respectively. Gravitation in the direction from a gravity endowed astral body are shielded or slowed down by such a body (as the sun and Earth). Some rather fanciful assumptions have to be introduced to explain the inverse square of the distance law. 

Among the peculiar consequences of their theory, Fiala and Schier postulate the existence of an electro-voltaic gradient with depth in the bodies of water on the Earth notably in the oceans and they seriously propose to exploit this as a vast source of electric power. A crucial experiment should be easy enough to perform but this has been delayed because the inventors are land-locked in Austria and have not been able to interest and hydrographic or oceanographic station in the proposition (among the Western powers; they do not wish to attract the attention of agencies of the Eastern powers). 

NOTE: I have brought this question to the attention of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute of La Jolla, Calif., and of the Carnegie Institute, but received no response. I have submitted the entire Fiala-Schier manuscript to Professor Paul S. Epstein of CalTech who on Jan. 6, 1951 after cursory study of it rendered the opinion that “apparently the authors are not specialists in physics and that they had obtained much of their information on atomics and radiation physics from popular second-hand sources quoted, many of them obsolete, some inaccurate, some misunderstood; and that many of the alleged discrepancies of accepted theories which the authors propose to resolve exist only in their imagination.” However it is interesting to note that theories linking gravitation with sub nuclear particles flying along enormous free paths at enormous velocities have been repeatedly advanced by a good many people of various degrees of knowledge of contemporary physics. For instance in 1950 a previously unknown manuscript by Heaviside dealing with such a hypothesis was found under dramatic circumstances in England. Recently Gamow has calculated that chargeless neutrinos might penetrate millions of miles of lead and has suggested that if there are neutrinos and anti-neutrinos and they annihilate each other in collision; such a process might result in the emission of gravitational waves. *) 

W.B. Klemperer 1-4-55 

Report to Elmer Wheaton 

MTM - 622 Part 1 and 2 Unconventional Propulsion Schemes REV.3-1-55 and 2 March 1, 1955, (that was initiated early in 1950.) An accomplishment letter of the MTM- 622 dated December 20, 1954 is as follows: 

From :Dr. W.B .Klemperer, A-250, To :E. P.Wheaton, A-250 Copies to H. Aurand, R. Demoret, J. B. Edwards, S. Kleinhans, T.A. Kvaas, H. Luskin, A-250 and C.C.Martin, A-215 . 

In further pursuance of a study of the possible merits of significance of the occasionally appearing publication on “Unconventional Propulsion Schemes,“the following has been accomplished during November and first half of December 1954. 

1. Aerojet -General Corporation, Azusa, has obligingly furnished us 

(a) Interim index list of bibliographic references on “Manned Flight at High Altitude” as of 1954 which they had produced by subcontract to Documentation, Inc., Washington on their ONR Contract Nonr-1391(00). 

(b) 2 copies of 5 pages of sections III, IV and V of Aerojet-General’s final report to the ONR on “The State of the Art of High Speed High Altitude Flight” under the same contract. NOTE: This material is still in “Preliminary Rough Draft” form and stamped “NOT to be reproduced without permission.” 

(c) Careful perusal of the Documentation Inc. bibliography revealed that among the publications listed therein, 20 distinctly fall into the category of dealing with Unconventional Propulsion Systems. It is intended to prepare and compile brief abstracts of the more significant of them and briefer critical comments on their content wherever we feel competent to formulate an opinion.

2. UCLA In an effort to learn what attitude prevailed among professors at the local universities towards the publications concerning unusual methods of propulsion, several specialists were interviewed, among them Dr. W. D. Hershberger, Dr. .J .F. Manildi, and Dr. Myron Tribus. 

(a) Dr. Hershberger, Professor of Applied Electromagnetic Theory and related subjects in Engineering, was interviewed at some length, as he was quite interested in the subject and appeared to have been exposed to some of the proposals involving electrical forces and particularly that of Ionic Propulsion 

(b) Dr. Manildi, Professor of Engineering agreed with Dr. Hershberger, so that no further transcript of the interview with him is felt necessary, 

(c) Dr. Tribus, Professor of Heat Transfer in Engineering, has also been seeing articles on our subject. As a practical engineer he suggested several other UCLA scientists such as Dr. Thomas E. Hicks and Dr. Robert Bromberg (the latter presently on leave while with Ramo-Wooldridge) might have something pertinent to contribute. 

