As I got further and further into the system, it became clear that I could eventually have had access to the missiles themselves.”
The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies: Area 51
“Well, you get into the front line computers, and once you’re into those, you can then begin to worm your way into their inner network. This is why the authorities and agencies always put out a statement saying that there is no classified material on the stuff they put on the Net. That’s true; but they are connected to the classified network as well. Before we come to UFOs, one of the most interesting places I got into was called FLEX—Force Level Execution.
This was at Rome Laboratories at Griffiss Air Force Base in New York. The official Air Force line was that this was a program designed to plan a U.S. military strike in the event of a war. But there was far more to it than that. “As I got further and further into the system, it became clear that I could eventually have had access to the missiles themselves. This system was controlled by the Department of Defense and wasn’t public knowledge at the time—they were actually still putting the finishing touches to it when I got in.
Now, if you can get into the system and get the same access level as the administrator, you can change and delete anything you want. Well, if somewhere along the line you can change the controlling program, then you can gain access to those missiles. It wasn’t a case of having a red button on my keyboard; but, effectively, if I had spent a few days working on something and then pressed Enter, there is a potential for doing something like launching a missile. “I began looking at all these files and accounts to see if there was a common thread. Well, there was the Roswell story, this craft which crashed and which was taken to Wright-Patterson. You had the Stealth aircraft being tested by various defense contractors, and you had Area 51, where some of these contractors operated from and where it was also alleged that the U.S.
Government was storing crashed UFOs. So, I was really picking out terms and places in all these stories that seemed important, and I began to see if I could hack the relevant systems. “Wright-Patterson was a very, very easy computer system to get into. There was one account on one machine that was not even passworded. Once you’re into the system and you’ve taken it over, you have control over all the files on that system.
There are special files on the system for peoples’ mail accounts; you can read anybody’s email and look at their work. In a lot of these establishments, you have people who are working on various projects, and in each of their directories they will have files regarding what they’re working on or developing and there is generally a flow of email between people which you can access. “Now, on one particular system that I got into, there was this flow of email back and forth in which there was a discussion about some sort of radical engine that was being developed—people were discussing it in a normal work-type environment.
They were talking about this engine and I recall one guy mentioned that: ‘We’ve managed to sustain Mach 15 and this thing is super-fast [which is approximately 11,500 miles per hour].’ “This was part of a discussion that was taking place between people at Wright-Patterson and there were explicit drawings, diagrams and so on, too. The files clearly referred to a working prototype of an antigravity vehicle that utilized a heavy element to power it [italics mine]. This wasn’t a normal aircraft: it was very small, split level, with a reactor at the bottom and room for the crew at the top.”
This all sounds very much like what Bob Lazar had been talking about with George Knapp a handful of years earlier. The split level, the antigravity system, and the heavy element all described by Bevan eerily mirror the words of Lazar.
For Bevan, this was a breakthrough of major proportions: in his mind, he now had vindication for the rumors coming out of Area 51 and S-4. Bevan congratulated himself on his skills. He should not have been quite so hasty, though.
Come 1996, Bevan had left school and was then working at Admiral Insurance in Cardiff, Wales. On one particular day, Bevan’s world came crashing down around him. He revealed what happened to him next: “It was a normal day and one of the finance managers called down and spoke to someone else about me, asked if I was there and what I was doing. Well, he got off the phone and I thought I was in trouble, but he just said, ‘Can you come and have a look at the managing director’s computer. No problem, I thought. I trundled off with him to the M.D.’s office. But, when we entered the room, all the blinds were down.
“I looked around the room and there were seven or eight people in the room, all men. There was our finance manager and one of the other managers, but there were five or six people who identified themselves as being from the local police and from Scotland Yard. One of them outstretched his hand and I shook it. ‘Matthew Bevan?’ he said. ‘Yes,’ I replied. ‘My name is Detective Sergeant Simon Janes of Scotland Yard’s Computer Crimes Unit and I’m placing you under arrest for hacking NASA, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and Lockheed.’” Bevan was now in deep, deep water.