by Timothy Good
“So, they go in and they turn the lights on, and here are three flying saucers floating off the floor—no cables suspended from the ceiling holding them up, no landing gear underneath—just floating, hovering above the floor. They had little exhibits with a videotape running, showing the smallest of the three vehicles sitting out in the desert, presumably over a dry lakebed—some place like Area 51. It showed this vehicle making three little quick, hopping motions; then [it] accelerated straight up and out of sight, completely disappearing from view in just a couple of seconds….
“They had a cutaway illustration [showing] what the internal components of this vehicle [referred to as ‘the Alien Reproduction Vehicle’ (ARV) or ‘Flux Liner’] were, and they had some panels taken off so you could actually look in and see oxygen tanks and a little robotic arm that could extend out from the side of the vehicle for collecting samples and things.”20
The three craft were of different sizes—24, 60, and 130 feet in diameter. Nearby, a general was addressing a group of people, referring to the craft and citing various attributes, including an extravagant claim that they could perform at “light speed or better,” Dolan learned from McCandlish. “It had extraordinary acceleration and maneuverability, able to move from a ground-level hovering position to 80,000 feet within 2.5 seconds.” (A preposterously precise time.) “Sorensen noted that the [ARV] looked ‘ancient’ and as though it had been used extensively…. In 1992, McCandlish met a man named Kent Sellen who had been a crew chief at Edwards AFB years before,” Dolan learned. “In 1973, Sellen unintentionally went into an area where he saw a craft exactly matching the description of Sorensen’s [small] ARV. At that point, he was thrown to the ground at gunpoint, blindfolded, taken into custody, and interrogated about his presence there and what he thought he had seen. Sellen even provided McCandlish with details and data about the object that had been unknown to Sorensen.”21
McCandlish learned some pertinent information from Sorensen relating to aspects of the ARV’s propulsion. Inside the craft was a central column, for example, containing a type of vacuum chamber:
“Brad maintained that inside this big vacuum chamber that’s inside everything else—inside the flywheel, inside the secondary coils of the Tesla coil, inside the crew compartment—there is mercury vapor. Mercury vapor will conduct electricity, but it produces all kinds of ionic effects. These little molecules of mercury become charged in unusual ways, and if you fire a tremendous amount of electricity through mercury vapor that’s in a partial vacuum, there is something special, something unusual [that] happens in that process.”22
It is pertinent to point out here that, in conversation with the gardener Leonard Mantle in 1969, some of the technological information imparted by “Iso Khan” chimes with Sorensen’s description. For instance, Mantle learned that the propulsion system of the craft used by Khan’s race included a cylindrical column that contained mercury (Chapter 12). And in Chapter 13 we learned that the “W56” aliens required mercury for many of their applications, including craft, the propulsion of which they revealed to several of their contacts as part of a technology transfer.
George Adamski was the first to publish details of a central column inside smaller spacecraft, describing how “a pillar about two feet thick extended downward from the very top of the dome to the center of the floor. Later I was told that this was the magnetic pole of the ship, by means of which they drew on Nature’s forces for propulsion purposes, but they did not explain how this was done.” He did learn, however, that the top of the pole was positive while the bottom was negative. “But, when necessary,” his host explained, “these poles can be reversed,” and added that the central pillar served a double purpose, “as a powerful telescope, with one end pointing up through the dome to view the sky, and the other pointing down through the floor to inspect the land below….”23
Vandenberg and Edwards Air Force Bases
In 1986, Peter Biagio Tresca, an aerospace engineer, was joint director of Lawrence Engineering and Supply Inc., based in Burbank. Tresca’s daughter Teresa, who worked for her father at the time, recalls seeing blueprints on her father’s desk that depicted what looked like a type of flying saucer. “Apparently the government had made them,” she told me. “I wanted to take the blueprints and show them to my teacher at college, but they weren’t allowed out of the office.
