Does the UFO phenomenon represent conclusive evidence of physical ET visitations on Earth? – – or has the phenomenon always been intentionally deceptive by design?
Are UFOs and “aliens” really (and physically) from outer space?
They seem to be able to materialize and de-materialize at will, as if intruding paraphysically from another dimension.
However, they seem to be incapable of remaining in our physical realm except for a few moments at a time, or only for a short period of time.
They may not necessarily be objects nor could they be “flying”, yet they seem to be able to temporily affect our physical parameters (such as radar, etc.).
The phenomenon itself seems to be the one that is in full control of the event, rather than the other way around, i.e., its seemingly pre-selected observer (or a group of observers) within a pre-selected location and time.
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About a year ago, David Grusch showed up on the UFO scene talking about UFO crashes. In the course of his revelations, he mentioned a dozen UFO crashes over the years. Now, I sometimes think that I’m the leading expert on UFO crashes, having inherited the title from the late Len Stringfield, so I believe can speculate with some expertise on the subject of UFO crashes. Without Len, we might not even be having this conversation but Len brought the whole subset of UFO crashes into the public arena
For those who are unfamiliar with this, Len began investigating tales of UFO crashes, years before the rest of us climbed on that bandwagon. He collected the stories with little in the way of critical comment. His theory was to publish the information, knowing that someone would attempt to verify it. Without that beginning, we wouldn’t be having this discussion today.
That brings us to David Grusch, who “leaked” some information about crashes but not very much. He mentioned two crashes. One at Roswell that is so well known now that it was an answer on Jeopardy! The other was something alleged to have happened in Italy in 1933. Americans captured the craft from the Italians at the end of the Second World War.
Italian UFO researchers, who investigated the claims about the case some twenty to thirty years ago, concluded that it was a hoax. It would seem that anyone on the inside, that is the people feeding information to Grush, would have known that.
Connected to Roswell, is the reported case of a crash of a craft on the Plains of San Agustin in western New Mexico. This tale was linked to the Roswell UFO crash when Stan Friedman suggested that two alien craft had collided, one falling to earth near Roswell and the other much farther to the west. The best evidence is that this aspect of the Roswell case is a hoax.
From that point, Grusch has said that he has more information about the other ten, that he had talked to people who had seen some of these craft, but that he hasn’t seen anything himself. Don Schmitt, Tom Carey, and I can make the same claim. The difference is that we have named names. Lots of names. Some turned out to be charlatans, others just felt they wanted to tell an interesting story, and a few thought of it was a way to financial gain. But there is a solid core of individuals who were there and who were first-hand witnesses.
My point is that some of us have been around long enough that we can figure out what crashes Grusch has been told about. In no particular order, here is what I know about this. The Aztec, New Mexico crash on March 25, 1948, is probably the first UFO crash that gained any sort of national attention. Frank Scully published a book, BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS, that told the tale of the crash. Though he mentioned a couple of other alleged crashes, he focused on the Aztec event because he had talked to the men who knew all about.
The story was that craft was found near tiny Aztec, was recovered by the military and had contained bodies of the Venusian flight crew. The story was exposed as a hoax and for those interested in following this down the rabbit hole, I suggest reading Scully’s book, then William Steinman’s compilation of nonsense, UFO Crash at Aztec and finally Scott Ramsey’s THE AZTEC INCIDENT on the pro side but with supporting evidence that is weak to nonexistent. Ramsey did a good job of running down alleged witnesses, but he didn’t have the opportunity to interview anyone with first-hand knowledge. In other words, Ramey and his team interviewed people who knew people who said they knew something about the case. And some of those witnesses said that there had been no crash.
I suspect one of the better tales is that from Kecksburg, Pennsylvania on December 9, 1965. This case is the bailiwick of Stan Gordon who was on the scene within hours to investigate and has carried out that investigation over the decades. Working with Leslie Kean, Gordon even sued NASA in an attempt to gather additional information. However, like so much in this aspect of UFO crashes, there is a plausible alternative.
The Del Rio, Texas, UFO crash has been the subject of an ongoing investigation for decades. It was accepted by UFO researchers in the beginning because a high ranking, retired Air Force officer, provided an affidavit proving the authenticity of his information. This crash, misidentified as the El Indio – Guerrero crash was included in the MJ-12 documents, providing even more credibility. The problem was the high-ranking officer, Robert Willingham was not a high-ranking officer, was not a fighter pilot as claimed and the documentation from both the military records center in St. Louis and the Air Reserve Personnel Center in Denver did not verify his officer status. He was, according to the available information, a low-ranking enlisted man who served only thirteen months on active duty.
