The Day After Roswell (27 page)

All three men were using these electromagnetic waves to
promote healing in ways I considered astounding. They made claims about
the ability of electromagnetic treatments to affect the speed at which
cells divide and tumors grow. They claimed that through directed
electromagnetic wave propagation they could cure heart disease,
arthritis, all types of bacteriological infections that interfered with
cell function, and even certain forms of cancer.

If this sounds like something supernatural in 1997, imagine
how it must have sounded to the ears of a young and inexperienced
intelligence officer in 1944 who was so far out of his element that the
older, seasoned British intelligence laughed at his age. They laughed
until they saw what happened to the Gestapo agents who were trying to
reinfiltrate Rome behind the Allied front lines and met up with my men
on the back streets and alleys. That’s when the laughing
stopped.

I spent many hours with Professors Flesch, Franck, and
Castellani in Rome and watched them experiment with all kinds of small
animals. They didn’t have the research funds nor the
endorsements of the medical societies to allow them to expand their
work or to treat patients with their unconventional methods. Thus, much
of their work found its way into research monographs, articles in
academic journals, or university lectures at symposiums. And I left
Rome in the spring of 1947, said my good-byes to the friends I had made
at the University of Rome, and put their work - relegated once again to
the supernatural - out of my mind as I concentrated on my new jobs at
Fort Riley, the White House, Red Canyon, Germany, and the Pentagon.
Then on the day that I came across the speculative report on the structure of the alien brain from Roswell, everything
Professors Flesch, Franck, and Castellani said came back to me like a
clap of thunder. Here I was again, staring at a piece of loose leaf
paper that was staring right back at me and forcing me to consider
ideas and notions from over ten years ago that challenged everything
science back then was telling us about the way the brain worked.

While I reviewed the reports about the autopsied alien brain
and what the medical examiner thought the low frequency waves meant
when he applied current to the tissue, I also saw reports from an army
military liaison attached to the Stalingrad consulate office that
described Soviet experiments with psychics who were attempting to
exercise some form of kinetic mind control over objects traveling
through the air, directing them from one spot to another. These
reports, written in the late 1950s, gave General Trudeau a lot of
concern because they showed the Soviets were onto something.

“These fellas don’t waste their time,
Phil, ” the general told me a tone of our morning briefings
after I had dropped off the reports the day before so he could look
them over. “If they’re looking into this stuff,
then they know there’s something there. ”

“You don’t think this report is just a lot
of speculation?” I asked. I knew from the expression on his
face that it was a question I shouldn’t have asked.

“If you thought this was just speculation, Colonel,
” he said very abruptly, “then you
wouldn’t be passing the buck up to me to tell you that.
” General Trudeau had a way of bringing you up short when he
thought you said something stupid. And what I had said was very stupid
for an officer with my training and experience. He also knew I was
worried or else I wouldn’t have tried to back off so quickly.
“You’re right to be worried about this, ”
he said, his tone softening when he saw how I was looking at him.
“You’d be right if you sat in your office and
sweated bullets over what this means. And you know exactly what worries
the both of us. Do I have to say it?”

No, he didn’t. It was obvious. If the Soviets had
gotten their hands on some of the apparatus from any one of the alien
spacecraft that had gone down since 1947 - and I didn’t know
how many there were - they’d have figured out by now that the
aliens had used some form of brain wave control for navigation. How
they directed their thoughts or translated them into an electronic
circuit, we didn’t know. But we knew that there were no
steering wheels or conventional methods of control on the spacecraft,
and the headbands we found with the electronic sensors on them were
designed to pick up some form of signal from the brain. The analysts at
Wright Field believed that the sensors on the headbands corresponded
with points on the multi lobed alien brain that generated low frequency
waves, so the headbands formed an integral part of the circuit. If we
were able to figure that out, the Soviets were certainly, capable of
figuring that out as well. Besides, the general didn’t have
to say it because I thought it: What if the Soviets, all alone in space
the way they were in the early 1960s, had some communication with the
aliens that we didn’t have? Who said the EBEs had to be
anti-Communist anyway?

