by Timothy Good
On the night of May 23/24, 1974, men of the U.S. Army’s 4th Platoon, Bravo Company, B Battalion, 2nd Regiment of the 32nd Air Defense Command were deployed in a mountain pass northeast of Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany. First Lieutenant Robert Cardeni was the 4th Platoon leader and Captain Michael J. Shestak was commanding Bravo Company. The soldiers had been told they were on special duty owing to Russian and/or Warsaw Pact forces testing American radar defenses. The men were surprised that live ammunition for the Vulcan 20mm cannons and live Chaparral antiaircraft missiles were to be utilized. Lt. Cardeni gave orders to the crews of the cannons to load canisters of live high-explosive phosphorus rounds and to maintain high alert.
At about 00:45, Lt. Cardeni gave orders that something hostile was incoming and that the gunners were to shoot down anything coming though the pass, stating that since “no friendlies” would be flying below 2,700 feet, anything else was to be shot down. At around 01:00, a Sergeant Yonts noticed a fast-approaching, zigzagging, flattened ellipsoid-shaped craft with rounded edges, about thirty feet long and glowing with a silvery iridescence. “It took a few seconds for Sgt. Yonts’s cannon’s computer and Doppler radar to calculate a precise speed, range, and direction of travel and to achieve a lock-on,” reports Ed Komarek, an American researcher who received the report anonymously, via mail. “When the cannon locked on to the object through the [reticulated] gunsights, he began firing, first a few rounds for effect and then three four-second bursts of 110 rounds each into the side of the object….”
“Sgt. Yonts was almost at eye level with the object as he watched his rounds pouring into its sides. He was expecting to see the ‘blooming flower’ effect of the phosphorus rounds exploding, but he did not…. ‘It was as if the shells were being absorbed or being vaporized by some sort of ‘force field,’ Yonts said, [which] was quite a remarkable containment of shells having a 35-meter kill radius.”
Meanwhile, on the mountainside, Sgt. William McCracken, inside the launch-control console of a Chaparral battery, locked on to a target and fired a missile, which climbed to about nine hundred feet, located the object, moved close ahead of the target, and detonated. Gunners and observers watched as the target started wobbling, “then stop[ped] forward motion and finally wobble[d] downward to the valley floor in what the observers believed was a controlled descent.”
U.S. Air Force personnel later secured this crash/landing site. According to Komarek’s source, various Air Force personnel, including a Major Mike Andrews (pseudonym?) and three Army officers from the Army Vulnerability Assessment Laboratory in Alamogordo, New Mexico, were flown in a C-141 Starlifter transport to Ramstein. “The soldiers who had had a direct active part in the mission less than twelve hours earlier met individually with the debriefers,” Komarek’s report continues. The three Army officers handled the first debriefing, followed by groups of Air Force officers, who warned the men that “if they ever told anyone about what they had imagined had happened, they would never work for the government [and] warned of unspecified dire things that would happen to them should they ever talk … the men were required to sign a security oath to never divulge the details of that night [and] if questioned in the future, to deny that it ever happened.”
On the afternoon of May 25, Major Andrews and his crew were told to report to their aircraft, parked at a remote location on the Ramstein air base, and he was shocked to note that a set of metal supports had been constructed on the wings and fuselage of his C-141, attached to which was “something large and ellipsoid,” covered with olive drab green canvas tarpaulins. During preparations for takeoff, Andrews noted the minimal fuel load, due to the weight of the additional craft. On reaching its cruise altitude, the C-141 was refuelled by a KC-135 tanker.
“Major Andrews’s orders were that he was not to land until he reached Wright-Patterson AFB, and that he would be met by refuelling tankers at strategic points across the Atlantic,” Ed Komarek learned. “It was dark in Ohio when Major Andrews landed to disembark the airmen—all but four who were to remain aboard and who then were carrying M16 rifles in addition to their sidearms. The pilots and crew of the C-141 were not allowed out of the plane and they did not refuel.
“Taking off again with a minimal fuel load, they were once again met at altitude by another KC-135 tanker and flew on direct to Nellis AFB, Nevada, where the crew was once again not allowed outside the aircraft as their wing-top cargo was offloaded and taken away, again covered completely.” On returning to McGuire AFB, New Jersey, Andrews and his crew were debriefed by an Air Force colonel who warned them never to discuss the mission with anyone.
Another source present during the downing of the craft pointed out to Komarek that, although he had observed the incident, there were no mountains northeast of Ramstein, only hills. However, although this informant did not witness the May 23/24 attack per se, he believes he did see the crashing object “looking like it was dripping iridescent white fire.” He also claims that a couple of weeks earlier another unknown craft was almost hit by a Nike missile, whereupon it “started flying erratically, then two F-4s [Phantom jets] came and gave chase, disappearing beyond the ridges. Don’t know if they got that one, but the base went on full alert. We were anticipating the Russians to be coming, not the spacemen….”22
The Secret Team
In 1994 I had the privilege on two occasions of interviewing L. Fletcher Prouty, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel—cited earlier—in Washington, D.C. A former fighter pilot and professor of air science and tactics at Yale University, he was also directly in charge of the global system designed to provide military support for the clandestine activities of the CIA.