One of the reports that has received traction in the last couple of years was the story from little San Antonio, New Mexico, about a crash there in 1945. Dr. Jacques Vallee, along with Paola Harris published a book, TRINITY: THE BEST KEPT SECRET, that provided two eyewitness accounts of the crash and retrieval. Those witnesses, who were youngsters at the time of crash offered shifting accounts as to the date, the names of other witnesses, and the military recovery operation. Douglas Dean Johnson has made an in-depth study of that case and has provided amazing evidence that it never happened.
One of what is considered among the first UFO crashes took place in tiny Aurora, Texas in April 1897. The craft allegedly hit a windmill and exploded. The local residents found the mangled body of the lone occupant and buried it in the Aurora cemetery. UFO researchers began to visit Aurora to validate this early case, which was a hoax started by a stringer for a Dallas newspaper.
The case of a crash near Kingman, Arizona in 1953 might be included because the original story was told by a man who seemed credible. He said, and the evidence proved, that he had worked in the Frenchman Flats area of southern Nevada on a project that dealt with atomic energy. He also said that he was assigned in some capacity to Project Blue Book. There is no evidence that this claim is true.
Although originally called Fritz Werner by Raymond Fowler in an article published in 1976, his real name was Arthur Stansel. He said that he had received a call in May 1953 about some sort of important and classified event. As evidence of this, Stansel provided two pages from his work calendar that mentioned a special assignment, but no details were given.
He boarded a bus with many others and taken to a site where they were given specific jobs to do, they were not to speak to the others on the bus, and once their task was completed, they were loaded back on the bus, with warnings that they were never to mention this. In a rather stupid move, an Air Force NCO had a list of names that he called out to ensure that people got to the places they were to work.
Stansel did see a disk that had crashed, and by accident, saw the deceased members of the crew that were not human. He returned to Frenchman Flats and his regular assignment.
Years later, a woman, Judie Woolcott, said that her late husband had been part of the recovery team, which added credibility to the tale. She claimed to have a letter he had written to her while he served in Vietnam, providing some detail. However, she was unable to produce the letter. She said he had been killed in the Vietnam War. Her daughter later contacted me, explaining that her mother made up tales and that her father had not died in Vietnam.
For those interested in tales that have some physical evidence, is the case from Ubatuba, Brazil. According to the most popular version, witnesses saw a craft explode in the air, raining debris down on a local beach in September 1957. Some of it was picked up by an unknown witness who sent it to a radio station reporter. The material eventually made it to APRO here in the US. It has been analyzed by several organizations including the Air Force that inadvertently destroyed its sample.
Recently, Jacques Vallee reported that the date was wrong. The explosion took place much earlier, prior to World War Two. Vallee’s information contradicts the originally reported tale and Vallee offered nothing in the way of evidence.
According to Len Stringfield, he was contacted by a woman who claimed that her grandfather had been to the scene of a UFO crash near Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in 1941. She claimed there had been a picture taken of the off-world creatures, but the picture had been lost over the years. She only saw the picture and heard her father taking about the crash. She saw nothing else.
A man, who saw nothing himself but whose father had been involved also told his story of the alleged crash. Other than these two people, who apparently saw nothing themselves, no one else has come forward to validate the claim. There are those who accept the story as real.
So, this is my speculation about the most likely UFO crashes that David Grusch might have been talking about. It is basically a collection of highly suspect tales, but these are ones that many of the alleged insiders have talked about in the past. Some of what Grusch has said suggests that he has meet these people.
Much of what he has said is negated by his claim of inside information about the Italian crash. If it is a hoax, as it most certainly is, then the insiders feeding him information had no more inside knowledge that I do, or other UFO researchers do. Our access is through interviews with known participants, research into documents held by various federal and local government agencies, travels to archives and newspaper morgues.
I came to these speculations through reports that I have received from many others in the UFO community. For example, I was told that Grusch spent time at Skinwalker Ranch. I’m not going to comment on that particular investigation here. I will note, however, that it did suggest that Grusch brushed elbows with several once important members of various administrations in Washington, D.C. And, I know what some of them have advocated in the past, which suggests where some of Grusch’s inside information originated.
The question really boils down to how many of the cases mentioned above are those that Grusch believes were true, and how much of that information did he feed in the various investigations conducted, in secret, to Congress?
The point here is that without more specific information from Grusch and some of those others, we are left with very little evidence. And if the majority of Grusch’s information is from fraudulent crash reports, why should we waste time chasing down the others.
