8 months ago Corbell reported on a 2021 UFO event in Twentynine Palms on a marine training base. About 35 years ago Knapp reported on Area 51 located about a few hundred miles away. But how much do you know about China Lake? It’s one of the Navy’s largest and secretive weapons research locations and it completes a geographical triangle for all of these locations in which the infamous Edwards Air Force Base is nestled between Twentynine Palms and China Lake. The entire area is a desolate desert triangle located between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
So, what’s interesting about China Lake? Well lot’s of things. In 2015, the California Sunday Magazine reported on a tour of ancient petroglyphs located on site and even mentioned local rumors of UFOs, weather modification, and mind control. They reported that the base even has its own archeologist on site. Oddly enough on July 4, 2019 an earthquake with its epicenter coming from the China Lake base occurred which has resulted in a massive $3.9B restoration project that includes a propulsion lab.
But wait, there’s more…
My personal interest in China Lake originally had nothing to do with UFO cases, but rather my interest in speculative UFO science. I’ve been digging deep into alternative energy claims often referred to as “cold fusion” (which oddly enough was announced right around the same time as the Area 51 story) and I’ve discovered that SRI, NASA, and SPAWAR (Navy division at China Lake) have all been studying “cold fusion” continuously for the past 35 years. And they have been making some bold claims.
Digging into this subject is very difficult if you’re new to it as it’s like being a newbie to the UFO subject. Its ridiculed into suppression and carries lots of stigma. The shortest most condensed version of events is that the DOE played a big role in causing the media and academia to turn on the subject of “cold fusion” because it did a very quick investigation that concluded it was bunk. This became the predominant source for dismissing the subject. However, small groups of scientists disagreed and toiled away including within SRI and NASA. Then 15 years later in 2004 they got the DOE to take a second look and it issued a statement that the research into the subject should be encouraged although it couldn’t determine conclusively any claims. The panel was apparently evenly split on whether or not the evidence was convincing, but all agreed further research was warranted. Fast forward to 2023 and the DOE doled out $10M in funding for low energy nuclear reactions (LENR) aka “cold fusion.” That’s it in a nutshell. There’s at least hundreds of investigators and tens of thousands of papers as well as many conferences scattered in-between as well as patents including some filed by the Navy itself, but let’s not get lost in the weeds just yet.
Why is “cold fusion” (LENR, condensed matter physics, solid state physics, whatever you want to call it, etc.) relevant to the UFO discussion? It’s because it’s a potentially revolutionary energy source and you need that in order to explain how UFOs work. (Also, Hal Puthoff and Eric Davis are indirectly linked to this subject by Ken Shoulders and the more recent SAFIRE Project.) It’s also an area of potentially brand new physics which also is helpful in explaining how UFOs work. Claims of 100% reproducibility by members of the Navy researching this at China Lake were published about 20 years ago. If we assume this technology is real, it’s possible it’s been well developed over the last 35 years. I admit that doesn’t explain UFO reports from the 1950s but we are living in a technological age. For the same reasons we can’t trust digital videos thanks to AI we may not be able to trust that every UFO we see today isn’t some top secret new technology. It’s absolutely shocking how many nuclear physicists, including ones connected to national labs, worked in the area of cold fusion. They couldn’t publish their papers in refereed journals because academia refused to reopen the case on the subject and they couldn’t get patents because the USPTO used to refuse to patent such things as it was deemed on par with perpetual motion. That did eventually begin to change and if you understand the evolution of terminology, there has been an increase in both peer reviewed journal publications as well as patents in this subject matter.
I was inspired by the recent revelations about wikipedia edits on the UFO subject to hunt for missing information on the alternative energy subject. That led to me finding some interesting stuff such as the claim that “Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command has succeeded in taking infra-red video of cells generating excess heat. They found that the heat was generated in localised and short-lived hot spots on the surface of the electrode, rather than evenly over the entire surface.”
I also found this 2002 report for SPAWAR that has Fleischmann as one of the authors. This technical document apparently was an impetus for the 2003 DOE re-evaluation that was published in 2004. This is arguably where the tide began to turn at least within government research. The “crackpots” were able to overcome the stigma and get a new statement that further research was warranted.
Here is a more recent academic paper on the subject by some key players in which they report to validate Navy results reported in 2013.
“In conclusion, this effort reports anomalous thermal, RF, and nuclear-origin results, correlated across multiple experiments, which our team believes is initial evidence of nuclear activity in the studied electrochemical systems, based on the 2013 Navy procedure. Result datasets comprise CR-39 solid-state nuclear track detector damage potentially caused by 0.1–20 MeV particles; watts of thermal flux from cells, above and beyond that expected based on electrical inputs; and RF signals multiple dB above the noise floor that began during electrochemical runs. The most successful experimental recipe, comprising heavy water, lithium, and palladium chloride salts, showed positive CR-39 data across 100% of experiments (3/3 trials), indicating that this procedure is repeatable and will allow for future replication by other groups. ”
Huh…
So, a lot of that research happens at China Lake. Therefore, speculations of some kind of new propulsion source or some new kind of nuclear energy source that isn’t radioactive are backed by 35 years of research although that research is admittedly still very contentious. If we simply entertain the idea that there is something to this alleged new energy source, then it’s easy to see how it could lead to some secret novel aircraft/spacecraft/vehicles being tested over the last 35 years. Especially if you look at Ken Shoulders work where he claims he’s identified things that can pass through solid objects and become superluminal.
Of course, there’s the argument that this is some sort of pathological science that is baked into some of our institutions and perhaps even in some cases straight fraud or deception of some kind. I admit it’s a possibility and I’m sure there’s at least some fraud to be found, but I do personally find it to be a weak general argument once you realize very respected researchers with a lot to lose have had their careers absolutely ruined for literally no monetary gain whatsoever in this subject. They got no money, power, or fame for reporting their anomalous results. They got the opposite. Those are the most compelling cases. I personally think that it’s very possible that this is what’s known as protoscience.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
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