The top secret US military space program is very real.
Former NASA astronaut Brian O´Leary already spoke about this in the eighties.
In his book THE MAKING OF AN EX-ASTRONAUT he writes about this very secret manned space program.

US Air Force launched a Titan 34D rocket with a secret payload in April 1984 from Cape Canaveral.
Some papers wrote about it. The Contra Costa Times of April 15 1984:
SECRET PAYLOAD GOES INTO ORBIT
Air Force spokesman Dick Castelucci told the press that it was a classified launch and a classified payload.

A secret base on Mars was probably operational already 1966.

The latest conspiracy theories is about a classified launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on August 16 1976.
It was a Saturn V rocket and the mission was to investigate a huge spacecraft on the moon.

The astronauts were William Rutledge and Leona Snyder from Bell Laboratories and Alexei Leonov from Soviet Union.

Hopefully somebody could do a thorough investigation into this strange story.
Like checking old papers from the region and interview people who might have witnessed the presumed launch on August 16 1976.

Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
The latest conspiracy theories is about a classified launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on August 16 1976. It was a Saturn V rocket and the mission was to investigate a huge spacecraft on the moon.

The astronauts were William Rutledge and Leona Snyder from Bell Laboratories and Alexei Leonov from Soviet Union.

Yep! But that's been debunked here on ATS before! However, I wonder if there's some element of truth in the Apollo 20 mission afterall? I personally feel that there's more than meets the eye here!

Cheers!

I am unsure how this thread grew so large without me seeing it.

CoolHand asks some good questions. I would like to remind people that, according to the OP, there is no launch area needed, as they use gravity tech to achieve propulsion.

However, IF they needed launch locations, there is ample space in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for a SeaLaunch vehicle. Not to mention the far flung missile bases we have (think Kwajelein).

The astronauts are most likely either naval or USAF officers. Perhaps CIA, or DIA as well.

Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
I am unsure how this thread grew so large without me seeing it.

Were you on vacation? Oh yeah!

However, IF they needed launch locations, there is ample space in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for a SeaLaunch vehicle. Not to mention the far flung missile bases we have (think Kwajelein).

Right! I think they've graduated from those antiquated 'chariots of fire' to the more esoteric forms of propulsion, dispensing with the cumbersome infrastructure requirements. So they could operate from literally any place on the globe.

The astronauts are most likely either naval or USAF officers. Perhaps CIA, or DIA as well.

Yep! A secret astronaut corps. Was William Rutledge one of them?

Hey, everyone knows that there are many alternate ways to get information, why do you have to believe that the ones controlling the government are geniuses and plan many operations with absolute precision? Why don´t you think the the people in the goverment are normal humans like us and they don´t enjoy having to work extra?

Originally posted by ZeroGhost

How many TRILLION DOLLARS was missing from the U.S. coffers in the last few years? Did not the GAO cite this massive loss with only confused questions?

They are rolling in money, and it IS ours. They just found it, did not tell us in the name of National Security, and are doing what they want with it. BTW, they lost it in the first place and found it in the dark budgets no accounting can ever find.

ZG

And what about drug money laundered into black projects? It doesn't take a genius to figure out that while the Taliban was controlling Afghanistan they destroyed the poppy fields and heroin and opium dropped to zero from there. Since we have sent troops to "liberate" the Afghanis, production has peaked once again.

It would be nice to think that our tax dollars alone pay for all of these covert projects, but reality is that they can't and don't. Even with the deficit spending to maintain all of the federal handout programs, our tax dollars alone cannot afford them.

The Drug War was created so that the money would be funneled into these black programs instead of into the hands of drug dealers. William Cooper claimed that this money helped finance the covert space program which has been flying shuttles out of Vandenberg for years before there was a NASA public shuttle program.

I'd like to address a previous comment regarding health and cures also. It is not necessarily the government that suppresses cancer cures, but the collusion of the AMA and FDA, wit the financial blessings of the pharmaceutical industry.

And regarding energy technology, while it would be great to unlock the source of such free and abundant energy, it is like opening Pandora's Box in that while it can provide benevolent use to replace oil, gas, and nuclear, it can also be used by our enemies and fanatics in general to create very powerful weapons as well. Perhaps it is the stance of the "powers that be" that we are not yet ready to handle such abundance of free power, else as many conspiracy theorists claim, it is the power of Big Oil and the financiers that suppress it for their own greedy agendas. Either way, we lose.

The US has 2 space programs and in the early days of the shuttles there were secret
missions that were in support of the ongoing "arming" of space by the military. Nothing has changed, except the secret part. Now they "piggyback" military assets with science and communications payloads and censor the NASA TV feed, to hide the military deployments, because it's digital now and can also "piggyback" unseen video feeds! There are many strange space objects and projectiles on the shuttle videos all over youtube, that appear to show this. So I'm thinking that we are under quarantine by these space UFOs and that's why we always have a manned space station up there!

I wouldn't argue details, I am simply 100% sure that a huge portion of our black budget goes to space related programs and that we are far ahead of where we claim to be.

Great Thread

Interesting post...I doubt the U.S could come up with trillions of dollars though to fund these programs considering the US GDP is 12 trillion/ year as it stands and is by far the highest in the world. It would take a lot of drugs and drug money to equal trillions of dollars.

Interesting post...I doubt the U.S could come up with trillions of dollars though to fund these programs considering the US GDP is 12 trillion/ year as it stands and is by far the highest in the world. It would take a lot of drugs and drug money to equal trillions of dollars.

Check out Jack Arneson's file at Pegasus Consortium.com. The parts about the provisioning of the I.S.S by the Soviet Progress craft is most interesting as it lists manifests for food which include 540 lbs of fruit and vegetables they do not eat this type of food on the I.S.S especially only three astronauts. Also the are some interesting notes on the time it takes for these provisioning craft to reach the I.S.S it should only take a few hours to get to the station but the records all show a 3 day time from lift off to docking with the station. Again thats Pegasus Research Consortium, Jack Arneson's files on the Progress Craft and I.S.S. Thanks again Mike for an excellent post (as usual)