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Review of Annie Jacobsen's book "AREA 51"

Dennis Balthaser 01 01 12

I very seldom comment in writing about books I’ve read, although I have done so several times pertaining to TV documentaries, in which I have questioned the information being presented.

After reading many reviews about Annie Jacobsen’s book “Area 51” (Little Brown and Company, 2011, ISBN978-0-316-13294-7) I had no intentions of reading it, however when I started hearing about the information she presented pertaining to the 1947 Roswell Incident, I decided to read it for myself. After all, Roswell has been my main area of research for the past 20 years, so I’m always interested in others views on that subject. I have also lectured and written about Area 51, so both topics are very much of interest to me. I found most of the information presented about Area 51 to be of interest, and for the purpose of this editorial, I will concentrate mostly on Ms Jacobsen’s comments about the Roswell Incident.

I only read to the second paragraph of the PROLOGUE on page xi before red flags started popping up for me. In the last sentence of that paragraph she stated, “The U.S. government has never admitted it, (Area 51) exists.” As a matter of fact every year since President Clinton was in office, and including President George W. Bush, the President has issued a Presidential Determination stating Groom Lake (Area 51) is exempted from environmental laws, due to National Security issues. I have not yet located such a document issued by the current President.

On page 16, she states, “Three hours after Haut dropped off the statement the commander of the Roswell Air Field sent Walter Haut (left) back to KGFL radio station with a second press release stating the first press release had been incorrect.” General Ramey in Ft Worth issued the second press release stating it was a weather balloon, which was headlined in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner evening edition July 8th and most newspapers east of Chicago the following day (July 9, 1947).

On page 36, she claims the Joint Chiefs of Staff took command and recovered from the crashed Roswell craft, the airframe, some propulsion equipment, including the crashed craft’s power plant. Every witness that ever handled or saw the debris scattered over the Foster ranch referred to small pieces of debris, and never mentioned any of the equipment Jacobsen refers to.

On page 37 she stated there was “Russian writing, block letters from the Cyrillic alphabet that had been stamped, or embossed, in a ring running around the inside of the craft.” Would Major Marcel, the top intelligence officer in the world at the time, not been able to recognize Russian writing, which both Major Marcel (right) and his son Jesse Jr. later described as resembling hieroglyphic type symbols.

Again on page 37 Jacobsen states, “the weather balloon story has remained the official cover story ever since.” The weather balloon story was General Ramey’s rebuttal July 9th, less than 24 hours after Walter Haut’s press release hit the news wires. In 1994 the Air Force issued “The Roswell Report, Fact vs Fiction in the New Mexico Desert” report, stating it wasn’t a weather balloon, but rather a Mogul balloon. 3 years later the Air Force issued another report entitled, “Case Closed” stating the bodies seen by the witnesses were anthropomorphic crash test dummies.

On page 38 she refers to the Roswell Army Airfield being 45 miles to the southeast of a facility called Sandia Base near Albuquerque New Mexico. The shortest driving distance from Roswell to Albuquerque is 198 miles. Even using a straight-line distance it would exceed 120 miles. A 150-mile error is of no importance when other facts about Roswell apparently weren’t verified either.

She comments on page 44 that the crash remains from Roswell were shipped from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base 4 years later, (1951) to a secret facility out in the middle of the Nevada desert. In 1947 before the Air Force and Army separated the base in Dayton Ohio was known as Wright Field, and more importantly the secret base in the Nevada desert wasn’t opened until 1955 for the CIA to test the U-2 aircraft. She does later in the book confirm the name change of the Air Force base at Dayton Ohio.

Later on page 367, she suggests that, Area 51 is named as such not because it was a randomly chosen quadrant, as has often been presumed, but because the 1947 crash remains from Roswell, New Mexico, were sent from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base out to a secret spot in the Nevada desert – in 1951. All other areas of the Nevada Test and Training Range are also designated by numbers, so are they numerical numbers for identification purposes, or numbered to represent some historical event as Jacobsen claims?

On page 151 talking about the runway needed at Area 51 for test flying the A-12 (later named the SR-71), she states that, “the 8,500-foot long runway, designated 14/32 is believed to be the longest in the world.” The runway here in Roswell (above) where the 509th Atomic bomb group was stationed in 1947 has a runway that is 13,000 feet long. A quick search of the Internet reveals pages of runways that vary in length from 13,000 feet up to the Qmado Bangda airport in China at 18,045 feet.

On page 211 she says, “In his position as CIA director Hillenkoetter knew that the flying disc at Roswell had been sent by Joseph Stalin (left). If in fact Russia had such a craft, why was it never used in any conflicts the Russians were involved in?

On page 370 she refers to Vannevar Bush referring to back engineer the craft by stating he said, “Take it apart and put it back together again.” Take what apart? The only thing found on the Foster ranch was a field ¾ of a mile long and several hundred feet wide, filled with debris. Debris is hardly an intact craft that could be taken apart. It was already apart from the crash.

On page 375, Jacobsen refers to, “America’s first postwar nuclear test begins as a mysterious Army-Navy assignment in a “sand-swept town---Roswell.” The first atomic bomb test took place at White Sands Missile Range, (Trinity Site), 100 miles west of Roswell near Alamogordo, NM, in 1945, later in the Pacific Ocean, and the 509th atomic bomb wing didn’t arrive in Roswell until after the atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan to end WWII.