Regarding the UFO subject, Prouty revealed a hitherto Top Secret report he had investigated in 1953–54 relating to the observation of a large unknown craft which paced a C-54 military transport plane over the Pacific Ocean for over an hour, witnessed by the entire crew and passengers. His report appears in two of my books.23
All CIA military activities were channeled through Prouty. Not being a CIA man, per se, he was exempt from taking the oath of secrecy. And being the Focal Point Officer placed him in a very privileged position. “In effect,” states the publisher’s blurb to The Secret Team, one of two of his books he gave me, “Prouty has far more knowledge of CIA activities than almost all members of that organization.” The subtitle does not mince its words: The CIA and its Allies in Control of the United States and the World. “Like it or not,” he wrote in a preface to the second edition in 1990, “we now live in a new age of ‘One World.’ This is the age of global companies, of global communications and transport, of global finance and—just around the corner—global accommodation of political systems…. It is time to face the fact that true national sovereignty no longer exists. We live in a world of big business, big lawyers, big bankers, even bigger moneymen and big politics. It is the world of ‘The Secret Team.’
“In such a world, the Secret Team is a dominant power. It is neither military nor police. It is covert, and the best (or worst) of both. It gets the job done whether it has political authorization and direction or not. It is independent. It is lawless. [This book] is based upon personal experience generally derived from work in the Pentagon from 1955 to 1964. At retirement, I was Chief of Special Operations (clandestine activities) with the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. These duties involved the military support of the clandestine activities of the CIA and were performed under the provisions of National Security Council Directive No. 5412/2.”
He continues: “I was the first author to point out that the CIA’s most important ‘Cover Story’ is that of an ‘Intelligence’ agency. Of course the CIA does make use of ‘intelligence’ and ‘intelligence gathering,’ but that is largely a front for its primary interest, ‘Fun and Games.’ The CIA is the center of a vast mechanism that specializes in Covert Operations…. In this sense, the CIA is the willing tool of a higher level Secret Team, or High Cabal, that usually include
s representatives of the CIA and other instrumentalities of the government, certain cells of the business and professional world and, almost always, foreign participation. It is this Secret Team….24
“At the heart of the Team, of course, are a handful of top executives of the CIA and of the National Security Council (NSC), most notably the chief White House adviser to the president regarding foreign policy affairs. Around them revolves a sort of inner ring of presidential officials, civilians, and military men from the Pentagon, and career professionals in the intelligence community. It is often quite difficult to tell exactly who many of these men really are, because some may wear a uniform and the rank of general and really be with the CIA and others may be as inconspicuous as the executive assistant to some Cabinet officer’s chief deputy.
“Out beyond this ring is an extensive and intricate network of government officials with responsibility for, or expertise in, some specific field that touches on national security or foreign affairs: ‘Think Tank’ analysts, businessmen who travel a lot or whose businesses (e.g., import-export or cargo airline operations) are useful, academic experts in this or that technical subject or geographic region, and quite importantly, alumni of the intelligence community—a service from which there are no unconditional resignations….25
“Sponsored by President Truman and established by an act of Congress,” summarizes the publisher’s blurb for The Secret Team, “the CIA was initially founded as a data-coordinating, intelligence-gathering agency to help fight the Cold War, [but] its profile today is unrecognizable, and its power is unstoppable…. The President of the United States is impotent against it, Congress cannot legislate it, the military cannot corral it, and the public doesn’t even know about it.”
Regarding the CIA UFO-debunking program, in October 1994 I had the pleasure of spending a day in the delightful company of Frederick C. Durant III, a former U.S. Naval Reserve pilot who was on the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence advisory panel convened in January 1953 to discuss methods of debunking the subject. Its final report is commonly known as “The Durant Report.” We subsequently corresponded regularly. While continuing to “toe the line,” a note he sent me in March 2007 was encouraging: “Hi, good friend! Never, never, ever give up….”
A Tight Lid
“The U.S. government and the British have made secret treaty agreements with the aliens in exchange for technology and so-called ‘recon’ missions during times of human conflict,” claims an anonymous three-star general. “The aliens have basically agreed not to concern themselves with the wars or conflicts of humans—‘not to interfere’ in society. Let the governments rule and decide. Exactly what the aliens get in return was not exactly made clear or available. Also, there are special ‘teams’ which eradicate, discredit, harass, and ‘trump up charges’ to control humans who experience any visitations from aliens, or make verifiable UFO sightings. This is one of the reasons I retired….”26
William J. Pawelec, the former U.S. Air Force computer operations and programing specialist cited in Chapter 14, confirms some of the above. “I would say this is international in scope,” he told Steven Greer of the Disclosure Project, in an interview that Pawelec had specified not to be released until December 2010:
“The projects that we have are closely tied in with other allies’ governments. In fact, I have been told back in the late 1970s, on one of the early classified projects I worked on … that there was a secret agreement between us and the Brits, so whatever we invent, they get. And there is no limitation as to what it is. The Brits can make their duplicates, and we don’t hold back on any of the technology, because of that secret agreement that was cut during World War II. And we have other allies like that. I believe that what we see also is a lot of cross-pollination of scientists from different countries working on projects even in the most classified arenas in the United States.”
