Only once did I get a chance to see the whole base, and that was when I
was flown up from Nellis, in a helicopter to Groom, for emergency repairs
of their crypto test equipment.
For those stationed at Groom, or commuting there daily, the flight
schedules are posted for classified flights. Everyone not cleared for that
particular program and flight, must be off the ramp and inside 30 minutes
prior to the scheduled operation.
A couple of thousand personnel are flown into Area 51 daily, from
McCarrin Air Port in Las Vegas and from Edwards AFB in California, on
contractor aircraft. Several hundred commute from Tonapah and Central
Nevada via the North entrance near Rachel Nevada. Other commuters use the
South entrance via Mercury or Indian Springs, which is West of LV.
All the Top Secret aircraft that flew out of Groom were transferred and
dispersed to other bases by December 1993. Still Top Secret Research and
Development takes place there, at Papoose Lake facilities to the South, and
at other facilities within the Nellis Range and the Nevada Test Site.
While at Groom I made contacts and met people from other programs. Over
time, a few became friends and we exchanged stories.
On my 3rd day on the job at Groom, I had to remove a module from a
multi-bay piece of satellite communications equipment, used to support
certain special mission aircraft. I noticed while inside the bay checking
out the wiring, that it contained a sealed unit about the size of a large
brief-case. It had a National Security Agency ID Plate on it.
The nomenclature on the name plate was; Direct Orbital Code Link. I
thought this was strange, as the unit was part of a digital communications
link, used solely to communicate with classified Air Force vehicles. I was
unaware at the time of any military orbital missions not related to NASA.
Remember, this was in the late 70s. The shuttle didn’t fly until 1981.
I disconnected the unit and, out of curiosity, I removed the rear
access cover. To my amazement, there were some half-dozen large hybrid
integrated circuit chips inside. The largest chip had over 500 hair-thin
leads attached and was approximately the size of a Zippo lighter. The paper
inspection stamp on the chip was dated 1975.
In 1975 the most advanced processor speeds, on the most classified
projects were equivalent to a IBM 8088 which ran at 4 million cycles per
seconds. This unit had a processor speed of 1 billion cycles per second.
It wasn’t until more than a dozen years had passed before I saw comparable
technology with integrated circuit chips. Then it was at a Top Secret
avionics development project at ITT.
In the mess hall at Groom, I heard words like Lorents Forces, pulse
detonation, cyclotron radiation, quantum flux transduction field
generators, quasi crystal energy lens, and EPR quantum receivers.
I wrote down everything I saw, heard, and touched in my log every night
before going to bed. By the way, the food at the Groom Mess hall was
excellent. But what would you expect. There was no cable, no alcohol, and
no women. I guess they figured they’d better do something right.
Later, while back at the base, my routine went on as normal, as did my
part time job that summer at the Silver Dollar Salon. My NSA friend,
Jerald, who investigated and “watched” those with highly classified jobs at
the Nevada Test Site and the Nellis Range, happened to show up. He was
checking up on a guy who had a drinking problem, who worked at the Nevada
Test Site, where they set off underground atomic explosions.
* * SLIDE 49: B-52 bomber landing
He happened to mention a vehicle that could be boosted into orbit, and
return and land in the Nevada desert.
It was an unmanned reconnaissance vehicle which took off from a B-52
bomber and used booster rockets to place it in temporary low earth orbit
for the purpose of taking reconnaissance pictures.
I thought he was feeding me a line of bull. Then he said,
* * SLIDES: 50/51/52: Virtual Reality Lab pictures.
“This vehicle is remotely piloted and communications are made via the
DOCiLe system at Groom.” I’m not usually too slow, but it didn’t hit
meuntil he repeated, “you know, the Direct Orbital Communications Link —
D. O. C. L.” Bingo, the light-bulb went on. I had seen a piece of the
DOCiLe equipment at Groom. The NSA unit with the large chips.
These are old pictures of the Virtual Reality Lab at Brooks Air Force
Base where the software to remotely fly exotic aircraft was developed. Let
Me Get Back To The Development of Alien Rapture – The Chosen.
After I agreed to write my co-conspirator’s story, I talked to several
military Judge Advocate General (JAG) Lawyers. I told the lawyers that I
wanted to write about some of my experiences in the military and had been
on many classified projects. I was told that I had to write my-story as
fiction, which I have.
I was told that I couldn’t name any real individuals with clearances or
covers, or use their working names. Which I haven’t. I was also told that
I couldn’t discuss any secrets of programs that I had been personally
assigned to. Which I have not done. Then, I was told as long as I did
that, I could damn well write anything I wanted to.
Of course, I didn’t tell them I was going to write about the government
conspiracy to cover-up UFO contact and the reverse engineering of alien
technology. Or, that I was interviewing pilots who had flown classified
air craft.