It is intended to continue these abstracts and interviews until a clear picture is obtained. In the meantime, pertinent popular articles appearing in such publications as Aviation Week (McGraw - Hill) and professional notes prepared twice weekly (by Aviation Studies International Ltd, London) are being collected by Harold Luskin. 

W.B. Klemperer 

Here, people, is your first exposure to the United States’ journey into the universe, the Douglas secret space Think Tank and the beginnings of the TRW Think Tank. Douglas Scientists and Engineers form RAND/Douglas. Douglas then hires German Rocket Engineers, who collectively collaborate with North America, Northrop, Aero jet General Engineers, who collaborate with Hughes Engineers, CALTEC, and UCLA scientists, to form Ramo-Wooldridge. They then hire from all of the above to form TRW. 

Back to the MTM-622. APPENDIX 1, December 15, 1954, Title of Reports Reviewed, Preliminary Concepts defined and Configurations Established. 

As I noted earlier, my principal position in the classified Advanced Design Section on the MTM622 was to study each of the interplanetary and intergalactic propulsion systems, conceive and define a physical configuration, and conceive and define the resulting spaceship/spacecraft carriers. In some cases I established a primary configuration and two tradeoff configurations for staff review. Also, I was frequently asked to conceive/define the potential assembly, checkout and launch facilities that would be required for these enormous space ships, and even illustrate prospective sketches of the entire ship and details of the gravitational reaction propulsion system. 

The following are the titles of the articles reviewed in the unclassified Part 2 of MTM-622, “Unconventional Propulsion Schemes.” Ways Towards Space Travel, Electric Space Ships, The Thrust Available from Electronic Accelerators, Interorbital Transport Techniques, Interplanetary Travel Between Satellite Orbits, The Use of Atomic Power for Rockets, A Contribution to Levitation Problem, On the Application of a Reaction Force Resulting from an Interaction of Waves in an Elliptic Reflection Space, Interstellar Flight, the Problem of Annulling or Counteracting Gravity, The Gravitational Reaction Motor, Electromagnetic Space – Ship, Electrostatic Space - Ship Coulombs Law and Force on an Electric Charge Influence of the Space Charge on The Phase Focusing of Electron Beams, The Application of Nuclear Energy to Rocket Propulsion, On the Theory of the Photon Rockets, Ionic Propulsion, Private Preparatory Work Towards Astronautics, A Hypothesis About Gravitation, The Kinetic Energy of Cosmic Corpuscles as Unitary Basis of all Radiation and Force Field Energies, The Theory of Atomic Rocket Fuels, Gamma Ray Shield for Rocket Ships, Fission Particles as Rocket Propellants, The Problem of Atomic Propulsion, The Dynamic Counterbary as a Solution of the Astronautics Problem, The Conquest of Interplanetary Space (Practical Aspects of Space Ship Design), Possibilities of Electrical Space Ships Propulsion (Summary of Paper Presented at the 5th Astronautical Congress by E. Stuhlinger A.R.S. Guided Missiles Division, Redstone Arsenal), Ionic Propulsion - Gravitics - The Gravitational Reaction Motor. 

Review of “Wage Our Raumschiffahrt,” (“Ways Towards Space Travel“). An earlier edition of this book entitled “The Rocket to the Planet Space” by H. Oberth was issued by the same publisher in 1923 and 1926, by Herman Oberth. Published by R. Oldenbourg, Munchen, 1929 (in German). (Reproduced by J. W. Edwards, Edwards Bros., Ann Arbor, Mich., 1945, under license of A LIEN Property Custodian). 

