by Steve Peek
Project Rainbow’s projector beamed an inverse—or collapsed—electromagnetic field. Sometimes when a super-dense star collapses, it creates a black hole that emits an unbelievably powerful gravitational field, which sucks everything, including light, into it. The projector created something like a magnetic hole that would totally stop, disrupt, or burn out any electrical activity through which it passed. It passed through a UFO that afternoon in late June, 1947.
From the moment the military realized it had an effective weapon against the invaders of US airspace, the fear vaporized. The government decided it would not be content with the wreckage and salvage of one downed UFO. From 1947 to 1950, more Rainbow Projectors were built, and more alien craft were shot down for examination.
While UFO nuts list hundreds of ‘known’ crash sites, there have only been seven resulting from Rainbow Projectors.
The original was at Roswell. We recovered wreckage of two vehicles: a mother ship, and what appeared to be the UFO version of a lifeboat. No biological life-forms—deceased or otherwise—were found at the main crash site. Three deceased alien bodies were recovered near the lifeboat.
The second was a third type of craft, larger than the Roswell mother ship. It was the original projector’s second kill, and crashed near White Sands, New Mexico on 25 March, 1948. In addition to the wreckage, the recovery team recovered six corpses.
A third went down on 8 July, 1948 inside Mexico near Laredo, Texas. Same type of craft found at Roswell, but no lifeboat or bodies were recovered.
Number four crash-landed on 24 June, 1949 near Cloudcroft, New Mexico, about 25 miles east of Alamogordo. The Roswell vehicle type, with lifeboat, contained two deceased and one live occupant. The crash survivor died within hours of discovery.
The fifth vehicle was recovered from Death Valley, California, 19 August, 1949. Roswell type vehicle, no lifeboat, and no bodies found.
The final two went down at sea. The aircraft carrier, USS Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was fitted with a Rainbow Projector and has radar confirmation of downing two alien craft in the Atlantic Ocean.
For a while it was like shooting ducks. Then on 19 July, 1952, the ducks shot back.
CHAPTER FIVE
Once officials briefed Truman about Roswell and the belief we had an effective weapon, the government sprang into action. Have you heard of Majestic 12? Forget about it. It’s 90 percent false. The kernel of truth in this myth is that President Truman was made aware of the situation and authorized a group to study it.
The group was not majestic, and it was not twelve. Twelve civilian government officials can’t keep a secret, even in those post World War II days when America was flush with patriotism. Truman did instigate the creation of a public committee to study some handpicked reports of flying saucers and consider ‘theories’ and hypothetical cases. Known as the Robertson Panel or Report, a group of preselected, skeptical scientists convened 14-18 January, 1953 and were spoon-fed information by their CIA hosts. This august body quickly concluded UFOs were natural phenomena and a waste of time. But even this group was not created until after the ducks started returning fire.
Some of the men who sat on Truman’s real committee are named in Majestic Twelve documents; most are not. The only people beside Truman that knew the entire truth were:
Secretary of Defense James Forrestal (Sworn in on 19 September 1947) (Kenneth C. Royal, was acting Secretary of War from 19 July 1947 until Forrestal was sworn in but was intentionally excluded from any knowledge of the Roswell Incident)
Secretary of State George Marshall
Secretary of State Dean Acheson (became Secretary of State in 1949)
Director of Mutual Security Averill Harriman (position created in 1951)
Chief of Staff USAF General Nathan Farragut Twining (Truman had promoted Twining to this position and ask him to make a study of UFOs. The preliminary finding of this study was presented to the select few on September 23, 1947.)
The final people included in this sensitive information were the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Below that level, compartmentalization created walls branching information into ever-narrowing streams, so groups and individuals had little hope of even guessing the scope of their work.
From this point, when I say government, I refer to the complex machine of political, judicial, bureaucratic, industrial, and military gears that wear down then crush all obstacles. When I say America, I speak of the people and private businesses that pay for the government’s pranks and shenanigans in exchange for a few highways.
Almost all of the documents supporting the existence of MJ-12 are fakes—some faked by wannabe investigators and some faked by the government to widen the false trail.
The Majestic Twelve name is probably a derivative of something else that occurred at this time. During this period, a new security clearance was born to deal with UFOs. It was called Magic. It was not necessarily the highest level, but you had to be cleared to see documents bearing the Magic level regardless of what other clearance you had. The intention was that no one would be made privy to Magic information without a compelling need to know, and a bare minimum of people could access Magic information at any one time.
The researchers working on the downed space vehicles were slowly learning and discovering new technologies. Project Rainbow became the highest priority and most secret program since the Manhattan Project. All in all, the UFO scare was turning out to be a pretty good thing. That is until the UFOs came calling on Washington.
CHAPTER SIX
June, 1952. New flying saucer sightings are down to less than 20 percent of what they were between the Roswell Incident and 1949. It’s a good sign for the few who know the truth. There’s no need for anyone to panic; work is progressing on reverse engineering components from downed UFOs. The ointment contains only one small fly: for the last two years, the Rainbow Projectors have failed to nail another alien intruder. No one is sure why. The number of aliens appearing on radar dropped off significantly in 1949, but even so, when one appears within range of a projector, it takes evasive action and is impossible to hit. But no one is worried. The boys at Alamogordo are staying up late to electronically connect the projectors to radar. It is only a matter of time before the balance of power swings back to our side.
