“There is no doubt that Lonnie Zamora saw an object which left quite an impression on him. There is also no question about Zamora’s reliability. He is a serious police officer, a pillar of his church, and a man well versed in recognizing airborne vehicles in his area. He is puzzled by what he saw, and frankly, so are we. This is the best-documented case on record, and still we have been unable, in spite of thorough investigation, to find the vehicle or other stimulus that scared Zamora to the point of panic.
During the course of the investigation and immediately thereafter, everything that was humanly possible to verify was checked. Radiation in the landing area was checked with Geiger counters from Kirtland AFB. The Holloman AFB Balloon Control Center was checked for balloon activity. All local stations and Air Force bases were checked for release of weather balloons. Helicopter activity was checked throughout the state of New Mexico. Government and private aircraft were checked. The reconnaissance division in the Pentagon was checked. The White House Command Post was checked. The commander at Holloman AFB was interviewed at length about special activities from his base.”
This document was not approved for release until January 2, 1981, but is now available in several places online and through the Freedom of Information Act.
It is my hope that this information is useful to anyone wanting to know more about the strange vehicles at the core of the UFO phenomenon. Even I find it easy to become disillusioned when I see information being presented on television or reprinted in books and magazines that is made up of fantastic claims for which there is little to no substantive evidence. Nevertheless, anyone who looks closely will find many cases like the Socorro incident that clearly indicate physically real vehicles—with a high degree of strangeness—have been, and continue to be, seen by honest, reliable witnesses.
Appendix D
Propulsion Concept Inspired By Mystery Aircraft
(Originally submitted to Popular Mechanics)
For decades, researchers have sought ways to alleviate the more troubling aspects of traveling at extreme speeds. Aerodynamics and thermodynamics become a problem as shock waves form, and sonic booms pose major problems for both civilian and military aviation. Physical aerodynamics can only go so far in the extreme ranges of supersonic and hypersonic speeds (beyond Mach 5-6) and engineers have continually looked for alternatives.
As early as the 1950s, it was known that a physical spike extending from the tip of a nose cone could change the shape of a shock wave. From the late 1950s and into the 1970s researchers also studied the effects of adding heat ahead of a body in a supersonic flow as a means of reducing these effects. A more elegant solution would be to simply move the atmosphere out of the way in advance, and the past ten years, scientists have been studying a new concept to accomplish exactly this.
In hypersonic shock tunnels, researchers have successfully shown that concentrated energy beams can cause the hypersonic flow to expand around test models reducing both drag and heating effects. But what has not been widely known, is that this new concept had its inspiration in a film taken of a highly advanced and previously unseen aircraft.
Knowledgeable sources reveal that the film of this aircraft was taken in the southern United States and shows a vehicle projecting a pulsing energy beam ahead of it as it moves in the atmosphere. They admit being baffled as to who might have built the aircraft, but descriptions of what is visible in photographs indicate startling technological advances. Visible detail in the film images indicate a disc-shaped vehicle creating some form of visible ionization pulsed rapidly from a superstructure centered on the forward facing surface.
Since 1993 researchers have been studying ways of producing directed energy for modifying shock effects. Initial tests to validate the concept, termed a Directed Energy Air Spike (DEAS), were performed at RPI in Troy, New York, with energy produced at the tip of a physical spike mounted in the center of a small test model. Previous experiments have typically used models of blunt-bodies or more conventional aircraft shapes but, in these recent tests, the model has been a small lenticular disc similar in shape to a discus thrown by Olympic athletes. Recent experiments performed at the Laboratory of Aerothermodynamics and Hypersonics-CTA in São José dos Campos, Brazil, using a similar disc-shaped model, demonstrated the use of a CO2 laser to optically break down the hypervelocity flow upstream of the model. But particularly intriguing is the position of the model during tests—mounted on edge, one flat surface faces into the direction of the hypersonic flow. Images taken during the recent Brazilian test are said to display striking similarities to the mysterious aircraft in the reported photographs.
Beginning in the late 1980s, research into laser or microwave energy for propulsion has focused primarily on launching small satellites into orbit. Experimental models, small and extremely lightweight, had to be designed specifically for this purpose. This was due in part to the general lack of availability of sufficiently powerful lasers to do more than merely prove the concept works. Space and weight requirements notwithstanding, none of these early designs called for using directed energy projected ahead of the vehicle.
In 1995, illustrations began to appear showing revolutionary lenticular-shaped transatmospheric vehicles using directed energy beams to reduce drag and thermal effects. One of the first illustrations of the “air spike” concept appeared with an article in the September 1995 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine. A more recent example appears on NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Advanced Space Transportation website, and on the cover of Space Manufacturing 12, published by the Space Studies Institute. A particularly beautiful illustration has been produced by Media Fusion, Inc. and can be found on their website. While these designs are considered radical, and at best still remain decades in the future, the reported similarities to the aircraft in the photographs, in particular the forward facing energy beam, suggests that researchers may have drawn on ideas gleaned from an aircraft apparently already in production.
