Nick Cook

Eli decided he wanted to get better at skate boarding. My advice to him was to spend more time on his board. Weekend after weekend thereafter we traipsed around the Paseo Mall in Pasadena, him on his skateboard, me walking. He got so good he lapped me once at first and then later twice.

Going back for a moment, I need to talk about Nick Cook in order to explain the events of 2004. Nick Cook is a well respected Jane’s aerospace journalist. (see http://www.janes.com/press/press_spokesperson.shtml) In 2002 he published The Hunt for Zero Point, Broadway Books. In the first chapter he described having contacted a police officer near Bakersfield, CA. She had knowledge of an airplane crash site and agreed to take Cook to look at the place. When I read Cook’s account, I immediately recognized the event and it seemed likely that Cook got his information about the crash by subscribing to the skunk works newsgroup I had belonged to.

In 1996 I publicly (to the skunk works newsgroup) asked what had crashed in Bakersfield in the 1970’s. A surprising response was forthcoming. Not only was the plane identified as an F-117, the responder gave the tail number and the pilot’s call sign. (Needless to say there had been a host of ufo theories to explain the event.) It was then I realized the group was seriously monitored and afterwards I asked the question about who exactly monitored the group. All I got was that some 26 organizations were watching.

The Hunt for Zero Point is quite an amazing book. I highly recommend it. After I read it I contacted Nick Cook by email. He responded right away. I got the impression he knew me and if so, that would certainly have been from his participation in the skunk works group. And, also, he would have read a post I made to the skunk works newsgroup in 1996 regarding the Philadelphia Experiment. (see http://www.netwrx1.net/skunk-works/v05.n704) The Philadelphia Experiment (written by Moore) was a feature point in Cook’s book, a blend of the real and disinformation.

Through 2003 I recovered some. But in early-mid 2004 I was reliving the events of 2002. I felt desperate to make some kind of statement. I decided to publish an article that linked some of the content in Cook’s, The Hunt for Zero Point, with Moore, the Philadelphia Experiment and the mathematical genius, Von Newmann. That is how I came to write the article at http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewcolumn/php?id=21. The article is more about disinformation than about the Philadelphia Experiment.

The rest of 2004 was ugly. I sold just about everything I owned including my beloved musical instruments just to eat and pay rent. I still had some work from the County of LA and TPA’s, but I never got paid for it. I resorted to taking a few call in assignments, even domestic cases, that I got paid for up front. But, that wasn’t enough to sustain me.

Shortly after I left Pasadena in 2005, the Pasadena Post Office just closed my post office box and returned all my mail undeliverable with no forwarding address. When I tried to get into my box several weeks later my key no longer worked. I had rented the box for 15 years. I knew everyone who worked there. Apparently, when I did not respond to a box rent due notice for a couple of days (highly unusual for only a couple of days notice), they shut it. The employees at the Post Office were apologetic, but by then it was too late. They refunded my $3.00 security deposit on the key.

Nuclear propulsion

Nuclear propulsion, ram jets, mufon

Little by little Eli began to gain weight until by ten years old his classmates made fun of him. His grandma frequently made disparaging remarks. He asked me why she was so mean. I told him she didn’t want him to suffer ridicule and low self esteem. He started counting calories, literally, memorizing the calorie intake of most foods or reading food container labels for their calorie content. About a year later he had slimmed down. Now he is above average height for his age and slender.

I became obsessed with learning about secret government projects, secret agencies, disinformation and secret black programs. I learned about Timberwind, a classified project involving nuclear propulsion, linear aerojets, ram jets, the Reagan era Brilliant Pebbles program, Navajo (still highly classified), the MX series of missiles in the late forties, early fifties, etc. I could go on and on. I learned about the political and military history of the US in post WWII, Vannavar Bush, Aerojet, Paperclip and it various projects, Mogul, the Truman era, OSS and CIA, NSA, and dozens upon dozens of covert military organizations loosely held by the DIA. I was looking for answers as to why it appeared our government/military found it necessary to deceive the American people. It was apparent to me that the USSR was well ahead of any US citizen in figuring these things out, so more than likely they weren’t keeping a whole lot from them. They were keeping it from us, the citizens.

My first thought was that secret programs generally prevented oversight and by effective lobbying the industrial/military complex and well as the military were assured of funding. But, I later reasoned that the powers that be had fractionalized after WWII and there were so many self interest groups that a single disinformation network or organization was unlikely to exist. But, I was wrong, to a degree. There were areas of research that strongly suggested a single organization was responsible for the bulk of the bad information and it pointed to some organization within the USAF Space Command.

I continued to post to the skunk-works net until sometime in 1996. I even met with many of those who posted at a small bar just west of Edwards AFB. Among the participants was certainly a covert guy, as I recall a small man who said he worked at a naval base in Oxnard, CA. For some reason I began to feel there was much more to the skunk-works net than met the eye and I asked the administrator if the newsgroup was being monitored by any organization. I asked after having had words with a lurker, Rich, the VP at RAND. The administrator replied to the group that 26 organizations were monitoring the site. I quit posting.

There is this strange mixture of information and disinformation that blends secret aircraft with ufos. In 1996 I began working, somewhat covertly, for the Mutual UFO Network (mufon) in Los Angeles. Without charge I conducted background investigations of people who popped out of the woodwork and claimed to have inside knowledge of government involvement in ufos. Most notably, I investigated Michael Wolf (see link www.ufomind.com/misc/1997/feb/d27-001.shtml ) discovered his real name was Michael Kruvant. In conducting the investigation I contacted Georgetown University to verify his purported education. The registrar told me the information I needed was in files in their basement and she asked for my name and telephone number. I gave it to her, but she never called back. Instead, Michael Wolf, aka Kruvant, called my contact at mufon and demanded to know who I was. Clearly, Wolf was connected to something bigger than was initially apparent. It seemed most likely that he was set up as a disinformer by whatever organization protects black budget programs. And complicit in this were dozens of other purported whistle blowers on military involvement with ufos, surely a cover for black projects. Still, I had to ask myself if there might not be some truth blended with the fiction, the most effective form of disinformation.