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From: Bob <bob.t@mindspring.com> [Bob Tidwell]
Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 18:55:14 -0700
Fwd Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 21:58:06 -0400
Subject: PHENOMENON # 7 - part 2
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PHENOMENON
E-Mail Newsletter A Forum for the
# 7 - Part 2 Strangeness Around us
May 1, 1998
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Part 2
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~ A Secret Holographic Project?
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A Secret Holographic Project?
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One of Redstone Arsenal's unstated missions was to research and
develop the technology that had been recovered from Germany after
the war, especially that which related to rocket science. One of
the major concerns of the U.S. was that Russia also had access to
German technology, and would one day be able to place a military
weapons device into space orbit, thus placing the U.S. in great
jeopardy.
In September 1954 Dr. von Braun wrote a thesis proposing the use
of existing Army rocket components that had been developed at
Redstone Arsenal to place an artificial satellite into orbit. The
project would use a REDSTONE missile as the primary booster and
three LOKI rockets as upper stages. This plan expanded into a
joint Army-Navy proposal that was named Project ORBITER. Higher
authorities though decided in 1955 to pursue a plan based on the
Navy's VIKING missile - Project VANGUARD.
With the establishment of ABMA at Redstone in February 1956, the
Army had all of the personnel and elements readily at hand to
place a satellite into orbit. In April 1956 the Army advised the
Department of Defense that their JUPITER C missile could
accomplish this task within the next 6 to 7 months. In May the
DOD gave notice to the Army that they were not to use any of
their JUPITER or REDSTONE programs as the basis for an orbital
launch vehicle.
On 20 September 1956 the Army flight tested a JUPITER C, which
flew 3,355 miles and attained an altitude of 682 miles. Had
permission been granted from the DOD this very test flight could
have easily put its fourth stage into orbit, but the Army was
under strict orders not to use a fully powered fourth stage.
Remember that this was more than a year before Russia
successfully launched SPUTNIK I in October 1957. The ABMA again
asked permission to attempt orbital insertion, and were again
told to refrain from any efforts in this area.
There were rumors in the scientific community at the time that
the Army was pursuing an unauthorized satellite project. Because
of these rumors, the Secretary of Defense gave the Army a direct
order to refrain from any space activity.
[It appears to me that the Department of Defense was purposefully
holding back, and wanted Russia to be the first to place an
artificial satellite into orbit. This could have been done to
better evaluate Russia's current state of rocket development, or
even as a means of frightening the American public into funding a
major space program.]
After Russia's successful launch of Sputnik I on 4 October 1957,
the Army was finally given approval, and only 84 days later
successfully launched Explorer I from the AOMC/ABMA facilities at
Cape Canaveral.
[The Vanguard Project was experiencing repeated failures, and
their attempt to launch a satellite ended on 6 December when the
rocket exploded into flames on the launch pad.]
ABMA was also able to place three more explorer satellites into
orbit by July 1958, but ABMA's hopes of becoming a major
participant in the space race was soon to come to an end. The
Government had decided that the Nation's space program could best
be handled by a single agency, and that it should be a civilian
organization, not a military one. Within the next few years, all
space related programs would be turned over to the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, although ABMA would be
assigned to develop eight REDSTONE-type launch vehicles for the
manned Mercury Program.
Redstone Arsenal's history is very extensive, and I've only
covered a very small part of the events that had happened to this
point. Redstone's history from 1960 to the present is even more
extensive, and I won't attempt to go into any more detail other
than to say that this installation has continued to assist with
NASA's space program, and also with all types of exotic weapons
systems, including Starwars-type particle beam devices.
At this point I would like to give my friend's story, and attempt
to link it to a Redstone project to project virtual holographic
images.
Sometime during the summer of 1983, my friend was dispatched to
Redstone Arsenal to install some special communications equipment
for a communications contractor. He had a map of the arsenal, but
the address on the work order was not on the map, so he asked for
directions from a Military Police guard post. He was immediately
asked why he needed to know, and the nature of his business in
that area. The MPs drew him a map to find this location. He had
worked on the arsenal for about eight years and had never heard
of this particular site.
In order to reach this location, he had to go through two check
points. (Redstone is not presently a secure installation,
although certain sensitive sections are secure.) Each check point
thoroughly checked his truck and work order. The MPs also used
mirrors to look under his truck, and his name was entered into a
database to verify that he was authorized to enter this area. As
he proceeded through the last check point, he noticed a sign that
read "WARNING - MINED AREA." There was only the one road in, and
signs warned him that both sides of the road were mined. There
was also a ten-foot tall fence along both sides of this road. He
followed the road up the side of a mountain, and at the top was
once again throughly checked by the MPs. These MPs directed him
to the location on the work order.
