by Steve Hammons
August 24, 2006

from AmericanChronicle Website

In rapid-fire succession, a second information release in four days was made public today about U.S. Government activities involving extraterrestrials.

The information was again sent through a prominent e-mail stream group and posted verbatim on a well-known Web site, serpo.org.

Today, the information allegedly came from sources connected to the British intelligence organization MI6. It focuses on the experiences of those allegedly directly connected with projects in the decades following contact with extraterrestrial visitors following events near Roswell, New Mexico in the late 1940s.

The claims released today also focus on the rumors, stories and claims that a 12-person U.S. military team was sent to the home planet of visiting extraterrestrials during the 1960s and '70s.

The planned 10-year stay as part of an exchange program and was reportedly called Project CRYSTAL KNIGHT, with the later code name Project SERPO after the team returned home.

On Monday, Aug. 21, the moderator of the e-mail stream presented information said to be from sources alleged to be associated with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). This release included wide-ranging topics on U.S. Government programs regarding extraterrestrial visitors and their technology.

Regarding today’s information, the e-mail stream moderator stated that if he can determine that the information is a hoax, we will announce this publicly. The Web site coordinator of serpo.org also announced that he will remove this posting on his Web site if it is confirmed to be a fabrication.

One of the e-mail stream moderator’s alleged DIA sources has indicated he suspects the source is not an MI6-connected person at all. He wrote to the moderator,

“What's new in this? Someone just took information from the other postings we did together and made this up. I don't see anything new. I doubt this came from British intelligence. I think someone just fabricated this.”

However, people who have followed this fascinating story may be interested in the overview and details released today to decide for themselves. To some, it seems to pull together parts of the story in a helpful way.
 

ANOTHER VIEW OF PROJECT CRYSTAL KNIGHT
(Note: Some bracketed information is that of the author of this article and some is apparently that of the e-mail moderator and/or the confidential source.)

The source introduced the information to the e-mail stream moderator as follows:

“Please release this information verbatim to your huge list. Thank you. It comes indirectly from British Intelligence (MI6), but it IS an accurate account of one person's experience with ‘Project CRYSTAL KNIGHT.’”

He continued,

“[Redacted] became involved in ‘Project CRYSTAL KNIGHT’ in the summer of 1958. [Redacted] was assigned to Holloman AFB when he was briefed into a program that involved communication with an Extraterrestrial Race. [Redacted] had known about Roswell as part of an earlier briefing in 1952. “

“During the summer of 1958, [redacted] was called to Sandia Base (Kirtland AFB) for a top secret meeting. There were command officials present. [General] Charles Cabell, USAF was in charge of a group that would eventually control ‘Project CRYSTAL KNIGHT.’"

“A presentation was given on an extraordinary planned event involving contact with an Extraterrestrial Intelligence located on another planet."
 

COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES

This source goes on in some detail about a U.S. Air Force unit, other elements of the military and civilian assets assigned to handle some of the technological aspects of communicating with these visitors through deep space using devices reportedly found in a crashed spacecraft near Roswell, New Mexico.

“The 2044th Communication Squadron (AF) was responsible...along with personnel from U.S. Army Communications Service and a selected number of civilians from Los Alamos National Laboratory.“

“The live alien, which [who] was captured near Roswell, provided the technical information to function [properly operate] the communication system.”

“Three members of the 2044th were trained in the technical means to work the ET system. The system was complicated and required a special power system that was found inside the crashed alien spacecraft. Once the 2044th technicians learned the system, the communication was ready to function.”

The source explains that the difficulties went beyond the technology involved. The visitors’ language was quite different and required linguistic experts to attempt to understand it.

“However, the biggest problem was understanding the language of the aliens. The communication system worked on the alien language, which only one or two USAF officers, who worked with the alien, knew.”

“From 1952 until 1958, language specialists (both U.S. Army and Air Force) worked on translating the written language.”

Apparently, according to this source and others, U.S. personnel working on this project were able to adequately learn enough of the alien language so that messages coming through the visitors’ communication device could be somewhat understood.

“Finally, after some effort by several smart people, we were able to translate the language, but only about 70 percent of each message. That gave us enough information to understand what the aliens were sending. The aliens wanted to return to Earth and pick up their comrades [alive and deceased]. Our mission was to plan the event and provide all of the necessary logistics to pull this off.”

The communication gap continued to be an obstacle, according to this source. U.S. personnel were able to educate the visitors about the English language adequately so that more effective communication was possible.

