07-Oct-2002
The Mystery of Pine Gap
THE PURPOSE OF PINE GAP
Some of the following information was derived from
an impeccable scientific source who, up to the time of his retirement occupied
a key
position among the Australian scientific elite.
Due to his position he was fully informed about all joint government scientific
programmes and
was often asked to advise on technical and intelligence
matters relating to them. He agreed to comment on some American activities
in
Australia providing he was not identified by subsequent
use of the information. The man has an amazing background involving an
association
with some of the greatest scientific discoveries
of the twentieth century, In his old age he feels that people should be
made a little more aware
of what is going on around them.
There are at least ten top secret American facilities
in Australia with the so- called 'Joint defence Space Research Facility'
at Pine Gap
outside Alice Springs being classified as the most
important. At the time the agreement to establish Pine Gap was signed by
the Australian
government it's purpose was to control and act as
a downlink for geosynchronous satellites stationed over the Pacific and
Asia.
The American agencies involved with this intelligence
gathering are the CIA, NSA and the NRO. However there were other reasons
for
establishing the base which have never been fully
revealed to the Australian government. The agreement clearly stated that
it was not a
requirement for the U.S.A. to share all information
with Australia. In fact when the Whitlam government came to power in 1972
what little
information that was being shared with the Australian
Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) was reduced to a trickle and at one time,
prior to
1975, stopped altogether.
The main reasons for Pine Gap being situated where
it is are proximity to the Pacific and Indian Oceans and Asia, it's Southern
hemispheric
window to outer space, it's position on the earth's
surface in relation to other important areas situated on the planet, it's
isolation and the fact it
is situated in an area of low electromagnetic radiation.
Construction of the base was undertaken by American
contractors who flew in their own workforce from the U.S.A. on a shift
basis. No
Australians were involved in the construction work
which took around two years before the base became operational. Construction
work
continued for several years on large underground
facilities which are rumoured to extend some twelve levels below the base.
Long tunnels are
laid out in a pattern similar to the spokes of a
wheel and extend several miles from the center of the base.
In a deep shielded underground chamber a nuclear
reactor similar in size to those used to power submarines was installed
to drive large AC
and DC generators. This fact has been kept secret
as it was quite illegal for such equipment to be operated without an act
of parliament
changing the existing laws relating to the installation
of nuclear power stations in Australia. But when it's all secret in the
first place who needs
to get permission? The Pine Gap base also has an
above ground diesel powered generating station which, it is claimed, is
the only power
station there. If that is so why is it shut down
most of the time? If you need an electromagnetic free area you don't build
a power station in the
middle of it. Of course it can be used when the
base was not operating but then what keeps everything running when it is
turned off-- batteries?
Pine Gap is not connected to an outside electricity
supply.
Reportedly, extending some twenty thousand feet below
the base is a bore hole containing an ultra low frequency antenna which
is apparently
used for secret experiments supposedly related to
Nikola Tesla's resonance theories as well as low frequency communications
throughout the
world. Pine Gap's communication systems are the
most sophisticated available utilising satellites, microwave, low frequency
and their own
dedicated cable to the U S.A. Also they are directly
connected to Nurrunga, North West Cape, Geraldton, Australian Defence Signals
Directorate in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, all
CIA and NSA stations, ASIO, SIS and perhaps one of the most interesting
secret
departments of all, the Australian Defence Science
and Technology Organisation which deals with U.F.O.'s and crash retrievals.
The number of staff at Pine Gap varies between four
hundred to five hundred at any one time and all except a liaison officer
and his small staff
are Americans. Although Alice Springs is only fourteen
miles from the front gate few of the Pine Gap's occupants ever visit there.
They stay in
their self contained theme park enjoying all the
luxuries of home. So stringent is the security that even personal shopping
is undertaken in the
U.S.A. and everything ordered on a weekly basis,
including the groceries, is delivered on the Thursday C5 flight from California
(there are
usually three or four per week).
Pine Gap is a multi billion dollar operation of great
importance to the American government. It is said that to be selected for
a tour of duty
there is like being elevated to the priesthood,
a comment which may not be as silly as it sounds. The vast empty territory
of central and South
Australia has always been an area of high U.F.O.
activity. The Woomera rocket -range and the nuclear test site at Maralinga
seemed to be
their focal points during the 1950's and early 1960's.
