Transcript
of V.L.'s Custer, South Dakota Meeting in August, 1995. This
is a transcript from a tape of a talk that he gave regarding
his 12 years at Area 51. V.L. is an upstanding citizen, a gentleman
and speaks the truth, this we assure you.
I spent from June of 1965 to August of 1977 directly on the
Nevada Test Site, worked there full time. I was Radiation -
Health and Safety. Most of the time I worked there, I either
worked for Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Lawrence Radiation
Laboratory out of Livermore, Berkeley rather, California or
Sandia Corporation out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. All those
testing laboratories have since changed their names. Lawrence
Radiation Laboratory is now the Lawrence National Laboratory,
they don't use the word radiation. In my job we had
responsibility for and access to all of the areas of the Nevada
Test Site which encompasses about 1800 square miles. It begins
north of Las Vegas at Indian Springs where the bombing and gunnery
range starts and goes all the way to Beatty, Nevada. It's
an area that has armed guards around it, surveillance devices,
it's a restricted air space, you can't fly over
it. If you're caught on it, things happen to you. I
had a top secret clearance and I think there probably wasn't
a square mile of that test site that I haven't been
on or seen, part of which is Area 51. One of the things I'd
like to tell you folks right now is that there's certain
things that I cannot and will not talk about. When you quit
out there, quitting what used to be the Atomic Energy Commission,
it's now the Department of Energy, it's kind
of like quitting the Central Intelligence Agency. You never
quit. They never let loose of you.
There are certain things that I saw and was part of that I
will take to the grave with me without talking about. However,
there are a lot of things that I can talk about. And I think
the news media has titillated public interest in a very dishonest
way because 95% of what's at Area 51 is totally uninteresting,
it's very mundane. The Federal Government tests aircraft
at Area 51 that they want to keep secret. To give you an example,
when I was out there, during the later years I was out there,
they tested the stealth fighter and the stealth bomber, the
Blackbird, SR-71 flew in and out of there on a weekly basis.
The reason the government uses Area 51 is because it has a 10
mile long runway, absolute secrecy, you can't see anything
that's worth seeing from the air or the ground. And
that hill that sits away from Area 51 where everybody goes up
and looks, all they can see... we used to sit there and look
back at people and do this (wave) because all you can see is
administration buildings. That's all you can see. The
government knows that people are out there looking into the
area and because of that a deliberate effort has been made that
there's absolutely nothing to see right there. Now if
you go a few miles north, there's a lot of things that
people might want to see but never will.
The Dept. of Energy now has yearly tours on the test sight,
once a year the families of employees, that belong to certain
classifications of workers, are allowed to take bus tours through
part of the test site. It's a very small area that they
let people see, it's Frenchman Flat, the flat where
the old air bursts, where atmospheric tests were performed.
But you can't get within 40 miles of Area 51. As I told
Paul Strassels on the radio the other day, there were things
I saw and have seen in Area 51 that would make one wonder where
they came from. I've also seen things out there that
violate most of the laws of physics. My degree is in physics,
and we , on a routine basis, used to observe... because we worked
at night, it was a 24 hour a day, 365 days a year operation
out there. And I worked all three shifts, graveyard, swing and
days. I worked at night a lot out there. I've seen things
that most aircraft or no aircraft that I know of could do, do.
So the news reports that you hear are accurate to the extent
that someone is testing either weapons or various vehicles that
go through the atmosphere that use technology that we're
not really in possession of. Now, if that sounds a bit odd,
I would say this. The Federal Government is afraid. . . . in
fact we had a whole division of public relations people to feed
the public information that was cleansed. The Federal Government
is afraid that if the population of the United States knew some
of the things that we have done and have seen and have found,
people would panic. And that's all I can say about that.
The other thing is that while we were testing nuclear weapons
out there, the last year I was out there, the last full year
I was out there, in '76, we had 53 or 54 underground
nuclear weapons tests. We announced 2 of them to the public.
The reason for that was strictly political.
