Thanks for all your posts! As we have family in harm's way in Japan, the Sendai earthquake and nuclear disaster took much of my available time and
attention away from this thread. I did promise to open a can of worms regarding Dr. Robert Goddard ("The Father of American Rocketry") and Roswell. I
will be deploying overseas in a couple of days (will be gone for at least a year and a half, won't be able to post), so I want to drop a few hints of
things to come before I leave...
The
Real Roswell Story IS Extraterrestrial- but not in the way we have all been led to
expect. Roswell was the focus of an intense, above-top-secret program like the Manhattan Project, not for the construction of the atomic bomb, but for
the conquest of space.
The project culminated in the establishment of
White Sands Missile Range nearby.
Public documents show Dr. Goddard firing primitive rockets in farm fields, while a search of his public patents reveal a technology far more complex.
In fact:
In 1963, von Braun reflected on the history of rocketry, and said of Goddard's work: "His
rockets ... may have been rather crude by present-day standards, but they blazed the trail and incorporated many features used in our most modern
rockets and space vehicles."[8] Goddard confirmed his work was used by von Braun in 1944, shortly before the Nazis began firing V-2s at England.
Dr. Goddard's work was
actually far advanced, with strategic implications. Many of his accomplishments remain
classified to this day:
Standing in front of the rocket in the launch tower on September 23, 1935, are (left to right): Albert Kisk, Goddard's brother-in-law and machinist;
Harry F. Guggenheim; Dr. Robert H. Goddard; Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and N.T. Ljungquist, machinist. Charles Lindbergh, an advocate for Goddard and
his research, helped secure a grant from the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation in 1930. With that money Goddard and his wife moved to Roswell,
New Mexico, where he could conduct research and launch rockets while avoiding the scrutiny and criticism of his colleagues and the press.
Image Courtesy NASA.
His work led directly to the
Corona programs. These ongoing programs were hidden by
Vannevar Bush's public cover stories regarding the impracticality of space dominance:
Proposals for space-related activity continued to be developed by the Navy, Army and
Air Force, but all such proposals were opposed by Vannevar Bush, head of the powerful joint Research and Development Board. (Bush also opposed
development of rocket boosters for long range missiles.) In 1948, the Secretary of Defense reported, with respect to space...
Publicly, the Navy VANGUARD program failed to launch the world's first satellite. Publicly, the Soviets were first in space with Sputnik, and first
with a man in space with Gagarin.
Privately- to this day, still untold- there was another program, with a private history.
Someday, it may be known to the public, but-
...still the truth cannot be told.
More when I return. If you want to keep the thread going, I'd appreciate it.
My wife will check in for me now and then, to keep my account alive.
The Answers Are Out There...

edit on 10-5-2011 by Chakotay because: CLASSIFIED