Secret Journey to Planet Serpo (5 page)
A NEW BALL GAME
The capabilities of the Nazi flying discs must have made a deep impression on the admiral for him to have issued such an alarmist warning to the most powerful nation on Earth. Byrd arrived back in Washington on April 14, 1947, and was extensively debriefed by Naval intelligence and other government officials. Reportedly, Byrd flew into a rage while testifying before the president and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and strongly “suggested” that Antarctica be turned into a thermonuclear test range. After that display, Byrd was hospitalized and was not permitted to give any more interviews or briefings. Now certain that the Third Reich had survived in Antarctica and had perfected their flying discs, it is likely that alarm, and even panic, prevailed at the Pentagon. The antigravity disc development program at Wright-Patterson had not yet yielded a prototype. If, as Byrd warned, the Nazis decided to invade America, we would be powerless to defend ourselves. Very possibly the president and the military might have been considering Byrd's suggestion to employ the nuclear option. But that could blow a hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole, which would have dire environmental consequences. But less than three months later, while several alternatives were being weighed, as if dropped from heaven, an alien craft crashed into the desert near Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico, and one alien survived. That changed everything, and it became a whole new ball game.
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ROSWELL
Roswell was not the first incident. We now know that there were at least two other crashes of alien craft in, or near, the United States prior to July 1947. The U.S. Navy retrieved a disc in the Pacific west of San Diego in 1941. Better known was the spectacular crash in the Plains of St. Augustin, southwest of Socorro, New Mexico, on May 31, 1947. The alien craft was resting on its roof and still smoking when the military arrived. Four aliens were on the groundâthree alive and one dead. Bob Shell, the former editor of
Shutterbug
magazine and a military cameraman assigned to film the scene, reported that each of the live aliens was tightly grasping a box and making shrieking noises. He said that they looked like “circus freaks.” Two of the three surviving aliens were injured and died within three weeks, at which point the cameraman was called upon to film an autopsy of one of the creatures in Fort Worth, Texas. This ultimately became the famous “Santilli autopsy film.” As can be seen in the film, these aliens appeared almost human, although smaller, and had six fingers and toes on their otherwise human-looking hands and feet. The alien craft and bodies were taken to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.
So the military already had experience with this type of event before Roswell. Given this experience, we can reasonably conclude that Army procedures for dealing with crashed alien craft were in place before Roswell, and that the Pentagon had established a policy to not reveal these events to the press if they had any military implications. That particular crash location was far enough removed from military installations to not have necessarily aroused suspicion of alien surveillance. But any alien presence at all in New Mexico was suspect, since that entire state was, and still is, the very heart of the military-industrial complex. This craft went down not far from the Trinity site at the north end of the White Sands Proving Ground (changed to “White Sands Missile Range” in the mid-sixties), where American and German scientists worked on rocketry, and where the first atomic bomb had been tested on July 16, 1945. Not much farther north, near Santa Fe, was Los Alamos Laboratories, where our most advanced nuclear scientists continued to develop improved atomic bombs. Not far away, in Albuquerque, was Kirtland Air Force Base, where nuclear weapons delivery systems were developed and tested. And the “Z” Division, or Sandia Base, where scientists and engineers worked feverishly on atomic-related weaponry, was also near Albuquerque. Since that incident remained top secret, we can assume that President Truman and the Pentagon believed it to be defense-related.
But the Roswell event would have generated a serious alarm about a possible alien invasion. After all, this craft appeared to be spying on our most sensitive military installation, the 509th Bombardment Group at Roswell Army Air Field near Roswell, New Mexico. This was the home base of the B-29 squadron that had dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities two years previously, and was responsible for any future missions involving atomic weapons. This type of surveillance was very suspicious, and was consistent with a possible planned invasion of our planet by an extraterrestrial civilization. As the victors in World War II, and as the only nation possessing atomic weapons at that time, we would have constituted their greatest obstacle to a planetary takeover. It is estimated that by July 1947, we had less than 50 atomic bombs, although plans were in the works for developing an arsenal of 150. Some of them might have still been in development at Sandia, but most of them probably would have already been delivered to Roswell Army Air Field, ready for deployment. This was a very thin margin of protection, and destruction of the Roswell atomic bomb arsenal would have left us, and therefore the entire planet, basically defenseless against the likely advanced weaponry of the aliens. We were not afraid of any Earthly power, but we couldn't defend against an enemy that we knew nothing about, and that had the propulsion technology to travel in space. The fear was compounded when we learned that the alien ship contained human body parts. With the chronicles of World War II just barely in the history books, we were now faced with a potentially catastrophic confrontation that would have made the Axis struggle seem like child's play by comparison. It was a very scary scenario. The U.S. might have solicited the aid of the Soviet Union to try to quickly develop advanced technology and weaponry to fend off an assault. We would not have hesitated to recruit the top scientific brains of our erstwhile mortal enemies, the Nazis. It would have been a massive effort.
