Saturday, March 31, 2018
Bizarre Cases of Inter-Dimensional Doorway Devices and Time Machines
In modern times we have been learning about our universe and developing our technology at a staggering pace, to the point that science fiction has had a hard time staying ahead of the game. One area that seems as if it might one day be within our grasp are the well-worn science fiction tropes of inter-dimensional travel and journeys through time. Although this seems as if travel through time and dimensions must surely still be a far off fantasy there have been numerous cases of people and organizations who claim to have done just this, opening doorways through worlds and time itself to stretch past the boundaries of what we know about our universe.
Quite a few outlandish experiments have been reported by a researcher of anti-gravity and free energy by the name of Jerry W. Decker, who has done a great amount of research into dimensional shifts and is director of a website devoted to it called KeelyNet. Decker maintained that it was possible to create a dimensional vortex or time machine by tinkering with the frequencies of the location, or what he refers to as an energy ‘signature’ for that location, which would create enough stress to open a rift in the fabric of time and space. Decker has apparently really given this a lot of thought, and takes it very seriously, and he describes these location signatures and his idea thus:
Each spatial (and possibly TEMPORAL) location, no matter what dimension it resides in, has a specific coordinate, referenced by a combination of frequencies that equate to the ‘signature’ for that location. These are nested frequencies – like bubbles within bubbles – because they are all standing waves produced by 180 degree phase conjugation.
If a modulation – representing a specific ‘signature’/coordinate – is imposed on this stress field, then a portal is opened to that location. My concept is that a resonance is established between these two locations (there can be more), i.e. the physical-spatial location and the artificially created image.
By adjusting the amplitude of the vibration between the two resonant bodies or spaces, an energy flow can be established in either direction between them. High amplitude always flows to low amplitude in the natural attempt to achieve equilibrium, thus creating a flow between the bodies or spaces.
Once a resonance is established, I believe that a mass can be caught up in this flow and physically transported between two resonant spaces. I am of the opinion that the claims of ‘time travel‘ are much closer to being a dimensional shift where multiple realities exist within the same location [of space,] yet slightly out of phase (alternate realities or dimensions.)
Got all of that? He basically says that he believes that travel between two parallel dimensions and even through time itself is possible under laboratory conditions with the right application of technology, and he claims that this has perhaps already happened, citing several cases he has come across. One bizarre case he brings up in an article called Dimensional Shifts is that of a man named Mike Marcum, of Missouri, in the United States, who in 1995 seems to have invented an actual working time machine, or at least a machine that makes people disappear real good. Marcum, who claimed to have worked on the Philadelphia Experiment, allegedly stole six 300-pound power company transformers in order to make his time machine, which he purportedly planned to use in order to derive the winning numbers of a lottery and exploit them to his financial advantage.
In October of 1996 he was reportedly evicted from his apartment in Missouri for “various electrical misadventures,” after which he moved to Nevada to continue his off-the-wall project, calling a radio show at one point to claim that he was 30 days from completing his invention. He then supposedly built his machine on schedule and went about testing it with animals. He first placed a live cat in the center of the array and it vanished into thin air, after which he used a goat with the same effect. Apparently this was good enough evidence for him that it worked, and he experimented with himself, seemingly not considering that the animals could just as well have been completely vaporized as travelled through time. Whatever the case may be, Marcum then allegedly tried out the machine on himself and “disappeared into another dimension, never to return again.”
It is a flat out bonkers case which very well may have never happened at all, and even Decker expressed skepticism, saying that the story was “unverified and highly suspect,” but it certainly is a wild ride. Another equally bizarre and perhaps bogus account was apparently related directly to Decker concerning a witness who claimed that a man had invented some sort of interdimensional travel machine using a motorcycle frame and complicated high density magnetic fields. The whole weird account was written in Dimensional Shifts thus:
I have a friend who knew the owner of an electronics company. This man was very intrigued by high density magnetic fields. One day he built a transformer on a motorcycle type frame and installed a ‘dead man switch’ which would disable the power if the switch was released.
