Earth

by Timothy Good

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

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

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

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

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

  A Clandestine Space Program

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Chapter Fifteen

  Technology Transfer

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

  Captain Bill Uhouse served ten years as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps, then four years with the U.S. Air Force as a civilian at Wright-Patterson AFB, flight-testing exotic aircraft, including—he claims—flying discs. “While I was at Wright-Patterson,” he told Steven Greer’s Disclosure Project in 2000, “they had selected several of us, and they reassigned me to A-Link Aviation, which was a simulator manufacturer. At that time they were building what they called the [Link] C-11B [jet flight trainer] and F-102 simulator, B-47 simulator, and so forth. They wanted us to get experienced before we actually started work on the flying disc simulator, which I spent thirty-some years working on. I don’t think any flying disc simulators went into operation until the early 1960s—around 1962 or 1963….

  “The simulator that they used was for the extraterrestrial craft they had, which is a thirty-meter one that crashed in Kingman, Arizona, back in 1953.2 That’s the first one that they took out to the test flight. This ET craft was a controlled craft that the aliens wanted to present to our government. It landed about fifteen miles from what used to be an Army airbase. But that particular craft, there were some problems with—getting it on the flatbed to take it up to Area 51, which was just being constructed at the time. They couldn’t get it across the dam because of the road. It had to be barged across the Colorado River, then taken up Route 93 out to Area 51.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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