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From: Bob <bob.t@mindspring.com> [Bob Tidwell]
Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 18:53:37 -0700
Fwd Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 21:58:46 -0400
Subject: PHENOMENON # 7 - part 1
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PHENOMENON
E-Mail Newsletter A Forum for the
# 7 - Part 1 Strangeness Around us
May 1, 1998
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In This Issue
Part 1
*** Editor's Notes
*** The Lighter Side ~
~ Coverups and Conspiracies
*** Technology and UFO Investigation
*** The Alabama Files ~
~ A Secret Holographic Project?
Part 2
*** The Alabama Files ~
~ A Secret Holographic Project?
(continued)
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Quote of the Week
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The brain is by far the most complexly organized piece of matter
we know. It is enormously more complicated in structure than a
star is, for instance, which is why astronomers know so much
about stars, and psychologists know so little about brains.
Isaac Asimov
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Editor's Notes
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Hello fellow followers of fallen factions, and welcome
to issue # 7.
I'm starting this issue with a fresh :-) new look at that dreaded
word - "conspiracy", and offer a suggestion on a different, more
UFOlogy, correct one. Next, we'll take a look at today's
technology, and how it may change the way in which we investigate
those strange lights and objects that are floating around in our
skies. Finally, I'll present facts about a secret Army/NASA
project that has come to my attention here in Alabama. One that
will probably be very controversial, but I'll just give you the
facts, and let you decide for yourself.
I've received some very encouraging emails recently, and would
like to thank you for your comments about this newsletter. If
there's any subject that you would like to see covered here, I'll
be glad to see what I can come up with. Just drop me a line at:
bob.t@mindspring.com
Thanks again for your support,
~~~ Bob ~~~
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The Lighter Side
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Coverups and Conspiracies
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If you really want to stir things up among a group of UFOlogists,
just mention the word "conspiracy". This word has become
synonymous with all kinds of fringe groups, and if you mention it
with regards to any situation, you automatically become
associated with all of the other "conspiracy theorists." After
all, UFOlogists are a fringe group in their own right.
So, it's about time that we take a fresh new look at any
conspiracies that might be taking place, and see if they truly
are conspiracies or not, or if we're just overworking this word.
According to Mr. Webster and Oxford American, conspire can mean;
to make secret plans with others, especially for an unlawful
purpose; to combine with other events for the same purpose;
to agree by oath, covenant, or otherwise to commit a crime; to
form a secret plot; or, to agree, concur, or conduce to one end.
The word conspiracy can mean; to commit some crime in concert;
or, a secret combination of men for an evil purpose ( I wonder
why Mr. Webster didn't include women?). The best definition that
I found was that conspiracy is simply; the plan made by
conspiring.
In simple terms, I take conspire to mean that more than one
person (women included) decide to make a secret agreement,
leading towards some certain purpose or goal, usually with an
unlawful or sinister intent. I would also like to include
unethical along with unlawful. Conspiracy is the plan that
results from this agreement.
Conspiracy is sometimes confused with "coverup", meaning; to
hide, conceal, protect, cloak, lie about or lay false pretense.
There are a lot of coverups going on, but that doesn't
necessarily mean that they are a part of any conspiracy.
With these new definitions and meanings in hand, let's see how
they apply to UFOlogy.
[Talking about words and their meanings, my word processor keeps
trying to change UFOlogy to Urology.]
We all tend to agree that Roswell is part of a coverup. The Air
Force, then the Army Air Corp, has admitted that they lied,
partially, about that incident being a weather balloon. They were
covering up the fact that it was another type of balloon. Of
course, we all think that explanation is also a coverup. On the
surface, this doesn't imply that there was a conspiracy. Sure,
there was more than one person involved, but we're talking about
only one agency, the Air Force. In order for this to be
considered a conspiracy, other agencies would have to had been
brought in, and there would have had to have been an unlawful or
sinister purpose involved. (Which could very well turn out to be
true, especially if we use the term unethical.)