Unless Grusch can come up with something that is more concrete than he has heard stories of credible people, he is not advancing the case. In the long run, it will hurt it and no one will remember that I cautioned against acceptance until we had more evidence. They will only remember how Grusch’s inside information was little more than rumor, speculation, and science fiction. So, while Grusch might be an honest man whose is beyond reproach, that doesn’t mean that the information he was given is any good. Just remember you heard it here first.
As a postscript, I will note that by typing the names of these cases in the search engine on my blog, you’ll find additional information. By typing the names of these cases into Google or other search engines, you’ll find additional information. Many sites will provide counterpoints to what I have listed here, but I reviewed many of those sites in the creation of my postings and often found them wanting for good sources and the like.
(CLICK ABOVE FOR ENLARGEMENT – – the only photo available of the enigmatic Tal Levesque, the original propagator of the entire Dulce Base myth – – this photo of him was taken in 1990 at my residence in Gardena, California where he was filmed by Nippon Television crew for a two-hour TV special program dealing with Area 51 in Nevada and Dulce, New Mexico….he requested that his face be blacked out for the program…..in the early 1990s he visited with me many times at my residence in both Gardena and Torrance – – Norio Hayakawa)
by Norio Hayakawa, April 2, 2024 – – Albuquerque, New Mexico:
According to the author of a new, highly recommended, fascinating and thought-provoking book SAUCERS, SPOOKS AND KOOKS – – UFO disinformation in the Age of Aquarius, Adam Gorightly stated that just a few months before finishing the first draft of his book, he was informed that the enigmatic personality named Tal Levesque had passed away on December 21, 2018, “to his final resting place in the Inner Earth where he’ll no doubt be reunited with friends and lovers like Richard Shaver and Mary Martin. As it is above, so it is below”.
Gorightly continues:
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“During our multi-year correspondence, Tal repeatedly claimed that Thomas Castello was a real person and that the Dulce Base material was authentic. Nonetheless, I continued to press him during our email exchanges, never directly calling him out on what I suspected his role was in the creation of the Dulce Base mythos, but just asking the questions again and again in different ways until at last the dam broke and Tal shared the truth, or at least something close to that.
The question I posed, that elicited Tal’s final e-mail to me (in November of 2015), concerned an alleged interview of Thomas Edwin Castello (TEC) that surfaced in the 1980s, an artifact which I always assumed originated with Tal.
My question: “When did this interview with Castello take place…..I thought he was in hiding after ’89?”.
Tal’s e-mail response was a follows:
“You still do not get it. TEC(Thomas Edwin Castello) is a creation. A MYTH.
“I took rantings from a heavily drugged (with prescription pills) woman Ann West (a.k.a., Cherry Hinkle), made corrections to stuff that was really wrong, added my own real research, mixed it together. That was the basis of the two original DULCE BASE articles”.
“Literally, I made 100 large envelope packets with supporting material about Underground bases, genetic research, hidden science (R & D), etc. and sent the material to authors and lecturers, who then mixed it into their talks, articles and books. This made it look like it was coming from more than one source”.
“You see, I had a copy of the 1959 RAND Project on Deep Construction; my friend’s father designed improvements on the Tube Shuttle System, he worked with Werner Von Braun. I would go on vacations with them to Edwards (Air Force Base)….VIP stuff; my father worked for MAJIC; I worked in Advanced Project Development, later as counter-Intelligence and as a security supervisor. I mixed stuff I was not supposed to make public into the DULCE MYTH“.
(CLICK ABOVE FOR ENLARGEMENT – – Tal Levesque’s original underground tunnels connection map)
“The goal was to manipulate Ufology into another direction. Away from the boring lights in the sky stuff……to effect the ‘public imagination’. So…NorioHayakawa was right. I was behind a mind game. When it caught on, I could not reveal what was true and what was not.”
“Later, Cherry and I had a falling out when she went public on Facebook saying SHE was the secret source. But, source of what? Have you ever read any of her porno DULCE revelations? The INTERVIEW never happened. It was creative writing!! I asked several people to submit questions for TEC. Then sent them to Cherry (this was done twice). She answered the questions, as IF she was TEC.”
“I do not think he (Thomas Edwin Castello) ever existed. But….I’m not going pubic with that opinion. Are you kidding? Look at how the DULCE MYTH has changed Ufology and Sci-Fi.”
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Without doubt, Tal Levesque(a.k.a. Jason Bishop III) has been one of the original promoters of the “Dulce Base” myths. The reason he also called himself Jason Bishop was because his real last name Levesque was French for “bishop”.
It is not an exaggeration to say that more than 90% of the original information that one reads on Dulce originated from Jason Bishop III.
