July 16th, 1965, the Nevada test site
about 80 miles north of Las Vegas. A
craft comes down and 12 Americans in
military uniform walk aboard it. It
leaves and they only come back 13 years
later. Well, some of them.
That's what this book says happened.
It's called Secret Journey to Planet
Serpo, written by Len Casten in 2013.
and I'm going to read it to you. Well,
part of it, including the training, the
voyage, the arrival, the 13 years on the
ground. I'm going to start at part two
because that's where, you know, the real
meat and potatoes are, but part two
doesn't make any sense if you haven't
read part one. So, I'm I'm going to try
to get through the first 100 pages in a
bit of a synopsis here for you guys. It
also helps you understand why anyone
would agree to this. And so strap
yourselves in, like this video,
subscribe. Let's get into it. So this
book comes 20 years after the story. And
the story starts with emails. November
2nd, 2005, Victor Martinez, a former US
government employee, uh, ran a private
UFO mailing list. He forwarded something
out to his subscribers from an anonymous
sender who said that he was a retired
government official. The email describes
an exchange program American personnel
sent to a planet in the Zeta Reticuli
system and the planet was called Serpo.
Then he sent another one and then more
through the rest of 2005 and into 2006,
2007 and then again in 2011 after like a
long break. And he was only known as
anonymous. So Martinez's list was pretty
important. It wasn't just a random
subscriber list. It wasn't a public
forum either. The subscribers included
people with intelligence and defense
backgrounds
and so the material when it showed up it
kind of arrived with this certain sense
of borrowed credibility. Anonymous also
said that he wasn't working alone. He
described himself as a spokesman for six
people connected to the Defense
Intelligence Agency, the DIA, and three
of them apparently still active. And he
said his information came out of a
3,000page briefing of the team that came
home along with the diary the mission
commander kept the entire time while he
was gone. And so by December 21st, there
was enough of the email exchange and the
dumps to merit its own platform. So a
British subscriber named Bill Ryan, uh,
he built a site and he called it
serpo.org.
And so Casten's book is basically just
this conglomeration of all these
different emails, uh, things arriving
out of order, contradicting each other,
and he tries to put it into one coherent
body of work that you can read front to
back. And Bill Ryan comes back later in
the episode, so put a pin in that. We'll
get back to him. I've been waiting so
long to cover this story, and I cannot
wait to get into it. So this happens in
three parts. Uh part one is called the
prelude. It's six chapters. You have
Germany, Antarctica, Roswell, uh Los
Alamos, Kingman, and Kennedy.
This is basically just like a backfill
of history uh to get us up to speed of
them embarking on this journey. And part
two is called Project Crystal Knight.
And that name is the name of the alleged
project or program. So, the planet was
Serpo and the program was allegedly
Crystal Knight. And that has 10 chapters
and that covers like the training, the
landings, the voyage, the arrival,
there's a confrontation, a police state,
um exploration, and then eventually the
return. Part three is the epilogue. So
the Eben technology and then which I
find very fascinating a chapter arguing
that close encounters of the third kind
was seated with classified material.
Following this 13 appendices
including one on the aliens religious
beliefs and then one that's just a
supply manifest.
So I'm very much looking forward to
reading this story. This will be my
first time reading it and I'll be
reading it with you uh starting in part
two. But before we do that, I'd like to
cover the entirety of part one just to
get you up to speed and yeah, why it is
we're here. So, chapter one starts in
Germany. It's the Nazi era. He's arguing
that the fear that eventually produces
Serpo begins with German engineering and
he leans heavily on a researcher named
Vladimir Tziski.
So Tziski's claim is that Germany built
working anti-gravity discs, the Hiboo
series. So Casten talks about that, uh,
including the part where a large one,
the Hannibu 4, is crewed by German and
Japanese volunteers and sent to a
one-way flight to Mars, crash landing
there in January of 1946. Okay, if I
haven't told you to suspend your
disbelief at this point,
do so now. Because obviously Germany's
rocket and jet programs were real and
were genuinely ahead of everyone and the
Allies did scramble to grab the people
who built them. That's known as
Operation Paperclip. That's just a fact.
It's part of history. But the discs are
not. There's no archive anywhere really
of uh anti-gravity in it. Tziski's
material has never been independently
confirmed or corroborated and the
photographs that travel with all of this
fall apart under any serious scrutiny.
So keep that in mind. But Casten needs
this chapter to help set up the rest of
the book and especially chapter 2. So
chapter 2 is Antarctica. We've all heard
a lot about this place. Very mysterious
area in the world. But two things in
this chapter are actually like solid
parts of history. Okay. So in 1938 and
39 Germany ran a real Antarctic
expedition and claimed part of Queen Ma
land naming it Novabinland or New
Suabia. Suabia Suabia. And in the winter
of 1946 and 1947 the US Navy ran
Operation High Jump under Rear Admiral
Richard E. Bird. Thousands of personnel,
13 ships, aircraft. It ended earlier
than the original plan called for and
Casten builds on both of these stories.
In his telling, Novabinland became a
fortified base. Uh, senior Reich
personnel, equipment, and thousands of
civilians moved down there before and
after the surrender. Allegedly, with the
surviving DISC program flying out of
Antarctica rather than Germany, and High
Jump wasn't an exploration.
Apparently, it was sent to destroy that
base, but it ran into the aircraft that
it couldn't fight and retreated.
Now, everything in the back half of part
one rests on this. By 1947, the Pentagon
believes the Reich survived and is
operating out of Antarctica and is
flying something the United States
cannot match, which puts American
intelligence in a very specific mood
going into that summer.
Which brings us to chapter 3. Roswell.
Chapter 3. Roswell. Early July 1947,
something comes down in New Mexico.