There was a ground swell movement to eliminate nuclear weapons
testing, the government didn't want people thinking
they were hopelessly contaminating part of Nevada for all times,
which they have, it's too late now, it poses no real
threat to us, anyway. So they didn't announce those
things. I use that as an example of part of which isn't
told to the public. There was nuclear weapons testing I was
involved in, I should hasten to say that most of that was stockpile
testing. We would take a nuclear device out of stock pile and
test it, see if it worked. It's as simple as that. Nuclear
weapons tend to deteriorate when they sit around for periods
of time. Degrade is the term. We haven't tested at the
test site now since 1992. Probably never will again. There's
a massive clean-up effort out there, that will take a long time.
As far as Area 51 goes, I have a lot of friends that work at
the test site, still. Area 51 is the most secured area in the
United States. Area 51 happens to sit in a place where, as I
said, security has to be absolutely tight because it's
nothing but desert, government public lands, it's secured
public land. A lot of what goes on in Area 51 goes on at night
so the Russian satellites can't see what's going
on. That's why people from time to time see things.
It's a fascinating place. If any of you have questions
of me I'll either answer them or I won't but
I'll tell you up front whether I can tell you about
it or not. I saw some things in Area 51 that, objects, that
were strange, didn't seem to be something that, at the
time, we had the capability of manufacturing. I don't
know where they came from, I don't know much about them.
But I saw what I saw with my eyes. I did ask, on 2 separate
occasions, one of caretakers, that's what we called
them, and I was told the first time - don't ask. Now,
remember, I had to have a Top Secret clearance, I had a "need
to know". Our group, 80 of us, could go anywhere. We could
ask any questions because of what we did. But that was one subject
that I was told, don't ask. The second time I asked,
I was warned that if I asked again, some rather dire things
might happen. So I never asked again. I'm familiar with
the Roswell incident in 1947 in New Mexico. I have every reason
to believe that the Federal Government found something there.
I have every reason to believe the Federal Government will never
tell what they found there. We have so much paranoia of humans,
anyway, if there was any leak that some sort of life form had
visited this planet, the Federal Government is convinced that
people would panic and that anarchy might prevail for awhile.
That's about all I can say.
The government is telling people that they're dismantling
Area 51. I always found that curious because there's
actually nothing to dismantle out there. Everything that's
out there has been brought there from somewhere else. Right
next to Area 51 is the Nellis/Indian Springs AFB bombing and
gunnery range and that's where all the armored experiments
go on. So it's all kind of part of the same area. There
were no nuclear weapons tests that were performed in Area 51.
That's an area that has been kept pristine, for very
good reasons, mostly the other different parts of the test site
have starting with Area 1 and ending with Area 26. Every area
out there is numbered. Area 51 somehow got a designation of
51. There is no 27 through 50. But somebody decided to do that,
it's just like all of our nuclear weapons, they all
have names. Every one had a name. That name was a code as to
what size it was. The largest, I can say this without fear,
the largest underground weapon I ever participated in was a
five and a half megaton device, buried 5500 hundred feet below
the desert floor, that we set off. That's equivalent
of 5 and a half million tons of TNT. And that was the biggest
device ever exploded in the United States. A larger device than
that exploded underneath Amchitka Island in Alaska some years
later. There was a nuclear device set off in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
I don't know how many of you people knew that, that
was done in the 60's. We've had a number of
accidents out at the test site the public never knew about.
I'm not really at liberty to talk about that except
it may be interesting for you to know that I now live in South
Dakota, I don't live in Nevada anymore. And I will never
live in Nevada. I personally have 2 body burdens of plutonium
39 in me and if I live long enough and become old enough, I
will die of bone cancer. But I'm not worried about that
because I knew what the risk was when I got into the business.
A lot of the friends and people I worked with are dead now.
It's a very risky, it's a very high hazardous
job. Nuclear weapons are something that are, well, there are
so many of them that... the hazard that a nuclear weaponry poses
isn't blasting people off the face of the earth. We
could have a war with Russia and they could have one with us
and China and everybody could get involved in it, it still wouldn't
wipe out the human race. The problem comes after the bomb goes
off because of what's called fission products. And that's
the contamination that ensues. It's getting to be a
real big problem because of the reactors. The fire reactors
create fission products and debris that we're having
a hard time figuring out what to do with. Probably most of that
debris and waste will end up at the Nevada test site and that
will be an area that for thousands and hundreds of thousands
of years, no one will never be able to live there or, it will
be a closed area. We're developing the technology now,
and I don't mind talking about it because Popular Science
came awfully close to the truth here a few months ago in one
of their issues and I don't think they even knew it.
