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Earth - Alien Enterprise

by Timothy Good

Chapter Fourteen 

ALTERNATIVE SPACECRAFT 

Early one evening in November 1950, eighteen-year-old William “Blackie” Raulerson and his schoolmate Tommy Brown were hunting on north Merritt Island, west of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Suddenly, they heard a “noise winding up like a turbine” emanating from the southeast. Raulerson told Florida Today reporter Billy Cox that a “radial wing” aircraft approached slowly from about two miles away until it was directly overhead, some sixty feet off the ground. He estimated that it was about ninety to a hundred feet in diameter. 

Behind the aircraft’s twelve- to fourteen-foot-high windows of blueish tinted glass could be seen “about a twenty-eight-foot-long console cabinet with instrumentation,” Raulerson recalled, as well as six human appearing crew members, wearing “light blue-looking flight suits with square, black collars, about six inches [high].” The crewman he saw most clearly had “reddish blond hair—it looked like a crew-cut,” he told Cox. The vehicle “glowed” from the inside, but had no running lights: the only exterior light was “a fourteen-inch diameter hole on the bottom that was this solid, flaming red. But there was no exhaust coming from it.” 

The encounter lasted about four minutes. “Then it took off real fast, to the northeast,” said Raulerson. “There’s not a day goes by that I don’t think about what I saw.” Sixty-five years old when he gave this interview in 1997, he was then the owner of two light aircraft and had been a pilot for forty years. 

“What makes Raulerson’s tale a bit different from the rest,” Billy Cox points out, “is its location—north Merritt Island, just west of modern-day Kennedy Space Center, roughly four months after the United States entered the rocket era with ignition of the Bumper sequence from the Cape.” 1 That was in July 1950. Although Launch Pads 1 to 4 were then barely under construction at Cape Canaveral, the Army scheduled launches of two modified German V-2 Bumper rockets as first stage and a “Without Any Control” (WAC)- Corporal rocket as second stage. 2 The space program was under way. And it was constantly monitored by beings from elsewhere. 

Raulerson’s early description of a red-haired alien is supported by the testimony of others, such as the Native American friend of Carl Anderson (Chapter 7) and by Apolinar (Paul) Villa (also Chapter 7), who had encounters with aliens in the 1950s and 1960s. In June 1963, for example, he witnessed the landing of a large disc in New Mexico from which emerged four men and five women, ranging in height from seven to nine feet. Some had red hair. 3 

In December 1959, Omar Bowley, of Cocoa, worked as a blockhouse and pad inspector for Northrop, mainly during the Snark rocket tests. “Off duty, having pulled over in his car to watch a late-night launch not far from pads 3 and 4,” reports Billy Cox, “Bowley watched as three glowing objects—‘with edges slanted like pie plates and if you turned one upside down on top of the other’—descended upon the launch area from the north.” As Bowley reports: 

“They were in a triangle formation, one in the lead, two in back. They were off-white in color, I guess, and absolutely noiseless. It was astounding. When the rocket launched, the first one turned over on its side in a vertical position and followed it, then the second vehicle followed, then the third, in single file. One was near the front, another was near the middle, and the other was near the back end. They all went out of sight together. 

“There was one other fella pulled over at the time. He was in a Jeep, sort of a mustard color. I remember he looked at me and said, ‘You didn’t see anything at all, nothing occurred here. If you say anything, you’ll be in deep trouble.’ So I didn’t say anything. But I never forgot it….” 4 

CLANDESTINE  RENDEZVOUS? 

In June 1967, NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center issued an ambiguously worded management instruction from Director Kurt H. Debus—applicable to all organizational elements—to “establish procedures for handling reports of sightings of objects such as fragments or component parts of space vehicles known or alleged by an observer to have impacted the earth’s surface…. Included are reports of sightings of objects not related to space vehicles.” Under Definitions (a) and (b), the latter specifies “Unidentified Flying Objects.” Procedures for handling reports included the instruction: “Under no circumstances will the origin of the object be discussed with the observer….” UFO reports per se were to be reported to Patrick Air Force Base (Florida) Command Post. 5

In late December 1967, Jim Oglesby lived in Orlando, Florida, working as a clerk in the machine shop at the Bendix Corporation Launch Support and Logistics Office Modules at the Kennedy Space Center. His brother-in-law, Jon Baker, had invited him to join his family for New Year’s Eve weekend celebrations at their mobile home in Bithlo, eighteen miles east of Orlando. On the early evening of December 30, Jon and Jim were chatting in the kitchen while the family watched a classic Christmas movie in the living room. “Suddenly, a flash of amber light reflected through the kitchen window that faced east,” Jim reports in his book. “I reached around and flung wide the front door, my heart pounding, as I expected to see a meteor hit the ground. 

“Instead, my attention was drawn to an amber basketball-sized swirling mass, suspended in midair less than a hundred feet above and east of the mobile home. At first glance, I thought [it] might have been the phenomenon [known] as ball-lightning…. The mysterious anomaly maintained the estimated hundred-feet distance; however, just before it vanished, its amber color illuminated the upper round structure, the underside, and the lower outer rim of a pewter metallic craft that measured perhaps forty-five to fifty feet in diameter. The unknown craft glided soundlessly as it banked and headed due east, and vanished. Both Jon and Jim’s sister also witnessed this event. 

At one point, a beam of deep-red cone-shaped light emanated from beneath the craft, tracing the ground as it continued eastward. “The red beam winked out, then on, then off again,” Jim continues. “I concluded that whether remote-controlled or piloted by an occupant, the craft was under intelligent control and beyond our technology. Then a pattern of flashing red lights appeared where the red beam had just winked out, just above the shadowy tree line that lined up within the two poles that flanked the driveway. 

“I stood in amazement as I watched the configuration of flashing red lights rotate in a 6-5-4-3-2-1, 1-2- 3-4-5-6 pattern around the outer perimeter of a solid structure. Moments later, a second craft with an identical band of flashing red lights that flashed to and fro around the craft’s middle, floated in from the left and glided alongside its companion. Now, the flashing red lights that rotated back and forth around the middle of each unidentified craft did not conform to any terrestrial navigational protocol that I had ever observed on aircraft before. 

“Both craft hung there in the air just above the tree line; then the craft on the left rose and, on cue, the second one descended. Then the twosome reversed the process and, in one harmonious rhythmic motion, both craft floated and swayed back and forth (like leaves caught on the wind), as they dropped below the dark topography. 

“As both ships descended, the frequency of the red lights increased back and forth in a horizontal pattern around the middle of each, and as the twosome dropped out of sight there was a moment of awe as I stared out there where something most extraordinary had just happened. 

“I was not close enough to see the saucers touch the ground, but I watched the flashing red lights through the open space between the stand of trees in the distance, until the flashing red lights dropped out of sight. At that point, it was speculation if the two unknowns had touched down….” 

A short while after, six helicopters (believed to have been AH-1G Huey Cobra’s) “fanned out in an ever-widening circle, their bright beams [directed] on the dark terrain below as they moved back and forth above the general area for three or four minutes, while two F-106A Delta Dart jets [also] flew low over the UFO targets’ area…. After a brief scan of the area, the choppers resumed single-file formation and headed back in the east-south-east direction of their original approach. The jets banked, came back for another pass before heading back in the same direction as the choppers…. 

“Two ships from parts unknown had apparently landed on the ground and possibly were still there! Why call off jets and choppers right in the middle of their special task-force operation? The answer would become clearer, but for the time being common-sense stated that either they found nothing upon arriving at the ‘hotspot’ and called back to base, or the pilots were ordered back to base whether they located and/or identified the craft(s) or not…. At my urgent request, Jon and I hopped into his pickup and took to the back roads and the general area where the incredible incident had just happened. Although this was Jon’s neighborhood, driving blindly through unfamiliar territories turned out to be a futile effort.” The two were forced to give up the search and head back for home. 6 

Back at the mobile home, Jim remained on the porch from where the observations had been made, anxiously awaiting any further developments. “From 7:10 to 7:20 P.M., Saturday evening December 30 until 1:50 A.M., New Year’s Eve,” he reports, “I stood in one spot, my attention riveted out there, waiting. 

“At 1:50 A.M. one of the craft began rising from the area that had harbored it for the best part of six hours [sic] … the flashing red lights that circled the lone ship’s outer perimeter moved faster and faster in the 6- 5-4-3-2-1, 1-2-3-4-5-6 sequence as it climbed steadily above the dark terrain below. Then the ship shot straight up, paused, accelerated to a greater height until [its] outer structure transformed into a glowing white magnificent craft [which] shot straight up again, paused, then accelerated in one final ascending burst of speed, covering a vast distance….” 

At this moment, a fiery object could be seen rising from the ground above the Atlantic Ocean: coincidentally, a Minuteman II missile had just been launched from its underground silo at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. As if in response, the strange craft “zipped to the right, [then] to the left, performed a vertical Z-pattern all in one continuous flowing streak of light, [then] drew near the cone section of the fast-rising missile, [then] streaked off to the south and vanished.” 7 

During Easter 1968, Jim read an article in a special edition section of the Orlando Sentinel entitled “UFO tracks Minuteman Missile over Cape Canaveral,” written by Dick Young. Unfortunately he lost track of the newspaper. Several years later he researched microfilm at both the Sentinel and Orlando Public Libraries’ system main branch. The newspaper was intact, with the exception of the special edition —of course. 8 

In 1968, further sightings occurred in the same general vicinity. On February 17, Jim approached an intense flashing blue light which appeared to be reflecting off the metallic surface of a disc, as well as “patches of a deep glowing red.” He then perceived “an aerodynamic structured craft perhaps fifty to sixty feet end to end, with each end tapered down and expanded to fifteen to twenty feet in height at its center. 

“It had not occurred to me at the time that the glowing red that encircled the strange-looking sleek object might have been a ‘force-field.’ As I stood there just staring at the glowing aura, the hair on the back of my head literally stood on end. While the adrenaline soared through my body, I pivoted my body around and tried to walk away from the remote probe and the unknown ship, but I could not bring myself to take another step, [though shortly] I managed to force one foot in front of the other and made my way back to the car with considerable effort.” 

It was now a little over half an hour since Jim first observed the craft. On his way home along State Road 420, he caught sight of a glowing red cigar-shaped object as it floated up from a field and glided alongside the car, paused, tilted upward, then vanished into the sky. 9 

At sundown the following day, Jim’s brother Gary showed up at the former’s residence in Orlando, and the two drove off in Jim’s car to the corner of State Road 420 and Fort Christmas Road, in search of more strange craft. “We stood there for several minutes, and the FBL appeared in the same location as it had done the previous night—the flashing light reflected off the dark metallic surface,” Jim reported. “I pointed it out to my brother—no response. He just stood there staring at the blue light as it dropped silently below the dark tree line deep into the field and west of our location. 

“I approached the fence, as I had the previous night, and climbed over, my brother close behind me. I began walking in the direction where the ‘small wonder disc’ had just disappeared below the dark topography. Moreover, like the previous night, while relentless howling winds whipped across the field and rattled the clusters of saw palmettos, I ventured a short distance and paused, [with] the same feeling I had the previous night…. We were being watched. My brother must have sensed something too, because he seemed ready to bolt.” The men returned to the car and headed for home. 10 

At around 19:35 the next day, Jim returned to the same observation post. As he passed by Lake Louise and rounded a curve, the same, or similar, flashing blue light hovered about two hundred feet ahead, then paced the car along Fort Christmas Road for a mile or so. Just over a week later, as he arrived at the same observation point and at the same time as previously, fifteen to twenty cattle were bellowing and running around, terrified, as a blue pulsing light hovered above. The light vanished, and moments later a jet flew fast and low over the area, then made another pass before heading away. 11 

On March 4, 1968, about two hundred yards southeast of the previous area, a B-52 bomber appeared above the tree line. As it headed west, a brilliant flash of light emitted from its underside, illuminating the terrain below. “The bright cone-shaped lights flashed twelve times in three-sequence increments,” Jim believes. Presumably, photographs were being taken. 