TAL died on December 21, 2018 in California at the age of 69, presumably in Mariposa where he was thought of residing at that time. Without him, I would never have known about the origins of the fascinating Dulce base rumors.
TAL claimed he worked with a Thomas E. Castello when he was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico (1978, 1979) working in security for a private company. (Paul Bennewitz was still not involved in the Dulce “scenario” until after 1980, the year of the publication of William L. Moore’s book THE ROSWELL INCIDENT and the subsequent involvement of both Richard C. Doty and William L. Moore in a disinformation campaign originating from Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque – – in fact Richard C. Doty hadn’t even heard about the Dulce story then which had its beginnings already in 1978).
It was there in Santa Fe that Bishop claimed to have befriended the alleged Castello.
Jason Bishop III reportedly gave the impression that he was present at the 1988 Mount Archuleta expedition (alongside Gabe Valdez, Edmund Gomez, Jeff and Greg Valdez, French physicist Dr. John Gille, Manuel Gomez, Jr., Elaine A. and a scientist from Los Alamos named William T. McGarity).
Dr. John Gille refuted that Jason Bishop III was even present at that expedition.
(I had the honor of getting together with Dr. Gille in France in the spring of 2016. He confirmed to me that Tal Levesque was never part of that expedition).
I am sure that Jason Bishop III’s influence extended widely, probably affecting people such as Alan B. de Walton (BRANTON), and even Phil Schneider(who later on must have certainly read Jason Bishop III’s writings.)
ABOVE – – alleged photo of Thomas E. Castello who Tal Levesque and Cherry Hinkle claimed that he was a security guard at the alleged underground base in Dulce, New Mexico – – but there hundreds of people with the same name in the world, and this photo happens to be a photo of one of those hundreds of Thomas Castello or Thomas E. Castello)
FINALLY, PLEASE CLICK AND READ ABOUT OTHER PERTINENT PERSONALITIES INVOLVED IN THE ENTIRE DULCE BASE STORY:
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American writer and documentarian Brian Dunning said UFO “believers” are driven by media attention and sensationalism instead of science in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Dunning targeted a recent congressional hearing on UFOs, also called unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs*), for platforming three witnesses “who have been speaking at UFO conferences for many years.” Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, ex-Navy commander David Fravor and former U.S. intelligence officer David Grusch testified before a House of Representatives subcommittee focused on UFOs back in July.
(*Now the acronym stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, rather than Unidentified Aerial Phenomena – – Norio Hayakawa)
“They’re UFO believers first and veterans second,” Dunning said, adding that it’s “very easy to find UFO believers who are veterans.” Dunning hosts the nonprofit “Skeptoid” podcast that delves into the science behind urban legends.
Americans for Safe Aerospace founder Ryan Graves did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
When asked why major figures in Congress have called on the federal government to release what information it has on UFOs, Dunning said that they were easily convinced.
“You’ve got people in Congress who are notscientifically minded, who are not well-versed in subjects like astrobiology and astrophysics. And when they are told that, ‘hey, here’s some military pilots who have some UFO reports,’ they tend to take it very seriously, as I think most people would,” he said.
But underlying this conversation, Dunning said, was the “foundation of belief in alien visitation.”
He continued: “Once you start from that foundation, it’s very easy to take the next step and say, ‘we’d better interview these people and take it pretty seriously.’ That doesn’t mean that it has any factual or scientific foundation.”
Dunning claimed the UFO hearings in front of Congress and a number of New York Times articles “have all been driven by the same core group of UFO believers since they had their first big PR success getting their article published in The New York Times in 2017,” which he said has driven public belief in aliens to around 50 percent, according to some polls.
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“It’s really quite astonishing how easy it’s been for the UFO people to sort of steer the public’s belief in this subject,” Dunning said.
When asked about some of the most prominent physicists and extraterrestrial life advocates in the scientific community, Dunning specifically criticized Harvard Professor Dr. Avi Loeb.
“You have guys like Avi Loeb showing up in the newspapers and on TV all over the place. Harvard physicist,” he said. “And it sounds very impressive. What they don’t mention is he is completely alone in his belief system. Virtually nobody else in the entire astrophysics field agrees with the things he’s been saying. They never present that perspective on TV because it’s not fascinating. It’s not sensational.”
Dunning said that while “the overwhelming consensus in the astronomy community” is that there is “probably life” elsewhere in the universe, that is not the same as determining whether that life has made it to Earth.
Prof. Loeb told Fox News Digital that he was not alone in studying the possibility of extraterrestrial life. “The Galileo Project that I lead includes about a hundred scientists, so I am hardly alone in studying whether any of the objects near Earth might be of extraterrestrial technological origin.”
