ENIGMA Blog, Il portale dell'Insolito by Enrico Baccarini: 2007

venerdì 7 dicembre 2007

Secret American Military Space Program?

An artist's impression of X-20 Dyna-Soar
being launched on top of Titan booster, an American USAF
project based on work of German physicists Walter Dornberger, Wernher von Braun
and Eugen Saenger. Allegedly operated only from 1957 to 1963, but is that where
the American military's secret space program began, continuing to this day?

December 1, 2007 San Antonio, Texas - On November 20th, I interviewed Armstrong Aerospace draftsman, Michael Schratt, about his research into the question: Have black budget trillions supported a secret American space program that parallels the public NASA? [ See: 112007 Earthfiles.] Since then, I have received several supportive emails. Very valuable correspondence came from Richard Sauder, Ph.D. in Political Science, and author of three books: Underground Bases & Tunnels: What Is the Government Trying to Hide? © 1995; Kundalini Tales © 1998; and Underwater and Underground Bases © 2001.

One of Richard Sauder’s important discoveries is a New York Times article by reporter William Broad that headlined: “Military’s Secret Star Trek Is Over – Billions Wasted On Complex – and Shuttle.” That article was published on August 7, 1989 – eighteen years ago – and here are the lead sentences:

“The Defense Department is dismantling a secretive, coast-to-coast space complex that cost at least $5 billion and was intended to operate in collaboration with the civilian space shuttle.

“Over the last three years, the department has mothballed a $3.3 billion spaceport in California and scrapped a sprawling control center in Colorado. Last year, it disbanded a secret cadre of 32 astronauts based in Los Angeles.”

The New York Times, August 7, 1989.

This week I talked with Richard Sauder about what convinces him there is a secret military space program, separate from the civilian and public NASA?

Interview:

Richard Sauder, Ph.D., Political Science, and Author of Underground Bases & Tunnels: What Is the Government Trying to Hide? © 1995; Kundalini Tales © 1998; and Underwater and Underground Bases © 2001, San Antonio, Texas: “Let me start with one of the most interesting conversations I’ve had in many years that I had this year of 2007 and then I’ll get into the documentary information and hard data and will tell you why I believe what I was told.

I can tell you that I talked face-to-face earlier this year with a career federal alphabet soup physicist who worked for Project Blue Book back in the 1960s. He’s not one of the publicly known Project Blue Book scientists, but he did work out of Wright-Patterson at the time. He told me that back in the 1960s already, the U. S. Air Force had two UFOs, what he called ‘UFOs’ – that they would fly right out of Wright-Patterson AFB. He said they would open the hangar doors in the middle of the night and fly them right out of the hangars at full bore speed.

One he described as a ‘flying Studebaker’ – somewhat resembling the well-known vintage automobile of that name. The other he alluded to was a huge spherical object. He did not say whether these were of alien origin or reverse-engineered technology.

Over the years, I’ve gotten many indications from a variety of sources that the U. S. military has its own UFOs and this is just another data point from me pointing in the direction of a decades-long military program of deep deceit and thorough lies about the true involvement of U. S. military agencies in secret UFO and space technology and projects. In my view, it is highly likely that there are multiple, secret, classified, tightly compartmentalized UFO and space programs – not just a single space program, Linda, but programS, plural, and that the U. S. military and NASA have been lying through their teeth to the American people about all of this since at least the World War II era, if not before.

Disc On Raised Pylon at Lockheed's
Helendale, California Facility

Helendale, California, is southwest of Barstow and near Edwards AFB on the west
and south of China Lake Naval Weapons Center and Fort Irwin Military Reservation.

Out in Helendale, California, Lockheed has an underground facility where they have tested a lot of their aerospace stealth technology over the years.

[ Editor’s Note: Helendale RCS Test Range - Ufologie.net reports that "the Lockheed facility is adjacent to what used to be the Helendale auxiliary airport, six miles to the north of Helendale, California. This installation also has an visible underground entrance. The Lockheed facility is known as the RCS (Radar Cross-Section) Test Range, but is more widely identified as the 'Helendale facility.'

"Some of the most significant defense-related facilities in the United States are Radar Cross Section (RCS) test ranges. These facilities, being either contractor or government operated, conduct some of the most sensitive test programs in the defense industry. RCS ranges are used to test the radar signatures of various objects, most significantly with the aim of measuring their ability to evade radar detection against various radar types. Stealth platforms that rise from underground on pylons are tested at an RCS range in order to validate the design before flight testing.

Lockheed Martin's Helendale RCS test range, is situated 32 miles east by southeast of Edwards AFB. The range area consists of an antenna array at the southern end, with two secondary target positions situated 425 meters and 1520 meters downrange. The primary test article facility is a large structure situated 2300 meters from the radar array. This is a large, underground complex, with a sliding roof hiding the retractable primary test pylon. A mobile radar antenna is also present, which moves off to the west when not in use to allow the radar sensors to the south a clear field of view to measure the primary test article." ]

Superficially, if you look at this Helendale place from the air, it looks like an airstrip with big radar dishes. But underground, they have a sophisticated arrangement where they can raise huge pylons up from underground with whatever they wish to test. Then, they beam electromagnetic radiation at these things to test their radar signatures.

In my first book, Underground Bases and Tunnels, I actually have two photographs of an unorthodox disc-shaped object mounted on one of these pylons at the Helendale Lockheed facility in California. These photos were passed to me by a fellow researcher, who flew over the site one day and had the good luck to catch one of these tests underway and photograph it in progress. That would have been back in the early 1990s.

The object on the pylon is rather UFO-like in appearance. My best guess is that it looks UFO-like precisely because it is a UFO-like technology that Lockheed was working on. In my opinion, what we see in those photos is only one example of the sorts of technologies that the military-industrial complex is working on and has been working on and keeps mostly hidden from public view.

Pylon rises from underground installation with disk object attached.
Speculation is that electromagnetic radiation is beamed at test objects on the raised pylons.
Photographs originally printed in Underground Bases & Tunnels: What Is the Government
Trying to Hide? © 1995 by Richard Sauder, all rights reserved, written permission required.

DO YOU THINK THAT A SECRET U. S. MILITARY SPACE PROGRAM EMERGED IN THE 1950S BECAUSE WE WERE TRYING TO COPE WITH AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL PRESENCE?

It might be. I don’t know. I think that’s one possible source of secrecy. Another source of secrecy was the Cold War. I believe it is instructive to look at the antecedents of NASA and the manned American space programs, starting all the way back to the immediate post-WWII era and continuing up into the 1950s and 1960s. If you recall, under Project Paperclip, the American military and government brought over to the United States a lot of Nazi scientists and engineers to work on a number of projects – prominent of which was the early space program.

Group of Project Paperclip German physicists at Ft. Bliss, Texas, circa 1947.

[ Editor's Note: Wikipedia - "Operation, or Project, Paperclip was the code name under which the U.S. intelligence and military services extracted German scientists from Nazi Germany, during and after the final stages of World War II. In 1945, the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) was established and given direct responsibility for Operation Paperclip.

"In early August 1945, Colonel Holger N. Toftoy, Chief of the Rocket Branch in the Research and Development Division of Army Ordnance, offered initial one-year contracts to the rocket scientists. After Toftoy agreed to take care of their families, 127 scientists accepted the offer. In September 1945, the first group of seven rocket scientists arrived from Germany at Fort Strong in the US: Wernher von Braun, Erich W. Neubert, Theodor A. Poppel, August Schultze, Eberhard F. M. Rees, Wilhelm Jungert and Walter Schwidetzky. Eventually the rocket scientists arrived at Fort Bliss, Texas, for rocket testing at White Sands Proving Grounds as 'War Department Special Employees.'"