A Government may legally have the right to hide information that
it thinks could be detrimental to it's citizens, but that does
not make it right in my book. I think that we ,as Human beings,
have the right to have access to all information, and decide for
ourselves to what degree that it affects us personally. Besides,
once any Government starts to hide information, it just makes it
harder to release that information at a later date, in order to
save face.
If an Alien (or otherwise) presence is here on the Earth in any
form, we have the right to know about it. Whether they are here
to give us new technology, to enslave us, or simply to observe
us, we have the ethical right to that information. If having that
knowledge threatens the religions of the World, or even threatens
Mankind's existence on this planet, Mankind has the right to make
those decisions for themselves.
If new and different technology is being offered, we have the
right to decide how to use that technology. If we are under a
threat of some kind, we have the right to determine how to deal
with that threat. If we are being studied, then we have the right
to know how involved we are in that study. If our Governments
don't know themselves what this phenomena is, we have a right
to have that information also. If the answer to any of these
suppositions is yes, then there has to be a very complex plan
involved to hide this knowledge, and I would consider that to be
unlawful, sinister and unethical. This, to me, would be a
conspiracy of the highest form.
The Warren Commission decided that a lone gunman killed President
Kennedy. If they had other facts that they were concealing, then
that would be a coverup. A conspiracy would come into play if
more than one person was involved in the shooting, this being a
conspiracy among the shooters and planners, or if more than one
government agency was involved in covering up these facts, which
would be an agreement among these agencies to hide known facts
from due process of law.
But why am I now talking about assassinations, and not UFOs?
Because, every time someone mentions something being a
conspiracy, regardless of what it pertains to, you automatically
get grouped along with the "conspiracy theorists", which have
come to be known as those that believe everything is a
conspiracy, regardless of whether they personally believe that or
not.
What we UFOlogists need is a new term. Abductees are now called
experiencers, a term that I feel better suits the phenomena that
they are experiencing. It just so happens that there is already a
new term floating around that can be used instead of conspiracy,
"hidden agenda". Has a lot better ring to it.
If we suspect that, for instance, the Military and NASA (or
any other groups) are hiding important facts that the Citizens of
the World should know about, then instead of claiming a
conspiracy, we could instead say, "is there a hidden agenda?"
Works for me. What do you think?
~~~ Bob ~~
(Hidden Agenda Theorist? :-)
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Technology and UFO Investigations
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UFOlogists are faced with a new obstacle between them and the
truth; technology.
We now have military aircraft flying around in our skies that are
starting to take on some of the characteristics of UFOs, not to
mention the black projects aircraft that may already match this
phenomena (or be responsible for it). The unusual lights in the
sky that we used to imagine as being craft from another world,
are now becoming secret military aircraft in our minds. If there
are true alien ships floating around in our skies, they now have
current aircraft technology to help to hide them. Our ships and
submarines are also taking on a new futuristic look. And, we've
launched so much junk into space, NASA has a ready made excuse
for almost any anomalous object observed in Earth orbit.
Video processing technology is probably causing the most trouble
in UFOlogy. It has gotten to the point where all photographs and
video film are now suspect, regardless of the source. Fake photos
and video are getting easier to produce every month. When will it
get to the point that the fakes are so perfect that no video can
be used as proof, or has it almost reached that point already?
Photo experts, once considered to be one of the most valuable
assets of analysis, would probably receive the most flack if they
produced a photo or video themselves, simply because of their
expertise. As soon as someone produces a decent UFO photo, the
first thing that is looked at, is their photographic ability and
the quality of their equipment. The worst the photographer, and
the worst the camera, the more believable the photo becomes. And,
with more and more digital cameras and computer photo programs
being used by the public, it doesn't look like it's going to get
any better.
It may even get to the point where we have to put our children
out in the back yard, by themselves, with a Brownie box camera,
and hope for the best.