With his technicians running the machine, the owner sat on the frame and the power was applied. I have no idea if it was DC or a special freq AC. After about 3 minutes, the man began looking around the room as if he were seeing something different or new…shortly after, his body began to shimmer as if disappearing. It was at this point, he released the switch and the power went off.
He reported that the walls of the room began to melt away, showing a pristine, undeveloped landscape as if the city and this building had never been there. One of the fellow techs was chomping at the bit to ride this thing.
The owner finally agreed only after the tech signed a medical and legal release in the event anything bad happened to him. He sat on the frame, power was applied and nothing happened until about 3 minutes had elapsed. This guy began looking around, just like the owner had, and his body began to shimmer. He did not release the switch.
As more time elapsed, the mans’ body disappeared from view, yet the dead man switch was STILL BEING PRESSED. After 5 minutes, the owner had the other techs turn off the power.
The rider reappeared, babbling and drooling, totally insane. The machine is supposed to be locked up in the owner’s garage and he has moved to Colorado.
Again, what exactly happened here and is any of this account true? If it is, then where did the man go, why did he come back stark raving mad, and perhaps more importantly, what happened to that weird machine? It is hard to say. Yet another rather ominous experiment was related by Decker, which involved two researchers named Tom Bearden and Peter Kelly, and which seems to have led to the opening of a dimensional rift of some sort. The experiment was described as utilizing a “a scalar generated from interferometry” and “two projectors aimed to coincide at a fixed point in space.” Apparently the machine was switched on and nothing happened at first, but things would get weird soon after. The report says:
After some time had elapsed, the two went to get something to eat. When they came back a few hours later, it was observed that a black ‘something’ like a slit or opening had appeared at the target area. Because they were working in a totally unknown area and for fear that ‘something’ might come through this slit once it opened up, they discontinued the experiment.
Interestingly, Kelley seems to have continued looking into this sort of mysterious research despite these strange and scary results, because in later years he apparently created a similar device that relied on two coils wound into cones, which were then pointed at each other and turned on to create a powerful magnetic field. When these coils were pulled apart, “an oval sphere surrounded by a disc” would reportedly appear, and this seems to have been some sort of dimensional vortex. Decker would say of Kelley and his oddball experiment:
“He (Kelley) tried this experiment and reported that when power was turned on, nearly eveyone in the building complained of feeling nauseous or queasy. He explained that an experiment was going on so that everyone would understand what was happening. After about an hour, the very clear and cloudless sky began to suddenly boil up and a major thunderstorm ensued. Power was removed from the coils and the storm dissipated as fast as it had arisen.
It sounds very menacing indeed, and one wonders what would have happened if the machine had not been shut off. More on these cases, including further technical aspects of these purported machines and some very interesting insights into them and vortices in general can be found in the book The Science of Oneness, by author and researcher David Wilcock, which I used as a source for these particular cases and which can be read for free online at his website Divine Cosmos. Whether any of it is true or not, it is all very intriguing at the very least.
In every case like this it seems we are often left without proof, undeniably giving these tales shades of urban legend. One of the more famous cases of supposed inter-dimensional travel is very much in this vein, and revolves around the so-called Montauk Project, which is usually mentioned in the same breath as the infamous Philadelphia Experiment and which is said to have consisted of a whole range of top-secret sinister experiments carried out in the shadows on Montauk Island, in Long Island, New York. Some of the supposed experiments carried out by the project include everything from standard secret project stuff like psychological warfare, mind control, or research of biological weapons, to the more outlandish claims that the project was pursuing studies of alien life, UFOs, teleportation technology, time travel, and opening doorways to other dimensions.
One very strange account from the web of weirdness surrounding the Montauk Project is that the alleged director of the project, a Dr. John Von Neumann, was supposedly involved in researching ways to alleviate the negative side effects that had been witnessed by those who travelled to other dimensions, such as disorientation, mental instability, insanity, and even death. To this end he purportedly worked on a type of interface between the human mind and a computer in order to balance out these problems. Through use of his technology, Von Neumann claimed that inter-dimensional was possible without any unfavorable side effects, and several such dimensional portals through space and time were apparently opened by his team, one that opened directly to the Philadelphia Experiment in 1943 in a sort of funnel between the events, and one that was apparently opened as recently as 1983. This research into dimensional doorways supposedly went on until the Montauk Project was finally disbanded in the late 1960s due to fears that the technology could get out of control, although of course it is rumored to have kept going right up to today.
