The Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and the Coming New Race
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In the beginning, it was both logical and necessary that the UFO phenomena remain a military matter. Those at the highest levels of government knew that there had been alien intervention in World War II—on both sides. In fact, there was believable evidence that the war itself was an attempt at an overt alien conquest of the planet using the Axis powers as pawns in what was really a cosmic confrontation. German experiments in time travel began in the 1920s, with alien assistance. In 1922, German scientists created the so-called Other World Flight Machine. Saucer-shaped, it was designed to create an intense electromagnetic field in order to open up an interdimensional portal to the Aldebaran star system, thus providing a channel for direct extraterrestrial communications. Hitler’s flying saucers were based on antigravity technology supplied by the aliens. If the Allied powers hadn’t bombed the German factories into oblivion, the saucers would have entered the fight, and the Allies probably would have lost the war.
Consequently, all of the amazing technology that came out of that epic struggle was viewed only in terms of military application. The Philadelphia Experiment in 1943 involved teleportation of humans and a U.S. Navy ship, time travel, and invisibility. Nikola Tesla, who claimed to have “off-planet” connections, was instrumental in that project. It was later claimed by one of the participants that the experiment opened a “time portal” that permitted a group of hostile extraterrestrials to come through to Earth. That fantastic incident, of course, had to remain top secret. After the war, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) became convinced that the Nazis had moved all their antigravity research and development operations to their base inside a mountain in Antarctica. This was in the vast territory they had laid claim to in 1938 and had named Neuschwabenland. All the key German scientists, engineers, and technicians not rounded up by our Operation Paperclip were believed to be there, continuing to build flying saucers and developing space ships. Consequently, in December 1946, secretary of defense James V. Forrestal launched Operation Highjump, a military invasion of Antarctica under the command of Captain Richard H. Cruzen and led by war hero Admiral Chester Nimitz and intrepid Arctic explorer Admiral Richard Byrd. Consisting of an international fleet of thirteen ships, including an aircraft carrier, and 4,700 marines, the objective was to wipe out the Nazi base. Originally scheduled as a six-month mission during the Antarctic summer and autumn, the operation was aborted three months early, reportedly because the flying saucers from the base repelled the attack.
In view of this military experience dealing with antigravity aircraft, it comes as no surprise that when an alien craft crashed into a hillside near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947, only three months after the Operation Highjump debacle, all the alarm bells at the Pentagon went off, and a tight lid of secrecy was clamped down on the event, especially since Roswell Army Air Field was the home of the 509th Bomb Group, the B-29 squadron charged with the delivery of atomic bombs. The military necessity of secrecy continued after that incident because so much knowledge about advanced technology applicable to weaponry came from the crashed disc and from questioning the lone ET survivor. As we entered the fifties, our top government officials, the military, and top defense contractors were already interacting with extraterrestrials on several levels. But now the Cold War was upon us, so there was a new and cogent reason to maintain secrecy.
By the fifties, the decade of decision, the story had spun so far out of control and believability that it became virtually impossible to reveal the details to the public without causing social chaos. The lessons of The War of the Worlds radio broadcast by Orson Welles in October 1938, during which people ran screaming into the streets, was ever in the consciousness of the top echelons of government.
By the early fifties, the scientific and technological fruits of ET contact were already mind-bending. Furthermore, by 1952, the survivor of the Roswell crash, Extraterrestrial Biological Entity #1 (EBE #1), was now in contact with his home planet, Serpo, and communications in English between Serpo and scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico were beginning. But the ruling clique now in charge, the MJ-12 group, thought it better to keep it all under wraps. Then came that fateful mass UFO flyover of Washington, D.C., in July 1952, in which pursuit jets were sent up to try to encounter the alien craft and engage them in combat. The paranoia and fear of invasion that this incident engendered set the movement for disclosure way back, with the Pentagon now applying massive pressure for secrecy. The contact pace picked up on February 20, 1954, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower met with an extraterrestrial contingent at Edwards Air Force Base in California, then called Muroc Air Base. That was the most critical event of the entire decade and, in fact, of the entire secrecy-disclosure debate then raging in the secret precincts of government. The intensity of this debate was noted by Gerald Light, one of the many witnesses to that historic meeting, in the now-famous letter that he sent to Coral Lorenzen afterward. Lorenzen and her husband Jim were the founders of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), of which Light was a member. He wrote, “During my two days’ visit I saw five separate and distinct types of aircraft being studied and handled by our Air Force officials—with the assistance and permission of the Etherians! I have no words to express my reactions. It has finally happened. It is now a matter of history. President Eisenhower, as you may already know, was spirited over to Muroc one night during his visit to Palm Springs recently. And it is my conviction that he will ignore the terrific conflict between the various ‘authorities’ and go directly to the people via radio and television—if the impasse continues much longer. From what I could gather, an official statement to the country is being prepared for delivery about the middle of May.”
