The Father of UFO Technology

[Robert Baird]

No one person is the total originator of any thought. Much of the Russian Sputnik development used an 18th Century alchemist's designs. Da Vinci had flying machines and the Abydos glyphs are there because alchemists including the Ptolemies (Cleopatra and Philometer for sure as well as one in every generation going back before Alexander put them in charge of Egypt.) drew drawings of what they "saw" in the milky bowl or Philosopher's Stone. I had a partner in Indianapolis who was taking Marine flight training at Randolph AFB when Strughold (Green of Project Paperclip and others of MK Ultra etc) was brought to live behind fences in a new concentration camp. Every nation that had said they would not bring Nazi scientists to work for them was lying. Every nation was using human guinea pigs like Mengele - Germany was the only nation with laws and regulations to follow. The founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab known as the Jack Parson's Lab was an alchemist.

A List of Alchemists

The Nazi Space Program:

Against the wishes of Von Braun (A now admitted Nazi who the US had difficulty hiding the fact.) another person may even have put the first human into space. But that person was most likely a concentration camp detainee rather than the chimps later used by the US.


Eugen Sanger also developed approaches which would allow inter-planetary space travel. Ram Jet and Ion Propulsion thus have a longer history than I had thought. Stalin tried to make him an asset for Russia and clearly knew enough to work on these technologies which I think are what goes on at places like Area 51. You could call him the Father of UFO technology.


"After the war ended, Sänger worked for the French government and in 1949 founded the Fédération Astronautique. Whilst in France, he was the subject of a botched attempt by Soviet agents to win him over. Joseph Stalin had become intrigued by reports of the Silbervogel design and sent his son, Vasily, and scientist Grigori Tokaty to convince him to come to the Soviet Union, but they failed to do so. It has also been reported that Stalin instructed the NKVD to kidnap him.[3]

In 1951, he became the first President of the International Astronautical Federation.


By 1954, Sänger had returned to Germany and three years later was directing a jet propulsion research institute in Stuttgart. Between 1961 and 1963 he acted as a consultant for Junkers in designing a ramjet-powered space-plane that never left the drawing board. Sänger's other theoretical innovations during this period were proposing means of using photons for interplanetary and interstellar spacecraft propulsion prefiguring the concept of laser propulsion and the solar sail."

Eugen Sänger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The plane used to hop along the atmosphere is a lot like the Avro Arrow jet which my high school physics teacher worked on. He may even have brought these designs with him from Germany. His name was Mr. Schmidt and I used to talk with him after class and after school. He was a sweet person but made fun of for his accent and being German by students (At one point including myself.). We talked advanced physics and I would bring him books my brother was studying in his engineering classes as he shared books with me. One of the books he shared with me was the book he took the final exam questions from along with the answers. He knew I did not need to study simple formulae and foolish educational curricula. I cried years later when I heard he committed suicide and tears still come to my eyes as I type these words.

 

[Sighing Flosser]

Oh wow! Wish I'd seen this post before I put up my post about the Nazi space program and probable first human into space on the Nazi UFO thread. This is a much more pertinent thread.

 

[Robert Baird]

Yours was first, I almost added this to yours, but there are things I say that are a lot different. I am glad you liked it.

Patton was clued in to what the future would bring (Cold War) and Nuclear weapons the Germans almost had completed, I think. You can assume therefore I think he was assassinated because he would not have kept his mouth shut and there was already an effort underway to get all this stuff going in both Russia and the US. He wanted to go on to Russia but never grasped the fact that both wars were part of the same plan including the formation of Russia. I have a quote from Yeltsin along these lines. Here is the quote from a thread on Communism and Stalin the American CEO of Russia.

Protocols, Russia and The World Cop

When Boris Yeltsin spoke about an experiment that 'they' wrought upon his Russian 'brethren' on June 1st, 1991; did anyone ask who THEY were? Here is what he said:

"Our country has not been lucky. Indeed, it was decided to carry out this Marxist experiment on us -... Instead of some country in Africa, they began this experiment with us."