In the introduction to his book,
The Day after Roswell,
coauthored with William J. Birnes, Colonel Philip J. Corso sounds the alarm. He says:
In those confusing hours after the discovery of the crashed Roswell alien craft, the army determined that in the absence of any other information it had to be an extraterrestrial. Worse, the fact that this craft and other flying saucers had been surveilling our defensive installations and even seemed to evidence a technology we'd seen evidenced by the Nazis caused the military to assume these flying saucers had hostile intentions and might have even interfered in human events during the war. We didn't know what the inhabitants of these crafts wanted, but we had to assume from their behavior, especially their interventions in the lives of human beings and the reported cattle mutilations, that they could be potential enemies. That meant that we were facing a far superior power with weapons capable of obliterating us.
Cover of
The Day after Roswell
(Pocket Books, 1997)
In 1962, Colonel Corso was given the job of seeding American industry with the objects found in the Roswell disk. He got this assignment from his boss, General Arthur Trudeau. At that point, he had no way of knowing about the events that had transpired in the fifteen intervening years since the crash. That information was so secret and highly compartmentalized that even President Eisenhower didn't have the whole story. Only MJ-12, the super-secret advisory committee empaneled by President Truman knew all the details. All Corso knew was that the intriguing pieces of equipment picked up at the crash site displayed technology very far in advance of anything we knew about. His job was to quietly turn that technology over to the scientists and corporations that were best positioned to understand it and to use it as a springboard to perhaps copy it and develop it further. In that role, he was a “lone gunman.” He didn't have the clearance to learn about what had happened since 1947.
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He just had to assume a civilianlike aspect, and to silently insert these objects into American R&D, and then disappear. So it is not surprising that, when he wrote his book in 1997, he still believed that the aliens known as Ebens were hostile and a potential threat to the United States and the planet. It's an incredible testament to just how effectively the compartmentalization and secrecy machinery functioned that, even fifteen years later, an Army general and colonel had no inkling about the fact that we had been hosting those aliens at Los Alamos Laboratories and Area 51, and had already successfully back-engineered an Eben flying disc!
U.S.
Army Colonel Philip J. Corso
THE REAGAN BRIEFINGS
President Ronald Reagan was briefed about our experience with crashed alien discs and extraterrestrials between March 6 and 8, 1981, and again between October 9 and 12, 1981. Both briefing sessions took place at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland. The briefings were recorded on fifty-four audiocassette tapes. The tapes were kept in the possession of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) because some of the information discussed a potentially hostile alien race that might have posed a threat to our national security. Consequently, it was appropriate that the cassettes remain in the custody of the Department of Defense. The tapes were declassified in 2007 after the completion of the mandatory twenty-five-year waiting period for the nondisclosure of classified government documents, and they were released into the public domain.
President Ronald Reagan's 1987 UN speech, when he mentioned a possible alien invasion.
The transcript of one of these sessions was published by Victor Martinez as “Release 27a” on the Serpo website,
www.serpo.org
(e-mail messages from Anonymous to Martinez about Project Serpo were initially referred to as “postings.” This convention prevailed for Posting One through Posting Eighteen. After that point, they were called “releases” and were numbered sequentially with numerics by date received beginning with Release 19). This session was conducted during the March 1981 briefing by someone who refers to himself as “the Caretaker.”
Martinez precedes the transcript with the following declaration.
THIS RELEASE HAS BEEN APPROVED BY and AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT as part of a continuing public acclimation program.