Werner von Braun, Walter Dornberger and Eugen Saenger

Major General Walter Dornberger (on left), Commander of the V-2 laboratory
at Peenemnde, Germany, standing next to physicist Wernher von Braun (arm in cast), who
had invented the V-2 rocket. Photograph taken in Austria on May 3, 1945, after surrender
to American troops. Image source: National Archives and Records Administration.

Werner von Braun, for example, brought over a team of more than 100 Nazi scientists and engineers and they went out first of all to Fort Bliss, Texas, and soon after to the White Sands Proving Ground in southern New Mexico. The U. S. Army, at the same time, brought over as many V-2 (Vengeance 2) rockets as it could recover from occupied Nazi Germany. Von Braun and his crew spent several years doing scores of test launches of V-2s from launch complex Number 33 at White Sands.

THE REASON WHY I BROUGHT UP THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL QUESTION IS THAT IT’S NOW PRETTY WELL DOCUMENTED THAT AT WHITE SANDS DURING THAT PROJECT PAPERCLIP EXPERIMENTATION WITH THE V-2 ROCKETS, THERE WERE WHITE OR SILVER DISCS INTERACTING WITH LAUNCHES AND CAUSING PROBLEMS.

Yes, I think that’s correct. I think there is also some information to indicate that von Braun and perhaps others of his team were brought in on the (July 1947) Roswell crash scenario to consult on that recovery operation. So, it’s entirely plausible to me that von Braun and the ex-Nazis at White Sands had some involvement with the extraterrestrial question, beginning all the way back at the immediate post-WWII period.

Then von Braun and his crew left White Sands and went to the Army’s Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, where they continued to perfect ballistic missile technology, both for the military and the burgeoning civilian NASA manned space program effort.

Werner von Braun’s boss at Peenemuende, Germany, where the Nazis fired the V-2s and V-1 rockets during WWII was SS General Walter Dornberger also brought over to the United States under Project Paperclip. Dornberger brought with him the plans for the next generation of chemical rocket technology that the Nazis were working on at the close of WWII. That was the boost-glide technology first proposed by Eugen Saenger before WWII.

[ Editor’s Note: Major-General and physicist, Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger (September 6, 1895 - June 27, 1980) was a leader of Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemuende Army Research Center. In April 1930, Dornberger was appointed to the Ballistics Council of the German Army Weapons Department as Assistant Examiner to secretly develop a mass-producible military liquid-fuel rocket to surpass the range of artillery. On December 21, 1932, Dr. Dornberger watched a rocket motor explode at Kummersdorf while Wernher von Braun tried to light it with a flaming gasoline can at the end of a four-meter pole.

The first successful V-2 test launch was the third test on October 3, 1942, from the Isle of Usedom in east Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Ten months later on July 7, 1943, Major-General Dornberger, Wernher von Braun and Dr. Ernst Steinhoff were flown to Hitler's Führerhauptquartier headquarters where Hitler viewed the film of the successful V-2 test launch, narrated by Dr. von Braun.

Rocket physicist Dornberger was brought to the United States in Operation Paperclip to develop guided missiles. From 1950 to 1965, he worked for the Bell Aircraft Corp. and was a key consultant for the X-20 Dyna-Soar project and the Strategic Air Command (SAC)'s nuclear air-to-surface guided missile called Rascal.

Wernher von Braun, the former technical head at Peenemünde, went beyond the Project Paperclip V-2 rocket research to lead development of the Saturn rocket, which was to carry Apollo 11, with astronauts Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr., to the moon on July 20, 1969. After that successful moon landing, Wernher von Braun became Director of the National Aeroronautics and Space Administration, NASA.

Eugen Saenger (September 22, 1905 - February 10, 1964) was a German rocket propulsion engineer whose "antipodal bomber" - a boost by liquid rocket to gliding in stratospheric altitude, had a range far greater than what was possible by its fuel capacity alone.

Dornberger was working on the A-4 with the A-9 and A-10 to come with which the Nazis hoped to bomb the mainland United States. Dornberger, therefore, brought along all the research and development blueprints and technical specifications for these projects and they proved to be the forerunner of the later space shuttle.

Dyna-Soar - Beginning of Secret
American Military Space Program?

When Dornberger arrived in the U. S., he was farmed out to the Bell Corporation in upstate New York and there he helped design and develop the USAF’s Dyna-Soar space plane project, which was the forerunner of our space shuttle. But Dyna-Soar was the original manned space shuttle program, which was developed in the 1950s by the USAF. And the Air Force put a lot of money into developing the X-20 Dyna-Soar, for which they planned to use Titan boosters. But publicly, the Titans were used to put the Gemini spacecraft into orbit."

[ Editor’s Note: Wikipedia - "The X-20 Dyna-Soar ("Dynamic Soarer") was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a space plane that could be used for a variety of military missions, including reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance and sabotage of enemy satellites. Officially, the Dyna-Soar program ran from October 24, 1957 to December 10, 1963.

Dyna-Soar was much more like the much later civilian NASA Space Shuttle. It could not only be boosted and travel to distant targets at the speed of an intercontinental ballistic missile, but it was designed to glide to earth like an airplane under the control of the pilot. It could land at an airfield, rather than simply falling to earth and landing with a parachute. Dyna-Soar could also reach earth orbit, like the Mercury or Gemini. This made Dyna-Soar far more advanced in concept than the other human spaceflight missions of the period. It had military missions other than simply placing one or two men into space.

Maximum Dyna-Soar Speed: 17,500 mph (28,165 km/h)
Range: Earth orbit 22,000 nautical miles, (40,700 km)
Service Ceiling: 530,000 ft (160 km)
Rate of Climb: 100,000 ft/min (510 m/s)

In April 1960, eight astronauts were secretly chosen for the Dyna-Soar program.

1) Neil Armstrong (NASA) 1960–62
2) Albert H. Crews, Jr. (Air Force) 1962–63
3) Bill Dana (NASA) 1960–62
4) Henry C. Gordon (Air Force) 1960–63
5) Pete Knight (Air Force) 1960–63
6) Russell L. Rogers (Air Force) 1960–63
7) Milt Thompson (NASA) 1960–63
8) James W. Wood (Air Force) 1960–63" ]

By the end of 1962, Dyna-Soar had been given the designation X-20, the acceleration rocket (to be used in the Dyna Soar I drop-tests) and had been successfully fired. The USAF held an 'unveiling' ceremony for the X-20 in Las Vegas and yet mysteriously, the cancellation of the Dyna-Soar project was announced a year later in December 1963 right after spacecraft construction had begun and $660 million had been spent, according to public records.

But is that where the cover-up of the secret military American space program began and the diversion of trillions of dollars over the next years to finance its operations?

Secret American Military Space Program?

“The Defense Department is dismantling a secretive, coast-to-coast space complex that cost at least $5 billion and was intended to operate in collaboration with the civilian space shuttle.

“Over the last three years, the department has mothballed a $3.3 billion spaceport in California and scrapped a sprawling control center in Colorado. Last year, it disbanded a secret cadre of 32 astronauts based in Los Angeles.”

The New York Times, August 7, 1989.

This week I talked with Richard Sauder about what convinces him there is a secret military space program, separate from the civilian and public NASA?

Interview:

Disc On Raised Pylon at Lockheed's
Helendale, California Facility

Helendale, California, is southwest of Barstow and near Edwards AFB on the west
and south of China Lake Naval Weapons Center and Fort Irwin Military Reservation.

Out in Helendale, California, Lockheed has an underground facility where they have tested a lot of their aerospace stealth technology over the years.