Although I found some of the book interesting in reference to the information Ms Jacobsen referenced relating to Area 51, it’s obvious to me, and many others who have devoted many years to researching the Roswell Incident that she didn’t do the research required to make the statements she made. The book would have been much more informative had she stayed with the subject in the title of the book (Area 51), and avoided embarrassing herself with some of the outlandish claims she penned about Roswell.

Dennis G. Balthaser

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USAF remains consistent about Roswell for 64 years

Dennis Balthaser 08 01 11

I recently obtained a copy of the June 2011, “Air Force Magazine”, published monthly by the Air Force Association in Arlington Virginia. The magazine is also available on the Internet at www.airforce-magazine.com 

I was unaware that such a publication existed, however what created my interest was an article on pages 68-72 written by John T. Correll, who was the editor of the Air Force Magazine for 18 years, and is now a contributing editor. The title of his article is “USAF and the UFOs”. His lead sentence states, “The Air Force, to its lasting regret, got in on the ground floor of the UFO phenomenon.” From that first sentence on, the 4-page article is a repeat of what the Air Force has stated in July 1947, in their voluminous report of 1994, and their “Case Closed” report in 1997. As a long time researcher of the 1947 Roswell Incident, am I surprised---NO!!!

The article begins by talking about the Kenneth Arnold sighting June 24, 1947 in Washington State. Arnold estimated the speed of the nine disk-shaped objects he saw at 1,700 mph. Mr. Correll pointed out that although Arnold was credited with coining the term “flying saucers”, after an article appeared in the spring 1948 Fate magazine, the term had been used previously on July 8, 1947 in the Roswell Daily Record, and most afternoon newspapers west of Chicago to describe the wreckage of the Roswell Incident. The scientific consensus of Arnold’s sighting was that it was an inversion of refracted light-commonly known as a mirage.

The interest in flying saucers faded quickly according to the article, when the Air Force announced that the Roswell debris was from a high-altitude weather balloon experiment, and not mentioned again for 30 years.

Since no other government agency came forward to assume the investigation of flying saucers, the Air Force began to collect and evaluate the data with Project Sign in 1947, which evolved into Project Grudge and Project Twinkle, and finally Project Blue Book in 1952. Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the first director of Project Blue Book is given credit in the article for being the first to use the term “Unidentified Flying Object”. In 1952 there were 1,225 sightings to investigate.

A very brief account of the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill abduction case is mentioned in the article, only referring to it as being the result of a later hypnotic regression. Stating no one had seen an actual alien until 1964, when police officer Lonnie Zamora, “chased a flame in the sky to a mesa south of town where an egg-shaped craft landed and two strange figures got out.” Stating among others who investigated the case, only Philip J. Klass is mentioned. (Ed. Note: why list serious researchers when a debunker like Klass suffices.)

Two cases that Mr. Correll mentions that involved former Presidents of the United States were Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. In Ford’s case, 87 students at a college in Michigan saw UFOs in flight from their dormitory in 1966. When Ford requested a “full-blown” investigation by the House Armed Services Committee, the meeting lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes. The report that then Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter made to NICAP in 1969 was determined to be the planet Venus.

In an effort to end the UFO controversy the Air Force was involved in, they engaged the University of Colorado to conduct an independent investigation led by physicist Edward U. Condon. The Condon report was issued in 1968, endorsed by the National Academy of Sciences, with the conclusion, “that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge.”
In 1969 the Air Force announced the end of Project Blue Book. Of the 12, 618 sightings reported, 701 were categorized as unidentified, mostly due to insufficient information. Correll states the records of Blue Book were shipped off and archived.

The Air Force continued to be pressured however, being accused of keeping 2 saucers and 12 alien bodies from a crashed saucer in New Mexico at Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio. According to the article, “there is no hangar 18 at the base.”  Then Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona also complained that the Air Force had denied him access to a “blue room” at Wright-Patterson where UFO artifacts were supposedly stored.

Much of the article from here on deals with the 1947 Roswell Incident, accurately stating accounts of, and briefly mentioning rancher Mack Brazel, Sheriff Wilcox, Intelligence Officer Major Jesse Marcel, and Public Relations Officer Walter Haut.

Stanton Friedman’s original interview with retired Major Marcel in 1978 is mentioned, where Marcel stated, “that in 1947, he had been ordered not to talk about the true nature of the debris, which he described as nothing from this earth.”
In 1978, the National Enquirer tabloid ran an article about Marcel, and in 1980 Berlitz and Moore published their book, “The Roswell Incident.” With one exception the witnesses are accused of repeating accounts they had heard from others.

The author mentions the “Majestic 12” documents, and the fact that many Ufologist believed that Majestic 12 member, Secretary of Defense James Forrestals’ suicide in 1949 was a cover story and, “the reason for his murder was that he was no longer trusted by those within the security services who had control over the captured saucer.” Correll claims the Majestic 12 story has several flaws, including being typed on a typewriter not in use until 1962, formats and date styles were wrong for the period. The National Archives acknowledged a document was in its files but did not know how it got there.

A great deal of space is devoted to Ballard Funeral Home Mortician Glenn Dennis’ account of his experience. Stanton Friedman interviewed Glenn Dennis in 1989. Dennis referred to the redheaded Captain, (or Colonel), who had him ejected from the base hospital, after he encountered a nurse friend who was visibly upset. The nurse disappeared from Roswell within a day, and Glenn Dennis was unable to get in touch with her despite attempts to help by the chief nurse Captain “Slatts.