Designs for disc-shaped aircraft have appeared from time to time, though, to date, no practical working aircraft have ever been rolled out for public display. Perhaps best known is the infamous AVRO-disc, which, despite several intriguing conceptual illustrations, turned out to be a relatively poor hovercraft. But these past designs always depicted the vehicle in a typical horizontal mode, perhaps because the aerodynamics seemed obvious. As tests of the DEAS concept continue to demonstrate, it now appears that the on-edge configuration, in combination with a beam of energy directed into the atmosphere ahead of the vehicle, may provide radically new aerodynamic capabilities.
Just as perplexing as who may have engineered this groundbreaking aircraft is the question of what form of propulsion it uses and how it generates the observed energy beam. Current beamed energy propulsion concepts would ultimately require earth-based or space-based power stations transmitting energy to vehicles as they travel in the atmosphere. Whether from above or below, a substantial infrastructure would need to be in place to maintain a vehicle in flight. Researchers studying the DEAS concept are presently concentrating on means of focusing energy at a point ahead of their test models in order to generate the amount of energy required to effect hypersonic flows. But, according to sources, the film of this unknown aircraft show it projecting a narrow concentrated beam that extends for some distance ahead. Filmed traveling at a relatively low altitude and, for a time, on a horizontal trajectory, this aircraft appeared capable of varying its speed. It is unclear whether the pulsing energy beam alone could explain all these observed flight dynamics.
Is this mysterious aircraft a product of Area 51, the Lockheed “Skunkworks”, or some vestige of the Soviet aerospace program? Perhaps the Chinese, only recently achieving manned space flight, have managed to leapfrog Western engineers in aircraft design. Even the most state-of-the-art designs are generally recognizable as being evolutionary steps in vehicular engineering, not revolutionary, as seems to be the case here. It is difficult to imagine a revolutionary aircraft bein
g designed and built these days without some news of its existence leaking long before it appeared in broad daylight. As yet there has been no indication of who is behind this startling aircraft, or any word from normal sources of aviation and aerospace industry news. The Air Force and NASA have both shown interest in the DEAS concept and have sponsored much of the research into it and its potential uses. What that implies about their knowledge of the mysterious aircraft remains to be seen.
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1 “Brigadier General William R. Brooksher,”Air Force Link, 24 Sep. 2008
2 Robert Salas and James Klotz, Faded Giant (BookSurge Publishing, 2005), 46.
3 William Moore & Jaime Shandera, The MJ-12 Documents, (Fair Witness Project, 1990), 15-17.
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4 Gregory Pope, “Fly By Microwave,” Popular Mechanics (Sept. 1995).
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5 L.N. Myrabo et al., “Apollo Lightcraft Project,” NASA Technical Reports Server, Oct. 2005, 23 Sep. 2008,
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6 S. Kandero, “Air Spike Could Ease Hypersonic Flight Problems,” AW&ST (May 15, 1995), 66-67
7 G.A. Nyberg et al., Performance Analysis of a Laser-Powered SSTO Shuttlecraft,” AAS 87-130, 24 Sep. 2008,
8 Paula M. Powell, “CO2 Lasers Expose Hypersonic Flow,” Accent on Applications, Jul. 2003, 24 Sep. 2008,
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9 Interview with Ray Stanford, Virtually Strange Network, #234, 29 Mar. 2003,
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10 Jim Wilson, “NASA’s Antigravity Machine,” Popular Mechanics, Dec. 1997, 24 Sep. 2008,
11 Evgeny Podkletnov et al., “Impulse Gravity Generator Based on Charged Y Ba2Cu3O7−y Superconductor with Composite Crystal Structure” Cornell University Library, 20 Aug. 2001, 24 Sep. 2008,
12 Giovanni Modanese and Chris Y. Taylor, “Evaluation of an Impulse Gravity Generator Based Beamed Propulsion Concept,” 5 Sep. 2002, 24 Sep. 2008,
13 Tim Ventura, “The Podkletnov Gravitational Shield,” American Antigravity, 24 Sep. 2008,
14 Yu. Kolesnichenko et al., “Microwave Energy Release Regimes for Drag Reduction in Supersonic Flows” AIAA Paper 2002-0353.
15 Yu. Kolesnichenko et al., “MW Energy Deposition for Aerodynamic Application,” AIAA Paper 2003-361.
16 M.N. Shneider et al., “Steady and Unsteady Supersonic Flow Control With Energy Addition,” AIAA Paper 2003-3862.
17 Kevin Kremeyer, “Lines Of Pulsed Energy For Supersonic/Hypersonic Drag Reduction: Generation and Implementation,” AIAA-2004-0984, 24 Sep. 2008,
18 “TTO Overview,” Tactical Technology Office, 24 Sep. 2008,
19 S.H. Zaidi et al., “Influence Of Upstream Pulsed Energy Deposition On A Shock Wave Structure In Supersonic flow.” AIAA-2002-2703, 24-26 Jun. 2002.
