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			by Robert M. Stanley  
			Extracted from Nexus Magazine 
			Volume 9, Number 5 (Aug-Sept 2002) 
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						Space technology 
						consultant David Adair goes on the record about his 
						extraordinary experiences at Area 51 when, as a 
						mere teenager, he was testing one of his electromagnetic 
						fusion engine prototypes..
 
						About the Interviewee:
 David Adair is an internationally recognized 
						expert in space technology spinoff applications for 
						industry and commercial use. At age 11, he built his 
						first of hundreds of rockets which he designed and 
						test-flew. At 17, he won "The Most Outstanding in the 
						Field of Engineering Sciences" award from the US Air 
						Force. At 19, he designed and fabricated a 
						state-of-the-art mechanical system for changing jet 
						turbine engines for the US Navy that set world-record 
						turnaround times that still stand today. David Adair 
						is the president of Intersect, Inc., and he lectures and 
						provides consulting services to companies and 
						organizations that want to know how to use the latest 
						cutting-edge technological advances.
 
 About the Interviewer:
 Robert M. Stanley is a writer and researcher 
						specializing in technology trends. His articles have 
						been featured in numerous publications and he has 
						appeared on various television and radio programs. 
						Currently he is serving as an R&D consultant for an 
						international corporation.
 
						He can be emailed at
						
						rstanley@socal.rr.com
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				ROBERT STANLEY: Tell me about 
				the government disclosure letter you are circulating.
 DAVID ADAIR: That letter is based on a series of events 
				that occurred when I first testified for 
				
				Dr Steven Greer in 
				1997. It's very simple what we want: a congressional hearing 
				that will grant covert operatives total immunity from their 
				national security oath. Dr Greer is telling us that he has 
				hundreds of witnesses. I know he is not blowing smoke regarding 
				this issue, because in 1971 I saw a lot of people working on 
				these things.
 
 ROBERT: At 
				
				Area 51?
 
 DAVID: Right. I saw them underground working on all these 
				different craft and back-engineering lots of stuff. I believe 
				there are people that have spent 30 years or more working on 
				these types of projects. Imagine what they could tell us! But 
				more importantly, they would be able to tell us who paid them, 
				who signed the cheques.
 
 ROBERT: So you are pushing for public hearings?
 
 DAVID: Absolutely. I really want the world to hear what these 
				hard-core engineers have to say.
 
 ROBERT: You told me in our pre-interview that this event would 
				radically change our lives, that we could begin integrating some 
				of the more advanced technologies into our infrastructure.
 
 DAVID: Exactly, but unraveling everything poses a problem. I 
				know that while I was at Area 51 and was being taken through 
				offices that were off to the side of the hangars and labs, they 
				took me to a room and locked me in it. And that's where I stayed 
				until General LeMay came and got me. But I saw a lot of people 
				working down there as we were walking past these offices.
 
 ROBERT: Wait a minute. General Curtis LeMay personally came to 
				get you out?
 
 DAVID: Yes. If you read his autobiographical book called 
				Iron 
				Eagle, he was a former commander of SAC [Strategic Air Command]. 
				"General Curtis E. LeMay: retired February 1, 1965; died October 
				3, 1990. LeMay was the fifth Chief of Staff of the US Air 
				Force." You will see, in the back of the book, he talks about 
				his parents. They lived in Mount Vernon, Ohio. I lived in Mount 
				Vernon, Ohio, when I built my first fusion rockets. I was on the 
				cover of the local newspaper.
 
 ROBERT: How did that happen?
 
 DAVID: Well, because his parents' caregiver was my mother, 
				Evangeline Adair.
 
 ROBERT: What a strange coincidence!
 
 DAVID: Yes, and that's how LeMay came to know me personally. And 
				when our local congressman started funding my second rocket, 
				that's when the Mount Vernon News got wind of the story. It was 
				the fastest vehicle ever built on Earth.
 
 ROBERT: Is this a picture of the second rocket I'm looking at?
 
