On June 4, 1947, the same day President Truman requested an extension of the Second War Powers Act from Congress, a curious announcement appeared in the June 4, 1947, El Paso Times, about 300 cadets who had graduated from the National Military Academy at West Point and would arrive in El Paso in ten transport planes to watch nine B-29 bombers drop 500 pound bombs reportedly south and east of the main post area of WSPG. The graduates would also have the opportunity to watch Ft. Bliss Antiaircraft Artillery demonstrate antiaircraft weapons and observe U. S. Army Ordnance launch a WAC Corporal missile. The announcement was made five days later Col. Turner departed for Washington, D. C., following the "Juarez V-2 Incident."
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"Suddenly, there was what appeared to be several huge - and I mean really huge - fluorescent white beams of light that were all of the same length and spaced evenly apart, coming down at (an angle) ... out of the black sky."
- M. S., Microwave Technician
Updated with Earthfiles viewerbluemobluemoon comments:
February 14, 2006
"I'm writing to inform you that I, too, have seen these lights in the sky here in Blythe, CA northeast of Brawley, CA. I've seen lights like these before, but not that often. There is a bombing range between Blythe and Brawley and you can see lights over that area from time to time. I use to make a big deal out of them, but most people I talk to about them don't seem to care. But, I'm happy to see them reported on your website."
February 15, 2006
"I read your post at Earthfiles about the beams seen in the skies over CA. As well, I heard you on a past recording of Dreamland. The man interviewed said the beams were descending towards the Chocolate Mountain area, and he pinpointed an area at the gunnery range. ...Beams shot up can sometimes appear to be shooting down and that's what may have been seen. It might be a test of a secret gov. weapon known as a Rail-Gun. If the bars of light were truly descending, it might mean the Rail-Gun is now in space, or on a high altitude jet like the Aurora, fitted with a test version of a Rail-Gun."
February 15, 2006
"I am wondering if what the individual saw in this instance was fire from an AC-130 Spectre gunship, possibly in a training exercise or conducting some sort of live fire exercise in the desert. Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center is to the north of Brawley. AC-130s usually operate at night. "If it was not a joint USAF-USMC air-ground exercise, then I have no idea what an AC-130 would be doing firing at the ground near Brawley. The use of this aircraft for a Drug Interdiction mission would seem rather extraordinary. I also thought about test firing of the Airborne Laser System, yet normally when it is fired, there is a solid shaft of light and not a series of energy "bolts" or "bars" as with the description from Brawley. This is a very interesting mystery."
Airborne Laser Logo for D.O.D.'s Star Wars Space Policy Project. See website below.
February 13, 2006 - On February 8, 2006, I received the following e-mail from a microwave technician driving around 11 p.m. Pacific time on February 7, when he saw huge, disconnected bars of light suddenly appear moving downward at an angle in the dark sky lasting for about half a minute. He contacted Earthfiles to ask what the mysterious, aerial bars of light might be. If any Earthfiles viewers have any more information, or have seen any comparable bars of light, please contact: [email protected]
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"We would see something come up on the perimeter of the radar scope, right out on the end. And within maybe five or six sweeps, it was all the way to the other side of the scope in no time at all. ...1,200 to 1,700 mph."
- USAF Radar Operations, Okinawa, 1970
U. S. Navy air traffic controllers man radar screens of Air Operations Center on board the USS Theodore Roosevelt in 1999. Image courtesy U. S. Dept. of Defense.
February 10, 2006 - There's an airspace intrusion mystery which has haunted our American military radar centers for decades. The intruders are called "Fast Walkers" unidentified aerial objects that suddenly appear on radar moving at 1200 to 1700 mph.
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Reprinted in 2005-2006 as a Real X-Files series by Earthfiles.com with author's written permission.
"The flying disc intelligence was focused on the one area in the U. S. where any 'peculiar phenomenon' that disrupted weapons research activity was immediately a matter of concern to the JCS and the President."
- J. Andrew Kissner
Sacramento Mountains are east of Alamogordo/Holloman AFB and north of the Fort Bliss Military Reservation.
