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“I was too frightened to turn around, so I lowered my sun visor and looked in the vanity mirror. There, a few car lengths behind us, was another late-model sedan, medium blue in color, being driven by a man in a green coverall, wearing a cap and wrap-around sunglasses. His two companions were dressed the same way. ‘They probably want to make sure that we go back home and don't try to come back,' said Annemarie. ‘Ken told me that he had heard about the government using parts of that area for secret experiments,' she said.”

The car followed the ladies until they were halfway home, then began to back off and eventually disappeared. On arriving home, Annemarie dropped Alex off. They agreed to meet later for dinner at a local restaurant.

“We were now curious about what had happened and wondered if we should go back or if we would be able to find the road again. We lived in the San Fernando Valley and were not at all familiar with the Antelope Valley area. We then got further into our mutual interest in UFOs [and] jokingly considered the possibility that the ‘men' we had seen were really aliens.

“We left the restaurant at about 10:30. The restaurant is situated in a very busy traffic area and is also near a freeway and a very well-known and very busy motor hotel. There is constant noise and traffic at all hours. It is
never
quiet there. However, this night, things were to be different. When we came out of the restaurant, the street was deserted. This was on
a Saturday night, one of the busiest nights of the week for this restaurant. There were no cars going by, no people, no sounds of traffic. In fact, there was no sound of any kind.
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When Annemarie and I spoke to each other, our voices sounded hollow, far away.” Neither of the ladies had ever seen it so quiet.

“Then, as if on command,” Alex reported, “we both looked up. There, at a level just over our heads, across the street, was a spacecraft.

“We could not see the craft itself very clearly, but it was outlined by white lights that ran all around it. It was the shape of an elongated triangle. It remained in its position for what seemed a few minutes. Then it moved away. Suddenly, as if someone had turned up the volume on a TV set, all the normal sounds returned.

“We walked to our cars and Annemarie checked her watch. ‘Oh, my God!' she said. ‘What time do you have?' I looked at my watch and was stunned. It was 12:35
a.m
. We had been looking at the spacecraft for two hours and five minutes!

“That was the final straw and all the fright we wanted to have for one day. We agreed never to go out to look for that ‘forbidden' area, and Annemarie sold her property soon after this incident. There may be more than just rumors about what is going on in the Tehachapi Mountains….”
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Tom Keller (who features in Chapter 9) has worked for British Aerospace, Douglas Aircraft, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In
The Total Novice's Guide to UFOs
, he writes extensively about Antelope Valley, described as “a hotbed for the aerospace industry.”

“When I lived there,” he reports, “Lockheed Martin, Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, and Northrop Grumman all had multiple facilities there.” He mentions a base at the northwest end of the Antelope Valley in the foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains, known as “The Anthill,” and another area known as the Tejon RCS [radar cross-section] Facility. Both are owned by Northrop Grumman. Another site is the Helendale Avionics Facility, owned by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. Observations of flying discs and other unusual craft have been observed periodically over the years.
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Researcher Bill Hamilton reports the observation, in the Antelope Valley in October 1988 by two witnesses known to him, of a large boomerang-shaped craft, estimated to be over six hundred feet in span,
traveling very slowly. “A second and identical large object joined behind the first one,” he reports in his book,
Cosmic Top Secret
. “The trailing boomerang was followed by approximately fifteen to twenty disc-shaped objects in formation…. Two additional witnesses saw the boomerangs pass over the valley from a side view to the east, [and these] were also sighted in Fresno later that same evening. The objects rose in altitude to clear the Tehachapi Mountains to the north, flying directly over the secret Northrop ‘Anthill' facility….”
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In 1988, Hamilton learned from a Northrop source that “during the early era,” a disc obtained from aliens via an exchange program had been sequestered underground at Edwards AFB. He also learned from several other sources that construction of underground facilities at the base began in the 1950s, and that a disc or discs had been stored in a hangar at the North base or underground.
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Project Aquarius

William J. Pawelec, a former U.S. Air Force computer operations and programming specialist with numerous credentials in security technologies and access control systems, who died in May 2007, also confirmed the alien technology transfer. “I would say this is international in scope,” he told Steven Greer of the Disclosure Project, during an interview that Pawelec had specified not be released until December 2010. “If you look at what layers of influence we have here, either at government or corporate level, I would say that at the corporate level we have to look primarily first.

