Five Aliens in Utah
One of the most controversial aspects of the secret research undertaken at the Dugway Proving Ground is its link to classified matters of otherworldly proportions — UFOs, in popular terms. Shortly before his March 2010 death, one Colonel George Weinbrenner — who held the position of Chief of the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (which is the rumored home of the legendary Hangar 18) — made a six-word statement to his caretaker: “We have five aliens in Utah.”[11] He would say no more about it. Granted, this brief statement is open to a fair degree of interpretation, but researcher Anthony Bragalia has suggested his comment may be a reference to the Dugway Proving Ground. And this was not the first time Weinbrenner had spoken outside of official channels about such issues.
In the 1970s, Weinbrenner confirmed to filmmaker Robert Emenegger that highly classified film footage of UFOs was held by elements of U.S. officialdom, but Weinbrenner was concerned about saying too much publicly — namely, what he really knew about UFOs. This may have been due to his suspicions of being spied upon by someone in the government. Researcher Anthony Bragalia has noted that this fear of Weinbrenner’s may have explained why he always spoke in distinctly guarded terms whenever the matter of UFOs surfaced. When one takes into consideration that (as will become apparent in a future chapter of this book) many of the claims surrounding Wright-Patterson’s Hangar 18 demonstrate a close link between its work and that of the base’s Foreign Technology Division, it’s practically a given that Weinbrenner, as a former head of the FTD, would have had some knowledge of recovered alien bodies and their several areas of storage. And that brings us back to the present day, and the events of late January 2011.
Base Lockdown
It was around 5:30 p.m. on January 27 when the doors to the Dugway Proving Ground were firmly closed and locked. From that point on, no one was getting into the installation — and none of the approximately 1,500 workers on base at the time was getting out. That situation remained in force for nearly 12 hours. Shortly after the DPG went on alert, and as rumors began to circulate that something serious was up, Colonel William E. King IV, the base commander, said that Dugway’s staff was doing its utmost to rectify the situation as soon as was humanly possible.
The official reason for the lockdown was given in a brief statement from the Army on January 28: On the previous afternoon, during the course of a regular check of stockpiled items, it was believed that a small vial of the nerve agent VX — the very same substance that killed more than 6,000 sheep back in 1968—had gone missing. In reality, however, nothing had gone missing; apparently the panic was all due to nothing stranger than a labeling error on the vital vial. Maybe that’s really all there was to it. Not everyone is so sure, though.
Around the same time that the lockdown occurred, strange lights of unknown origin were seen flitting around the skies near the base. They even became the subject of a major news story on Utah’s ABC-4 News. In a segment titled “Strange Lights Appear in the Sky Above Utah County,” reporters said the witnesses were clear that whatever they had viewed were neither conventional aircraft nor helicopters. One unidentified flying object even seemed to drop something to the ground. Interestingly, of the various eyewitnesses who agreed to be interviewed by ABC-4 News, one had served in the military, and said that whatever had fallen from the sky was most certainly not a flare or anything so down-to-earth. But just because something is an unidentified flying object, does that automatically mean it is an alien spacecraft?
‘Genesis’
For years, rumors have circulated that, as well as testing some deadly nerve agents, the Dugway Proving Ground also test-flies certain highly advanced aero-forms. Dave Rosenfeld, the president of the research group Utah UFO Hunters, is of the opinion that at least some of the many UFO sightings that he and his group have scrupulously catalogued in and around the Dugway Proving Ground for years may be due to the test-flights of radically advanced aircraft. He opines that perhaps the DPG is “the new Area 51,” and possibly even “the new military spaceport.”[12]
Rosenfeld may not be too wide of the mark. On September 8, 2004, NASA’s Genesis spacecraft slammed into the desert floor of the Dugway Proving Ground after successfully collecting a sample of charged particles ejected from the sun’s upper atmosphere — or what is known as solar wind. The plan all along was for the craft to come down at Dugway, but a big problem with its parachute resulted in the anticipated smooth landing turning into a full-blown crash-landing. Not surprisingly, the craft was significantly damaged, and so was its precious, unique cargo. Fortunately, however, after the area was sealed off (due to a leak of toxic substances from Genesis’ batteries), a recovery team was able to safely collect the vial containing the particles and transfer it to NASA for careful analysis. The good news was that even though the solarwind specimens had, to a degree, been compromised as a result of being partially exposed during the crash, NASA scientists were able to make a number of significant breakthroughs with respect to the makeup of such solar phenomena.
Taking into consideration the curious UFO encounter at the time of the January 27, 2011 lockdown and the combined words of Colonel George Weinbrenner and Dave Rosenfeld, I will leave you with a thought-provoking question: Given that the Dugway Proving Ground is at the cutting edge of classified research into chemical weapons, has been the site of a number of intriguing UFO sightings, and was the spot where one of NASA’s own spacecraft plummeted to Earth, is it totally out of the question to suggest that the DPG secretly knows a great deal about somebody else’s — or something else’s — spacecraft too?
C-4
Secrets of World War II
The Second World War was six years of carnage that has caused decades of discussion. One particularly tantalizing topic relates to certain secret wartime activities undertaken by the Nazis: namely, the plundering of priceless historical treasures by Adolf Hitler’s hordes as a means to fund his war effort, and Nazi Germany’s overriding fascination with religious artifacts. What does any of this have to do with the theme of the book you hold in front of you right now, you ask? Quite simply, there is a substantial body of data available suggesting that much of that plundered material, as well as certain unique items of quite literally biblical proportions may, nearly 70 years after the war’s conclusion, remain hidden in prominent facilities, including, incredibly, the Vatican and the Smithsonian.
Just like the maniacal Hitler himself, a significant portion of high-ranking Nazis, such as Richard Walther Darré, Rudolf Hess, Otto Rahn, and Heinrich Himmler, had major, unsettling obsessions with the supernatural and the mystical. Rahn, for example, who made his mark in a wing of Nazi Germany’s greatly feared SS, spent a significant period of time deeply engaged in a quest to find the so-called Holy Grail, which, according to Christian teachings, was the dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus at the legendary Last Supper. The Grail was said to possess awesome and devastating powers, and the Nazis were desperate to locate it, in order to utilize those powers as weapons of war against the Allies. Thankfully, the plans of the Nazis did not come to fruition, and the Allies were not pummeled into the ground by the mighty fists of God.