"Ironically, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh was the only member of that pioneering scientific team to publicly report sightings of flying discs above WSPG and was publicly ridiculed for his observations."
One senses the vastness and grandeur of the Chihuahuan desert at WSPG, renamed White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in 1956. Mountains rise dramatically from flat intermediate plains populated by yuccas, creosote bush and mesquite. The Tularosa Basin has mountain ranges generally oriented north to south. Between mountain ranges lie flat plains with "playas," or beaches in Spanish because the white dry lake bed looks like a beach. In general, playas are depressions in flat plains which act as evaporation ponds for runoff draining from surrounding higher elevations. What is unique about White Sands Missile Range is the pure gypsum deposits that make the sand so white. Evaporation of water from Lake Lucero, a playa, results in the concentration of those pure gypsum crystals. When blown by the wind, the crystals create the pure white sand dune area that was established in 1933 as a National Monument. [ Source: SEAFARER ELF Communications System, Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Book 3, p. B-2.]
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The most controversial research finding will undoubtedly generate argument from both proponents and skeptics of the flying disc phenomenon. But it appears that flying discs very possibly behaved aggressively in 1947. It's also possible there was aggression before that year, but certainly after the May 29 detonation in Juarez, Mexico, and second explosion near Mt. Franklin in New Mexico.
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"If this was the U. S. Army's first attempt to shoot down a flying disc,
where did the disc go? There was no explanation about why the launched 'V-2,' or modified Wasserfall SAM missile (Hermes A-1), vaporized."
The explosion at Mt. Franklin was witnessed by General Homer and reported by the El Paso Times the following day. That explosion occurred more than ten minutes before a second explosion at least twenty-five miles further south. General Homer dispatched troops to look for missile wreckage and investigate the first crash site ten to fifteen miles northwest of Ft. Bliss towards WSPG. [ Source: Ibid.]
El Paso Times, El Paso, Texas, May 30, 1947.
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"It is believed that at least one Wasserfall surface-to-air missile, complete with a 674-pound high explosive warhead, was fired at one
or more unidentified radar targets hovering to the southwest
of WSPG Launch Row."
Wendover Field was the site of Project Y's TOP SECRET 'KINGMAN' nuclear test staging area in the isolated desert in western Utah near the Bonneville Salt Flats. The U. S. Army Air Force's first atomic bomb element, the 509th Bomb Group, trained at KINGMAN under code name "CENTERBOARD." That was prior to its relocation to Tinian Island for the atomic bomb missions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is the same 509th Bomb Group based at Roswell, New Mexico, following their return from the Pacific Theater of Operations.
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"The object that had appeared next to the launched V-2 was
defined as 'hostile' since it appeared to have caused the rocket to veer off
course. Therefore, that unidentified disc was considered to be an
advanced foreign weapon system."
The Deputy Commanding General of the Army Air Forces and Air Chief of Staff, Lt. General Ira C. Eaker, had been on hand to observe the launch. General Eaker's Vice Chief of Staff was General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, identified in the MJ-12 document as MJ-6, who in 1946 was U. S. Director of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), immediate forerunner of the CIA established by the National Security of 1947. General Vandenberg (MJ-6) was returned by the CIG to the Army Air Forces in January 1947 and given the assignment of Vice Chief of the Air Staff. He was subsequently promoted shortly after this test to Chief of the Air Staff, upon General Eaker retirement.
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"Lt. Col. Harold R. Turner, White Sands Proving Ground commanding officer, today blamed 'peculiar phenomena' for the erratic test flight of a German V-2 rocket which landed only six miles east of Alamogordo yesterday afternoon."
The German Vengeance-2 (V-2) rocket gathered momentum and accelerated from White Sands Proving Ground's (WSPG) "Launch Complex 33" to a maximum speed of 1,700 meters per second all data appeared nominal. The rocket climbed to an intermediate altitude of 40 miles. Radar technicians assigned to U. S. Army Ordnance watched in amazement as an unidentified target suddenly appeared next to the ascending missile. [ Source: United States Civilian Space Programs, 1958-1978, p. 166.]
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