 DAVID: Yeah; there were all kinds of newspaper stories printed 
				about me that I have saved. I was being funded by Congressman 
				John Ashbrook. He was chairman of the Internal Security 
				committees of Congress. That's a pretty powerful place to be. He 
				was also on the Education and Labor committees, which is how he 
				funded my work - through the Department of Education. Then when 
				the Air Force showed up to inspect my second rocket, they were 
				totally gung-ho for all the formulas and the prototype I built 
				from scratch. They knew I was on to something, so they funded me 
				through the NSF [National Science Foundation]. Then my mother 
				got concerned because the government people were really getting 
				involved in our lives. So she went and talked to General LeMay. 
				Curtis really liked my mother a lot and he had seen the 
				newspaper stories, so he came over to talk with me. Later he 
				talked with Congressman Ashbrook. The next thing I know, LeMay 
				told me: "David. I am going to be your buddy. I am going to be 
				your project manager." And actually, that was the greatest thing 
				that could have happened to me because I found out much later 
				that it was LeMay that saved my ass.
 
 ROBERT: That's some powerful protection.
 
 DAVID: Yeah, but what's really interesting is an investigator 
				pulled the records for Congressman Ashbrook from the Library of 
				Congress and found all this documentation. The investigator was 
				shocked to learn that I was telling the truth. In one letter I 
				told the Air Force that without the right electronics and the 
				right formulas to compress and scale down the fusion engine I 
				was building, I would need a really big vehicle to put the 
				engine in and it was going to be a damn big engine! Eventually I 
				found an ICBM, a Titan III, that had been pulled out of 
				mothballs and had been given to the Center for Science and 
				Industry in Ohio. They had recently pulled all the fuel out of 
				it and parked this thing in a storage area. It was flight ready. 
				After a while, I got the Titan. During that time, I had more 
				information-based dreams and from that I eventually reconfigured 
				the fusion engine down to a workable size. Everybody loved that, 
				because hauling a Titan rocket around is pretty tough to do - 
				it's 30 storeys tall! After I told them I could compress this 
				thing down to an engine that would fit in a 12-foot-tall rocket 
				housing, I had to build everything from scratch.
 
 ROBERT: Didn't you tell me there were two rockets?
 
 DAVID: Yes. You're right. There were two of these prototypes. 
				This one went to the science fair. But here is the one that no 
				one ever saw publicly.
 
 ROBERT: The one you told me was "stealth"?
 
 DAVID: Right. We built one just for the local people to see what 
				we were working on. The Air Force guys came over to my house 
				every day. They took their uniforms off and walked around in 
				T-shirts and shorts so the locals would think they were just 
				average people helping out with all the rocket stuff I was 
				building. So when the town folks came by, they just thought, 
				"Boy, he's building a big one this time." But we had two of them 
				in production. I set up one that I used to win the science fairs 
				with, but here is the design we used to move past the prototype 
				stage with. Anyway, we had a front operation and another in the 
				back. And it worked well. That was my introduction to covert 
				activities. Al this documentation that I am showing you here, I 
				brought with me to Congress. I didn't want to testify because I 
				was really treading the fine line of National Security. However, 
				I could tell this particular story because I was only 17 years 
				old when that happened. According to constitutional law, the 
				federal government is prohibited from signing a minor to a 
				National Security Oath. Strom Thurman said to me one time, 
				"You're the biggest loose cannon on the deck, boy."
 
 ROBERT: Let's go back to your experience at Area 51 with General 
				Curtis LeMay.
 
 DAVID: Okay. What happened was, well, it was very simple. I had 
				blown up my own engine. I sabotaged my rocket after it landed at 
				Area 51. I blew it into a billion pieces. After they showed me 
				the engine downstairs, I knew what they were after from my 
				engine.
 
 ROBERT: Which engine?
 
 DAVID: The Electromagnetic Fusion Containment Engine, because 
				they are so fast. There is nothing like it. The liquid fuel and 
				solid propellant engines are like Model Ts compared to a 
				Lamborghini. This thing took off so fast. It went from zero mph 
				to 8,754 mph in about 4.6 seconds. It was so fast that you 
				couldn't even see it.
 
 ROBERT: It went that fast from a standing start?
 
 DAVID: Right. You couldn't even see it. It would be like trying 
				to watch a bullet leave a rifle barrel.
 
