Of course, the mysterious helicopters were seen long before the 1990s, something that suggests that the programs operating out of Groom Lake had been going on for decades.
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In February 1995, the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper ran an article titled “Ex-Worker Describes Stealth Copter.” It was written by a journalist named Susan Greene. Commenting on all of this, Keith said: “According to statements of a former worker at Groom Lake Air Force Base, a black budget stealth helicopter was being tested at this facility as early as 1990.
The code name for the helicopter was ‘T.E.K,’ which stood for ‘Test and Evaluation Project K.’” Keith continued as follows: “The former worker at Groom Lake reported that the chopper was olive drab, riveted, and angular, with gull wing doors. An account in the Vegas paper quotes experts as saying, ‘Light, quiet and stealthy helicopters could be used for clandestine Rambo-type missions, quick-in, quick- out assignments without being noticed.’” Of course, the mysterious helicopters were seen long before the 1990s, something that suggests that the programs operating out of Groom Lake had been going on for decades.
In other words, the secrecy surrounding the project suggests that these strange, futuristic aircraft were taking to the skies years before the secrecy was compromised in the nineties. Unfortunately, Keith did not live to pursue this story to its ultimate point. Death stepped in and put a stop to that, permanently so, but that’s a story for later.
Jim Keith may have just stumbled on the tip of the iceberg when it came to the issue of silent and mysterious helicopters. It’s highly possible that such craft were flying as early as the 1960s. One of them might have been test-flown in the skies of England.
According to a batch of files that the United Kingdom’s National Archives declassified a number of years ago, Dame Rebecca West, MBE, was inadvertently plunged into a very strange puzzle in early 1966. Incredibly, she asserted, some sort of unusual aerial object had landed on the grounds of her home, Ibstone House. For its part, the files reveal, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) suggested that West had simply misidentified a helicopter seen under poor conditions (which may well have been the case). Whatever the truth of the matter, West’s odd experience became the subject of a fifteen-page file that attracted the attention of the MoD’s Defense Intelligence staff.
Born in 1892, Rebecca West (the adopted name of Cicily Isabel Fairfield) was the daughter of Charles Fairfield, who was renowned in London society. West took on the name Rebecca at the age of nineteen after Ibsen’s heroine in Rosmersholm. She trained briefly for the stage in London before becoming a noted feminist and journalist. As her career blossomed, West wrote for The Freewoman, The Clarion, and The New Freewoman, and many of her writings from that time were reprinted as The Young Rebecca in 1982.
Her first novel, The Return of the Soldier, was published in 1918 and was followed by The Judge, The Strange Necessity, and Harriet Hume. In 1930, West married Henry Maxwell Andrews, a banker, who was to accompany her on the journey that ultimately led to the publication of her two-volume study of the Yugoslav nation, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
West was present at the Nuremburg trials, and her 1949 book, The Meaning of Treason, largely grew out of articles commissioned by the New Yorker. In 1965, only one year before her curious UFO encounter occurred, West’s The Meaning of Treason was updated with added accounts of what were then more recent scandals (including those of John Vassall, a spy in the Admiralty sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment, and Stephen Ward, a player in the Profumo case).
How did Dame Rebecca West become embroiled in the UFO controversy, though? As the old documentation at the United Kingdom’s National Archives reveals, it was at 2:45 P.M. on January 7, 1966, when West was out walking on the grounds of her home. “As I was going down the steep hill to the farm buildings I noticed a man walking on my property at some distance to the right of the path I was following,” she wrote to the MoD. “Presently, he reached a point when the wood stopped and there is a hedge which runs down to the valley along a sharp ridge. There is a gap in the hedge and the man stopped just past this and turned around, facing in the reverse direction, and stood still.”