General Trudeau also shared with me some intelligence reports
that described antimissile missile tests the Soviets had conducted with
very powerful tracking radar. We’d known about their radars
because I’d seen them work during exercises in Germany when
each side would test the other’s responses over the East
German border. Their radars and their ability to lock onto aircraft was
just as good as ours. But what the general showed me were reports that
described the Soviets firing intercept missiles at incoming ICBM
vehicles and exploding the intercept warheads so as to knock out the
navigational systems on the aggressor missiles. One of those test
intercepts had been conducted successfully right through an atomic
cloud on one of the Soviet missile test ranges in Asia. This was
especially disturbing because anyone who knows anything about the
nature of anatomic cloud knows that the electromagnetic pulse
immediately knocks out any form of electronics. That’s also
how we knew what the signatures were of the alien UFOs that buzzed our
ships and bases. So much of our nonhardened power was knocked out by
the pulse that we knew an electromagnetic wave had hit us. So if the
Soviets could harden their antimissile missile guidance system to home
in on a target through an electromagnetically charged atomic cloud,
they were using a technology significantly more advanced than ours, and
it spelled trouble.

“When you were in Germany commanding the Nike
battalion, ” the general asked me, still holding the reports
in his hand, “you experimented with tight evasive maneuvers
in drone target practice, didn’t you?”

The general’s memory served him correctly. Our
antiaircraft battalion deployed the Nike, one of the most advanced
guided antiaircraft missiles of its time. The Nike was a radar guided
missile.

And the Hawk was a heat seeking missile that could be locked
onto its target by tracking radar and then, when launched, would home
in on the target’s heat exhaust. So, even if a pilot tried to
evade the missiles, the fast moving Hawk warheads would catch up to him
and blow off his engine. If it were a tail engine fighter, it would
effectively end his mission and he’d probably have to eject.
If it were a wing engined bomber, then, with one of his wing mounted
engines shot off, the pilot would probably have to turn for home
because he wouldn’t have the power to carry the payload of
bombs to the target.

“When we were shooting at drones in simulated
bombing formation, we scored a perfect shoot down again and again, but
when pilots used extremely fast evasive maneuvers against our missiles,
we couldn’t hit them, ” I said.

“Explain how that worked, ” he asked.

“Nike antiaircraft missiles move like boats on
water, ” I explained. “They cut wide arcs and get
an angle to home in on their targets. Any early evasive maneuvers the
fighter pilot makes, the missile compensates for and stays on course
toward his heat source. But if the pilot is able to evade at the very
last minute of the Nike’s trajectory, the missile will fly
right by and can’t recover. Bomber pilots have to stay in
formation and keep on course if they’re going to hit their
target and have enough fuel to get home, so their evasive patterns are
strictly limited. For fighter pilots, it’s much easier so any
MiG, just like any of our Phantoms, can out maneuver a Nike any day.
”

“So if the Soviets have something that can take out
missile warheads through an atomic cloud and are using devices that may
have come from an alien technology, we have something to worry about,
” the general said.

“We’d have a lot to worry about,
” I agreed. “We have nothing even remotely like
this, except for the laser tracking system, but that’s years
away from any sort of deployment even assuming we can get the President
to ask Congress to give us the money to develop it. ”

General Trudeau slammed his palm on the desk with enough force
to shake the entire office. I’m sure his clerk sitting just
outside thought I was getting bawled out for something, but that was
the general’s way of reinforcing a decision he was making.
“Phil, you are the antimissile missile projects officer for
the time being. I don’t care whatever the hell else you have
to do, you write me up a report on what we discussed here and then put
together a proposal I can use to get us some money to develop this
thing, ” he said. “I know we’re on the
right track, even if we’re in a strange arena. Thought
control, ” he said, speculating about how the power of the
human brain could be harnessed to the navigation of a guided missile.
“Well, if the Russians are looking at it seriously, then
we’d better do the same thing before they blindside us like
the did with Sputnik. ”

“Why me?” I said to myself as I walked
down the stairs to my office. This was like an assignment to write a
term paper when there wasn’t even any research you could use
and still be called sane. I had to write about the hardware and systems
applications of navigational control, not medical or biological
functions per se, but that made it all the more difficult. I remembered
my son telling me that he was able to fix gasoline engines that had
broken down and electrical motors that were no longer putting out power
because he believed the moving parts spoke to him. As way out as I
thought that sounded at the time, walking back to my office now and
thinking about what the Soviets were playing with, maybe my kid
didn’t sound so crazy after all. It was something
I’d have to research.