[ Editor’s Note: Helendale RCS Test Range - Ufologie.net reports that "the Lockheed facility is adjacent to what used to be the Helendale auxiliary airport, six miles to the north of Helendale, California. This installation also has an visible underground entrance. The Lockheed facility is known as the RCS (Radar Cross-Section) Test Range, but is more widely identified as the 'Helendale facility.'

"Some of the most significant defense-related facilities in the United States are Radar Cross Section (RCS) test ranges. These facilities, being either contractor or government operated, conduct some of the most sensitive test programs in the defense industry. RCS ranges are used to test the radar signatures of various objects, most significantly with the aim of measuring their ability to evade radar detection against various radar types. Stealth platforms that rise from underground on pylons are tested at an RCS range in order to validate the design before flight testing.

Lockheed Martin's Helendale RCS test range, is situated 32 miles east by southeast of Edwards AFB. The range area consists of an antenna array at the southern end, with two secondary target positions situated 425 meters and 1520 meters downrange. The primary test article facility is a large structure situated 2300 meters from the radar array. This is a large, underground complex, with a sliding roof hiding the retractable primary test pylon. A mobile radar antenna is also present, which moves off to the west when not in use to allow the radar sensors to the south a clear field of view to measure the primary test article." ]

DO YOU THINK THAT A SECRET U. S. MILITARY SPACE PROGRAM EMERGED IN THE 1950S BECAUSE WE WERE TRYING TO COPE WITH AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL PRESENCE?

Group of Project Paperclip German physicists at Ft. Bliss, Texas, circa 1947.

[ Editor's Note: Wikipedia - "Operation, or Project, Paperclip was the code name under which the U.S. intelligence and military services extracted German scientists from Nazi Germany, during and after the final stages of World War II. In 1945, the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) was established and given direct responsibility for Operation Paperclip.

"In early August 1945, Colonel Holger N. Toftoy, Chief of the Rocket Branch in the Research and Development Division of Army Ordnance, offered initial one-year contracts to the rocket scientists. After Toftoy agreed to take care of their families, 127 scientists accepted the offer. In September 1945, the first group of seven rocket scientists arrived from Germany at Fort Strong in the US: Wernher von Braun, Erich W. Neubert, Theodor A. Poppel, August Schultze, Eberhard F. M. Rees, Wilhelm Jungert and Walter Schwidetzky. Eventually the rocket scientists arrived at Fort Bliss, Texas, for rocket testing at White Sands Proving Grounds as 'War Department Special Employees.'"

Werner von Braun, Walter Dornberger and Eugen Saenger

[ Editor’s Note: Major-General and physicist, Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger (September 6, 1895 - June 27, 1980) was a leader of Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemuende Army Research Center. In April 1930, Dornberger was appointed to the Ballistics Council of the German Army Weapons Department as Assistant Examiner to secretly develop a mass-producible military liquid-fuel rocket to surpass the range of artillery. On December 21, 1932, Dr. Dornberger watched a rocket motor explode at Kummersdorf while Wernher von Braun tried to light it with a flaming gasoline can at the end of a four-meter pole.

The first successful V-2 test launch was the third test on October 3, 1942, from the Isle of Usedom in east Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Ten months later on July 7, 1943, Major-General Dornberger, Wernher von Braun and Dr. Ernst Steinhoff were flown to Hitler's Führerhauptquartier headquarters where Hitler viewed the film of the successful V-2 test launch, narrated by Dr. von Braun.

Rocket physicist Dornberger was brought to the United States in Operation Paperclip to develop guided missiles. From 1950 to 1965, he worked for the Bell Aircraft Corp. and was a key consultant for the X-20 Dyna-Soar project and the Strategic Air Command (SAC)'s nuclear air-to-surface guided missile called Rascal.

Wernher von Braun, the former technical head at Peenemünde, went beyond the Project Paperclip V-2 rocket research to lead development of the Saturn rocket, which was to carry Apollo 11, with astronauts Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr., to the moon on July 20, 1969. After that successful moon landing, Wernher von Braun became Director of the National Aeroronautics and Space Administration, NASA.

Eugen Saenger (September 22, 1905 - February 10, 1964) was a German rocket propulsion engineer whose "antipodal bomber" - a boost by liquid rocket to gliding in stratospheric altitude, had a range far greater than what was possible by its fuel capacity alone.

Dyna-Soar - Beginning of Secret
American Military Space Program?

[ Editor’s Note: Wikipedia - "The X-20 Dyna-Soar ("Dynamic Soarer") was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a space plane that could be used for a variety of military missions, including reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance and sabotage of enemy satellites. Officially, the Dyna-Soar program ran from October 24, 1957 to December 10, 1963.

Dyna-Soar was much more like the much later civilian NASA Space Shuttle. It could not only be boosted and travel to distant targets at the speed of an intercontinental ballistic missile, but it was designed to glide to earth like an airplane under the control of the pilot. It could land at an airfield, rather than simply falling to earth and landing with a parachute. Dyna-Soar could also reach earth orbit, like the Mercury or Gemini. This made Dyna-Soar far more advanced in concept than the other human spaceflight missions of the period. It had military missions other than simply placing one or two men into space.

Maximum Dyna-Soar Speed: 17,500 mph (28,165 km/h)
Range: Earth orbit 22,000 nautical miles, (40,700 km)
Service Ceiling: 530,000 ft (160 km)
Rate of Climb: 100,000 ft/min (510 m/s)

In April 1960, eight astronauts were secretly chosen for the Dyna-Soar program.

1) Neil Armstrong (NASA) 1960–62
2) Albert H. Crews, Jr. (Air Force) 1962–63
3) Bill Dana (NASA) 1960–62
4) Henry C. Gordon (Air Force) 1960–63
5) Pete Knight (Air Force) 1960–63
6) Russell L. Rogers (Air Force) 1960–63
7) Milt Thompson (NASA) 1960–63
8) James W. Wood (Air Force) 1960–63" ]

But is that where the cover-up of the secret military American space program began and the diversion of trillions of dollars over the next years to finance its operations?

lunedì 26 novembre 2007

Do Black Budget Trillions Support A Secret American Space Program?

Do Black Budget Trillions Support A Secret American Space Program?

Jane's Intelligence Briefing, 1997 - No. 1: “The aero-diamond's aerospike
engine and diamond platform could propel the craft to speeds of Mach 14.”

November 20, 2007 Elmhurst, Illinois - The whole world knows about September 11, 2001, when the two World Trade towers melted down to New York City streets after terrorist-controlled airliners flew into them. The day before, on September 10th, 2001, then Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, declared his own war on the Pentagon bureaucracy for wasting so much unaccounted money. Sec. Rumsfeld said, “According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions.”

One of Rumsfeld’s worried employees was Jim Minnery from the Defense Department’s Finance and Accounting Service. He backed up Rumsfeld by saying, "We know the money is gone. But we don't know what they spent it on." Minnery, a former Marine turned whistle-blower, risked his job by speaking out about millions of dollars missing from Department of Defense (DOD) balance sheets.

Twenty years earlier in the early 1980s, Department of Defense Analyst Franklin Spinney also made headlines exposing what he called "accounting games in which the books are cooked routinely year after year.”

Trillions of dollars “cooked” – by whom? And for what reason? These questions were behind one of the presentations at the Las Vegas UFO Crash Retrieval Conference November 10-11, 2007. Michael Schratt, 38-year-old, has always had a passion for studying airplanes and even took some Parks College courses in aerospace engineering in St. Louis. He did not earn a degree, but he went on to become an autocad draftsman working on aerospace components. Today, he is an Aerospace draftsman for Armstrong Aerospace based in Elmhurst Illinois.

