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THE MYSTERY OF THE TESLA COLUMBIA DEATH RAY
The
tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts will
live forever in the memory of the American public. While the actual
cause may never be known beyond a shadow of a doubt, it is nevertheless
possible that an outside force acted upon the spaceship, an outside
force that may have been set in motion many decades ago by the work of
the legendary inventor, Nikola Tesla, and the shadowy scientists who
followed in his wake.
I wrote a short book about this idea, entitled
“Nikola Tesla’s Death Ray and the Columbia Disaster,” which has recently
been revamped by Timothy Green Beckley’s Global Communications. The book has received some attention over the years, including requests for radio and television
appearances, and the decision to republish it in a new format is part
of Beckley’s continuing efforts to introduce readers to books and
concepts that may have slipped through the cracks of their paranormal
reading menu the first time around.
Let us review the events of February 1, 2003.
As reported in the February 10, 2003 issue of “Time
Magazine,” the final 45 minutes of the Columbia’s descent to death went
like this:
“Commander Rick Husband fired his de-orbit engines
at 8:15 AM Eastern Time when the ship was high over the Indian Ocean.
Half an hour – and half a world – later, it hit the edges of the
atmosphere just north of Hawaii at an altitude of about 400,000 feet.
Shortly after, a faint pink glow began to surround the ship, as
atmospheric friction caused temperatures to rise to between 750 and 3000
degrees across various parts of the spacecraft’s underbelly.
Is a form of Tesla technology responsible for the Columbia space shuttle disaster?
“The astronauts, busy monitoring their deceleration,
temperature, hydraulics and more, didn’t have much time to watch the
light show play out, and by the time the pink glow brightened from faint
pink to bright pink to plasma white, the ship had arced around the
planet into thick air and daylight.
“On the ground, things were smooth, too. At Cape
Canaveral, the conditions were perfect for landing, with temperatures in
the low 70s and a light breeze blowing, well within NASA’s wind limits.
The families of some of the seven crew members had already been shown to the runway, assembling for their close-up view of the touchdown.”
But into that idyllic picture, the problems seemed to come from nowhere.
As the ship was flying over San Francisco, several
technical malfunctions began to happen in rapid succession, with many of
the shuttle’s sensors suddenly ceasing to transmit data back to Mission
Control. As the Columbia reached the skies over Texas, spacecraft
communicator Charlie Hobaugh attempted to alert the seven crew members. Commander Rick Husband began to respond to Hobaugh, but his transmission went dead before the astronaut could complete his first sentence.
Hobaugh tried repeatedly to re-establish contact,
but soon the ship was coming apart over the Dallas-Fort Worth area. When
the shuttle failed to land on schedule at 9:16 AM, NASA began a search and rescue effort.
“With reports coming back of a debris field that
stretched from eastern Texas to Louisiana, and possibly even further,
NASA put out the somewhat disingenuous word that fumes from the
fragments could be dangerous and that people who found them should leave
them where they lay and alert the authorities – as if any toxic fuel
could have survived the heat of re-entry,” “Time Magazine” reported.
Was that initial warning from NASA about people not
touching the fragments they found an early attempt to cover up just
exactly what caused the Columbia to crash? Even the normally stalwart
“Time Magazine” seems to distrust NASA’s real intentions there, calling
the warning “disingenuous,” and one is led to speculate that the
wreckage could have held clues vital to understanding whether a
top-secret particle beam weapon was the real culprit in what happened to
Space Shuttle Columbia and the seven astronauts who entrusted their
lives to the integrity of the ship.
The idea of terrorism being involved was also an
early concern, but that was quickly dismissed. Theoretically, a
shoulder-launched missile could shoot down an aircraft, but no such
missile could have reached the altitude the Columbia was at when it
disintegrated. Also, security around the shuttle was simply so tight
that it was considered impossible that some kind of explosive could have
been smuggled onboard at some point prior to takeoff.
The mainstream press grappled publicly with other
mysteries as well. The day after the Columbia disaster, “The San
Francisco Chronicle” ran an article about photos taken
by an amateur astronomer who photographed the space shuttles whenever
their orbits carried them over the Bay Area. The photos revealed what
appeared to be electrical phenomena flashing
around the track of the shuttle’s passage. The photographer, who asked
not to be identified, said, “They clearly record an electrical discharge
like a lightning bolt flashing past, and I was snapping the pictures almost exactly when the Columbia may have been breaking up during re-entry.”
