THE NUCLEAR AEROSPACE PROGRAM

"In America, a 'super shuttle' has been designed that could take off like a conventional plane, fly to a high altitude and then, if necessary, boost itself into orbit - on board would be the Commander-in-Chief, the President." (Lee 10-11) 

Lee, Christopher. War In Space. Hamilton, 1986, pp. 10-11.

AREA-51 is the home of America's nuclear aerospace program. World War II had not been over for a year, when on the recommendation of General H.H. Arnold, America embarked on it's quest to develop nuclear propulsion for aerospace applications. 

In the last months of the war the U.S. Military head hunted Germany's best scientists. One of them was Eugen Sänger the inventor of the spaceplane known as Silbervogel . Sanger eluded the Americans and ended up living in France. His idea for a spaceplane would be pursued by the Americans led by nuclear rocket scientist Robert Bussard. 

Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun, the Peenemunde slave driver,  bought his freedom from the American's on the claim that he could deliver them control of the Earth via his rocket program. The nuclear aerospace program was the marriage of Nazi rocket science to America's Manhattan Project. Nuclear Thermal Propulsion is key to making space transportation cheap and reusable. 

This document from the LEXINGTON PROJECT shows the planned development arc of the NEPA/ANP programs. The experimental timeline for these programs (nuclear turbojet, nuclear ramjet and nuclear thermal rocket) followed the schedule outlined in the Lexington documents. The experiments for the nuclear turbojet began in the late 40's. The experiments for the nuclear thermal rocket ended in the late 60's. The development arc lasted 20 years. 

So first the nuclear Manhattan Project perfected the nuclear turbojet then developed the nuclear ramjet and finally the nuclear thermal rocket. The history of the program definitely followed the arc outlined in the LEXINGTON PROJECT documents. The direct system was perfected in 1951. The indirect system was perfected in the mid-1950's probably by 1956 with the advent of the U-2. 

1956 was same year that work on the nuclear ramjet began under Project PLUTO i.e the cover project for the development of the Blackbird. Work on the nuclear rocket began in 1959 and on 26 June 1968 the nuclear rocket program reached the power levels needed to build Robert Bussard's ASPEN. 

This document shows that PHOEBUS 2A had reached the power levels needed for the ASPEN. Phoebus is another name for the god Apollo. Which was the name of America's famous lunar landing program. PHOEBUS's 5GW power rating is also significant. A five gigawatt power rating translates to 250,000 pounds of thrust. This is the same amount of thrust produced by the Rocketdyne J-2, we were told was used in the upper stages of the Apollo rockets. 

This document shows the 5GW power levels needed for RW Bussard's ASPEN. 

HANGAR 18 AT AREA-51

These photos of AREA-51's hangar 18 and Idaho's Test Area North's 629 hangar show that the American military built a hangar to service nuclear aerospace vehicles at AREA-51. 

This slide compares the hangars and the sites of Test Area North to AREA-51. The sites are remarkably similar. They were both built in the high desert away from densely populated areas and the runways were of similar lengths. 

This is a photo of spent fuel (left) being stored at AREA-51. This site is off a dirt road adjacent to Hangar-18. 

This is a photo of how they were going to store spent liquid nuclear waste at TEST AREA NORTH. 

This is a close up photo of spent fuel at the end of a dirt road on the base. 

This is a photo of how low level nuclear waste is being handled at the Nevada Test Site. 

Here are photos showing both storage of the spent nuclear fuel, (lower left) and the huge burial site of the nuclear powered Blackbird i.e. the white area in the middle left side of the photo. You will notice that the storage and burial sites are adjacent to HANGAR-18. 

This document published in 1957 shows that Kelly Johnson was working on the NEPA/ANP project. He published this paper while he was working on the Blackbird project. 

This slide shows the similarities between the J-58 and the nuclear engines being developed parallel to the development of the J-58. Notice the similarities.  

Here is a document showing that CESIUM nuclear fission by product was in the exhaust of the J-58. This is evidence that the BLACKBIRD was nuclear powered. 

This photo shows that GE and Pratt And Whitney were working on the indirect nuclear engine together. 

President Kennedy visiting AREA-51. 

These photos of the BEETLE, a manned robot built specifically for working on the nuclear powered airplanes of the ANP, show that it was moved to AREA-51. 

These photos show that  AREA-51 contractor "Robert Frost" had acute radiation poisoning.  

PROJECTS SIGN, GRUDGE, & BLUE BOOK

The USAF investigation office on UFO's was headquartered at Wright Patterson AFB. This was the same base that initially headquartered the NEPA/ANP programs. Many UFO sightings involved radioactivity. And UFO sightings frequently occurred near the factories working on the NEPA/ANP programs. USAF  UFO investigators carried geiger counters in their kits. The law of parsimony leads to the conclusion that the radioactive UFO sightings were accidents in the development of NEPA/ANP's nuclear thermal engines. 

This sighting happened when the Navy were experimenting with high altitude airships. Airships had reached Mach-10 speeds. Nuclear powered airships appeared at this time. 

Five months after this article appeared in the San Diego Union. Kenneth Arnold had his famous UFO sighting.