“My father used to take me to air shows, and in August or September 1988 he took me to a restricted show at Vandenberg. And I saw the demonstration of a flying saucer—like the one on the blueprints. I was busy watching a display of jets when it suddenly came in from the left, came in front of us, and then took off again. I didn’t hear it approaching.”24 Her husband, British UFO researcher Philip Waterhouse, fills in further details:
“She said the craft approached from near some hangars and hovered silently at about ten feet, apart from a relatively high-pitched humming noise. Then after about five minutes the craft pitched up and shot off into the sky to the right of where they were standing. There were only about twenty people, including her father and herself, who were witness to this event.
“She said the craft was about twenty or twenty-five feet wide and about ten feet high. What is interesting about her description is the fact that the bottom was bowed upwards, which is fairly uncommon. And the craft appeared all in one piece, though it seemed to be sectioned in a circular way, with a dome on top. It was silver-colored all over, apart from the [indented] parts, which could have been shadows.”
Teresa’s sketches of the side, top, and bottom of the craft appear below:
“What is also interesting to me and what originally caught my attention when she described her visit there,” Philip continued, “was the fact that before the flying saucer was viewed, she and her father and others were witness to other stealth aircraft—and one triangular craft.
“She said the triangular craft was completely silent without any discernable humming—only the [displaced] air traveling around it. The craft hovered at about nine feet, tipped forward and backward and turned around its axis, rose another ten feet at least, and then took off silently at great speed.
“She described the craft as being a dull black (not shiny) with a pitch-black smoky non-see-through dome on top. She also saw what she described as discernable undercarriage arms underneath, which were of a darker-colored black. The craft also had what appeared to be ‘lights’ at each triangular corner—although she didn’t see any light as such. They were of the same smoky dull appearance as the domed canopy on top.”25 [See sketches below.]
Toward the end of the following summer (1989), Teresa accompanied her father to Edwards Air Force Base to attend another restricted air show. The same number of people was present. She saw more of the conventional stealth-type aircraft, and what appeared to be the same black triangle. The saucer-shaped craft did not make an appearance.
“What was the level of security?” I pressed her. “Did you need any special access?”
“My dad did,” she replied. “I would ask him questions, but he never really told me anything—he was really ‘hush-hush’ about it all.”
“And it was just a relatively small number of people at these two air shows?”
“Yes. I would say about fifteen or so—mostly men. Apart from my father, there were other ‘big-wigs’ from Lawrence Engineering, such as Fletcher Seymour, Ray Barker, Ray and Mary Smith…. Of course, there was also a lot of military there.”
“But weren’t they concerned?” I asked, incredulously. “You were just with your father, and you were let in on it, so to speak?”
“I think my Dad was questioned about it because he was walked off. They took him off somewhere and questioned him, because that was the last time that I was able to go to a show. And after that, it was like everything was hush-hush.”26
Prior to marrying Philip, Teresa worked for five years as a sheriff for the Santa Clarita (Californ
ia) Sheriff’s Department. I find her testimony compelling, and it provides corroborative evidence for the observations reported by the previous witnesses.
Los Alamos
The demonstration of a much smaller craft was described for me by Gregory Molesworth, a former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and platoon commander who served in Vietnam. In Washington, D.C., in February 1994, he told me that eighteen months previously, he had been working as a sound man for a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). While filming at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he witnessed the demonstration of a four-foot-diameter disc, radio-controlled via a joystick in a metal-lined laboratory. As “foreign nationals,” British participants were not allowed in—and Molesworth himself was threatened if he tried to film anything.
California Bases
“I have been reading recently about all the alleged underground alien labs and facilities and took particular interest in a rumor purporting an underground base of this kind to be located in the Lancaster/Palmdale area near the Tehachapi Mountains,” begins a narrative from “Alex R.,” a woman who together with her friend Annemarie had a somewhat disturbing experience in the early 1980s.