However this changed somewhat when construction started at Pine Gap and
later at
Nurrunga. From the time the earthmoving equipment
moved in there was a rapid rise in U.F.O. sightings in Alice Springs and
the surrounding
area. The regular sightings have continued to this
day and some of them could only be described as bizarre. (Note: As of 2002,
they are
ongoing.)
Pine Gap can be observed from the distant surrounding
hills which overlook the entire secure base area. All that can be seen
are eight white
radomes placed in close proximity to groups of long
low buildings. A few miles from the base a double security fence winds
its way around
through the grass and light scrub and cuts its way
through the lower levels of the nearby hills. The fence is patrolled continuously
by American
guards and members of the Australian Federal Police
Force. The American guards live at the base and the Federal Police at Alice
Springs.
One case which received some limited publicity in
1989 involved three hunters who were on an all night shooting trip in the
hills near Pine
Gap. At around 4.30a.m. they observed a large camouflaged
door open on the side of a low hill inside the security compound and a
metallic,
circular disc appear from the gaping black hole,
tip on it's edge and disappear vertically at tremendous speed. The door
then slowly shut and
everything returned to normal. The camouflage was
so good that from their vantage point they were unable to observe anything
unusual about
the area after the door closed.
There are several other incidents of a similar nature
which were reported by visitors to the area and in one case in 1975 the
occupants of a
passenger plane which was passing some eighteen
miles to the east of the base observed a large white object, similar in
size to one of the
white radomes, suddenly leap into the air and disappear
rapidly towards the north west. As everyone on the plane was interested
in seeing
what Pine Gap looked like, most of the passengers
and crew witnessed the event. When the pilots reported the incident, everyone
on the
plane was interviewed and told not to talk about
it. A camouflaged door case occurred in 1980 when two members of the Northern
Territory
Police, who were taking part in a search for a missing
Alice Springs child, watched as three 'bath tub' shaped objects flew slowly
over the
base and then one by one disappeared in to an oblong
black hole in a hillside. This also occurred during the early hours of
the morning and as
the two police officers had arranged to meet other
members of the search party they left without seeing the door close.
Another type of sighting involves, blue, red and
gold pencil- like beams. In 1973 a government cartographer was camped in
an area near Pine
Gap. Some time after midnight he saw a vertical
shaft of very bright blue light emanating from the area of the base. He
decided to take a
closer look. He drove his four wheel drive to the
top of a low hill from which the Pine Gap base could be seen some eight
miles to the east.
There was a full moon so the white radomes could
be seen quite clearly with the naked eye. Taking a closer look through
his twelve power
binoculars he could see most of the base as well
as a strange looking object apparently hovering above it at a height he
estimated to be
around one thousand feet. Firstly he thought it
was a cigar shaped balloon or blimp but this idea quickly evaporated when
the object slowly
tipped to a 45* angle exposing what appeared to
be it's top surface to the now somewhat surprised observer. It was clear
that the object was
perfectly circular with a central dome. As the bottom
edge was still about one thousand feet above the base, the cartographer
estimated the
diameter of the disc to be a little more than half
the distance between the Pine Gap base and the disc's bottom edge, making
it between five
and six hundred feet in diameter.
In the moonlight the disc appeared to be a dull grey
colour with a slight yellow fuzz around it's edge. As he watched, a thin
bright blue beam,
like a rod, slowly extended from the disc to the
base. The strange thing about it was that unlike a flash light it did not
just turn on, it slowly
moved in a telescopic fashion from the disc and
gradually extended behind the radomes. A few minutes later the light beam
retracted only to
be followed by a similar blue beam slowly extending
from the base to the disc. This was followed by a gold coloured beam which
appeared
very close to the blue one. After about thirty seconds
both retracted back into the base. This process continued for about forty
minutes and
ended when the disc made some rapid oscillations
'lit up like a neon sign' and ascended vertically at very high speed, disappearing
in a few
seconds. The cartographer reported the incident
to his superior officer in Alice Springs. This resulted in what he later
described as a 'grilling'
by some very officious people who warned him to
keep silent about his experience otherwise he would be in for some very
real trouble. He
was also told that he had not seen anything and
to remember that.