 ROBERT: That's not possible to see with the naked eye.
 
 DAVID: Right. So everyone else at the launch site thought it 
				blew up. I built most of it out of titanium. We also used
				inconel and carbonite. We had every kind of known material for 
				lightness and strength incorporated in that rocket. And because 
				of the extreme g-force of the launch, everything inside was just 
				warped.
 
 ROBERT: But the engine was still intact when the rocket landed 
				at Area 51?
 
 DAVID: Exactly. It came down on a parachute. And that is where 
				it got weird, because there are a lot of characters in this 
				story. The man that was really on my case, he was a bad guy. Dr Wernher von Braun warned me. As a child, I knew von Braun 
				because I was doing all this work with rockets in the early 
				1970s when we were landing men on the Moon. An hour-and-a-half's 
				drive from my house was Wapakenneta, which is where Neil 
				Armstrong lived. His mother Viola and I became friends. She 
				became like a surrogate mother to me. So I was hanging out with 
				her and I would see Neil around the house. And many times I 
				would go over to her house and I would run right past Neil and 
				go hang out with Viola. And Neil loved that about me because I 
				wasn't interested in his fame; I just loved his mother. Neil was 
				a very reclusive person, almost like a hermit, because when he 
				came back from the Moon mission he literally just disappeared.
 
 Anyway, because I was in that kind of environment, I got to 
				attend parties where all the original Apollo VII astronauts 
				would show up, and von Braun showed up. And that's how we all 
				crossed paths and I started interfacing with him. The thing is, 
				von Braun warned me that if, during my rocket work, I should 
				encounter a man named Dr Arthur Rudolph, I should be extremely 
				careful because he was so dangerous.
 
 Dr Arthur Rudolph was the chief architect of the Saturn 5 
				engines of our Apollo Moon rocket. He came into the US with von 
				Braun and other German scientists under 
				
				Operation Paperclip. 
				Rudolph was a full colonel in the Gestapo. He had killed 
				hundreds of Jews personally during the building of the V-2 
				rockets and Peenemünde. If you made a mistake, he would put a 
				cable around your neck and slowly lift you up, which would 
				strangle you. Then he would disembowel you and leave you hanging 
				there for everyone to see. There were rotted corpses hanging all 
				over the place. They would also feed you sawdust and water. This 
				would take the hunger out of your stomach until you fell over 
				dead, then they would just replace you with more fresh people. 
				This man was the winner of the Most Distinguished Service award 
				- the highest award NASA can give. The Mossad caught up with 
				Dr 
				Rudolph on May 25, 1984. Due to war crimes, he was deported out 
				of LAX to Munich, Germany, where he died [in jail].
 
 Anyway, General LeMay had sent me from Mount Vernon, Ohio, to 
				Wright-Patterson in Dayton, Ohio, where the SAC headquarters was 
				located. From there, me and my rocket and some other colonels 
				all got on board a C-141 transport and flew to White Sands. Soon 
				after we arrived at White Sands, a black DC-9 plane showed up. 
				LeMay had told me that if this plane showed up, it would 
				represent a real problem for me. Anyway, out stepped these guys 
				wearing suits and mirrored sunglasses. And among them was this 
				one little guy wearing khaki uniform. I knew that was Dr Rudolph 
				because Dr von Braun had showed me his picture.
 
 ROBERT: Whom was Dr Rudolph working for?
 
 DAVID: I'm not sure, one of those alphabet-soup intelligence 
				agencies. But he was primarily working for NASA. And as soon as 
				he got off the plane, he asked to see my rocket. When I asked 
				him who he was, he told me, "Oh, I'm just a guy that inspects 
				rockets for the government." Then I asked him if he was from 
				NASA, and he said he had never worked there.
 
 So we walked over to my rocket and I opened up a side panel. And 
				when he leaned over to look at the engine, he began mumbling to 
				himself and he seemed really upset - probably because I had 
				built something he thought was impossible to do. So I took that 
				opportunity to lean over and whisper in his ear, "Do you know 
				that in proportional size, this engine has 10,000 times the 
				thrust of the F-1, Saturn V engines, Dr Rudolph?" And he stood 
				up and was furious. He wanted to know who I was and how I knew 
				so much. And I told him, "I'm just a kid that launches rockets 
				in the cow fields of Ohio." [Laughter] Anyway, I had friends 
				around me who were Air Force colonels that LeMay had assigned to 
				take care of me.
 