Michael has a theory about where all the black budget DOD trillions have been going over the past 60 years: to fund a TOP SECRET space program that no citizen in the United States knows about – including most of Congress. If true, it means that NASA is only public window dressing for a much bigger and more advanced American clandestine program to dominate and weaponize space. Schratt thinks it all began in the 1940s when Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman realized that non-human, “celestial” and “interplanetary” technologies were interacting with our planet. By 1958, the public arm of a space program - NASA - is what Michael Schratt thinks was created in parallel with another secret space program.

Interview:

Michael Schratt, Aerospace Draftsman, Armstrong Aerospace, Elmhurst, Illinois: “We’re spending multiple billions of dollars on classified black budget programs with no Congressional oversight whatsoever. One quick example is a document that I ran across at the Library of Congress, which is directly in back of the Capitol in Washington, D. C. There you can pick up a document called, “DOD Budget for Fiscal Year 1994” or whatever year.

The new budget is handed out to Congress every January and the document has the subtitle: RD T&E Programs (R-1), which stands for Research Development Test & Evaluation Programs R-1. It’s approximately 24 pages in length and when you go through this document, it starts to describe a number of programs that the Air Force is involved in and the funding for particular programs and they are called “Program Elements” or “Line Item Numbers.”

When you look through the budget document, it gives you specific details about a number of programs they are working on, such as Foreign Technology Division. And in the lists, it highlights programs called Senior Year and Forest Green.

Department of the U. S. Air Force Budget for Year 1994 RDT&E Program.
Red dots highlight SENIOR YEAR and FOREST GREEN, for which there is no budget
amounts given, in contrast to the budget amounts given in upper half of the page.

[ Editor's Note: An Earthfiles reader searched Code Names: DECIPHERING U.S. MILITARY PLANS, PROGRAMS AND OPERATIONS IN THE 9/11 WORLD © 2005 by William M. Arkin ISBN 1-58642-083-6 by Steerforth Press and found the following information:

FOREST GREEN: 1. Sensors aboard the nuclear detonation detection system satellites. 2. Possible clandestine air force intelligence program, a classified location of the DOD Intelligence Information System (DODIIS)

FOREST has also been a US-Japanese first word

SENIOR YEAR: (SYERS) U-2 Contingency Airborne Reconnaissance System (CARS) Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) reconnaissance system. The SENIOR YEAR program was a special access program until July 1999.

SENIOR was/is an Air Force special access program and reconnaissance-related first word. Historically, it has included code names for foreign operations such as SENIOR BOOK (Taiwanese U-2 operations over China) SENIOR LOOK (U-2 operations in Europe), and various Cold War reconnaissance. ]

I believe that we are definitely running two space programs: one space program in the form of a public relations space program like we see in NASA. Then the other is a much more privatized defense contractor program that is exempt from Congressional oversight.

I did interview a number of retired Skunk Works engineers who did work on those programs and said they did reach the flying status, so a number of those programs were a flying prototype.

Black Space Program to Interact
with Non-Human Presence?

Wright-Patterson AFB Hangar #4, Bay E. Michael Schratt: “Retired USAF pilot Warren Botz
said that in 1966 he saw a large, 116-foot-diameter man-made flying saucer in this
hangar during a 'Flying Tigers' reunion. The below diagrams of the MacDill discs near the
WPAFB hangar. This might help others to identify/remember that 'flying disc' was located

in that particular hangar back in 1966. Just for reference, four sizes were seen at MacDill
AFB by Jack Pickett during September of 1967, with only the large 116-foot-diameter
craft seen by Warren Botz at WPAFB (both men are still alive). ”
Image © 2003 by Michael Schratt.

Michael Schratt created this modern computer graphic composite with his colleague,

Gino Marcomini, to illustrate what Schratt and Marcomini imagine the classified "flying discs"
might have looked like in 1967 at MacDill AFB, Tampa, Florida.

Computer graphic illustration of 1966-1967 USAF “manmade flying disc”

WHAT IS YOUR PERSONAL OPINION FROM EVERYTHING YOU’VE COMBED THROUGH ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THE ONES THAT DON’T GET DEVELOPED – AND EVEN THOSE THAT GET TO THE MODEL STAGE AND THEN ARE SCRAPPED – THAT IT COULD BE A COVER, CAMOUFLAGE, FOR A HUGE BLACK PROGRAM WHICH WE WONDER IS RELATED TO OUR GOVERNMENT’S EFFORTS TO INTERACT WITH A NON-HUMAN PRESENCE?

That could be. And I can highlight a document that was written by Mr. Ben Rich, the former head of Lockheed Skunk Works just after Kelly Johnson. Rich took over the reins from Johnson back in 1975. Ben Rich was a very close friend of John Andrews, who was the Senior Special Projects of Special Divisions at Testor’s Model Corporation in San Diego, California.

UFOs, Both E. T. and Manmade:
"Unfunded Opportunities"

John would ask Ben Rich questions about classified aircraft and Ben never released any specific classified answers, but he did provide John Andrews some interesting points. One of these points was a question that John posed to Ben Rich. He was asking Ben if he was a believer in manmade UFOs and extraterrestrial UFOs. We have Ben’s response – I’m looking at this document. It’s dated July 21, 1986. It’s on official Lockheed letterhead from Ben Rich.

Ben Rich and the F-117A Nighthawk. Benjamin Robert Rich (June 18, 1925 – January 5, 1995)
was the second director of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991, succeeding its founder,
Kelly Johnson. Regarded as the "father of stealth," Ben Rich was responsible for leading the
development of the F-117, the first production stealth aircraft. He also worked on the F-104,
U-2, SR-71, A-12, and F-22 among others, many of which are still classified.

‘July 21, 1986

Dear John:

Yes, I'm a believer in BOTH categories. I feel everything is possible. Many of our manmade UFOs were unfunded opportunities.

In both categories, there are a lot of geeks and charlatans. Be cautious.’

So, the question is: what exactly did Ben Rich mean when he talked about ‘unfunded opportunities’? Was he speaking of classified programs within the Skunk Works that did not get proper funding? Or, was he speaking of hand-me-downs that we received from others?

Technology "To Take E. T. Home"

ISN’T IT BEN RICH WHO SPOKE ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO AT A MEETING IN CALIFORNIA AND SAID WE HAD THE TECHNOLOGY ‘TO TAKE E. T. HOME’?

That’s exactly correct, Linda. I have that quote right here. Mr. Ben Rich passed away in 1995 and before he passed away, he dropped a number of bombshells. This took place at Wright-Patterson AFB back in 1993. He gave a slide presentation there and also at the UCLA School of Engineering Alumni speech – he gave on March 23, 1993. At the very end of his presentation, in both of these venues, he completed his slides with the following quote: ‘The U. S. Air Force has just given us a contract to take E. T. back home.’

He also mentioned, ‘We also know how to travel to the stars.’ And he also mentioned at the UCLA speech, ‘It is time to end all secrecy on this as it no longer poses a national security threat and to make the technology available for use in the private sector.’ That’s exactly what we’re talking about here.

He was telling us about a whole level of aircraft, of spacecraft, of advanced propulsion systems that are so far advanced. He even mentioned technologies that are 50 years beyond even what we could possibly dream of. Now, when you hear that coming from the Director of the Skunk Works, I think it is important to really take that to heart. This gentleman knew something and he was trying to tell us something. And I think this is the space program that none of us have a clue about in the civilian sector. This is what Ben Rich was trying to tell us about.

THAT THERE IS A SECOND, SECRET PARALLEL SPACE PROGRAM TO NASA.

Absolutely – 100%.

"Lifting Body" Demonstrated At Norton AFB
on November 12, 1988

DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER DETAILS TO FILL IN ABOUT WHO THE ASTRONAUTS COULD BE AND WHAT MIGHT BE THE CURRENT MOST CUTTING EDGE AERIAL CRAFT WE MIGHT HAVE IN SECRET?