A more complex sighting involved five witnesses in
1984. The leader of this group was a technical expert with a Western Australian
government department who had received persistent
reports from colleagues of intensive U.F.O. activity around Alice Springs
and Pine Gap.
He was told that between certain dates something
big was going to happen. The information was so intriguing that he decided
to mount a
clandestine expedition to Central Australia and
to approach Pine Gap from the west through the Gibson Desert and MacDonnell
Ranges.
They used two specially prepared four wheel drives
and once in the area of the MacDonnell Ranges traveled only at night in
an effort to reduce
the chances of detection. After reaching the Pine
Gap area they concealed the vehicles and positioned themselves in an elevated
area which
overlooked the base at a distance of about ten miles.
As they had several small size astronomical telescopes with them they had
no difficulty
in gaining a good view of most of the base area.
For the first two days and nights very little happened. Apart from the
occasional movement of
small vehicles and a few people everything was quiet.
The group was becoming a little impatient but decided to sit it out for
at least a week in
the hope they would see something interesting. During
the evening of the fourth day they noticed some unusual activity developing
in the main
base area. A number of vehicles were moving around
the base and what appeared to be groups of people dressed in coveralls
were
gathering at various points near the radomes. Suddenly
a bright beam of gold coloured light sprang up from the centre of the radome
area.
This was not a pencil- like beam but seemed to be
several meters in width and extremely intense. The width of the beam appeared
to remain
the same as far as it could be seen extending vertically
into the sky. When observed through the telescope it looked almost solid.
As they watched, long uneven clouds developed in
the clear air surrounding the beam which despite a breeze blowing at the
time remained
stationary. The beam suddenly cut off and the tubular
cloud started to drift to the east like a vertical vapour trail. The beam
pulsed several
times and each time it did so the cloud effect returned
even forming what looked like a series of smoke rings. No one in the group
could
explain why but they all felt extremely disturbed
by what they had just seen even to the point of nausea.
But the show had only just started. The gold light
beam shot down and once again the dirty looking clouds started drifting
away. It was at that
point that the group noticed five star like objects
approaching from the South. As they drew closer four of the objects were
seen to be in a tight
diamond shaped formation and the fifth which looked
like a cylinder was following at a distance of about two miles. The objects
slowed as
they reached the base area the four smaller objects
took up positions north, south, east and west of the base each moving in
small circles.
The cylindrical shaped object which appeared white
in colour with a bright while halo around it's center moved towards the
base reducing
altitude to about five hundred feet in the process.
It then stopped, rocking up and down like a boat at it's moorings. Once
in position blue light
beams started flashing between all five objects
and the ground. The whole scene was more than bizarre as it appeared that
extraterrestrial
craft were in direct communication with the human
occupants of the base below them.
It should be mentioned that the whole episode was
recorded on video tape and thirty five millimeter still film. However as
this was virtually a
case of a government department spying on a foreign
friend nothing has been released and it almost certainly never will.
This scene continued for about five minutes then
one of the small objects rapidly descended towards the base and appeared
to land at it's
northern end It remained there for seventeen minutes
then returned to it's original position east of the base and approximately
one thousand
feet from the ground. The gold light beam again
emanated from the area of the radomes. This time the small objects began
to rotate around
the beam and ascend vertically as if they were examining
it. The cylindrical object remained in it's position bobbing up and down
as before.
The four objects then returned spiraling down the
beam and returning to their previous positions. The cloud was thickening
around the light
beam and looked like a long thin Ionic column. The
beam was turned off and once again the greyish cloud broke up and drifted
towards the
east. In a jerking motion the cylindrical object
started to gain altitude stopping in proximity to the smaller objects which
had reformed their
diamond shaped formation. The group then moved off
in a southerly direction and disappeared in a few seconds.
The witnesses were shocked by what they had seen
as it seemed obvious there was human co-operation with extraterrestrials.
