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you to analyse this technology and make a determination for me described; there were ways to sandwich-in very, very thin, of the veracity of these documents, help me to authenticate them." micrometre-thin layers; special metals to produce moving parts I said, "Fine. I don't believe this is real. I'm sceptical. I don't for things like...from the descriptions that I read, the nearest thing believe in aliens, I don't believe in UFOs, I don't believe in any of I could describe...an anti-gravity propulsion unit for a spacecraft. that." And he said, "Okay, well, I'd still want you to take a look at They included dynamic electronic and power-control technology them, Jack." And I agreed. that even to this day we have not yet developed. They included I met with him at his home. I met a woman by the name of Mrs communications technology that was described only as having Jeffrey Proscauer. That's not her real name, but it's the name she een taken from an object of unknown or unearthly origin. The goes by; she does not want her true identity revealed. AndI gota documents were very carefully worded not to reveal what was, in chance to piece and look through some 28 boxes of materials that _reality, in these boxes of materials. had come from Western Electric Laboratories in the late 1940s, I was sort of at a loss at that juncture, because even though we 1947, early 1948 and beyond, and some subsequent documents. ad forensic information at the time from this particular forensic Now again, if you've ever worked for AT&T, you know that the expert that would date these boxes back to the late '40s, and even laboratories at Bell Laboratories are often quite distinct, and the though they said "Western Electric, Bell Laboratories", part of documentation from a laboratory is kept in an ongoing, growing them said something called "Z-Division" on them. We knew of tome called a "Lab Shopkeeper's Notebook". It turns out that the Z-Division: it was a segment of the United States Army, even in the super-secret laboratories, the ones in the part of formed in 1947 and 1948. The implications were that this project Western Electric or Bell Laboratories that manage the nuclear was operating on the fringes of the nuclear bomb development arsenal, these notebooks are kept, and they grow and they're ongo- roject—then known as the Manhattan Project Group. ing and they become almost like a living representation of what that laboratory did for a living. t turns out that in 1947—between '47 and actually late '48— Well, such as it is, I was rather shocked at what I had to see [es Truman decided he was going to grant a contract to there in these boxes of materials, and I convinced them to let me AT&T to go through the overseeing and management of our look at them over the course of about three-and-a-half weeks. nuclear arsenal and the commercialisation of derived product They were kept at the consultant's house during that time period, technologies from the nuclear bomb, from the bomb project: the and he actually kept a security guard with them at all times because he was afraid that someone might come and steal them. Now of course, I wasn't sure why he was afraid, because at | They included communications the time I didn't realise the full mag- technology that was described nitude of what I was looking at. In any event, after about two or only as having been taken from physics, the electronics, the control systems, even the ballistics, the radar that was used, the ICBM technology that was under development in the late '40s after we got a hold of the V- series rockets from the Nazis, and so forth. The contract was inked by Truman in early 1949, if I recall cor- three weeks of looking at them, I an object of unknown or rectly, but during the prior two-year came back to him and we sat down wo. period there was an informal relation- over what turned out to be a unearthly origin. ship, during which AT&T played a Christmas Eve dinner, and I said to him: "I've got to tell you something. I'm having a real problem with this weapons-grade projects for the feder- because what you're showing me looks al government and eventually got like technology that we have not yet developed, that humanity has pretty much control of what was then known as the Z-Division. greater and greater role in the organi- sation of super-secret military not yet developed, yet the documents you're showing me appear Z-Division, believe it or not, originated in Roswell, New to be forty-eight, forty-nine years old. This would put them in Mexico. I guess the reason is, that is where the original nuclear 1947, 1948, 1949." bomb armada was formed—the first bomber wing that carried the I suggested to him that before I could proceed I would have to nuclear bomb—and it migrated over to Kirtland Air Force Base have someone verify the age, carbon-date or come up with some during the time period when Orlando Lawrence, the Lawrence other means to verify the age of the documents, and he agreed. Berkeley Laboratories fellow, was called in. He was called in by So, with the help of a mutual acquaintance—a private investigator Teller, Oppenheimer...all those folks responsible for the nuclear formerly with the Justice Department—we were able to take frag- bomb...Leo Szwilard. Lawrence was called in at the time because ments of the documents without damaging them. he could make accelerators, or "cyclotrons" as they were known at We sent them to an expert who formerly consulted for Scotland _ the time. Those cyclotrons were capable of refining uranium, Yard; he's a fairly well known forensic expert at...I believe it's the refining plutonium...well, actually, back then, they weren't work- University of Edinburgh in Scotland today; he was at a different ing with plutonium but with uranium. university at the time. He analysed these fragments of these docu- I guess you could imagine what it must have been like in the ments for me, and came back and told me that the ink, the paper, time period. They were in the middle of a war when they were even the presentations were valid; that this was in fact a book or _ building the nuclear bombs and they had to do everything secret- series of books from the 1947, '48, '49, 1950 time period. That ly, so this Z-Division was created with super-secrecy as its funda- took him about four and a half weeks of analysis, and I was for mental core. four and a half weeks, as you can imagine, holding my breath. Ultimately Lawrence was called in because they had to build The things that I saw described in this Lab Shopkeeper's enough of an accelerator to refine enough uranium to make the Notebook consisted of things that today would be more powerful bomb possible, and, in spite of all the greatest minds of nuclear than the Intel Pentium processor, for instance, or the Cray super- physics assigned to the Z-Division in the Manhattan Project, none computer. There were communications devices that were of them could figure out how to refine enough uranium to make described; there were ways to sandwich-in very, very thin, micrometre-thin layers; special metals to produce moving parts for things like...from the descriptions that I read, the nearest thing I could describe...an anti-gravity propulsion unit for a spacecraft. They included dynamic electronic and power-control technology that even to this day we have not yet developed. They included communications technology that was described only as having een taken from an object of unknown or unearthly origin. The documents were very carefully worded not to reveal what was, in reality, in these boxes of materials. I was sort of at a loss at that juncture, because even though we ad forensic information at the time from this particular forensic expert that would date these boxes back to the late '40s, and even though they said "Western Electric, Bell Laboratories", part of them said something called "Z-Division" on them. We knew of the Z-Division: it was a segment of the United States Army, ‘ormed in 1947 and 1948. The implications were that this project was operating on the fringes of the nuclear bomb development roject—then known as the Manhattan Project Group. They included communications technology that was described only as having been taken from an object of unknown or er! a 56 + NEXUS JUNE — JULY 1999 unearthly origin.