Roswell Army Airfield puts out a press
release saying they've recovered a
flying disc. A few hours later, well,
it's a weather balloon. And the story
dies. Well, dies.
They wanted it to die. But decades on,
the Air Force explains it as Project
Mogul, a classified balloon array built
to listen for Soviet nuclear tests. But
the Serpo version, which Casten writes
about, goes past that. So it talks about
more than one crash. Roswell and a
second location with a corona named most
often, though the accounts sort of
disagree.
more than one craft, multiple bodies,
and one survivor.
Injured, but alive, down, but not out.
So, he's taken to Roswell and put into
the custody of a senior intelligence
officer, isolated from essentially
everyone. And the next day, a military
convoy moves him out, which brings us to
chapter 4, Los Alamos, another very
familiar place. They designate him EBBE,
extraterrestrial biological entity. He
becomes EBE1 a little later once there
are others, but he's housed at Los
Alamos, which in 1947 is about as secure
an address as exists. And over roughly 5
years, the people around him work out
how to communicate. Now, we've read
books about this and you've heard lore,
so there's all that to take into
consideration as well. But apparently,
they started with drawings and then
something like language developed. Uh
the alien eventually tells them where
he's from. A planet orbiting a binary
star system in the reticulum uh 39 light
years away. They don't have a name for
the species, so they build one out of
the acronym Eben. And then the planet's
name comes from him, Serpo. And
unfortunately, sadly, he dies at Los
Alamos in 1952. Before he dies, he helps
him with a communication device
recovered from the wreck, repairs it or
explains it, depending on which version
you read. And after his death, they get
it working. And in December of 1952,
something responds.
Then 9 years of slow correspondence,
gradually resolving into rough English,
in 1962, they arrange a meeting. The
Ebans will come back, meet and at a time
and place agreed in advance apparently
in April 1964
in New Mexico.
This brings us to
chapter 5, Kingman. So chapter 5 goes a
little sideways to another crash in
Kingman, Arizona in May 1953. Another
very important and very well doumented
crash in the sort of UFO history. And
this one's attached to a man with a
checkable biography, which makes it a
little different from most of part one.
His name was Arthur Stansel, and for
years, he was known publicly as Fritz
Werner, a pseudonym given to him by the
investigator Raymond Fowler. Stansel was
an engineer who worked the atomic test
program in Nevada during Operation
Upshot Knole in 1973,
20 years after the fact. He signed an
affidavit for Fowler.
He said he was pulled onto a special
assignment, flown out, driven to the
site on a bus
with blacked out windows,
and put to work with a team of
specialists
who were instructed not to speak to each
other. Sound familiar? His assignment
was narrow. Uh, calculate the impact
velocity. That was it. He described an
oval craft about 13 ft across, made of
something resembling brushed aluminum
embedded about 20 in into the sand with
no visible damage.
A hatch about a foot and 1/2 by 3 1/2
ft. A tent pitched nearby. In the tent,
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procedure uh buses, blackout windows.
This was run-of-the-mill crash retrieval
that already had been established by
allegedly the Majestic 12 or MJ12. And
if you want to know more about them,
I've made a video in the past. You can
check that out. But the last chapter of
part one puts the president in it. And
the claim here, again, your disbelief
should be actively suspended at this
point, but the claims that Kennedy
personally approved the exchange in
1962, received the Ebans in ' 64, sent a
team back with them, uh, and that the
Air Force runs it as a lead agency with
civilian scientists brought in to plan
the mission and pick the crew. So the
meeting happens April 24th, 1964. Two
Eban craft enter the atmosphere. The
first one lands at the wrong coordinates
near Sukoro 39 light years and they miss
by about 100 miles. Uh, the Americans
are waiting at White Sands and they send
a correction up and the second craft
comes down at the right spot west of
Hollowman Air Force Base in front of 16
senior US officials.
So, the terms get settled there. The
Ebans take their dead home. The United
States sends 12 people to Serpa.
Kennedy is dead by then. So Casten does
what most everybody writing in this area
eventually does and goes looking for a
line between UFO secrecy and what
happened in Dallas. So two documents and
they're not necessarily in the same
category, but National Security Action
Memorandum 271 is very real. Kennedy
issued it on November 12th, 1963, 10
days before what happened on the grassy
null, directing cooperation with the
Soviet Union on outer space matters. And
that's public and you can read it, but
the other one surfaced in 2011 through
an author named William Lester, uh, who
said he got it via a Freedom of
Information request.
same date addressed to the director of
central intelligence ordering a review
of the agency's UFO files with an
interim report due in February. When the
Kennedy Library was asked about it, the
staff went through the presidential
office files, the CIA files, the NASA
files, and the national security files,
and they found
a big surprise, no copy and no reference
to anything like it. They also noted
that the formatting and the redaction
pattern didn't match other classified
memoranda and I'll put both on screen
here and you can have a look.
So where does this leave us? Well going
into part two. So the United States at
this point believes that its technology
is outmatched first by Antarctica and
then by whatever came down in New
Mexico. It has held a living non-human
for 5 years and learned to talk to him.
It has kept a channel open to his home
world for over a decade. In 1964, it met
his people at a scheduled landing and
made an agreement at Hollowman and 12
people get selected. Four pilots, two
linguists, two doctors, two scientists,
a biologist, and one security man. They
are trained for 2 years. Chosen partly
on the basis that nobody would come
looking for them. July 16th, 1965. They
walk on expecting to be gone 10 years.
They're gone for 13.
Okay, folks. I'm not going to read to
you six episodes of this uh pretending I
don't know what's been said about this
in the past. So, to be very transparent,
uh there's never really been verifiable
documents, photographs, or named crew
member attached to any of this. And the
whole thing is from an anonymous email.
The releases contradict each other.
