The split level, the antigravity system, and the heavy element all described by Bevan eerily mirror the words of Lazar.
Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies
To answer the question of how, precisely, Scotland Yard succeeded in tracking down Matthew Bevan, we have to turn our attention to data that has been secured via the American government’s Freedom of Information Act. The actions of Bevan are known to have been the subject of at least three government reports—namely, “Security and Cyberspace,” written by Dan Gelber and Jim Christy and presented to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations, and two General Accounting Office papers written by Jack Brock that extensively detailed his hacking history.
The Gelber–Christy paper discussed the hacking activities of Bevan in an eight-page appendix titled “The Case Study: Rome Laboratory, Griffiss Air Force Base, NY Intrusion.” The American departments that were involved in tracking Bevan and that were also involved in the investigation to varying degrees were the Defense Information Systems Agency (who were notified once it became apparent that someone had hacked their way into Rome and Wright-Patterson) and a team from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at the Air Force Information Warfare Center in San Antonio, Texas—which was led by an Air Force computer scientist named Kevin Ziese, who provided a deposition to Scotland Yard on Bevan that the world of officialdom steadfastly refuses to place in the public domain.
The break-ins had been traced to a New York City-based Internet provider, Mindvox, and the Air Force was then given permission to monitor all communications on the Rome Labs network. It appears, however, from examining data on the events, that the final and positive identification of Bevan came to the AFIWC via, ironically, a network of informants in the hacking community and not by identifying him directly via his own computer.
On April 14, 1994, American records show, Bevan hacked into the Goddard Space Center system from a server in Latvia and copied data. The Air Force naturally assumed that this was a penetration by an unfriendly nation, using Bevan to do some illegal snooping on its behalf. With hindsight, it seems likely, however, that this was simply Bevan’s way of covering his tracks. On the following day, the AFIWC monitored Bevan entering the systems of the Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, and the countdown to Bevan’s subsequent and inevitable arrest began. The fact that two years went by before any arrest was made is an issue that remains a puzzle to this day, however.
Bevan expanded on what happened next: “When I was arrested, I was taken to Cardiff Central Police Station and stuck in a cell. When I was taken for the interview, I was persuaded not to have a solicitor present, so I cooperated for the first couple of questions like, ‘Did you hack this computer system? Did you hack that computer system?’ Now, bear in mind that at the time I was doing the hacking it was around 1994 or 1995, and it was in 1996 when I was arrested, I honestly couldn’t remember the exact details—mainly because I’d hacked into literally thousands of systems. My answers to the police were quite vague, but it was not due to avoidance.” Then, the police turned their attention to the crux of the matter: that futuristic aircraft that was powered by a superheavy element, just like the one described by Bob Lazar out at Area 51’s S-4.
“For the last two interviews,” said Bevan, “I had a solicitor present and I was asked outright, ‘Did you hack Wright-Patterson Air Force base?’ I said, ‘Well, the password was literally handed to me on a plate.’ They asked me if I saw anything on the Wright-Patterson computers. Did I download anything?
Well, when DS Janes and his colleague, Mark Morris, asked me if I saw anything on the Wright-Pat computers, I said, ‘Yes, an antigravity propulsion system.’ “The conversation then went like this: ‘Did you download any files on the antigravity engine?’ ‘No.’ Are you sure you didn’t download anything?’ ‘Yes, I read everything online.’ ‘So, you didn’t download anything?’ ‘No!’” Bevan recalled: “Janes and Morris were pushing me on this throughout the interviews: the antigravity engine. But, I continued to tell them the same story, which was the truth.
Now, a few months later, there was a hearing at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court [in London, England]. I was out on bail at the time. It turned out that the Americans were now claiming that certain things on the computers I had supposedly hacked had been changed. “My solicitor said, ‘Fine, show us how things were on the system before Matthew got in and show us how he changed them.’ The Americans said ‘No.’ However, at the hearing there was a representative from U.S. Intelligence named Jim Hanson. Basically, he took the stand and said that he was there to represent the U.S. Government.
My defense continued to push for information to back up the claims of the U.S. Government that I had somehow altered their systems, but Hanson would simply refuse to make anything available to us, to the prosecution, or even to the judge. “As the hearing continued, the prosecution asked Hanson what the American Government thought about my motives regarding my hacking at Wright-Patterson. Hanson replied, ‘We now believe that Mr. Bevan had no malicious intentions and that his primary purpose was to uncover information on UFOs.’