“If you're talking about new propulsion technologies, we would first only look to the aerospace industry. I've had deep discussions with some people over a long period of time who—either they or their fathers—had worked for various aerospace companies and had been directly involved with the research as far back as the early 1950s on into the 1960s. And then by the 1970s they felt they had overcome most of the problems in reverse-engineering technologies from what, interestingly enough, they never call them UFOs; they call them AVCs—Alien Visitation Craft.”
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A trusted source of mine—the same aerospace journalist who supplied me
with a great deal of information on these matters for inclusion in
Unearthly Disclosure
—has hinted that in the 1980s a few aerospace companies, principally Lockheed and Northrop, had established underground plants inside the Tehachapi Mountains which produced top-secret, high-tech flying machines, allegedly produced by the Air Force's “Project Aquarius” in conjunction with aerospace and electronics companies. The huge amounts of money involved were distributed and sequestered in the black budget.

This exchange program purportedly involved a species of the so-called “grays”—aliens who claimed to have first come to Earth just after World War II and began establishing many underground and undersea bases around the world. These were located in areas such as Alaska, Australia, the Caribbean Sea (south of the Florida Keys), the Manzano Mountains near the nuclear weapons storage area at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, and the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. Several other bases were located around the world, mainly in Asia. From the information made available to me, I have deduced that the largest undersea base was probably located in the Milwaukee Seamounts, 32°46
′
latitude, 171°91
′
longitude, in the Pacific Ocean some 1,700 miles west-northwest of Honolulu.
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By 1973, they had come to stay.

Highly telepathic, the beings were about four and a half feet tall, featuring large heads; large almond-shaped black eyes; vestigial mouths, noses, and ears; and very thin hands with no thumbs.

The alien crafts' propulsion systems “interacted with the magnetic fields existing throughout space and around celestial bodies,” they claimed. Enormously powerful electrical charges were generated in tube-like toruses ranging around the insides of the hulls. The toruses were superconductors, made of materials not found on Earth. They were non-resistant to electric current, allowing the current to run free, and forever. Magnets inside the tubes converted the current into plasma jets. Each ship had several such systems to provide energy for different purposes. The build-up of magnetic fields around the ships, when their propulsion systems powered up, sometimes made them glow.

Air Force development of its own flying discs owed to their having studied recovered alien craft, a number of which had been brought down by the military. Although it was ascertained that a plasma field surrounding
the craft shielded it from guided missiles, oddly enough bullets, shells, and cannon fire could cause severe damage and/or bring down such a craft (as another source confirmed for me), at least in the early days. As Colonel Philip J. Corso states, in later years hostile alien craft could be brought down by advanced particle-beam weapons, such as those fired from Blue Gemini satellites, as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
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The discs reverse-engineered by the USAF were technologically inferior to those of the extraterrestrials, I learned. Nonetheless, the aliens acknowledged that they had underestimated us in this regard and were said to have been impressed. Design and production was said to be almost totally automated. One craft, apparently a two-seater, was described as appearing like two soup-bowls fastened together rim to rim, seamless, with no sign of windows and three slender landing legs which retracted into slots. Entrance was via a hatch under the hull.