The “Chronicle” reporter, who was also the paper’s science editor, was invited to see the photos on the astronomer’s computer screen and wrote, “They are indeed
puzzling. They show a bright, scraggly flash of orange light, tinged
with pale purple, and shaped somewhat like a deformed L.” He also wrote
that just as the flash appeared to cross the Columbia’s contrail, it
seems as if the contrail brightened, thickened and began to wobble. The
photographer said he could see none of this activity with his own eyes,
but that it had showed up clearly on his film when he developed it.
On February 5, the “Chronicle” ran a follow-up story about NASA’s interest in the photographs.
The space agency dispatched former shuttle astronaut Tammy Jernigan,
then a manager at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, to the San Francisco
home of the amateur astronomer/photographer to examine the digital
images. After viewing the photos, Jernigan also took the camera itself
to NASA headquarters in Houston on a specially chartered T-38 jet.
“It certainly appears very anomalous,” Jernigan said
of the strange purple light visible on the images. “We sure will be
very interested in taking a very hard look at this.”
Did some unknown weapon cause the mysterious flash?
Is that why NASA sent a former astronaut to view the images, then flew
the camera itself to Houston?
From the account of the Columbia tragedy, we next
flashback to September 22, 1940, when an article appeared in “The New
York Times” in which Nikola Tesla first revealed his “Death Ray” to the
public. The entire text of the article is included in “Nikola Tesla’s
Death Ray and the Columbia Disaster,” but I will present only portions
of it here. The article was headlined, “Death Ray For Planes.”
In the article, Tesla declared that he stood ready
to divulge to the United States government the secret of his
“teleforce,” which he claimed could melt an airplane motor at a distance
of 250 miles. The device would allow for a “Chinese Wall of Defense” to
be built around the U.S. that would protect the country from any attack
by an enemy air force, no matter how large.
The Death Ray was based on an entirely new
principle of physics that no one had ever dreamed about, and different
from the principles involved in Tesla’s earlier inventions relating to
the transmission of electrical power from a distance. The new type of
force would operate through a beam one-hundred-millionth of a square
centimeter in diameter, and could be generated from a special plant that
would cost no more than $200,000 and would take only three months to
construct. A dozen such plants, located at strategic points along the
coast, would be enough to defend the country against all aerial attack.
Tesla further claimed that the beam could melt any
engine, whether diesel or gasoline, and would also ignite the explosives
aboard any bomber. No possible defense against it could be devised, as
the beam would be all-penetrating through wood and metal alike.
This is obviously nearly laughably “dated” material,
given that it speaks of planes powered by gasoline and diesel fuel. The
technology of military aircraft has come so far since the era in which
Tesla was speaking that it becomes difficult to see the relevance of his
claims at all. But let us read further.
“The New York Times” writer continues by saying,
“The beam, he states, involves four new inventions, two of which already
have been tested. One of these is a method and apparatus that
eliminates the need for a ‘high vacuum’; a second is a process for
producing ‘very great electrical force’; the third is a method of
amplifying this force, and the fourth is a new method for producing ‘a
tremendous repelling electrical force.’ This would be the projector, or
the gun of the system.”
Tesla also told the reporter that the voltage used
to propel the beam to its target would attain a potential of 80 million
volts, thus causing microscopic electrical particles of matter to be
catapulted on their mission of defensive destruction. Tesla said he had
been working on the invention for many years and had made numerous
improvements on it.
It is interesting to note that Tesla was promoting
the invention as a weapon of defense, not as an offensive weapon of mass
destruction. Tesla said that, given adequate funding, he could have the
device up and running within three months. Had the government taken him
up on his offer, he might have had the Death Ray in place before the
attack at Pearl Harbor, which happened a little more than a year after
Tesla went public with his proposal in “The New York Times.”
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.
Part II of this series continues tomorrow: Tuesday, January 7, 2014! http://ufodigest.com/article/death-ray-0107