That announcement never came because we made no agreement with the aliens. We turned down their offer of assistance in the development of incredible new technology. All we had to do in return was to “beat our swords into plowshares,” that is, give up our nuclear weapons. Apparently the top generals at the Pentagon believed this to be some sort of ruse that would leave us defenseless in very dangerous times. So we had to say “no thanks.” It seems evident now that the president and his advisors had their conclusions confirmed, at that point, that one or more of the extraterrestrial groups that had reached Earth were hostile and that we had to assume a defensive posture against a possible interplanetary war. After all, Eisenhower, as supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe, had undoubtedly been privy to the information about extraterrestrial involvement in World War II. That defensive posture, of course, required ultrasecrecy, just as in wartime. That basically sealed the deal as regards disclosure. From that point on, all negotiations with extraterrestrials of every stripe were deemed too sensitive for public consumption, and the curtain of secrecy descended for the foreseeable future. The argument as to whether that conclusion was justified still rages, but of course we don’t have all the facts. Certainly U.S. Army Colonel Philip J. Corso believed that to be the case, as stated in his book The Day After Roswell, cowritten with William J. Birnes.
But then, in 1965, we sent twelve American astronauts to Serpo, the home planet of the Roswell aliens, as part of an exchange program. So that would imply that Corso’s fears were dispelled by then. Unless, of course, that program was secretly viewed as a diplomatic spy mission in which we attempted to learn more about a potential enemy, and Corso knew that. However, it is very unlikely that Colonel Corso knew anything about Project Serpo, since the Army had no role in that mission and the information was highly compartmentalized. That would explain why he still viewed the Roswell “Ebens” as enemies when he wrote his book in 1997, despite the intervening Serpo exchange program.
It was also in the fifties that the “space brothers” made their appearance. Those highly civilized, extraordinarily spiritual, humanlike visitors from nearby planets and distant stars called directly on those whom they believed to be most open to contact, thus circumventing the official secrecy and suppression machine. They arrived in glistening, silen
t saucers, and all came with a message of peace, love, and brotherhood. George Adamski, Howard Menger, and George Van Tassel were some of the major “contactees.” Giant Rock in the California desert became the mecca that called sirenlike to the believers and nonbelievers alike. Apparently, the space brothers had taken the secrecy problem into their own hands, since most of the contactees wrote books and appeared on radio and television shows. Their message slowly permeated the mass consciousness as reports of these contacts reached the public.
The fifties also saw a rebirth of the sci-fi film genre from its death in the twenties. Movies about space travel and aliens filled theaters all over the world. We now have learned from reputable sources that releasing this information in fictional form was another means of getting around the program of suppression and ridicule originating from MJ-12 and the government. By the late fifties, the world had slowly become aware that we were very likely being visited by extraterrestrials. The public exhibited a new sophistication about space travel and alien contact. A War of the Worlds–type panic scenario was definitely a dead issue.
But something else was happening in the fifties. The reverse engineering of technology from several crashed alien craft, along with information that we received directly from aliens, fostered a secret technological frenzy in the development of antigravity propulsion. The Glenn L. Martin Company, which became Lockheed-Martin, Bell Aircraft, General Electric, Boeing, Douglas, Northrop Aircraft (now Northrop-Grumman), and Hughes Aircraft were just a few of the companies working on these projects.
Michael Gladych, in an article that appeared in Mechanix Illustrated in July 1957, claimed that at least fourteen U.S. universities and research facilities were working diligently on antigravity propulsion. According to Gladych in that article, Lawrence D. Bell, founder of Bell Aircraft, said, “We are already working with nuclear fuels and equipment to cancel out gravity instead of fighting it . . . Make no mistake about it, anti-gravity motors and G-ships are coming.” According to William F. Hamilton III in his Internet article Reverse Engineering and Alien Astronautics (1997–2006 Think About It Enterprises), Keyhoe had found that there were forty-six different government-sponsored research projects working on gravity control in the fifties, and sixty-five to seventy at aerospace companies.
This frenzy amounted to an energy revolution, since it had been discovered that electromagnetism could power aircraft at fantastic speeds. But it was a secret energy revolution. The international financial establishment did not like the implications—the end of the oil-based world economy. So now a new and immensely powerful reason for secrecy emerged. Free energy from the vacuum meant a populace free from the domination of the financial controllers. So the old suppression machine that had kept the discoveries of Nikola Tesla, T. Henry Moray, and T. Townsend Brown under wraps took over once again. The new technologies would be used for military purposes only and would be kept secret. As the decade came to a close, President Eisenhower tried to warn us about what to expect in his farewell address, delivered on January 16, 1961, just before President John F. Kennedy was sworn in. He said, “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” To reveal our dealings with extraterrestrials would necessitate revealing the new technologies. It was all of a piece.