When the Air Force heard about the General Accounting Office investigation into the Roswell Incident, requested by the then New Mexico Representative Steven Schiff in 1993, they decided to move on their own, supposedly pulling out all the stops, digging into records, hunting down people, (long retired), who had taken part in the events many years ago. This became the 1994 and 1997 Air Force reports I mentioned at the beginning of this editorial. (Ed. Note: All one has to do is read the GAO report or the Air Force reports of 1994 and 1997 to know the above statements are far from the truth.)

This article about the “Air Force and UFOs” mentions the balloon theory, which has been pretty well disproven over the years, not mentioning the fact that the Soviet Union didn’t do any nuclear testing until 1949 which is what the Mogul balloon was supposed to detect. Nor does it mention the fact that the anthromorphic crash test dummies could not have been the bodies witnesses described, since they were not used until 1953 (6 years after the Roswell Incident.)

There are other references in the article I could refer to, but due to a lack of space here, I’ll close with Mr. Correll’s final comment in his article, “Perhaps, in the context of the world today, there are more disturbing and important things to worry about than UFOs”.

Mr. Correll, I hope when the truth is finally revealed and UFOs are determined to be a factual occurrence, you are still around to write another article about the Air Force and UFOs, because there will be a lot of explaining needed about the past 64 years, and the way the Air Force has handled this topic.

Dennis G. Balthaser

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Media Coverage of UFO Events and Research

Dennis Balthaser 05 27 11

Over the years that I’ve been doing research, I have never been timid about sharing my frustration about many in the media that are responsible for reporting on the subject. Local and national TV newscasters are some of the worst, hardly ever able to factually report an event, without adding some sarcastic footnote to the end of their report, which in my opinion diminishes the content they are reporting on. Many times at conferences, when photos or film are included with an article, they don’t show the serious researchers, but rather someone dressed in an outlandish costume.

TV documentaries on the subject of UFOs, which I have had a fair amount of time participating in, usually involve show hosts or interviewers, which have very little knowledge of the subject. After filming, some editor or producer back in Los Angeles or New York, will put his or her own take on the material presented. Of all the documentaries I’ve been involved with over the years I could count the respectable ones on one hand. Two of the least credible that I wrote editorials on include the Peter Jennings ABC Special in 2005,

www.truthseekeratroswell.com/ed022505_sp.html

and National Geographic channel’s, “The Real Roswell”, in 2007

www.truthseekeratroswell.com/ed021507.html

On the positive side, radio interviews (usually done by telephone), are fun to do and very little, if any editing is done since most are live interviews. Call-in shows are also good as a way of sharing information with a listener, or even having a lively discussion on the subject being discussed. In some cases the radio show hosts have actually done their homework prior to the show airing, making for a better discussion between the host and the guest.

UFO magazine has treated me fairly for several years, posting my editorials as I have written them, while the MUFON Journal has reworded, omitted, or added information to my editorials without notifying me; on the few occasions they have included them in their Journal.  

Unlike what most people think, researchers are normally not reimbursed for their knowledge or time when doing interviews. More importantly after an interview is completed, the researcher has no in-put to what the final product will be, consequently I have begun turning down some interviews that I’d rather not be involved in. I’ve also begun turning down speaking engagements that consists of clairvoyants, card readers and psychics, intermixed with serious UFO researchers.

I recently did a lecture in Alamogordo, New Mexico for the First National Bank “Lunch and Learn monthly series”, and unknowing to me at the time of my presentation, a reporter from The Alamogordo Daily News was present. She wrote an article for the paper, which was an extremely accurate account of what I discussed. I found this to be quite refreshing compared to some other experiences I’ve had with the media as mentioned above. With the reporters permission I am including her article below.

Ufologist questions government cover-ups of Roswell, Area 51
Alamogordo Daily News
By Elva K. Osterreich, Associate News Editor
(Used with the permission of the Alamogordo Daily News)

Dennis Balthaser's quest is to question the government and hold it accountable for the truth.

He has spent a second lifetime, after retirement, investigating UFOs and secret government projects such as Area 51 and underground bases. His program Thursday at First National Bank's Lunch and Learn series was about his journey scrutinizing the 1947 Roswell incident, Area 51, underground bases and the Pyramids of Giza.

"Whatever happened at Roswell, after 64 years, it refuses to go away," Balthaser said at the beginning of his talk. "There is no doubt in my mind the government is failing to disclose."

According to a Roper poll, he said 72 percent of Americans believe the government is not telling the public everything it knows about UFO activity.

"Today, cover up is a way of life," Balthaser said. "Most of us have been raised in a box. But I want my children and grandchildren to know what is in store for them."
When someone in the audience asked why those piloting UFOs have not communicated with humans, Balthaser responded by asking why they would want to.

"Their intelligence, knowledge and technology is far superior," he said. "Why would they want to communicate with us?"

Balthaser said it is time for the government to come clean and tell the public what happened in Roswell. There is no more reason to keep it secret, he said.

"What if we received bodies and some 60 years later we don't know what we have, where it came from or how it works?" he said. "I don't buy in to the idea that it would cause panic not anymore."