If the information that Professors Flesch, Franck, and
Castellani conveyed to me back in Rome fifteen years ago had any
validity, then the vague references in the Roswell report that
I’d read probably had validity as well. So I began.

“The references to EBE brain function in the medical
examiner’s reports from Roswell, ” I wrote in my
opening memo to General Trudeau, suggest new avenues of research to us
in the guidance and navigational control of machines. The
electromagnetic integration of the alien brain lobes and the possible
integration with other brain functions including kinesthetic capability
- the ability to move objects - over long distance is startling and
sounds more like science fiction than fact. But if we can establish a
correlation with long, low frequency waves and this electromagnetic
integration, it will be a way to identify a measurable phenomenon with
a process we do not understand. Initially, I recommend we study the
phenomenon in an effort to apply our findings to gathering and utilizing any data we
can develop concerning long, low frequency waves and electromagnetic
integration so as to marry it to our existing guidance and control
hardware systems and create a new state of the art in missile tracking.

A caveat: The Central Intelligence Agency has begun a program
in which they work with “seers, ” as they call
them, parapsychologists who they expect will give them the same
capability as the KGB’s “Psychotronic
Technology” training. Both intelligence agencies are skirting
the edges of our military’s approach and we must be careful
not to let our research fall into their cauldron. We would be
discredited and possibly stopped from proceeding both from efforts from
our own side and from protests by the Soviets should they find out.
Therefore I recommend that the background of our experimentation with
long low frequency brain waves and any source material be completely
expunged along with any historical data relevant to this analysis.

My basis for our proposed antimissile missile was the
Soviets’ own success with controlling the trajectory of an
ICBM warhead in flight and the success they had in targeting incoming
warheads with their own antimissile missile in development.

“In recent months, ” I wrote,

it has come to our attention that the Soviets can change the
trajectory of an ICBM after launch once it is on its way to a target.
In addition, the Soviets have twice tested an antimissile missile fired
through an atomic cloud at an approaching ICBM. Therefore, a technical
proposal must be drawn up as soon as possible for:

1. An antimissile missile that will be able to lock onto an
incoming ICBM and stay locked on through all evasive maneuvers and
destroy it before it reaches its target, and 2. All circuitry must be hardened to withstand radiation,
blast, heat, and electromagnetic pulse from an atomic detonation up to
and including the intensity of the Russian bomb explosion of 60
megatons.

Premise:

Our present antiaircraft missiles centered around the
Nike-Ajax, Nike-Hercules, and the Hawk are not adequate against ICBMs
thus rendering us virtually defenseless against such an attack. Present
systems cannot remain locked onto an incoming ICBM or find the target
to destroy if it changes trajectory, which capability the latest Soviet
test models indicate the enemy may be able to deploy within the decade.
Our spy satellites will be able to locate the Soviet warheads once they
are launched, but the Soviets are also developing the capability to
disable our surveillance satellites either with orbiting nuclear
weapons to destroy them or send them out of orbit. At the very least,
Soviet capability to generate an electromagnetic pulse through a
nuclear detonation in space will render our satellites electronically
blind. Secret intelligence reports confirm that the Soviets have
already disabled two of our satellites and one launched by the British.
We, therefore, have a two fold problem, not only must the antimissile
missile circuitry be hardened but the spy satellite circuitry must also
be hardened from radiation, ion emissions, and ELM pulses. But because
of the nuclear test ban treaty, the United States will not have the
opportunity to run actual tests so we will have to scale our data up
from our existing test results to arrive at figures we can only assume
are accurate.