So as the fifties ended, the suppression system was hardened into place, and it has remained so, even now, fifty years later. The sheep must remain grazing in the meadow for yet a while longer. We must content ourselves with the dreams engendered by sci-fi movies, while in truth, we are already secretly beyond science-fiction. We must remain in our gas-guzzling cars and continue to pollute our atmosphere as we gaze longingly up at the stars. Ben R. Rich, the ex-president of the famous “Skunk Works,” Lockheed-Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP) group, revealed the truth just before he died. In an alumni speech at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1993, he said, “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an Act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity . . . Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.”
But the space-faring future of the human race cannot be denied us. It was summed up eloquently by President Jimmy Carter on a voice recording, the so-called Golden Record, which was sent out into the universe on the Voyager 2 spacecraft in August 1977. He said, “Of the 200 million stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some—perhaps many—may have inhabited planets and space-faring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill in a vast and awesome universe.” While Voyager 2 is expected to reach the Sirius star system in only 296,000 years, it might be more expeditious to deliver that hopeful message in person to the Sirians already here on Earth, working side by side with humans.
PART ONE
Contact
It is not within the province of this book to cover the entire panorama of what is known and has been theorized about extraterrestrial visitation and contact. It is a huge subject that has expanded exponentially since the advent of the Internet. The purpose of part 1 of the book is to isolate those cases that are so clear and convincing, so well supported by evidence, and from such reputable sources as to be virtually unassailable. By elevating these cases above the crowded ranks of UFO sightings, nocturnal abductions, and channeled information, it becomes possible to begin to comprehend the true nature of the phenomenon of alien contact with the human race. We have been deluged with trivial cases so as to cloud the issue completely and lull us to sleep. The cases herein shock us back to the reality and, if they do their job, will give the reader an appreciation of the truth and intimations of where this is all going.
The George Adamski story in chapter 1 has stood the test of time, and it is important that it be fully reviewed for the post-fifties generation. His encounter with Orthon was the very first face-to-face meeting with an extraterrestrial. Up to that point, UFOs were just dots in the skies and on radar. The value of chapter 2, “A Soldier’s Story,” which covers the experiences of Robert O. Dean, lies in the fact that it comes from an individual whose credibility cannot be questioned. Dean was a war hero and a loyal soldier who had no axe to grind in making his revelations. In fact, he had to bear much criticism from friends and authorities. The fact that a military organization such as Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) concluded indisputably, after a thorough investigation, that we were being visited by extraterrestrials is of supreme importance and, by itself, should close the case. Dr. John E. Mack was a courageous researcher who was willing to sacrifice a brilliant and lucrative career in psychiatry to discover and reveal the facts of the abduction story, as detailed in chapter 3. His books established, once and for all, the reality of the abduction phenomenon. Because the pioneer writer on this subject, Budd Hopkins, was an artist, his book, Missing Time, left some room for skepticism. However, Mack’s credentials were unimpeachable, so the public could no longer doubt that people all over the world were being taken up into spaceships. Mack’s accidental death in 2004, shortly after this article was written, gives this chapter of the book a timeless relevance and importance.
In chapter 6, “Through the Looking Glass,” which is based on an interview with Linda Moulton Howe, we meet a fearless investigator who is willing to follow the trail of truth wherever it takes her. Her book High Strangeness (volume 2 of Glimpses of Other Realities) is still a beacon of light on the subject of secret military interaction with alien visitors. How
e’s reputation as a truth seeker is now legendary, so the information reported in her book can virtually be taken as gospel. All of the dependable, fully documented cases in the book have military involvement, and it was the military’s trust in Howe that allowed her to obtain those stories. The Project Serpo story, covered in chapter 7, “Close Encounters of the Real Kind,” is so fantastic that a common reaction is to believe it to be fiction. But in the time that has elapsed since the material first appeared as an article in Atlantis Rising, more and more supporting revelations have emerged, until it has now become an indelible chapter in the history of alien contact. The fact that alien interaction with government agencies had reached the point of an exchange program in 1965 is still astounding, even now. This became a landmark event in the secret history.
Then there is Roswell. This was an extremely important incident, and consequently, I have taken two chapters to cover the story. Chapter 4, “The Legacy of Jesse Marcel,” gives convincing credence to the event from the person most knowledgeable about it and from his son. Chapter 5, “Roswell and America’s Destiny,” attributes fateful importance to the crash as a destined, watershed event in our history. The debate about whether the crop circles in England were made by aliens was still raging when the Alien Face was discovered in a wheat field on August 15, 2002. As shown in chapter 8, “Circles of Mystery,” the “Doug and Dave” story had decimated the ranks of believers, even though it was rather absurd to think that those two men with no creative background could possibly have made all those wonderful, mystical glyphs by stamping on a board. But the story gave just enough supporting credibility to the nonbelievers to allow the disbelief to spread. Then the Alien Face seemed to put an end to that heresy. For chapter 8, I sought the confirmation of the pioneer authority on the subject, and I discovered from his opinion that the whole story was caught up in international intrigue and politics and that, really, nobody was an expert. In the end, the Alien Face convinced many of the skeptics that the crop circles were important messages from our stellar friends.