The Air Force in cooperation with the Department of Defense
is developing an aircraft now that will go in speeds in excess
of speeds of 10,000 mph which is almost fast enough to achieve
orbit without boosters. And that is a nuclear powered thrust
system. Whether or not that will ever become public or not,
it's hard to tell, because nuclear engines are very
dirty - very dirty.
The only other things I can tell you about Area 51 is that
there will never, in our life times, be any information let
out about some of the things that are out there. I will say
that it has become a storage area for oddities. That's
where, other than Kirkland Air Force Base, the Roswell debris
was supposedly taken. All I can say is sometime, during my tenure
at the Nevada Test Site, there was debris from Roswell, New
Mexico stored away at Area 51. I was lucky enough or unlucky
enough to see some of it. I don't take any pleasure
in that knowledge because it puts a constrain on me I don't
like to have.
Question: Could you describe what you saw concerning the Roswell
debris?
Answer: No. I'll tell you why, folks. I don't
know if any of you have been to Leavenworth, Kansas or not but
that's where the federal prison is. It's hot,
it's humid and I have no desire whatsoever to go. I
still have a real, legitimate respect for the Department of
Defense security. When you leave out there they debrief you.
And the debriefing lasted quite a few hours, the better part
of a day and the bottom line was - don't talk or else.
That was the bottom line. And they gave you a list of things
not to talk about. I have not violated any of those this afternoon.
Since I left out there, I don't believe I ever have.
I'm very careful about it.
Question: I lived near an Air Force base and I used to see
unusual things flying about. Are these things terrestrial or
extraterrestrial?
Answer: Well, a group of fellows and I were on our way to work
one night to the test site. We saw something that to this day.....this
was an aircraft of some sort, aircraft being defined as an object
in the atmosphere that is moving around. There were 6 of us,
we were all trained observers, we were not the type of people
who see things go bump in the night, I'm pretty skeptical
about things, generally. That aircraft that we saw land, which
was next to the test site, did some things that with the technology
we had then and probably with the technology we have now, were
impossible to do. We saw it, I saw it, the 5 other fellows with
me, we stopped the car and got out and watched it for 15-20
minutes. I have no idea what it was. I had access to and was
privy to a lot of classified information, for instance, the
SR-71 was a common place aircraft to us and yet the general
public knew nothing about it. But it came in and went and it
made a lot of noise, that's the only thing I didn't
like about it. It came in hot and it left hot. It came in over
the speed of sound and it left at the speed of sound. So it
was always making this horrible noise. That was a very common
thing to see. Some of the other things I saw were uncommon.
Question: Who's the boss, how did you get hired?
Answer: That was a mundane process. I went out there....
Question: Was it the Department of Defense?
Answer: At the time it was the Atomic Energy Commission when
I was hired. And then it became the Energy Research and Development
Administration and then it became Department of Energy, the
government keeps changing the name. I was there during the visit
of two presidents of the United States, Lyndon Johnson was one
of them, Gerald Ford was the other one. Neither one of them
were shown certain things. The President does not have Top Secret
Clearance.
Question: Do you agree or disagree with that?
Answer: That's a tough one. We live in a republic,
a democratic republic, supposedly. I don't trust most
politicians, however, not because they're dishonest,
necessarily. Nuclear weapons are a very terrible thing. I'm
ambivalent about it. I don't know. The time when Lyndon
Johnson came out there we tracked him through an area that was
hot, none of us had anti-contamination clothing on, we had no
instruments, we were dressed just like this, we let him walk
through a contaminated area because it wasn't supposed
to be contaminated. That's all I can say about that.
Question: These things you can't talk about, in your
opinion, do you feel it would cause mass hysteria? You seem
calm.
Answer: No, it doesn't bother me, I have this belief.