“Allowing for the possibility that an anomalous interstellar object is technological in origin is not a wild speculation given that we launched Voyager 1 & 2, Pioneer 10 & 11 and New Horizons to interstellar space over the past five decades, which are a fraction of one in a hundred million of the age of the Sun,” he said. “There are hundreds of billions of stars like the Sun in the Milky Way galaxy alone, and most of them formed billions of years before the Sun. It takes less than a billion years for a Voyager-like probe to cross the entire Milky Way disk from side to side. It is therefore arrogant and unwise to suggest that we are alone.”
Dunning posed the question of extraterrestrial life and contact with Earth directly.
“Has Earth been visited by aliens?” he asked. “All of the mathematics that we know, all of the physics that we know, all of the evidence that we have suggests that, no, that’s probably not ever going to be possible and certainly hasn’t happened before.”
Dunning, who is considered a “scientific skeptic,” in that he favors having empirical evidence before reaching conclusions, said he is in favor of “applying the scientific method to new beliefs or new claims or unusual observations that people make.”
“So when we’re talking about things like alien visitation, a skeptical perspective would be things are probably as the laws of physics tell us they are, unless we find evidence that aliens have visited the Earth. So far, we haven’t. And so we stick with the default assumption, which is that no, things are as the laws of physics tell us they probably are, and we haven’t been visited.”
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Jeffrey Clark is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. He has previously served as a speechwriter for a cabinet secretary and as a Fulbright teacher in South Korea. Jeffrey graduated from the University of Iowa in 2019 with a degree in English and History.
CLICK ABOVE FOR ENLARGEMENT – – “Ground Zero” impact area today at Mesa del Sol – photo, courtesy of Carl Willis – – by the way, this location has the best, panoramic view of the entire Manzano-Sandia Base, Albuquerque’s military test base since 1947!!)
by Norio Hayakawa, March 19, 2024
A scary incident that took place right next to Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 22, 1957 – – this frightening, bone-chilling incident has been hushed up for many, many years. Even today very few Americans know about this.
Special report by Les Adler for the Albuquerque Tribune(Thursday, January 20, 1994):
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At 11:50 a.m. on May 22, 1957, I was a 15-year-old sophomore at Highland High School in Albuquerque when the city and a good portion of the surrounding region were nearly obliterated by the accidental detonation of a 10-megaton hydrogen bomb dropped on the outskirts of Kirtland Air Force Base.
First reported to the public in 1986, this early “broken arrow,” as such accidents were referred to in military jargon, became as much a historical “non-event” during the intervening Cold War decades as the recently exposed atmospheric radioactivity showers and radiation experiments. Like these tests, it, too, was a product of what Sen. John Glenn has called “the Cold War frenzy which gripped our nation.”
Those of us living in the region had long known, and, indeed, were strangely proud of the fact, that Albuquerque was likely to be a major enemy military target due to the region’s role in the production, testing and storage of atomic and hydrogen weaponry.
Nearby Sandia Base, nestled in the foothills of the Manzano Mountains, was widely suspected of housing extensive underground storage facilities where much of the nation’s nuclear arsenal was guarded. Electrified, barbed-wire double fences, patrolled by guard dogs, were clearly visible from the highway as one entered or left Albuquerque through Tijeras Canyon to the east.
(CLICK ABOVE FOR ENLARGEMENT – – photo by Norio Hayakawa)
Sixty miles to the northwest, the heavily guarded Atomic City of Los Alamos, creation site of the first atomic bombs and then, as now, a major national arms production laboratory, guaranteed our supremacy as a prime Soviet target.
For a town without major league credentials in any other fashion, this fact produced a certain cachet, particularly in an age of bomb shelters, civil defense programs and above ground bomb testing in nearby Nevada.
Year after year in public schools we practiced air-raid drills, dropping to the floor at the wailing of the alarm, huddling under our desks, eyes closed, heads down and covered by our arms so as not to he blinded by the flash of the incoming weapons.
With the irreverence of teen-age black humor, we short-handed our instructions to the essential and much more realistic message: ‘bend down, put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye!”
On that particular day in May 1957, unknown to any of us, a huge B-36 bomber with a crew of 13 was preparing to land at Kirtland Air Force base.
On board, as recounted in John May’s “The Greenpeace Book of the Nuclear Age” and later interviews with surviving crewmen, was the Gold War’s ultimate product. It was a 42,000-pound, 10-megaton hydrogen bomb – the largest weapon ever made in the world up to that time, and the first droppable thermonuclear device – traveling incognito under the code name of Mark 17.