Different versions give different
numbers of how many left or how many
died and how many came back and how many
stayed.
In 2007, a British research group called
Reality Uncovered went after the origin
of the emails and traced them to well,
Richard Dodie, former Air Force Office
of Special Investigations agent. Now,
I've had Dodie on the channel. Dodie
denies it. His name is going to come up
a lot in this channel. Eventually,
you'll hear about him because he's
pretty much the most thoroughly
documented disinformation operative in
American Euphology. He was at the center
of the Paul Benowitz case in the 80s
where a private citizen was fed
fabricated alien material for years uh
until his mental health decline. And on
March 5th, 2007, Bill Ryan, the man who
built the website, the story's biggest
advocate, stepped down as its web
master, and said the releases contained
disinformation.
He left the door open to crack, however.
He said that he still thought something
real might be underneath it, but he
walked away from the material as
published. So, take that for what it's
worth. I'm going to read it anyway
because I think it's interesting. And if
it's fabricated,
I mean, somebody fabricated a planet uh
with two suns, a heat problem, a crew
that never adapts to uh the system over
there, a calendar, and all of this,
which is pretty insane. So, somebody
worked out what they ate and what they
died of and how the politics functioned.
It feels like thousands of hours of
worked aimed at a mailing list of a few
hundred people. So, whoever did this
either believed it or wanted very
desperately
for other people to believe it. And I
think that's worth looking into.
So, now we get into chapter 7, the
selection, the training, 12 people
getting told they won't be home for a
decade.
Strap yourselves in, folks. It's going
to be a wild ride.
Thank you for 100 episodes. By the way,
I know that we never officially,
you know, said our thank yous here, but
thank you so much uh for all the support
along the way. 100 episodes is a huge
milestone and I'm very glad to be here.
Very glad to be here covering this stuff
with you. Secret Journey to Planet Serpo
Part Two, Project Crystal Knight.
Very intrigued by this, by the way.
This part of the book draws heavily upon
the diary of the team commander, who we
also know as 102, which we'll see on
page 97.
We are very fortunate to have his
personal record of this amazing journey
as it was happening. In this diary is
recorded far more than simple
information and observations.
We can also now appreciate all his
anxieties, his misgivings, and his
impressions.
When he says, "I dreamt of Earth,"
and describes his Colorado home, we
experience a wave of sympathy for this
man who has volunteered to travel 240
trillion miles from Earth as we try with
great difficulty to comprehend what such
a journey could be like. We also become
spectators to what he is seeing and
hearing, and we learn what he thinks
about his own adventures. We must give
many thanks to Anonymous who had access
to the actual diary and who
painstakingly transcribed it verbatim
and sent it to the SERPO website. In
sending in these diary entries,
Anonymous prefaced them with a plea to
Victor Martinez, the website moderator.
He said, "Attached for your UFO thread
list are just four pages of the team
commander diary. The diary contains a
large number of pages, all handwritten.
It took me several days to prepare the
attached four pages from the diary. This
is the actual verbatim diary of the team
commander.
It was started the morning of the
departure. There were code names for
control personnel and three-digit
numbers for each team member address
above. There are other codes and
abbreviations for certain things which
is not explained.
All right. I've typed the exact words,
phrases, and abbreviations. Nothing has
been changed. And likewise, I will ask
you not to alter, change, or correct any
of the text here, as you often do with
mine to make it grammatically correct.
This includes your use of caps to
emphasize things I've written. I ask you
to not do this with these journal
entries, Victor. Okay. seems a little
salty about some of the uh corrections.
In making this plea, Anonymous is
communicating to Martinez how important
it is to leave the commander's precise
phrasiology intact and to reproduce it
exactly as he recorded it with incorrect
spelling, grammar, and inconsistencies
included. He understood that this diary
must be given to posterity, warts and
all. He knew that someday school
children all over the world would read
these words in their history books and
they would be right there with the
commander to witness these events as
they happened to see it all through his
eyes. So in the diary extracts in this
section we have tried to maintain this
high degree of authenticity and have
reproduced the exact text as it was sent
to the website and we ask the reader
indulgence in reading the diary entries
that are laced with errors. some
careless, some in the interests of
saving time, and some without regard for
grammatical accuracy. In some cases,
absolutely necessary. I have added the
correct text in brackets. In any case, I
am confident that the commander's intent
will easily be understood. So, despite
the commander's specific orders to like,
hey, did don't change anything or not
commander, the anonymous, uh, they they
proceeded to put brackets in there
anyways, which I do appreciate, by the
way. All right. The more we learn about
102, the more admirable he becomes. And
that's the commander, I suspect. Having
dared across the galaxy, he must now
shepherd his team through 13 years of an
incredibly challenging existence. They
must endure extreme heat, strange food,
constant daylight from two suns in the
sky, excessive radiation exposure, and
little or no recreation. All the while,
he must carry out his mission to learn
all he can about this civilization.
There are times when he can easily be
mistaken for Captain Kirk from Star
Trek, such as when he confronts the
Ebans for authorizing the
cannibalization of his dead teammate for
a cloning experiment.
Interestingly, the team arrived on Serbo
within a few months of the date that
Captain Kirk first appeared on our
television screens in 1966.
Apparently, the timing was right for
both. Sometimes it seems there is an
amazing confluence of a reality and
fiction.
I would I would I would agree with that.
Here we go. Chapter 7, selection and
training.
President Kennedy gave the official
directive for the Eban exchange program.
The date for the alien landing had been
previously set for April 24, 1964. And
the landing site was to be at the
western border of Hollowman Air Force
Base, adjacent to the southern entrance
to the White Sands Missile Range in New
Mexico. It was originally planned to be
only a diplomatic visit during which the
aliens would also retrieve the bodies of
the nine dead victims of the two New
Mexico crashes as well as the body of
EB1.