We have already been to the moon, okay? Big deal. It's
not going to be too many more years until humans will be to
Mars and beyond. It's a matter of propulsion systems,
it's a matter of getting people to the point where they
can live in space for long periods of time, either suspended
animation or whatever, so they don't come apart, mentally
or physically. We have the technology to literally explore the
solar system right now, the planets that are in the vicinity
of us. And so it's not a big thing. It doesn't
take much of a leap, quantum physics tells you accurately that
the speed of light is not a speed which beyond it you cannot
go. That old theory is gone. Quantum physics says that you may
go faster than the speed of light. If that's true, which
it is, then travel to the nearest stars is possible. If we,
who are barely out of the primeval mud as beings can do this,
it doesn't take much, it's very logical to assume
that there are other life forms out there somewhere. We're
not unique. Good Lord, if we are, it's not much of a
testimony is it? There are other life forms, certainly....nothing
that I saw surprised me. What surprises me is the government's
paranoia about what the government knows. Consider the fact
that the Federal Government won't even tell you the
truth about the budget process let alone anything else.
Question: There are some who believe we are already on Mars.
Answer: Well, I don't think so.
Question: Go back to the question who's the boss.
Answer: Well, during the time I was out there, one of the bosses
was Edward Teller. Edward Teller is the father of the hydrogen
bomb. He worked for Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, he's
still alive and he's as close to being a "god"
in the scientific community and the nuclear weapons community
as anybody on this earth. Edward Teller was held in far higher
esteem than the President or anybody else. Might be interesting
to note and this is not classified, during the time I was out
there, the Soviet Union had an exchange program with us. It
was not unusual to see Soviet scientists out at the test site
on a regular basis. We shared a lot of information with them.
I came to the conclusion, having talked to a lot of them over
the years, that they were really not our enemies anywhere near
to what the politicians wanted you to believe they were. We
showed them... I showed them things that I couldn't
believe we were showing people from the Soviet Union. And I
asked about that and was told that we had an exchange program
and they were able to see things and become aware of things
that I certainly wouldn't have shown them.
Question: Did they see certain things that you couldn't
see?
Answer: No, they couldn't go to Area 51.
Question: Why were we told they were so bad?
Answer: It's always helpful to a nation to have an
enemy.
Question: Between Teller and Oppenheimer, what's your
opinion about Oppenheimer......
Answer: Openheimer was railroaded, he was ruined because of
the paranoia that was going on during that time. Robert Oppenheimer
to me was a hero in the scientific community and the man's
life was ruined because of paranoia.
Question: Teller was kind of a political puppet.
Answer: Edward Teller was the kind of man that would have been
loyal to Adolph Hitler or to whoever was the boss, so to speak.
I didn't like the man, I still don't like the
man. He's arrogant, he was totally unsympathetic to
radiation health and safety, he was totally unsympathetic to
people's lives and he still is.
Question: I was noticing your medical ID bracelet, is that
related to your work?
Answer: I have MS, I also have degeneration of the retina.
It's probably... the exposure I got, the radioisotopes
I have in me, it's very probable that my medical conditions
are because of what I did. But I want to add, I knew what I
was doing, I was paid very well for it and I have no regrets.
Question: This is a stupid question but when they exploded
that 5 and a half million ton bomb underground, didn't
that make a tremendous noise?
Answer: That was called Box Car, the name of that device was
called Box Car. I don't know how they name those things,
they all have these strange names. I was on that test. I was
assigned to it. When Box Car was detonated, it was 5500 feet
under the surface, 5 and a half million tons of TNT equivalent,
a device the size of...that log right there. Maybe a little
shorter. Ground zero lifted 400 feet for a half a mile radius
straight up in the air. And then came back down. What happened
then underground would be, small or large, is a cavern is created
at the point where the weapon was detonated, of various sizes
depending on the size of the weapon. And then the ground starts
to slough in all the way to the top - sometimes. Box Car didn't
because it was too deep, and you have a crater on top. If you
were to fly over the Nevada Test Site, it looks just exactly
like the moon. Precisely like the surface of the moon. There's
hundreds of craters. To give you an example, one device that
was set off right after I got out there, in 1966, actually came
out of the ground, on purpose. 6.9 million cubic yards of dirt
came out of the ground, created a crater, in less than 2 seconds.