The following night, at the same location, a car driven by a man with a woman beside him pulled up alongside Jim. The man asked Jim what he was doing out there. “Do you believe in flying saucers?” retorted Jim. The woman snickered, but the man sat there silently. “I pointed in the general area where I had watched a B-52 rise above the tree line over there [pointing], and I thought the crew had taken pictures of something on the ground….” 

“The area you’re talking about is the Canada Ranch, where I live,” the man volunteered. “I’m Ben Canada.” And at that moment, the Air Force B-52 appeared again above the tree line. Again, brilliant flashes of light illuminated the ground in the same sequence. 

Jim asked Canada if he’d been missing any cattle recently. “Come to think of it,” he responded, “last week I found a young heifer, a healthy animal, standing out in the middle of the pasture. How she managed to get out of the high, well-built pen that I had her in that night was beyond my comprehension.” He added that large numbers of animals had recently been unaccounted for, and that many farmers and ranchers from the area and the St. Cloud area had had meetings with the Cattlemen’s Association to try and solve the problem, without success. 12 

On the evening of March 20, 1968, Jim felt compelled to go outside—“drawn” to the front of his mobile home. A disc, roughly two feet in diameter, was hovering outside the living room windows. 

“A flashing blue light emitted from a thin rod atop the disc, perhaps an eighth of an inch in circumference, two or three inches long, and positioned near the outer edge of the probe. The blue light pulsed at a slow steady rhythmic rate, and the flashing rate reflected off the disc’s dull burnished metallic surface…. Suddenly, the disc shot away and out of sight [and then] reappeared to the right of the cypress trees behind the trailer and headed in a northeast direction until I lost sight of it.” 13 

Six days later, while visiting his parents in Orlando, Jim was struck suddenly with a bad headache and a simultaneous compulsion to leave the house. He got in his car, heading for a 7-Eleven store to get some pain-killers. On returning to the car, he heard his full name called out, loud and clear—in similar vein to the communications reported by Carl Anderson (Chapter 7). 

“A case could be made that I was ‘hearing voices,’ the skeptic might say,” Jim acknowledges, “but I know the difference between hearing voices in my head and having my name come through in a clear audible tone…. I headed east on Virginia Avenue, all the while wondering what was going on, [then] realized the headache had stopped. Moments later, I rolled to a stop at the Bumby Avenue and East Colonial Drive intersection [and] felt compelled to look out the window and up. The remote disc hovered above the traffic signal, its signature blue light flashing with a steady rhythm. I turned right and twenty minutes later turned left onto State Road 419 [and] spotted the disc as it glided along above the field [and] began moving slowly until it disappeared into the stand of trees that it had vanished into on March 18.” 14 

One of the most interesting events occurred during the night of September 15 that year. Jim, together with his mother Naomi, niece Michelle, and Bendix electrician Larry Kelly and a friend, were standing by the big metal gate at the usual observation post when an amber cone-shaped beam of light appeared a hundred feet above the orange grove. “I proceeded to run as fast as I could through the sandy open lane that extended north through the middle of the grove,” said Jim. “Moments later, Larry and his friend had caught up with me. I took off, running west over the white sandy trail…. Suddenly, I stumbled headlong into a pile of cast-off tree debris,  followed by Larry and his friend.” 

By now, Jim’s eyes had adjusted to the darkness. Fifteen yards away could be seen the faint outline of a cigar-shaped craft which “blended almost seamlessly into the dark terrain. Faint phosphor-green patches of light flickered and danced around the ship’s midsection.” An eerie stillness permeated the immediate surroundings and a “strange energy” seemed to emanate from the hovering craft. “I was ready to bolt—then vehicle headlights unexpectedly illuminated the darkness.” The dark blue or black vehicle headed toward the craft. 

“I turned and ran as fast as I could toward the big gate. I could hear Larry and his friend right behind me running as fast as they could to keep up with me and put as much distance behind them and what they too had observed…. My mom and niece obviously sensed that something was not right and both headed for their car.” 

Jim speculates that the dark sedan driver was most likely a government, military, or NASA official sent to rendezvous with the spacecraft in “a sparsely populated nondescript dot on the map named Bithlo…. During the Apollo program, the ETI [extra-terrestrial intelligence] took full advantage of the perfect meeting place, situated between the back end of fenced-in orange groves, with ‘No Trespassing’ signs and near the shoreline of a pristine kidney-shaped body of water named Lake Pickett…. After each meeting, the human officials and ET emissary/emissaries had exited the open wire gate west of the main gate, turned right, driven several miles, intersected with Highway 50, another left turn, and from there proceeded to their destination—the Cape and/or Kennedy Space Center…. 

“Whatever ‘agreements’ have been made between the extraterrestrial intelligence and United States Government and NASA officials, we may never know. The fact that ‘agreements’ did take place is known, and surely the extraterrestrials waited and watched from a distance as the historic lunar event unfolded on July 20, 1969, as Neil Alden Armstrong and Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr. became the first humans to land on the Moon….” 15 

APOLLO 11 

In Apollo 11: The Untold Story, a British documentary first shown in July 2006, “Buzz” Aldrin revealed that their spacecraft had encountered a UFO during its flight to the Moon. “There was something out there that was close enough to be observed, and what could it be?” he began. “Mike [Collins] decided he thought he could see it in the telescope [and] when you made it real sharp it was sort of bell-shaped…. 

“Obviously the three of us were not going to blurt out, ‘Hey, Houston, we’ve got something moving alongside of us…. Can you tell us what it is?’ We weren’t about to do that, because we knew that those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and, who knows, somebody would have demanded we turn back because of aliens, or whatever the reason….” The event remains unexplained, as confirmed by Dr. David Baker, Apollo 11 Senior Scientist. 16 

I happened to be touring the USA with the London Symphony Orchestra at the time and, together with my colleagues, sat spellbound as we watched the live transmission in Chicago. I recall hearing one of the astronauts refer at some point to a “light” in or near a crater during the transmission. According to an Associated Press report, the astronauts sighted strange lights inside a crater near the point where their lunar lander was due to touch down the next day. On their first orbit around the Moon, Armstrong described a mysterious bright light on the inner wall of the crater Aristarchus, located north of their flight path. “It seems to have a slight amount of fluorescence to it. The area in the crater is quite bright,” he reported to Houston. “That area is definitely brighter than anything else I can see,” confirmed Aldrin. “There doesn’t appear to be any color involved in it. It looks like an eerie sight [site?].” 17 

Two former NASA employees, Otto Binder and Maurice Chatelain (the latter a former chief of NASA communication systems), confirmed that Apollo 11 encountered “other” landed spacecraft on the Moon. “These babies are huge, sir … enormous,” Mission Control was informed by the astronauts, according to Binder’s sources. “Oh, God, you wouldn’t believe it! I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out there … lined up on the far side of the crater edge.” 18 

The Soviets were the first to publicly confirm the incident. Physicist Dr. Vladimir Azhazha, a professor of mathematics at Moscow University, stated that Neil Armstrong relayed a message to Mission Control that “two large, mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the lunar module.” This and related messages were censored by NASA. Another Soviet scientist, Dr. Aleksandr Kazantsev, claimed that Buzz Aldrin had taken color movie film of the spacecraft from inside the module, and continued filming them after he and Armstrong went outside. The alien craft departed shortly thereafter. 19 

All the original Apollo film material is located in NASA’s Film Archive (Building 8), located in the Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston. In 1970–71, Donna Hare worked for Philco-Ford, a NASA contractor, in the photo lab at Building 8 and in different areas of the company, both on- and off-site. On one occasion, she told Steven Greer’s Disclosure Project, she entered a restricted area of the lab (she held a Secret clearance) unrelated to her work with Philco-Ford. A friend there directed her attention to a mosaic of photographs taken from a high altitude—possibly via satellite. 

“In one of the photo panels I saw a round white dot,” she related. “And I said to him, ‘What is that—a dot on the emulsion?’ And then he’s grinning and says that dots on the emulsion don’t leave shadows on the ground. And there was a round shadow at the correct angle with the sun shining on the trees…. I was pretty startled because I had worked out there several years and had never seen anything like this. And I said, ‘Is this a UFO?’ And he’s smiling at me and says, ‘I can’t tell you that.’” 

The man told her that photos of such objects were always airbrushed out prior to being distributed publicly. 

From another employee at JSC, Donna Hare learned that some of the astronauts who wanted to talk about their experiences with UFOs had been threatened and coerced into signing statements agreeing not to do so, on penalty of losing their retirement pay. “One gentleman that I knew very well was in quarantine with the Apollo astronauts following their return from the Moon. He said that just about every one of them had seen things when they went to the Moon. In fact, one said that craft were on the Moon at the time of the landing [Apollo 11?].” 

Hare also met a security guard who claimed that one day some soldiers in fatigues had ordered him to “burn a lot of UFO pictures.” Although forced not to look at them, he was tempted to glance at one, showing a UFO on the ground. “Shortly thereafter,” Hare reports, “he was hit on the head with a gun butt, and he still had the scar on his forehead.” 20 

In Inside the Space Ships, George Adamski describes his second flight in a spaceship in 1953, during which he was shown parts of the Moon. “In some of these places, there was still a very small growth of vegetation perceptible,” he commented. “Part of the surface looked fine and powdery….” 21 Which is precisely how Neil Armstrong described it during his first steps on the Moon in July 1969: “The surface is fine and powdery.” 

During another flight to the Moon, in August 1954, Adamski was shown (through a viewing screen) parts of the other side, featuring a temperate section which included a number of thickly timbered mountains, as well as lakes, rivers, vegetation, and even a city. 22 Though these claims were ridiculed at the time, photographs of the other side taken by Apollo 8 and 10, for example, clearly show what looks like moss, or vegetation of some sort. I purchased a large print from Hasselblad of the Schmidt crater (taken from Apollo 10) which displays a pronounced dark green surrounding the crater—itself a mixture of white, fawn, and pink colored areas. 

In Above Top Secret, I cited the testimony of a friend of mine who had participated in a NASA conference in Italy in June 1984, during which she learned from Neil Armstrong that “other” spacecraft were on the Moon when they landed. At the time, I was not permitted to include either the name of my source nor many other details. However, since she passed away a number of years ago, I am now able to do so. 

My source was Pamela Handford, who had served with Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). I once asked about her background in the clandestine organization. “Bearing in mind that I am still firmly bound by the Official Secrets Act,” she explained, “all I can tell you is that I trained with the School of Military Intelligence, in those days at Maresfield Park, and did my parachute training with the London 21st. I was trained for the Russian front, learned Russian, and came under MI6’s umbrella. Because of the sensitivity of the field work, I can tell you nothing more….” 23 

The NASA conference was held at several venues, including the old castle Maschio Angioino in Naples and the Europa Palace Hotel in Anacapri. Some astronauts attending were staying at the Vittoria Excelsior Hotel in Sorrento, Pamela said. Her impromptu presentation was entitled “Man: An Extraterrestrial Experiment.” 

“It was only a very short stop-gap, and I probably scribbled the gist of it on a piece of hotel writing paper,” she explained. It so happened that Pamela’s suite (Room 131) adjoined that of Neil Armstrong (Room 132). At one point during the conference, Pamela overheard a conversation in the next room between Armstrong and a Professor Herbert Schwartz, the gist of which went as follows: 

SCHWARTZ: What really happened out there with Apollo 11? 

