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| File Name : EMPWEAP.ASC | Online Date : 12/21/95 |
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| Contributed by : Bill Beaty | Dir Category : ENERGY |
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This file is from Bill Beaty's website as listed above.
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SearchNet's Neotech Mailing List
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Forwarded by Glenda Stocks (1:330/201)
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Area : I_UFO (I_UFO)
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From : Chris Terraneau,
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To : Rich Boylan*
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Subj : Re: sdi weapons systems
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Hi Rich!
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RB> I would be interested in hearing more about the High Power Microwave (HPM)
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RB> weapon system: how it works, power output, narrow or wide beam
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RB> application, range, deployment status, etc.
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The HPM demonstrator we built consisted of basically two sections. A so-called
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Marx generator, which produces a very brief, very high voltage, high current
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pulse, and a magnetron/antenna assembly, which converts the pulse current into
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an intense burst of microwave energy and then directs it towards a target.
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The demonstrator was housed in a trailer which had its own 15kW diesel
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generator, and they used to tow it out to the desert to test it. The testing
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was done at the Cibola Range of the Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Arizona.
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A commercial 100 kV DC power supply was used to charge the 20-stage Marx,
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where it charged its capacitors in parallel, and then via a series of spark
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gaps discharged them in series.
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With the power supply set to 27 kV, the Marx would output a 265 kV, 3500
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ampere, 21.4-nanosecond pulse. The spark gap array was pressurized with air,
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and the air pressure was regulated so as to control the point at which the
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Marx would fire. This allowed the system to operate over a range of output
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power levels.
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One megawatt was a typical pulse-power output, and with typical 50% magnetron
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efficiency, a half-megawatt RF pulse could be achieved. The negative-polarity
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output pulse from the Marx was coupled to a rather large, cold-cathode
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magnetron tube equipped with a superconducting magnet.
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The magnet was cooled to superconducting temperatures by liquid helium, and
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the magnetron itself was evacuated by a small vacuum pump. A specially-
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designed magnet power supply (1 volt, 70 amperes) was used to energize the
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magnet assembly.
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A waveguide couples the resulting microwave energy (4.4 GHz) to a 10-foot
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diameter dish antenna, which was mounted several feet above the trailer.
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Precautions were necessary around the operating equipment to protect
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personnel. Strong magnetic field, X-radiation from the magnetron, and RF
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hazard from the antenna all had to be considered. A zone of "denied
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occupancy" was set up in front of the antenna, which was basically a 12-degree
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cone which extended some 800 meters out in front of the antenna.
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The most intense part of the beam occupied a 6-degree angle, and in the center
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of the beam at a range of 30.5 meters, 9.85 watts per sq cm was developed. I
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never went out to the test range myself, but the guys who did told me they
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used to set up electronic equipment downrange, and try to destroy it.
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Apparently it worked great! They mentioned personal computers, and LCD
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wristwatches, amongst other things. If they tested it on any military
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electronics, I was not told specifically what type of equipment.
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I did hear, however, that an Army land mine was detonated at a distance of
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two miles. I was told by one person who had been with the company a long time,
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that there was a videotape floating around someplace that showed a rat inside
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a waveguide with a clear window on the side. The rat was then subject to ever-
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increasing HPM pulses, which caused him to experience (apparently) great pain,
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and then death.
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I do not know the power levels used in this experiment, and I never heard
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anything about this particular demonstrator being used on any humans or other
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biological specimens. The date of all this was 1987 to 1989. The company had
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some old photos of other HPM and EMP simulation equipment, which to me looked
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like they could have been taken in the 1960s.
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In approximately 1990, the company built a two-man carried portable HPM
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generator. One guy carried the Marx generator (sulphur hexaflouride gas
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insulated), high voltage supply (50kV) and battery pack on his back, and the
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other carried the magnetron tube and antenna.
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The two were connected together by a high voltage coaxial cable. Apparently,
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this device was a complete failure. It only produced a 300-watt output,
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probably due to not having a strong enough magnet on the magnetron. Since man-
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carrying a Dewar full of liquid helium was out of the question, they used
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barium-ferrite permanent magnets.
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I remember them taking a photograph of it before turning it over to the
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government sometime in 1990. As far as current deployment status, I really do
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not know. I do know that the Army was very pleased with the HPM demonstrator
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(trailer-mounted version), but shortly after all this, the HPM division of the
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company was sold to General Atomics Corporation, the four guys and all the
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equipment then being transferred there.
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Up to that point, it was obvious that the HPM/EMP research had been going on
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for many years, and it was very well funded. The huge screen rooms they had,
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and all the state-of-the-art analysis and data logging equipment was testimony
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to that. That Marx generator was truly a work of art!