 And I got upset when Dr Rudolph told me that he wanted to change 
				the landing coordinates on my rocket. He was really nasty about 
				it. The navigation system I was using was off-the-shelf stuff. 
				Back in those days, it was all analogue. But I had my system 
				programmed to where the rocket would come back down within a 
				two-mile radius of the launch site. Dr Rudolph had me reprogram 
				the coordinates so that my rocket would land 456 miles northwest 
				of White Sands in an area called Groom Lake, in Nevada.
 
 Well, I immediately pulled out my national survey maps and I 
				looked at Groom Lake and thought, "My God! Why are we launching 
				up to a dry lake bed in Nevada? It's so far away." That's when 
				Dr Rudolph told me, "Just do it!" He was really hostile. And I 
				had been warned many times by von Braun and LeMay that if I ran 
				into Dr Rudolph, not to push his buttons.
 
 So I reset the coordinates on the guidance system and we 
				launched my rocket and it took off perfectly. And sure enough, 
				it landed right on target. And you know, it wasn't until they 
				made the movie Independence Day that I ever heard the term 
				"Area 
				51".
 
 ROBERT: How could that be?
 
 DAVID: I always knew this place as Groom Lake. It was the only 
				name I had ever heard for that place, growing up. So we were 
				getting ready to board the plane to go and recover the rocket 
				and I said, "Hey, do you see these rubber tyres on this plane? 
				Would you please tell me how you are going to land this thing on 
				a dry lake bed? This thing is going to plough into the ground 
				and never leave." Someone yelled at me to shut up and get into 
				the plane.
 
 After a while, we arrived in Nevada. And as we flew over the 
				landing site, I looked down at these twin 10,000-foot runways 
				and I said, "My God! There's a huge base down there!"
 
 So we landed at this place that doesn't exist on any map, and 
				that's when I started getting really concerned. I was trying to 
				locate any Air Force emblems, Navy emblems, any kind of logos or 
				emblems that would identify the commanding authority, but there 
				was nothing anywhere on any of the buildings. Normally, standard 
				universal painting of water towers at an airstrip is an 
				orange-and-white chequerboard pattern. But here, everything was 
				painted either solid white or solid black. So they were not 
				conforming to any code.
 
 After we got out of the plane, we got on this go-cart-looking 
				thing. It looked kind of like the electric carts that you see at 
				airports. Then we drove from the landing strip to a series of 
				hangars and headed into the centre one. It was really cool, the 
				way this place was built. There were all these really big lights 
				at the top that had louvres on them so the light will shine 
				down. And when I got close to the buildings, they looked old and 
				ratty, but underneath it was alloy, unlike any alloy I had ever 
				seen. It was an incredible-looking stainless steel type of metal 
				that I thought was really unusual to use for buildings of that 
				size.
 
 When we got inside the hangar, we went down to the basement 
				area. Actually, we drove into the hanger and there were little 
				yellow lights flashing and big hangar doors, and out of the 
				ground came all these little pipes with chains attached that 
				blocked off all the doorways. Then the whole floor - about the 
				size of a football field - slowly dropped down. The entire 
				hangar was an unenclosed elevator.
 
 ROBERT: So, it was more like a hydraulic lift in a garage?
 
 DAVID: Yeah, but it was built to carry some really heavy stuff. 
				The floor was made of concrete. God knows how much weight that 
				was. The whole thing went up and down on giant worm-screws.
 
 ROBERT: I see. That's a lot more stable than using a hydraulic 
				system.
 