Others present at the briefing were William Casey, the CIA director at that time, and three advisors, as well as a female CIA transcriber. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and presidential staffer Michael Deaver were present at the beginning, but then bowed out. The following segment of the briefing concerns the Roswell incident, and should be considered to be the most authoritative account of what happened at Roswell.
The CARETAKER:
Good morning, Mr. President. First of all, I would like to give you a bit of information on my background. But before that, please, Mr. President, if you have questions during this briefing, just interrupt me, sir. I have been employed by the CIA for the past 31 years. I started the caretaking status of this project in 1960. We have a special group of people whom we call “Group 6,” that cares for all this information.
PRESIDENT:
Good morning, I hope, well, I believe I will ask questions. Bill briefed me back in January, but . . . Bill didn't tell me all âcause we only had about one hour.
WM CASEY:
Mr. President, I only gave you a quick briefing for the NSDD (National Security Decision Directives) that we want to incorporate into the overall action directives about this subject. ADVISER #3, Caspar and I have details far beyond what I knew before January. The last administration wasn't too keen on making all of this stuff accessible to us during the briefings in November and December.
PRESIDENT:
Well, I knew a little about this subject before. Back in 1970. Nixon had all of the good stuff and wanted to share it with some of his friends. Nixon showed me some papers. Not sure about who authored them, but . . . well something about New Mexico and other places. Nixon was pretty . . . fascinated with it. He showed me something, some kind of object or device that came from one of their craft. Something that was taken from the New Mexico crash site. I don't know if, well . . . do we know what it was? I don't think we knew or maybe now, after 11 years, we might know.
The CARETAKER:
Mr. President, I can answer some of those questions. Do you wish for me to begin?
PRESIDENT:
Oh, well, what level is this? I mean, what was it called? I don't remember what they called this.
WM CASEY:
Mr. President, codeword. It's called Top Secret Codeword. This information is beyond Top Secret as I said before. It has its own classification. It is very compartmentalized.
PRESIDENT:
Well, I guess just the minimum. Are we recording this?
The CARETAKER:
Mr. President, no, unless you wish.
WM CASEY:
Yes, it is [CIA FEMALE TRANSCRIBER] who is doing that. I think we should. I don't want to make any mistakes later about this. ADVISER #4 should also stay, since he is one of the caretakers of the information.
PRESIDENT:
Well, I don't want anyone leaking this stuff. Not knowing what we are about to discuss . . .oh, well, Bill I guess it is your call. ADVISER #4 should stay. I guess he should . . . huh . . . oh, OK, well, you make the call, Bill.
WM CASEY:
OK, I guess ADVISER #4 will stay. But I think [CIA FEMALE TRANSCRIBER] must stay. I'll make that call.
PRESIDENT:
OK, I guess we can do our business first, give me a few minutes. Let's get some food first, or snacks. How long will . . . huh . . . oh, about one hour?
The CARETAKER:
Mr President, I estimate this will last about one hour, at least the first part of it. This is a very complicated subject to brief. I can do it, but maybe the questions will extend [beyond the first] the time period.
PRESIDENT:
OK, I see. Let's take a break and then reconvene.
(Break)
The CARETAKER:
OK, Mr President, are we ready?
PRESIDENT:
Yes, we are, let's go.
The CARETAKER:
Mr President, as was mentioned earlier, I must say, that this briefing has the highest classification within the U.S. government. I will start with a slide presentation. I have most of this briefing on the slides, but I also have an outline that I have passed out to each [person] in attendance.
. . . The United States of America has been visited by extraterrestrial visitors since 1947. We have proof of that. However, we also have some proof that Earth has been visited for many THOUSANDS OF YEARS by various races of extraterrestrial visitors. Mr. President, I'll just refer to those visits as ETs. In July 1947, a remarkable event occurred in New Mexico. During a storm, two ET spacecraft crashed. One crashed southwest of Corona, New Mexico, and one crashed near Datil, New Mexico (see
plate 3
). The U.S. Army eventually found both sites and recovered all of the debris and one live alien. I'll refer to this live alien as “Ebe1.”
PRESIDENT:
What does that mean? Do we have codes or a special terminology for this?