 

[Sighing Flosser]

The Nazi Space Program:

Against the wishes of Von Braun (A now admitted Nazi who the US had difficulty hiding the fact.) another person may even have put the first human into space. But that person was most likely a concentration camp detainee rather than the chimps later used by the US.

Robert, is there a source for this paragraph?

Assuming this is true, you have to wonder if the American and Soviet space programs ever deliberately sent people to their deaths in space as well, since both space programs were set up by Nazi scientists. Suppose at the outset of the American space program that the Paperclip Nazi rocket scientists told their military handlers up front that in order to get the program operational and put up a few satellites, some hands-on work would be required in orbit meaning it could not be done without sending people to die in space. Would the people in charge have agreed to that? If they thought the Soviets were also doing it, they almost certainly would have gone along with it. And if there was some initial hesitation, you can bet it evaporated the second the Soviets put up Sputnik I.

 

[Robert Baird]

There are many sources for Von Braun being a Nazi. The Americans were engaged in eugenics and human experimentation - they backed the German efforts (see Old Joe Kennedy, The Tuskegee Experiment and others). In the movie Apollo 13 you see the astronauts insisting on going into space rather than the chimps Von Braun wanted. But in Sanger's case he knew they had to hurry and any chance of human input while up there - would have been done as you say.

 

[Sighing Flosser]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. Is there a source for the part about a concentration camp detainee having been the first person in space? It seems pretty likely to me, but I've never seen such a concept mentioned anywhere in print.

 

[Robert Baird]

If you are thinking that they wouldn't send people into research projects like this - THEY DID. Their own people. A woman was a major test pilot too. But in a case where they were contemplating ending the program and Sanger or whoever was in charge wanted to hurry, it just makes sense to send a concentration camp detainee rather than getting a highly decorated test pilot.

Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Chuckleberryfinn]

"the Abydos glyphs are there because alchemists including the Ptolemies (Cleopatra and Philometer for sure as well as one in every generation going back before Alexander put them in charge of Egypt.) drew drawings of what they "saw" in the milky bowl or Philosopher's Stone"

Dude,

The Abydos glyphs are just a palimpsest. It's been pretty clearly demonstrated that there was an original set of glyphs, and these were covered up with plaster and re-glyphed with a new meaning. The plaster then fell off, and what you have are two sets of glyphs, the one atop the other, creating the illusion of a helicopter drawing, etc.

 

[Robert Baird]

DUDETTE

That would be nice to know, Do you have proof when this was done and by whom? I searched and found this - which also might not be true.

Some oldtimers here may remember a short discussion on the so called Abydos Helicopter between Katherine Griffis and myself. I kind of let it go after making my reservations on the Abydos Helicopter 'palimpsest' theory known. Nevertheless, if you search on the web for the keywords 'Abydos helicopter', up as number one comes my page about this old discussion.

Being the first choice obliges one to put in a good effort. In this case, rather than learning hieroglyphs, my chosen approach was to analyze the problem geometrically since no one else did that before.

Now, I am pleased to announce that the relevant section of glyphs at the Abydos Temple showcases the Golden Rectangle to the degree, where there is no question of this being deliberate, not coincidental. Since the Golden Rectangle systematically serves as a frame for glyph groupings, we have certainty that these glyphs were designed together.

Thus, these glyphs are no palimpsests, as they are alleged, because palimpsests are unintentional.

That changes the picture.
http://www.geocities.com/jirimruzek/abyhelic.htm

Seeing is believing,

Jiri Mruzek

Google Groups

 

[Robert Baird]

In looking further I see serious research including one Lumir Janku who I think I recall having good discourse with in reference to Martin Doutre's Moriori Kelts - which I found DNA evidence to support. I think I was on Alternative Archaeology when this whole article was written. I know that Rick Gore of National Geographic says anyone writing about these times is writing fiction. I think I have pierced the overall fiction sold by Critias and his family including Solon and Plato. Plato and Pythagoras are both alchemists and from elite families of Phoenicians going back to Dolni Vestonici (etc., etc.) and the DNN (see link here on the Ainu).