 DAVID: Nothing can take the load like a worm screw. These things 
				were the size of sequoia trees, and there were at least 12 of 
				them lifting the floor! We went down at least 200 feet until we 
				rested flush with the floor of an underground hangar that was 
				huge. It had a huge arched ceiling, but it went so far that you 
				couldn't see the end of it. It just went forever. And I thought, 
				"My God! You could park a hundred 747s in here and they wouldn't 
				even be in the way!" At that point I asked, "What in God's name 
				did you do with all the dirt?" And they just looked really 
				strangely at me. I guess they didn't expect me to try and figure 
				things like that out. The walls were at least 30 feet high, and 
				all along them were different workshops and laboratories and 
				periodically there were big, huge, work bays. So we kept driving 
				down past all kinds of aircraft that I had never seen. Some of 
				them I had seen, like the XB-70.
 
 ROBERT: Was this area carved out of dirt or was it rock?
 
 DAVID: I don't know. Everything was coated with a ceramic- like 
				material.
 
 ROBERT: I thought there were mountains surrounding the dry lake 
				bed? Those must be fairly solid?
 
 DAVID: Yeah. There are all kinds of mountain ranges around that 
				area. I never saw any "dirt", though, because everything had 
				concrete over it or was covered with some type of ceramic 
				material. The most interesting thing about this to me still is 
				how well lit the underground area was. There were no shadows, 
				anywhere. And there were no light fixtures, anywhere. I was 
				wondering how they generated that much light. It didn't look 
				like the walls were glowing, or the floor or the ceiling. But 
				every square inch of this place was lit, and yet there was no 
				visible source of light.
 
 And after we had been driving for a while and we had passed a 
				lot of different aircraft, we took a road to the left that took 
				us away from a lot of the other activities. I could see a lot of 
				people working on stuff. These aircraft appeared to be 
				operational. Some of them I have never seen before or since. 
				They were shaped like a reverse teardrop. And there were others 
				that looked similar to the flying wing. One aircraft, the XB-70, 
				was a delta-wing bomber built in 1959.
 
 ROBERT: And you were at Area 51 in 1971?
 
 DAVID: Right. June 20, 1971. So, we get there and it was just 
				amazing, because we drove up to the side of these big steel 
				doors and one of the officers got out and put his hand on a 
				scanner-type thing and it flashed a light at him. I thought it 
				took his picture. In hindsight, I would have to guess that it 
				was a retina scanning device. And after the guy was scanned, the 
				door opened up, so I knew this was a security system of a kind. 
				This was 1971.
 
 Let me put this into perspective. In 1971, we had no laptops, no 
				modems, no fax, no VCR, no cellphones; we didn't even have 
				handheld calculators. Texas Instruments developed those about 
				five years later. So where in the hell did these guys get all 
				this technology?
 
 As soon as we went into the room, I immediately noticed the 
				temperature drop, because it was warm in the big open areas we 
				had just come from. It was very cool in this room. You could 
				almost see your breath. And as we entered the room, the lights - 
				wherever they were coming from - came on. And again there were 
				no shadows being cast, anywhere.
 
 Then someone threw a switch and activated a hoist attached to 
				some cables that were attached to a big tarp. The tarp was 
				lifted straight up, and sitting on this huge steel platform was 
				a giant electromagnetic fusion containment engine! And I 
				immediately knew that, because its configuration was similar to 
				mine but it was the size of a Greyhound bus. Mine was about the 
				size of a large watermelon!
 
 You can recognize engines that are comparable. If I had an 
				internal combustion engine taken out of a Model A Ford and had 
				it sitting on the ground and you pulled an engine out of a Viper 
				today and placed it alongside, you would recognize that they 
				operate on the same principle of internal combustion. However, 
				the difference in performance between the two is unbelievable.
 
 It was the same situation with my little engine and this thing 
				they had stored underground. They both ran on the same 
				principle, the same configuration, but the level of 
				sophistication is like that of the Model A compared to the Viper 
				engine. This thing they had was so powerful. There were so many 
				design features that I didn't recognize, for reasons that became 
				clear.
 
 ROBERT: At this point you were just looking at the engine. Where 
				was the rest of the craft?
 
 DAVID: Well, that's where the argument started. They asked me if 
				I liked what I saw. I said, "Well, yeah, but I'm confused. I 
				thought I was the first one to build one of these engines."
 
 And this is where things really started getting odd. The colonel 
				that was with Dr Rudolph said, "Son, you want to help us with 
				this design here since yours is very similar to it. You do want 
				to help your country, don't you?"
 