But President Kennedy decided to request
that the event become an exchange
program.
This request was communicated to the
Eban home planet and was approved by
them around September 1962. As noted
earlier, the exchange program idea was
originally put forth by EB1 in his fifth
message in 1952. In a reply directly to
him, the Ebans agreed to a return visit,
but did not mention an exchange program.
They suggested a date 10 years in the
future. This reply may have suffered
from EB1's translation and the military
handlers at Los Alamos. first believed
it to be a mistake, but before they
could obtain a correction, EB1 had died.
So that date, 1962,
remained until the new one in 1964,
could be established in 1955 via human
to Eban communication.
Not right. And when you hear me say,
"All right," that that means like, "All
right."
Uh, as it turned out, the new date was
really 12 years into the future from
when EB1 had received his reply. Now, in
1962, when communications were much
improved, Kennedy realized that the
exchange request might now receive an
approval, and it did. It was agreed that
we would send 12 American astronauts to
the alien planet, and they would leave
one Eban ambassador here for a period of
10 years. Since the plan date of the
landing could not be changed without
great difficulty, that meant that the
government planners had only about 18
months in which to select and train our
ambassadorial team. It was a very tight
schedule for such an unprecedented and
complicated program. The selection
process alone could easily involve a
six-month effort. While President
Kennedy had placed the entire program in
the hands of the DIA, the Defense
Intelligence Agency, this did not
preclude the use of civilian
subcontracting agencies. However, it was
quickly decided that the Air Force would
be the lead agency, taking
responsibility for finding 12 volunteers
for this historic mission. The Air Force
brought in civilian consultants to help
with personnel selection and mission
planning. Interestingly, NASA, which
became operational on October 1st, 1958,
had no involvement in the mission. Under
the terms of the National Aeronautics
and Space Act of July 29, 1958, NASA,
was to be the official government agency
charged with space exploration. And
since they had fully absorbed the
National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics, NACA, they already had a
46-year history of space research that
could certainly help to expedite the
program planning and preparations. But
the NASA charter specified that it
remained non-military.
NASA could not be involved in a DIA
program. However, as will be seen below,
NASA did participate in training the
team.
That's interesting because now as of a
few years ago, I think NASA was made
sort of the official government liaison
for
space exploration, you know, along with
NRO and
um Space Force and whatnot, but they are
like an official government entity now.
Um, in regards to that stuff, I believe
I believe, correct me if I'm wrong,
a grand adventure. The appointed
military civilian selection committee
debated for months about the criteria to
be applied in choosing the team members.
This was precious time lost. It was
finally decided that all candidates must
be military, but not necessarily from
the Air Force.
There were to be no civilian members of
the team. They had to have chosen the
military as a career and had to have
completed at least four years of
service. This decision made a lot of
sense. The mission required an ultra-
high level of personal and team
discipline since the team members would
be facing enormous hardship and they
would have to rely on that discipline to
handle the challenges. Furthermore, as
previously discussed, Kennedy and the
DIA were not absolutely certain that
they would not be facing a possible
threat from the Ebans, and they wanted
people who could defend themselves and
could possibly even find a way to return
to Earth by force if it became
necessary. The committee would be
looking for individuals with special
skills appropriate to their roles in the
mission, uh, who had additionally been
cross-trained in other needed skills.
Also, they wanted some evidence that
each team member had the ability to step
into the shoes of another member if
necessary. So, just trying to take all
precautions,
trying to make sure they got all their
bases covered, as much as as many bases
as you can cover in a situation like
this. I suppose
the team members had to be currently
unmarried. Presumably, this requirement
did not eliminate those previously
married, but they could not have any
children. Preference would be given to
those who were themselves orphans. The
goal was to select candidates with as
few family ties as possible. Apparently,
there was concern that the family
members might somehow learn of the
program and might conceivably make
public their worries about its safety.
These 12 individuals would be entirely
in the hands of another civilization on
a planet in a distant star system, and
the government had little or no leverage
to ensure their safety. Their safety, of
course, was highly problematic. This was
a very dangerous mission and the fate of
the team was basically unpredictable. If
they did all die, we would have no way
of knowing whether it was accidental.
So, we could not retaliate against the
Eban in our custody, nor would we want
to anger an alien race that had the
technology to invade the Earth.
This was a delicate balance, but we had
enough experience with the Ebans to feel
confident that the team had a reasonable
chance of survival and returning safely.
Oh, how nice.
We basically had learned uh to trust
them. But this was to be the first time
any human would be sent out into space
beyond Earth's orbit. It was a grand
adventure, really more appropriate of
the realm of science fiction than that
of reality. But it was worth the risk.
If they all or even some of them return
safely to Earth, we would have complete
details about a civilization on a
distant planet.
Should be a window into the universe of
incalculable value.
The call for volunteers was placed in
military publications. Eventually, after
some months, the final 12, 10 men and
two women were chosen. There were eight
air force selectes, two army and two
navy. Additionally, four alternates were
picked. They would go through the same
training as the main team in case a
trainee was eliminated or dropped out.
These 16 were the very best and most
likely to complete the mission
successfully. Relative to selection, the
following quoted information came from
someone in England who claimed to have
been in MI6, the British intelligence
agency, and was involved in the program.
It was sent to the website and was not
disputed by anonymous. Interesting. So,
a third party corroborator apparently
allegedly, but this could also just be
anonymous sending it from another email,
let's say.
As a side note, bit of an aside here,
but
it would have been way easier to sigh up
the public in the ' 60s, '7s, 80s, even
90s than it is today in terms of the
methods used. uh today I would assume
that all the methods used to sigh up the
public would not be uh leaked documents
or anything of that sort. It would
probably have to do with algorithm
manipulation. like if you look at AI and
how it's able to mimic real sort of uh
human
uh characteristics online.