"Quote from an article by Lumir G. Janku
http://www.enigmas.org/aef/lib/archeo/abydosm.shtml


There is one aspect of the inscription which is puzzling. The temple in Abydos (or Abdjou, as the location was called by Egyptians), is quite a remarkable edifice, specially as far as the quality of glyphs is concerned. They are all very precise and as far as I can judge, there’s no trace of sloppy workmanship anywhere in the temple, bare the above inscription.

!!! This really deserves an exclamation mark. How wrong can you get? I have proven the exact opposite. The inscription is a remarkably accurate exercise on the Golden Section...

Janku also wrote:


The temple was build by Seti I and finished by his son, Ramses II, during an era of classical revival. The obvious corrections on the inscription in question are thus seemingly out of place. But without the translation of the inscription, it is difficult to propose a hypothesis for why the original inscription was changed, apparently twice.

This must be why we don’t see any Egyptologists commit to graphical explanation of the glyphs, preferably against the background of a high resolution photograph. They sense that something is wrong.

Jiri Mruzek - Vancouver, BC

Send mail to: JiriMruzek (at) Shaw(dot)ca"

The Abydos Helicopter and The Golden Section

Frontier scientist Richard Hoagland’s research team The Enterprise Mission, pointed out another relatively new and interesting development in the proof for a lost technological society. Among other points, Hoagland et al. discuss the recent findings of German scientists Dr. Algund Eeboom and Mr. Peter Belting. Several small gold trinkets have been recovered from tombs of the Incas, dating back thousands of years. These trinkets clearly depict structures that undeniably appear to be workable flying airplanes, complete with what appear to be gun turrets on some of the wings; see for yourself.

Figure 2.2 – Eeboom and Belting’s discovery of ancient gold trinkets of working aircraft

In order to prove that these tiny models represented real airplanes, Eeboom and Belting collaborated together to design perfect schematic diagrams of the tiny objects. They then expanded the proportions of these blueprints large enough to build workable scale models. And to their amazement, they found that by simply putting a propeller at the front and stabilizers on the wings, the planes not only flew but were capable of performing complex aeronautical maneuvers via remote control." The last is from the Dragon Court.

In Mexico at Acambaro there are many toys showing things including dinosaurs and unfortunately Christians see it as proof of the Creationist Theory and have taken over the site. It had already been ravaged by archaeology and government agencies but there are treatises from Julsrud and others which will always remain. Niven found a similar ancient cultural treasure trove near Mexico City. I explain all these OOPARTS with human science.

 

[boomerang]

Strughold (Green of Project Paperclip and others of MK Ultra etc) was brought to live behind fences in a new concentration camp.

And Strughold was such a jovial and charming old fellow in person, decades ago when he delivered a lecture to our astronomy club! He was handing out fake dollar bills themed on a lunar currency motif with "lunar lucre" printed on them. I may even have one tucked away somewhere.

Would I therefore trust an assertion that he was not involved in cruel human experimentation? Of course not. People who believe in a cause, no matter how ethically warped or twisted, would not see themselves as guilty and would therefore demonstrate no remorse. Again, review what we now know about MK Ultra and other such ghoulish endeavors. What we know is probably the tip of a larger and rather dirty iceberg.

One thing has always stuck in my mind. I had approached Dr. Strughold with one of his books (published for the popular market) for him to autograph. (Keep in mind that he was an esteemed member of the community at the time) He looked me over with what I can only describe as of reaction of surprise and recognition. As if he thought he knew me from somewhere. (certainly not Europe) It simply struck me as odd. I was in my late teens or early twenties and had hardly ever set foot on an airbase.

How paranoid should one be? It was probably just his style of social interaction. Or maybe I reminded him of someone. (I bear a passing resemblance to James Oberg, BTW.) But I certainly had no memory of ever meeting Strughold. Dunno.....

 

[Robert Baird]

Interesting.. I have just been posting something about someone knowing more about me than I learned about myself until decades later. There are many things the Inner Sanctum initiates learn beyond mere mind reading. Genetic Info transfer is a reality and people with certain genes can be addressed in a similar manner by an adept. For example if you were related to Hitler or the Rothschild family he is part of (And like his father studied five years in Vienna to learn Trance Channelling etc.) people in high places look for special clues including last names you may not know have been part of their breeding program. In my case it becomes fairly obvious - but I did not know. I knew I was named after Robert the Bruce and probably learned he was Robert de Bruges and a few things about various BR people in the years I spent in the Militia but that is about it. Strughold certainly would be one of those characters in the movie Boys from Brazil if there was any truth to it other than what genetic breeding goes along with the schools set up by St. Germain de Medicis in Vienna.