 Well, I had an American flag blanket. And I listened to Anita 
				Bryant's record before I went to sleep. I was a real patriotic 
				flag-waver even in the '70s. Of course, it wasn't real popular 
				to do that then because the war in Vietnam was still raging. My 
				peers couldn't understand why I loved America so much, but it 
				was just the way I was raised.
 
 So at first I agreed with the colonel that I wanted to help. 
				However, I was very curious and asked, "Where are your people 
				that built this engine?" He paused for a moment, then told me, 
				"Well, they are on vacation right now. You're off on summer 
				vacation, right?" And I said, "Okay! That's good. Did they leave 
				any notes on their work that I can look at?" Then I was told, 
				"Well, they took them with them as homework. You get homework." 
				And I was thinking, "You know, this is really condescending. I 
				am 17 years old." But that's how they treated 17-year-olds back 
				then. So I thought, "Okay; I will play along with this asshole."
 
 I agreed to help them, but told them that I needed to get a 
				closer look at the engine. And they agreed, at which point I 
				walked up and got onto the platform. And the closer I got to it, 
				the more I realized that these people had no idea what this 
				engine was; they were still trying to figure it out. I could 
				tell that it didn't belong to us. And when I was about three 
				feet away, the first thing I noticed was a perfect shadow of 
				myself on the engine. And what did I tell you earlier?
 
 ROBERT: There were no shadows anywhere.
 
 DAVID: Right. So how is my shadow showing up on this thing? And 
				stranger still was that the shadow moved about a half a second 
				behind me. That really got my attention. And I thought, "If this 
				is what I think it is, a heat sensitive recognition alloy." And 
				then I realized we don't have [any] known material that could do 
				that. So I looked up at the engine and I asked for permission to 
				climb to the top because I wanted to see the damaged area. The 
				thing had a hole about four feet in diameter in the side of it, 
				and this was the area that most interested me. Now, think of a 
				figure eight, and right where the two circles cross each other 
				is the eye of the hurricane. That's where the damage was located 
				on this engine. Knowing my own engine, I was assuming that this 
				thing had experienced some kind of breach in the electromagnetic 
				flux field that acts as the containment wall that harnesses the 
				power of the reactor engine.
 
 These engines basically function like a magnetic bottle or 
				sphere, and inside you have contained the power of the Sun or a 
				hydrogen bomb continuously detonating. It's not impossible to 
				figure out how this works, because it occurs all the time out in 
				space. Black holes can suck an entire galaxy full of suns into 
				their point of singularity. Obviously a black hole has no 
				problem containing that fusion energy.
 
 What I did was mathematically figure out a way to artificially 
				create a synthetic black hole. And because it is based on a 
				figure-eight design, once it has stabilized it will always 
				implode and consume itself without pulling everything around it 
				in. But this engine at Area 51 had lost its stabilization in the 
				figure eight, and that's why I was so curious about the hole.
 
 The way this engine was built was really cool. There wasn't a 
				single screw or rivet or weld seam anywhere on this entire 
				device from end to end. It looked like it was grown rather than 
				assembled. And I thought, "Man, whoever built this really has 
				some incredible manufacturing techniques."
 
 Over the years, I have been able to replicate this process to 
				some extent in an experiment that I built. It flew onboard one 
				of the 1993 Space Shuttle missions. It was part of the GAS (Get 
				Away Special) program. That's where you rent space in a 
				55-gallon drum for your project. The first thing I did was melt 
				alloys together, and when you spin them in a weightless 
				environment you can create any type of dimension you want, 
				because I figured out a way to control this. There was always a 
				question about how you shape liquid metals in a weightless 
				environment. It's a containerless process. It's a real 
				phenomenon.
 
 ROBERT: You made a form without using a mould?
 
 DAVID: Right. I figured out how to take a fluid glob floating in 
				this weightless environment and control it. For every geometric 
				shape and dimension, we know there is a corresponding sound 
				wave. So I created this machine that was attached to a Moog 
				synthesizer, which allowed me to replicate any shape I wanted 
				simply by playing notes. This machine generates interlocking 
				standing sound waves that vibrate, even in space, and which 
				allowed me to shape the liquid metal.
 
