SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazis’ Incredible Secret Technology (62 page)

b. Bowen additionally provides the background that Belluzzo/Bellonzo was a highly placed official in Mussolini’s government, and in addition to his expertise in steam turbines alleged in other sources, is also an expert in projectile ballistics. This would make Belluzzo/Bellonzo a leading candidate for membership in Mussolini’s Top Secret UFO study group RS33 led by Marconi.

c. The strong implication of Bowen’s remarks is that someone somewhere is continuing the secret development of this technology, and the context of the excerpt of his Encyclopedia also points to the people doing it: Nazis.

5. The last point raises the problem of the reasons for MJ-12’s classification of his work. After all, as his preface makes clear that the work is drawn entirely from public accounts and sources. One may therefore conclude that the reasons for the classification lie precisely in the
conclusions
he draws from these of a terrestrial origin and a connection to Nazism and secret black project development of these technologies, a conclusion at odds with the “ET cover story” being adopted at the highest and deepest levels of the US military. Bowen himself makes this clear over and over in the chapter cited. But beyond this, what deeper motivation might lie behind the classification? I can see only three:

a. The classification was extended because MJ-12 itself knew of the ultimate origins of at least the Roswell saucer, and suspected an independent entity was continuing the Nazi research, a hypothesis advanced in
Reich of the Black Sun
;

b. The classification was extended because MJ-12, by this date, was already heavily infiltrated by the very Nazis and Paperclip personnel who were beginning to exercise great influence over the direction of the project and beginning to wrest it from control of the US government.

c. The membership of MJ-12 was divided into two camps at its top decision making level between groups with (1) no Nazi connections or sympathies, and who are ignorant of the extent of Nazi influence and R&D being conducted independently. This group suspects an independent entity is continuing the Nazi weapons development, and that this independent group
is
Nazi, and classifies the Encyclopedia for that reason; (2) a second group
with
Nazi ties and sympathies and perhaps ongoing contact with whatever entity continued, under a new name, which for convenience I have called the “SS Brotherhood of the Bell”
.
This group, for entirely different reasons, would want to deflect attention away not only from Nazi survival, but from Nazi continuance of advance technologies and weapons projects, and from the fact that this continuance was
independent of any sovereign state.
Classification by either group would also be unavoidable since the document also hints that Patton’s strange end-war operations can only be satisfactorily explained in connection to German military intelligence and/or to the
Kammlerstab
, its archives and personnel, to American Black projects and nominal American “jurisdiction”.

6. The essence of these conclusions tends to corroborate as well the basic thesis behind William Harbison’s novel
Genesis
that such independent development was indeed the ultimate controlling power behind the more well-known UFO crash-retrieval cases and that this power was specifically tied to Nazism.

B. The Day After Corso:
An Examination of Corso’s
The Day After Roswell
In the Light of
the Cooper-Cantwheel Documents
And German Wartime Technology

Corso’s thesis bears repeating once again:

My boss, General Trudeau, asked me to use the army’s ongoing weapons development and research program as a way to filter the Roswell technology into the mainstream of industrial development through the military defense contracting program. Today, items such as lasers, integrated circuitry, fiber-optics networks, accelerated particle-beam devices, and even the Kevlar material in bulletproof vests are all commonplace. Yet the seeds for all of them were found in the crash of the alien craft at Roswell and turned up in my files fourteen years later.
²⁶

The elements of this thesis may be broken down into the following list:

1. Something crashed in New Mexico;

2. It was recovered by the US Army Air Force;

3. It contained exotic technology of such a nature as to compel the interpretation that what crashed was extraterrestrial in origin;

4. The recovery of this technology from the crash was back-engineered and led to the ET-derived technologies of

a. the integrated circuit (and by implication, its forerunner, the transistor);

b. the laser;

c. fiber-optics;

d. particle beams and particle accelerators.

Points 1 and 2 are disputed by no one, so we pass immediately to point 3.

Corso himself, while wishing to maintain that the technology pointed conclusively to something extraterrestrial in origin, also paradoxically and repeatedly indicates that something about this exotic extraterrestrial technology looked
peculiarly familiar
, and he does so often in the very next breath, as in the following example:

In those confusing hours after the discovery of the crashed Roswell alien craft, the army determined that in the absence of any other information it had to be an extraterrestrial. Worse, the fact that this craft and other flying saucers had been surveilling our defensive installations and
even seemed to evidence a technology we’d seen evidenced by the Nazis
caused the military to assume these flying saucers had hostile intentions and might have even interfered in human events during the war.
²⁷

On the previous page Corso indicates the technology he has in mind, because the military feared that at first “the craft might have been an experimental Soviet weapon
because it bore a resemblance to some of the German-designed aircraft that had made their appearances near the end of the war, especially the
crescent-shaped Horton (sic.) flying wing.”
²⁸

Horten Flying Wing in Flight Before World War Two

On the face of it this is an odd statement to make, since Corso, who was himself involved in Operation Paperclip, most likely knew that the Horten Flying Wings were brought to
this
country, not the Soviet Union. But there is more.