I do not know who the secret astronaut corps would be, but I do have at least an idea of some of the craft they might fly. I will reference an event that took place on November 12, 1988 – this is two days after the F-117A was declassified and put into the public domain. This was an exhibit to garner support for black budget aerospace programs. We know that California Congressman George Brown, Jr., was present. We also know that U. S. Senator Alan Cranston was present and a number of high-level military brass was also present at this classified exhibit. This was not open to the general public.

Now, one aerospace engineer who did come forward and provide details – he was actually at this exhibit. He mentioned that there were a number of aircraft in this hangar. There were two semi-classified hovercraft that have now since gone into the commercial industry. He also described a flattened football, diamond-shaped aircraft.

Reference: Aviation Week & Space Technology December 24, 1990, has a very good drawing, a schematic of what this particular aircraft looked like. Roughly it was 100 feet in length and approximately 65 feet wide – completely composed of heat-ablative thermo-resistance space shuttle tiles - the same tiles that you would see on the space shuttle.

[ Editor's Note: Thermal Protection System (TPS) reinforced carbon-carbon that can withstand up to 3,000 degrees F. on reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.]

On control surfaces along the leading and trailing edges of the aircraft; tricycle landing gear with wire mesh wheels; and this was a completely unmanned aircraft. This was one of the aircraft that was at the 1988 exhibit.

This was an unmanned aerial vehicle that had 121 launch tubes at the lower portion of the fuselage. They had the capability of launching a 1/10th megaton warhead at less than 1/10th of a second. There were 18 of these aircraft built during the Reagan Administration.

THAT MEANS THE NUCLEAR MISSILES COULD BE LAUNCHED FROM HIGH IN OUR ATMOSPHERE WITHOUT HAVING PILOTS INSIDE THOSE AIRPLANES?

That’s exactly correct. They could be to the Soviet Union in less than three hours and then be back home and the Soviet Union would not even know what was going on because these things are extremely stealthy and could not be intercepted via missiles or aircraft.

WHERE DO YOU THINK THESE AIRCRAFT ARE TODAY?

No one knows, but I can only guess that some of them are at a remote facility at Eglin AFB, Florida. They could also be at an underground facility called ‘Dyson’s Dock’ at the remote test site in Nevada, also known as ‘Area 51.’ And then also the third option is Edwards North Base, Mohave, California.

Electrostatic Reduction of Wing Drag Saves Fuel -
Why No Application to Civilian Aircraft?

IN YOUR PRESENTATION, I THOUGHT ONE OF THE FASCINATING BUT DISTURBING PART WAS A DRAWING FOR A PLANE OF A MILITARY APPLICATION IN WHICH ELECTROSTATIC FIELDS WERE PLACED ON THE FRONT OF THE WINGS AND I THINK AND IN THE TAIL IN ORDER TO REDUCE DRAG.

That’s correct. Now, this comes from March 9, 1992, Aviation Week & Space Technology. That is the reference for this and you will recall that twenty-one Northrup B-2 ATV stealth bombers have been built at the cost of $2.2 billion per aircraft. The Northrup engineers who worked on the program were getting really disgusted that the technologies associated with the B-2 were not being trickled down into the commercial airline industry. That’s why they came forward.

Text and illustrations above and below by Michael Schratt.

What the engineers said is that a number of technologies that are actually in use on the B-2 were classified technologies. One of them referenced, ‘T. T. Brown [Townsend Brown] Electrogravitic Patent No. 3,187, 206, specifically talking about how the B-2 electrically charges the leading edge of the wing to reduce the radar cross section. Then it negatively charges the exhaust gases to reduce the infrared signature. They also found out that a 1968 report from Northrup Grumman Corp. was that when you electrically charge the leading edge of the wing, there is a resulting drag coefficient reduction up to 60%. That could be retrofitted to the commercial airline industry, but it’s not happening. And that’s why the engineers came forward.

IF WE WERE ABLE TO REDUCE THE DRAG ON OUR AIRLINERS BY 60%, THAT WOULD REDUCE THE FUEL DEMAND BY A LARGE AMOUNT.

That’s exactly correct, yes. The implications are staggering and this has so many applications, but is not being used and that was the reason Northrup engineers came forward. And I certainly hope some day we do see this technology.

IN A DAY AND AGE RIGHT NOW WHERE WE ARE FIGHTING FOR EVERY DROP OF OIL AND JET FUEL THAT WE CAN GET, ISN’T THERE SOMETHING CRIMINAL ABOUT THE SEPARATION AND SUPPRESSION OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FROM CIVILIAN APPLICATIONS?

I could not agree more, Linda. It’s our Constitutional obligation to question authority and that’s what we are doing tonight. I think an accounting should be made of these programs. They should be brought out into the light. Many of these programs represent absolutely no threat to the national security. That’s why I think they should be exposed.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WOULD TAKE TO GET THIS OTHER SECRET OPENED UP?

I think it would take a massive effort of engineers who have worked on the program willing to come forward with the hardware to back it up. We just can’t have only lights in the sky and we can’t just have testimonies and documents. It’s got to be a full frontal attack. We’ve got to have the actual hardware.

You and I both know that the U. S. Air Force, the industrial-military complex privatized sector, they have archives, buildings, storage facilities with gun camera footage, with documentation, black and white glossy old time photos officially stamped ‘USAF Photographs’ that used to be at MacDill AFB, Florida, Armed Guard facility. These facilities do exist. Some of the secrets are in those and it’s my goal to at least tap into some of that.

THE PHOTOS YOU ARE REFERENCING WOULD BE SUPPRESSED GOVERNMENT PHOTOS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS THAT ARE NOT FROM EARTH?

Some of them that used to be classified programs that did have stability problems and those photographs have never been seen, yes. But they were manmade craft.

SO THEY ARE MANMADE CRAFT PERHAPS MIMICING SOMETHING THAT WE’VE BEEN TRYING TO BACK-ENGINEER (OF AN ALIEN SOURCE)?

That’s a very high possibility, yes, and that’s exactly what Ben Rich might have been alluding to when he made that comment about ‘unfunded opportunities.’

"Alien Reproduction Vehicle (ARV)"
Norton AFB, November 12, 1988

WHEN YOU TAKE ALL OF THE RESEARCH THAT YOU HAVE DONE, WHAT WAS YOUR OWN GREATEST SHOCK?

My greatest shock – I would have to say there were two shocks. Shock # 1 came when I got some details about the other aircraft at Norton AFB that looked like a flattened football, plus a group of other aircraft - and we can’t even call them aircraft because they don’t work on the principles of aerodynamic lift.

Illustration based on eyewitness descriptions of Norton AFB, California,
Alien Reproduction Vehicle (ARV) © by Mark McCandlish.

These were three craft measuring 24, 60 and 130 feet in diameter. They looked like a classic flying saucer, or almost like a Jell-o mold. There was an upper crew compartment that looked somewhat like a sphere with composite panels about a 35-degree angle from the centerline of the craft. The smallest craft had a crew of four that used off-the-shelf components. Now, that was very much stressed – off-the-shelf components. This was a completely manmade craft. An ejection system taken directly off the F4 Phantom was used on this particular ‘Jell-o mold’ craft. There were six CCD cameras along the circumference of the upper crew compartment and one on top for a total of seven (cameras). They could all be used in conjunction with each other and produce an artificial image on the inside of the pilot’s visor via the Apache display system.

Now, along the central column, we believe there was a nuclear containment device and an articulated arm on the lower portion of the craft and a number of copper capacitor plates that used the Biefeld-Brown effect.