A new technology that has both good and bad effects on UFOlogy is
the Internet. Bad being that anyone, myself included, now has a
cheap means of access to millions of interested people in which
to express their views, or to spread disinformation. I feel that
the good far exceeds the bad on the web though. We just need to
take everything with a grain of salt and make an attempt to
follow up on stories and articles that we choose to be interested
in. The web also gets information out to everyone much faster
than books or magazines, and allows a much greater interaction
between UFOlogists to discuss this information on a more realtime
basis. There is still a market for books and magazines at the
present time, but I feel that UFO magazines will see a major
decline in the near future, simply because in the time that it
takes for the magazine to be printed and distributed, the stories
would already be old news. One good thing that could come out of
this is that the quality of the information contained in the
magazines would have to improve, in order to continue to attract
readers.
There is one new technology though that could serve to undermine
UFOlogy more than anything else. This technology concerns the
perfection and use of "projected holographic images." The
following article takes a look at this new technology, and
suggests that it may already have been used to project false
images, such as UFOs.
~~~ Bob ~~~
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The Alabama Files
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A Secret Holographic Project?
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The August-September, 1997 issue of Nexus magazine carried a
short news item titled "Holographic Battleground." It stated that
the U.S. Congress had just approved funding for the Army to
perfect a laser system that would project life-sized hologram
decoys of troops and tanks onto a battlefield. The holographic
projector, dubbed the "Ghost Gun", could also be used to project
images of political or religious leaders, such as Saddam Hussein
standing on a balcony, telling his troops to lay down their arms.
The article stated that the project is headed by U.S. Army
scientist Dr. Gary Wood at the Army Research laboratory in
Adelphi, Maryland, and could be perfected within 10 years.
This brings to mind UPN's recent telecast of the August 9th
Mexico City video. The video shows a daylight disk that moves
across the viewing area and then out of view behind a building.
(I don't get UPN in my area, so I haven't viewed this video yet)
There has been some discussion as to whether or not the UFO was
the result of a holographic projection.
A question was asked as to whether or not two laser beams could
project a false image of a UFO onto a uniform distribution of
smog. Another question concerned whether or not it was possible
to actually project a holographic image that would appear to be
3-D, and could be viewed from various angles. The major problem
that was raised concerning holographs was that a projected image,
being a light source, cannot be darker that the area that it is
projected onto.
I admit that I'm not knowledgeable in this field, but how do the
Army scientists plan to solve this problem, and be able to
project a believable image of virtual troops and equipment onto a
battlefield, and appear to be solid enough to be perceived as
real by enemy forces, from any angle. Could there be a method of
modulating several projected and converging laser beams, such as
to give the appearance of a solid object, maybe in a manner
similar to the three electron guns in a color television picture
tube?
Another question that I have is whether or not this technology
has already been perfected by the Army, possibly with the help of
another familiar agency?
A personal friend of mine related a UFO sighting that he and his
wife had in 1991. They were traveling to Birmingham from
Huntsville on Interstate 65 about 10:30 at night, when they came
upon a huge cigar-shaped object in the sky above the highway. The
object extended from beyond the tree level on either side of the
highway, was motionless, and made no noise. The couple pulled
over to the side of the road to better observe the object.
Another car on the opposite side of the freeway had also pulled
over to observe this same object.
The object had yellow-orange lights along the side, and an erie
green light projecting from domes on the top and bottom. After
several minutes the object disappeared. My friend described it
"as though someone had simply flipped a switch." (I would like to
know if anyone here in Alabama has had a similar experience.) The
other car continued on it's way after the object's disappearance.
My friend and I have discussed the possibility as to whether or
not the object could have been a projected image of some sort,
and if so, where was it being projected from. His encounter was
in the Blount Springs area, about 30 miles north of Birmingham,
which is scarcely populated. He suggested that maybe this could
be connected to an unusual project that he had witnessed years
earlier at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville.
Before I present my friend's story as observed at this Army site,
I would like to give a little background information, in order to
show the importance of this installation.
