Fort Worth HFGW jamming claim
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| Source | "The Art of Jamming Gravitational Waves Communications Systems", Forgotten Languages, 18 June 2016 |
|---|---|
| Claim | In 2008 a "PSV-MilOrb-2035 Presence" was tested in the Fort Worth and Arlington test areas and chased by two F-16s fitted with "Li-Baker HFGW jammers" |
| Real background | High-frequency gravitational wave (HFGW) proposals by Robert M. L. Baker Jr. and Fangyu Li ("Li-Baker detector") |
| Scientific verdict | JASON (October 2008): "No foreign threat in HFGW is credible" |
| AAWSAP link | Baker wrote an HFGW communications study for Bigelow Aerospace (2009); the DIA list of AAWSAP titles was released in January 2019 |
| Evidence | None |
| Date | 2008 |
| Topics | Military encounters (topic), Propulsion & physics (topic), Ocean & underwater (topic) |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 165 |
| Year | 2008 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2008 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 8 |
An anonymous website, part of the cryptic online project "Forgotten Languages", claimed that in 2008 F-16 fighters carrying high-frequency gravitational wave (HFGW) "jammers" chased a military "orb" vehicle near Fort Worth, Texas.[3] The site publishes material in invented languages and has a cult following among some UFO enthusiasts.[3] No evidence supports the claim. In 2008 the JASON scientific advisory group concluded that no practical use of HFGW, for communication, propulsion or anything else, was credible.[1]
The post
The post, "The Art of Jamming Gravitational Waves Communications Systems: Taming those who tamed gravity", appeared on 18 June 2016.[3] Like other Forgotten Languages pages, it is written mostly in an invented language, broken by English quotations attributed to unnamed insiders and followed by a list of real scientific references. Its English passages claim:[3]
- Gravity tamed. Gravity had been "finally tamed", with "military crafts silently hovering and moving all over the intel battle field". "Instantaneous space displacement" had been achieved in the early 1970s, but no working gravitational weapon.
- The weak point. The problem was on-board communications. Such "magnetohydrodynamic probes" could only be controlled by "modulated gravitational waves", so the task was to learn to jam them.
- Vulnerability. A "multi-billion dollar Mil-Orb" could be destroyed by a Javelin missile.
- The test. The central claim reads: "PSV-MilOrb-2035 Presence was extensively tested in the Fort Worth and Arlington test areas in 2008. We tested new ways to interfere its GNC and OBC subsystems by chasing the vehicle with two F-16 fitted with Li-Baker HFGW jammers." It concluded it was better "to simply sweep the search area with HFGWs at random".
The post's reference list cites other Forgotten Languages "defense reports". One concerns a "MIL-PSV-2035 Deployment over Stephenville", Texas, where a widely reported UFO sighting occurred in January 2008. Others are real papers on high-frequency gravitational waves by Fangyu Li, Robert Baker, Gary Stephenson and others.[3]
HFGW research
Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein's general relativity. In 2008, when the JASON study was written, they had been confirmed only indirectly.[1] The "Li-Baker" detector named in the post was a real proposal by the physicist Fangyu Li and the engineer Robert M. L. Baker Jr. of the company GravWave, published in 2008.[2] On 17 June 2008 GravWave representatives briefed the JASON panel on generating, detecting and applying HFGWs.[2]
The JASON verdict
The JASON report, "High Frequency Gravitational Waves" (JSR-08-506, October 2008), was prepared for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It concluded that "no foreign threat in HFGW is credible, including: communication by means of HFGW; object detection or imaging (by HFGW radar or tomography); vehicle propulsion by HFGW; or any other practical use of HFGW."[1] It found GravWave's analysis of the Li-Baker detector wrong "by an order of magnitude".[2] It also warned that gravitation theory had been the subject of "a great deal of pseudo-science" and that ambitious claims should be checked with experts.[1]
Baker disputed the report in a published question-and-answer. He argued that JASON had wrongly analysed the detector as based on the "Gertsenshtein effect" when it relied on the "Li-effect". He also said the panel had ignored other detectors and had not consulted the presenters, and he suggested it had a "preconceived agenda".[2]
The AAWSAP connection
Some UFO commentators see the 2016 post as suspicious foreknowledge. On 16 January 2019 the Defense Intelligence Agency released a list of 38 research titles from its AAWSAP/AATIP program, which had been provided to Congress in January 2018. Among them was a study of high-frequency gravitational wave communications.[4][6][7]
The work had been public long before the list, however:[2][8]
- Baker's own account. In a compendium of his papers dated January 2012, he wrote that he had prepared a "High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Communications Study (GravCom®)" under contract to Bigelow Aerospace Corporation. It was revised in December 2009, and he linked to it on his company's website.
- Other discussion. HFGW research, including the JASON report and Baker's rebuttal, had been discussed publicly since 2008.
A related HFGW engineering paper published by Elsevier was cited in an online discussion hosted on Medium, which refuses automated access and could not be read.[5] The DIA's own file listing could not be retrieved automatically, so the AAWSAP details here rest on the Federation of American Scientists' report of its release.[4][6]
Assessment
The claim comes from an anonymous site that writes in invented languages and cites its own "defense reports".[3] Its technical vocabulary is drawn from published HFGW papers that the JASON panel had rejected as impractical.[1][3] Its supposed foreknowledge of AAWSAP's HFGW work concerns a study that Baker had openly described by 2012.[8] No evidence supports the claim.[1]
People and topics
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Fort Worth — The Texas city where the Roswell debris was shown to the press in 1947.
- High-frequency gravitational waves — Proposed gravitational waves at high frequencies, studied by JASON in 2008.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- JASON — An elite group of scientists that advises the U.S. government.
- AAWSAP — The Defense Intelligence Agency's UAP research program of 2008–2010, carried out by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.
On the Timeline
- DIA interest in Skinwalker Ranch (21 October 2007) — Bigelow says the DIA expressed interest in strange events at Skinwalker Ranch.
- Dan Burisch and J-Rod (2008) — Dan Burisch claims he studied an extraterrestrial being at the S-4 facility.
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References
- JASON study debunks gravitational wave 'threat' — FAS (2008) · fas.org · archived copy
- Robert Baker's Q&A response to JASON (PDF) · drrobertbaker.com · archived copy
- forgottenlanguages-full.forgottenlanguages.org · forgottenlanguages-full.forgottenlanguages.org · archived copy
- irp.fas.org · irp.fas.org · archived copy
- medium.com · medium.com · archived copy
- DIA list of AATIP research titles · fas.org
- Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program · en.wikipedia.org
- Robert M. L. Baker Jr., "Can I explain it?" (compendium, January 2012) · drrobertbaker.com
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