DAC ABSTRACT AND COMMENTS 

Most of the book (Serial # 001) is devoted to liquid fuel rockets, only the last chapter deals with what today (1950) would be called an unconventional method of propulsion: viz. Ionic; he called it “electric propulsion.” Oberth states categorically that contemporary science knows of three devices which would, theoretically, permit impelling a vehicle to escape velocity: the rocket, the electromagnetic gun (firing from a fixed emplacement) and the electric wind engine. He admits that electric propulsion from take-off would entail “gigantic” expenditures. However, as soon as a satellite station is established on a superatmospheric orbit, he advocates electric propulsion as a means to produce two to ten times greater exhaust velocities than by chemical rocket engines and thus attain the speeds necessary for fast interplanetary travel. Oberth was very enthusiastic about this type of (IONIC) interplanetary vehicle but only for travel between satellite stations or asteroids. 

In more recent utterances (1952) Oberth has repeatedly indicated that he still believes in the merits of ion beam propulsion and he made “MYSTIFYING REMARKS ABOUT RECENT EXPERIMENTAL PROGRESS IN THIS DIRECTION.” During 1951 - 53 he worked for the Italian Navy in La Spezia. 

CHEMICAL FUELS ARE REGARDED AS PRACTICALLY OBSOLETE. (1950) 

Emphasis was placed on discharging atomic particles at high velocities in an electric rocket motor design. A motor consisting of a linear accelerator and an ionizer was found the most possible type of motor for our future interplanetary space vehicle proposals. 

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Before we continue, stop and think about what you have just read. The German scientists and engineers had been designing space-type vehicles, utilizing alien information, since the 1920’s. Visualize what we, at the Douglas Engineering Advanced Design Think Tank, were actually studying, conceiving and designing way back in 1951. Can you possibly realize how far ahead of the rest of the planet we actually were? And why it has taken nearly eighty-five years for the rest of the planet to get on board too? 

How and why did this entire, technical explosion, which was instigated by the aliens, get started on our little planet? That’s an excellent question. When reviewing a given problem with other people, it is always wise to try and think of things from the other person’s point of view. 

For the moment, let’s assume that we were the aliens, having observed earth’s warring history, and very slow progress, for thousands of years. If we chose to help them get their act together, we might start first with what appeared to be the most technical advanced group of people we could find on their little planet. Yes, we would have watched the Wright Brothers first flight, but is it not possible that we might also have given slightly more credit to that large group of mechanical engineers on the other side of their planet? And start helping them telepathically, too? + 

Remember, since 1895, Germany had been building and flying enormous cigar-shaped dirigibles that “Crazy Count Zeppelin” had designed. Their cities had monorail-based, overhead trams. Who got them started? 

Now, people, what we have just said here is very interesting, because it says that the aliens can make mistakes, too. They may not have given enough credit to the possible warlike attitude developing in some areas of the engineer’s tribes (Hitler, as the prime example), thereby unleashing a technical monster, with heavy water and V-2 rockets. 

Although the U.S. Navy built the first aircraft carrier, the balloon boat U.S.S. Washington, during the 1862 Civil War, that was just for non-powered balloons. People had been flying balloons since 1783, when the villagers of Lyons, France - thinking it was some sort of monster from outer space - attacked the Montgolfier brothers’ sparsely inflated balloon, in June of that year. But, for whatever reason, in recent history it appears that some aliens did help the Nordic nations and specifically before they assisted the United States and the United Kingdom. 

Some of you nice people think I am smoking pot. Well, just listen to what Klemp said on ionic propulsion. That’s Dr. W.B Klemperer, Douglas Engineering Department A-250, I did not work for Klemp I worked with Klemp, which is what he liked to be called. 

IONIC PROPULSION 

The Thrust Available from Electronic Accelerators Author: George F. Forbes, 1952 Mathematical analysis is presented for the propulsion of a spacecraft by ion streams. It is intended primarily for engineers concerned with such a thrust source. No attempt is made to deal with the mechanical, electrical, and thermal difficulties involved in generating such a stream. “An illustrative example is worked out to compare a cargo and passenger type spacecraft using basically the same type of motor. 

DAC COMMENTS 

As noted in the summary, the author is not concerned with the important and difficult engineering problems of producing the ion stream discussed. His examples assume that some auxiliary vehicle system has lifted the spaceship from the Earth and that the ion propulsion system is only for travel through space. “Tugs” would be employed to land the ship at their destinations. 