ARMSTRONG: It was incredible—of course we had always known there was a possibility—the fact is, Herb, we were warned off. There was never any question of our building a space station or a Moon city. 

SCHWARTZ: How do you mean, “warned off”? 

ARMSTRONG: I can’t go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours, both in size and technology. Boy, were they big—and menacing. No, there is no question of a space station. 

SCHWARTZ: But NASA had other missions after Apollo 11. 

ARMSTRONG: Naturally, NASA was committed at that time and couldn’t risk a panic on Earth. But it really was a quick trip and back again…. 

At a cocktail party later that day, Pamela confronted Armstrong. He confirmed that the story was true but refused to go into further detail, beyond admitting that the Central Intelligence Agency was behind the cover-up. Officially, however, he denies the incident. “There were no objects reported, found, or seen on Apollo 11 or any other Apollo flight other than of natural origin,” he told me. 24 

In 1995, I asked Pamela if she still stood by her claim. 

“Yes, Tim,” she replied, “I still stand by the Armstrong report. Like Martin Luther, ‘I can do no other,’ perfectly placed as I was in the next suite—and in the light of the cover-up the United States still has in place, it surprises me not that Neil Armstrong denies it.” 

Pamela added that, according to her information, since the early 1960s “the States has had contact with a superior extra-terrestrial planet.” 25 

I made four requests to NASA for details of this conference. The first person with whom I communicated politely explained that she had been unsuccessful in accessing any information. No replies were forthcoming from my additional three requests (via a different NASA inquiries Web site). However, my girlfriend tracked down online the proof that a conference had taken place. The Journal of Space Law for the relevant period reviews the “International Symposium on Space Lab held in Naples and Capri from 11–16 June 1984,” noting that “The Second Forum was held in the Europe Palace Hotel in beautiful Anacapri and dealt with the utilization and the legal/economic aspects of space systems.” Unfortunately, other than mentioning the participation of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, none of the contributors is listed. 26 

Thus forearmed, I sent a Freedom of Information Act request asking NASA for details of the speakers. They eventually responded by citing several library sources, one being the Canada Institute for Scientific & Technical Information, from which I purchased a copy of “Earth-oriented Applications of Space Technology,” listing many of the attendees at the Second Forum only. 27 No mention is made of Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Professor Herbert Schwartz, or Pamela Handford. 

SPACE DEFENSE 

According to Lieutenant Colonel Philip J. Corso, the intelligence officer who headed the U.S. Army’s Foreign Technology Division at the Pentagon, in 1961 NASA “agreed to cooperate with military planners to work a ‘second-tier’ space program [which was] covered up by the civilian scientific missions. They agreed to open up a confidential ‘back-channel’ communications link to military intelligence regarding any hostile activities conducted by the [aliens] against our spacecraft…. 

“What NASA didn’t tell military intelligence, of course, was that they already had an even more classified back channel to [former CIA director] Hillenkoetter working group and were keeping them updated on every single alien spacecraft appearance the astronauts reported, especially during the early series of Apollo flights when the [alien] craft began buzzing the lunar modules on successive missions after they thrusted out of earth orbit. Even though military intelligence was kept out of the operational loop between NASA and the working group, I and a few others still had contacts in the civilian intelligence community that kept us informed. And the Army and Air Force managed to find at least 122 photos taken by astronauts on the moon that showed some evidence of an alien presence. It was a startling find and was one of many reasons that the Reagan administration pushed so hard for the Space Defense Initiative in 1981.” 28 

The Hon. Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Minister of Defence under Prime Minister Lester Pearson and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau, found Corso’s book so compelling that he decided to check its credibility with a retired American general. “Every word of it is true, and more,” responded the general. “We then spent twenty minutes discussing the ‘and more,’ to the extent that he could without revealing classified material,” Hellyer confirms in his latest book. “He told me that there had been, in fact, face-to-face discussions between the visitors and U.S. officials….” 29 

In 2004, President George W. Bush announced his “Vision for Space Exploration,” calling for humans to return to the Moon by the end of the next decade. 30 The plan was canceled in 2010 by President Barack Obama, citing cost and danger. 31 

In 2006, the Bush administration stated its intention to dominate space, rejecting any new treaties that would limit the United States’ extraterrestrial activities, warning that it would oppose any nations that tried to get in its way. A policy statement signed by Bush asserted that, in its own national interests, the U.S. had the right to conduct whatever research, development, and “other activities” in space were deemed necessary. As journalist Andrew Buncombe commented, “When proposals to ban the weaponization of space have been put forward at the [United Nations], the United States has routinely abstained. But last October [2005], the U.S. voted against a U.N. resolution calling for the banning of weapons in space.” 32 

GORDON COOPER 

In early 1978, NASA issued an information sheet by way of response to inquiries directed to the White House as well as NASA on UFOs. “NASA is the focal point for answering public inquiries to the White House,” it begins. “NASA is not engaged in a research program involving these phenomena, nor is any other government agency. Reports of unidentified objects entering United States air space are of interest to the military as a regular part of defense surveillance. Beyond that, the U.S. Air Force no longer investigates reports of UFO sightings.” 33 

In his autobiography Leap of Faith, astronaut Gordon Cooper describes the landing of a flying disc at Edwards Air Force Base on May 3, 1957. At the time, Cooper was assigned as test pilot and manager, with top-secret clearance, to the Fighter Section, Experimental Flight Test Engineering Division, and he recounts that his camera crew came running in to tell him what had just occurred: 

“They told me they had just finished their work when the saucer flew over them, hovered over the ground, extended three landing gears, then set down about fifty yards away. They described the saucer as metallic silver in color and shaped somewhat like an inverted plate…. They said they had shot images with 35-mm and 4-by-5 still cameras, as well as motion picture film. When they had tried to approach the saucer to get a closer shot, they said it lifted up, retracted its gear, and climbed straight out of sight at a rapid rate of speed—again with no sound. They estimated the craft to be about thirty feet across….” 34 

On July 14, 1978, Cooper attended a meeting of the Special Political Committee, United Nations General Assembly, in Miami, chaired by Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, specifically to discuss the UFO question, following repeated requests by Sir Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada, for a full debate. Later that year, Cooper wrote a letter to Ambassador Griffith, Mission of Grenada to the U.N., setting out his position, prior to the debate, which was held in the General Assembly on November 27 that year: 

“I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth. I feel that we need to have a top-level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the earth [and] to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion…. I have not yet had the privilege of flying a UFO, nor of meeting the crew of one.” 

He went on to add that, while serving with the Air Force in Germany in 1951, he had “two days of observations of many flights of them, of different sizes, flying in fighter formation … over Europe. They were at a higher altitude than we could reach with our jet fighters of that time.” In referring to astronauts, Cooper revealed that “There are several of us who do believe in UFOs and who have had occasion to see a UFO on the ground, or from an airplane. There was only one occasion from space which may have been a UFO.” 35 

Gordon Cooper was more forthcoming in a recorded interview in New York five years earlier. “I myself have encountered some of their craft while flying in space,” he told a reporter. “NASA knows this and the American government knows it too. Yet they continue to keep their silence, probably in order to avoid confusing the public.” He went on: 

“For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radars capture objects of a form and composition unknown to us…. I was furthermore a witness to an extraordinary phenomenon [that] happened a few months ago in Florida. I saw with my own eyes a defined area of ground being consumed by fire with four indentations left by a [craft] which had descended in the middle of a field. Beings had left the craft—there were other traces to prove this. They seemed to have studied the topography; they had collected soil fragments and eventually returned to wherever they had come from, disappearing with enormous speed. I happen to know that the authorities did just about everything to keep this incident from the press and TV…. 

“Flying saucers are a reality—I won’t stop repeating this,” Cooper concluded. “The public must be prepared to make contact with people who, sooner or later, will be compelled to interfere. The salvation of us all depends on it.” 36 

During my correspondence with Cooper, he neither confirmed nor denied the statements contained in this interview. I am intrigued by Cooper’s remark in his letter to Ambassador Griffith: “I have not yet had the privilege of flying a UFO.” A few years ago, a respected colleague informed me that, following the U.N. meetings, Cooper had vented his frustration at the seemingly invincible task of convincing U.N. delegates of alien reality. What would it take, he said to the researcher—a landed flying saucer? He went on to claim that he had been in a position to actually pilot a flying disc and land it himself. An outrageous claim to be sure. Yet from a few other reliable sources I have learned that a number of astronauts and pilots—not exclusively in the United States—have flown alien and/or replicated alien vehicles, as we shall learn later.

COSMIC JOURNEY 

In Alien Contact, I discussed at length the official plan by the U.S. government, NASA, Rockwell International, and other organizations for a space-related traveling exhibition, to include five to six thousand square feet of UFO-related materials. A synopsis is warranted here. In 1989 I had been approached by Robert Kirchgessner, director of a special group associated with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey International, who had invited me to become the “Official Consultant on UFO Research” to the Special Development Group. A personal meeting in Orlando, Florida, was a prerequisite. We agreed on a date—October 12. However, although I was on a research trip in Gulf Breeze, Florida, at the time, difficulties with airline schedules arose and to my everlasting regret—as it transpired—I was obliged to cancel the appointment. 

On my return to the U.K., Kirchgessner explained that the project had reached a critical stage. Could I recommend someone else? I didn’t hesitate to name my friend Bob Oechsler (pronounced “X-ler”), a former NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle arm at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. As it transpired, the Cosmic Journey exhibition was to include a mock-up of the shuttle. Perhaps also owing to his background in the Air Force, Bob turned out to be the right man for the job: he had joined in 1968, serving mostly with the American Forces Radio and Television Service in the continental United States. During the Vietnam War he served in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, during which period some of his work required top-secret clearance, when each month he was flown by helicopter into the demilitarized zone (DMZ) to film classified prototype weapons systems. On returning to the U.S., he spent a year and a half at Wright-Patterson AFB. 

Bob’s meetings with the Special Development Group took place in Orlando on November 1 and 2, 1989. After signing a non-disclosure agreement, he was briefed on the project. “Cosmic Journey,” as it was called, would be a review of, and a future look at, the space programs of the United States and the Soviet Union. The board of advisers included former astronauts Alan Bean, Eugene Cernan, Charles Conrad, Alexei Leonov, and Thomas Stafford. The project had the approval of President George Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle, and the National Space Council. The latter was chaired by the vice president and included the Director of Central Intelligence, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense. 

With the co-operation of NASA and Rockwell International, the exhibition was to include a full-scale mock-up of the Shuttle, a 15,000-square-foot “space camp,” representations of alien life-forms, and, I was told, a “post-show exhibit of five or six thousand square feet on UFOs.” Additionally, the program was to involve a tri-level educational curriculum for twenty-five thousand schools in the United States, due to commence on New Year’s Day 1990. 37 

On November 13, 1989, Bob reported to the Pentagon for a meeting with Thomas P. Stafford, Lieutenant General, USAF (Ret.). A former fighter pilot (who flew F-86D Sabre jets among others), he later became an astronaut, piloting Gemini VI for the first rendezvous in space and commanding Gemini IX. He was also the commander of Apollo 10 in May 1969, the first flight of the lunar module, performing the first rendezvous around the Moon and the entire lunar landing mission, apart from the actual landing itself. He logged his fourth space flight as Apollo commander of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission, July 15– 24, 1975, a joint space flight culminating in the historic first meeting in space between American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts. 38 

Stafford turned out to be the intelligence community contact for Cosmic Journey. Following some bizarre sensations generated by an unusual type of detector at the security check, Bob proceeded to the general’s office, accompanied by a guard. Stafford discussed exhibits for the project, asking Bob where he planned to obtain material for the kiosks to show UFO case histories and photographs. Stafford indicated that NASA and the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) would be good places to start. 