It is all very thrilling and much more complicated than I have gone into here, and it has been written of time and time again as a real project and chain of events, but as with some of the other cases mentioned here it is difficult to tell just how much of it is true. In the case of Project Montauk almost all of the information on it comes from a series of books written by self-described psychologist and electrical engineer Preston Nichols, entitled simply Montauk Project. The books and subsequent conspiracies that have sprung up and evolved around the project are inextricably linked and intertwined, to the point that it is widely believed that they are the origin of the whole tale. For his part, Nichols and frequent collaborator Peter Moon have always remained rather cryptic on whether any of it is real or fiction, neither confirming or denying anything and mostly leaving it up to the readers to decide. In the end, it is almost impossible to extract any possible truth from the myth, but as the authors themselves state in the very first book, “Whether you read this as science fiction or non-fiction you are in for an amazing story”
A supposedly real time machine was reported in 2013 from the country of Iran, of which I have written of here at Mysterious Universe before thus: In 2013 there was big news in the form of a bold headline in the Iranian State run news service Fars, stating that a Tehran scientist at Iran’s Center for Strategic Inventions named Ali Razequi had actually successfully built a working time machine called the “The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine.” Wait, say what?
According to sources, the machine is reportedly about the size of a desktop computer, costs about $400 dollars to produce, and is able to take readings from an individual which it runs through complex algorithms to accurately predict the next 5 to 8 years of a user’s life, which can be useful for things such as predicting a foreign attack, predicting currency fluctuations, and “determining the future sex of a child,” because that’s, important? I guess? Purportedly, the Iranian government has supposedly chimed in that the device is very real and already operation. Razequi said of his machine:
I have been working on this project for the last 10 years. My invention easily fits into the size of a personal computer case and can predict details of the next 5-8 years of the life of its users. It will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you.
Of course, with such a bold proclamation there has been perhaps not surprisingly immediate skepticism, and the idea that this is all just a part of Iran’s ever churning propaganda machine, or even originating in news from a normally otherwise legitimate agency that was meant to be used as a joke. This is not helped by the fact that, rather than an advanced theoretical physicist, Ali Razequi has turned out to be a serial inventor responsible for patenting a wide range of assorted gadgets, and his educational background has remained murky and ambiguous, calling into question claims that he is even a real scientist at all. In fact, it has been said that “Iran’s Center for Strategic Inventions” is just a fancy sounding place that is not even a real organization at all. Add to this other questionable claims by Iranian news services, such as new advanced fighter jets that turned out to be poorly photoshopped hoaxes. The whole story should be taken with a grain of salt, is what I’m saying.
Here we have delved into at least a portion of the world of those who claim to have created ways to shift through time and dimensions. If any of these accounts are to be believed, then we have actually managed to punch through reality as we know it and possess the means by which to do so. Forgetting for a moment that many, if not all, of these cases could be pure hogwash, it is curious to think about what this would mean for our perception of the universe. After all, what would such technology mean for us as a society if it were to become available to the masses? Would it usher in some Golden Age of understanding or plunge us into darkness and extinction? Looking at the misuse of technology throughout history and our increasing inability to keep up with our own rapid advances it is hard not to see that perhaps we are not quite ready for such things yet, and that if any of these machines are real then it might be good they remain secrets and the stuff of whispered rumors.
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‘Holy Grail of Shipwrecks’ Washes Ashore in Florida
The floors of the world’s oceans are littered with the corpses of past attempts to cross the deep, dark oceans which make up 70% of the surface of our planet. The rotting skeletons of thousands, if not millions of ships lie broken at the bottom of thousands of feet of black, cold water – a terrifying image on a macro level. Despite their macabre nature, shipwrecks are home to many of the world’s lost treasures and mysterious wonders. While we will likely never discover most of them, some wrecked vessels and fragments are regularly unearthed (unoceaned?) due to erosion, human activity, or changes in currents or tides, offering a rare and revealing window on human history. Beachgoers in north Florida got to peer through that window this week when what has been described as the “Holy Grail of shipwrecks” washed ashore in Ponte Vedra Beach. What might this wreck reveal about Florida’s past?