Here is that post.

You may think the albino who wore thorns around his genitalia or flagellated himself was a fiction made from a creative mind in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. Opus Dei and The Pilgrims or Beacon Hill Mob along with an inner sanctum of European nobility inside the Knights of Malta are all just fictions too. My oldest brother and I were targets of the Head of The Knights of Malta in Canada when we were young. Our Regimental Sergeant-Major named Joe Frendo-Cumbo was a very outgoing friendly sort and I wondered what he knew or saw in us. He only pursued us as far as I know but some others higher up or older members of the officer's club were probably in the Knights. At the time I knew almost nothing about Camp X or my own name including being named after a founder of a Templar re-organization in Scotland which may be the earliest Rosicrucian society you will find in history. Of course the name does not make it so just because it is the first such group with Rosicrucianus in it. Yep, we are related to Robert the Bruce as my father had said was a family legend. I did find proof a few years ago.

Study this link hard. Here is one little part of it which you really have to take a month or so of further research to grasp. JFK and Khrushchev were going to end the Cold War. Rockefeller made his first visit to Moscow to direct an end to Khrushchev just a weekend before it happened. Do not accept any meaning attributed to the word 'communist'.

"Daniele Ganser, 'NATO's Secret Armies', p. 70-71: "On election day in April 1963 the CIA nightmare materialised: The Communists gained strength while all other parties lost seats.... the Socialists were also given cabinet posts in the Italian government under Prime Minister Aldo Moro of the left-wing of the DCI [Christian Democratic Party]... Kennedy had allowed Italy to shift to the left. As the Socialists were given cabinet posts the Italian Communists, due to their performance at the polls, also demanded to be rewarded with posts in the cabinet and in May 1963 the large union of the construction workers demonstrated in Rome. The CIA was alarmed and members of the secret Gladio army disguised as police and civilians smashed the demonstration leaving more than 200 demonstrators injured. (46) But for Italy the worst was yet to come. In November 1963, US President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, under mysterious circumstances. And five months later the CIA with SIFAR, the Gladio secret army and the paramilitary police carried out a right-wing coup d'état which forced the Italian Socialists to leave their cabinet posts they had held only for such a short period. Code-named 'Piano Solo' the coup was directed by General Giovanni De Lorenzo whom Defence Minister Giulio Andreotti of the DCI had transferred from chief of SIFAR to chief of the Italian paramilitary police, the Carabinieri. In close cooperation with CIA secret warfare expert Vernon Walters, William Harvey, chief of the CIA station in Rome, and Renzo Rocca, Director of the Gladio units within the military secret service SID, De Lorenzo escalated the secret war. Rocca first used his secret Gladio army to bomb the offices of the DCI and the offices of a few daily newspapers and thereafter blamed the terror on the left in order to discredit both the Communists and the Socialists. (47)" Andreotti earned the label "the most powerful man in Rome, after the Pope" in the 1960s."

Le Cercle membership list - Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics

 

[Robert Baird]

Hero of Alexandria taught at the Library of Alexandria and was someone who worked on cybernetics. I suspect he had access to earlier writings in the Great Library which included what he is now credited with inventing. That includes a steam engine and wind turbines. Could these have powered the lights drawn in the Cave of Hathor where the academics have no way to explain how artists drew the designs and no candle or oil residue remains? Could his machinery have powered the craft drawn on walls at Abydos. Yes, no alien technology need apply. A modern engineer has a ying yang turbine of the same design which might take power from the Cosmic Thought Field and the Earth Energy Grid. I suspect such a propulsion system would allow hovering craft which could also take off at some speed. Should I assume he just joined my other site because of a thread I posted here about finding ways to explain UFOs or is it the thread on trying to find a way to populate space?