Then, five years to the day the Roswell incident began, the visitors return in numbers. They come bearing an anniversary gift.
By mid June, the Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigation is receiving the highest number of reports ever. By July, UFOs are observed in every part of the USA.
In Ogdensburg, New York, groups of residents watched three jet planes circle and attempt to close with three shining objects for twenty minutes until the three objects simply vanished. Airport control towers begin picking the blips up on radar. Cleveland, Chicago, and Los Angeles all have numerous radar and visual sightings of objects that move too fast or too slow; that are too large; that make impossible maneuvers. Military, commercial, and private pilots see the strange ships more frequently than ever before. While they are everywhere, they seem clustered on the east coast a little too close to the nation’s capitol.
Those in the know sit in uncomfortable silence, waiting for a shoe to drop from the sky. They don’t wait long.
2108 Hours, 19 July, 1952
Four men work in the top floor of the dimly lit, glass-ringed control tower of the Washington National Airport. They operate the local radar, and direct airplanes taking off or making final approaches. Two floors below, a team of eleven men use the Air Route Traffic Control radar to manage all other aircraft within100 miles. It is a slow time, and ten of the men are out of the radar room on break. As Ed Nugent mans the 24-inch scope, he glances at the clock, noting his break is in 22 minutes. When he looks back, seven new blips are on his radar screen. He studies them for a moment. They move in formation, not very fast, between 100 and 130 MPH at an altitude of approximately 1,700 feet. At 9:10 they do something impossible. Nugent estimates while maintaining airspee
d of 130 MPH, they gain altitude at the rate of 35,000 feet per minute.
Ed rubs his eyes in disbelief. He checks the calibration of his equipment. Everything is fine. He calls his boss, Harry Barnes, and says jokingly, but only half, “Here’s a formation of flying saucers, Harry.”
Harry steps in, looks at the screen, and calls the technician in to check the equipment. Before he gives the thumbs-up, the rest of the men have come back in and are clustered around the three other screens in the room.
Harry picks up the intercom phone and buzzes the control tower.
Before Harry can say anything, Joe Zacko, another air-traffic controller working the short-range radar in the room above, asks, “Are you guys seeing what we are seeing? We’ve got seven on scope.”
Howard Conklin stands up and looks out the tower windows in the direction indicated by the radar. “There they are! There they are!” he says, pointing at the glowing objects that have changed course and are headed toward Andrews Air Force base.
Harry is up the stairs and in the control room in seconds. Seeing the objects, he picks up the intercom phone again and buzzes the air-traffic-control tower at Andrews.
Andrews’ control tower has the objects, altitude 2,000 feet, moving toward them at approximately 150 MPH. Nervous telephone and radio communications fly between night-duty officers. No one wants to make a decision. Those who have been in the military understand—never wake up a general for something that can wait until tomorrow. Finally, around midnight, phones begin ringing up the chain of command.
At 1:30 AM, two F-94 Lockheed Starfires, America’s hottest in-service jet, scramble to provide close-visuals contact with the lights in the sky. The fighters streak over Washington. When they are five miles from their prey, the targets vanish from visual and radar. The jets circle for thirty minutes, then return to base.
At 2:30 AM, the objects appear again on radar, but without visual confirmation. By 3:00 AM they disappear for the night.
Below is the transcript of the article that appeared Monday, July 22, 1952 in the Washington Post (the newspaper article erroneously thought there had been eight UFOs):
8 on Screen; Planes Sight Odd Lights
The Air Force disclosed last night it has received reports of an eerie visitation by unidentified aerial objects—perhaps a new type of “flying saucer”—over the vicinity of the nation’s capitol.
For the first time, so far as known, the objects were picked up by radar—indicating actual substance rather than mere light.
They were described as traveling at a slow 100 to 130 miles per hour—instead of the incredible speed attributed to earlier saucers—although at times they shot up and down.
The objects also were described as hovering in one position. The Air Force said no planes were sent out in an attempt to intercept the objects, and no sightings were reported by Operation Skywatch, the round-the-clock Civilian Defense ground observer operation now underway.
Preliminary Report
The Air Force said it has received only a preliminary report, and therefore does not know why no attempt at interception was made.
The air-traffic-control center at Washington National Airport reported its radar operators picked up eight of the slow-moving objects about midnight last Saturday. They were flying in the vicinity of nearby Andrews Air Force Base.
The center said Capital Airlines Flight 807, southbound from National Airport, reported seeing seven objects between Washington and Martinsburg, W. Va., at 3:15 AM the same night.
Capital Airlines said the pilot, Capt. “Casey” Pierman of Detroit, 17 years with the company, described the objects in these words: “They were like falling stars without tails.”
Picked up Blips
Company officials said the airport picked up radar “blips”—contact with aerial objects—and asked Capt. Pierman to keep a watch out for any unusual objects in the sky.