I feel like
the algorithms that are being presented
to us could be manipulating our
consciousness in some way. Our
decision-m our ability to filter
information. when you spend, you know,
five to 10 hours staring at a screen
every day, it's a lot of time for you to
be able to be soped and people
um, you know, if you see somebody on a
podcast or whatever, you can just shut
off the podcast, but then you're still
on your phone. So, it would be a massive
oversight if they weren't trying to scop
you using AI technology rather than, you
know, the way they did it before, which
was maybe a leaked document or um, a
misinformation or disinformation agent.
Although I'm not ruling all of that out
also, it just my point is it was a lot
easier back then because
the weight that credibility carried
to a topic
was much greater than today. So like
your role
being um you know having a
whether it's an academic background
you know a large pedigree of
scholarship or being highly ranked in
some agency or in the military like
those things added
credibility and credibility mattered
more when it came to that stuff.
Nowadays, you can just fact check
everything and you can look at, you
know, historical documents to see if
someone was telling the truth or not.
But back then, if a colonel or if a
doctor told you something, it held a
different amount of gravitas, like you
held it in higher regard. And so, it
would have been easier to just lie to
people or for people to be lied to
than it is today. I actually I don't say
easier. It would have just been like
people would have been more prone to
believing something from the horse's
mouth
rather than today. I think today people
are rightfully more skeptical of
everything they hear. Here's the uh
portion of the email that was sent to
the website. The advertisement which was
sent out asked anyone interested in
volunteering for a space program to
apply. It was a semiclassified
announcement. The disguise was that the
USAF was selecting a special team to
travel to the moon and these people must
undergo special training and a special
selection process. None of the military
people trying out for this team knew the
real mission. About 500 people applied
and that narrowed down to about 160. But
there was a problem. Some specialists
required on this mission were missing.
Besides, the requirement called for each
team member to be single, never married,
no children, and if possible, orphans.
The USAF had to go out and recruit two
doctors and several other specialists.
Sheep dipped. Ah, this is a term that
comes up uh quite a bit in this topic.
So, the selection committee decided to
completely dissolve the identities of
all the team members and to assign them
three-digit numbers as their new
identities. They wanted to sever all
their existing connections to Earth
except those with the mission personnel
and that meant destroying traceable
identities. Consequently, they were all
quote unquote sheep dipped. According to
an article in Time magazine on February
3rd, 2003 titled The CIA's Secret Army
by Douglas Waller, if a soldier is
assigned a highly clandestine work, his
records are changed to make it appear as
if he resigned from the military or was
given civilian status. The process of
this is called sheep dipping after the
practice of bathing sheep before they
were sheared.
This metaphor is slightly a skew. It
really is the shearing and not the
dipping that applies here. Identities
are sheared off like the wool of a
sheep. One suggestion was that they all
be listed as dead. That was debated and
rejected. It was finally decided that
they be shown on their official military
records as quote unquote missing.
Wow.
That's interesting, isn't it? There are
some other highly ranked military
officials that have gone quote unquote
missing
that have been tied to uh pretty secret
programs.
That seems like a very odd decision
since the missing category was really
only appropriate in wartime when
thousands of military personnel were
listed as missing in action. In 1963,
the Vietnam War had not yet begun.
It wasn't clear how the military would
be able to explain how 12 people could
be missing in peace time. How could
members of the armed forces suddenly not
show up for duty without being labeled
as deserters?
Stranger still was the decision to
either destroy their military records or
to place them in a secret storage
facility. That meant that no
investigator would ever even know that
they had been in the military.
This means that they could never
question the quote unquote missing
designation anyway. All other records
were to be collected and destroyed or
placed in a vault, including Internal
Revenue Service, tax returns, medical
records, and any other papers that
showed that these 12 individuals had
ever existed. That was really an
impossible task since there were
probably papers such as birth
certificates, school, and college
records, and social security cards that
may uh not have been retrievable by the
military. Even harder today, by the way,
with the existence of the internet and
the digital footprint. The purpose of
all this strict depersonalization is
obscure. Very possibly, the committee
wanted to prevent the writing of
articles and books when the team members
returned to Earth and were released to
civilian life. The security oath alone
should have accomplished that goal, but
they weren't taking any chances. By
eliminating their credentials, the
military made it easy to disavow such
writings. They wanted the full report of
the space travelers to remain under lock
and key for as long as they chose. There
could have been a justifiable security
reason for this at the time, but now in
retrospect, it seems a great shame that
these 12 courageous space pioneers must
forever remain in the dark halls of
historical anonymity. The final makeup
of the team with their new three-digit
identities is as follows.
You have the list here.
Uh so the team commander would be 20 or
assistant team commander 203. Team
commander would be 102. Pilot 1 and2
would be 225 and 308. I don't expect any
of you to remember this, but I will put
it up on screen here in case you need to
reference it or in case we need to
reference it moving forward. In one of
his emails, Anonymous answered some
questions regarding the SERPO material
that were sent in. One question relates
to the selection process and offers some
additional insight. Following is the
question and answer. Okay, we've got a
Q&A here with Anonymous.
Another question pertain to the team
makeup. Why were only two females taken?
If one considers the monumental problem
associated with picking a team of 12
people where each person uh must be
totally erased from the military system,
no family ties, no spouses, no children,
one can see the difficulty that the
selection group had. The selection group
picked the best team members from a
limited pool of military people. The
original selection group picked 158
people. The final 12 were selected from
that number. If you consider
psychological, medical, and other tests
that had to be administered, the final
12 were the best qualified from the
original number. Why they chose two
females was never written. Apparently,
those two females were the best
qualified in their individual specialty,
a doctor and a linguist.