It also
seemed
strange to them that despite the strict security
applied at the Pine Gap base they were able to get reasonably close to
it without interference.
Perhaps no one would believe them anyway and declare
their photographic evidence a hoax, however that did not seem logical as
good
security is maintained when there is no evidence
at all and when no explanations or a programme of ridicule is necessary.
Yet all this was
happening in front of them and only about fifteen
miles from the large town of Alice Springs. Perhaps what they had seen
was a vital
experiment and such open exposure was unavoidable
from time to time.
The group spent the next few days observing the base
day and night and apart from helicopters and other small aircraft they
observed at least
seven other U.F.O.'s in the area. One of the witnesses
later described the experience as making his skin crawl every time he thought
about it.
After leaving the area they took a circuitous route
around the base and then drove down the main highway to Alice Springs.
As it looked like
they had traveled from Darwin no-one took any notice
of them. After arranging the rail transport of the two four wheel drives
back to Perth they
left by plane the next day.
They all agreed that the incident had changed their
view of all things in general but had in some way disgusted them as they
now knew their
government had lied to them from the start and had
done so in co-operation with a friend and ally.
Does all this mean that there has been a working
co- operation between extraterrestrials and earth bound governments for
a long period of
time? The answer is a simple yes. Although U.F.O.'s
had been observed on a regular basis during and after the second World
War they did
not become a problem with the potential of serious
social consequences until 1947. The burst of publicised sightings which
followed Kenneth
Arnold's original encounter in the north western
United States caused great official concern. It was obvious from the outset
that what was being
observed was vastly superior to anything manufactured
on earth and it was only logical to assume that the operators of such machinery
were
likely to be of a very high order of intelligence
and almost certainly from outer space. So much evidence, including recovered
equipment, was
accumulated that there was no way of denying the
importance of these events and the dangers they represented, The earth
was being openly
visited and closely observed and what was officialdom
going to do about it?
Firstly it had to be covered up so the public would
be 'protected. Secondly it would be important for our government leadership
to make
contact with the visitors and try to come to terms
with them before total exposure occurred which could only result in the
collapse of civilised
social order. Thirdly, as what was being observed
represented an advanced science of very high order, technical advantages
could be
achieved if contact was made.
It is not clear exactly when contact was first achieved
by the U.S.A. but information from various sources indicates radio communication
followed by direct face to face contact occurred
in the early 1950's. The Soviet Union and the United Kingdom were also
attempting to do the
same and established their own contacts about the
same time. After some understanding was reached the initial methods of
communication
were centralised in the U.S.A. with the Russians
co- operating by the mid 1950's.
The importance of the situation led to the secret
establishment of the National Security Agency by the Truman administration
in November,
1954. The initial task of the NSA was to establish
and develop reliable and secure communications with extraterrestrials who
were visiting
earth and find out as much as possible about them.
There are strong indications that to this day the NSA is deeply involved
with the U.F.O.'s
and their primary activity is to identify and monitor
alien communications and to suppress any information that may confirm their
reality to the
public.
This policy has been rigidly maintained and is perhaps
more useful to the aliens themselves than it is to the human race. The
aliens are
pursuing their own agendas and they do not want
unnecessary interference from earth's officialdom or the broad masses they
control. Alien
involvement in Australia is similar to that of the
U.S.A., Europe and Russia. For some technological rewards and minor co-operation
in other
areas the E.T.'s conduct their own genetic experimentation
and the exploitation of the country is generally totally unhindered by
humans. They
have a free hand to do what they want as there is
no way of stopping them.
U.F.O. involvement in Australian affairs started
in the late 1940's just as it did in the U.S.A. It became a major concern
during the 1950's and
early 1960's when the British were conducting nuclear
testing in South Australia and test firing a variety of missiles at the
Woomera Rocket
Range situated in the same state. So intense was
the U.F.O. activity in these test areas that nuclear explosions and rocket
launches had to be
suspended, often for several days, due to electromagnetic
effects causing total electrical failure at the test sites. The township
of Woomera
itself was often blacked out for hours by the close
approach of the U.F.O.'s which a source advised were filmed by rocket tracking
cameras at
great length. In fact during one U F.O. flap in
the area more than sixteen thousand feet of film was taken of a variety
of vehicles cris crossing
the area. The film was promptly sent to Washington
D.C. for analysis.