NUCLEAR AND IONIC PROPULSION 

Transport Techniques Author: H. Preston - Thomas, Ph.D. B.Sc. 1952. This paper discusses the modus operandi of a transport vehicle system in space that has its economic justification in supplying Earth with a proportion of the rare and semi-rare metals and minerals that it needs. Such a system, in which the transport is effected at very low cost, will be needed if space travel is to extend beyond the very occasional scientific expedition. The existence of methods of effecting such transport will also provide an incentive in addition to the present ones, which may be classed as military, scientific and telecommunication interests, collect the raw materials and return them to Earth. 

It is pointed out that, while short transit times are important for manned flights, longer and consequently more economical flights are conceivable for unmanned cargo trips. It is worthy of note that various vehicle sections of the operating plants discussed can be simulated in the laboratory and, where that is not possible, as in the case of stress-free frameworks, the problems are susceptible to mathematical analysis. 

DAC ABSTRACT The approximate annual world production and cost of certain expensive metals is discussed and some of the extraterrestrial extraction benefits, such as unlimited thermal power, and vacuum techniques employed. On the other hand, lack of water and of atmospheric gases as well as different ore formation and storage may complicate the picture. 

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It’s very important that you understand what you have just read. During the evaluation of earth’s mineral recovery needs (in the Douglas Advanced Design) the foundation for the concept to design some type of system to start mineral recovery from the Moon (using Apollo) to the earth was first established. And, was later applied to missions to Mars. 

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Additional abstracts follow. 

Transit times and acceleration requirements considering a typical spaceship, of 1000 tons mass (M.), on an interplanetary journey such as one from an Earth satellite station to the low-gravity satellite of Mars indicates that spaceships need not be strongly braced, since acceleration of the order of one milli gravity or less will suffice. The transit time would be 150-200 days. 

The ion gun propulsion by ion gun is deemed the most promising approach. The author considers powers of the order of 10,000 kW are necessary and feels that high conversion efficiency such as 70% is possible. Various ion sources are discussed and a mass / power ratio of ½ g / kW is held feasible. Many ion guns in parallel on one space vehicle are envisioned. Further transport considerations it is pointed out that, while short transit times are important for manned space vehicle flights, longer —and consequently, more economical — flights are conceivable for unmanned cargo trips. It is worthy of note that various sections of the operating plants discussed can be simulated in the laboratory and, where that is not possible, as in the case of stress-free frameworks, the problems are susceptible to mathematical analysis. 

DAC COMMENTS 

The treatise contains many interesting speculations. However, the nonchalance with which tenuous stress free structures of enormous size space vehicles requiring accurate mechanical alignment and delicate plumbing are treated is, in our opinion, over-optimistic. More realistic assessment of the weight of so large a spaceship’s structures and machinery would tend to place all of the so seriously proposed schemes in the realm of fantasy for a long time to come. 

5 The start of our journey into the universe 

Quick history of the Douglas Aircraft Company. Donald Douglas himself was an excellent designer of early Navy-based land and sea planes, even commercial aircraft in the 1920’s. The new DC-1 and DC-2 Commercial Airliners that were designed by one of his draftsmen, Jack Northrop, in 1934, was modified by Chief Engineering Arthur E. Raymond to become the DC-3. Designed and built in 30 months, it was a really great airplane carrying 21 passengers, with its wide fuselages allowing for two seats on each side and with a stand-up aisle in the middle. 

It was great; they pressurized the cabin and it was just wonderful for air transportation all over the world. Instead of using a streamlined, tear-shaped fuselage Douglas designed a constant section tube-like fuselage, which was much stronger and far less expensive to build. Lockheed and Boeing, however, still built all their airliners with the very expensive aerodynamic narrow tear-drop fuselage. Douglas walked away with almost all the commercial airline business in the world. 

The Douglas El Segundo Plant, however, was all Navy aircraft. Jack Northrop designed the BT-I that became the famous Douglas SBD-3 dive-bombers in World War II. The old Northrop concern in EL Segundo, California became a Douglas subsidiary in 1937, before the BT-1s were delivered to the Navy. Northrop used the money to start a new Northrop Aircraft Inc. in Hawthorne, California to develop and fly his prototype flying wings. After Douglas took over, Ed Heinemann, a top designer, became V.P. and head- designer of numerous successful Naval aircraft. 