Ponte Vedra Beach
The 47-foot section of hull was found by Julia Turner and her son. “We were going to look for conch shells and shark teeth, and we find a shipwreck,” Turner said. “Pretty special.” Tool marks and Roman numerals have been found etched into the wood which is decently preserved given its age. The wreck is believed to date to between the 1700s and 1800s. Little else is known, and archeologists are scrambling to study the wreck before the ocean reclaims it. Researchers have been barred from removing the fragments from the beach, as the wreck has been deemed to legally belong to the state of Florida.
St. Augustine’s colonial past is easy to see in its architecture.
The shipwreck is being examined and studied by the St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP). St. Augustine, Florida is just south of the beach on which the shipwreck was found, and is recognized as the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States. Archaeological relics and structures dating back to the 16th century Spanish are commonly found throughout the area. LAMP’s director of maritime research Chuck Meide called the shipwreck “amazing,” adding that the only thing known at the time is that the wreck is likely a section from a large sailing ship. No treasure chests or mysterious ancient devices yet.
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Dark synchronicities, the K scale, and mysterious Egg phenomena all seem to point towards a unifying force in the universe and the true nature of the ‘coincidence’.
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British Politician Reveals Secret of Loch Ness Monster Sighting
Here in the U.S., we can’t get our politicians to engage in civil debates about anything, let alone mythical monsters – unless they’re trying to get approval to make that monster THEIR state’s monster (see Washington state’s fight to make Bigfoot its official state monster – you can’t make this stuff up!). However, this is not the case in the British Parliament, where this week two members of the House of Commons discussed the existence of the Loch Ness monster and one revealed his own great-uncle was involved in an early sighting. Really!
The debate started when Scottish MP Drew Hendry was bragging about the growth of tourism in the towns under his jurisdiction, which includes Inverness, home of the Loch Ness monster.
“Why wouldn’t you, Mr. Speaker, want to come to Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey? To enjoy the snow sports in the Cairngorms, perhaps, or golfing in Nairn, or go on a cruise along Loch Ness with Jacobite cruises.”
The House of Commons — crowded but peaceful
Hendry was addressing MP Bob Stewart, who represents Beckenham in South-East London. Being a politician and not having access at the time to Twitter, Stewart responded to Hendry’s question face-to-face on the floor of Parliament with a revelation that both chided Hendry and shocked the rest of the members, the general public and Nessie believers worldwide.
“I want to help him by saying my uncle, who was at school on the edges of Loch Ness as a boy, saw the Loch Ness monster. In consequence, tourism expanded hugely. It was in all the Scottish newspapers. And only at his funeral did he allow it that he was a fake.”
If this had occurred in the U.S., all eyes would have turned to the nearest television to see what the cable news networks had to say. This being the U.K., Stewart was allowed to continue.
“For the sake of clarity, my uncle … was at prep school alongside Loch Ness in 1931 when he was late back to school and he and another boy claimed they were watching the Loch Ness monster. This grew big: Scotsman, lots of pictures and he was stuck with this. And it was only at my great uncle’s funeral that he allowed his son to declare that actually he hadn’t seen the Loch Ness Monster all those years ago as a boy.”
If this had occurred in the U.S., the tweets and retweets and memes would be flying. Instead, Hendry gave this stern yet polite response.
“[That is] a scurrilous attack on what is quite clearly one of my constituents.”
The first half of that statement is true, the second is also true assuming Nessie exists. The real question is, was Stewart telling the truth? He claims the sighting was reported in The Scotsman. The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register – the go-to source for all things Nessie – lists one official sighting in 1931 by a J.J. Christie. However, the only record of that sighting it could find is an article in The Inverness, not The Scotsman, and it didn’t appear in the paper until 1948. That seems strange, considering the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register is pretty thorough and Stewart said there were “lots of pictures.” Also, Stewart doesn’t give his great-uncle’s name.
MP Bob Stewart — would he lie about the Loch Ness monster?
Then there’s the alleged funeral confession by his great-uncle’s son that the alleged sighting of the alleged monster was all a real hoax. Really?
