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From: Bob <bob.t@mindspring.com> [Bob Tidwell]
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:26:17 -0800
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 08:17:42 -0500
Subject: PHENOMENON - #2, March 15, 1998
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PHENOMENON
E-Mail Newsletter A Forum for the
# 2 Strangeness Around us
March 15, 1998
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In This Issue
*** The Roswell Transistor
*** The Alabama Files -
~ A Birmingham Roswell?
*** Classified
*** Happenings
*** Newsletter Guidelines
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Quote of the Week
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"Now a question: How long it takes to go from caveman to spaceman before
you blow yourselves up?"
George Fawcett - UFO Investigator
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The Roswell Transistor
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The feature story in the March/April issue of UFO Magazine (US) is about
back-engineered alien technology.
We should all be familiar with the claims of Col. Philip Corso, U.S. Army
(ret) by now. He claims to have been involved in a secret Pentagon /Army
project to provide alien devices, recovered in crash retrievals, to
scientific institutions to be back-engineered and incorporated into our
present technology. According to Corso, the Army wanted to use this
technology in their weapons systems. But, in order to do this, they would
have to first release it to the private sector,
and have the technology appear to have been invented by us.
Supposedly, this was how scientists were able to come up with integrated
circuits, lasers, flak jackets and all sorts of new devices, most with
military applications.
There is still much discussion on whether or not Corso is telling the
truth, or handing out disinformation. He certainly was a part of military
intelligence, and may still be. I've seen very little against him coming
from government sources. Any negativity is coming from UFOlogists and
researchers. We've been burnt enough that we are looking at each new
disclosure of information very carefully now.
I'm also not comfortable with the idea that Corso is only giving us the
Army's side of this story. If the Army had this much to work with, what
about the Air Force or the Navy? (It surprises most researchers when they
discover that the Navy has always been the department assigned to
investigate UFOs, not the Air Force.)
Now comes along a new player in this game. Jack Shulman, president of
American Computer Company, has also come forward with his discoveries
concerning alien back-engineering that led to the development of the
transistor. The American Computer Company has been publishing a series of
articles on a web site devoted to the Roswell incident.
According to Shulman, he discovered a "lab shopkeeper's notebook" while
working as a consultant, with ties to Bell Labs. He later acquired
thousands of more pages, dating back to the post-war period.
Shulman says that he plans to release at least one " bombshell" from the
notebook per month until the government agrees to disclose their own
information. In December he announced the transcapacitor (T-Cap), a device
that can store vast amounts of data while consuming very little energy. He
says that his company plans to manufacture a 90-gigabyte storage device
within the next couple of years that will sell for about $800. In January
he announced the photonitron. (I wonder what was revealed in February?)
UFO Magazine also discussed Corso's book "The Day After Roswell", stating
that Corso "was the first to raise questions about Bell Labs' account of
its discovery of the transistor. My personal database shows this to be
incorrect. Peter Moon, author of the Montauk book series, talks about the
transistor being an alien device in "Montauk Revisited", Sky Books 1994.
According to Moon, a company was formed in the 1950's to manufacture
electronic devices. This company was known as the E.T. Company, and
supposedly produced almost all the transistors in the U.S. during the
1950's. This was an actual company, and Moon shows a copy of their letter
head in his book. According to a former employee, the company joke was that
"E.T." stood for "Extra-Terrestrial."Another employee also admitted that
the original device, a Surface Barrier Transistor, was indeed obtained from
an "alien" source.
Moon was able to obtain an original data sheet on these devices. In the
footnotes at the bottom of the page he found the statement, "The research
leading to the development of the Surface Barrier Transistor was supported
in part by the Bureau of Ships, Dept. of Navy", and gave the contract
number. Sounds like the Navy counterpart to what Corso claims that he was
doing for
the Army.
Great Britain was working on a device that they called the Crystal valve in
1946, but Bell Labs managed to be first, by introducing the transistor in
1947. They were also referring to their early device as a crystal valve.
The first transistors produced for the military during this time period
were labeled as a "crystal amplifier." It didn't say transistor.
Bell Labs' assignment appeared to be focused mainly on releasing this new
device in a manner that was easily reproducible and marketable. A man named
Osborne was asked to handle the business end. He and his partners then
formed the first company that would market these crystal amplifiers.