All right.
I like that they were being fair. Huh.
That's nice.
All right, the farm.
The primary training for the mission
took place at Camp Perry, Virginia on
the York River near Williamsburg. This
is the notso secret main CIA training
location popularly known as the farm but
officially referred to as the armed
forces experimental training activity a
feta. The project was assigned its own
training complex within the larger
facility where it could impose its own
secrecy and security within the already
highly secure CIA system. So it was
necessary to go through two levels of
screening to gain access to the team
training location. in Camp Perryi was
the home training site for the team, but
they were also trained at Shepard Air
Force Base in Witchah Falls, Texas.
Ellsworth Air Force Base outside of
Rapid City, South Dakota, and Dao Air
Force Base in Bangor, Maine. Wow, that's
interesting. Ellsworth being home to uh
well being home being the location where
you know Sergeant Mario Woods also had
his encounter and Richard Dodie was also
assigned to uh investigating
um Mario Woods's case. So maybe a
connection there. Maybe this leads back
to Dodie.
Interesting. I wish I would have
followed up a little bit more
on this. So, I'm reading this. I skimmed
through it partially before my
conversation with Richard Dodie. There
was so much there to talk about and
another reason why I feel like it merits
more conversation, but um I wish I would
have brought this up a little bit more
and I had it in my notes, but you know,
time flies. They were given high
altitude astronaut training at Tindle
Air Force Base near Panama City,
Florida. Anonymous says that they were
also sent to unidentified locations in
Mexico and Chile for special training.
Camp Piri was a logical choice for
training the team primarily because it
was self-contained and it was ultra
secure since it was operated by the
defense department. It was really a
military base under the nominal control
of the US Navy. It was named after famed
naval explorer Rear Admiral Robert E.
Perryi, who died, oh sorry, who in 1909
was the first man to reach the North
Pole. Self-containment was important to
the planners of the mission. They didn't
want the team to make any connections
outside their training facility where
they might inadvertently drop a hint or
reference to their mission. Campiri also
already had pleasant homes and
apartments, recreational facilities, and
retail establishments for the CIA
trainees that were easily adaptable for
the team. Since it was previously a
Virginia state forestry and game
preserve, the camp residents could even
enjoy hunting on the 9,000 acre heavily
wooded reservation in whatever spare
time they were given. Secrecy and
self-containment had always been the
major virtues of the main training camp
for the Navy CBS. Then it was used to
house those German prisoners of war,
mainly officers who were supposed to
have been killed in action but had
actually been rescued by the Navy. And
we know this as paperclip.
Consequently, the German high command
thought they were dead and couldn't give
away any information. Prisoners could
live normal lives securely at Camp
Perryi while they were being
interrogated. Eventually, most became
naturalized American citizens. The Navy
gave the reservation back to Virginia in
1946, but then took it over again in
1951. The purpose of the CIA training at
the farm is to imbue deskbound
intelligence operatives with the
paramilitary skills they would need in
enemy territories. Here the keenly
academic types are toughened up and made
into pseudo soldiers.
This kind of James Bond commando
training was resumed after 9/11 by
George W. Bush after a long era of
blunders by CIA paramilitary operatives
in foreign countries who were in the
special operations group SOG. Waller
says in the Time article until fairly
recently the CIA in an effort to clean
up reputation sullied by botched
overseas coupe akus
and imperial assassination attempts had
shied away from getting its hands dirty
until about 5 years ago 1998. It focused
instead on gathering intelligence that
could be used by other parts of the
government. For that, traditional CIA
officers, often working under cover of
uh as US diplomats, got most of their
seekers from the embassy cocktail
circuit or by bribing foreign officials.
Most did not even have weapons training.
Now, says Waller, at Camp Perry, new SOG
recruits also hone their paramilitary
skills like sharpshooting uh with
various kinds of weapons, setting up
landing zones in remote areas for agency
aircraft, and attacking enemy sites with
a small force.
This rebuilding of the special
operations group by CIA director George
Tennant required a makeover of the
facilities and capabilities of Camp
Perry starting in 2001. By the mid
1960s, there had been some improvements
as a result of the lessons learned in
the Bay of Pigs debacle in 1961, but
those facilities were still rather
primitive when the Serpo team was in
training at the camp between 63 and 65.
Interesting little history lesson there
about Campiri that I did not know. And
so again, you know, we're reading
through these things who many people
might assume is just completely riddled
with disinformation and they very very
well might be right. However, even when
reading stuff like this and allowing
ourselves to suspend our disbelief, we
can learn a thing or two that we hadn't
previously known.
So far, everything checks out. It seems
a little strange obviously that, you
know, President Kennedy would give this
order to uh have this exchange program,
but I've heard crazier things.
Extreme confinement.
The complete training curriculum,
according to anonymous, is shown in
appendix 1. He claims to have received
it from an associate named Jean. Email
moderator Victor Martinez provided Gan's
last name, Lascowski.
Uh we later learned that his real name
is Jean Lakes.
Anonymous tells us that Lascowski uh
gave out these details of the training
agenda because he wanted to quote
unquote beef up the released information
with more specificity.
Expected to be completed in about 6
months. It was a very ambitious program.
We find out from anonymous email to the
website that it actually lasted about 8
months. The training was intense.
Anonymous says each team member had to
demonstrate their abilities to endure
hardship, which included a battery of
psychological tests, medical screenings,
and a PAT, a positive attitude test,
which is a military test given to pilots
and special forces personnel. Each team
member had to endure extreme,
psychological, and physical training. In
one training test, each team member was
locked inside a 5x7 box and buried 7 ft
underground. for 5 days with just food
and water, no contact with anyone else,
and in total darkness.