Balthaser demonstrated some evidence that photos and claims made by the government at the time of the Roswell incident is falsified. He said he has interviewed 100 to 150 witnesses in the case and "probably 1,000" have been interviewed altogether by researchers. These are not only first-hand witnesses but second- and third-hand, too, he said.

Balthaser said there are always reports that don't coincide and people who exaggerate accounts. Balthaser believes the only way now to get real information from a witness will be in the form of deathbed confessions because, he said, there comes at a time when a person can no longer be threatened by government entities.

"I am completely frustrated with UFO research," he said. "I think the answers will come from good research and science."

He said the military personnel who "saw" the Roswell incident are the same ones who planned and deployed atomic bombs.

"How can they be capable of delivering atomic bombs, but incapable of telling a weather balloon from a UFO?" he said.

Then, Balthaser said, 50 years later the Air Force claimed the bodies recovered from the desert were anthropomorphic crash test dummies. The problem with that, he said, is the incident occurred in 1947 and crash test dummies were not in use, or even invented, until 1953.

When talking about Area 51, Balthaser said many secret aircraft, including the F-117A Stealth bomber, were tested in the Nevada desert. The area is included in the property attributed to Nellis Air Force Base. They may be working on a daytime stealth aircraft that cannot be seen during the day because it takes on the appearance of the background sky, he added.

Balthaser said rumors persist that there are up to 22 levels underground at Area 51, but there is no proof because no one can talk about it.

"Credibility and validity are the cornerstones of UFO research," he said. "You and I are paying for something the government says doesn't exist."

On the subject of underground bases, Balthaser said there are numerous rumors of such areas. For example, there is said to be such a place in New Mexico near Dulce on the Jicarilla Apache reservation where biogenetic research on animals and humans is occurring.

About the great pyramids, Balthaser said there is no evidence the great pyramid was ever even made as a tomb for a king.

"No mummy has even been found in the great pyramid," he said. There are no drawings on the walls or coffins. There is an entrance and exit vent for air, whereas in most pyramids made as tombs there is only one vent.

"Dead pharaohs don't need air," he said. "So why were air shafts built in?"
Balthaser believes the great pyramid is much older than people have been led to believe by researchers and it appears not to have been finished.

Each of the four areas addressed at the presentation has its own lecture, Balthaser said. He is available to groups who would like him to present them. His lectures are also available on DVD on his website at www.truthseekeratroswell.com.

Dennis G. Balthaser

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Criminal Actions of Bill Knell (AGAIN)

Dennis Balthaser 03 15 11

I recently received a phone call from Lee Speigel, chief writer of unexplained phenomena for AOLNews.com, and former host of NBC Radio’s “The Edge of Reality,” informing me that an audio album he did in 1975 entitled, “UFOs: The Credibility Factor,” and put on a CD in 2007 by Mr. Speigel, is now being advertised on Amazon.com. as a DVD under the same title, and being credited to a Bill Knell as the “Actor” and  “Director.” Mr. Speigel has also advised me that if you read the description Bill Knell has on his DVD, and compare it with the original album notes, not only did Knell steal his audio recording, and album title, he also plagiarized, WORD for WORD, everything Mr. Speigel wrote about the album 36 years ago. 

I immediately informed Mr. Speigel that he had now become a part of a piracy scheme that Bill Knell (a long time criminal), has been doing for many years.

Bill Knell has been using the Internet to sell researchers and TV producers copyrighted videos and DVDs on the subject of Ufology for his own benefit, to the point of changing the titles, stating that he is the actor or director of the films he’s pirating, and offering them for sale, many times at a reduced price, and definitely with a poorer quality than the originals. This is not only a scam against the researchers, but also the victims who have purchased these products. This is an infringement of copyright laws and a serious Federal Offense.

Frank Warren of www.theufochronicles.com made me aware a few years ago that one of my DVDs, titled “The Roswell Incident: Then and Now,” was being offered by Knell on a website entitled Bravenet, under the title of “Aliens Among Us: Stunning Secrets About UFOs and Extraterrestrials.”

Aztec Incident Researcher Scott Ramsey also had a film being offered by Knell illegally, which after some detailed investigation by Frank and Scott revealed a list of over 80 researchers and TV producers products were being offered by Knell. Frank, Scott and myself, to make them aware of Knell’s illegal action, personally contacted many of those victims, and we requested that they contact IC3 of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report these violations. The on line IC3 form only takes a few minutes to complete and submit --- unfortunately only a handful of those we contacted bothered to do so. 

We contacted and complained to FBI offices in North Carolina and Indianapolis, Indiana, Detective Maurice Hobson with the Lebanon Police Department in Lebanon, Indiana where Knell lives and conducts his criminal activities, and other law enforcement agencies. We were able to shut down several of Bill Knell’s websites through our efforts, but it appears he is now using Amazon.com for his continued operation.

Contacting Knell directly is of no value, as he will only give excuses, as he’s done to us, removing the products in question until he feels the pressure is gone, and then they reappear at another site on the Internet.

Rich Rosell of DVD Talk was contacted recently about reviewing one of Knell’s pirated films and his only response was, as a reviewer it wasn’t his place to take sides. Bill Knell deserves no publicity (good or bad reviews), but rather needs to be prosecuted and incarcerated for a long time, since any publicity given to Bill Knell, would be assisting his criminal actions, as Amazon.com is currently doing after being notified by several of us on different occasions. 