That's a crater a quarter of a mile across and 500 feet
deep.
Question: (Unintelligible).
Answer: Yes, that's Hattiesburg, Miss. At one point
we had a project out there called Operation Plow Share. Operation
Plow Share was designed to create weapons that were capable
digging another canal across the isthmus of Panama. So we dug
a canal out at the test site. It's about a mile long,
a hundred yards wide and it's probably 400 feet deep.
We used 5 nuclear weapons buried at shallow depths to create
this ditch, instant ditch, that's what we used to call
it. It was Operation Buggy. And not surprisingly, the people
of Panama took exception to us wanting to do that so we never
did it. But we tested it. That was very popular in the 60's,
we thought we could use nuclear weapons to do industrial things.
But we never could get them clean enough, we got them pretty
clean but not clean enough. The clean weapon is a neutron bomb.
The neutron bomb could be set off up here, 3-4 thousand feet
up, we'd all die, the grass is OK, the trees are OK,
the cars are OK but we are water bearing creatures and we would
absorb so many neutrons that we'd be dead, instantly.
The neutron bomb is in place, most of our intercontinental ballistic
missiles have neutron bombs. While I was at the test site, Jimmy
Carter promised us that... now I happen to be a registered democrat,
so I'm not beating up on a democrat here, Jimmy Carter
promised during the campaign of '76 that if elected
President he would never, ever test the neutron bomb or deploy
it. What the American people didn't know was that we'd
already tested it. And right after he became President, in the next 4 years, we deployed it all over the world. There's
no reason to lie to people about that because the neutron bomb,
if you have to have a bomb, it's a clean bomb. It doesn't
contaminate, hardly at all, it's a very efficient killing
machine, yet the Federal Government chose to lie about it. I
don't know why.
Question: Can you tell us how the chain of command goes? I
mean if it's not the president who...
Answer: National Security Council, indirectly. The National
Security Council includes both the civilian and the military,
the National Security Council includes the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
We've come very close folks, a couple of times, to having
a military takeover in this country and I'm not one
of those people who goes around saying these things but that's
just a fact. The last one was when Clinton got elected, we almost
had a military takeover. The test site was locked down, that's
a term they use, before we had a test they'd lock the
site down. You couldn't go anywhere, for like 2-3 days.
And if you were on the test you were locked within a lock down
area. After Clinton was elected president that November, the
test site was locked down and stayed locked down for 3 or 4
weeks. There was no testing going on. There was some concern
about the transference of power during that time from the election
to January 27 or whenever it was, January 20th, the inauguration
took place. There's been some pretty scary things happen.
The only reason I knew about it is I worked out there. There
would be times when we'd be put on alert, security alert,
for reasons that were beyond me. There were times when things
went the other way. Before we set Box Car off, I called home
that morning and told my wife to put a bowl of water on the
kitchen table, now this was 160 miles away, I lived in Las Vegas.
I said watch it, zero time is at 5 o'clock. I called
from the test site, everyone in Vegas knew, they stopped gambling
during that time because of the roll of the dice. Vegas shut
the casinos down for a few minutes, just the big ones. Box Car
was so big, they had to say something about it, so at zero time,
after to detonation, about a minute to 2 minutes later, my wife
said that bowl of water sitting on the table splashed over and
it actually did fall off the table. And that was 160 miles away
as a crow flies.
Question: (Unintelligible)
Answer: Everything that goes on at the Nevada Test Site is
on a "need to know" basis. There are 3 words that
you will hear over and over, every single working day you're
out there, everything is on a "need to know". I was
going to bring my security badge with me and I forgot it, I
still have it. I had a top secret clearance with sigma's
on it. These sigma's denoted what informational areas
I was privy to and one of those areas was Area 51. I got it
as a souvenir when I left, I talked the security people into
letting me have it. There are all kinds of people in government
that do not have the "need to know" of what's
going on out there, or at least parts of what's going
on out there. And they're not told. And that includes
the President.
The problem right now in this country is that we don't
have an enemy anymore, I only say that half facetiously, we'll
create one, one of these days.