“One of the more intriguing elements of the discussion,” Bob told me, “involved an exhibit showing an alien/ET corpse. 

“As a reference, the general showed me an eight-by-ten-inch color photo of what appeared to be an alien in a cryogenic tank; a space-age-looking coffin with blue tube lighting inside the clear lexan cover…. It was difficult to see too much in the way of detail, so it’s virtually impossible to know if this was real, and the general didn’t enlighten me…. It looked like one of the so-called ‘gray’ types, but the chin was much more sharply pointed than is usually described. I could see evidence of the ‘bug’ eyes, but there was a sort of covering over them….” 

The general seemed to be concerned about using the real thing versus a mock-up, querying Bob about his thoughts on public perception. Bob suggested that displaying a companion autopsy report with color photographs might lend credibility. The possible exhibition of an actual alien corpse was proposed quite seriously. “As a matter of fact,” Bob added, “I got the impression they had a lot of bodies to choose from! The general also had the same concerns about showing a real, versus a mock-up, craft, [and] I suggested that the real thing would be preferable if on-board access for the public could be achieved. 

“The other primary areas of discussion involved my robotics experience and the minor role that I had played in the development of the space shuttle arm, which was initially designed to provide life support to astronauts and a diagnostic instrument for repairing satellites in orbit.” 39 

Bob had expected further contact with General Stafford, but none was forthcoming, probably related to the fact that funds for the project apparently stalled. In late 1996, I invited Stafford and his wife Linda to drinks and dinner at his hotel in London. It was a great privilege listening to this modest pioneer as he answered my questions about the flight to the Moon in Apollo 10 in May 1969. Naturally, at one point during the meal, I asked about Bob Oechsler’s claim to have met him in the Pentagon back in 1991. “Bob who?” he expostulated. He denied having met him or even having had an office in the Pentagon at that time. 40 

For a while, I believed Stafford. However, a combination of several circumstances, including Bob’s unwavering insistence that he had indeed been invited for a meeting with Stafford in the Pentagon, caused me to change my mind. 

During the second week of January 1990, Bob was billeted at NASA Ellington Field (also known as Ellington Air Force Base), near the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where he was asked to assist in reconfiguring the movements of the shuttle arm from a zero-gravity environment to that of ordinary gravity, according to the project’s requirements. But first, he told me, he was required to become accustomed to how it worked in “microgravity.” Together with some astronauts and engineers, he was flown by helicopter to a NASA facility about twenty miles southwest of Ellington, where he changed into special clothing in preparation for entry into another room. He stepped through a hatch into this other room—and became airborne! 

“It was weird, because it’s like the loss of equilibrium and everything,” he explained. “Obviously the astronauts had done a lot of training; they were so accustomed to it, and they were laughing at me…. You learn to skip around [and] it takes about fifteen minutes to become accustomed to the biomechanics [and] feels almost similar to getting into a pool of water—the arms tend to swing out.” 

No more than about eight astronauts or engineers worked on a variety of projects in the chamber at any one time, Bob told me. The chamber measured about thirty feet long, twenty feet wide, and nine feet high. Recessed in the ceiling was a strange, plasma-like light, which Bob felt was responsible for generating microgravity. Everyone was wearing the same clothing. “Several of the others I knew, but they really wouldn’t let us talk among ourselves. It was pretty much forbidden to talk about anything that had to do with what we were doing.” 

In January 1990, Bob was invited to visit a North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) installation in the Gulf of Mexico. He traveled in one of three sleek, black NORAD helicopters. “You couldn’t see where the door was until it popped open,” he said. The helicopter was relatively quiet, sounding “more like a humming noise.” Bob believes that a highly advanced type of propulsion was being utilized, possibly deriving from alien technology. In any event, the over-500-mile flight lasted amazingly no more than forty-five minutes, a speed well in excess of that of the world’s officially fastest helicopter, the Sikorsky X2, which in 2010 reached the unofficial speed record of 288 miles per hour in level flight. The X2 is known as a “compound” helicopter: in addition to two four-blade main rotors set one above the other, it also features a “propulsor”—a six-blade propeller that produces forward thrust. 41 

Of related interest, in a 2002/2003 Discovery Wings Channel program on the future development of the U.S. Army’s Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche helicopter, former Director of Army Acquisition Bud Foster revealed: “I think Comanche will be flying in 2050. In my opinion it is the last pure helicopter the Army will ever develop. We may be into anti gravity machines after Comanche.” 

The black helicopter landed on what looked like an oil-rig platform, possibly twenty miles south of Pensacola, Florida. It turned out to be a NORAD facility. Bob was taken to a control room with consoles and a huge screen, the latter seemingly with a three-dimensional quality and displaying about a third or fourth of the southeast quadrant of the United States. “It had altitude to it as well, and the entire area was covered with a grid that was moving,” added Bob. At one point, a series of “blips” moved across the top part of the screen: 

“There were five, as I recall [and] they were labeled, like a typical radar screen where blips usually designate aircraft … these particular ones that were up top were all labeled ASC. They didn’t have any specific numbers—just ASC. I overheard someone say, ‘Alternative Space Craft.’ And they came down and spread out—all five of them. Two immediately went off the screen to the northwest and one came around the Gulf ‘horn’ … almost as if they were following the shoreline. There was one—possibly two, I forget—that stopped what looked like just across the border of Florida into Georgia [and] as soon as it stopped, it glowed; there was like a red glow that came off of it. I don’t know what that meant….” 

After about 45 minutes at the NORAD facility, Bob and the others were flown back to Ellington. 42 

Plans for the Cosmic Journey exhibition were temporarily shelved in early 1990, ostensibly for budgetary reasons. And the project directors denied that they ever had any plans to exhibit anything other than mock-ups of aliens or flying saucers. They also denied that Bob Oechsler was ever employed as a consultant. NASA, too, denied that Bob had visited the places he said he went to. 

On June 5, 1991, I had a brief meeting with astrophysicist Colonel (later Brigadier General) Simon “Pete” Worden, at that time Director, Advanced Concepts, Science and Technology, National Space Council (NSC), Executive Office of the President. The meeting took place in the NSC offices at the Old Executive Office Building (now the Eisenhower Executive Office Building) adjoining the White House. I asked Worden if he knew anything about the fate of the Cosmic Journey project, and if he was aware of any plans to include “extraterrestrial hardware” in the exhibition. He replied that he knew of no such plans, and that the exhibition had been canceled owing to the Spanish government’s withdrawal of its financial support. He promised to keep me informed if he learned anything more. I did not hear from him again. 

In February 1992, I wrote to Vice President Dan Quayle (Chairman of the NSC), seeking information on the status of the project, alluding to the alleged plans to feature an extraterrestrial body and/or craft. I received a reply from Jack Schmidt, NASA Exhibits Coordinator. “There were plans to have the exhibition at Expo ’92,” he wrote, “but negotiations between Feld Productions, Inc. and a group of Spanish investors were not successful. At that point further development of the exhibition was terminated….” 43 

A CLANDESTINE SPACE PROGRAM 

In October 2010, Simon Worden—as Director, NASA Ames—revealed a joint project with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) called the Hundred Year Starship. “The human space program is now really aimed at settling other worlds,” he explained. “Twenty years ago you had to whisper that in dark bars and get fired.” He went on to mention some nearer-term projects that NASA is exploring, not necessarily related to the Starship program, one of which was “electric propulsion.” 

“Anybody that watches the Star Trek Enterprise, you know you don’t see huge plumes of fire,” Worden added. “Within a few years we will see the first true prototype of a spaceship that will take us between worlds….” 44 But as Lockheed Skunk Works genius Ben Rich had declared, during a lecture at the UCLA School of Engineering as far back as 1993: “We already have the means to travel among the stars.” 45 

In the late 1980s, the Electric Propulsion Study was conducted by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a leading U.S. civil and military R&D company, for the Astronautics Laboratory (later part of the Phillips Laboratory, currently merged into the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate). The study’s primary objective was to “outline physical methods to test theories of inductive coupling between electromagnetic and gravitational forces to determine the feasibility of such methods as they apply to space propulsion.” In simplified terms—an antigravity propulsion system. 46 

In his ground-breaking book Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion, physicist Paul LaViolette recounts much information acquired from sources knowledgeable about Project Skyvault, a highly classified program set up in the early 1950s to develop exotic propulsion technology. One of these sources —“Tom”—stated that NASA is “essentially a public relations organization or a front that obscures Air Force space research.” Tom had served with the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) and had been the recipient of the prestigious Michelson Award, as a result of which he was selected in 1963 to represent Idaho, together with CAP representatives from all the other states, to visit Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois. One day, about eight generals appeared onstage in an auditorium for a “no holds barred” question-and-answer session. A representative asked about Air Force Major Donald E. Keyhoe, who had been censored for his pioneering books on UFOs and outspoken comments in the media. 

“One of the generals responded that they had a way of taking care of people who gave out a little too much information,” LaViolette relates. “He said they would use physical injury or whatever was necessary to make them shut up, indicating they would kill a person (‘extreme prejudice,’ if you will). Someone else started to ask more about UFOs…. 

“One of the generals said the United States had a defense system in place at the time that consisted of a number of satellites, in orbit not only around Earth, but also around Mercury, Venus, Mars, and a few other, more distant planets they couldn’t talk about. He said the satellites together functioned as an early warning system, that they were afraid of the ‘people out there’ because they didn’t know very much about them. This satellite system was built to observe three possible sources: missiles that might come from the Soviet Union, missiles that might come from China, and intrusions of aliens coming in toward Earth. 

“Someone asked why the generals were being so candid. According to Tom, one responded by saying, ‘If you want, you can go ahead and tell people what we’ve told you, but they’re not going to believe you. Besides, if you did get anyone to believe you and they came back to ask us, we would just deny it. So we have nothing to lose by telling you this.’ 47 

“In the late 1950s NASA was formed to compartmentalize, containerize, and sanitize information fromall space platforms and vehicles,” claimed John Lear to Art Bell in 2003. “We sold NASA to the public, claiming that all information would belong to them, but they got very little, and even that was highly sanitized.” He added: 

“We set up operations in Pine Gap, Australia, to preclude any prying eyes figuring out what we were up to. We regularly ‘eliminated with extreme prejudice’ anybody who was part of the operation and made the least little tiny threat about disclosure or dissatisfaction with the operation. Any space mission that included Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Mariner, Voyager, Clementine, and all the rest, all the data initially came transmitted to Pine Gap, then it was relayed to JPL or wherever, after sanitizing. We had a little trouble with amateur radio operators, but we figured out how they [were able] to intercept these signals [and] managed to deal with that.” 48 

Paul LaViolette also learned from Tom about rumors indicating that the world’s first satellite was launched, not by the Soviet Union in 1957, but by the United States in 1948, using a modified V-2 rocket. He also indicated that, independent of NASA, the U.S. Air Force has its own shuttle fleet, allegedly launched from Johnston Island AFB in the Pacific Ocean (717 nautical miles, or 823 statute miles, westsouthwest of Honolulu). From 1976 to 1978, while working for the Air Force, Tom learned from a captain who had just returned from the island that the United States already had a base on the Moon. “The captain said that from looking at the cargo manifest for one of these shuttle launchings, one could conclude that provisions were routinely being shipped out,” reports LaViolette. “This was several years after the Apollo program had been terminated, the last Apollo mission having been completed in December 1972.” 49 

In this connection, President Ronald Reagan makes an intriguing observation in his diary entry for June 11, 1985: “… Lunch was with five top space scientists. It was fascinating. Space truly is the last frontier and some of the developments there in astronomy etc. are like science fiction except they are real. I learned that our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people.” 50 

The last space shuttle flight took place in July 2011. Meanwhile, according to an officially approved leak in November 2011, China intends to launch up to twenty spacecraft in the next ten years, at a cost of about $50 billion. Furthermore, it plans to build orbiting laboratory modules and a manned space station. “While the Chinese media and leaders speak with one voice about China’s ‘peaceful development in space,’ the U.S. is not so sure,” reports British journalist Michael Sheridan, adding that America “has no plans for manned space missions following the last space-shuttle flight.” 51 Which is far from the truth. 