My Nov. 1, 2009 editorial, “Piracy: A Silent Plague on Ufology” at:

www.truthseekeratroswell.com/ed110109.html

explains some of what transpired several years ago when Frank Warren, Scott Ramsey and I first began trying to expose Knell. Obviously things haven’t changed, and it’s imperative that those who have been victimized by Bill Knell (researchers, TV producers and the many who have bought poorly reproduced, pirated, illegal DVDs) contact IC3 and complete the complaint form. The IC3 website can be found at http://www.IC3.gov/

The following list of potential victims of Bill Knell was distributed a few years ago, and it can be assumed that Knell has possibly removed some (or worse), added more. Again it’s imperative if you recognize your name or know anyone on the list contact IC3, so Knell’s illegal operation can be stopped.

1 Al Bielek                     
2 Angelina Joiner                      
3 Bill Cooper (Estate of)                   
4 Bill English               
5 Bill Moore                   
6 Bill Stanley           
7 Bob Lazar               
8 Brad & Sherry Steiger           
9 Bruce Maccabee           
10 Budd Hopkins               
11 Cathy Ross               
12 Chuck Zukowski               
13 Clifford Stone               
14 Daniel Sheehan               
15 David Hatcher Childress       
16 David Jacobs               
17 Debbie Ziegelmeyer           
18 Dennis Balthaser               
19 Dick Criswell           
20 Don Ledger               
21 Donald Keyhoe (Estate of)           
22 Donald Schmitt               
23 Dr. Paul LaViolette           
24 Dr. Steven Greer           
25 Dr. Edgar Mitchell           
26 Dr. Joseph P. Farrell           
27 Ed abd Lorraine Warren       
28 Edgar Cayce Foundation       
29 Edward R. Murrow (Estate of)       
30 Erick Von Daniken           
31 Frank Edwards (Estate of)       
32 George Fawcett               
33 George Knapp               
34 Gildas Bourdais               
35 Grant Cameron           
36 Greg Bishop               
37 Guy Malone               
38 Ivan Sanderson (Estate of)       
39 J. Allen Hynek (Estate of)       
40 James Fox
41 Jim Marrs                     
42 Joe Montaldo          
43 John Greenewald       
44 John Lear
45 John Nebel (Estate of)
46 Ken Johnson
47 Larry Warren
48 Lawrence Fawcett
49 Lee Speigel (new addition)
50 Linda Moulton Howe
51 Lloyd Pye
52 Matthew Thuney
53 Michael Nelson
54 Michael S Heiser
55 Nick Pope
Nick Redfern
57 Oscar Jordon
58 Patrick Heron
Bennewitz (Estate of)
Peter Robbins
Phillip Corso (Estate of)
Philip Imbrogno
Richard Haines
Richard Hall (Estate of)
Richard Hoagland
Richard M. Dolan
Rob Simone
68 Robert Emenegger
Robert Salas
Robert Wood
Ryan Wood
Scott Ramsey
Stan Friedman
Stephen Bassett
Susan Swiatek
Ted Phillips
Timothy Good
Travis Walton
Whitley Strieber
80 William Henry
81 Zecharia Sitchinm

Today, Knell’s DVDs are currently on Amazon http://amazon.com Do a search for Bill Knell and you will see he is listed as actor or director on many of the DVDs, when he is neither. Bill Knell is a criminal and with your help he can be stopped. If additional information is required, or if you have any questions please feel free to contact me at:

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Frank Warren at:

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or Scott Ramsey at:

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Dennis G. Balthaser

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More theories about the Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza

Dennis Balthaser 02 01 11

During my 33 years of civil engineering work with the Texas Department of Transportation, I was fortunate enough to have been involved with quality control and quality assurance of materials used to build several massive bridge structures in Texas. That background tends to be the reason I became interested in researching Underground Bases and Tunnels, and more recently the Pyramids of Giza. Area 51 and the 1947 Roswell Incident were two areas of research I had an interest in before retiring from the Texas DOT in 1996, and it’s been sometime since I addressed one of my favorite areas of research, “the pyramids of Giza.” My views about who built them haven’t changed over the years, still believing that the three pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx are much older than the Egyptian civilization, as we’re led to believe today by many Egyptologists and others.

If in fact the great pyramid of Giza was built for Khufu, a Pharaoh of the 4th dynasty about 2600 BC, why was nothing ever found inside the pyramid to indicate that he was prepared for the afterlife, as was the custom with other Pharaoh’s tombs uncovered over the years?  To this date the only artifact found referring to Khufu is a 3” statute, now in the Cairo museum, that was originally found a great distance away from the pyramids in 1903. Unless some great discovery is still to be revealed inside the great pyramid referring to Khufu, I will continue to question if in fact the great pyramid was ever built for him.

I have recently come upon several new theories about how the pyramids of Giza were built, indicating that after all these years and all the research that has been done, we still don’t have any factual information on how they were built, who built them or for what purpose. Unlike everything else the Egyptian civilization did accomplish, no records have been discovered on how or who built the 3 pyramids of Giza or the Sphinx. Theories are described as, “Proposed explanations whose status is still conjectural, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual facts.” Many I suppose would place UFO research into that same category as only being theories, since some have suggested that alien technology was involved in the building of the pyramids.  