“Somewhere along the way, one of the AF communications specialists decided to send an English message to the aliens. Now this would be difficult since the alien communication system did not have English letters. But our AF ingenuity came into play.”

“Utilizing a newly created classified military communication system (TAC-STAR), we were able to somehow (never understood how) wire in the keyboard of a TAC-STAR. This would enable us to type English letters into the alien communication system. It took some time and effort but it worked.”

“We sent messages in English, along with our alphabet and numbering system. Our numbering system was similar to that of the aliens, and although our number [numerical] designations were different, we were able to use lines to indicate the corresponding number.”

“After several exchanges of messages, the aliens got it before we got theirs. It was obvious to us that we were dealing with a highly advanced civilization. From about June 1960 on, we began receiving messages in English from the aliens. They did not send complete sentences, but they sent enough for us to understand the meaning of the message.”

“From that point on, we communicated only in English except for numbers. We grasped their numbering system pretty quickly and used their numbering system since we did not wish to provide them with wrong [incorrect] landing coordinates.”

“We eventually provided them with the latitude and longitude [coordinates]. We also provided them with the military coordinate system used by our pilots back in the early days.”
 

FINDING A LANDING ZONE

“We had to have a remote location which would not give way to any adverse public knowledge.”

“There were literately hundreds of locations selected and analyzed. Most of the locations first selected were remote islands. But there were logistical problems with those locations. We would have to sail ships to these remote locations and that just might give us away.”

“We had to choose a location that would not be suspicious, but still remote.”

“The group decided on a location west of Holloman AFB near Alamogordo, NM. They actually decided on two locations. One was a fake location on Holloman, and the actual landing location was at White Sands.”

AN EXCHANGE PROGRAM

The source then continues his narrative about planning for further operations:

“Sometime in late 1962, we all met again, this time at a very secure underground facility at Los Alamos.”

“We got the real startling news: Our government planned to exchange a U.S. military team with the aliens. [Redacted] doesn't remember all of the details, but he remembers that a lot of key officials in the meeting thought that was a wrong [bad] idea.”

“The reasoning behind the skepticism was this: We knew virtually nothing of this alien race, except what one surviving alien told us [EBE-1]. How could we trust sending a team of people to another planet?”

“We knew very little about the planet except it was about 40 [38.42] light years away. How long would the trip last and how could our team prepare for such a trip? These were questions all members asked.”

“But the powers that be, mainly General Cabell, said all of that had been worked out. How? Maybe we established better communications with the aliens. It's doubtful that most of the members knew it all.”

“A lot was compartmented and not everyone knew everything. [Redacted] surmised that maybe the aliens landed prior to the scheduled 1964 date and possibly exchanged information. But he never had any official knowledge of this.”
 

ASSEMBLING THE TEAM

Different accounts and details of the process of the selection and training of the 12-person team and back-up candidates have been made public previously. The information released today appears consistent with the previous reports.

“The next big problem was selecting a team. Bob Hall, the commander of a space flight training squadron, was in charge of this. We also had CIA people and some people from the newly created DIA.”

“The disguise was that the USAF was selecting a special team to travel to the moon and these people must undergo special training and a special selection process. None of the military people trying out for this team knew the real mission.”

“About 500 people applied and that narrowed down to about 160. But there was a problem. Some specialists required on this mission were missing. Besides, the requirement called for each Team Member to be single, never married, no children and if possible, orphans. The USAF had to go out and recruit two doctors and several other specialists.”

“Finally, after several months of the selection process, 16 team members were selected, 12 who would go and four (4) alternates. Once the team was selected, they underwent about six (6) months of extensive training at various locations around the world.”

“Each selectee went through the most difficult and demanding training in the world. Most of it was similar to astronaut training. A lot of physiological stress training, high-altitude training, and also parachute training at Ft. Bragg.”

“Each member went through weapons and combat training and the possibility of capture by going through survival, evasion and escape training.”

“They also learned the basic alien language, alphabet and phrases. This was difficult since the alien spoke a tonal dialect, basically like singing in a high pitch voice. Most had extreme difficulty learning this, but the two linguists on the team learned it quickly [Team Members #420 and #475].”
 

VISITORS RETURN

“The landing date was set for April 24, 1964. The entire group assembled at White Sands under a cover. We posed as inspectors for a no-notice inspection of Holloman.”

“There was a mistake by the first alien craft entering the area. It apparently got the landing coordinates wrong and landed near Socorro (the Lonnie Zamora incident). The second craft landed at the correct location. There were members of the Johnson Administration along with the special group.”