The CARETAKER:
Mr. President, EBE means “Extraterrestrial Biological Entity.” It was a code designated to this creature by the U.S. Army back in those days. This creature was not human and we had to decide on a term for it. So, scientists designated the creature as Ebe1 (see
plates 4
and
5
). We also referred to it as “Noah.” There was different terminology used by various aspects of the U.S. military and intelligence community back then.
PRESIDENT:
Do we or did we have others? The number “1” would seem to indicate we had others.
The CARETAKER:
Yes, we had others. Back then, the term was EBE and no number designation. We'll explain how the others came into our knowledge.
PRESIDENT:
OK, sorry, I was just wondering and I guess, well, I'm sure the briefing will cover this. Please continue.
The CARETAKER:
All the debris and EBEs recovered from the first crash site were taken to Roswell Army Air Field, Roswell, New Mexico. EBE was treated for some minor injuries and then taken to Los Alamos National Laboratories, which was the safest and most secure location in the world. Special accommodations were made for EBE. The debris was eventually transferred to Dayton, Ohio, home of the Air Force Foreign Technology Division. The second crash site wasn't discovered until 1949 by some ranchers. There were no live aliens at this site. All this debris went to Sandia Army Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
PRESIDENT:
OK, a question, regarding the first site, how many aliens were in the spaceship?
The CARETAKER:
Five (5) dead aliens and one (1) alive. The bodies of the dead aliens were transported to Wright Field in Ohio and kept in a form of deep freeze. They were later transported to Los Alamos, where special containers were made to keep the bodies from decaying. There were four (4) dead aliens in the second crash site. Those bodies were in an advanced state of decaying [
sic
]. They had been in the desert for the past two (2) years. Animals and time got to those bodies. The remains were transported to Sandia Base and eventually onto Los Alamos. We determined [that] both crashed spaceships were of similar design and the bodies of the aliens were all identical. They looked exactly the same. They had the same height, weight, and physical features. Here are the photographs of the aliens (Pause) [While presumably the president is looking at the photographs]
PRESIDENT:
Can we classify them? I mean can we . . . well, connect them with anything Earthly?
The CARETAKER:
No, Mr. President. They don't have any similar characteristics of a human, with exception of there [their] eyes, ears and a mouth. Their internal body organs are different. Their skin is different, their eyes, ears, and even breathing is different. Their blood wasn't red and their brain was entirely different from human. We could not classify any part of the aliens with humans. They had blood and skin, although considerably different than human skin. Their eyes had two different eyelids. Probably because their home planet was very bright.
PRESIDENT:
Maybe I'm getting ahead, but do we know where they came from? Mars, our system or where?
The CARETAKER:
Yes, Mr. President, we do know where they come from. I can go into this now, or I can wait until it comes up in the briefing.
PRESIDENT:
No, no, please, continue. I can wait.
The CARETAKER:
Thank you, Mr. President. EBE stayed alive until 1952 when it died. We learned a great deal from EBE. Although EBE did not have voice organs like humans, it was able to communicate with an operation performed by military doctors. EBE was extremely intelligent. It learned English quickly, mainly by listening to the military personnel who were responsible for EBE's safety and care. EBE was housed in a special area at Los Alamos and Sandia Base. Although many different military doctors, scientists, and a select number of civilians studied EBE, it never became upset or angry. EBE helped us learn from all the items found in the two crash sites. EBE showed us how some of the items worked, such as a communications device. It also showed us how various other devices worked.
PRESIDENT:
Excuse me, but you are referring to this creature as an IT. Did it have a gender?
The CARETAKER:
I'm sorry Mr. President, but yes, it was male. Within EBE's race they had males and females.
PRESIDENT:
OK, thank you. Please continue . . .
The CARETAKER:
It took the EBE spaceship nine (9) of our months to travel the 40 [38.42] light-years. Now, as you can see, that would mean the EBE spaceship traveled faster than the speed of light. But this is where it gets really technical. Their spaceships can travel through a form of “space tunnels” that gets them from point A to point B faster without having to travel at the speed of light. I cannot fully understand how they travel, but we have many top scientists who can understand their concept.
For those portions of the Reagan briefing in March 1981 relating to Project Serpo, please see appendix 11.