Question: I was wondering about your remarks about Clinton,
the National Security Council intelligence arm must be pretty
poor if they were concerned about the transfer of power to a
man like Clinton who has become such a puppet, it just doesn't
add up some how.
Answer: I don't mean to sound sarcastic but the term
military intelligence is an oxymoron.
Question: (Something about propulsion systems, mostly unintelligible.)
Answer: I can say this, anti-gravity devices exist, where they
came from, that's another matter of speculation. They're
unwillingness to talk about things like that within the government
stems partly from human nature. If you're privy to some
information that you hold dear, regardless of what it is, we're
reluctant to share it with other people. That's part
of the problem. The other part of the problem is holding on
to the information so it can be used militarily. We have become
so used to having an enemy in this country and the need to have
an enemy, another nation state, that's it's
gotten pretty bad.
Question: What are your personal views about the future?
Answer: President Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial
complex before he left office in 1960. I personally believe
that there's a reason we moved to the Black Hills of
South Dakota. Partially because we're at the top of
the food chain here and the water chain. I like to live in a
place where the water isn't going to be contaminated.
I personally feel that there's a good chance, an excellent
chance that there's going to be limited nuclear war
in the next 5-6 years. And whether that escalates into a global
confrontation, who knows. But it's going to happen just
as sure as I'm standing here. The temptation to use
nuclear weapons is getting more and more, tactical, not strategical
nuclear weapons, the tactical nuclear weapons. We spent a lot
of time out there testing tactical nuclear weapons, 150 kilo
tons, 150,000 tons of TNT and less. Small devices, devices that
paratroopers can jump out of planes, with them on their back.
I can carry one around in a suitcase and the problem with that
is, nuclear devices have become so small, so compact, so efficient,
that if terrorists ever get their hands on one, and it's
amazing that they haven't, absolutely amazing, it's
going to make this thing in Oklahoma City look like a walk in
the park. Because the first terrorist group that gets their
hands on a nuclear device.....you know we all used to say, well,
China can't do it because they can't deliver
the weapons, that was a bunch of hog wash. You don't
need rockets to deliver nuclear weapons, all you need is a suitcase,
it's that simple. I can give you the address of a company
in San Francisco that would be more than happy to send you the
blueprints for a nuclear weapon for $19.95.
Question: (Something about crop circles)
Answer: You know, those crop circles are amazing, I don't
know where they're coming from. We had places out in
Nevada, there were no crops, it was sand and low bushes, with
crop circles identical to those at the test site.
Question: Were we responsible?
Answer: I can tell you one thing, at the test site, it wasn't
some prank. In England some say it was some pranksters but at
the Nevada test site it wasn't a prank. There are no
pranks out there.
Question: No sense of humor?
Answer: You know what, actually there's a lot of people
that work out there that do have a sense of humor. I have friend
who has a picture of himself sitting on a nuclear weapon smoking
a joint. Now if that were found out, he'd be in really
big doggie do-do. But he's a guy that works for Los
Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico.
Question: (Unintelligible)
Answer: You see, the insidious part about what we call reality
like radiation... we could be sitting here and right there in
that cooler could be a lethal radio isotope of say cesium 137
or strontium 90 and you would never know it. Unless you had
an instrument that detected it or if there were enough of it
to where you became sick and got radiation sickness, and subsequently
died. A lot of what we call reality, what we see, we hear, we
smell, we taste, we feel, isn't quite the way we think
it is. From a physics point of view, there is no such thing
as color. We're all sitting around here seeing colors
that don't exist. Light is electromagnetic radiation
and it's colorless. Our brains interpret different wave
lengths of color through our optic nerve, what our minds call
color, green jacket, brown pants, there is no color there. Your
brain is interpreting color, different wave lengths and I call
it green and I call it brown. We mostly all agree on these things,
generally speaking but we all see different things. There is
no color. So you have to stop and think about crazy things you
see in the sky at night that may or not be unexplainable. To
someone else may be very common, very explainable and very ordinary.
I'm just about to walk over the edge here . . . they
may not be . . . if you were to see a person, you may not recognize
that person as someone you thought might live on the face of
this planet. And that's all I'll say about that,
I swore to God I wasn't going to say that.