[ Editor’s Note: Wikipedia - The Biefeld–Brown effect is an effect that was discovered by Thomas Townsend Brown and Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld. The effect is more widely referred to as electrohydrodynamics (EHD), or sometimes electro-fluid-dynamics, a counterpart to the well-known magneto-hydrodynamics. Extensive research was performed during the 1950s and 1960s on the use of this electric propulsion effect during the publicized era of gravity control propulsion research. During 1964, Major De Seversky published his related work in U. S. Patent 3,130,945, and with the aim to forestall any possible misunderstanding about these devices, had termed these flying machines "ionocrafts." Similar modern flying devices are now called EHD thrusters.]

These craft were hovering off the floor and they were bobbing, just like you would see a large tanker at port, just bobbing on their own waves.

The U. S. military general who was giving the lecture at this exhibit stated that these craft could do light speed, or better. So, I think that was one of my first shocks. That demonstration coincided with a public Norton AFB Air Show, which was public. But the exhibit (of Jell-o mold craft) inside the big hangar was not public.

Interestingly, at the Vegas Crash Retrieval Conference, I received a comment from a man who said he was at Norton AFB at the time and he said that base just prior to the air show went on lock down and they had dogs all over the place and armored personnel, military police and it was very unprecedented.

DO YOU THINK THE 'JELLO MOLD' LIFTING BODY WAS LITERALLY NON-HUMAN TECHNOLOGY AND NOT BACK-ENGINEERED?

Well, the craft had two code names. It was called the ‘Alien Reproduction Vehicle (ARV)’ and it was also called the ‘Fluxliner’ because it was based on high voltage electricity. The gentleman that I spoke to stressed that this was off-the-shelf components. There was nothing alien specifically about the components of the aircraft. However, it might have been based on something that was alien and hence the name, ‘Alien Reproduction Vehicle.’

They had a small VCR connected to a monitor showing this craft making hops, high speed hops – hopping and stopping and then moving and then making a hopping motion and they were showing this thing in motion. There was nobody in the cockpit when they had these on display. They were unmanned, but they did have the capability of being manned.

Was Neutralizing Gravity Technology Available
by 1960 and Applied to Secret Space Program?

So, the implications are that if you look at the reference works and the literature from the vintage 1950s talking about atomic-powered spacecraft and nuclear-powered aircraft, it’s clear that the nuclear energy for aircraft propulsion program in the 1950s, we were already working on ways to crack the gravity barrier. By 1960, I believe we had the first working prototype. Now, that’s nine years before astronaut Neil Armstrong landed at Tranquility Base on the moon. That might be one reason why Neil Armstrong doesn’t talk about Apollo 11 because he knows he was not the first man on the moon.

WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS THAT BEFORE ARMSTRONG LANDED ON THE MOON, THERE WERE EITHER NON-HUMAN CRAFT ALREADY UP THERE? OR A SECRET SPACE PROGRAM FLIGHT MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN TO THE MOON BEFORE THE OFFICIAL NASA SPACE PROGRAM?

Yes, Linda, that is consistent with the literature. The literature in the aerospace industry starting in 1955 was just full of references of atomic-powered spacecraft, nuclear engines, things that could be retrofitted to trans-atmospheric vehicles.

By 1960, all of that was completely expunged from the literature 100%. So, it’s clear they made a breakthrough somewhere around 1960 where they started with these prototypes. That’s why I believe that we already had a flying prototype at that time that could probably get to the moon.

The implications of what that means to NASA while it is still using Nazi SS liquid rocket technology that’s been obsolete for over 60 years is ridiculous!

YOU MEAN THE SHUTTLES ARE BEING BLASTED UP INTO THE AIR IN A CRUDER TECHNOLOGY WHILE MORE SOPHISTICATED LIFTING BODIES ARE AVAILABLE IN THE SECRET AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAM?

Absolutely. The whole liquid rocket launch concept is flawed. There is a much better way to access space, and THEY (powers-that-be-in-secret-programs) know it.

MICHAEL, CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW ENRAGED THE NASA EMPLOYEES AND ADMINISTRATORS WHO DON’T KNOW ABOUT A SECRET SPACE PROGRAM WOULD BE IF THEY KNEW?

Not only do they not know, but less than 5% of Congress knows and in many cases, our presidents don’t know either.

THE PROBABILITY IS THAT THE IMPETUS OF THE SECRET AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAM WAS THE NON-HUMAN PRESENCE AND CRASH RETRIEVALS OF THEIR DISC TECHNOLOGIES. I WONDER WHETHER THE SECRET SPACE PROGRAM HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN ALLIANCE WITH THOSE NON-HUMANS OR IN SPITE OF THOSE NON-HUMANS?

That’s a really good question. Certainly we have a number of craft that certainly seem to mimic what we would classify as extraterrestrial vehicles.

HOW DO WE PROVE THIS?

We’d have to speak to some of the engineers who worked directly on the program from Lockheed and also from SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) in San Diego, California. They are aware of these craft, too.

HOW IRONIC IF IT IS GOING TO BE IF THE CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING AND THE DECLINE OF FOSSIL FUELS ARE WHAT FINALLY FORCE THE GOVERNMENT TO EXPLAIN WHAT THEY HAVE HIDDEN FOR SIXTY YEARS.

I think that is something they might not have considered when they started the secret space program. They didn’t think about the environmental implications of keeping this under wraps. And now that we are so bogged down in so many environmental issues, we desperately need this technology. It’s their decision whether they want to release the information or not, but it’s clear that the time has come for this to be brought out into the open.”

More Information:

venerdì 5 ottobre 2007

Onde radio dal cosmo: "Origini sconosciute"

Un complicato puzzle da risolvere per gli astronomi. Arriva da fuori della nostra galassia. La scoperta è avvenuta analizzando dati raccolti dal radiotelescopio di Parkes, in Australia

Da un luogo remoto al di fuori della nostra galassia Via Lattea gli astronomi hanno ricevuto un flusso di onde radio molto potente che li imbarazza perché non sanno spiegarne l’origine. La scoperta è singolare e intrigante perché ciò che hanno davanti si presenta come un complicato puzzle da risolvere. Diciamo subito per evitare equivoci che hanno escluso subito si tratti di segnali radio lanciati da esseri intelligenti. La provenienza, anche se da decifrare, è di natura rigorosamente astrale.

LA SCOPERTA - La scoperta è avvenuta analizzando i dati raccolti negli ultimi sei anni con il radiotelescopio di Parkes in Australia. Guardandoli con più attenzione di quanto non abbiamo fatto i suoi colleghi in passato, David Narkevic della West Virginia University (USA) ha rilevato una sorgente di onde radio collocata a circa 1,6 miliardi di anni luce dalla Terra. «Ma da dove arriva questa?» si chiedeva David assieme al suo gruppetto di osservatori. E lo stupore era notevole perché in realtà loro erano impegnati nella caccia alle pulsar, cioè stelle a neutroni rotanti, all’interno della Via Lattea. E invece si imbattono in un densissimo fiume di radioonde che in soli cinque millisecondi rilasciava tanta energia quanto ne emette il Sole nell’arco di un intero mese. Il segnale era registrato per 90 ore e poi scompariva senza più farsi sentire. Questo ha complicato notevolmente le cose.

TANTE IPOTESI - Ora il gruppo di astronomi è impegnato a leggere, ma soprattutto a cercare una spiegazione plausibile. Intanto si ipotizza che tutto possa essere nato dallo scontro tra due stelle tradizionali oppure che si tratti di una sorgente associata ad un lampo di raggi gamma; ma di quest’ultimo, verificando, non s’è trovata traccia. Un’altra ipotesi avanzata è stata la fusione tra due stelle a neutroni dalla quale, secondo la teoria delle relatività generale – si ricorda – dovrebbero scaturire delle onde gravitazionali. E anzi qualcuno ipotizza che la caccia a questo tipo di segnali possa condurre anche alla cattura delle stesse fantomatiche onde gravitazionali finora mai avvistate. Insomma tante spiegazioni, nessuna certezza e molte speranze anche azzardate. Per il momento, per cercare di dissolvere il mistero, non resta che approfondire lo studio e la ricerca di sorgenti analoghe.