Evidently, candidates with any tendency
toward claustrophobia had been weeded
out by the selection process. Otherwise,
for anyone with such tendencies, the
ordeal would definitely have caused the
trainee to break down. Apparently, all
the team members passed this test. does
seem logical to have an to have imposed
a claustrophobic stress test on the team
since they had to be prepared to be
cooped up in the alien spacecraft for an
extended journey to Zeta Reticuli.
It wasn't known in what sort of living
quarters they would be esconced on
Serpo.
Ensconced. It's a good word.
Two ladies. A section of the Serpo
website invited comments from anyone who
had direct knowledge about Project
Crystal Knight, but preferred to remain
anonymous. Many emails were received
that confirmed all the basic facts about
the remarkable journey. Regarding the
training at Camp Perryi, this letter
basically authenticated the story
revealed by Anonymous. The writer says,
"I was involved in Project Crystal
Knight from about 1960 to 1965.
I was assigned as a civilian to this
project. I was a CIA employee with a
specialty of survival in a foreign
environment. I was a training instructor
at the CIA training camp in Virginia. I
trained 12 men, no women, who went on
this mission. They spent about 8 months
at our training facility. Few knew their
exact mission, which was classified top
secret/code word. I had no other
involvement with this mission after
1965. I was very surprised to hear this
story come to light now after all these
years. Interesting. corroborative piece
of information once again. But once
again, where is this information coming
from? LAR or leak? We are faced again
with the existential question.
The no women interjection in this email
contradicts the claim by anonymous that
two women were part of the original
team. There has been other testimony on
both sides of the issue and it remains
contentious. It is possible that the 12
trainees referred to here consisted of
10 original team members and two male
alternates. The following email helps to
clarify the contradiction.
The project serpo information that I
just read is not totally correct. There
were two women in the original 16
selected for training. I helped train
the team including the two women. But
after the final selection process which
did not involve any combat training uh
like was mentioned on the website on
serpo.org the two women were dropped
from the list. During the training the
team members didn't know their actual
assignment. When the final cut was made
the 12 selected were sent to a military
prison and then told of the assignment.
The 12 were isolated from that point on.
The 12 were removed from payroll of the
government and placed in a special file
within the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The DIA was the controlling agency in
Project Crystal Knight, which was the
name of the operation.
However, the following email keeps the
controversy alive. I congratulate and
commend you for getting this very
important piece of America's history
out, hidden history out. I really
enjoyed reading this information. And I
just shared it with many of my old intel
friends and they knew about it. It's
truly an amazing story. All of which is
fact.
I guess there still is a controversy
whether two women or went or not. At
least one woman went for sure. I knew
six of them while in training as their
instructor. Two were nurses, one was a
linguist and I'm not sure about the
others with passage of time.
So again, just more corroborative
anecdotal information. You know,
nowadays as well, like it would be so
easy to retrace like the IP address or
to find out who sent those emails. Well,
maybe not with like Proton and whatnot,
but
I feel like if that website existed now,
which I think it does, but if it existed
in the capacity that it did, you know,
with all these defense people um being a
part of a mailing list, I feel like we'd
get a lot further today.
Escape to Earth. As discussed in
previous chapters, we had at least one
intact Ebencraft in our possession.
Anonymous makes mention of the one that
crashed in the plains of San Augustine
in western New Mexico. He claims that
this craft collided with the Corona disc
on July 4, 1947, but limped on westward
and finally came down near Datil, but
wasn't discovered until 1949.
This discovery date was disputed by
other Roswell witnesses, but all agree
that this disc was virtually undamaged.
It was sent to Wright Patterson Foreign
Technology Division
uh headed by Dr. Eric Wang for analysis
and reverse engineering.
Would that have been right airfield back
then and not right Patterson?
Interesting.
Um and Dr. Wang is also, you know, noted
to be one of these uh scientists who
have worked on anti-gravidics and uh
mysteriously
either passed away or vanished. The
seriously damaged Corona was also
shipped to Wright Patterson. At the
time, Area 51 was not yet in existence.
However, after it became operational,
both discs ended up there. We learned
from anonymous that the training plan
actually contemplated a possible
emergency escape contingency. He says
several selected team members, pilots,
were trained on flying an Eban craft,
one of which was the one captured near
western New Mexico in 1949. The plan
called for these selected few to fly the
craft back to Earth in case of an
emergency. There were four pilots on the
team, 102, 203, 225, and 308. These four
spent many weeks at the Nevada complex
learning to fly the recovered Eban alien
craft. It wasn't hard to fly once one
could understand the operation of the
controls. I'm sure many of the UFO
sightings back in ' 6465
around the West could be attributed to
these test flights by our team members.
So that part raises a little bit of a
flag to me. one,
the alien controls.
You know,
we hear lots of different speculative
um ideas about how these things were
piloted, including just like brain to
craft interface with no controls or very
limited amount of uh control panels,
like very minimal sort of uh no buttons
or joysticks or anything like that. But
also the idea
that the sightings in ' 64 and 65 would
have been us flying them around.
It would surprise the heck out of me for
something so sensitive
to be taken off of a secure area and
flown around for people to see. Cuz if
that thing crashes, everything comes
crashing down with it. And so I do not
expect anyone to have seen any of the
flight tests unless you were directly on
base.
Um, that just sounds completely made up
to me.
And this is something that Bob Lazar
talked about as well. He, you know, I
asked him, "Do you think some of these
craft would be us flying them?" And he
said, "No, there's no way they would
ever take something so valuable and fly
it in civilian airspace for many
reasons." And I got to agree with that.
Like that would be an insane oversight.