Question: (Unintelligible)
Answer: If a race of beings had the ability to travel from
Alpha Centauri to here, they would certainly have the ability
to camouflage themselves, either to where we couldn't
detect them or to look like us. We're a diverse looking
race of beings, they could look almost like anything. There's
creatures on this planet that look pretty strange.
I have a healthy respect for and a fear of my Federal Government.
Because I've seen my Federal Government do some really
bad things to people. There were people out at the test site
that were the subjects of radiation experiments, I've
seen them tie animals down in areas that were going to be tested,
we had a tower out there, it was called Bren Tower, it was 1300
feet tall and at the top of that tower there was a reactor,
unshielded, small reactor and around the base of that tower
for a half a mile or so we would put experiments out, live experiments
and see how much radiation they could take. How much gamma radiation,
how much beta, how many neutrons they could absorb, these were
animals.
Question: When we dropped the bomb in Japan in 1945, we didn't
know what the after effects were going to be.
Answer: When we tested the first device in July of 1945, the
Trinity device, in Alamogordo, New Mexico, the scientists didn't
know for sure if that wouldn't cause a never ending
chain of reactions and it would absolutely destroy the world.
They knew they had x pounds of fissionable material in that
trinity device but they didn't know if that would trigger
more reactions or not. They didn't know what was going
to happen. When they dropped the Fat Boy and Little Man on those
2 Japanese cities, they had all this experience of one device.
And they dropped those very dirty devices and the war ended.
Personally, I happen to believe that was the thing to do because
I think a million or more Americans, soldiers would have died
and a lot of Japanese people would have died if we had invaded
the homeland.
Something else, we have laser weapons now that make nuclear
weapons look pretty weak. We tested a lot a laser weaponry out
there when I was there in the 70's, all kinds of laser
weapons. Laser weapons are far more selective. A nuclear weapon
is just a great big bomb that blows up and you have the radiation
and the heat and the wind and all that. They're not
as all destructive as people think they are. The new ones aren't
as dirty as people think they are.
Question: (Unintelligible).
Answer: What I know about anti-gravity devices I'm
not at liberty to talk about. Area 51 does not deal with nuclear
weaponry.
Physics, folks, is advancing in leaps and bounds, all technology
is advancing in leaps and bounds. One of the most dangerous
things that's happening to the human race right now
is we're being left behind. I can't even run
my son's computer as well as he can and technology is
going faster than our ability to keep up with it. And when I
say our ability, I'm not talking about just us, I'm
talking about the people that build it. We're a couple
of years away from artificial intelligence, computerized, artificial
intelligence that has the ability to reason, to think, to comprehend
existence. If you stop and think about that, that's
pretty scary. It gets to the point where maybe we become liabilities.
When I was a youngster, Buck Rogers and all that stuff was science
fiction. And it's advancing exponentially. My mother
who passed away a few years ago rode on a stage coach here in
the Black Hills. She also saw men walk on the moon. Now you
take another 20 years from now, and when I say it's
increasing exponentially, the graph of scientific knowledge
isn't going up like this, it's going straight
up, practically. We're talking about now, this Area
51 thing, the government will hang on until the last dog dies
before they'll tell you what's going on out
there. Even after it becomes irrelevant anymore, even after
it becomes where it's no secret. The government still
won't talk about the things that happened in W.W.II,
I'm not talking about nuclear things, I'm talking
about the Philadelphia Experiment, and I shouldn't have even mentioned that. The government will not talk about all
kinds of things that they already know about.
Question: (Something about all the TV programs about UFO's,
government ready to tell.)
Answer: It isn't the government loosening up, no. I
have friends that work in government security. And they absolutely
gnash their teeth at the fact that all these things leak out
constantly and they lay awake at night trying to figure out
ways to plug leaks.
I think I told you all what I could without laying awake tonight
wondering if I told you too much, I hope it was helpful. The
best thing you can do to keep the society as free and open as
possible is to make sure the politicians we elect to office
don't allow themselves to be sucked into the vortex
of secrecy that the government always wants to have. And if
you see anything flying around, believe your eyes, and believe
it isn't a weather balloon, if the government says it's
something, it's pretty safe to disbelieve them.