In May 2012, the second demonstration mission for NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program took place when Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. “Today marks the beginning of a new era in exploration,” declared NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. “A private company has launched a spacecraft to the International Space Station [ISS] that will attempt to dock there for the first time…. Under President Obama’s leadership, the nation is embarking upon an ambitious exploration program that will take us farther into space than we have ever traveled before.” 52 Dragon successfully completed key on-orbit tests—including docking with the ISS. SpaceX aims to begin sending astronauts to the space station by 2015. In the meantime, the world’s astronauts will rely on Russia’s Soyuz for ISS transport (at a cost of $63 million per seat). 53 

It is my belief that U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) is in charge of a clandestine space program. I also remain convinced by the claims of Gary McKinnon, arrested in 2002 for having hacked with relative ease into numerous classified U.S. military networks—including that of AFSPC—searching for information relating to UFOs, for which he long faced extradition to the United States (vetoed in 2012 by Britain’s home secretary). While studying AFSPC data, Gary uncovered a list of officers’ names under the heading “Non-Terrestrial Officers.” 

“What I think it means is, not Earth-based,” he explained. “I found a list of ‘fleet-to-fleet transfers’ and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren’t U.S. Navy ships….” 54 

“On finding the first image on my PC,” Gary told me in 2006, “the Earth—or at least a blue and white planet with no continents visible—filled two thirds of the screen. Midway between the ‘camera’ and the planet hung a cigar-shaped object with geodesic domes above, below, and to the left and right. I didn’t see any rivets, seams, or telemetry antennae….” 

Chapter Fifteen 

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 

In returning from the United States to his native Germany in 1959, following three years of studying information on alien spacecraft supplied by his own and other governments, the outspoken pioneer Professor Hermann Oberth revealed to newsmen waiting for him at the Frankfurt airport that there was a “world-wide effort to learn how anti-gravity could be put to use as a form of energy,” adding that he expected “men would be traveling to the Moon in electrically driven devices within five to ten years.” 1 

Captain Bill Uhouse served ten years as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps, then four years with the U.S. Air Force as a civilian at Wright-Patterson AFB, flight-testing exotic aircraft, including—he claims —flying discs. “While I was at Wright-Patterson,” he told Steven Greer’s Disclosure Project in 2000, “they had selected several of us, and they reassigned me to A-Link Aviation, which was a simulator manufacturer. At that time they were building what they called the [Link] C-11B [jet flight trainer] and F102 simulator, B-47 simulator, and so forth. They wanted us to get experienced before we actually started work on the flying disc simulator, which I spent thirty-some years working on. I don’t think any flying disc simulators went into operation until the early 1960s—around 1962 or 1963…. 

“The simulator that they used was for the extraterrestrial craft they had, which is a thirty-meter one that crashed in Kingman, Arizona, back in 1953. 2 That’s the first one that they took out to the test flight. This ET craft was a controlled craft that the aliens wanted to present to our government. It landed about fifteen miles from what used to be an Army airbase. But that particular craft, there were some problems with—getting it on the flatbed to take it up to Area 51, which was just being constructed at the time. They couldn’t get it across the dam because of the road. It had to be barged across the Colorado River, then taken up Route 93 out to Area 51. 

“There were four aliens aboard that thing, and [they] went to Los Alamos for testing. They set up Los Alamos with a particular area for those guys, and they put certain people in there with them—astrophysicists and general scientists—to ask them questions … there was only one alien that would talk to any of these scientists [and] the rest wouldn’t talk to anybody … first they thought it was all ESP or telepathy [but] they actually speak—maybe not like we do—but they speak and converse. But there was only one who would. 

“The difference between this disc, and other discs that they had looked at, was that this one was a much simpler design. The disc simulator didn’t have a reactor [but] we had a space in it that looked like the reactor that wasn’t the device we operated the simulator with. We operated it with six large capacitors that were charged with a million volts each … the largest capacitors ever built [and] they’d last for thirty minutes, so you could get in there and actually work the controls and do what you had to do…. 

“In the simulator there are no seat belts … the same thing with the actual craft [because] when you fly one of those things upside down, you just don’t feel it [because] you have your own gravitational field right inside the craft…. There weren’t any windows. The only way we had any visibility at all was done with cameras or video-type devices…. 

“I’m sure our crews have taken these craft out into space [and] it probably took a while to train enough of the people, over a sufficient time period…. The design is so exacting that you can’t add anything—it’s got to be just right, [for example] where the center of the craft is, [such as] the fact that we raised it three feet so the taller guys could get in…. 

“I ended up in a meeting with an alien [named] J-Rod—that’s what they called him. I don’t know if that was his real name…. The alien used to come in with [Dr. Edward] Teller and some of the other guys, occasionally, to handle questions that maybe we’d have. [But] if it wasn’t specific for the group, you couldn’t talk about it. It was on a need-to-know basis. And [the alien] would talk, but he’d sound just like as if you spoke—he’d sound like you…. His skin was pinkish, but a little bit rough…. 

“Over the last forty years or so, not counting the simulators—I’m talking about actual craft—there are probably two or three dozen, and various sizes that we built. I don’t know much about the [ET] ones that they brought here [except] for that one out of Kingman….” 3 

In Chapter 4, I alluded to President Eisenhower’s several meetings with aliens in the 1950s. One of these, in April 1954, had been witnessed by a number of people from various walks of life, including Gerald Light of Borderland Sciences Research Associates. Riley Hansard Crabb subsequently became director of that organization, which he renamed Borderland Sciences Research Foundation. In the early 1960s, Crabb and his wife were visiting a fellow researcher in California, with a background in space sciences, who showed them a letter offering him an unusual job with an engineering firm in the Denver area. 

“The date of the letter was August 1961,” Crabb reported, “and it outlined a proposal to set up an antigravity research project aimed at building flyable hardware using the radical new source of propulsion. This group of physicists and engineers were confident they had some sound theory, derived in part, as I recall, from the researches of Wilbert B. Smith, the late Canadian [government] flying saucer expert; and they also had plenty of research money, freed by Congress after President Jack Kennedy’s message to that body in May 1961. Our UFO researcher friend declined the job offer. I don’t believe he even bothered to reply. 

“He was reminded of it four years later, when he attended the Flying Saucer convention in Reno, Nevada. While there, he was approached by a distraught woman, well dressed and in her mid-fifties, who insisted on talking to him in private. It turned out that she was the widow of one of the leading engineers in the antigravity project. The group had achieved one hundred percent of their objective. 

“Theory was carried through research and development to where a two-placer was designed, built, disassembled, hauled secretly to a deserted spot in the New Orleans area, reassembled, and successfully flown to a predetermined landing site in Florida. 

“The widow then told our friend that within two days of the successful test flight of the man-carrying Flying Saucer, all of the leaders of the group had died violent deaths. Subsequently, several of their widows had died under unusual or mysterious circumstances, and she was constantly on the move, in fear for her life. In fact, she said, she had been warned by a friendly and inebriated government agent—or at least by one who identified himself as such—to forget her married name and the fact that such a man as her husband had ever existed.” 4 

An unlikely tale? Perhaps not. I have previously cited a number of observations reported by qualified personnel of disc-shaped craft being test-flown as far back as the 1950s, and also alluded (in Chapter 4) to a transfer of alien technology during the Eisenhower administration. 

In Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion, Paul LaViolette traces the history of research into “antigravity,” focusing for example on ground-breaking experiments into “electrogravitics” by the physicist Thomas Townsend (“Towny”) Brown, who in 1928 patented his invention of a “gravitator” motor. Later, Brown developed further projects, and there is evidence that he was involved with other top scientists in the highly classified so-called “Philadelphia Experiment” in 1943. 5 

“In an effort to secure government funding,” LaViolette reports, “Brown wrote a proposal in 1952 urging the Navy to initiate a highly secret project to develop a manned flying saucer as the basis of an interceptor with Mach 3 capability and proposed that this might follow along the same lines as the Manhattan [Engineering] District Project, which developed the atomic bomb…. This confidential January 1953 submittal was code-named Project Winterhaven.” 

And in 1960 he produced a report titled “Electrohydrodynamics,” proposing a vertical takeoff aero-marine vehicle powered by a high-voltage “flame-jet generator.” 6 The design is remarkably similar to that of George Adamski’s iconic “scoutcraft.” Interestingly, Adamski himself was averse to the expression “antigravity.” In his final book, published in 1961, he wrote that “many writers have referred to ‘anti-gravity’ devices, and in our scientific researches the idea has been introduced that gravity can be wrestled to a standstill. This is not an efficient approach. 

“Space ships that today are visiting our world from other planets operate on a ‘pro-gravitic’ principle, using the natural forces instead of attempting to fight them. Since these ships operate on electrostatic power, it would be useless for them to fight the geomagnetic forces, since Earth’s geomagnetic field alone has an electrical potential of billions of volts…. 

“A flying saucer, or ‘pro-gravitic’ craft, operates by generating its own gravitational field, which surrounds it in a generally spherical pattern. This field is adjusted to resonate, or blend in harmony with the planet’s geomagnetic field. The resonating gravitational field causes the ship to be weightless. In this weightless or balanced condition, the ship, wherever it may be, can be moved by a relatively slight thrust…. Within its self-generated pro-gravitic field, the saucer can travel at a rate exceeding the speed of light!” 7 

A privately owned London-based aviation intelligence firm, Aviation Studies (International), evidently took Brown’s efforts seriously. And in an edition of their Aviation Report in October 1954, the company, citing Brown’s Winterhaven project proposal, indicated that the Pentagon was on the verge of funding the development of electrogravitic aircraft. 8 LaViolette adduces numerous other examples proving that such craft were literally taking shape. In another Aviation Report (December 9, 1955), it was stated that companies studying the implications of gravitics included Glenn Martin, Convair, Sperry-Rand, Sikorsky, Bell, Lear Inc., and Clarke Electronics. And in an article two months later, Aviation Report quotes Glenn Martin as alleging that “gravity control could be achieved in six years,” but that it would necessitate a type of highly classified effort along the lines of the Manhattan Engineering District Project. The report also confirmed that research was also being conducted in Britain, Canada, France, Germany, and Sweden. One year later, Aviation Studies confirmed that “Electrostatic discs can provide lift without speed … and a program in hand may now ensure that development of large-sized discs will be continued.” 9 

“In secret studies and laboratories of the mighty of this world,” reported Adamski to his co-workers, following his return from a world tour in 1959, “it is already quite well known how to make use of certain sources of free energy; for instance, canceling gravity, devices for creating electrostatic magnetism, etc. They already have models for anti-gravity cars and antigravity-propelled objects in disc form. But none of these methods for application of a kind of free energy must be revealed to the public, because such a society in possession of these advanced methods would soon escape from economic control.” 

Coincidently, LaViolette points out that, around 1959, openness about gravity technology programs decreased substantially. 10 Since that period, it has remained among the most highly classified, so-called “deep black” Special Access Programs (SAPs). Periodically, however, witnesses come forward who have observed test flights of highly advanced craft. 