The giant bomber, a mainstay of America’s Strategic Air Command forces, was commanded by veteran pilot Air Force Lt. Col. Richard Meyer with the mission of ferrying its deadly payload from Biggs Air Force Base in Texas to Albuquerque’s Kirtland field.
Standard operating procedure on all such flights called for the manual removal of the locking pin designed to prevent accidental in-flight release of bombs to allow emergency jettisoning of weapons, if necessary, during takeoffs and landings.
The awkward procedure required a crew member, usually the navigator, to climb into the bomb bay and lean over the body of the bomb at the start and end of each flight to set and later remove the large U-2 pin. On May 22,1st Lt. Bob Carp was assigned the onerous task.
With the plane descending to 1,700 feet and making its final approach before landing at Kirtland, Carp began moving back toward the bomb. As described years later by another crewman, the difficult job resulted in Carp hanging over the 25 foot long, steel-encased weapon, roughly the size and shape of a large whale, “literally by his toes” to retrieve the pin. It was 11:49 a.m.
The plane was nearly four miles south of the airfield, and landing conditions were normal as Carp completed his stretch across the gleaming, rounded shape lying silent and inert in the plane’s belly. Packed with the explosive power of more than 10 million tons of TNT, enough to destroy a dozen Hiroshimas or Moscows, this bomb and others like it, always in the air somewhere in the world awaiting coded attack signals, formed the foundation of America’s proclaimed military posture of “massive retaliation.”
What happened next is in dispute. Previously published reports describe Carp reaching up to regain his balance and pull himself into the cockpit, and being unexpectedly jolted as the huge bomber bounced through a pocket of turbulent air. Trying to avoid a fall, according to this version, he grabbed for the nearest hand-hold, a lever that immediately gave way under his weight, triggering a rapid succession of events: the giant bomb under his feet instantly sank, pulled free from its mooring and tore its way straight downward, directly through the closed bomb bay doors, ripping them away and opening a gaping, terrifying hole in the bottom of the plane; and the bomber itself; suddenly released from the weight of its 21-ton payload, bounded upward, gaining more than 1,500 feet of altitude in seconds before the startled pilot could regain control.
In a recent interview, however, Carp, now a businessman in San Francisco, has challenged the turbulence-fall scenario. He asserts — as the one eyewitness to the entire event — that a “defectively designed” manual release mechanism had been accidentally pulled into release mode by a snag in his long cable, causing the bomb to drop the instant he pulled the pin.
There is agreement on what follows.
“Bombs away!” reflexively screamed one nearby crewman, his eyes wide with shock as he peered in-to the newly opened void where the weapon and the man had been. According to another witness, Electronics Operator Jack Resen, it was only a few seconds later that Carp, his face, “whiter than any sheet you ever saw,” slowly pulled himself out of the remaining bomb bay, yelling even above the deafening roar of jet engines and rushing air, “I didn’t touch anything! I didn’t touch anything!”
Radio Operator George Houston, seated nearby, alertly responded by sending a distress call to the Kirtland tower. To the stunned operator, he reported the ominous news: “We’ve dropped a hydrogen bomb!”
The bomb itself plummeted downward with frightening speed, the 1,700 foot drop far too short for its parachutes to slow its descent. Long before the plane could pull away, the weapon smashed into the nearly barren mesa, (right east of today’s Mesa del Sol community) where a lone New Mexico cow peacefully munched sagebrush, oblivious to the source and immediacy of its own destruction. There was an earth-shattering explosion as the weapon detonated.
The Cold War is now officially over. Both the looming presence of the Soviet Union, which so terrified us in that era, and the imminence of nuclear war have vanished from the horizon. More than 36 years have passed since that day in May 1957, when my classmates and I, unknowingly, were nearly vaporized by our own forces.
For most of the intervening years the American public knew nothing of what had happened, and, officially, of course, the event didn’t happen at all.
It was only in 1986 when an Albuquerque newspaper published an account based on military documents recovered through the Freedom of Information Act that the rest of us learned of this accident, and the many other Broken Arrows, both civilian and military, that occurred both at home and abroad.
If exposure of these events is the first step in understanding them, then a subsequent stage should be a frank admission by all of us that we knew and even tacitly approved of the conditions that brought about those near-misses and what we might more appropriately call “poisoned arrows,” the above-ground nuclear tests, the uranium mines and nuclear plants whose careless use contaminated our soil, ionized our atmosphere, poisoned our animals and even irradiated our own bodies.