Researcher Stephen Mehler offers scientific evidence in his book, “The Land of Osiris”, about an advanced civilization that lived in Northern Africa some 10,000 years ago known as Khemitians. One of his sources of information came from a local known as a “keeper of wisdom”, who presented evidence that he believed the ancient Khemitians had contact, and that the existence of life on other planets and in other dimensions is a distinct reality, being part of the indigenous tradition of the Khemitian wisdom keepers. Were the pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx built with technology the Khemitians received from star people, prior to the Egyptian civilization?

The great pyramid of Giza stands over 450’ tall and contains some 2 ½ million stones weighing between 2 and 70 tons each. That does not include the polished limestone casing stones that originally covered the stones seen today. Only one of the three great pyramids of Giza still has any casing stones in place near the top, due to the Arabs removing them to build mosques and temples.

The most frequently mentioned method of building the pyramids is the use of a ramp to drag the stones to their final location, requiring 20-30 years and 20-30,000 workers to accomplish.  Considering the stones had to be quarried, cut, transported up the Nile river, moved across the Giza Plateau and set, using the above information, a stone would have had to been placed every 90 seconds.

Another mathematical problem is the ramp itself.  Knowing the height of the pyramid (450 feet) and assuming an angle of 20 degrees for the ramp, which would be a fairly steep angle, the length of a ramp would calculate to more than 1316 feet long. Additionally, assuming a conservative width of 20 feet for the ramp, and knowing the length and height, the volume of material required for such a ramp would be more than 7,000,000 cubic feet. These numbers seem like astronomical figures, since as the pyramid grew taller, the ramp would have to be lengthened and the base widened to keep it from collapsing. Since there are over 200 lifts, or steps to the top of the great pyramid, considerable time would have been lost in maintaining the ramp size for each lift. Other ramp methods have also been theorized, using internal, zigzag, or spiraling ramps. Levitation of the stones has also been mentioned.

More recently, Steven Myers, author of the book, “Lost Technologies of the Great Pyramid” has suggested that the stones were transported up the Nile on barges utilizing a series of water locks across the Giza plateau, similar to what was used to build the Erie canal in the 1800’s, due to the increase in elevation from the Nile River to the Giza plateau pyramid site. Upon arrival at the site, each layer of the pyramid was sealed and flooded, enabling the stones to be floated into position by lifting the stones on barges in switchback water locks up along the face of the emerging pyramid. Railroads today use a similar switchback concept to travel up steep grades.

When the three pyramids of Giza were built remains as much a mystery as how they were built and/or who build them.  Many believe they were build before the great flood mentioned in the Bible, as one researcher has found evidence of fossils in some of the stones. I would raise the question of whether those fossils were in the stones cut from the quarries, or were they embedded after the pyramid was built due to a massive flood? In either case unlike today, Egypt was apparently subjected to a large amount of water at one time, 5-10 thousand years ago. I’m also convinced that the Sphinx shows evidence on the back portion of the lion’s body of water damage, not deteriation by wind and sand as many propose, having been covered with sand up to the neck until the 1800’s.

Although I’ve not found any direct references to the pyramids of Giza in the Bible, Biblical scholars have made other comments such as found in Isaiah 19:19-20; Joshua 22:26,
Ephesians 2:20-21

The purpose of the great pyramid has been discussed by many over the years indicating it was designed as an energy machine, while others contend it was a water pump of sort. Today there is no doubt that it is a money-making generator based on the tourism industry in Egypt.

A few of the lesser-known facts about the three pyramids of Giza that I find interesting are the following:

• The alignment of the three pyramids of Giza coincides with the 3 stars of Orion’s belt in the Orion Constellation.
• There is believed to be a large rock outcropping directly below the pyramids which might explain why the massive weight of the pyramids has not recessed much in height over thousands of years.
• The great pyramid was placed in the exact center of all the land area of the world. Lines drawn through the north-south and east-west axis of the pyramid divide equally all the earth’s terrain.
• The empty coffer found in the great pyramid by the Arabs about 850 AD has the exact same inside dimensions as the “Ark of the Covenant” mentioned in the Bible. Coincidence?

Egyptologists continue to take credit for building the three pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx, however these theories and others not mentioned here need to be considered. For me the research of the pyramids and Sphinx are more important than as a tourist industry.

Dennis G. Balthaser

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Searching for the Truth

(Always Telling the Truth Means Never Having to Remember Anything)

Research Encouragement from a Middle School

Dennis Balthaser 12-18-10

Doing UFO research is at times extremely frustrating for me due to the continued denial of truth by the government and military, the “woo-woo” types that have infiltrated serious research, and the small town politics and egos surrounding Roswell and the UFO Museum.

Fortunately, young people continue to come to my rescue by writing to me and asking for assistance in doing school project reports on the subject of Ufology. This has been of such importance to me over the years, that I have devoted a section of my web site to “Kids Speaking Out About UFOs”, where I post their reports when complete. These young students and their teachers give me encouragement that the future, with their desire for knowledge, is more important than the debunkers, skeptics and critics we’ve had to deal with for many years.

Below is a list of questions and my answers I received from a middle school back east that I want to share with you.

Mr. Balthaser,
Here are the questions. Thanks again for doing this interview.

1. What connections are there between the Mogul project and the Roswell crash, besides the government's claim that they are the same object?

There is no connection. The Mogul balloon project excuse for the Roswell Incident has been disproven. The material in the photo taken in General Ramey's office on the floor is part of a weather balloon and contains no material from a Mogul balloon. Additionally, the particular launch of a Mogul balloon referenced by the government and skeptics was cancelled due to weather conditions.