Hero of Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Burnt State]

Frontier scientist Richard Hoagland’s research team The Enterprise Mission, pointed out another relatively new and interesting development in the proof for a lost technological society. Among other points, Hoagland et al. discuss the recent findings of German scientists Dr. Algund Eeboom and Mr. Peter Belting. Several small gold trinkets have been recovered from tombs of the Incas, dating back thousands of years. These trinkets clearly depict structures that undeniably appear to be workable flying airplanes, complete with what appear to be gun turrets on some of the wings; see for yourself.

Figure 2.2 – Eeboom and Belting’s discovery of ancient gold trinkets of working aircraft

In order to prove that these tiny models represented real airplanes, Eeboom and Belting collaborated together to design perfect schematic diagrams of the tiny objects. They then expanded the proportions of these blueprints large enough to build workable scale models. And to their amazement, they found that by simply putting a propeller at the front and stabilizers on the wings, the planes not only flew but were capable of performing complex aeronautical maneuvers via remote control." The last is from the Dragon Court.

Is there not a danger in looking backwards to the ancients and applying our own images of science onto their artistic endeavors and symbolic renderings? There are many models of flight found in nature that humans have long copied. But to identify these objects as planes is as big a stretch as looking at cave art and saying that they depict astronauts, spaceships or contact with non-human intelligence. The invention of stabilizers and propellers specifically is no small thing. While we can speculate extravagantly on such artistic renderings we simply can not attach the meaning we see as an easy interpretation of contexts we are completely outside of. We have no real clue what these are, aside from the contextual clues we discover archaeologically, and what science we can accurately bring to bear on their actual inventions. I don't want to underestimate ancient human capacity or imagination, as we do have many examples of their good math, good astronomy, good architecture, and evidence of their early metalworks. But as to their limits and intentions, we can only guess but not confirm.

 

[Burnt State]

One thing has always stuck in my mind. I had approached Dr. Strughold with one of his books (published for the popular market) for him to autograph. (Keep in mind that he was an esteemed member of the community at the time) He looked me over with what I can only describe as of reaction of surprise and recognition. As if he thought he knew me from somewhere. (certainly not Europe) It simply struck me as odd. I was in my late teens or early twenties and had hardly ever set foot on an airbase.

How paranoid should one be? It was probably just his style of social interaction. Or maybe I reminded him of someone. (I bear a passing resemblance to James Oberg, BTW.) But I certainly had no memory of ever meeting Strughold. Dunno.....

How paranoid should one be indeed? Paranoia has to be one of the most dangerous of human trains of thought to take a ride on as it knows no destination; it only increases in acceleration, with many new stops along the way. It has taken many a conspiracist, UFO researcher and witness down some bizarre rabbit holes. Such moments have to be greatly unnerving when someone appears to possess knowledge of you that you don't have. These anomalies are best filed under categories of misfires, or misrepresentation.

It would have been interesting to ask him who you reminded him of - perhaps one of those epileptic children subjected to pressure tests under his supervision in Nazi Germany? They all survived. You may have appeared as a ghost of times past to him. People in his position have so many strange and ugly histories they have to negotiate while living a second life post-war.

 

[Robert Baird]

Dear Burnt

You hopefully noticed the context of why I put Hoagland's research here. It was part of a scientific expose of the Abydos glyphs someone said (with no proof) were palimpsists.

Your comments on ancient art remind me of scientistic denial and worse. They are often found saying the specific data is 'anomalous' when in fact the data and proof for what they call anomalous and lie or destroy and try to make anomalous, is prevalent.

There are many ways to explain these things - none of which will lend comfort to the view that ancient people were not advanced. The authors of Ancient Inventions are people I and my associates have disagreed with immensely for their willingness to do the same stuff; but even they say man could do what we could do until 1950, way back then.

You need to think why the nations and Empires Hellenized knowledge. You need to look up the definition of Hellenized and then start thinking about why we all are taught Classical History starting with Greece - a mere colony of the Phoenician DNN.