“The meeting lasted about four (4) hours. It was decided that the exchange would not occur until the following year. Our team members were present and ready to go, but the aliens decided to wait until the next year. The date was set for July 1965.”

“The delay presented a problem for our team members. What do we do with them for the next 15 months? The Team Members went back into training for about 12 months. The last few months were spent locked up at the U.S. Military Prison [Penitentiary], Ft. Leavenworth.”

“We had to decide on another location for the exchange. During the April 1964 meeting, we did not supply a pick up location. We informed our alien visitors that a location would be selected and they would be informed through the communication system. We finally decided on a remote location at the Nevada Test Site [NTS].”
 

MISSION IS A ‘GO’

“On July 16, 1965, the aliens landed at exactly the precise location at NTS.”

It is in this phase of the story that many people will recall Steven Spielberg’s 1977 movie CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND.

In the film, government officials set up an elaborate and covert landing zone (LZ) in a remote location, complete with small landing strip, air control facilities, cameras and recording equipment, and an array of government and military personnel.

It has rumored that Spielberg may have been given some type of inside information about actual events that were included in the movie.

Something that may not have been obvious many viewers of the movie, the military personnel involved in clandestine logistics moving the red-suited team and equipment, the personnel at the military site near the LZ, the colonel apparently in charge there and the troops who pursue Richard Dreyfuss and others near the ET landing zone, were depicted as U.S. Army Special Forces.

Only people who recognized the shoulder patch on their uniforms would have realized this. Special Forces are known to engage in unconventional and highly sensitive operations.

Of special relevance is the final scene in the movie when the 12-person team, dressed in red flight suits, boards the alien craft after a prayer with a chaplain.

According to the alleged MI6 source,

“The group was present and the exchange took place without any problems. We had equipment in place for the team, approximately 40 tons [90,500 lbs].”

“The aliens had no problem carrying all of this on the two (2) crafts that landed. It was later learned that the two crafts that landed were only shuttle crafts. The larger craft was located somewhere between our moon and Mars. Our team later told us (during the debriefing in '78) that the alien craft was enormous.”

“We maintained contact with our Team Members by use of the alien communication system during the space trip, which lasted about 10 months. Once they landed, we continued contact, but only on an irregular time schedule.”
 

THE TEAM’S EXPERIENCES

In previous releases via the e-mail steam moderator and posted on serpo.org, many fascinating accounts were presented about the alleged experiences of the team en route to and upon arriving on the visitors’ home planet.

These postings include claims of verbatim entries made in the team commander’s log, descriptions of the "Ebens" on their home planet, exploration of the geography of the planet as well as the plants and animals the U.S. team found there.

Many other thought-provoking aspects of the alleged 12-year stay are also presented in previous postings, available HERE.

The team's return to Earth as described in today’s release is consistent with previous reports:

“The Team Members returned in August 1978 at the exact location. Eight (8) members returned. Two (2) died on the planet and their bodies were returned. Two (2) others decided to remain on the alien planet.”

“The eight members were isolated for one (1) complete year at a special facility located at Los Alamos. After the one year of isolation and debriefing, they were given new identities, a large bonus and the offer to return to military service or retire. Six decided to retire and two remained on active duty. All eight are now dead.”
 

HOAX OR CONFIRMATION?

The moderator of the e-mail stream has received information from several anonymous sources about these matters over the past months.

He has been burned previously by those with false information who may have wanted to sabotage his efforts or had some other motives. He admits he was duped by at least one person who posed as a source the moderator had learned to trust regarding these topics.

The moderator continues to appear very aware of the need for scrutiny when dealing with these anonymous sources. He invites others to double-check the information for credibility and he makes no guarantees about its truthfulness.

There have been many people worldwide who have wondered aloud about whether these kinds of stories could possibly be accurate, or even somewhat true. Many people are naturally doubtful about the reliability of these anonymous sources and their highly interesting claims.

Yet, many people seem to find some ring of truth in them.

And, undoubtedly, there are current and former military and intelligence personnel, as well as scientists and others, who have more information about the truth or inaccuracy of this kind of information.

Whether these reports are part of a gradual disclosure of actual events and situations is not yet clear to many. Are these information releases part of a planned acclimation program, preparing us for surprising, shocking, upsetting or uplifting news?

Or, are they simply the product of vivid imaginations or some kind of psychological tactic?

These are the questions that many people around the world will undoubtedly keep asking. And maybe some answers will be found. Maybe some truths will emerge.

Maybe our Earth, our Universe and our own lives are far more interesting than we previously imagined.