THE AEROSPACE ARMS RACE AT ROSWELL

Extraterrestrial warfare is not a fantasy of science fiction. Today, terrestrial wars

are being coordinated from space, and it began back during World War Two in New
Mexico, when billions of dollars were already being spent on Star Wars research and
development, at Los Alamos, White Sands Missile Range, and Roswell.
Today, this Aerospace arms race is shaping up to be the largest industrial project
in Earth's history. The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) in the 1990s
had an official budget of $3.5 billion, but President Bush changed the name of the
space weapons development organization to Missile Defense Agency (MDA) with an
annual budget of $10 billion; and that doesn't count an estimated $75 billion
annually that goes into space technology programs at the National Reconnaisannce
Office (NRO), National Security Agency (NSA), Department of Energy, NASA, and
others.
The Pentagon maintained that the 1991 Persian Gulf War was the "first space
war" where it was able to field test new technologies and begin implementing the
doctrine of "full spectrum dominance." In the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 70% of the
weapons used in the initial attack were directed to their targets via military space
satellites.
How did it come to this? My father was an AAF pilot stationed at Roswell during
World War Two, with the 509th Composite Bomb Group, where I was born in 1947,
and I grew up on U.S. Air Force bases all over the world. Like many of us kids I could
tell an F-86 from a B-36 where they were just a dot high up in the wild blue yonder.
We loved the Air Force, and so did Dad. He was not only a pilot, who eventually
attained the rank of Lt. Colonel, but he worked on the Titan missiles as a
communications and intelligence officer, and was stationed at Langley AB and the
Pentagon too.
I remember one time he came home, in Virginia in the mid-60s, disgusted with
the corruption of the "damn contractors" at McDonnell-Douglas and Lockheed. "They
got their arms in the cookie jar up to their shoulders!" he exclaimed, pouring a stiff
scotch and water. He wanted to get out of the USAF because it was all just "big
business" by then, and as soon as he got in his 20 years he retired to a quiet little
Colorado mountain town.
But we all knew the tensions of the Cold War, and for as long as I can remember
my generation of "war babies" has lived with giant aerospace industries building
more and more atomic and hydrogen bombs, supersonic B-52s and massive nuclear-
powered submarines full of multiple nuclear warheads, ICBM silos all over our
beloved West, and impending holocaust any time with Russia or China or Israel
nuking their many Arab enemies. It was some sort of inexplicable crisis that began
with Hitler and Pearl Harbor, apparently, and culminated with Hiroshima. Nobody
seemed to understand it or how to stop it.
Dad always defended Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the standard argument of his
generation that the annihilation of those Japanese cities was necessary to save
American lives, and end the Pacific War. He also had a personal stake in it, since he
was a pilot instructor who sent a lot of those B-29 crews over Japan, and he took his
orders directly from Col. Paul Tibbetts who flew the Enola Gay that dropped the
Hiroshima uranium bomb and whom Dad said "was the best pilot in the Air Force." I
remember General Tibbetts coming to our house several times when I was a kid,
after he and Dad had been playing golf and stopped at the Officers Club afterwards,
and he had dinner with us, joking, and rumpling my hair. He seemed like another of
many good friends of our family, as we had many on Air Bases where we were
stationed all over the world.
 When the UFO story about Roswell came out in 1980 with the book 'Roswell
Incident', a whole new parameter was added to our family history, and the
understanding of that period. While the Air Force continued to deny there had been a
"Disc" that landed or crashed in 1947 - contradictory reports said it landed, while
others said it crashed - researchers kept digging up witnesses and documents that
said otherwise. Although no really hard physical evidence has been found of the
"Flying Saucer" that the Roswell newspaper headlined on July 8, 1947, based on an
official news release from the public information office of the Roswell Army Air Field,
lots of military and civilian eyewitnesses and residents report there were at least one
or two craft that were not man-made, and they were piloted by strange unearthly
aviators.
The more the story has grown over the years, into many books and movies and
cable-TV documentaries, the more the Air Force continues to insist there was no
mysterious Disc and that it was really a case of mistaken identity about weather
balloons of various sorts. Why? When they were the first to say they had recovered a
strange Disc, they quickly denied they had anything and it was nothing. They
laughed it off.