And if we did not know of them, like the “good Germans” who did not know of the concentration camps, then why not? What ferocious system of denial allowed us not to know, allowed us to shield ourselves from what should have been evident? Who is there to blame in a democratic society, finally, but ourselves?
Even the military investigators assigned to the case assessed no blame to the Air Force officers involved in the accidental bombing of Albuquerque.
According to the investigation, Field Command, a division of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, conducted recovery and clean-up operations at the site shortly after the nonevent. What they found was a crater 12 feet deep and 25 feet in diameter, blown, fortunately, in uninhabited land owned by the University of New Mexico – – (today’s Mesa del Sol community, right next to the present-day Netflix movie studios).
Only the bomb’s conventional explosives – those necessary but not sufficient to start the nuclear chain reaction – were triggered by the fall, and, according to the experts, no radioactivity was detected beyond the lip of the crater. Traces of the luckless cow, reportedly, were scattered over a much wider area.
Reports were filed, and the case was closed for nearly three decades. The trail was allowed to grow cold.
Extending 25 feet from nose to tail, standing more than five feet in diameter at its core and with a total weight of 41,400 pounds, this was evidently nature’s ultimate experiment in size. At what scale does any creature exceed its own ecological niche?
If there is a lesson to be learned here and in the discovery of other events that “didn’t happen” simply because we did not know of them until now, it is not whom to blame, but rather the many ways in which blind fear, magnified by secrecy, can turn all of us into our own worst enemies.
Adler is a professor of history at the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University in California.
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Please watch the following YouTube presentation (towards the end of this video, it will tell you how to get to the “ground zero” of this incident):
A video update on the “Ground Zero” area, reporting on March 19, 2024 from Mesa del Sol:
SEE THE FILM FOOTAGE HERE, courtesy of the HISTORY CHANNEL:
“On assignment to photograph Catalina Island for the U.S. Navy, Mr. Leland Hanson of the Coast Guards, was in a helicopter when he filmed this object, which at first hovered, then sped across the length of the island.
According to independent photographic experts, the disc’s calculated velocity was between 130 to 170 mph, and had no apparent wings or tail that would signify it as an airplane.
Later on, however, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory computer enhanced the image and found that there might have been a tail rudder (a small Cessna type airplane). The filming is shown first at real speed, then again in slow motion.”
Every day we are constantly bombarded with all kinds of information, misinformation, as well as downright disinformation coming from all “sources”, especially on social media.
The best thing is to always take them with a grain of salt and maintain your healthy skeptic stance on everything.
It will be difficult at first but sooner or later you will learn how to sift all these into the three categories.
Among the three categories, the most prevalent one is misinformation.
Misinformation is often sent out usually (and most likely harmlessly) by those who do not take time and effort to confirm its veracity. The intention of the sender is important.
Disinformation on the other hand is sent out by those whose intention is to convince the receiver into believing something that is totally or partially false as fact. The sender of disinformation may or may not be part of an organization, private or governmental. You will also need to understand why certain things are being propagated.
It could also be that there are some people who knowingly send out disinformation because of certain kind of mental illness, getting pleasure out of sending them for some psychological reasons associated with such illness.
Whatever the case, it may take time but eventually you should be able to discern what is believable and what isn’t.
In the meantime, it’s best not to let anyone know that you are indeed a healthy skeptic.
In the 1960s, secret test flights of advanced government spy planes generated U.F.O. sightings. More recently, government and commercial drones, new kinds of satellites and errant weather balloons have led to a renaissance in unusual observations.
But, according to a new report, none of these sightings were of alien spacecraft.
The new congressionally mandated Pentagon report found no evidence that the government was covering up knowledge of extraterrestrial technology and said there was no evidence that any U.F.O. sightings represented alien visitation to Earth.
The 63-page document is the most sweeping rebuttal the Pentagon has issued in recent years to counter claims that it has information on extraterrestrial visits or technology. But amid widespread distrust of the government, the report is unlikely to calm a growing obsession with aliens.
Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, a Defense Department spokesman, said the Pentagon approached the report with an open mind and no preconceived notions, but simply found no evidence to back up claims of secret programs, hidden alien technology or anything else extraterrestrial.
“All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification,” General Ryder said in a statement.
While many reports of what the government now calls Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena remain unsolved, the new document states plainly there is nothing to see. The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) concluded that if better quality data were available, “most of these cases also could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena.”
Because of that missing data, Pentagon officials in the past have often been reluctant to speak clearly about various incidents, saying they lack information to draw a conclusion. But in the absence of conclusions, conspiracy theories have flourished, even as scientists and independent investigators made the case that optical illusions, weather phenomena, scientific balloons or drones were reasonable causes of nearly all of the unexplained incidents.