Back when I was still doing my thing in the Navy, I made many trips to that facility and spent hours at this plant, reviewing advanced space concept penetration and experimental Navy aircraft. It was a real learning experience. Even at that time, both Northrop and Heinemann were not just top designers, but were individuals driven to conceive, design and build vehicles that were thought of by their contemporaries as impossible. Driven by whom, and for what purpose? 

They were always thinking forty years into the future, which was always a problem when they tried to convince the conservative bankers to provide financing to develop a vehicle that everyone said was impossible to build. This is important because all the way through this book you’re going to hear me referring to an individual (ME) that is brilliant in many fields, but who is so far ahead of the rest of the industries in his concepts that he is just not understood. Also, who then influenced the bankers to fund their crazy ideas and again why? 

By now my seventy-eight Navy ship model collection was pretty well known generally. Specifically, at Douglas it was well known. Their Marketing Department asked me to display a major part of the ship models at a large department store in Santa Monica, along with marketing photographs of Douglas Naval Aircraft. The Douglas Vice President called me into his office and hired me to build a model of Donald Douglas’ big sailboat yacht, the Endymion. The final model was shown in the Prologue, page 12.

It was a birthday present for Douglas, and a surprise. I drove down on weekends to San Pedro where the Endymion was docked and made sketches, and took measurements and photographs. I built the model and Mr. Douglas was very impressed with it. After viewing my Navy Ship Model Collection and noting my Naval technical responsibility, he was of the opinion that my capabilities would best support the Douglas aerospace thrust in engineering as a designer. 

I was only in their wind-tunnel department for three weeks, where I developed modifications to the Douglas X-3 Stiletto supersonic research aircraft. This was while the Security Department was checking my background. I was transferred into the Engineering Department A-250 in the Electronics Section as a Design Draftsman. My Section Chief, Pete Duyan, took a liking to me from the start. He assigned me very difficult design problems, which required very strong conceptual definition capabilities. He enrolled me in Santa Monica City College and UCLA Ext. My four year Navy management program and my graduate credit of BSME equivalent was then accepted by Douglas as having a bachelor’s degree. 

Over the twelve and one half years I was pushed to Associate Engineer, Advanced Design Engineer, Assistant Group Engineer, and Group Engineer and Engineering Section Chief Missile and Space Systems Division. I must say that I met and worked with a really wonderful group of people at Douglas Engineering; Douglas management, however, was something else. 

Now, back at the “nearly only commercial aircraft plant,” my first designs in the Electronics Section were ECR’s (Engineer Change Requests) for the United Air Lines DC-6 radio equipment. My second was designing two delta supports for a secret Navy advanced radar and command control intelligence station on a Navy advanced version of a DC-4, like a WW-II R5D-1, which I had flown many times. All of the other Engineering Sections were designing from specifications. After having already made a full-scale layout, I informed my boss, a Sub Group Designer, that I wanted to build a full-scale mockup of not just the station I was designing, but the entire Combat Information Center (CIC). He asked his boss, who asked his boss, who asked his boss, who found out there were no dollars in the new Navy contract. I laid out several rough sketches, (like I had done when building Navy ship models) and went to the factory wood department. Using scrap wood, I made a full-scale mock-up built of my command control radar station. I swiped a chair from a conference room, sat down and demonstrated a complete Naval Air radar targeting mission. Then I made drawings of the entire station. This resulted in not only saving over seven hundred design drawings hours, but established a standard mockup requirement for not just this Navy R5D-1 aircraft, but for all future military modifications in the Engineering Department. The interiors section always got mock-up design dollars for new airlines seating configurations, but before my radar station mockup, the electronics section never did. In my new assignment, I got to design complete electric, power and control vertical racks to accept Navy and commercial electronic systems. 