Some theorists postulate the USAF did it to get control of a burgeoning interest in
post-war America in Flying Saucers, since people were both fascinated and
frightened by the possibility of some other paranormal life force out there in the Wild
Blue Yonder. It is an axiom of Intelligence Agencies to "control and discredit"
anything that isn't in their purview, and the Air Force certainly has its own powerful
office of Intelligence, purportedly serving the cause of National Security against any
and all enemies foreign or domestic. After World War Two especially they didn't want
to take any more chances, especially in the dangerous new Atomic Age. Flying
Saucers were almost an aberrant outgrowth, in their view, of the human leap into
outer space, as Hitler's V-2 rockets and jet engines were taking man farther and
further from normal human boundaries.
America huriedly began its own rocketry programs at White Sands, using Hitler's
scientists like the brilliant Werner von Braun. President Truman put a vast network of
plutonium and uranium factories around the country to work, building at least 7-9
new A-Bombs a month in 1945, 1946, and 1947. President Roosevelt, apparently,
had authorized several billions for the construction of the factories during the War,
under the leadership of General Groves out of the Pentagon, and who was in charge
of the scientists at Los Alamos building the supersecret Super-Weapon.
The Aerospace arms race had begun.
Today, the Roswell UFO Incident remains a dichotomy in peoples minds, where it
is either a childish amusement, or a profoundly mysterious Phenomenon. Why? How
can something like a Flying Saucer matter in this dangerous Cold War world with
tens of thousands of weapons of mass destruction that can kill just about every living
thing on Planet Earth? Why does the idea of Unidentified Flying Objects relate to
more direct facts about our very survival as a species? Surely there are more
pressing concerns about world hunger, epidemics and diseases, and Nuclear
Holocaust.
Roswell, nevertheless, is precisely about the pressing calamity of the
militarization of space. In 1945, B-29s took off from there laden with weapons to
firebomb Tokyo, and eventually to obliterate Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That there is
still an aura of super-secrecy around not only the Discs of 1947 but the Stars Wars
technology of today suggests a profound connection between extraterrestrial, or
space, war, and the paranormal suspicions of the human spirit.
Men are building a "space plane" right now that has the capability of taking off
from an ordinary runway like any other plane, flying through inner space to the other
side of the world in an hour, drop a devastating thermonuclear attack on China, for
instance, and then return home to base. The Pentagon is selling this space plane to
the Congress and the public as the successor to the outdated, and increasingly
expensive, space shuttle.
The Chinese and Russians are fully aware of these developments, and in 2007
China tested a rudimentary anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon, warning the United States
that it won't allow any one country to be "Master of Space", as the Air Force Space
Command logo reads.
The United States responded in 2008, using the excuse of a falling satellite, to
show the world it had the capability to knock out an object in space. The Navy fired a
"missile defense" system from an Aegis destroyer into space and successfully hit the
crippled satellite (one of thousands routinely orbiting our planet). The test was a
clear warning to Russia and China that we have offensive capabilities that could be
used as part of a growing U.S. first-strike policy.
China has recently introduced a resolution into the United Nations (the creation of
which was one of Roosevelt's last acts before he died in 1945) calling for a new
treaty to ban weapons in space. PAROS, the Prevention of an Arms Race in Space,
would outlaw all weapons in and through space - including Lockheed's military
developments on Mars, through NASA - but the United States has opposed it.
While the rest of the world economy is staggering under a severe financial
recession, the aerospace contractors that my father hated so much are booming.
Just one example is the ludicrous Space Station, which NASA originally promised
taxpayers would cost only $10 billion. They've now spent $100 billion and it's not
nearly finished.
They're also looking to the Moon as a military base. Astronaut-Senator (and
Marine officer) John Glenn has proposed a bill to Congress, which already has a
secret and unspecified multi-billion dollar budget, that the United States "needs"
armed space stations and bases on both the dark side and the light side of the Moon,
as the top of of a "gravity well". He writes, "Nature reserves decisive advantage for
L4 and L5, two allegedly stable libration points that theoretically could dominate
Earth and moon, because they look down both gravity wells. No other location is
equally commanding. Armed enemy forces might lie in wait at that location to hijack
rivals."
The Pentagon and the defense industries are working 50-75 years ahead of the
rest of us. If that also means they have to control and discredit any philosophical
opposition to them, such as a more peaceful idea about extraterrestrial life forms,
and a phenomenal world view that does not include interstellar warfare, then that's
what they'll do. They've already turned Roswell into a joke in the minds of lots of
people, a mere cartoon or myth from the nursery infancy of mankind.