 

[Han]

In order to prove that these tiny models represented real airplanes, Eeboom and Belting collaborated together to design perfect schematic diagrams of the tiny objects. They then expanded the proportions of these blueprints large enough to build workable scale models. And to their amazement, they found that by simply putting a propeller at the front and stabilizers on the wings, the planes not only flew but were capable of performing complex aeronautical maneuvers via remote control."

This is just wrong.

First of all: If the "Aeroplanes" were meant to have propellers (and motors), why did the model makers not include them in their models?

A house brick with a powerful enough engine and the correct "stabilizers" is capable of flight and aerial maneuvers.

Just to be clear: Flight is very different from Gliding.

"by simply putting a propeller at the front and stabilizers on the wings, the planes not only flew but were capable of performing complex aeronautical maneuvers via remote control."

Nonsense: in order for the "Aeroplanes" to be controlled via RC they have to have a RC receiver and other components mounted otherwise no RC.

Also a motor or engine must have been added in order for the "Aeroplanes" to fly as opposed to Glide.

The point I am trying to make is that: an awful lot of "modifications" had to be made to the "Aeroplanes" before they flew, and by my reckoning a Halibut would be capable of flight with a similar amount of "extra" kit, but that does not mean Halibuts are meant to fly, even if they have the potential.

 

[Robert Baird]

The German scientists who flew the Incan planes - did just that. They flew them after doing the work described.

Now, do you want to discuss the importance of what this means or do you want to parse and pontificate about things they were not trying to prove. They were not saying they were not gliders or toys.

Academics say that was all the Maya/Incas (Incas did not exist but just a word for white people or Sun Kings even in the Incan era.) who invented the wheel did was to use the wheels on toys. Those same academics deny smelting and metal work in the Americas - I have lots of proof those academics are liars.

The Abydos glyphs could be toys too. But we have proof of engines capable of providing propulsion, so then we can open the discussion to the possibility of flying machines including the Vimanas. I have a separate thread for that. I guess it is OK under this thread to discuss it here.

Hero and Thales had steam engines with turbines. They probably copied earlier designs, and almost certainly this is the case with Hero who worked and taught at The Library of Alexandria which was targeted for destruction BECAUSE it retained the knowledge of very ancient people who Empire-builders stole everything from. The Greeks said Rome never invented a thing.

So that brings me to the most important question for all of you. It really is not a big question in academia - all scholars know about Hellenizing. Do you know why governments have lied about the Flat Earth and all so many things?

After that question is answered there is a chance we might recapture what ancients actually were capable of, including UFOs you see in various Scriptures.

 

[boomerang]

How paranoid should one be indeed? Paranoia has to be one of the most dangerous of human trains of thought to take a ride on as it knows no destination; it only increases in acceleration, with many new stops along the way. It has taken many a conspiracist, UFO researcher and witness down some bizarre rabbit holes. Such moments have to be greatly unnerving when someone appears to possess knowledge of you that you don't have. These anomalies are best filed under categories of misfires, or misrepresentation.

It would have been interesting to ask him who you reminded him of - perhaps one of those epileptic children subjected to pressure tests under his supervision in Nazi Germany? They all survived. You may have appeared as a ghost of times past to him. People in his position have so many strange and ugly histories they have to negotiate while living a second life post-war.

Robert, I agree on all counts. Paranoia seems a kind of "occupational hazard" for those who investigate and discuss the kinds of topics we plumb so darkly here. And--you are also right about paranoia's tendency to become an ever more vicious positive feedback loop that devours personal resources much the way a computer infection may gain sovereignty over the whole darned operating system.

Perhaps the best takeaway from my experience of years ago is something most astute people learn over the course of a lifetime: That lurking in the tangled forest of neurons that make up the human brain there may be numerous personae with varying styles and agendas. Managing these has been, unfortunately, an accomplished art form to many of those in positions of power and influence throughout history and accounts for untold human misery.

Ghosts from Strughold's past? Yes, that would indeed comport with what I observed (or thought I observed) those many decades ago. Having said all of this, I have to think casting a wary eye in the direction of any government's covert activities is a healthy part of maintaining democracy.

 

[Robert Baird]

Harvard Business Review said (about ten years ago) that paranoia is a valuable decision-making tool. It is different when paranoia runs the mind rather than the brain.


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