I spent part of my time designing proposal concepts for Navy Request for Proposals (RFPs). Some of this design was accomplished in a large, secured, and classified Advanced Design Section. My military background (in a commercial engineering origination), plus a top secret and above clearance, gave me a real opportunity to develop my concepts - after studying the mission requirements. I visualized in my mind what we, (the Navy) should have in our inventory that could be modified to accomplish a mission. Or, should we “define the threat” and conceive a completely new concept? From all my Naval air experience, I found that I could come up with one configuration, and at least two other trade-off studies, with plan and side view plus a perspective sketch. This allowed me to present my approaches to the senior Advanced Design scientists; they were studying such areas as propulsion, different materials and structures. For some reason, I was able to visualize the big picture, the overall concept - everything necessary to accomplish the mission. 

Let me put it another way, I did not realize it at that time, but there exist in many major aerospace companies a tremendous lack of concept thinkers. Having said that, it was imperative that, as soon as possible, conceiving the entire technical effort, and turning it into a cohesive structure, had to be accomplished by concept designers. Douglas Santa Monica was a commercial engineering origination that simply did not have military concept designers. Our Commercial Chief Design Engineer, Harold Adams, and Elmer Wheaton, who became Vice President of all Missiles Programs, were constantly on the lookout for this type of support on new military proposals in the continually expanding Advanced Design Section. I was unaware, at the time, that it was a Think Tank. 

My Section Chief was Pete Duyan. He recognized that I had creative potential and recommended me to the Advanced Design Section. For five years, there was only one other concept design engineer at that facility. He was a very good friend of mine: Jim Jenkins. Several years later, he resigned from Douglas and organized a concept design group at Martin-Marietta. I took his position in Advanced Design. Jim and I were never satisfied with the same problems that Northrop and Heinemann were confronted with, or with the Douglas experts telling us, “you can’t do that.” 

There were two other so-called Groups in this mess of commercial engineers. One was a Missile Group. It was headed up by Elmer Wheaton, who designed the Navy’s MGR-1A/B Honest John solid-fuel rocket surface attack missiles that I found myself designing at the China Lake weapons test Center. Wheaton also headed up the 12 ½ foot ASM AGM-84 Harpoon turbojet + booster missiles that were launched from VA/VP aircraft, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, missile craft and submarines. 

Wheaton’s largest Naval Missile Program was the concept configuration in Advanced Design for the Navy’s SLBM UGM-27, a 32 ft. high Polaris and UGM-73 34 ft. Poseidon C-3 solid-fuel rockets + boosters. This group was designing several missiles in and out of Advanced Design, some of which I did proposals on. They had designed the NIKE AJAX, NIKE HERCULES and were designing advanced configurations of the new NIKE ZEUS that I also worked on. 

I also did modifications on NIKE AJAX and NIKE HERCULES. We had designed concepts for the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Polaris and Poseidon Missiles that were to be launched from Navy submerged submarines; talk about fun conceiving and sketching missile checkout and launch concepts. Much later, Wheaton resigned Douglas and became President of the new Lockheed Missile Division, where he designed and developed the U.S. Navy’s UGM-278/c Polaris and UGM-73A Poseidon missiles, which were launched from large submerged submarines like the U.S.S. Alaska Class. 

Many years later, as Oregon State Vice President of the Navy League of the United States, I arranged with Admiral Larry Marsh, Commander Sub Group Nine, to have sixteen Southern Oregon business people brought aboard the submarine U.S.S. Alaska on a training mission from the Bremerton Washington Submarine Base. 

THE TANK 

I frequently participated in a really unusual organization, “The Douglas Think Tank.” It consisted of Douglas scientists and some advanced weapon design senior engineers, who were studying all aspects of future spaceship probabilities and when applicable, inserting elements into classified plans for military weapons, they did most of their work in their own offices, spending a minimum time in Advanced Design area where I was. Because of my physical definition (concept sketches and drawings) it was necessary for me to define some of their concepts, and design configurations of propulsion systems, space vehicles and launch facilities. 

These same scientists and engineers, working under Dr. Klemperer and reporting to Elmer Wheaton, Vice-President Engineering, had a hidden agenda. Because of my diversified classified background, I was assigned as Dr. Klemperer’s special assistant and as his concept conceiver in the Douglas Think Tank. Information resulting from DAC / RAND MTM-622 in February 1949, caused James E. Lipp of RAND to consider the possibility of extraterrestrial life, acknowledging that it was possible. These same scientists also continued their dialogue with CALTEC, in Pasadena, reviewing Dr. Roberts’ 1952 Report to the CIA on The Potential Threat of Some Extraterrestrial Life Forms. This is the environment that I entered into when I was assigned to the top secret Advanced Design group. 