In this reference to the Santa San
Augustine craft, anonymous implies that
we had more than one flyable Eban craft
in our possession. The other one could
only have been the disc that was quote
unquote delivered to us at Kingman,
Arizona on May 21st, 1953
and was hauled on a tank carrier over
the road to the Nevada test site. See
chapter 5 and plate six.
This is a mass reference to Area 51
which was fully functional by that date
and now had become the major facility
for the reverse engineering and flight
testing of all recovered alien craft.
The belief that our pilots would be able
to fly an alien craft 40 light years
from Zeta Reticuli back to Earth was a
very naive supposition uh based on a
lack of knowledge of the scientific
principles involved at the time.
Apparently, in 1964, nobody in the
military-industrial complex had yet
conceived the possibility that covering
such vast distances could only be
achieved by time travel through
wormholes. It seems highly unlikely that
human pilots would have been able to
comprehend that sort of technology in
that era. Even Star Trek, which debuted
2 years later in ' 66, did not mention
time travel, but referred to warp
drives. It wasn't until the advent of
Star Wars in 77 that the term
hyperspace, basically a synonym for the
time domain, gained popular currency.
Furthermore, the Eman discs in our
possession were only small scout craft.
They were not meant for long-d
distanceance interstellar journeys.
Since we had not yet seen the larger
craft when the training took place, it
is understandable how this judgment
error could have occurred.
Tindall training.
Another email testimony confirmed that
the training at Tindall Air Force Base
in Florida and the fact that no women
were in the final team. Evidently, the
Tindall training place, the Tindall
training took place after the final 12
had been selected.
Here's the email. My father died in
1995. He was retired from the US Air
Force in 1990. He told me a story about
a special mission that he was involved
in back in 1965.
He told me that the mission was about 12
military astronauts that went to another
planet in a spaceship
that was found in New Mexico desert.
He said the 12 men were trained at
Tindle Air Force Base in Florida where
he was stationed.
He helped train the 12 in space
endurance
which he was trained to do.
He said the 12 left in 1965 and came
back in 78.
He was there to check them after they
returned to this planet Earth. I didn't
know what to think about my dad's story
back then. I just listened to him and
thought maybe he was just making this
up. But now I realize he was telling the
truth. It's too late for my father to
know about this. But I know my father
was being truthful to me and that makes
me feel good. I look forward to reading
more about this incredible story. Since
this email describes the last training
component for the remaining 12, I
believe that it is safe to conclude the
final team composition consisted
entirely of men.
Tindle Air Force Base was originally an
air gunnery station base during World
War II, hosting allied as well as
American pilots. One of its famous
alumni was Clark Gable, who graduated in
1943. After the war, Tindall became a
general air weapons training facility
and officially became an air training
command base in 1950. And in 57, it
became part of the air defense command,
the ADC, which is responsible for
defending the continental United States
and its territories. 64 when the SERPO
team went there, it had already begun
training airmen for high altitude and
space operations. And then in ' 68, the
Air Defense Command officially changed
its name to the Aerospace Defense
Command. This is all fascinating jargon.
Um, I'm sure the likes of UAP GERB, you
know, would appreciate a little bit more
uh than I. As mentioned above by one of
the trainers, during the training, the
team members didn't know their actual
assignment. When the final cut was made,
the 12 select were sent to a military
prison and then told the assignment. One
can imagine the the reactions of the
trainees to this revelation. Certainly
they could not have imagined such an
assignment in their wildest dreams even
though some of the training might have
suggested some sort of exotic mission.
And then after all and after all they
had gone through to be confined at Fort
Levenworth, Kansas must have been added
must have added insult to injury.
There was no doubt an attempt to imbue
the team with pride and to stimulate a
feeling of heroism of their mission and
the glory they could anticipate. But
they must have nevertheless been shaking
in their boots.
They knew that the promise of glory was
a fiction and all that they could look
forward to was tremendous hardship and
an early anonymous death on a distant
planet or a life in long-term isolation
to keep them from revealing what they
knew.
So, it is not surprising
that one of the team members asked to be
excused.
He changed his mind when he was told
that he would have to remain at Fort
Levenworth until the team returned in 10
years. And folks, that is all I'm going
to cover today because the next chapter,
chapter 8,
we talk about the landings.
Oh boy, this is I got to say I am way
more enthralled
by this story than I thought I would be.
Being skeptical, I think, is a natural
reaction to this type of story. However,
the amount of detail, I must say,
is compelling.
And
if nothing else,
as you know, this is extremely
entertaining.
And uh you know, I I'm someone who
enjoys being entertained and
entertaining an insane
um narrative is is something that I
enjoy doing as well. And so let me know
what you think so far. Have you
independently, perhaps some of the
listeners out there, have you
independently heard about this project?
Do you have any uh knowledge of this
project? Is there anything you would
like to add to this? Do you have a
family member that worked at one of
these facilities that were named
throughout this episode? And if so, were
they stationed there in the '60s?
you know, this is the internet now,
whereas back then you would have so many
anonymous emails, nowadays we can times
that by a thousand with the amount of
people watching this video. I would love
to know if there's any connection to be
made that hasn't been made before. And
if anything else rings a bell in
connection or conjunction to what we
have read in regards to perhaps other
literature that is out there, uh please
bring that forward and make it
available. um let me know. Please keep
the discussion going as well on the
Discord channel. If you are not a
member, you can become a member for free
on Discord or you can join the Area 52
membership and have top secret access
over there as well. Uh do with that what
you please. It is a very fun place and
it is a very safe place to discuss uh
these topics in a judgment-free
environment.
I want to thank you for listening. Thank
you for 101 episodes.
Um, you're all very kind and uh I look
forward to continuing this story. Next
week, we won't be taking a break. We're
going to go right into this story once
again and uh bring you part two of the
secret journey to planet Serpo.
Peace and love.