So, if E.T. wasn’t weird enough for Tonnies, then what was? The under-dwellers, that’s what. “If we’re dealing with humanoid beings that evolved here on Earth,” Tonnies said, “some of the problems vanish. I envision the Cryptoterrestrials engaged in a process of subterfuge, bending our belief systems to their own ends. And I suggest that this has been occurring, in one form or another, for an extraordinarily long time. I think there’s a good deal of folkloric and mythological evidence pointing in this direction, and I find it most interesting that so many descriptions of ostensible ‘aliens’ seem to reflect staged events designed to misdirect witnesses and muddle their perceptions.”[38]
Official Knowledge
We’ve now heard many civilian accounts, but what is known at an official level about these alleged ancient beings and their subterranean domains? The previously mentioned former U.S. Air Force Intelligence operative, Walter Bosley, made a highly valuable contribution toward answering this question. Bosley’s father served in the U.S. Air Force in the late 1950s, and worked on matters relative to the U.S. space program. Significantly, during the period of his employment with the military, Bosley Sr. received at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio — perhaps within the confines of the legendary Hangar 18—a classified briefing relative to the reported UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947.
Bosley said that by the time of his father’s briefing, the Air Force had come to a startling conclusion: Neither the strange aerial device nor the bodies found in the desert outside of Roswell at the time in question had alien origins. His father told him the entities and their craft come from inside our planet. Their civilization supposedly resides within a huge underground system of caverns and tunnels beneath the southwest portion of the United States. Bosley was additionally told by his father that “They are human in appearance; so much so that they can move among us with ease with just a little effort. If you get a close look, you’d notice something odd, but not if the person just passed you on the street.”[39]
We also have the illuminating tale of Nick Pope, who, for three years — from 1991 to 1994—officially investigated UFO encounters for the British Ministry of Defense (MoD). In 1999, Pope wrote a science-fiction novel titled Operation Thunder Child, which told of an alien invasion of the Earth from the perspective of the MoD and the British government. Notably, in Pope’s novel, the U.S. government tells British officials that the aliens are nothing less than an offshoot of Neanderthal Man that, quite literally, went underground millennia ago, “developing their own complex social structures and technologies.”[40]
At one point in Pope’s book, the U.S. president confides in the British prime minister that these ancient humans “have been keeping a careful watch on our development, especially since the Industrial Revolution. But it’s our progress in the last hundred years that has most frightened them.”[41] As Pope’s novel progresses, however, we learn that the truth is somewhat different: The ancient human angle, as presented to British officials, is really a U.S.-created ruse to mask a genuine extraterrestrial presence on our world.
This leaves us with a couple of thought-provoking questions: did Nick Pope, as a former UFO investigator for the Ministry of Defense, hear whispers and rumors from American friends and colleagues in the world of officialdom of the theory that our alien visitors may not be from faraway star systems, after all? If so, did he then choose to weave certain aspects of this scenario into his 1999 novel? The story of the alleged underworld inhabitants of our planet, it seems, is as winding and as shadowy as the tunnels and caves in which they are reputed to secretly dwell.
C-11
Cities on the Moon
Thus far, all of the top secret locations discussed within the pages of this book can be found right here on Earth — as you would expect! But what about the very controversial issue of super-classified, off-planet facilities? Is it really feasible that our very own Moon, for example, is a secret haven for one or more highly advanced fortified bases of the U.S. government and/or military? Or, incredibly, might it be home to alien installations, the existence of which the official world is determined to keep buried at all costs, for fear of public panic and hysteria? Presently available data and testimony suggests the astonishing answer may very well be the affirmative — to both scenarios.
Hidden Moon Bases
In 1965, Karl Wolfe, an employee of the U.S. Air Force, was assigned to a project at Virginia’s Langley Air Force Base that was linked to NASA’s lunar-orbiter project. On one particularly memorable occasion, while speaking with a fellow airman, Wolfe was told that NASA had discovered something truly astounding while studying photographs of the Moon: a huge installation of unknown origins on the surface of the far side of the Moon. The photographs, Wolfe was informed, displayed clearly delineated buildings and structures that, collectively, were suggestive of a gigantic facility built by forces disturbingly unknown.
Wolfe, quickly realizing he had just been given details of a matter that certainly had major implications for national security, rapidly brought the conversation to a close, even though, by his own admission, it amazed and fascinated him. Many people have concluded that Karl Wolfe’s revelations are a very strong indication that aliens have secretly claimed our Moon as their own, and have begun the first, covert steps toward the colonization of our nearest heavenly neighbor via the construction of a secret base. Outrageous? Certainly! Impossible? Perhaps not. There is, however, a far more down-to-earth explanation for the existence of the strange space-city about which Karl Wolfe was informed.
It so transpires that as far back as the late 1950s the U.S. Army had a secret plan to build an outpost on the Moon: an impressively sized, permanently manned base that would demonstrate decisive military superiority over the former Soviet Union. And guess what: the Army’s goal was to have the initial stages of the program in place by 1965—the very same year that Karl Wolfe was told that NASA had uncovered evidence of some form of intelligently designed installation on the far side of the Moon.
Even though the Army’s operation — code-named Project Horizon—was reportedly canceled due to a lack of (a) adequate technology and (b) sufficient funding to achieve such a task nearly half a century ago, there are those who believe the project may not have been aborted at all, but secretly continued in stealth. In that case, the military may have a super-secret space program about which NASA knows very little, or possibly even nothing at all. Is such a scenario just too incredible to be true? Maybe it isn’t.
On March 20, 1959, Lieutenant General Arthur G. Trudeau, Chief of Research and Development with the U.S. Army, signed off on an extensive document that proposed the establishment (at a cost of approximately $6 billion) of an outpost on the Moon, constructed and controlled by the Army. Thus was born Project Horizon. In the opening pages of the several-hundred-page report, titled “Project Horizon: A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Military Outpost,” Trudeau wrote, “There is a requirement for a manned military outpost on the Moon. The lunar outpost is required to develop and protect potential United States interests on the Moon; to develop techniques in Moon-based surveillance of the earth and space, in communications relay, and in operations on the surface of the Moon; to serve as a base for exploration of the Moon, for further exploration into space and for military operations on the Moon if required; and to support scientific investigations on the Moon.”[42]