 That process proved to me what I had suspected when I first saw 
				the engine at Area 51 in 1971: whoever built that engine used 
				this process. This raised an even larger question in my mind. 
				Who could have built an engine of this size in space? I have 
				never discussed this publicly. But I was curious and I wanted to 
				replicate that engine design, which was clearly built in a 
				weightless environment.
 
 ROBERT: Which means outer space?
 
 DAVID: It would have to be deep space. Like intergalactic deep 
				space, away from any planets or stars.
 
 ROBERT: I guess you wouldn't want your design process to 
				encounter any gravitational fields?
 
 DAVID: Right. The less the better. They are called "gravity 
				convections". They didn't want any gravity convection currents 
				to show up in the alloy shaping process.
 
 Anyway, when I placed my hands on the engine to pull myself up, 
				I began climbing up the exterior of the engine, which was 
				designed with an exoskeletal structure. The best way to explain 
				this is to look at the designs of H. R. Geiger; he is the 
				designer that created all the sets of the Alien movies.
 
 ROBERT: What happened when you touched it?
 
 DAVID: It was warm, which didn't make any sense at all. It was 
				so cold in that hangar, you could almost see your breath. I 
				looked around on the floor and saw no power lines. And I asked 
				myself, "How in the world could this alloy be staying warm?" And 
				it was really hard. It was the hardest material I have ever 
				touched. It didn't give anywhere. The surface cohesion tension 
				on it felt more like a baby's skin. It was supple, but hard and 
				warm.
 
 ROBERT: That is weird, especially for metal.
 
 DAVID: Yeah, and I was thinking, "What the heck is going on?" 
				And as I was crawling up everywhere, I touched the surface and 
				it reacted. When I turned and looked at the Air Force guys, all 
				their mouths were hanging open. And so I assumed that the 
				reaction they were seeing hadn't happened for them, because 
				wherever I touched it there were these really amazing blue and 
				white swirls moving down through the hull of this thing. It 
				looked like wavelengths that you see on an oscilloscope. When I 
				pulled my hands off, it stopped. And I said, "Wow! This thing is 
				reacting!"
 
 So I continued to climb up until I reached the centre area. It 
				had these vertebrae that branched off, cascading, fibre-like. 
				They looked almost like fibre optic cables filled with some kind 
				of fluid. They were very small tubes the size of angel hair 
				pasta. There were millions of these things cascading over the 
				hull of this engine. And I thought, "Boy, these patterns look 
				familiar." Then it dawned on me: they looked like neural 
				synaptic firing patterns. There were millions of them going out 
				everywhere on this thing. So I thought that maybe the engine was 
				designed with an exoskeletal brain. And at that point, I reached 
				out and grabbed some of the fibres and found that they were 
				really tough and that there was fluid in them. And wherever I 
				touched, no matter what I touched, there would be a reaction to 
				it like a tremor of visual lights.
 
 As I walked down into the damaged area of this thing, I finally 
				said to the Air Force guys, "You know, this thing is a power 
				plant. It is more than a propulsion system. It is a power plant. 
				It obviously came out of a big vehicle, a craft of some kind. 
				Where is that craft located?" Now they were not happy with me, 
				but I continued. "A craft like this must have had a crew. What 
				did you do with those people? This is clearly not American or 
				Soviet technology, is it, boys? This is some kind of 
				extraterrestrial entity. How old is it? Did you dig it up? Is it 
				millions of years old or did you guys shoot it down?" And man, 
				they got really upset. They told the MPs to take me down off the 
				engine. As I was coming down, I was really pissed off. I was so 
				pissed off because I had had enough.
 
 At this point, I knew where I was. I knew that this engine was 
				from somewhere other than Earth. I didn't know where it had come 
				from or how long they had had it, but it was obvious that my 
				whole world was coming undone in that moment. I grew up in a 
				world where the government would never lie. We had just landed 
				on the Moon the year before. And here the Air Force had this 
				technology and they weren't saying anything, which made me 
				furious.
 