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20 Leik N. Myrabo, MANE: Faculty, 25 Sep. 2005,
21 Dan Briody, The Iron Triangle (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003) Appendix A, 162-3
22 Philip Odeen, Wikipedia, 29 Jul. 2008, 25 Sep. 2008,
23 The New Mexico commitment of BDM International, Inc., “NM Business Journal,” Oct. 1990, 24 Sep. 2008,
24 John Pike, “Military Space Programs,” FAS Space Policy Project, Apr. 1997, 25 Sep. 2008,
25 Howard Blum, Out There, (Simon and Schuster, 1992) Pp. 37-46
26 From an email exchange between the author and Armen Victorian in Feb.2007
27 From an email exchange between the author and George Hansen in Feb. 2007
28 “About IRVA,” International Remote Viewing Association, 25 Sep. 2008,
29 “Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III, Natural Solutions Foundation, 26 Sep. 2008,
30 Ranney Adams, “Laser Propulsion Research For Space Launch Of Microsatellites,” AFRL Propulsion Directorate, 29 Oct. 1997, 29 Sep. 2008,
31 “Laser propels model spacecraft,” What’s Up At White Sands, 29 Sep. 2008,
32 Franklin B. Mead Jr. et al., “Flight Experiments and Evolutionary Development of a Laser Propelled, Trans-Atmospheric Vehicle,” Air Force Research Lab Edwards AFB CA Propulsion Directorate West, Rep# A189793,26 FEB 1998.
33 “Monthly Accomplishments Report,” Propulsion Directorate, Aug. 2001, (Copy on file with author),
34 Tim Ventura and Eric Davis, “Q&A With Dr. Eric Davis,” American Antigravity, 4 Feb. 2005, 30 Sep. 2008,
35 “Harold E. Puthoff, Ph.D.”, EarthTech International Inc., 30 Sep. 2008,
36 H.E. Puthoff, Ph.D., “CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing At Stanford Research Institute,” The History Of Remote Viewing, 30 Sep. 2008,
37 “Recent Institute And EarthTech Publications,” EarthTech International, Inc., Apr. 2008, 30 Sep. 2008,
38 Noah Schactman, “Teleporters Push Laser Spacecraft”, WIRED Blog Network,23 Feb. 2007, 30 Sep. 2008,
39 “Space Renaissance: Inspiring The Next Generation: Call For Papers,” Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF 2007), 30 Sep. 2008,
40 “USAF Phillips Laboratory Overview,” Phillips Research Site, March 1996, 30 Sep. 2008,
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41 “Revolutionary Propulsion Research,” Space Transportation – Marshall Spaceflight Center, 24 Sep. 2008,
42 Leik N. Myrabo and John S. Lewis, Lightcraft Model Lti-20 Technical Manual: 2025 Space Command’s Lti-20 Lightcraft, (Collectors Guide Publishing, 2006).
43 “Base History,” Kirtland Air Force Base, 1 Oct. 2008,
44 “Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center,” Air Force Link, Dec. 2007, 1 Oct. 2008,
45 Greg Bishop, “Project Beta” (Paraview Pocket Books, 2005) Pp. 36.
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46 H.E. Puthoff, Ph.D., “CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing At Stanford Research Institute,” The History Of Remote Viewing, 30 Sep. 2008,
47 James Bamford, Body Of Secrets: Anatomy of the ultra-secret National Security Agency, (Anchor Books, 2001) Pp. 10-11.
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48 “Weapons Of Mass Destruction (WMD),” Globalsecurity.org, 2 Oct. 2008,
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49 Thomas M. Slawson, In Pursuit Of Shadows, (Athena Press, 2006) Pp. 168
50 Greg Bishop, Project Beta, (Paraview Pocket Books, 2005) Pp. 34
51 Ibid.; Pp. 42
52 Ibid.; Pp. 95
53 William Moore & Jaime Shandera, The MJ-12 Documents, (The Fair Witness Project, 1990).
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54 From an email exchange between the author and Greg Bishop.
55 “Four AFRL Scientists Honored With Presidential Rank Award.” AFRL Monthly Accomplishment Report, Jun. 2004, 2 Oct. 2008,
56 “Biography of Dr. Robert Q. Fugate,’Starfire Optical Range, 2 Oct. 2008,
57 “Dr. Fugate Receives Air Force Distinguished Presidential Rank Award,” Directed Energy Directorate Success Stories, Apr. 2005, 6 Dec. 2008,
58 Ann Finkbeiner, The Jasons, (The Penguin Group, 2006), Pp. 164.
59 Robert Collins and Richard Doty, Exempt From Disclosure, (Peregrine Communications; 2005).
60 “Member Profile for Toppan,” The History Channel, 25 Jan. 2005, 9 Oct. 2008,
61 “LVA Monument and Museum,” Lao Veterans of America, 9 Oct. 2008,
62 “John Lear,” The Tazz and Paula Show, 9 Oct. 2008,
63 “Hansson’s Affidavit, Part 1,” UFOMind Mailing List, 9 Oct. 2008,
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64 “The Fund for CIA Research?,” AIR #1; 10 Oct. 2008,
65 “Richard (Rick) C. Doty Telephone Interview: Jan. 8, 1988,” The Falcon and the Snow-Job, 10 Oct. 2008,
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