Fonte - Il Corriere della Sera, Giovanni Caprara, 28 settembre 2007

Apollo 20 caso chiuso!

Il falso filmato, postato su Internet il 1 aprile, è stato ulteriormente smontato da altri particolari, non ultimo l'analisi delle capacità di autonomia, carico e trasporto dei LEM. Ulteriori fantasticherie sono state pubblicate sempre su Internet da diversi siti, circa le dimensioni del presunto "sigaro". Ne emergono subito le scarse conoscenze riguardanti le compatibilità in campo ingegneristico aerospaziale, non solo per gli anni di riferimento ma anche attuali. Intanto continua sui forum ad imperversare il dibatitto sul caso: http://www.ufologia.net/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6905. Alla fine del caso Apollo si impone una domanda: Cui Prodest? "a chi giova" screditare gli ufologi, con notizie tecno-esilaranti? A chi giova distruggere le competenze faticosamente acquisite nel campo della rierca dagli ufologi, ora riconosciute da enti ed organismi, su scala nazionale ed internazionale? A chi giova screditare mediaticamente la presenza degli ufologi rendendoli impresentabili e non credibili sul piano delle conoscenze? Chi usa servi sciocchi della disinformazione, o ricercatori magari volenterosi, ma accecati da scoop e imbeccati da strani personaggi con informazioni fuorvianti e ben costruite a tavolino? A chi giova tutto questo....? ( CUN, news del 26.09.2007)

East Field Wheat Formation: Lab Analysis

“I’ve never seen this bimodal germination bimodal before. This is totally anomalous. ...These two entirely different populations of growth rates in these East Field seed samples indicates that there were two entirely different types of energy that hit the field at pretty much the same time." - W. C. Levengood, Biophysicist

Massive pattern of circles in East Field, Alton Priors, Wiltshire, U. K. wheat,
estimated to cover 96,600 square feet, or 2.25 acres, with 150 circles in a very strange
design spread across 1,033 feet and 490 feet wide. Aerial images © 2007 by Lucy Pringle.
Also see: Cropcircleconnector.com.

October 4, 2007 Grass Lake, Michigan - The most extraordinary crop formation of 2007 was discovered on Saturday, July 7th, around 3:20 AM in the East Field of Wiltshire, England, by three people on a night watch. One was researcher and photographer, Winston Keech, who had video cameras aimed at the East Field, capable of night vision and infrared. The other two eyewitnesses were Gary King and his friend, Paula Presdee-Jones, from Cardiff, Wales. Back in July, I interviewed Gary King about the fact that at approximately 3:08 AM, all three saw a great flash of bright light over the East Field. One of Winston Keech’s infra red cameras also captured the flash before the ran camera out of videotape. See 071907 Earthfiles.

Terje Toftenes, Video Producer and Managing Director for a production company in Norway, contacted Winston Keech to organize enhancement analysis of the videotape. All four presented evidence at a press conference in Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, on July 19, 2007. That press conference included Win’s camera footage which showed there was no crop formation in the East Field at 1:35 AM. But after the flash of light 90 minutes later, Winston Keech looked through his cameras at approximately 3:20 AM. He and the others could make out shadows in the East Field that had not been there earlier. After the sun rose, by 4 AM the astounding East Field formation was clearly there in all of its 150 circles of many varying diameters spread across 1,033 feet in a pattern no one had ever seen before.

I talked with Charles Mallett, owner of the Silent Circle Cafe near Cherhill, Wiltshire, about collecting wheat and soil samples so that biophysicist W. C. Levengood could analyze them in his Michigan lab. Since the early 1990s, biophysicist Levengood has studied more than 300 crop formations from England, Canada, the United States and other parts of the world.

He and I talked about Gary’s and Paula’s description as they entered the East Field pattern for the first time around 4 AM on July 7. Gary said it felt and sounded like they were stepping on crystal glass that crunched under their feet. Further, I expected that Levengood would find a high concentration of magnetite in the formation soils as we have found in some other formations.

But as surprising as that bright flash of light and huge formation was to the three eyewitnesses, the lab results have turned out to be surprising as well.

Interview:

W. C. Levengood, Pinelandia Biophysical Laboratory, Grass Lake, Michigan: “This formation was a very puzzling one since I’ve never seen anything before that did not follow a consistent pattern. For example, in the first page of my report, you’ll notice I have Table I showing significantly altered node lengths in the control plants taken at different quadrants of the field.

Page 1, Research Report from Pinelandia Biophysical Laboratory,
August 12, 2007, by W. C. Levengood. Full report reproduced below in More Information.

“One of the characteristics of wheat is how uniformly it grows and how you can depend on controls to give you an idea of what’s going on in the field. But in this East Field, couldn’t do that. In the northwest quadrants, the samples Charles Mallett took there showed statistically significant in node length and a decrease in seedling development factor. Again, neither one of them (as control samples) should show any significant difference between the northwest and the southeast and yet the control plants collected from those parts of the field outside the formation were significantly affected.

SO THE IMPLICATION IS THAT THE ENERGY THAT HIT THE EAST FIELD WAS SO GREAT THAT IT WENT BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CROP FORMATION AND AFFECTED THE WHOLE FIELD.

Oh, definitely. It affected the entire field. In fact, you could say there was no way to get real controls in this East Field – it was so overall affected (by energy impact).

Microwaves and Ion Electron Avalanches

In most of the crop formations, the predominant energy is in the form of the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. In laboratory work long ago, we found that field strengths in the order of 35,000 volts per centimeter that the seeds were bigger and subsequent seedling growth can be greatly reduced. That certainly appears that was the cases here in the East Field wheat.

I think in this formation that the ion electron avalanches predominated over the microwave energies. There is a high probability that the ion electron avalanches account for the bright flash of light observed when the formation occurred (around 3:20 AM on July 7, 2007.)

A number of years ago, John Burke went to England and examined crop formations with an electrostatic voltmeter and found transient induced electrostatic charges in the newly formed crop formations. These rapidly dissipated in a short time.

A very high electrostatic on the plants could very easily explain the sound, as they put it, walking through – was it popcorn?

OH, THAT THE PLANTS WERE CRYSTALLIZED AFTER THE EYEWITNESSES WENT DOWN TO THE FIELD.

That’s exactly what you would find if there were tiny discharges between the plants and the field soil surface or between the surfaces plant-to-plant. You’d hear a crackling or like breaking glass sound.

IT WOULD BE THAT FEET WERE INTERACTING WITH ELECTROSTATIC CHARGES?

That’s correct.

THE BRIGHT FLASH OF LIGHT THAT THE THREE EYEWITNESSES SAW WOULD BE A PLASMA DISCHARGE IN THE ATMOSPHERE?

That’s right. When you get field strengths that high – over 30,000 volts per centimeter – you can knock electrons out of the outer orbits of air molecules and atoms, such as oxygen, nitrogen and so on. After the energy passes and the unstable ions drop back to normal energy, it can give off a photon or even ultra violet energy.

WHICH WOULD BE THE BRIGHT LIGHT, BUT WHAT WOULD CAUSE A 30,000 VOLTS PER CENTIMETER PULSE OF ENERGY IN THE SKY?

That’s just a drop in the bucket compared to what you have in thunderstorms.

RIGHT, BUT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE ENERGY THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CROP FORMATIONS AND THE PUZZLE THAT ALL OF US HAVE IS WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF THIS ENERGY?

It’s probably a plasma from the ionosphere.