It was at this point that Stewart seems to be feeling a little guilty and says:
“But I want to say I believe there is a Loch Ness monster.”
Now there’s something that would NEVER happen on the floor of the U.S. Congress.
Paul Seaburn (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)Mass Grave of World’s Richest Pirate and Crew Found in Cape Cod
Pirates are one of those strange historical side notes which somehow became deeply embedded into our popular culture. At least, the Walt Disney version of pirates, not the STD-ridden, horrifically violent world of cabin boys, scurvy, and amputations. Pirates were a common threat and nuisance around the world for centuries, and still are in some areas beyond the protection of navies. But these modern day posers have nothing on the storied pirates of old, the swashbuckling tyrants who carved a name for themselves in Western history through their daring acts of looting, pillaging, and naval guerrilla warfare. This week, the remains of one of these legendary pirates and his crew have been discovered in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, possibly solving the mystery of how this infamous pirate captain was finally given a watery grave.
The Whydah’s bell, found in 1985, is inscribed with “THE WHYDAH GALLY 1716”.
The grave is thought to belong to Captain “Black Sam” Bellamy, the captain of one of the fiercest pirate fleets in the Golden Age of piracy in the 18th century. Bellamy’s fleet captured the Jamaican slave transport Whydah as it was returning to England flush with booty. For two years, Bellamy used the Whydah to wreak havoc upon the eastern seaboard of the colonies until it is believed to have gone down in a storm in 1717. There are a few anecdotal accounts from settlers in Massachusetts which report the discovery of the Whydah and 100 other sailors who washed ashore alongside the wreck. Those accounts were confirmed in 1984 when archaeologists believed they found the wreck, buried inland near Cape Cod.
Silver recovered from the wreck of the Whydah. Bellamy is thought to have been the world’s richest pirate, but also a fair, well-tempered captain beloved by his crew earning the nickname the “Robin Hood of the Sea.”
Researchers from the Whydah Pirate Museum in Cape Cod now believe they have found the remains of the sailors, including Black Sam himself. A 3,500-pound rock-like concretion was pulled from the wreck containing human skeletal remains, and archaeologists have finally extracted DNA samples from bones believed to belong to Bellamy. Researchers believe a pistol found near one of the skeletons matches historical records of Bellamy’s own sidearm. DNA taken from those remains will now be tested against a living relative to determine if they are indeed the bones of Black Sam Bellamy, the “prince of pirates.”
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The cause of the great Four-Year Chimpanzee War has been solved. Wait, what?
“Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!”
That’s a quote from the original “Planet of the Apes” movie but, if chimpanzees could talk, it could just have easily come from the lead-up to what is known in the field of primatology as the Four-Year Chimpanzee War of Gombe. And while THAT sounds like a good title for the umpteenth sequel to the movie, it’s actually a real event witnessed by famed primatologist Jane Goodall and others in the 1970s in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Lasting from 1974 to 1978, the primate “war” was between male chimpanzees in the Kasekela area of the park and males of other areas who once seemed to be as friendly as chimps can get. However, Goodall and her colleagues soon observed raids that resulted in vicious beatings and the murders of at least a half dozen feuding chimps.
What caused the so-called war? It was a mystery even to the esteemed Goodall. However, some other primatologists privately blamed her for setting up a feeding station filled with bananas that gave at least two of the chimp groups something to fight about.
Fortunately, as was her way, Goodall took copious notes on her observations of the Four-Year War of Gombe, which she gave to colleague Anne Pusey, a Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University. Pusey has spent years digitizing Goodall’s notes and charts – not just those taken during the war but also from the years leading up to it. She recently joined a team that used the digitized data to map out social networks between 19 of the male chimps in the years leading up to the fatal conflicts.
The results were surprising. The study, published last week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, shows that, as Taylor (Charlton Heston’s character) found out in the movie, chimps and humans are more alike that we thought (or feared). They mapped out networks during different time periods from 1967 to 1972, noting when two males were friends (spending time together at the banana stand) and what cliquish area groups they belonged to. While the cliques began in one central group, they eventually split into two geographic groups, moving north and south. By 1971, former banana stand buddies were throwing sticks and stones and howling at each other. (Are these groups or political parties? Asking for a friend.)