2. Reports from the government seem vague, is there anything they seem to be leaving out?

Yes, what they are leaving out is the truth about what actually crashed on the Foster ranch. We've been given 4 excuses over the past 64 years by the Air Force and government. July 8, 1947 newspaper article in most afternoon papers west of Chicago stated we had captured and had in our possession a flying saucer. The next day July 9th, newspaper articles in the morning papers east of Chicago said it was a weather balloon. In 1994 the Air Force report stated it was a Mogul balloon, and finally in 1997 the Air Force said the bodies were anthroporphic crash test dummies. Don't be surprised if we are given another excuse.

3. In your words, what effects does this secrecy have on the public?

The cover-up of UFOs (flying saucers) is only one of many things the government has lied to the public about during the past 30-40 years. In 1947 people trusted and respected the government---today that trust has diminished as shown in current surveys about the mistrust of our government.

4. What is your explanation of the supplies found at the site? (Indestructible foil, engravings in wood, etc.)

Those type materials were described by numerous first hand witnesses as being materials no one had ever seen or were familiar with. Today we have fiber optics, metal that has memory, etc, which didn't exist in 1947.

5. Is there any solid evidence of ET's captured from the crash?

Yes, from 1st hand witnesses that claim to have actually seen bodies, described as child size, with larger than normal heads, large eyes and approximately 3 ½ - 4’ tall.

6. Through our research, we learned that the vehicle recovered from the site was unable to be started. Why? What does this prove?

There was no craft recovered, but rather pieces of debris scattered over a field several hundred yards wide by 3/4 mile long.

7. What type of information would prevent the disclosure of this event?

Our government will not admit to anything existing that they cannot control, and if these craft have been visiting us as long as many believe and continue to do so, our government cannot do anything to stop it. Who in our government would, or will admit that they have been lieing to us for the past 64 years about the Roswell Incident and other things? More importantly, it is my theory that whatever was recovered will not be disclosed or admitted to until the military has the complete advantage of such technology, which I don't believe they have yet. (Propulsion and guidance systems, where they are from, and what their motive is.)

8. Why is the government trying so hard to keep this a secret?

For the military advantage of having such technology and knowledge. You can't tell your friends your secrets without telling your enemies.

9. Is there any connection between the atomic bomb test and the Roswell crash?

Many believe there is a connection, since the atomic bomb was tested less than 100 miles south of Roswell in 1945, and they could have been sitting out there wondering what these clowns on earth were up to. The atomic bomb consisted of 50,000 people and the secret was kept for 10 years. Area 51, the secret base in Nevada was opened by the CIA in 1955 to test the U-2 aircraft and we found out about it in the 1980's through a Russian satellite photo.  The F-117 stealth airplane was on the drawing boards in 1973 and we learned of it during the Gulf war in 1991, so the government is very capable of keeping secrets.

10.  If there are ET's, why would the government keep them a secret?

Same answer as question 7 above---CONTROL....

11. Is there anything of extreme value that would come from having alien bodies and alien materials on earth?

Yes, medical information, technological information, time travel, etc., etc. To get here from wherever they are from would mean they are 100s, thousands, perhaps 10s of thousands of years ahead of us, since we can't go there yet.

12. Does the crash test dummy story provide a good explanation of the bodies recovered?

None...the Air Force shot themselves in the foot with that excuse, since the dummies weren't used until 1953, (6 years after the Roswell Incident).

13. Was the balloon in the picture with Maj. Jesse Marcel the same wreckage found in the crash?

No, and until Major Marcel’s death he insisted the material he was forced to pose with for the pictures in General Ramey’s office was not the material he brought from Roswell to General Ramey’s office. The brown paper the material is laying on is off a new roll of paper not from a wrapped package brought from Roswell, and an unopened package is seen against the wall in several of the photos.

14. Why has the government been so hostile towards witnesses?

Threatening people appears to be a good way to silence witnesses, through their retirement, their safety and the safety of their family members.

15. Why are there so many alleged crash sites?

Various rumors and stories have developed over the years. My thinking is that the craft crashed (debris found on the Foster ranch), and the bodies were discovered within a mile of that site, possibly being ejected in a capsule, knowing they were crashing. I put no confidence in any other sites mentioned due to not having any reliable witness testimony about them.

16. How much was the president involved?

The President of the United States is not cleared for this type information. The President is a temporary employee ( 8 years max.), and cannot be trusted with this information. Each President is probably made aware of ET existence, but not details. Many Presidents have tried to go public with UFO information but were silenced such as Carter, Ford, Reagan, Kennedy and Clinton. Bush Sr. might have known the most having been head of the CIA before becoming President. Reagan had meetings with Russia's Gorbachov about UFO and was told to be quiet after addressing the United Nations on the subject of UFOs.

17. We read that at the president's signature was forged. Is this true? How much evidence of this is there?

It appears that Truman's signature might have been lifted from another document for the MJ-12 papers. That is still debatable, although it appears to be true.

Thanks,
xxxxxxx Middle School

With these type questions from young students, perhaps the truth will someday be made public.

