Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies
In March 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced his plans to create a futuristic defense system designed to ensure that the Western world remained free of nuclear attack by the Soviets. While the Strategic Defense Initiative was its official title, the project is far better known by its nickname: Star Wars. The idea, which finally got off the ground in 1984, was a decidedly far-reaching and alternative one.
Essentially, the plan involved deploying powerful, laser-based weapons into the Earth’s orbit that, in essence, would provide a collective shield that could skillfully and decisively destroy any incoming Soviet or Chinese nuclear weapons. The program was not just ambitious, it finally proved to be overly ambitious. Ultimately, the Strategic Defense Initiative program collapsed under its own weight and a lack of adequate technology to allow it to work in the fashion that Reagan had enthusiastically envisaged. Nevertheless, it wasn’t entirely abandoned; during the Clinton administration, it became the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and is today known as the Missile Defense Agency.
Although the MDA is a vital component of America’s defense and security, it’s a far cry from the Star Wars-like SDI-based imagery of hundreds of laser-firing weapon systems positioned high above the United States, but in its very earliest years, the SDI was seen as a winner by many.
Was it really the Soviets that Reagan was worried about, though? Ever since the SDI program was announced, rumors have circulated to the effect that it was a far stranger enemy that was plaguing the mind of the president, an enemy that wasn’t even human or fully understood in terms of its origins and motivations. The SDI, the theory goes, planned to take on not an internal threat but an external one: an evil, extraterrestrial empire, no less.
It’s intriguing to note that, according to Bob Lazar, massive amounts of funding that should have gone to the SDI were actually secretly siphoned off to the UFO programs at Area 51. In other words, Congress had no knowledge of the fact that the money had been allocated elsewhere. It would have been the perfect way to provide the staff at Area 51’s S-4 with huge funding, but no one would ever know, without even any kind of congressional oversight.
Not even the president would have any knowledge of what was going on. Of equal interest are two additional UFO–Star Wars connections: (a) President Reagan, at the height of his promotion of the Star Wars proposals, was also pushing stories about hostile aliens, as we shall soon see; and (b) Edward Teller, who, in almost single-handed fashion got Bob Lazar his job at Area 51, was tied not just to Star Wars but also to the investigation of the UFO phenomenon—which we will also see. We’ll begin with Teller.
As far back as the late 1940s, Edward Teller was deeply plugged into the secret world of UFOs. It all revolved around a classified program code-named Project Twinkle. During the latter part of the 1940s, a curious phenomenon was repeatedly seen in the skies over New Mexico: strange, green, glowing balls of light that seemed to take a great deal of interest in the various military and defense establishments that existed in the area at the time. On May 25, 1950, Lt. Col. Doyle Rees of the USAF Office of Special Investigations wrote a confidential memo to Brigadier General Joseph F. Carroll, the director of special investigations.
In part, it stated: “In a liaison meeting with other military and government intelligence and investigative agencies in December 1948, it was determined that the frequency of unexplained aerial phenomena in the New Mexico area was such that an organized plan of reporting these observations should be undertaken. The organization and physical location of units of this District were most suitable for collecting these data, therefore, since December 1948, this District has assumed the responsibility for collecting and reporting basic information with respect to aerial phenomena in this general area.”
The “aerial phenomena” to which Lieutenant Colonel Rees referred to fell into three clearly definable categories: (a) “green fireball phenomena”; (b) “disc or variation”; and (c) “probably meteoric.” It is category “a” that I am focusing on here. Rees continued to Carroll: “There is attached an analysis of the green fireball occurrences in this area made by Dr. Lincoln La Paz. Dr. La Paz is the Director of the Institute of Meteoritics and Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of New Mexico.…” Rees added that on February 17 and October 14, 1949, conferences were convened in Los Alamos, New Mexico, to discuss the green fireball phenomenon.
In attendance were representatives of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, the Air Materiel Command, and the FBI. On the matter of the FBI, a document prepared by the staff at the San Antonio, Texas, office of the FBI—on January 31, 1949—included the following on the green fireballs, the “discs” and the meteoric phenomena: “This matter,” the FBI recorded, “is considered top secret by intelligence Officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.” Also on January 31, the FBI said: “There have been daytime sightings which are tentatively considered to possibly resemble the exhaust of some type of jet-propelled object. Night-time sightings have taken the form of lights usually described as brilliant green, similar to a green traffic signal or green neon light.… Recent observations have indicated that the unidentified phenomena travel at a rate of speed estimated at a minimum of three miles per second and a maximum of twelve miles per second, or 27,000 miles an hour.
Their reported course indicates that they travel on an East-West line with probability that they approach from the Northern Quadrant, which would be the last stage of the great circle route if they originated in Russia.” All of this most definitely raised more than a few eyebrows within the U.S. military. The outcome was that a program was established to specifically study the matter of the green fireballs. It was known as Project Twinkle. The FBI had more to say in 1949: “The only conclusions reached thus far are that they are either hitherto unobserved natural phenomena or that they are manmade. No scientific experiments are known to exist in this country which could give rise to such phenomena.”