Annemarie had purchased some undeveloped land in that area. She herself, however, had not yet seen it: her husband Ken had bought the property and confirmed that it was in an ideal location, then deeded it over to her after they divorced, giving her a rough map with some landmarks to assist her in locating it.
“We drove the nearly two hours to Lancaster/Palmdale and began our search. The map was not much help, however, because it had been made when the area was still undeveloped. And most of the natural landmarks were gone—removed to make room for houses. Every time we found what looked like a road which would take us somewhere, it turned into a dead-end. The area we were in was now full of cul-de-sacs for the housing development that would soon be built on it. After about two and a half hours of driving, we stopped for a cool drink.
“We got back on the main highway and decided to look for dirt roads in the hope that the land was still undeveloped and that we had missed it…. At last, a broad, well-kept dirt road appeared. At first we thought it might be the entrance to someone’s farm or ranch but, since there wasn’t a mailbox, we decided to proceed. After about half a mile, something odd happened: the dirt road became a wide, beautifully paved asphalt road, with a single white dividing line. We were astounded at this but were glad, as the dirt road was taking its toll on Annemarie’s car.
“We had driven about two miles when, up ahead, we saw what looked like a dust storm coming out of the mountains. Annemarie slowed down, and we watched. It was not a storm but a vehicle, a car, coming toward us at full speed. ‘Let’s get out of here!’ I said. ‘I don’t think that would be a good idea,’ said Annemarie. She came to a complete stop, right in the middle of the road. ‘Are you crazy?’ I said. ‘Stay calm and let me do the talking,’ she said.
“The car, a drab olive green late-model sedan, was, by now, up on the road, still driving full speed. They were heading directly for us. I was afraid that they would not stop in time and would hit us. The car stopped, brakes screeching, within inches of us, and two men got out. A third man remained in the car. They were young men, in their mid-thirties, dressed in pale blue coveralls (no name plates or insignias) and baseball caps. One had sandy-colored hair, the other was white-blond. The third man was in the front seat of the car, talking on the radio-microphone. All wore wrap-around sunglasses. Somehow, I knew that we might be in terrible trouble and that we were somewhere we didn’t belong.
“The sandy-haired man came up to the driver’s side of the car; the blond one was on my side, the passenger side. He kept his right hand in his pocket at all times. I wondered if he was carrying a gun. ‘Good afternoon, ladies!’ said sandy-hair. ‘Where are you going?’ Annemarie showed him the map. ‘We’re trying to find my property,’ she said. ‘Can you help us?’
“He studied the map. ‘You haven’t been here for a while, have you?’ he said. ‘All of these places on the map have been removed or destroyed.’ He looked at the map again. ‘This place looks like it might be on the other side of town. Why don’t you look there?’ He was extremely polite, smiling all the while he spoke, yet he terrified me and Annemarie. The blond man never spoke, nor did he smile or look at me. The third man remained on the radio. ‘We’ll be happy to escort you ladies back to the main road.’
“Though it sounded like a polite suggestion, it was actually an order to leave now. Annemarie said nothing, merely backed up slowly and drove back, still slowly, to our place of entrance into this ‘forbidden’ area. The men and their car stayed close behind us and followed us for several miles. Annemarie and I did not speak during this time. I think we were too scared. Then, instead of going back to the main part of the city, she took the next freeway on-ramp and headed back home. I noticed that she kept looking in her rear-view mirror. ‘Someone is following us,’ she said.
“I was too frightened to turn around, so I lowered my sun visor and looked in the vanity mirror. There, a few car lengths behind us, was another late-model sedan, medium blue in color, being driven by a man in a green coverall, wearing a cap and wrap-around sunglasses. His two companions were dressed the same way. ‘They probably want to make sure that we go back home and don’t try to come back,’ said Annemarie. ‘Ken told me that he had heard about the government using parts of that area for secret experiments,’ she said.”