 ROBERT: Let's back up a little. When you were on the engine, 
				there was something that you saw, which you told me about in a 
				previous conversation and which I found really fascinating. How 
				and when did you see the interior of the reactor? Can you 
				describe the crystals?
 
 DAVID: What happened was I asked for permission to inspect the 
				damaged area inside of the engine where it had been blown open. 
				They hesitated on that request.
 
 ROBERT: This was before you made them angry?
 
 DAVID: Before I came out of that damaged area, totally pissed 
				off. Because when I got down in this thing, they told me to make 
				it brief. So I got down and looked in the area. Man, there was 
				some incredible-looking technology up and down this engine. And 
				I couldn't get more than three feet into it before I came up to 
				a wall. And this wall. It was like the iris/shutter on a camera 
				lens. It had lots of interlocking fans that contract or expand - 
				and I've always thought that would make the coolest door. Well, 
				there was this little round pod-thing there, and I just put my 
				hand on it; and when I did, the wall just shuttered open.
 
 ROBERT: It opened for you?
 
 DAVID: It made a slight noise.
 
 ROBERT: Maybe that's where they got the inspiration for the door 
				design you saw at Area 51?
 
 DAVID: It could have been. I have no idea. But I got to look 
				deeper into the engine. And what I saw in there was fascinating. 
				It was such a trip being there because whenever I worked on my 
				fusion engines, everything was so small; some parts I even had 
				to machine under a microscope. Now, here was a replication of my 
				basic design that was big enough to walk through. But man, this 
				thing that I had manufactured to achieve a certain function in 
				my engine, this thing would have something else in its place. 
				And this something else would be stuff I couldn't begin to 
				recognize. There were these crystals that were facing each 
				other. They were fabulous-looking crystals. And they were 
				integrated into this plasma duct type thing.
 
 And in my engine, I had such a hard time getting a cyclotron to 
				curve the blast waves I needed for propulsion. This thing had 
				some kind of venting system that allowed them to flush their 
				plasma out through an area that looked like the gills of a 
				shark. The whole thing was so organic looking. It looked like a 
				living machine - both organic and inorganic incorporated 
				together. It was an oxymoron. How do you explain something like 
				that? So anyway, I just got to see a lot of stuff in there that 
				I couldn't believe.
 
 ROBERT: How many minutes were you in the interior alone?
 
 DAVID: I don't think I was in there more than five minutes. I 
				know that doesn't sound like a very long time, but it felt like 
				I was in there a week.
 
 ROBERT: And I believe you said you have a photographic memory.
 
 DAVID: Yeah. I was just clicking non-stop. I was just absorbing 
				it all in. And when I left, I didn't touch that pod, right? But 
				as soon as I passed that area, the door closed behind me. I 
				never told the Air Force guys that I went into that part of the 
				engine. I don't think they ever knew there was another 
				compartment in the interior that they could enter.
 
 ROBERT: Why?
 
 DAVID: I don't believe that it allowed them access. There was a 
				presence, though, about this engine. Just like you have a 
				presence of a person and an entity. It just had its own. So I 
				came out of the engine and was totally pissed off because I knew 
				there was no way we could have built it. It was using some kind 
				of crystal containment field power that we can't even imagine. I 
				would have to work on it for a long time to figure out how they 
				were doing the fractions. Where I was using the plasma in a 
				linear mode, this thing was designed to go any direction it 
				wanted with its plasma flows. That's impossible.
 
 ROBERT: With a rocket?
 
 DAVID: Yeah. This thing could do anything. And I really wondered 
				who in the hell built it. So as I started coming down the 
				outside of the engine. After we got into a big argument, I 
				noticed that now, wherever I touched the engine, it was no 
				longer reacting with the nice blue and white swirls of energy. 
				They had changed to a reddish-orange flame-looking pattern. And 
				as I calmed down to try and figure out what that was, it changed 
				back to the bluish white, more tranquil-looking pattern.
 
 That's when I realized that the engine is not just heat 
				sensitive; it reacts to mental waves. It is symbiotic and will 
				lock on to how you think and feel. This allows it to interface 
				with you. And that means this thing was aware. And it knew it 
				was there. And I knew that it knew I was there.
 
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