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THE MYSTERY OF THE TESLA COLUMBIA DEATH RAY - PART II
If you missed Part I in this series click here: http://ufodigest.com/article/death-ray-0106
According to writer and Tesla expert Tim Swartz,
what Tesla is describing is to our current age the familiar concept of
the particle beam weapon.
“The concept of the Death Ray,” Swartz said in an interview conducted for the book, “was nothing new back at the turn of the century. There were a number
of scientists working on the idea. I recently saw a photograph that
showed British scientists in 1924 working on a Death Ray. There was no
description, but it looked almost like they were working on a form of
laser beam. So it wasn’t science fiction. It’s just that the technology
at the time wasn’t up to the requirements to make a Death Ray feasible.
There was no power source available to energize a beam to make it
effective.
“But Tesla was probably one of the first
scientists,” Swartz continued, “to come forward with something new in
terms of actually building a Death Ray. In the mid-1930s, Tesla laid out
his preliminary design for accelerating microscopic particles of
mercury and tungsten to incredible velocities. Tesla preferred that his
beam be composed of a long train of single particles in order to minimize any scattering due to collisions within the beam.”
In the interview, Swartz goes on to explain other
technical details about how Tesla would have succeeded where others were
failing in their attempts to develop a Death Ray. The U.S. government
may also have been impressed with Tesla’s progress. When the inventor
died in 1943, the feds raided his laboratory and hotel room, seizing the papers and notes he had left behind. FBI documents released under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that the government’s main interest in seizing Tesla’s papers was for the design of his Death Ray.
Before his death, a financially ailing Tesla had
tried to sell his invention to various countries, including the U.S. and
the Soviet Union, but was told they weren’t interested, perhaps because
they were already doing their own experiments with particle beam
technology and believed their own designs were superior to his. But
building such a weapon may have turned out to be more difficult than
they had anticipated, thus they confiscated Tesla’s notes in hopes of
getting a better idea of what progress he may have been making with the
problems involved. There are conflicting stories about it, but some
believe Tesla’s papers were then returned to the government of his
native Yugoslavia, which allowed the Soviet Union easy access to them
and may have helped them leap ahead of the U.S. in particle beam
technology.
I asked Swartz if what we are dealing with are scientists who basically picked up the ball from Tesla and ran with it.
“Yeah,” he replied. “You know, after World War II,
both the United States and the Soviet Union were in a Cold War. They
were developing missiles and atomic weapons and they were also trying to
come up with anything else that could give them an edge over the other.
The whole idea originally of the Tesla-based energy weapons was that
they were to be used as a missile defense shield that could knock
missiles or planes out of the sky before they had a chance to explode
over your territory. So both the United States and the Soviet Union and
probably other countries – China, maybe even Israel – were working on
these same devices.
“Now, whether or not they’re currently very
effective,” Swartz added, “is still open to conjecture. It’s my opinion
that if these Tesla-based energy weapons WERE that effective, we would
be seeing them used more often and not being kept secret. If somebody
really had a controllable particle beam energy weapon, based on Tesla
technology, I think they would be all too happy to let the rest of the
world know that they’ve got this weapon.”
Swartz acknowledged that, on the other hand, the rumored secrecy around the Tesla Death Ray might in fact be all too real.
“One of the reasons you would want to keep it
secret,” he said, “is that that’s your ace. You’re going to keep that
hidden until the very last minute. And you’re not going to use it unless
you really, really have to. Then, when you really have to, you strike
your enemy down. Boom! ‘Don’t mess with us. We’ve got this!’ So if there
was any reason to keep something like this secret, that alone would be
it. But again, probably one of the major reasons that this technology is
being kept secret is that it’s not an easy technology to control. You
could just as easily kill yourself in operating something like this than
kill someone else.”
And what does all this have to do with the Columbia disaster?
According to Swartz, “A radio operator by the name
of Marshall Smith has reported that on the day that Columbia was going
down, HAARP was doing what he called their ‘missile defense radio transmissions.’
Now, a lot of researchers have asserted that the HAARP facility in
Alaska is the U.S. version of a Tesla electromagnetic energy weapon,
albeit more sophisticated than the ones that the Soviet Union was
working on, and going quite a ways beyond Tesla’s original concepts.
“HAARP allegedly takes this idea one step further,”
Swartz went on, “and uses different frequencies of electromagnetic
energy, radio frequency, to achieve the same effects. So you transmit
your energy into the atmosphere and focus it at a distance, which then
enables it to be aimed anywhere on the globe. Some people have
speculated that the HAARP facility, at least in part, is a missile
defense installation, or at least an ‘experimental’ missile defense installation, using radio frequencies to try to knock missiles out of the sky.”
Returning to the story told by Marshall Smith,
Swartz said, “Smith, who has been a licensed commercial radio engineer
since the 1960s, reported that on the morning of Saturday, February 1,
2003, HAARP was transmitting from 4:15 AM to about 7:20 AM PST in
missile defense mode. That was the first HAARP transmission since late
2002. Columbia re-entered the atmosphere over California at 5:53 AM PST,
right in the middle of HAARP’s transmissions.
“Smith speculates that this may have been an
accidental testing – or maybe deliberate, though I’d hate to think that –
but an accidental testing of HAARP’s antimissile defense capabilities.
The space shuttle accidentally got in the way and was brought down. I
find it very interesting that the radio frequencies that Tesla talked
about using for his electromagnetic defense shield are the same
frequencies that HAARP was broadcasting on the morning that the shuttle
came down.”
Swartz said he prefers to believe the tragedy was an accident, but admits we will likely never know for sure.
“Nobody’s going to come forward and say, ‘Oh, by the
way, we accidentally killed seven astronauts because somebody left the
transmitter in Alaska on a little too long.’ But if that’s the case,” he
said, “it also shows how effective this Tesla-based technology can be
over great distances.”
The idea that the Columbia disaster may have been a
deliberate act is not an easy one to deal with for Swartz. It forces one
to consider uncomfortable theories of political conspiracy or
terrorists operating at a frightening level of technological expertise.
The possibility that a terrorist organization like Al Qaida could get
hold of a particle beam weapon is very “James Bondian,” Swartz said, and
he is probably correct that such scenarios fall outside the realm of
believability very quickly.
In any case, to those interested in reading about
these and other ideas in more detail, don’t hesitate to check out the
Global Communications reprint of “Nikola Tesla’s Death Ray and the
Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster,” as well as other books on Nikola Tesla
the company has published. Obviously, none of these books can give the
reader definitive answers, and may not even always ask the right
questions. But they can appeal to the imagination, they can entertain,
and they can provide a look at Tesla as a primary architect of our
current technological age without what some consider the obligatory
reining in of the childlike urge to explore these mysteries with an open
mind and a willingness to believe in what we are so often told is
impossible by debunkers and the people for whom repressive secrecy is a
necessity they have forgotten is ultimately evil.