The report also challenges the accounts of whistle-blowers and former government officials who have said the United States is hiding evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial material from the public.
The Pentagon has, over time, tried to chip away at such claims. Officials have testified to Congress that the government has no extraterrestrial materials — much less a spaceship — in its possession. The Pentagon and NASA have used basic trigonometry to show why publicized military videos do not show anything extraordinary or alien.
The report will not be the last word. Congress has mandated a second report by the Pentagon and passed a measure last year ordering the National Archives to declassify more records. NASA and U.S. intelligence agencies are looking at ways to collect more comprehensive data about unexplained sightings.
But none of those efforts are likely to deviate from the broad conclusions stated on Friday.
Progress in debunking misinformation about U.F.O.s has been slowed by various changes in the task force looking into the matter. Congress has charged the Pentagon’s current group, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, with a historical review of the evidence.
The office has not found “any empirical evidence” that reported sightings represent “off world technology” or any classified program that had not been reported to Congress, the report concludes.
Nevertheless the public is unlikely to be swayed. Many people dismiss the government’s claims that nothing interesting is going on in Pentagon videos that appear to show strange objects, citing accounts by Navy pilots that they observed objects whose movements cannot be easily explained.
The new report notes that in the past, particularly in the 1950s, there was interest in U.F.O.s, but today the attention on unexplained sightings is greater than ever before.
The Pentagon, treading gently and writing with precise language, concludes that declining public trust in government and the speed in which misinformation now spreads has made it more difficult to rebut claims of extraterrestrial visits.
Citing a 2021 Gallup poll, the Pentagon said that exposure to the topic through “traditional and social media has increased the number of Americans who believe U.F.O. sightings are extraterrestrial in origins.”
“Aside from hoaxes and forgeries, misinformation and disinformation is more prevalent and easier to disseminate now than ever before, especially with today’s advanced photo, video and computer-generated imagery tools,” the report found. “Internet search and content recommendation algorithms serve to reinforce individuals’ preconceptions and confirmation biases just as much as to help educate and inform.”
The report notes that in the 1950s, many U.F.O. reports were driven by public sightings or classified government programs. The report lists government programs including the Manhattan Project and the secret development of the Air Force’s stealth drone, the RQ-170, that may have contributed to increased reports of unidentified objects or phenomena.
There are former government officials who firmly believe the United States has information about aliens or have heard reports about secret programs to study extraterrestrial technology. Those former officials have been star witnesses at congressional hearings.
As part of the investigation, the Pentagon interviewed people who made claims to Congress that they had direct knowledge about a government coverup and others who were said to have corroborating information.
An overview of their accounts makes plain that most of the reports of alien technology are, at best, secondhand. And none of the firsthand reports were corroborated by other witnesses.
Nevertheless, the Pentagon investigated the claims and, so far, found nothing to back them up. In contrast, it collected on-the-record refutations from other witnesses. The report said the office would continue to investigate and report further claims in a second volume.
The Pentagon also looked into classified and sensitive government programs that whistle-blowers have suggested were involved with examining captured alien spacecraft.
The Pentagon concluded that while “many of these programs represent authentic, current and former sensitive, national security programs,” none of them were involved with capturing or reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology.
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MY TAKE ON THIS, by Norio Hayakawa:
However unpopular I may be among the die-hard UFO believers, I have to agree with the conclusion of AARO that there has been no evidence that the government was covering up knowledge of extraterrestrial technology and that there has been no evidence that any U.F.O. sightings represented alien visitation to Earth. Unless we come up with an irrefutable, tangible, physical evidence of such…….and so far there hasn’t been any. But I will still try to keep an open minnd.
In my opinion, Dr. Michio Kaku may be more reliable than anyone in “Ufology”.
He is not a “Ufologist”; he never has been. He is way beyond that category.
Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science.
As co-founder of String Field Theory, Dr. Kaku carries on Einstein’s quest to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into a single grand unified theory of everything.
You will understand why by watching his amazing, complete interview in 2022, courtesy of 7NEWS Spotlight:
“Since I’ve been on several TV science shows concerning UFOs, people have asked me about my position. I think it is a legitimate scientific question to ask where these UFO sightings come from. That does not mean that these UFOs are necessarily from another planet, but we should be open to that possibility. Many physicists are skeptical because the stars are so far away, but that assumes ET is only a century ahead of us.
Imagine if the aliens are millions of years more advanced than us; new laws of physics open up, so keep an open mind.” – – Dr. Michio Kaku
NORIO HAYAKAWA 