At the start of WW II, the Chemical Warfare Service only had one
chemical manufacturing installation, at the Edgewood Arsenal in
Maryland. Because of a Possible U.S. involvement in the war, the
Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service asked the War Department
to fund a second location to supplement Edgewood's production,
and to also provide a site that would be located far enough
inland from the seacoast, in order to provide sufficient military
protection. This site would require adequate rail, water, and
highway transportation. The site would also need sufficient fuel
and electrical power, along with enough raw materials for
construction.
The War Department selected Huntsville, Alabama on 3 July 1941 as
the location for this new installation. This site was far enough
inland, and the nearby mountain ranges would provide additional
protection. A tract of over 30,000 acres, located just to the
southwest of Huntsville along the Tennessee River, was available
at a very reasonable price. Labor conditions, and the climate and
living conditions of the area were considered to be excellent. An
adequate supply of electrical power was also available from the
Tennessee Valley Authority.
On 24 July 1941 the War Department announced that the name of
this new installation would be the Huntsville Arsenal.
Groundbreaking was held on 4 August and the new arsenal's first
production facility was activated in March 1942. Various chemical
agents were produced at the arsenal during the war, including
mustard and tear gas.
On 6 March the Huntsville Chemical Warfare Depot was established
on 7,700 acres on the extreme southern section of the arsenal, to
store the various chemicals and munitions. The name was later
changed to the Gulf Chemical Warfare depot, in order to avoid
confusion with the Huntsville Arsenal.
The Chief of Ordnance later recognized that it would be
economically feasible to also locate a loading and assembly plant
next to the arsenal, so on 25 October 1941 construction was
started on a 4,000 acre tract of land that bordered the east of
the Huntsville Arsenal, and the Redstone Ordnance Plant was
activated on 5 February 1942. A year later on 26 February 1943,
the name was changed to the Redstone Arsenal. This plant produced
over 45 million units of ammunition for the war effort.
After the war ended, both arsenals ceased production, and focused
on salvaging ammunition returned from overseas. In February 1947
Redstone Arsenal was put on standby status. The Huntsville
Arsenal was placed on surplus status, but on 9 November 1948 was
placed on standby status as a possible site for the newly created
Department of the Air force. When the Air Force decided against
using the site, the Huntsville Arsenal was put up for sale.
Meanwhile, the Chief of Ordnance had decided to use Redstone
Arsenal as the center for research and development for a newly
emerging military technology - rocketry. The Huntsville Arsenal
was reactivated as the site of the Ordnance Rocket Center, and
it's facilities and staff were placed under the control of
Redstone Arsenal.
As a related economy measure, on 28 October 1949 the Ordnance
Research and Development Division Sub-Office (rocket development)
was also moved from Fort Bliss, Texas to Redstone, and was
renamed the Ordnance Guided Missile Center on 15 April 1950.
Among the personnel that were transferred were Dr. Wernher von
Braun and his team of German scientists and technicians.
Von Braun had been the technical director of the Peenemuende
Rocket Center on the Baltic Sea. He and other German scientists
were brought to the U.S. in 1945, as part of Project Paperclip,
to aid in military research and development.
With the addition of the new missile group, the Army found that
it needed more land, so on 15 April 1950 the Huntsville Arsenal
officially ceased to exist and the entire complex was
consolidated to Redstone Arsenal. Redstone also continued to
produce chemical artillery ammunition until 1956.
When the Army Ballistic Missile Agency was established on
1 February 1956, the Department of the Army selected Redstone as
the site for this new agency. Personnel and equipment were
transferred from Redstone's Guided Missile Development Division,
along with von Braun and his scientists. The ABMA was initially
responsible for the REDSTONE and PERSHING missile programs, along
with the Army satellite program. Redstone soon became the main
center for research and development, storage, maintenance, and
repair for the Army's entire family of Army Ordnance missile
systems.
On 31 March 1958 the Army Ordnance Missile Command was
established at Redstone. The AOMC had jurisdiction over ABMA, the
Redstone Arsenal, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena,
California, and the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico.
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As you can see, this was (and still is) quite an important
military installation. Now is a good time to go get that cup of
coffee or tea, and continue with our story in part 2 of this
newsletter.
~~~ Bob ~~~
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