The car followed the ladies until they were halfway home, then began to back off and eventually disappeared. On arriving home, Annemarie dropped Alex off. They agreed to meet later for dinner at a local restaurant.
“We were now curious about what had happened and wondered if we should go back or if we would be able to find the road again. We lived in the San Fernando Valley and were not at all familiar with the Antelope Valley area. We then got further into our mutual interest in UFOs [and] jokingly considered the possibility that the ‘men’ we had seen were really aliens.
“We left the restaurant at about 10:30. The restaurant is situated in a very busy traffic area and is also near a freeway and a very well-known and very busy motor hotel. There is constant noise and traffic at all hours. It is never quiet there. However, this night, things were to be different. When we came out of the restaurant, the street was deserted. This was on a Saturday night, one of the busiest nights of the week for this restaurant. There were no cars going by, no people, no sounds of traffic. In fact, there was no sound of any kind.27 When Annemarie and I spoke to each other, our voices sounded hollow, far away.” Neither of the ladies had ever seen it so quiet.
“Then, as if on command,” Alex reported, “we both looked up. There, at a level just over our heads, across the street, was a spacecraft.
“We could not see the craft itself very clearly, but it was outlined by white lights that ran all around it. It was the shape of an elongated triangle. It remained in its position for what seemed a few minutes. Then it moved away. Suddenly, as if someone had turned up the volume on a TV set, all the normal sounds returned.
“We walked to our cars and Annemarie checked her watch. ‘Oh, my God!’ she said. ‘What time do you have?’ I looked at my watch and was stunned. It was 12:35 a.m. We had been looking at the spacecraft for two hours and five minutes!
“That was the final straw and all the fright we wanted to have for one day. We agreed never to go out to look for that ‘forbidden’ area, and Annemarie sold her property soon after this incident. There may be more than just rumors about what is going on in the Tehachapi Mountains….”28
Tom Keller (who features in Chapter 9) has worked for British Aerospace, Douglas Aircraft, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In The Total Novice’s Guide to UFOs, he writes extensively about Antelope Valley, described as “a hotbed for the aerospace industry.”
“When I lived there,” he reports,
“Lockheed Martin, Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, and Northrop Grumman all had multiple facilities there.” He mentions a base at the northwest end of the Antelope Valley in the foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains, known as “The Anthill,” and another area known as the Tejon RCS [radar cross-section] Facility. Both are owned by Northrop Grumman. Another site is the Helendale Avionics Facility, owned by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. Observations of flying discs and other unusual craft have been observed periodically over the years.29
Researcher Bill Hamilton reports the observation, in the Antelope Valley in October 1988 by two witnesses known to him, of a large boomerang-shaped craft, estimated to be over six hundred feet in span, traveling very slowly. “A second and identical large object joined behind the first one,” he reports in his book, Cosmic Top Secret. “The trailing boomerang was followed by approximately fifteen to twenty disc-shaped objects in formation…. Two additional witnesses saw the boomerangs pass over the valley from a side view to the east, [and these] were also sighted in Fresno later that same evening. The objects rose in altitude to clear the Tehachapi Mountains to the north, flying directly over the secret Northrop ‘Anthill’ facility….”30
In 1988, Hamilton learned from a Northrop source that “during the early era,” a disc obtained from aliens via an exchange program had been sequestered underground at Edwards AFB. He also learned from several other sources that construction of underground facilities at the base began in the 1950s, and that a disc or discs had been stored in a hangar at the North base or underground.31
Project Aquarius
William J. Pawelec, a former U.S. Air Force computer operations and programming specialist with numerous credentials in security technologies and access control systems, who died in May 2007, also confirmed the alien technology transfer. “I would say this is international in scope,” he told Steven Greer of the Disclosure Project, during an interview that Pawelec had specified not be released until December 2010. “If you look at what layers of influence we have here, either at government or corporate level, I would say that at the corporate level we have to look primarily first.