Once he entered the correct building he found that he was able to
move around freely and unescorted. After installing the new
communications equipment, he noticed that some technicians in the
next room appeared to be conducting some sort of laser testing.
This greatly interested my friend, as he is an amateur inventor
who is constantly coming up with all types of new inventions. He
pretended to need access to this room in order to make some
wiring rearrangements. Once inside, the scientists were very
friendly. Being an inventor, he picks up new ideas very easily,
and soon had the scientists engaged in conversation. He told them
that he had done a project on lasers in school, but had never
actually seen one being tested. They told him that "this is your
lucky day", and handed him a pair of goggles to put on. They then
fired one of their lasers straight ahead to a mirror which
reflected the beam at a 90 degree angle to a target on the other
side of the room.
The scientists informed him that they were working on a project
that would have the capability of bouncing lasers off satellites
for military purposes. My friend pretended that he didn't
understand, so they told him that their lasers were powerful
enough to disable a target anywhere within the range of the
satellite's mirrors, and were precise enough to locate and
vaporize a single selected person.
He told me that as he left the building and returned to his
truck, "my hands were shaking." As he sat in his truck and
carefully looked around, he noticed several test sites that were
setup outside. He also saw a huge mirror that was mounted on a
motorized stand, and was aimed up towards the sky.
He admitted to me that he has talked to several people that have
retired from Redstone Arsenal, and who worked on numerous
projects, but has been unable to find someone that will admit to
knowing anything about this site.
I myself happened to be in Huntsville a few years ago, and struck
up a conversation with a gentleman while shopping in a local
bookstore. During the conversation, he told me that he was a
scientist, and worked at the Redstone complex. Remembering my
friend's story, I managed to matter-of-factly mention the laser
project that my friend had described. He looked surprised, and
then said "so you know about that eh." He then said, with a gleam
in his eye of someone that might have been involved on such a
project, " we can put an image of an oak tree in a field, and
you wouldn't be able to tell that it wasn't real until you walked
over and tried to touch it." He said that the process involved
special lasers, satellites and mirrors. He wouldn't comment any
more after that and changed the subject to something else.
I had filed this information away in my records, to be checked
into later, and was reminded about it after reading the
discussions concerning the Mexico video. Was my friend told the
truth about the laser test site (or all of the truth), or were
the scientists just putting him on. He is one of the most
intelligent persons that I know, and he didn't feel that they
were having fun with him. Besides, there is also the information
that I received from the gentleman in the bookstore. I had no way
of verifying this information, but my friend was suggesting to me
that the object that he saw could also have been a projected
image, so I decided to check further.
Redstone Arsenal is currently known as the U. S. Army Aviation
and Missile Command - AMCOM. The name Redstone Arsenal hasn't
been an official designated name for a good many years, but has
stuck as a geographical name, and everyone still refers to this
installation as the Redstone Arsenal. Its even known by that name
on official civilian and military maps of the area.
I started my investigation by looking for any AMCOM projects that
might lead to what I was looking for. After looking through all
of the many many projects currently being developed at AMCOM, I
just about ready to give up when I found the Missile Research,
Development, and Engineering Center, under the Weapons Sciences
Directorate. To my great amazement, I soon found what I was
looking for on their web site at:
Http://www.mrdec.redstone.army.mil/
MRDEC's missions include; "...provide broadbased expertise as
related to missile, laser, and beam weaponry"; "Coordinate,
monitor, and evaluate the developing technologies for high
energy lasers."; "Evaluate the effect of lasers, microwaves, and
other beams on AMCOM weapons"; and "Conduct unconventional beam
weapons design and analysis."This research division also
interacts with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -
DARPA, who appears to be providing the funding.
I found the most useful information in MRDEC's Photonics & Laser
Sciences division. There are references to; atom mirrors; atom
lasers; quantum optics; resonator wave optics theory; polarized
laser fields; "stabilization of atoms and molecules in intense
laser fields"; "3-D stopband for wave propagation in all
directions... providing an omni-directional, lossless, reflective
material"; "...development of concepts for ultra-light,
ultra-compact optical devices ... novel concept for a laser
linear accelerator particle beam device"; "cooperative phenomena,
and others not yet named"???; ...applied research on linear and
nonlinear optical materials and characterize laser field
interactions with such materials"; "laser field-induced quantum
coherence phenomena and control for novel laser devices"; and
last, but not least - holography.
