The Aries Project is a subproject of Pres. Reagan’s SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), also known as the Star Wars Program. It consists of building an electromagnetic pulse generator (or Van de Graaf generator) as a weapon.
Officially the weapon is designed as a protection against incoming missiles. In reality, it is supposed to be a weapon against “IAV’s” (identified aerial vehicles), or “IAC’s” (identified alien craft).
M.W. Cooper mentions a similar project, but calls it the “Joshua project.”
Yet another source calls it the Zeus Project.
“Project ARIES, the Advanced Research Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Simulator Site“, where a two-blocks long device was built for the Defense Nuclear Agency by Edgerton. Germhausen & Greer (EG&G).
EG&G is a shadowy corporation involved (along with Wackenhut Corporation) in security for Areas 51 and S-4, (personal communication with security officers at EG&G and at Wackenhut 03/14/92), Black Budget weapons operations like Project ARIES, and in maintaining various nuclear facilities for the U.S. government (Wildfire, 6:1, Spring, 1992).
The EMP weapon consists of a 1 1/2-block long barrel horizontally supported on a wooden (nonconductive) trestle 25 feet high, connected to a two-story tower building, connected in turn to an immense electrical apparatus with huge arms and massive connecting cables looking like a gigantic Van de Graaf generator. The long-rumored electromagnetic pulse weapon spotted at last! Using fusion power and engineered to 100 trillion volt bursts, it could arguably overpower even the exotic technology of an extraterrestrial UFO.
It is clearly overkill to defeat a mere incoming CIS (formerly, USSR) ballistic missile, for which nuclear-tipped sprint intercept missiles suffice.