Osborne knew that this device was the result of alien technology, so he
came up with the name "E.T. Company", planning to change it to the full
name "Extra-Terrestrial Company"
after the aliens were introduced to the general public, which he thought
would happen within a few years. He wanted to have a monopoly on the name.
The problem with this name was that sooner or later someone would want to
know what E.T. stood for. The E. could stand for Electronic, but what about
the T. This crystal valve was sort of like a translator, but that name
didn't quite sound right. It also had properties of a resistor, so they
decided to put the two names together, and came up with the name
"Transistor." If anyone asked, they were the Electronic Transistor Company.
The E.T. Company was in actuality a spinoff of Western Electric, the Bell
company that has been linked to being a major contractor to the Navy for
the "Philadelphia Experiment." The E.T. Company was making nearly all of
the transistors being sold, and Bell Labs was promoting them through their
channels.
Peter Moon has stated that the aliens providing this technology were from
the Orion constellation, and that they were try to negotiate with our
government to provide them with Surface Barrier Transistors. The aliens
would have repair parts, and we would have a new electronic technology.
The Sprage Company was the contract supplier of Surface Barrier
Transistors to the military, but they were still being
manufactured by the E.T. Company. Sprage was latter told to
discontinue and shutdown this line of transistors by the
government. The E.T. Company was now stuck with a huge stockpile
of these devices. They asked the Government if they could relabel
and sell them under their own name, but the Government replied
back that they would be held in treason if they attempted to do
so. Negotiations continued, and it was decided that Sprage would
pay the E.T. Company for all costs to produce the devices, and
they would scrap them. Surprisingly, The E.T. Company decided to
simply shelve them and let the Government assume that they had
been destroyed.
(There are rumors that these transistors could be used, in great
enough quantity, in constructing time machine type devices, hence
the Montauk tie in) The E.T. Company later ended up in Chapter 11
bankruptcy. Today this company is back in business as Orion
Diversified Technology.
(Orion??? - but, it's getting late, and that's another story in itself)
~~~ Bob ~~~
notes:
When I was going through Air Force electronic and radar schools in 1968, I
heard rumors about solid state technology coming from recovered alien
craft. The main product that was talked about most though were printed
circuit boards. ~~ Bob ~~~
UFO Magazine failed to provide the URL for American Computer Company, so
here it is:
http://www.american-computer.com
Or you can go straight to their Roswell page with:
http://www.american-computer.com/roswell.htm
Lots of interesting stuff - be prepared to stay awhile. ~~~ Bob ~~~
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The Alabama Files
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A Birmingham Roswell?
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Is anyone aware that a Roswell-type crash was rumored to have happened in
the Birmingham area? Jacques Vallee, UFO Researcher, has suggested this on
several occasions. The craft supposedly crashed in southern Jefferson or
northern Shelby County. This would have been in the mid 1950s, and
personnel from Maxwell AFB were said to have recovered this craft.
CSETI has a web site pertaining to UFO crashes, including B'ham, at:
http://www.cseti.org/crashes/crash.htm
This is one of the best sites for crash information. The Phoenix Foundation
has provided info on the B'ham crash. You can skip the other crash stories
and go directly to the Phoenix site at:
http://www.ufoic.com/topics/crashinfo.htm#Phoenix
I have been unable to find any information to support this claim locally,
other than a reference to the old Mustang Drive-In location. Has anyone
else heard anything about this??? ~~~ Bob ~~~
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Classified
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I have several duplicate copies of rare, out of print, UFO magazines. I
would like to trade them for similar ones. What do you do with your
magazines after you've read them? Do you save them for future reference or
throw them away? If you would like to trade them with other subscribers,
this is the place.
~~~Bob ~~~
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Happenings
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The March B'ham MUFON meeting will be held on the 5th Sunday instead of the
4th due to the Gulf Breeze UFO Conference.
April 10-12, 1998 -- Tenth Annual Ozark UFO Conference, at the Inn of the
Ozarks Conference Center, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Additional information
my be obtained by calling (501) 354-2558.
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~~~ Bob ~~~
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(C) Bob Tidwell, 1998
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