Later, after extensive studies, The Brookings Institute submitted a report to NASA and the Navy stating that NASA had to develop top secret control over all information concerning any reference to the extraterrestrial problem. The conclusion of the Brookings Report was that, “disclosing the threat will affect people all over the world causing social destruction of the planet.” 

OTHER DESIGNS 

I am briefly going off my timeline. DAC had acquired the Air Force contract for a complete design of the YC-132 heavy logistic transport. Almost all of the commercial Santa Monica engineering was involved in its design. I was pooled out of advanced design to support this program. As the larger turbofan jet engines were not yet savable, the Douglas power section solicited existing turboprop engines. After the basic design was defined, we built a full scale mockup in the big hangar. I became one of the principal liaison engineers for all the electronic, radar, antennas, communications, systems and combat operating stations, as well as the designer of the operational stations and the forward radar antennas in the nose. This was a massive undertaking; every fuselage frame and wing rib was detailed and installed. Design changes were incorporated, and what appeared to be a finished YC-132 transport with roll-on Tanks was presented to the Air Force Review Board. I participated in this review by presenting the operations of all our installations. Learning how to speak well as a boy, when I demonstrated my Navy ship models, really paid off. 

A “well done” from the AFRB (Air Force Review Board) resulted in a full Douglas production contract. But, in the final contract negotiations, Don Douglas Jr. could not keep his mouth shut on details that he did not understand. He blew the entire program. We, in engineering, were furious. We demanded that he never be allowed to participate in any military contract again. He never did, but the damage was done and the Air Force went to Lockheed, who used our drawings and specifications to build the C-5A that is still the backbone of the U.S.’s heavy lift air transports system. 

In 1955, Douglas began a furious design program to build a large commercial jet transport. It was the next in line of the DC- Series Commercial Aircraft. Jack Northrop designed the DC-1 and DC-2 (when he worked for Douglas) through to the DC-6, DC-7, and to our DC-8 Turbo Jet. The DC-8, however, was primarily designed by a group of engineers in the Aerodynamic Section and refined with wind-tunnel model testing. There was also the competition with Boeing’s 707. This put more pressure on Douglas that resulted in many hours of overtime for us in engineering. 

Harold Adams, our Chief Design Engineer, did a superb job of managing by design control with weekly review meetings. Before the meeting, he required each section to submit their design changes in writing, and then have us conceive, integrate and configure perspectives, showing how they interfaced with all other structures and equipment. My 8 x 10 inch reduction became the first page of all weekly design meetings. In the meetings, Adams had me present my layouts and drawings and explain the complexity involved in the proposed changes. I accomplished this with additional perspective sketches that I drew upside-down on the conference table, while facing the printable engineers from the opposite side of the conference table. Defining the fuselage dive brakes, and still providing clearance for cargo baskets, was a problem. 

Pete Duyan kept giving me complicated designs, like defining all DC-8 antennas and installing them on the full-scale mockup: the modular electronics control center (radio rack), designing the forward bulkhead, nose cone / air turbine starter vents, weather radar, auxiliary localize, glide scope, automatic Doppler navigation and radar beacon of the DC-8. I had conceived and designed radar and navigation antennas before, but this was ridiculous. We determined that the entire area from the forward bulkhead forward had to be configured into a fiberglass radome, because of the horizontal and vertical sweep of the radar antenna. 

I designed the radar supporting structure and room below for the Doppler navigation antenna, which was a rectangular unit requiring nearly a 250 degree sweep side and down. The air conditioning required two high- speed air ducts (scoops) on either side of the lower section of the radome. On my layout there just was not sufficient volume to accommodate all of the supporting equipment and structure, but after visualizing with my descriptive geometry, and modifying the radome, I was able to put the five hundred pounds of stuff in the five pound bag. 