As early as 1947, scientists who had gone to the Air Material Commnd at Wright Field to see the debris were speculating that the
electronic potential of the Roswell craft reminded them of the German and British antigravity experiments of the 1920s and 1930s.
General Twining was reported to have said more than once that
the name of the Serbian electrical engineer and inventor of alternating current, Nikola Tesla, kept bubbling up in the conversation because the scientists examining the damaged craft described the way it must have converted an electromagnetic field into an antigravity field.
And, of course, the craft itself reminded them of the German experimental fighter aircraft that made their appearance near the end of the war but that had been in development ever since the 1930s.
²⁹

Well might the name of Tesla have come up repeatedly, since Tesla toward the end of his life made a rather astonishing series of statements concerning his “dynamic theory of gravity”:

During the succeeding two years (1893 and 1894) of intense concentration I was fortunate enough to make two far reaching discoveries.
The first was a dynamic theory of gravity
, which I have worked out in all details and hope to give to the world very soon. It
explains the causes of this force and the motions of heavenly bodies
under its influence so satisfactorily that it will put an end to the idle speculation and false conceptions, as that of curved space….

Only the existence of a field of force can account for the motions of the bodies as observed, and its assumption dispenses with space curvature. All literature on this subject is futile and destined to oblivion.
So are all attempts to explain the working of the universe without recognizing the existence of the ether and the indispensable function it plays in the phenomena.

….I consider myself the original discoverer of this truth, which can be expressed by the statement:
There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.

….It applies rigorously to molecules and atoms as well as to the largest heavenly bodies, and to all matter in the universe
in any phase of its existence from its very first formation to its ultimate disintegration.
³⁰

I believe that what Tesla had derived in his “dynamic theory of gravity” was precisely a vorticular model of the aether.

In any case, it is significant that his name kept surfacing in the scientific discussions concerning the Roswell debris at Wright Field, according to Corso, and that it did so also in the context of “British and German” 1930s antigravity experiments. Once again, something about the technology looked
very
familiar:

At the very least, Twining had suggested, the crescent-shaped craft looked so uncomfortably like the German Horten wings our flyers had seen at the end of the war that he had to suspect the Germans had bumped into something we didn’t know about. And his conversations with Wernher von Braun and Willy Ley at Alamogordo in the days after the crash confirmed this. They didn’t want to be thought of as
verrükt
(crazy) but intimated that there was a deeper story about what the Germans had engineered.
³¹

The answer of course is that which Corso implies: there was a “German Roswell” before the war.
³²
The development by the Germans of Tesla’s ideas or of a vortex aether atom model are never even mentioned as a possibility by Corso.

So what of Corso’s allegations about fiber optics, lasers, and integrated circuits, three of the “ET technologies” that jump-started America’s postwar technological surge according to the his thesis?

Regarding the integrated circuit, Corso himself notes that one requirement for space exploration was not lost on his superior, General Trudeau: “the development of an integrated-circuit technology so that the electronic components of spacecraft could be miniaturized to fit the size requirements of rocket-propelled vehicles.”
³³

The transistor is a crucial step on the technology tree from the vacuum tube to the development of the integrated circuit. Corso has this to say about it:

The entire development arc of the radio tube, from Edison’s first experiments with filament for his incandescent lightbulb to the vacuum tubes that formed the switching mechanisms of ENIAC, lasted about fifty years.
The development of the silicon transistor seemed to come upon us in a matter of months. And, had I not seen the silicon wafers from the Roswell crash with my own eyes, held them in my own hands talked about them with Hermann Oberth, Wernher von Braun, or Hans Kohler
, and heard the reports from these now dead scientists of the meetings between Nathan Twining, Vannevar Bush, and researchers at Bell Labs,
I would have thought the invention of the transistor was a
miracle. I now know how it came about.
³⁴

According to Corso’s thesis, the answer is, of course that it was all due to exotic recovered ET technology recovered at Roswell. Note especially the “miraculous silicon wafers,” the marvelous semiconducting miracle that would make the integrated circuit possible.

But now Corso’s thesis begins to collapse, at least in this matter, for if it was true that miniaturization of electronic components was an essential feature for America’s space program, then it was much
more
so a necessity for the Nazis and their rockets, if they were ever to be turned into viable weapons for hurling heavy atomic bombs at anyone.

As for the transistor, whose “discovery history pedigree” is admitted to be obscure at best by many researchers, it did indeed appear to burst on the world in the late 1940s from nowhere….

….unless one recalls a very similar looking device, already in use by the Germans, in 1940: