Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies
Who could have the ability, manpower, and secrecy levels to wipe out some of the world’s leading scientists and technicians, many working on President Reagan’s Star Wars program? To many, it might sound like the ultimate plotline of the equally ultimate conspiracy thriller: dozens of scientists and technicians—all working on highly classified programs and all linked to one particular company—dead under highly controversial and unusual circumstances.
It’s a controversy that ran from the early 1980s to 1991 and remains unresolved to this very day. It all revolves around the top-secret work of a company called Marconi Electronic Systems but which today exists as a part of BAE Systems Electronics Limited. Its work includes the development of futuristic weaponry and spy satellite technology.
It was in March 1982 that Professor Keith Bowden, whose computer expertise made him a valuable employee of Marconi, lost his life in a car accident. His vehicle left a three-lane highway at high speed and slammed into a railway line. Death was instantaneous. In March 1985, Roger Hill, a draughts- man with Marconi, died of a shotgun blast. His death was deemed a suicide.
Just months later, the body of Jonathan Wash, an employee of a department within British Telecom that had extensive links to Marconi, was found on the sidewalk of an Ivory Coast, West Africa, hotel. Wash fatally fell, or was pushed, from the balcony of his room. The fact that Wash had told friends and family that he believed that someone was watching and following him, and the fact that he suspected his life that was in danger, added to the suspicions that his death was not due to accident or suicide.
As 1985 became 1986, the death toll increased dramatically. On August 4, 1986, a highly regarded young man named Vimal Bhagvangi Dajibhai jumped from England’s Clifton Suspension Bridge into the deep waters below. He did not survive the fall. Dajibhai held a secret clearance with Marconi Underwater Systems, a subsidiary of the main company.
Only around eight weeks later, one of the grisliest of all the Marconi scientist deaths occurred. The victim was a computer programmer, Arshad Sharif. Such was the terrible and bizarre nature of Sharif’s death that it even made the news thousands of miles away in the United States. The Los Angeles Times reported that Sharif “died in macabre circumstances … when he apparently tied one end of a rope around a tree and the other around his neck, then got into his car and stepped on the accelerator. An inquest ruled suicide.”