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RB> Also, I have been shown by a retired air Force Colonel a photo of an
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RB> Electro-Magnetic Pulse weapon. Am also interested in power output, target
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RB> types, range, and deployment status. I believe one was used near Eglin
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RB> Air Force Base/Hurlburt Field USAF/CIA/Special Forces headquarters near
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RB> Mary Esther, Florida Panhandle. What do you know about Florida and New
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RB> Mexico sites specifically?
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Earlier this year, I spoke to abductee Leah Haley on the phone. She was very
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gracious in her information, and sent me a color Xerox of a supposed EMP
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weapon located on the beach at Eglin in Florida. Maybe you've heard her story
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of how the alien spacecraft she was in was shot down there on the beach by
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such a weapon. How she and her alien (and human???) captors were taken into
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custody by military personnel.
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She sneaked back there on the beach at a later time, and photographed the
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device. I have a couple of .GIF images of it on my BBS at (619) 635-8685. They
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are HALEY1.GIF and HALEY2.GIF in the misc image files area. There's also a
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text file, HALEY1.TXT in the misc textfiles area, which contains her story as
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related on Art Bell's radio program.
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I would be curious as to whether or not it looks like the photo you saw of
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such a device. I don't know too much about EMP weapons specifically. I did
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speak to an engineer who works for a high voltage power supply company in New
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Jersey a few months ago.
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We got into talking about some kind of high-power switch device he built
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specifically for EMP generation. Apparently, EMP generators (the electrical
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kind as opposed to the nuclear kind) also discharge a high voltage pulse via a
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fast switch, like a spark gap.
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The current pulse is delivered to an exotically-designed sort of a Tesla
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coil, but the device resonates at several frequencies, from a few MHz to
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over 100 MHz. The output from this exotic transformer is delivered to a
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spherical, ball-like electrode which is located in the center of a huge (30'
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or more?) dish antenna.
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He told me that the DIA discovered several years ago that EMP was the way to
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go as opposed to HPM, because of the wide frequency output spectrum developed
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by an EMP device. This means that it is much more difficult for an enemy to
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design their electronics to withstand a hit by EMP.
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HPM, on the other hand is easier to guard against, if you know the single-
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channel output frequency of the device. He told me that the largest EMP
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generator in the U.S. is located at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico. The work he
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did for the DIA was apparently 5-6 years ago, and his PFN (Pulse Forming
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Network) generated a 400-nanosecond pulse, quite a bit longer (and therefore
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possibly more devastating) than the 20-nsec pulse of our HPM demonstrator.
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He mentioned Electromagnetic Missiles were something they were developing,
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which used some technique called Brittingham-wave generation. Something about
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a paper written by a T.T. Woo of Harvard some 5-12 years ago. As far as EMP
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weapons at Eglin, he did confirm that is where a significant ammount of pre-
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deployment testing of energy weapons is done.
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I asked him specifically about the possibility of shooting down UFOs with such
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a weapon. Although he said he had no knowledge of such an application, he did
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believe UFOs were real, as he saw one about 30 years ago himself. He was
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familiar with the Biefield-Brown effect, and did indicate to me that such a
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weapon could likely interfere severely with the operation of such a device.
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On a slightly related issue, last spring I visited a sister company, who had
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developed some kind of adaptive-mirror telescope imaging equipment for the
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(get this) BMDO (Ballistic Missile Defense Organization), the keepers of the
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mysterious Clementine spacecraft moon mapping mission.
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BMDO was plastered all around this place. This telescope is basically a
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reflector-type, but the reflector is made up of zillions of 1/4" hexagonal
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segments which move rapidly under computer control. A laser beam measures
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atmospheric turbulence in the viewing angle of the mirror, and adjusts its
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many segments rapidly, so as to cancel the effects of the intervening
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atmosphere.
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The end result is that images of space rivaling those obtainable outside the
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atmosphere, are obtained from the ground. Now here's the clincher: The people
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there told me that the equipment was being tested at Eglin! And, a little
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model of it in a glass case in the lobby of this company looks EXACTLY like
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the truck-mounted dish thing in Leah Haley's photograph!
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The people at this company told me that the BMDO will use this telescope to
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accurately track and target incomming nuclear missiles, so they can shoot them
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down. But wait, I thought that Star Wars was cancelled! Maybe they're tracking
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and targeting UFOs with this device, and then shooting them down with EMP
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weapons.
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Perhaps Leah Haley's photo is only of the telescope device site, and she did
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not see the actual EMP weapon, which could easily be located at a different
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location.
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RB> BTW, Hurricane Opal smashed right through Eglin/Hurlburt, and even set off
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RB> a tornado which took out Eglin's water tower plus other damage. Gaia
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RB> karma? Sounds good to me!
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Rich, do you have a photo in your posession of the EMP device you mention? I
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would really like to see it. I have a copy of the Operations and Maintenance
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manual for the HPM demonstrator, and would be glad to mail you a copy. Please
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give me your address again, and I'll send it off to you. Regards, Chris
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