A CANADIAN DISC 

Also in 1959, the Avro VZ-9AV Avrocar, a disc-shaped, jet-propelled vehicle designed by John Frost and built by A. V. Roe Ltd. of Canada, was first “flown.” It was powered by three Continental J69 engines driving a central fan which provided “a peripheral air curtain and ground cushion for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) operation.” 11 Following unsuccessful trial hovering flights, the program was canceled a few years later, despite extravagant claims made for its performance. A 1955 CIA memorandum notes, interestingly, that “Mr. Frost is reported to have obtained his original idea for the flying machine from a group of Germans just after World War II….” 12 

In the opinion of several experts, the VZ-9 was a smoke screen. Lieutenant Colonel George Edwards (USAF, retired), for example, is said to have revealed that he and others involved in the project were aware from the outset that it would never be successful. “Although we weren’t cut in on it,” he stated, “we knew that the Air Force was secretly test-flying a real alien spacecraft. The VZ-9 was to be a cover, so the Pentagon would have an explanation whenever people reported seeing a saucer.” 13 

Robert Bracken, a Canadian aviation authority, sent me a photograph of an actual flying disc (reproduced in the photo section), the negative of which had been loaned to him in 1995 by a Royal Canadian Air Force officer who had served in the 1970s. “It is not the Avrocar, but it is a real ‘aircraft,’” Bracken explained, “with a round ‘fuselage,’ twin triangular fins with racing stripes, and what looks like a converted F-86 or CF-100 canopy on top. I asked him all about this ‘aircraft’: he would not say much, but suggested [the photo] was taken at De Havilland.” 14 

In conversation with a uniformed officer at the Fort Eustis Museum, Virginia, where one of the Avrocars is displayed, researcher George Myers was informed that the VZ-9 was the initial step to a successful program in which a disc-shaped aircraft flew to twenty thousand feet. It is quite likely that this is the craft depicted in the photograph, which evidently betrays no signs of a conventional power plant. 

AREA51 

In the early 1960s, Mike Hunt, who held a “Q” clearance from the Atomic Energy Commission and an inter-agency top-secret clearance, observed one such craft, at Groom Dry Lake in Area 51, which he guessed was twenty or thirty feet in diameter. He also claimed to have been present on several occasions when the “flying saucer” was taking off or landing, although he was never allowed actually to observe it. Hunt believed that a highly secret program known as “Project Red Light” or “Redlight”—connected to the discs—was in operation at Area 51 at that time. 15 

“We talked about Area 51 years ago, and at that time I only knew it as a place where we tested our most advanced aircraft,” a friend informed me. “In fact, right up to my retirement two years ago, that was what I knew. At the end of my career, there was a program I was on that required a new development at Area 51. Aviation Week reported the existence of this building and the UFO enthusiasts who spied on GroomLake caught sight of [it], and others wondered what it might be. In fact, it was business as usual with ground support for flight tests. 

“Just yesterday I spoke again with a retired Lockheed mechanic [who] told me that he had worked with half a dozen other men at Area 51 in the nineties. Within five working years of working on that project, six of his buddies had died of cancer. He, however, did not have that problem because he said that he had only worked there about two months, whereas they stayed for two years…. Apparently his diabetes has affected one of his legs, which now needs to be amputated. So with a bleak and possibly short future to look forward to, he told me that the reason he left after two months was because the project scared him. The government had disassembled a flying disc and was building tooling to reassemble the thing. It was very large and had more height than the typically depicted flying saucer. He said that it was definitely not from here. He left the program as soon as he could….” 

FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS 

In a publication of Borderland Sciences Research Foundation in 1967, an article on the infiltration of the U.S. government by aliens, based on a lecture by one Gordon Shandley, created a stir. “Those familiar with this field took Mr. Shandley’s entertaining revelations in their stride,” explained the writer, “but the ‘newcomers’ received the shock of their lives as they listened to this Army Air Corps pilot (1941 clearance Top Secret) expound matter-of-factly on the various types of UFOs as casually as though he were discussing the latest models put out by General Motors. 

“Most of Mr. Shandley’s research in this field stresses the scientific and technical side; but his association with George Adamski, prior to the latter’s death some time ago, acquainted him with the philosophical and religious framework of space…. 

“Mr. Shandley’s elaboration upon the nature of the spaceships revealed that the large mother ships rarely come into the Earth’s atmosphere. The saucers are contact discs operated by remote control from the main ship…. An ionization force is placed around the ship to protect it. A magnetic screen will plow a path ahead of the ship in its course through space…. Apparently the space people have gained comprehension of an unbelievably complex array of one-inch-thick invisible lines of force, none of which touch one another. If these lines do cross, a death ray is produced inimical to anything in its path. 

“Although Earth has been visited by beings from other planets since the time higher forms of life developed here, their most recent attention has been sparked by our atomic explosions and the radar we bounced off the Moon…. 

“It seems that our government is as infiltrated by spacemen as it is supposed to be by Communists—only with better intentions. Their purpose is to aid us spiritually and technically. Mr. Shandley spoke of having consulted personally with at least six individuals from other planets who in an unobtrusive way volunteered information aiding him in his research. Scientific laboratories have also received the benefit of extraterrestrial knowledge. Mr. ‘Man-from-Venus’ will pose as a second or third laboratory assistant. Then, when his suggestions have been adopted, he will quietly melt away and move on to some other spot…. 

“John Q. Public, though conceding God’s place in heaven, was nevertheless jolted on learning that said heaven was more thickly populated than was formerly suspected … several brisk questions were directed to Mr. Shandley regarding the credentials of these interplanetary visitors…. Mr. Shandley calmly replied that their identity was confirmed by Government top brass, and more than this he could not part with as things were coming dangerously near to trespassing on Top Secret territory. The U.S. government, while completely cognizant of interplanetary beings, has formulated a twenty-year education program for the public…. The idea is to break everybody in gradually, by emphasis on outer space exploration, rockets, etc., through news and TV media, which will in time lead to an admission of the true nature of these strange objects…. Until this period of time is up, the Air Force officially will continue to manifest a state of amnesia on UFO reports.” 16 

WHITE SANDS 

One of my sources served with the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1972. “In my initial six months of service,” he reported to me, “I was assigned to the Pentagon in a position that was reasonably uninteresting. During that time, living in and around Washington, D.C., I met with a gentleman who was working the electrical side of hot-rodding VW Beetles. Mine was one of his projects…. 

“One evening, over a couple of beers, he showed me photos of a ‘hot-rod’ version of a flying saucer he took at White Sands Missile Range. He had been employed by a contractor involved in a construction project there in the late 1960s, and the photos I was shown were less than three years old. The photos depicted the saucer-shaped craft maneuvering at about two thousand feet, then flying and hovering at fifty to a hundred feet, and landing. The closest shot was taken from about thirty feet away, when the hatch opened. 

“There were no images of the personnel piloting the saucer, but he made it clear to me that these vehicles were ours, or at least under U.S. military control. The craft parked gave one the impression that the disc was about eighteen feet in diameter. My presumption here is based on my calculation from a three-foot-wide hatchway. It was a medium silver/gray color. The surface skin had a texture—not a rough profile texture, but a smooth and sort of porous-looking texture. To me, it looked like a sheet of aluminum or titanium that had been overheated, then cooled slowly rather than quenched. I recall that the sunlight reflected oddly on the craft, [giving] a pale orange-ish/silver-ish appearance. I drew my rendition in PowerPoint [see below], which has limited tools.” 17 

“Could you help me to distinguish between the types of craft that are constructed here, ‘under license’ as it were, and the ‘real McCoy’?” I asked Fred Steckling in 1976. 

“Well, as far as I have found out from my sources,” he replied, “the Air Force has managed to build several types of these scout ships, and they are not quite as sophisticated as the ones that they have on other planets. They look the same, and they do move around in our atmosphere, but they are not capable of going twenty thousand miles per hour in our atmosphere, because the knowledge that we have so far is to extend force-fields around this vehicle to protect it from any friction, and blend it. Actually, when the spacemen move with this spacecraft, it blends with our atmosphere; it does not force itself into the air, like a jet does, and we do not quite have this knowledge. 

“I only know that what we have at the moment is a craft that uses mirror systems … we have a craft that looks like a doughnut: it has a hole in the center and it has a different arrangement of mirrors built in, so that when the craft is up about two, three hundred feet, hovering, they can, by reflecting the light around it, camouflage it with the background well enough so that if you really didn’t know, you wouldn’t see it…. 

“George Adamski said to me, before he passed on [in 1965], that ‘the Boys’ [as he called his alien friends] had just returned from Russia and they told him that the Russians had developed a scout ship that looked like the one from Venus. It could move around in our atmosphere quite well, and they were going to work on a modification which would take approximately nine months and then they could go to the Moon with it. By 1966, the ship should have been ready to go to—we had not yet landed an astronaut there so, technically speaking, the Russians were capable of visiting the Moon long before we had our astronauts up there…. 

“I know that nations work closer together than we think. This atmosphere of ‘communism’ as the enemy, the escalation of war material, and so on, are a clever set-up to keep our industries from going bankrupt. In other words, ‘no breakage, no make age.’ So you know they’re working together….” 18 

LOCKHEED SKUNKWORKS 

Brad Sorensen, an aviation designer who works mostly for aerospace companies, reported to aviation illustrator Mark McCandlish that during an air show at Norton Air Force Base, California, on November 12, 1988, he was invited by a wealthy former secretary or undersecretary of defense to visit a huge hangar at the base, surrounded by a cordon of military police armed with M-16's. Sorenson’s companion asked one of the guards to fetch an acquaintance of his, the man in charge of the show. When he appeared, it was clear that the two men recognized each other. Queried about Sorensen’s presence, the retired Defense source said Sorensen was his “aide.” Reportedly, the men were then escorted into “the Big Hangar” (as it was called) and shown some highly classified exotic aircraft, including three fully functioning flying saucers. 

“At this point, the story becomes somewhat confusing,” explains Richard Dolan, the distinguished historian and researcher. “Sorensen originally told McCandlish and others that the exhibit of exotic craft took place within the Big Hangar. In later tellings, he added a twist: that in fact the demonstration did not occur at Norton. Rather, the group was escorted aboard an Air Force passenger jet and flown fifty miles northwest to Palmdale. They arrived at the Lockheed Skunk works facility at the west end of the complex, and it was here that the entire exhibit was held. It appears Sorensen was originally trying to withhold certain pieces of the story. 

“They entered the Lockheed hangar, and it was obvious that the exhibit was for politicians and military officials who were cleared for high-security information. As McCandlish and aviation researcher Michael Schratt later put it, ‘the express purpose of the exhibit was to garner additional support for classified “black,” or SAR “special access required” programs.’” 

As soon as they walked in the huge hangar, Sorensen received a warning from the former Defense official. “There are a lot of things in here that I didn’t expect they were going to have on display—stuff you probably shouldn’t be seeing,” he advised. “So, don’t talk to anybody, don’t ask any questions, just keep your mouth shut, smile and nod, but don’t say anything—just enjoy the show.” 

Among the first craft they were shown was a flattened football, diamond-shaped craft, known as the Pulser or “Flaming Pumpkinseed,” an unmanned vehicle supposedly capable of launching nuclear warheads within less than a tenth of a second (an absurdly short time). According to Schratt, eighteen of these vehicles were built during the Reagan administration. 19 Sorensen told McCandlish that after he had been shown this and other craft, he noted a large black curtain dividing the hangar into two different areas. “Behind these curtains was another big area, and inside this area they had all the lights turned off. 

“So, they go in and they turn the lights on, and here are three flying saucers floating off the floor—no cables suspended from the ceiling holding them up, no landing gear underneath—just floating, hovering above the floor. They had little exhibits with a videotape running, showing the smallest of the three vehicles sitting out in the desert, presumably over a dry lakebed—some place like Area 51. It showed this vehicle making three little quick, hopping motions; then [it] accelerated straight up and out of sight, completely disappearing from view in just a couple of seconds…. 