Propulsion was also said to involve plasma: indeed, it has been described as a “plasma-propelled magneto-hydro­dynamic vehicle,” and in water a “magneto­hydro­dynamic vehicle.”
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A vertical tube, some three feet in diameter, extended from the top of the cabin down through the floor. A superconductor torus of hot plasma circled the horizontal rim of the inner and outer hulls, generating a powerful propulsion field that interacted with Earth's ambient magnetic field, propelling the craft. Another hot-plasma super­conductor torus circled the craft vertically. The craft's CPU (central processing unit) was alleged to make billions of calculations per second, manipulating the plasma flow to counter G-forces.

The American pilots wore special helmets that afforded “enhanced reality” for use in the plasma environment. Each helmet is unique to the pilot who wears it, reading his brain's “electromagnetic signature.” The craft also utilized biocomputers. Viewing ports in the hull appeared only when required. Weaponry consisted of a very powerful beam that focused a mixture of photons and free electrons onto the target.

I do not know how much of this information is factual. But based on my acquaintance with the source for many years, I feel that, even allowing for disinformation, it is substantially true.

Italian Liaison

In Chapter 13, I detailed some of the wealth of information provided for
me by Professor Stefano Breccia regarding the propulsion systems of the Amicizia (W56) craft. On one occasion, he was given the opportunity of a flight in a craft, together with his German engineer friend Hans. No aliens were on board, but both the craft and its occupants were monitored at all times. Stefano told me that a safety precaution involved jumping on board with both feet—presumably to avoid an electric shock (as explained in Chapter 13). Hans took the controls, while Stefano (a licensed pilot of conventional aircraft) was content to make calculations relating to co-ordinates, etc., on his calculator. “I did not want to pilot the craft,” he told me frankly, “but I asked the W56s to show me the co-ordinates.

“The control unit, on a ledge inside the flange, was most interesting, partly owing to its small size—about that of a PC keyboard. It had virtual images, like modern mobiles, but no keypads. (Today's mobile phones would not work in a craft, incidentally.) I used my Olivetti 22 typewriter to make notes.

“The floor was of metal but rather soft and looked like plastic. Light appeared to be generated from nowhere—it's the air that's ‘lit.' Shadows go in the opposite direction from what you would suppose. There were no portholes, but the metal of the craft could be made transparent, enabling one to see either outside or inside. The seats weren't very comfortable, owing to a triangular-shaped back. And there was a strange instrument that gave off different colors to different portions of air inside the cabin: it's used for giving an idea of electrical, magnetic and gravitational fields inside—a global measure so you can decide which color should be attributed to a particular thing….

“The trip was from Pescara to Moscow, Cairo, then back to Pescara, and the computer showed geographic co-ordinates. We found out that the craft did not travel in a straight line to its destination, but in a curve, which we thought strange. We flew at a very high altitude and at a speed of six to seven thousand kilometers per hour. There was no sensation of movement. Actually, it wasn't so interesting—I find it more exciting in ordinary planes!”
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This may seem somewhat blasé, but less so if we take into consideration the many years Stefano spent in close proximity to both the aliens and their craft.

Stefano gave me additional details pertaining to the piloting of their
craft, which bears comparison with data provided by the previous source:

“One could just touch certain lighted areas (which today we would call diodes) on a panel in front of the seat which at all times presented one with the only available option in that specific situation. Then it would change—depending. You could choose four different possibilities for going from one place to another: (1) Limiting the amount of energy dissipated; (2) When emphasis is on the duration of travel; (3) When the pilot decides what to do at each moment—or ‘manual override'; (4) Totally remote control, e.g. if the craft comes up against an obstacle, such as a mountain, say, the obstacle (or part thereof) is destroyed. When the computer is involved, it ensures that such obstacles are avoided.

“For example, when some Italian military pilots were being trained by the W56 to pilot their scoutcraft, at a certain point south of Calabria they detected a ship which they weren't sure of, sixteen kilometers away at a bearing of 234°. The pilots decided to try to land on the ship, piloting normally without the computer. In doing so, they realized it was a naval ship of undetermined nationality. As they descended, the pilot encountered difficulties so decided to engage the computer, which made the craft land on the ship.