Almost certainly due to the technical achievements
of the U.S.A. there seems little doubt that the E.T.'s focused their main
attention on that
country. However, they did not ignore the activities
of other countries and to this day continue to monitor human activities
both military and civil
throughout the world. As a result of internal efforts
made during the early 1950's, both the U.S.A and Russia made contact with
two alien
species who apparently often worked together on
various scientific projects and joint military matters including what we
would describe as the
policing of their own areas of influence. Apart
from this contact which developed into a form of co- operation it became
evident that as many
as seven other groups were visiting the planet and
did not have an association with the first two. In fact there was every
indication that they
were unfriendly to them and each other and often
directly hostile to humans.
Secret official research at the time indicated that
several of these groups appeared to be preparing a huge world wide military
operation or
police action against the earth. This made friendly
co- operation with the first two groups even more important. There are
indications that the
technical help provided by the two initial contact
groups brought about a tremendous leap forward in technology and made the
development of
SDI a real possibility. In return for our governments
giving the groups a free hand to exploit the planet and human race, and
as far as possible
keep their presence a secret, they would provide
the technical know how to prevent further major wars and stop any other
interested
extraterrestrials from invading the planet. It has
been said with some authority that they are the brains behind SDI, the
extension of which is the
HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme)
system which is aimed at creating an electromagnetic shield around the
world to prevent an attack from outer space. This
development never had anything to do with the threat from Soviet Russia,
in fact the
Russians have actively co-operated in the development
programme since it's inception.
Such advanced defence systems required world wide
coverage involving operational centers in secure areas in several countries.
Australia
was, and still is, an ideal piece of real estate
for this purpose and is being utilised to the full. From the beginning
Pine Gap has been
associated with secret scientific experiments into
anti gravity, magnetic propulsion and what the radical press of the 1960's
described as
Sci-Fi research. Certainly, its communication functions
were important and still are but its research and development sections
situated below
the surface are considered vital to the future of
the planet. Here extraterrestrials conduct their work in partial co- operation
with human
scientists. They live in special conditions in virtual
isolation and come and go as they please. The final stages of SDI including
the HAARP
system should be functioning, providing it all works,
by 1998/99 and if necessary it's entire world wide operation will be controllable
from the
network of secret bases in Australia (Is it actually
functioning now, in 2002? This is not known.)
Who or what would be at the controls, humans or something
from outer space? One can only guess at the answer but it seems certain
that the
isolation and security of these bases situated in
a distant part of the southern hemisphere is of as much importance to the
aliens as it is to
their human counterparts.
NURRUNGAR - "JOINT DEFENCE SPACE COMMUNICATION STATION"
In many ways Nurrungar is similar to the base at
Pine Gap. On the surface it s military role is to draw information from
a series of
geostationary satellites which watch for missile
launches and nuclear detonations throughout Asia and the Middle East. However
this
represents a small percentage of it's activities.
Basically it acts as a backup facility to Pine Gap complete with extensive
underground
installations and an illegal nuclear reactor which
has to be supplied with large amounts of water carried by a regular train
service originating in
the southern part of the state of South Australia.
Like Pine Gap, it is situated in an isolated area of low electromagnetic
activity and sealed off
from the public view by a security zone which is
part of the 'Woomera Prohibited Area'.
From the time construction of Nurrungar began in
1969 the U.F.O. activity in the Woomera area increased to similar levels
experienced during
the height of the nuclear and missile testing of
the 1950's and early 1960's. It remains one of the most active U.F.O. areas
in Australia. One
source told the writer that E.T.'s used Nurrunga
just as they did at Pine Gap. They have a free hand and there was no way
of controlling them.
"They run the place," he said. Apart from its more
obvious functions, the main purpose of Nurrungar remains -top secret. It
is known that it has
similar communication links as Pine Gap as well
as a separate undersea cable link to the U.S.A. Also it is rumoured that
direct links are
maintained with a similar installation situated
in North West China and the ultra secret American base at the South Pole.