Ok, so they do research and development with lasers and
holography, and they have a site with mirrors that direct these
special beams up into the sky. They would also need a special
satellite to redirect the beams to the imaging location.
This is where things really begin to get interesting! Let's go
back to our Redstone Arsenal history and see how NASA could also
be involved in a holographic projection project.
After the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration in 1958, the military had to turn over control
of Cape Canaveral, along with Redstone and ABMA's control of
White Sands and JPL. In 1960 AOMC/ABMA lost all of its
space-related missions along with 4,000 civilian employees, and
$100 million worth of buildings and equipment at Redstone and
Cape Canaveral.
[NASA was in actuality an offshoot of the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which was founded in 1915.]
The interesting part of this is that the Redstone employees
didn't have very far to go to perform their new jobs for NASA, in
fact, they didn't go anywhere at all. The government transferred
1,800 acres in the center of Redstone Arsenal to NASA, named it
the Marshall Space Flight Center, and installed Dr. Wernher von
Braun as the first director. Marshall is surrounded on all sides
by the Redstone Arsenal complex. This installation is still today
one of the largest and most important research and development
centers that belong to NASA.
Marshall's projects include; the Lunar Roving Vehicle; the United
States' first crewed orbiting space station; and the Hubble Space
Telescope, just name a few. (There are many many more)
With the marriage of these two installations, civilian and
military, since 1960, you can imagine all kinds of secret
projects that might be involved. After my luck with Redstone, I
decided to take a look at Marshall, and see if I could find a
project that might complement what I had found at the
AMCOM/Redstone site. What I found was NASA's Laser Geodynamic
Satellite - LAGEOS. It seems that NASA teamed up with the
Smithsonian Institution in 1974 with a project designed to
"detect small movements in the Earth's crust, polar motion, and
precise locations of various spots on earth."
The LAGEOS satellite was nicknamed the "cosmic golf ball", since
it was covered with prismatic-like mirrors, and was launched from
Vandenberg Air Force on 4 May 1976, not from Cape Canaveral.
LAGEOS would act as a reflecting device for lasers fired from a
ground source. This project was developed at the Marshal Space
Flight Center. I'm still trying to determine from what locations
the laser, or lasers, was fired. This would have been the perfect
test for future satellites designed to focus special laser
beam-holographic images to a precise location.
As you can see, the Redstone Arsenal complex, to me, would be the
perfect site from which to develop a holographic projection
system. I would appreciate any additional information that anyone
might have concerning this project at Redstone, or any other
holographic projection project.
~~~ Bob ~~~
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We really like your newsletter. Thanks particularly for the radar
information and education.
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I read your silly story about the underground city in the Grand
Canyon. One problem - how did Mr. Kincaid come to possess a
flashlight in 1909? A little hard to believe Bud.
[This is a very good question. I also wondered about the
flashlight. It seems that the dry-cell flashlight was perfected
in New York in 1898, so there were flashlights around in 1909,
and were known by that name. ~~~ Bob ~~~ (not Bud)]
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In my opinion, Phenomenon #6 is the best yet. I just got back
from the Smithsonian Tuesday. After being there, I can very
easily see how this theory could be true. All I can say is ...
more, more, more. Very good stuff!
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I was reading your article posted on the sighting web site, when
suddenly I was struck by the fact that the article describes an
old reoccuring dream I was having several years ago.
In the dream I travel to the rocky mountains and enter a series
of hidden tunnels with caverns and temple / shrines. the dream
explicitly depicts an ancient Egyptian culture. The dream
always ended with the tunnels being closed-off somehow. I don't
really remember... but I would always awaken at the conclusion of
the dream.
I have never heard or read anything as described in your article
until reading it tonight. Is this just a coincidence, or
something more meaningful ?
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I enjoyed your Phenomenon newsletter although it makes my blood
boil just thinking of the lies that go on in our government. I
wouldn't doubt for one minute that the Smithsonian has been
involved with covering up discoveries that would rock the worlds
of those poor, fragile scientists who would have to rewrite their
precious history books. Will the human race ever grow up?
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Thanks for the eMails. I enjoy reading your comments,
good and bad.
~~~ Bob ~~~
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