Shortly thereafter, officials said, Pierman reported back to the dispatcher’s tower that he had spotted a group of objects. Pierman, then flying at normal cruising speed of 180 to 200 MPH, reported the objects were traveling with “tremendous vertical speed”—moving rapidly up and down—and then suddenly changing pace until they seemed to hang motionless in the sky.
Officials said Pierman made only a routine report of the incident.
The eight objects picked up by Air Force radar were said to be traveling slightly faster than 100 MPH. The airport traffic-control center, said another airliner, Capital-National Airlines Flight 610, reported observing a light following it from Herndon, Va. about 20 airline miles from Washington, to within four miles of National Airport. “This information has been related to the proper Air Force authorities and the Air Force is investigating the matter,” the announcement said. Earlier, the Air Force said it is receiving flying saucer reports this summer at a rate of 100 a month, higher than at any time since the initial flood of sightings in 1947.
END OF WASHINGTON POST, 22 JULY, 1952 ARTICLE
You can imagine the buzz running through Washington when the article appeared. This was not the first story the Post had run in recent days about flying saucers. There had been a rash of sightings from Maine to Virginia since the middle of June. Now they were flying in formation above our nation’s capitol.
Calls poured in to the Air Technical Intelligence Center, one of the Air Force’s most highly specialized intelligence units, and headquarters of the Air Force’s UFO investigation. Embarrassingly, the ATIC’s first inkling of the UFO radar contacts was the article in the morning paper. No one involved in the incident had called them. Rather than provide a ‘no comment’, they rushed the Air Force’s senior UFO investigator to the scene.
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt was the first to head up the Air Force’s Project Blue Book. Blue Book evolved from the more ad hoc temporary investigations into UFOs: Projects Sign and Grudge.
Project Blue Book was launched in late 1947, and by 1952 Captain Ruppelt commanded four officers—two airmen and two civilians—on his permanent staff. Three scientists were under full-time contracts for Blue Book, and Major Fournet was the project liaison at the Pentagon. The vast majority of actual investigations were carried out by local intelligence officers all over the world.
Project Blue Book’s process when a sighting came in was that one or two local officers interviewed the witness and filled out a rather lengthy survey form developed for this specific purpose. The completed form not only helped the staff at Blue Book headquarters group reports by categories and subcategories, it also contained a number of booby-trap questions to establish the witness’s honesty and credibility. Aircraft pilots, radar operators, and military personnel were at the top of the credibility ladder, so virtually all reports from these sources found their way to Wright Patterson, home to the project.
In the case of less-credible witnesses, the field investigators used the survey and their interview to determine if the sighting was worth sending to headquarters.
In the four years between Project Blue Book’s creation and the summer of 1952, headquarters had processed 615 of these reports.
The team quickly learned that, by checking with military, government, and university agencies involved in aircraft, astronomy, weather, and scientific balloons, over 60 percent of the reports received had natural explanations. The rest were assigned a priority for a team member to follow up with phone calls or face-to-face interviews.
Up until 1952, there was no real sense of urgency for Project Blue Book to produce answers. Their mission was to investigate sightings. If they determined the sighting had a natural explanation, they made the information available. If the sighting could not be explained, it was kept secret. The nature of this process made it seem that Project Blue Book’s goal was to discredit all UFO sightings, as those were the only ones they talked about.
The lack of urgency was about to change.
By early June, the increased UFO activity around major cities and military bases made officials jumpy. It wa
s determined that Blue Book needed to be moved up the organizational chart, and was elevated from group to section level to allow more support and clout within ATIC.
In June and July of 1952, field agents sent 717 reports to Ruppelt’s team, more than they had processed in the previous four years.
The irony of all this is that no one associated with ATIC or Blue Book knew anything about the truth of Roswell, the projector, or what was going on at Truman’s behest. The government’s primary UFO investigative body was completely in the dark. Compartmentalization is a beautiful thing.
Captain Ruppelt and his boss, Colonel Donald Bower, arrive in Washington to give a briefing at the Pentagon. The briefing does not go well.
A colonel from Air Defense Command is present. After sitting through Ruppelt’s explanation of how they rank and evaluate reports, and the statistical analysis of sightings, the colonel from ADC presses his point.
As the department title implies, the ADC is tasked with defending our skies. In the last few weeks there have been an unsettling number of encounters between Air Force jet fighters and UFOs. The jets try to close the distance to their targets to obtain in-focus, definitive film from their nose cameras. The jet pilots always lose. The UFOs either speed away, executing impossible maneuvers, or simply vanish. The best the pilots have been able to produce is a few feet of grainy film showing blurry lights four or five miles away.
The ADC is becomingly increasingly aware they are not able to defend our skies.
The colonel presses Ruppelt. Why, he wants to know, does Blue Book always assume the sighting is anything but a UFO? Why not investigate from the standpoint we are being invaded? He reasons this approach would produce more evidence of what UFOs really are.
No one at ADC has a clue about the truth of Roswell, the projectors, the downed saucers, or even the UFO reports that Blue Book is instructed to keep top secret within the group. Compartmentalization now has people working at cross purposes.
