Roswell Incident

In early July of , something crashed in the desert about 40 miles outside of the town of Roswell, on the ranch of . The wreckage (weather balloon/atomic test detection device/wayward UFO and/or its accompanying alien corpses) was first taken to Roswell Army Air Field, which at the time was the site of the only [...]

Baphomet

Baphomet was the name of the speaking head which the Knights Templar allegedly worshiped. It has been suggested that this head — sometimes described as similar to a computer — was the secret which the Templars found, the thing which made them the most powerful economic force in Medieval Europe, and that was the secret [...]

Alphacom Team

Dr (?) Michael Wolf claimed that MJ-12 appointed him manager of Alphacom Team, who had the objective of resuming negotiations with the visiting extraterrestrials. Other objectives of Alphacom Team were: to determine whether we can use the ETs’ technology to restore this planet to its former pristine state of natural balance.” to determine the number [...]

West Virginia Ordnance Works

aka: WVOV, Point Pleasant Depot associated with the Mothman incidents from pointpleasantwv.org: During the years of operation of WVOW, Point Pleasant was a boom-town. Chemists, scientists, engineers, electricians, plumbers, masons, heavy construction crews, and laborers representing nearly every building trade were required for the rapid buildup. Workers from all over the country converged on this [...]

Arthur Young

Inventor of the rotor for the Bell helicopter. Apparently a believer in the ‘aliens-in-secret-underground-bases’ theory as advocated by Bill Cooper. (Revelations, 87)

Zed

The name of Sean Connery’s bikini-and bandoleer cladc haracter in the movie Zardoz. Zed plays a role in the film somewhat similar to that of Case in the novel Neuromancer — he is used as a tool in a byzantine suicide by some form of technologically enhanced Higher Being. Also: The owner of the motorcycle [...]

Unidentified Flying Object

aka: UFOBJ The term UFO was popularized by Edward J Ruppelt in the early 50′s to avoid the goofy hoaxing associations of the term flying saucer. Links Project for the Exposure of Hidden Institutions: UFO Documents

Vandenburg Air Force Base

Located on the central coast of California, Vandenburg occupies a large area around Point Conception — the point where the California coast turns North which is roughly considered the geographic and climatological division between Northern and Southern California. Vandenburg has been the location of many missile tests, commercial rocket launches, and some space shuttle launches. [...]

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

(SETI) The offical scientific search for aliens. Based on the Drake Equation, their search focuses on the communication traces of advanced civilizations. SETI signal analysis was one of the first distributed network applications using the Internet to harness to idle processor cycles of thousands of home computers Links http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/SETV.html

Groom Lake

A dry lakebed in Nevada near Las Vegas. Location of Nellis Air Force Base and test ranges (aka: Area 51, Dreamland)

i-DAT

Institute of Digital Art and Technology A division of the School of Computing, Faculty of Technology and University of Plymouth. see also: Planetary Collegium Links http://mm.i-dat.org/

bug

Also: heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug, schroedinbug

Vril

Vril is a word from a science-fiction novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton titled Vril: The Power of the Coming Race published in 1870. In the book, Vril is a form of energy possessed by an extremely powerful subterranean race. The book was quite popular in the late 19th century, and for a time the word Vril”came [...]

Omnibeam

The tool which linked George Van Tassel and his Council of Twelve to alien intelligences such as Ashtar, Zoltan, and Desca. (Curran, In Advance of the Landing, 79-81. Cited in Peebles, 125)

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