Tensions appeared to mount when the alpha males – Humphrey of the north and Charlie and Hugh of the south – began fighting for overall dominance. If that wasn’t enough, the low number of females were in heat and that further fueled the feud into the Four-Year War of Gombe.
“It’s not possible to say for sure that any one thing was causal, since this is the only such event we’ve ever seen in chimpanzees. Understanding why cohesion breaks down can give you clues about the forces that bind social groups together in the first place.”
Study co-author Joseph Feldblum admits that further analysis of the data on the chimp war is needed, but the conclusion in the Duke Today article on the study says it all:
“Collectively, the findings suggest that such social dynamics are deeply rooted in the primate evolutionary tree.”
What happens next? Dr. Zaius, the movie’s orangutan doctor, may have revealed the answer.
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Pope Allegedly Cancels Hell and Ceiling Mysteriously Falls in St. Peter’s
“There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls.”
Of all people, you would think that Pope Francis would know not to upset the status quo right before Easter. And yet, he allegedly declared hell does not exist … and it has become of public relations nightmare for the Vatican and an even worse nightmare for his followers as, just a few hours after this shocking declaration, pieces of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome suddenly came crashing to the ground – narrowly missing worshipers and Michelangelo’s famous Pieta statue. Is this a coincidence or asign? Will churches be even MORE overflowing on Easter Sunday?
The problem started … as many religious problems do … with an atheist. Eugenio Scalfari — a 93-year-old Italian journalist, former member of the Italian parliament, co-founder of the newspaper La Repubblica and an avowed atheist – was interviewing Pope Francis for a piece that was scheduled to run on March 29th – Holy Thursday for Catholics. Why was Pope Francis being interviewed by an atheist? Because that’s the kind of open-to-all-ideas pope he is. And that’s probably what got him into the mess he’s in.
A loophole?
Scalfari, being an experienced journalist who’s done his share of big interviews, claims he never has and still does not take notes nor record his interviews with the pope, preferring to rely on his memory. Being 93, that may be why the Vatican’s PR team is blaming his memory for what it’s calling his “reconstruction” of what the pontiff actually said. The pope himself did not issue a retraction nor make any subsequent comments on the interview and the alleged quote.
Why? Perhaps he was a little worried. Just a few hours after the interview in La Repubblica was published, all hell (you knew it was coming) broke loose in St. Peter’s Basilica as pieces broke loose from the ceiling and crashed hundreds of feet to the floor. Officially known as the Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, it’s considered to be the burial site of Saint Peter and the church where the pope conducts services on major Catholic occasions, including the upcoming Easter Sunday mass.
According to The Duran and other media outlets, a Vatican spokesperson said that no one was injured when plaster fell from the ceiling and broke into pieces on the marble floor near Michelangelo’s Pieta, one of the most famous statues in the world (photo here). The area was cordoned off until an inspection could be made. This is not what the Vatican wants to hear when thousands of people will be crammed into the basilica on Sunday.
Did Pope Francis really say that hell – the place where many believe the souls of the worst of the worst spend eternity in torture as punishment – doesn’t exist? Only he and Eugenio Scalfari know for sure. Is there a connection between the alleged quote and the ceiling pieces falling in St. Peter’s Basilica, the pope’s church, two days before Easter? Who knows? Stranger things have happened. Is the declaration that there is no hell a big enough scandal to warrant such a sign? That’s one for the theologians and religious historians.
The answer to all of these questions will be revealed if Pope Francis conducts Easter services in a pointy white hardhat.
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I suspect that a lot of UFO activity in the latter part of the 1940s in the United States had more to do with classified, military experimentation than it did with aliens. There is, however, no doubt that there was a significant number of UFO reports from that period which are not so easy to dismiss. In many such cases, UFOs intruded upon sensitive military/government airspace in the United States. In the latter part of the 1940s – and particularly so in 1948 – a curious phenomenon was repeatedly seen in the skies over New Mexico. They were strange, glowing balls of green light that seemed to take a disturbing amount of interest in the many defense, atomic, and military establishments that existed in the state at the time. A program designed to investigate the reports, which was given the name of Project Twinkle, was soon put into place.
Consider the following, written by Lt. Col. Doyle Rees of the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, on 25 May 1950. It was for the specific attention of Brigadier General Joseph F. Carroll, Director of Special Investigations, USAF:
“In a liaison meeting with other military and government intelligence and investigative agencies in December 1948, it was determined that the frequency of unexplained aerial phenomena in the New Mexico area was such that an organized plan of reporting these observations should be undertaken. The organization and physical location of units of this District were most suitable for collecting these data, therefore, since December 1948, this District has assumed the responsibility for collecting and reporting basic information with respect to aerial phenomena occurring in this general area.”
Los Alamos
And a large body of that so-called “basic information” was profound, to say the very least. A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memorandum dated 31 January 1949 and titled Protection of Vital Installations, reveals the following: “During the past two months various sightings of unexplained phenomena have been reported in the vicinity of the Atomic Energy Commission Installation at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where these phenomena now appear to be concentrated [emphasis mine]. During December 1948 on the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 13th, 14th, 20th, and 28th sightings of unexplained aerial phenomena were made near Los Alamos by Special Agents of the Office of Special Investigations; Airline Pilots; Military Pilots; Los Alamos Security Inspectors; and private citizens. On January 6, 1949, another similar object was sighted in the same area.” Moving on…
It’s intriguing to note that the atomic research facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee was also a magnet for countless close encounters with UFOs – in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. Consider, for example, the following official report generated on 2 March 1950 by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC):
“There is a radar station near Knoxville which has been in operation about 3 weeks. This radar station is being operated by station WROL of Knoxville. On 1 March at 2135 hours the station picked up an object 340 degrees and 18 miles from Knoxville, altitude 40,000 feet. Direction and distance put the object directly over [emphasis mine] Oak Ridge. AEC Security Division Chief at Oak Ridge checked with Smyrna Air Base, Nashville which reported it had no flight plan for any plane in that vicinity and altitude. On 2 March at 1105 station picked up object at 335 degrees and 18 miles from Knoxville, altitude 40,000 feet. AEC Security Division Chief checked with Smyrna Air Base with negative results.”
On the following day, 3 March, 1950, a further report surfaced: “At 2130 hours on 2nd March, radar station picked up two objects 310 degrees, altitude 80,000 feet, approximately 18 miles from Knoxville in general direction of Oak Ridge, moving in circular motion but in opposite directions.” And Oak Ridge continued to be a target for the mysterious intruders. An FBI teletype of 13 October 1950 refers to the detection of a veritable squadron of unknown objects tracked over the Oak Ridge installation at 11.25 p.m. on 12 October: “USAF radar installation at Knoxville picked up indications of eleven objects and perhaps more traveling across controlled area of Atomic Energy installation at Oak Ridge [emphasis mine]…operators are experienced reliable personnel and radar set is in perfect operating condition.”
Oak Ridge
Perhaps most significant of all, is the following FBI document that offers the significant thoughts and conclusions of Oak Ridge personnel with respect to the UFO invasions in sensitive airspace:
“The opinions of the Security Division, AEC Oak Ridge; Security Branch, NEPA [Nuclear Energy for Propulsion of Aircraft project] Division, Oak Ridge; AEC Security Patrol, Oak Ridge; FBI Knoxville; Air Force Radar and Fighter Squadrons, Knoxville; and the OSI, Konxville, Tennessee, fail to evolve an adequate explanation for OBJECTS SIGHTED OVER OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE; however, the possibilities of practical jokers, mass hysteria, balloons of any description, flights of birds, falling leaves, insect swarms, peculiar weather conditions, reflections, flying kites, objects thrown from the ground, windblown objects, insanity, and many other natural happenings have been rejected because of the simultaneous witnessing of the objects with the reported radar sightings; because of the reliability of the witnesses; because of the detailed, similar description of the objects seen by different persons…”
Note that in the above-paragraph the words “objects sighted over Oak Ridge” were all typed in capital letters, further demonstrating the concern over such cases.
Not exactly outright invasions, but pretty damn close.
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