by Whitley Streiber
07-Oct-2002
from
UnknownCountry Website
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 defense 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
Defense 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 utilizing 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 Defense 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 Defense
Science and Technology Organization 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
(above image) 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 45º 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 UFO’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 UFO’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 publicized 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?
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Firstly it had to be covered up so the public would be
’protected.
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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
civilized social order.
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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 centralized 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 UFO’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.
UFO 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 UFO’s which a source advised
were filmed by rocket tracking cameras at great length. In fact
during one UFO 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 defense 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 utilized 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
DEFENSE SPACE COMMUNICATION STATION"
In many ways Nurrungar (click below
image) 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
(click image right) 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.
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