“They had a cutaway illustration [showing] what the internal components of this vehicle [referred to as ‘the Alien Reproduction Vehicle’ (ARV) or ‘Flux Liner’] were, and they had some panels taken off so you could actually look in and see oxygen tanks and a little robotic arm that could extend out from the side of the vehicle for collecting samples and things.” 20 

The three craft were of different sizes—24, 60, and 130 feet in diameter. Nearby, a general was addressing a group of people, referring to the craft and citing various attributes, including an extravagant claim that they could perform at “light speed or better,” Dolan learned from McCandlish. “It had extraordinary acceleration and maneuverability, able to move from a ground-level hovering position to 80,000 feet within 2.5 seconds.” (A preposterously precise time.) “Sorensen noted that the [ARV] looked ‘ancient’ and as though it had been used extensively…. In 1992, McCandlish met a man named Kent Sellen who had been a crew chief at Edwards AFB years before,” Dolan learned. “In 1973, Sellen unintentionally went into an area where he saw a craft exactly matching the description of Sorensen’s [small] ARV. At that point, he was thrown to the ground at gunpoint, blindfolded, taken into custody, and interrogated about his presence there and what he thought he had seen. Sellen even provided McCandlish with details and data about the object that had been unknown to Sorensen.” 21 

McCandlish learned some pertinent information from Sorensen relating to aspects of the ARV’s propulsion. Inside the craft was a central column, for example, containing a type of vacuum chamber: 

“Brad maintained that inside this big vacuum chamber that’s inside everything else—inside the flywheel, inside the secondary coils of the Tesla coil, inside the crew compartment—there is mercury vapor. Mercury vapor will conduct electricity, but it produces all kinds of ionic effects. These little molecules of mercury become charged in unusual ways, and if you fire a tremendous amount of electricity through mercury vapor that’s in a partial vacuum, there is something special, something unusual [that] happens in that process.” 22

It is pertinent to point out here that, in conversation with the gardener Leonard Mantle in 1969, some of the technological information imparted by “Iso Khan” chimes with Sorensen’s description. For instance, Mantle learned that the propulsion system of the craft used by Khan’s race included a cylindrical column that contained mercury (Chapter 12). And in Chapter 13 we learned that the “W56” aliens required mercury for many of their applications, including craft, the propulsion of which they revealed to several of their contacts as part of a technology transfer. 

George Adamski was the first to publish details of a central column inside smaller spacecraft, describing how “a pillar about two feet thick extended downward from the very top of the dome to the center of the floor. Later I was told that this was the magnetic pole of the ship, by means of which they drew on Nature’s forces for propulsion purposes, but they did not explain how this was done.” He did learn, however, that the top of the pole was positive while the bottom was negative. “But, when necessary,” his host explained, “these poles can be reversed,” and added that the central pillar served a double purpose, “as a powerful telescope, with one end pointing up through the dome to view the sky, and the other pointing down through the floor to inspect the land below….” 23 

VANDENBERG AND EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASES 

In 1986, Peter Biagio Tresca, an aerospace engineer, was joint director of Lawrence Engineering and Supply Inc., based in Burbank. Tresca’s daughter Teresa, who worked for her father at the time, recalls seeing blueprints on her father’s desk that depicted what looked like a type of flying saucer. “Apparently the government had made them,” she told me. “I wanted to take the blueprints and show them to my teacher at college, but they weren’t allowed out of the office. 

“My father used to take me to air shows, and in August or September 1988 he took me to a restricted show at Vandenberg. And I saw the demonstration of a flying saucer—like the one on the blueprints. I was busy watching a display of jets when it suddenly came in from the left, came in front of us, and then took off again. I didn’t hear it approaching.” 24 Her husband, British UFO researcher Philip Waterhouse, fills in further details: 

“She said the craft approached from near some hangars and hovered silently at about ten feet, apart from a relatively high-pitched humming noise. Then after about five minutes the craft pitched up and shot off into the sky to the right of where they were standing. There were only about twenty people, including her father and herself, who were witness to this event. 

“She said the craft was about twenty or twenty-five feet wide and about ten feet high. What is interesting about her description is the fact that the bottom was bowed upwards, which is fairly uncommon. And the craft appeared all in one piece, though it seemed to be sectioned in a circular way, with a dome on top. It was silver-colored all over, apart from the [indented] parts, which could have been shadows.” Teresa’s sketches of the side, top, and bottom of the craft appear below: 

“What is also interesting to me and what originally caught my attention when she described her visit there,” Philip continued, “was the fact that before the flying saucer was viewed, she and her father and others were witness to other stealth aircraft—and one triangular craft. 

“She said the triangular craft was completely silent without any discernible humming—only the [displaced] air traveling around it. The craft hovered at about nine feet, tipped forward and backward and turned around its axis, rose another ten feet at least, and then took off silently at great speed. 

“She described the craft as being a dull black (not shiny) with a pitch-black smoky non-see-through dome on top. She also saw what she described as discernable undercarriage arms underneath, which were of a darker-colored black. The craft also had what appeared to be ‘lights’ at each triangular corner —although she didn’t see any light as such. They were of the same smoky dull appearance as the domed canopy on top.” 25 [See sketches below.] 

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Toward the end of the following summer (1989), Teresa accompanied her father to Edwards Air Force Base to attend another restricted air show. The same number of people was present. She saw more of the conventional stealth-type aircraft, and what appeared to be the same black triangle. The saucer-shaped craft did not make an appearance. 

“What was the level of security?” I pressed her. 

“Did you need any special access?” 

“My dad did,” she replied. “I would ask him questions, but he never really told me anything—he was really ‘hush-hush’ about it all.” 

“And it was just a relatively small number of people at these two air shows?” 

“Yes. I would say about fifteen or so—mostly men. Apart from my father, there were other ‘big-wigs’ from Lawrence Engineering, such as Fletcher Seymour, Ray Barker, Ray and Mary Smith…. Of course, there was also a lot of military there.” 

“But weren’t they concerned?” I asked, incredulously. “You were just with your father, and you were let in on it, so to speak?” 

“I think my Dad was questioned about it because he was walked off. They took him off somewhere and questioned him, because that was the last time that I was able to go to a show. And after that, it was like everything was hush-hush.” 26 

Prior to marrying Philip, Teresa worked for five years as a sheriff for the Santa Clarita (California) Sheriff’s Department. I find her testimony compelling, and it provides corroborative evidence for the observations reported by the previous witnesses. 

LOS ALAMOS 

The demonstration of a much smaller craft was described for me by Gregory Molesworth, a former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and platoon commander who served in Vietnam. In Washington, D.C., in February 1994, he told me that eighteen months previously, he had been working as a sound man for a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). While filming at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he witnessed the demonstration of a four-foot-diameter disc, radio controlled via a joystick in a metal-lined laboratory. As “foreign nationals,” British participants were not allowed in—and Molesworth himself was threatened if he tried to film anything.

 CALIFORNIA BASES

“I have been reading recently about all the alleged underground alien labs and facilities and took particular interest in a rumor purporting an underground base of this kind to be located in the Lancaster/Palmdale area near the Tehachapi Mountains,” begins a narrative from “Alex R.,” a woman who together with her friend Annemarie had a somewhat disturbing experience in the early 1980s. 

Annemarie had purchased some undeveloped land in that area. She herself, however, had not yet seen it: her husband Ken had bought the property and confirmed that it was in an ideal location, then deeded it over to her after they divorced, giving her a rough map with some landmarks to assist her in locating it. 

“We drove the nearly two hours to Lancaster/Palmdale and began our search. The map was not much help, however, because it had been made when the area was still undeveloped. And most of the natural landmarks were gone—removed to make room for houses. Every time we found what looked like a road which would take us somewhere, it turned into a dead-end. The area we were in was now full of cul-de-sacs for the housing development that would soon be built on it. After about two and a half hours of driving, we stopped for a cool drink. 

“We got back on the main highway and decided to look for dirt roads in the hope that the land was still undeveloped and that we had missed it…. At last, a broad, well-kept dirt road appeared. At first we thought it might be the entrance to someone’s farm or ranch but, since there wasn’t a mailbox, we decided to proceed. After about half a mile, something odd happened: the dirt road became a wide, beautifully paved asphalt road, with a single white dividing line. We were astounded at this but were glad, as the dirt road was taking its toll on Annemarie’s car. 

“We had driven about two miles when, up ahead, we saw what looked like a dust storm coming out of the mountains. Annemarie slowed down, and we watched. It was not a storm but a vehicle, a car, coming toward us at full speed. ‘Let’s get out of here!’ I said. ‘I don’t think that would be a good idea,’ said Annemarie. She came to a complete stop, right in the middle of the road. ‘Are you crazy?’ I said. ‘Stay calm and let me do the talking,’ she said. 

“The car, a drab olive green late-model sedan, was, by now, up on the road, still driving full speed. They were heading directly for us. I was afraid that they would not stop in time and would hit us. The car stopped, brakes screeching, within inches of us, and two men got out. A third man remained in the car. They were young men, in their mid-thirties, dressed in pale blue coveralls (no name plates or insignias) and baseball caps. One had sandy-colored hair, the other was white-blond. The third man was in the front seat of the car, talking on the radio-microphone. All wore wrap-around sunglasses. Somehow, I knew that we might be in terrible trouble and that we were somewhere we didn’t belong. 

“The sandy-haired man came up to the driver’s side of the car; the blond one was on my side, the passenger side. He kept his right hand in his pocket at all times. I wondered if he was carrying a gun. ‘Good afternoon, ladies!’ said sandy-hair. ‘Where are you going?’ Annemarie showed him the map. ‘We’re trying to find my property,’ she said. ‘Can you help us?’ 

“He studied the map. ‘You haven’t been here for a while, have you?’ he said. ‘All of these places on the map have been removed or destroyed.’ He looked at the map again. ‘This place looks like it might be on the other side of town. Why don’t you look there?’ He was extremely polite, smiling all the while he spoke, yet he terrified me and Annemarie. The blond man never spoke, nor did he smile or look at me. The third man remained on the radio. ‘We’ll be happy to escort you ladies back to the main road.’ 

“Though it sounded like a polite suggestion, it was actually an order to leave now. Annemarie said nothing, merely backed up slowly and drove back, still slowly, to our place of entrance into this ‘forbidden’ area. The men and their car stayed close behind us and followed us for several miles. Annemarie and I did not speak during this time. I think we were too scared. Then, instead of going back to the main part of the city, she took the next freeway on-ramp and headed back home. I noticed that she kept looking in her rear-view mirror. ‘Someone is following us,’ she said. 

“I was too frightened to turn around, so I lowered my sun visor and looked in the vanity mirror. There, a few car lengths behind us, was another late-model sedan, medium blue in color, being driven by a man in a green coverall, wearing a cap and wrap-around sunglasses. His two companions were dressed the same way. ‘They probably want to make sure that we go back home and don’t try to come back,’ said Annemarie. ‘Ken told me that he had heard about the government using parts of that area for secret experiments,’ she said.” 

The car followed the ladies until they were halfway home, then began to back off and eventually disappeared. On arriving home, Annemarie dropped Alex off. They agreed to meet later for dinner at a local restaurant. 

“We were now curious about what had happened and wondered if we should go back or if we would be able to find the road again. We lived in the San Fernando Valley and were not at all familiar with the Antelope Valley area. We then got further into our mutual interest in UFOs [and] jokingly considered the possibility that the ‘men’ we had seen were really aliens. 

“We left the restaurant at about 10:30. The restaurant is situated in a very busy traffic area and is also near a freeway and a very well-known and very busy motor hotel. There is constant noise and traffic at all hours. It is never quiet there. However, this night, things were to be different. When we came out of the restaurant, the street was deserted. This was on a Saturday night, one of the busiest nights of the week for this restaurant. There were no cars going by, no people, no sounds of traffic. In fact, there was no sound of any kind. 27 When Annemarie and I spoke to each other, our voices sounded hollow, far away.” Neither of the ladies had ever seen it so quiet. 

“Then, as if on command,” Alex reported, “we both looked up. There, at a level just over our heads, across the street, was a spacecraft. 

“We could not see the craft itself very clearly, but it was outlined by white lights that ran all around it. It was the shape of an elongated triangle. It remained in its position for what seemed a few minutes. Then it moved away. Suddenly, as if someone had turned up the volume on a TV set, all the normal sounds returned. 

“We walked to our cars and Annemarie checked her watch. ‘Oh, my God!’ she said. ‘What time do you have?’ I looked at my watch and was stunned. It was 12:35 A.M. We had been looking at the spacecraft for two hours and five minutes! 

“That was the final straw and all the fright we wanted to have for one day. We agreed never to go out to look for that ‘forbidden’ area, and Annemarie sold her property soon after this incident. There may be more than just rumors about what is going on in the Tehachapi Mountains….” 28 

Tom Keller (who features in Chapter 9) has worked for British Aerospace, Douglas Aircraft, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In The Total Novice’s Guide to UFOs, he writes extensively about Antelope Valley, described as “a hotbed for the aerospace industry.” 

“When I lived there,” he reports, “Lockheed Martin, Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, and Northrop Grumman all had multiple facilities there.” He mentions a base at the northwest end of the Antelope Valley in the foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains, known as “The Anthill,” and another area known as the Tejon RCS [radar cross-section] Facility. Both are owned by Northrop Grumman. Another site is the Helendale Avionics Facility, owned by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. Observations of flying discs and other unusual craft have been observed periodically over the years. 29 

Researcher Bill Hamilton reports the observation, in the Antelope Valley in October 1988 by two witnesses known to him, of a large boomerang-shaped craft, estimated to be over six hundred feet in span, traveling very slowly. “A second and identical large object joined behind the first one,” he reports in his book, Cosmic Top Secret. “The trailing boomerang was followed by approximately fifteen to twenty disc-shaped objects in formation…. Two additional witnesses saw the boomerangs pass over the valley from a side view to the east, [and these] were also sighted in Fresno later that same evening. The objects rose in altitude to clear the Tehachapi Mountains to the north, flying directly over the secret Northrop ‘Anthill’ facility….” 30 

In 1988, Hamilton learned from a Northrop source that “during the early era,” a disc obtained from aliens via an exchange program had been sequestered underground at Edwards AFB. He also learned from several other sources that construction of underground facilities at the base began in the 1950s, and that a disc or discs had been stored in a hangar at the North base or underground. 31 

PROJECT AQUARIUS 

William J. Pawelec, a former U.S. Air Force computer operations and programming specialist with numerous credentials in security technologies and access control systems, who died in May 2007, also confirmed the alien technology transfer. “I would say this is international in scope,” he told Steven Greer of the Disclosure Project, during an interview that Pawelec had specified not be released until December 2010. “If you look at what layers of influence we have here, either at government or corporate level, I would say that at the corporate level we have to look primarily first. 

“If you’re talking about new propulsion technologies, we would first only look to the aerospace industry. I’ve had deep discussions with some people over a long period of time who—either they or their fathers—had worked for various aerospace companies and had been directly involved with the research as far back as the early 1950s on into the 1960s. And then by the 1970s they felt they had overcome most of the problems in reverse-engineering technologies from what, interestingly enough, they never call them UFOs; they call them AVCs—Alien Visitation Craft.” 32 

A trusted source of mine—the same aerospace journalist who supplied me with a great deal of information on these matters for inclusion in Unearthly Disclosure—has hinted that in the 1980s a few aerospace companies, principally Lockheed and Northrop, had established underground plants inside the Tehachapi Mountains which produced top-secret, high-tech flying machines, allegedly produced by the Air Force’s “Project Aquarius” in conjunction with aerospace and electronics companies. The huge amounts of money involved were distributed and sequestered in the black budget. 

This exchange program purportedly involved a species of the so-called “grays”—aliens who claimed to have first come to Earth just after World War II and began establishing many underground and undersea bases around the world. These were located in areas such as Alaska, Australia, the Caribbean Sea (south of the Florida Keys), the Manzano Mountains near the nuclear weapons storage area at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, and the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. Several other bases were located around the world, mainly in Asia. From the information made available to me, I have deduced that the largest undersea base was probably located in the Milwaukee Seamounts, 32°46′ latitude, 171°91′ longitude, in the Pacific Ocean some 1,700 miles west-northwest of Honolulu. 33 By 1973, they had come to stay. 

Highly telepathic, the beings were about four and a half feet tall, featuring large heads; large almond shaped black eyes; vestigial mouths, noses, and ears; and very thin hands with no thumbs. 

The alien crafts’ propulsion systems “interacted with the magnetic fields existing throughout space and around celestial bodies,” they claimed. Enormously powerful electrical charges were generated in tubelike toruses ranging around the insides of the hulls. The toruses were superconductors, made of materials not found on Earth. They were non-resistant to electric current, allowing the current to run free, and forever. Magnets inside the tubes converted the current into plasma jets. Each ship had several such systems to provide energy for different purposes. The build-up of magnetic fields around the ships, when their propulsion systems powered up, sometimes made them glow. 

Air Force development of its own flying discs owed to their having studied recovered alien craft, a number of which had been brought down by the military. Although it was ascertained that a plasma field surrounding the craft shielded it from guided missiles, oddly enough bullets, shells, and cannon fire could cause severe damage and/or bring down such a craft (as another source confirmed for me), at least in the early days. As Colonel Philip J. Corso states, in later years hostile alien craft could be brought down by advanced particle-beam weapons, such as those fired from Blue Gemini satellites, as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). 33 

The discs reverse-engineered by the USAF were technologically inferior to those of the extraterrestrials, I learned. Nonetheless, the aliens acknowledged that they had underestimated us in this regard and were said to have been impressed. Design and production was said to be almost totally automated. One craft, apparently a two-seater, was described as appearing like two soup-bowls fastened together rim to rim, seamless, with no sign of windows and three slender landing legs which retracted into slots. Entrance was via a hatch under the hull. 

Propulsion was also said to involve plasma: indeed, it has been described as a “plasma-propelled magneto-hydrodynamic vehicle,” and in water a “magnetohydrodynamic vehicle.” 34 A vertical tube, some three feet in diameter, extended from the top of the cabin down through the floor. A superconductor torus of hot plasma circled the horizontal rim of the inner and outer hulls, generating a powerful propulsion field that interacted with Earth’s ambient magnetic field, propelling the craft. Another hot-plasma superconductor torus circled the craft vertically. The craft’s CPU (central processing unit) was alleged to make billions of calculations per second, manipulating the plasma flow to counter G-forces. 

The American pilots wore special helmets that afforded “enhanced reality” for use in the plasma environment. Each helmet is unique to the pilot who wears it, reading his brain’s “electromagnetic signature.” The craft also utilized biocomputers. Viewing ports in the hull appeared only when required. Weaponry consisted of a very powerful beam that focused a mixture of photons and free electrons onto the target. 

I do not know how much of this information is factual. But based on my acquaintance with the source for many years, I feel that, even allowing for disinformation, it is substantially true. 

ITALIAN LIAISON 

In Chapter 13, I detailed some of the wealth of information provided for me by Professor Stefano Breccia regarding the propulsion systems of the Amicizia (W56) craft. On one occasion, he was given the opportunity of a flight in a craft, together with his German engineer friend Hans. No aliens were on board, but both the craft and its occupants were monitored at all times. Stefano told me that a safety precaution involved jumping on board with both feet—presumably to avoid an electric shock (as explained in Chapter 13). Hans took the controls, while Stefano (a licensed pilot of conventional aircraft) was content to make calculations relating to co-ordinates, etc., on his calculator. “I did not want to pilot the craft,” he told me frankly, “but I asked the W56s to show me the co-ordinates. 

“The control unit, on a ledge inside the flange, was most interesting, partly owing to its small size—about that of a PC keyboard. It had virtual images, like modern mobiles, but no keypads. (Today’s mobile phones would not work in a craft, incidentally.) I used my Olivetti 22 typewriter to make notes. 

“The floor was of metal but rather soft and looked like plastic. Light appeared to be generated from nowhere—it’s the air that’s ‘lit.’ Shadows go in the opposite direction from what you would suppose. There were no portholes, but the metal of the craft could be made transparent, enabling one to see either outside or inside. The seats weren’t very comfortable, owing to a triangular-shaped back. And there was a strange instrument that gave off different colors to different portions of air inside the cabin: it’s used for giving an idea of electrical, magnetic and gravitational fields inside—a global measure so you can decide which color should be attributed to a particular thing…. 

“The trip was from Pescara to Moscow, Cairo, then back to Pescara, and the computer showed geographic co-ordinates. We found out that the craft did not travel in a straight line to its destination, but in a curve, which we thought strange. We flew at a very high altitude and at a speed of six to seven thousand kilometers per hour. There was no sensation of movement. Actually, it wasn’t so interesting—I find it more exciting in ordinary planes!” 35 

This may seem somewhat blasé, but less so if we take into consideration the many years Stefano spent in close proximity to both the aliens and their craft. 

Stefano gave me additional details pertaining to the piloting of their craft, which bears comparison with data provided by the previous source: 

“One could just touch certain lighted areas (which today we would call diodes) on a panel in front of the seat which at all times presented one with the only available option in that specific situation. Then it would change—depending. You could choose four different possibilities for going from one place to another: (1) Limiting the amount of energy dissipated; (2) When emphasis is on the duration of travel; (3) When the pilot decides what to do at each moment—or ‘manual override’; (4) Totally remote control, e.g. if the craft comes up against an obstacle, such as a mountain, say, the obstacle (or part thereof) is destroyed. When the computer is involved, it ensures that such obstacles are avoided. 

“For example, when some Italian military pilots were being trained by the W56 to pilot their scoutcraft, at a certain point south of Calabria they detected a ship which they weren’t sure of, sixteen kilometers away at a bearing of 234°. The pilots decided to try to land on the ship, piloting normally without the computer. In doing so, they realized it was a naval ship of undetermined nationality. As they descended, the pilot encountered difficulties so decided to engage the computer, which made the craft land on the ship. 

“Of course, people on the ship, seeing this craft, reacted. And as they were military, they started firing at the craft. The pilots panicked so, via remote control, the W56 remedied the situation, pressing the ‘fly away’ option, in which the computer has control. So, when taking off from the ship, the craft destroyed part of the gun that was firing at them. Of course, the W56s—overviewing the situation—reprimanded the pilots, as they had not been in any danger at all.” 

The reason given by the Amicizia for the transfer of their technology, Stefano revealed to me, was to have humans performing as well as they did, for example with regard to the “CTR”—the contrari—and other groups who opposed them. Furthermore, the W56 group fully expected our pilots to defend themselves against the CTRs. “These types of craft,” Stefano emphasized, “could not be captured or damaged by our weapons.” 

“How many of your country’s pilots have flown these craft?” I inquired. “My guess,” he responded, “is that, among the Amicizia group, ten to fifteen Italian pilots have been trained to fly them.” 36 

How many other countries have acquired alien technology? I do not know. But Paul LaViolette confirms that Canada and a number of European countries have been involved in top-secret research programs since the 1950s, and Fred Steckling cited American–Soviet collaboration. Germany, I assume, would be high on the list, based on Hermann Oberth’s testimony and that of others. There is also hearsay evidence, cited later, that the United States has shared much information with the United Kingdom. 

In any event, as time passes, it will become increasingly difficult to differentiate between “theirs and ours” and—perhaps more pertinently—between “friend or foe”….

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