AND IT COULD BE DIRECTED BY AN INTELLIGENCE?

It could be, or could not be. (Laughs) I don’t know how the plasmas could do all this and not be directed.

BY INTELLIGENCE. IT IS ALL SO COMPLEX THAT IT APPEARS THAT AN INTELLIGENCE IS USING A PLASMA EFFECT TO CREATE THE CROP FORMATIONS?

Yes.”

Double Bell Shaped Curves (Bimodal) in
East Field Seedling Germination Tests

A simple bimodal distribution, in this case a mixture of two normal distributions
with the same variance but different means. The figure shows the probability density function
(p.d.f.), which is an average of the bell-shaped p.d.f.s of the two normal distributions.

When biophysicist Levengood studied seeds from the East Field formation and controls that Charles Mallett collected and I had shipped by Fed Ex to the Michigan lab, Levengood ended up with the most anomalous germination pattern he says he has ever seen. The first step in his lab work with seeds is to organize 30 seeds from each clump of plant samples and clump of control samples. He carefully places the seeds in a straight line across each commercial germination paper, rolls the germination papers up and places them in a controlled temperature and dark germination chamber. Usually in three days, he finds the seedlings have germinated and he measures the first seed leaves.

Example of normal seed germination in commercial germination paper unrolled
at 3 days in Pinelandia Biophysical Lab. Photograph © 2001 by W. C. Levengood.

But with the East Field seeds, on the third day that he unrolled the germination papers, there was nothing to measure. There was no significant germination in any of the seedlings.

He returned the germination papers to the closet and waited until day 5. But there still was no germination. So he went on to day 7. By then, nothing was normal. There were only a couple of seeds that were at 50% germination and some were around 10% germination.

Biophysicist Levengood decided to go all the way to 14 days by setting the germination rolls in normal sunlight. By day 14, all the seedlings looked good as if something had happened. Levengood measured the lengths of the seedling shoots. Some that had been only in the 20% to 30% germination rate at 7 days had grown to 80% up to 97% - the highest – which is the range of normal germination for wheat seedlings. That’s what the seedlings should have been after a week – not 14 days later.

Further, sample Number 10 from the East Field - which earlier had the lowest germination of all the seeds - had increased in length from 10% germination at 7 days to 90% germination on the 14th day. Biophysicist Levengood has been investigating seed growths and filing patents for processes to accelerate seed growth since his earliest research days at the University of Michigan half a century ago. In all his decades of investigations, he had never seen such germination anomalies before these 2007 East Field seeds.

W. C. Levengood: “I’ve never seen this bimodal germination happen before. This is totally anomalous.

WHAT IS YOUR HYPOTHESIS THAT WOULD EXPLAIN WHY?

These two entirely different populations of growth rates in these East Field seed samples indicates that there were two entirely different types of energy that hit the field at pretty much the same time. This produced what are called bimodal distributions in the plants. You very seldom see this. If you take a normal histogram – where you take a bunch of people’s heights and you plot them and you want to know how many people were at the height of 50 to 55 inches, 55 to 60 inches and so on, and you plot a bar chart showing the number in each one of those categories, you get what is called a normal distribution, or bell shaped curve. The peak, or middle, of the bell shape would be the average – or the most people – while the ends would be the shortest and tallest.

To get two bell shaped curves, a bimodal, something very different is going on in the two populations. One analogy we can take is to suppose that you wanted to go into a maternity ward and measure the heights of all the people on that floor only in the maternity ward and only in those people that were either workers or doctors or newborns in that ward.

You get two entirely different heights. You get a bell shaped curve with little people around 15 to 20 inches and people who are up to 60 to 72 inches or more. OK, you plot those and you get two bell shaped curves. There we know what the difference is. The people were generated at quite different times. But in the case of the seeds, they were all germinating at the same time.

Since there are two major energies that affect the plants, in most cases it is the microwave energy which predominates. That’s what produces the expulsion cavities, causes the nodes to expand internally from internal heating. You could never do that with normal external heating.

Then there is the other component called ion electron avalanches, which can greatly affect the growth and vigor of the seeds. But in the ion electron avalanches, this is interesting because it goes through a lot of affects from low energy ion electron avalanches to high energy.

From my laboratory studies, John Burke and I have a patent on producing ion electron avalanches to enhance the growth of seeds. But what we found is that when you get up in the range of over 30,000 volts per centimeter, you greatly reduce the seed vigor and the subsequent seedling growth. In other words, it does damage. But at the low end of avalanches, you can actually enhance the growth. We’ve also seen this in crop formations.

SO THAT BLAST OF LIGHT THAT THE THREE EYEWITNESSEES SAW OVER THE EAST FIELD MIGHT HAVE BEEN A RELEASE OF LIGHT FROM PLASMAS AS THE ION AVALANCHES WERE INTERACTING WITH THE WHEAT?

Exactly. When you’re up in electrostatic potentials that high and causing a plasma to form and discharge, the energy can knock off electrons from atoms in the air, or molecules, like oxygen and nitrogen. These electrons – after the energy is gone – they can drop back to their former low-energy state in the atom. When they do that, they give off a photon. This could easily account for the flash of light observed when the formation occurred.

Another thing is that the likelihood that the plants had such a high electrostatic charge on them that when the eyewitnesses walked on them it sounded like they were walking on glass. This could be tiny discharges that crackled and snapped.

SO IT’S NOT AS IF THE WHEAT HAD CHANGED ITS MOLECULAR STRUCTURE TO SOMETHING THAT WAS GLASS-LIKE. IT’S THAT THERE WAS ENOUGH ELECTROSTATIC FIELD ENERGY ON THE PLANTS SO THAT PUTTING FEET ON THEM WOULD HAVE THAT POPPING SOUND.

Not only on the plant, Linda, but in the upper layers of the soil. There would been interactions between these electrostatic charges and the air molecules.

THAT WOULD EXPLAIN WHY, OVER THE YEARS, WHEN SOME PEOPLE WENT INTO SOME CROP FORMATIONS, THEY HEARD THE SOUNDS OF ‘RICE CRISPIES POPPING IN A BOWL’?

Yeah, sure, exactly.

NONE OF US YET KNOW WHAT IS BEHIND THE CREATION OF THAT PLASMA ENERGY.

That’s right. We can’t pinpoint it, no.

IT COULD BE AN ADVANCED INTELLIGENCE.

Yeah, I can’t deny it. This is order out of chaos.

THAT WHATEVER HAPPENED IN THE EAST FIELD, THE PLASMA ENERGIES INTERACTED WITH THOSE 150 CIRCLES IN WAYS YOU HAD NOT QUITE SEEN BEFORE?

Right.

WHY DO YOU THINK IN A PATTERN THIS BIG WITH INTENSE, CHAOTIC ENERGIES THAT YOU FOUND NO MAGNETITE IN THE SOIL?

That’s easy to answer because I think it fits right in with the theory that we have that the magnetite is the result of a close encounter between a crop formation and a cloud of meteoritic material. So, in this case, there just was not any chance encounter (with iron dust) between the spinning plasma in the upper atmosphere and the East Field formation. Perhaps the meteoritic activity was low when that formed.

SO, YOUR HYPOTHESIS IS THAT IF THERE ARE NOT HIGH LEVELS OF METEORITIC DUST WHERE THE SPINNING PLASMAS COMES DOWN, WE’RE NOT GOING TO FIND HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF MAGNETITE IN CROP FORMATIONS?

That’s right.”

More Information:

Numbered sites of ten soil and wheat samples by Charles Mallett inside the July 7, 2007,
East Field formation. Charles also collected controls from 200 feet away from the formation
to the north, east, south and west. Original photograph © 2007 by Lucy Pringle.

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