It became necessary for me to also design the VHF-2 & -3 blade antennas, as well as the VHF-1 and the HF antenna’s, both of which were located in the vertical stabilizer isolation strip that permitted the entire aircraft to be a receiving antenna. We cut the vertical stabilizer in two parts, joined with one metal structure; thus the entire aircraft became a receiving unit. 

Several years later, on the Apollo Program, I was on a new United Air Lines DC-8 flying back from the Cape to LAX. It was nighttime and we were at thirty-six thousand feet when the Captain said we were leaking fuel and had to make an emergency landing. The pilots made a smooth landing and stopped right in front of six fire-engines that sprayed the DC-8 with anti-fire fumes. There was no fire. After everyone had been evacuated, the pilots asked me to accompany them while they carried out their inspection. It was unbelievable: JP fuel was pouring out from the fuselage where the wings are attached. We had lost all the fuel from both inboard wing tanks, right at the primary fuel valve. The passengers never knew what a dangerous situation this really was. Any spark from the turbo jet engines in flight could have made us a flaming torch. At that altitude we would have burned up long before we ever got to land. I never found out what really caused the problem, but it never happened again. Hey, people, this is part of our aerospace development; we all live with some dangers. 

One of hundreds of Advanced Design concepts that I was privileged to be involved in was the configuring of a classified lunar, Naval base. Much later, the Army presented a similar proposal, known as Project Horizon. We had been conceiving many designs of different lunar and planetary commercial and military facilities that gave us a “heads up,” and way before the Project Horizon. 

As for our Phase 1 Naval Base construction offices, equipment, storage and buildings on the Moon’s surface, this included design, construction, assembly, and testing of prefab-type surface buildings. They were then disassembled and shipped to the Cape, where they were reassembled and installed in large, upper-stage, liquid propellant rocket boosters. These upper stages were to be launched and powered to the Moon, solar systems, planets, their moons and asteroids. The plan was to have them softland on the lunar surface and rail-transported in sections to the assembly site, where they would be reassembled to form large buildings that would be able to withstand the harsh lunar and planet environments. 

The Phase 2 mission was far more complicated. The entire base was to be built underground. This required using extremely large boring machines. They were to be disassembled for storage within NOVA type rockets, then reassembled on the lunar surface and rechecked out before boring operations. 

The goal of Project Horizon was to establish an Army missile base on the Moon to protect our planet from the evil empire and the evil aliens. Our goal was to develop a very sophisticated lunar Naval base. It was an enormous project to design and build a two-thousand-man city that would include Naval research centers, Naval command and control centers, advanced power generation, military and commercial docking / launching facilities, Naval astronautical observatory, hospital / medical research, environmental systems, agriculture R & D, transportation systems, and commercial and residential centers. 

Douglas acquired access to several German V-2 rockets, the wonder weapons with sizable documentation packages that were used in part for our intermediate range ballistic missile designs. 

These were at the Army’s Redstone Arsenal and White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico, where we established reverse-engineering facilities. Hitler’s plan was for them to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and smash into New York and Washington. If the U.S. had not made Germany surrender in 1945, they would have. So, we also had access to a sizable documentation on the A-10s for construction of long range missiles. 

Also during the same time, Naval Intelligence confirmed that the Soviet Union was making great strides in this area of research, too. The Soviets were engineering several very large vehicles that utilized data and technology acquired from the alien telepathic assistance and German A-9 / A-10 programs. The Russians intended to launch these rockets to the Moon, taking control of it, and possibly using it as a base with which to blackmail the entire planet. This may be the real reason President Kennedy told our nation: “We are going to the moon.” Was NASA just a cover up for a massive U.S. military program to beat the Soviet Union to the Moon and not let them control the planet with their missiles? NASA was not, and never has been, a civilian organization. It is a Naval deep space galactic penetration organization. 

During this time, a major investigation was underway in the DAC Engineering Department. It was focused on the extraterrestrial presence that worried some of the top minds. And not just in Douglas engineering. The Navy and the Air Force were concerned, too. As I have said before, other aircraft corporations, such as Northrop, North American and Lockheed, all had top engineering people on-board that were also interested. The senior thinker at North American Aviation, CSI’s Dr. Walther Riedel, had contacted Douglas’ Dr. Klemperer, who was heading up a special study - in Advance Design – on the alien problem.

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