Dennis G. Balthaser

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Searching for the Truth

(Always Telling the Truth Means Never Having to Remember Anything)

The Paranormal Invasion of Serious UFO Research

Dennis Balthaser 10-01-10

This editorial will not set well with many that read it, but my personal concern has been a growing problem for me for some time, and as I’ve done in previous articles, I confront things that bother me, or are obvious contradictions or alternatives to serious UFO research. Perhaps my concern is due to having a civil engineering background, or the fact that for the past 14 years I have been fortunate enough to do this research with some of the top researchers in the field of Ufology, and many of those researchers share my concern.

As an example, a Google search of the “1947 Roswell Incident websites” reveals over 84,000 results. For many of those sites listed, the “researcher” has never been to Roswell, never interviewed a witness, or knows anything about the crash site(s), consequently their information is second or third hand “arm chair” research, and in many cases it is not factual information. Such is the fallacious nature of the Internet, since anything can be posted by anyone about anything.

Another concern is what I refer to as the “circus or carnival atmosphere” surrounding several of the well-known UFO Symposiums, “Festivals”, and Conferences around the country. I realize that by having such events, a town or city believes it can generate more income, and probably does, but what does such an event do to promote serious research?

Photo: Roswell UFO Festival, Copyrighted, Kathy Burns

At most of these type events, pay attention to what the media, (TV, newspaper and magazine reporters and photographers) depict about the event. It’s usually an article or photograph of some one in a tinfoil hat, or outlandish costume. Very seldom is anything depicted of the serious researcher that has devoted most of his or her life and expenses to investigating and researching a UFO Incident.  

Several of you that read this will say, “Dennis you need to lighten up”. My immediate response would be that the serious research of the UFO phenomenon may well be the biggest story of the millennium, and I personally think it should remain a serious topic in the media, at symposiums and conferences, and other venues. I certainly haven’t seen it reported or depicted that way at many of those events for many years, and the paranormal aspect has slowly been creeping into all of those.

After many years of observing and being involved with the making of TV documentaries on the subject of UFOs, I have finally realized that they have very little to do with factual or verifiable information from serious researchers. Ratings and profit are the main motive. Additionally unlike what many believe, in nearly every case the serious researcher is NOT reimbursed for his time on film, or the years of research and expense he or she has devoted to the subject, which is freely given to the documentary, so some producer or director can apply his own take on the event, usually with less than accurate information presented, when the show is aired.

I vividly remember at some of the conferences I’ve attended where one of the speakers talked about having been impregnated by aliens several times. Others have talked about spiritual healing, ghosts, and witches. Still others are clairvoyants, astrologers, Shamans, mind and body healers, etc.

Placing researchers such as Stanton Friedman, (the 1947 Roswell Incident), John Greenewald Jr., (Government Conspiracies), Travis Walton, (1995 abductee, “Fire in the Sky”), Kathleen Marden, (the Betty and Barney Hill Story), and other serious, respected, scientific oriented individuals on the same conference schedule with those mentioned above, does nothing to promote the further education of the public on the subject of Ufology.

Perhaps the serious researchers should no longer participate in those events that contain such a wide range of subjects that basically have nothing of value to do with UFO research. I have in fact talked to several researchers who have devoted many years of their time and expense to serious research, who have already made such a decision, informing me they would not attend any UFO conferences until such time that conference organizers get back to having real UFO conferences, without the newagers, “woo-woo” types that appear to be taken over many of the symposiums.

As a final comment, I just returned from a conference I attended, and received an email from one of the attendees stating:

“I just listened to part of a radio interview you did. You talked about the pyramids and you showed that they are located so as to look like the Orion Constellation. I wanted to add that the spaceship that crashed at Roswell was from Orion. And the crash test dummies were right. Orion’s look human and they are over 6 feet tall. They are covering up an Orion crash. If anyone saw the crash and saw the Orion’s they would have seen what looked like tall people and could have been confused into thinking they saw crash test dummies maybe.”

I responded to this individual, “that other researchers and myself have been investigating the Roswell Incident for many years, and no one has ever mentioned any bodies being over 6’ tall. All eye witnesses have described the alleged bodies as being 3-4’ tall resembling small children”. As for them coming from Orion, (as she stated as a matter of fact), I emphasized again that in 64 years no one has ever determined where they were from.

Not expecting a response, since this person already knew more than all of us that have been researching Roswell the past 30 some years she did respond with the following:

“My reaction to the symposium was that it was by and for hoaxers and that there were no current reports of UFOs that I heard. We walk different paths. On my path the Greys are gone and there is no reason to focus on them. Thank you for your time.”

So in her mind Stanton Friedman, John Greenewald Jr., Travis Walton and myself are hoaxers, since we were participants in the conference she attended.

This type thinking and reaction on her part only reinforces my thinking and several other researchers that I have discussed my concern with, that the time has come for the news media, TV documentary executives, and conference organizers to look at what they are presenting to the public.

If the “woo-woos, kool-aid drinkers, or new agers” (whatever you want to call them), want to share their views give them a separate venue, but don’t interface serious UFO researchers with them. We have devoted too much of our time and expenses over the years, to be associated with those types. We want the truth from our government and military about the phenomenon known as Ufology, and when 70% of those polled believe UFOs exist, and 60-70% believe the government is covering up what they know, give the serious researchers their proper due.  The answers we’re looking for about UFOs will not be coming from Tarot card readers, psychics, or clairvoyants, but rather from researchers with credible backgrounds, who go into the field, or archives to research factual information, and try to educate the public with the information they have devoted years to obtaining.

Dennis G. Balthaser

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