Pawelec also hinted that certain British commando units liaise with their American counterparts on the problem (as for example in the 1971/72 incident described earlier by Harold Varnam). All these “black” projects were highly classified. “What concerns me,” he continued, “is when these projects go ‘beyond black’; people with ulterior motives that have gotten in control of these projects and/or the funding for them, and/or the ability of what really is scary, to write their own unlimited checks with no recourse to anybody. They’re not even a budget item any more. They literally authorize the Treasury to cut them checks [and] it becomes evident that they have agendas that are independent of the goals of the United States. And the attitude is seemingly one of control—power and control.
“The ability of certain forces out there to use force whenever absolutely necessary, or other controlling mechanism to ameliorate the danger of a leak, or maintain secrecy with fear, is always there. If they can do one high-profile hit on somebody in a specific way, what it does is put the fear of God into those that they want to continue to control, so that they don’t say anything out of turn—they don’t probe where they shouldn’t probe, like Congressman Steven Schiff was doing….27
“My concerns are for the freedom of our country—and of the free world. It sounds rather simplistic, but we have a philosophy upon which we base our lives, and my philosophy is the republican form of government—if we can get back to it in some way, shape or form—[which] is the strongest form of government developed by man. If we don’t find ways to neutralize these negative forces, we’re going to find our lifestyles—our concepts of life as a species—nullified.”28
As Dwight D. Eisenhower had warned in his farewell speech as president in January 1961: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes….”29
That scenario of a satellite government has long since arrived. In their book A.D. After Disclosure, Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel refer to it as “The Breakaway Group.” “Bolstered by tremendous co-opted assets worldwide,” they claim, “they have over the years gained tremendous independence from the established political and military authorities. For it is likely that this Breakaway Group answers not so much to the president of the United States as it does toward powerful, private, internationally based individuals and groups….”30
Dolan and Zabel also cite the research by Dr. Richard Sauder into massive, deep, clandestine bases and tunnels—including those beneath our seabeds—plans of which were initiated by the U.S. national security establishment in the 1960s.31 And according to Dolan and Zabel, an assistant secretary to a branch of the armed forces “told a family friend that he had been ‘briefed’ for some eight weeks at an underground facility outside of Washington. Asked the purpose of the briefing, this highly placed man, who went on to become a cabinet secretary, said, ‘There is intelligent life in the universe. It’s here. And I’ve seen it….’ The cabinet secretary told the family friend that aliens were just the ‘tip of the iceberg’ in terms of mind-blowing revelations….”32
Chapter Nineteen
What on Earth?
Earlier, I revealed information pertaining to an alien technology transfer program provided for me by a U.S. Army Intelligence veteran, a senior aerospace reporter based in the Washington, D.C. area. He, in turn, acquired that knowledge from a high-ranking source at the Pentagon in the USAF Air Staff and Joint Staff in the 1980s. If what my source has learned about the alien presence on Earth is true, it supports Dr. David Jacobs’s contention that a hybridization program poses a serious threat to humankind.
The following scenario is based on some new information relating to “Project Aquarius,” acquired more recently from my source relating to a particular species—probably the predominant group—involved in the abduction program. I shall also touch on some of the mater
ial first revealed in Unearthly Disclosure. As to what is happening currently, I have no idea, apart from the information supplied to me by Maria Rivera.
The creatures have/had a long-term plan to create a race of alien/human hybrids, purportedly to make us more peaceful. Their true purpose, however, is to create a passive human race, incapable of violence, by eradicating the human emotions that enable us to survive—thus laying us open to conquest. However, if this has been a long-term stratagem, I’ve yet to see much evidence of the human race becoming less violent. In any event, these particular aliens are not omnipotent, and to a certain extent feared us. Although possessing a type of handheld weapon, some of them had been killed by our military.
A number of their bases were guarded by elements of the U.S. military. Compartmentalization within Project Aquarius was extreme. A select cell within the Army, for example, worked with other security cells in the Air Force and Navy. Around a hundred personnel from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) were involved. During my meeting in 1998 at the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO) in the Pentagon, the director, General Kenneth R. Israel, confirmed for me that AFOSI was involved in investigations, since the phenomenon seemed to him to be more of a policing problem rather than one affecting national security.1
Even theater commanders-in-chief (CINCs) were “out of the loop,” I learned. Those in the loop were said to include the president (though not always), the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The latter was said to be in charge of Project Aquarius, which, given his legal status as the highest ranking military officer in the U.S. Armed Forces and prinicipal adviser to the president, makes sense.