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Examination of Reverse Engineering Claims
Robert M. Wood, Ph.D.
Copyright 2005 Robert M. Wood
REVERSE ENGINEERING
1 UFOs
a History and perspective on science a Reverse engineering process
a Lt. Col. (ret) Philip Corso’s claims a Corso the man and his credibility
a Integrated circuits perspective
a Fiber optics perspective
a Conclusions and next steps
"Once you know it can be done, it’s just a matter of time” — Phil Corso
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ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE
| ARE NOT THE SAME
a Scientists are interested in “why”
a Science deals with very small to very large
a Scientists try to understand “what is” a Scientists make discoveries
ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE
3 | ARE NOT THE SAME
= Engineers are focused on “how”
a Engineers deal with man-sized use (but it’s expanding rapidly both ways)
= Engineers like to understand principles, but they'll skip that if it’s cheaper
a Engineers make inventions
= Engineers know the next breakthrough is just around the corner
IT SEEMS REASONABLE TO SSUME ONE SET OF LAWS IN OUR UNIVERSE = Let’s also assume there is no magic a Math and logic would seem universal
= Once we understand the principles, we can quantify, describe and replicate
= Such laws would have to subsume our concepts of time, distance, psychic events and communication
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic. ”-A.C. Clarke
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HOW WE PROBABLY DID
E IT WITH MIGs
Soviet pilot seeks asylum with MIG
MIG is sent to Foreign Technology (AF) Dissembled, understood
Mystery parts sent to appropriate contractor: what is it, how does it work, is it good, how much to make one?
You get patent if we get early edge
WHEN DID IT START?
Standing beside the first crashed saucer - the scientist, engineer, officer or GI would have all been thinking, “How does it work?” Cape Girardeau in 1941 and Los Angeles in 1942 are near-certain recoveries for us to get started with
a A system would be set up to figure it out
The agencies did not share
("The Army wouldn't let us have it...Hoover, FBI)
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CORSO’S CLAIMS IN “THE
| | DAY AFTER ROSWELL”
COMPANIES SPECIFICALLY
7 MENTIONED
= IBM
» Hughes Aircraft = Bell Labs and
= Dow Corning
“Dawn of a New Age,” Corso photo, EBE sketch, and letter in his typical writing
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CORSO’S SUMMARY
J CLAIMS IN “THE DAWN...” a Image intensifiers
a Fiber optics
a Super tenacity fibers Metals — molecular alignment Fluid amplification Transistors and integrated circuits High Altitude Research Project
a Psycho-chemicals
a Lasers
CORSO’S CLAIMS IN “THE
r DAWN OF A NEW AGE”
a First hand: “I saw...”, “I did...”, a Second hand or conjecture: “They saw...”, “They did...”
s Ambiguous claims: summary section seems to be “his opinion”
„= At least 130 pages hand printed
a Page 128 titled “Brain Entry”
a “I went to my UFO ‘junk drawer’ and pulled out an item...”
= “,..called the atomic lab at Ft. Belvoir”
= “We projected long, low waves...”
a “Small dots would light up...”
= ...Walter Reed, coordination with Ft. Monmouth
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WHO WAS PHILIP CORSO?
a Born 1915, died in 1998 at 83 a Distinguished career « Citation, 44-45, Vatican diplomacy, no loss a Commendation Ribbon, 45-46, Rome Intel. = Oak Leaf Cluster, 51-53 N. Korea Intel. = Commendation Ribbon, 57-59, AJAX safety = Citation, 59-60, Management of 30K troops in Germany
a Retired as Lt. Col. After 21 years service
MILITARY RECORDS
3 | RELEVANT TO OCRD
= 4 May 61 — Enroute to OCRD (Office of the Chief of Research and Development)
=a 26 Jun 61 — Staff O Plans Div
» 18 Apr 62 — Chief Foreign Technology Div = 18 Jul 62 — Staff O Plans Div
a 1 Mar 63 — Retired
but "I joined OCRD in early 1960”?
All above in OCRD
2 | FIRST HAND REMARKS
« “Eyes Only access at the NSC of W.H.” » Saw brown chip, one from North American Rockwell = “possibly extraterrestrial...” “Nine clearances above top secret” “I was Chief of Foreign Technology Div in Army R&D” (how long unclear) “Three most important findings I presented to the General on UFO material... =a “Piece... whose atoms or molecules were aligned” = “Photograph and findings on supposedly alien bodies” « “The chip...revolutionize the world...space travel” “1957 crash just west of Red Canyon” = “...I had access to German discoveries we captured...”
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SECOND HAND REMARKS
“thrown in with great men...”
“,..chip should have taken centuries...”
“some sort of being in a photograph...”
“They (2 f.s.) dissolve in a transparent alignment of atoms” (75% accurate, 25% questionable)
“German scientists were of the opinion that...exit/entry into a time dimension”
“Items and data from UFOs found in USSR” (no source noted!) “As in the Philadelphia Experiment...”
“A report speculated that each fiber...atomic/molecular alignment”
“...mention of some sort of film over the eyeball”
“They also had a head band...possibly mental telepathy.”
“lack of information on the Roswell crashed saucer. (No mention of nourishment, water, refrigeration, medical, toilet, recreational)”
“ample evidence of alien activity on the Moon. 122 photos...”
A STUDY OF INTENTIONS AND HOSTILE ACTS
Reconnaissance
Advanced propulsion systems
Superior medical techniques
Tampering with earth environment and food supply Abduction of humans at will, taking fluid and tissues Mutilation of cattle and other animals
Surveying (spying) on our atomic installations
Hindering missile and space equipment testing
Hampering our military preparedness and nuclear deterrent Halting reconnaissance of the moon and mars
Causing crashes of aircraft and casualties among our military and civilian population
Tampering with human and animal genetics
CORSO’s VIEW ON MUTILATIONS
“In their animal and human mutilations, the aliens have shown a callous indifference concerning their victims. Their behavior has been insidious and it appears they might be using our earth and manipulating earth life. Skeptics will excuse them that possibly they are benevolent and want to help. However, there is no evidence that they have healed anyone or alleviated human ailments. On the other hand, they have caused pain, suffering and even death.”
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CORSO
J RECOMMENDATION
a Intensify “Star Wars” efforts, fire at their UFOs or mother ship
a Send a nuclear armed probe at Phobos on Mars
» Send an electromagnetic probe at the moon. (“De-gaussers as used in the Philadelphia experiment.”)
“Above should be done together with the Russians...
CORSO’S VIEWS ON
J ACADEMIA
a I warned them, “Remember, I am not one of your college professors. I will hit you with reality, not theory, or fuzzy intellectual thinking.” ---after a farewell dinner
“The ‘debunkers’ and ‘skeptics’ were most useful. They did their job, so well, that we never had to set up or use ‘disinformation’ tactics. Most were honest and sincere in their beliefs and activities. This would have been most difficult to match by a plan, or a ‘black’ propaganda operation.”
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MY SUMMARY: CORSO THE MAN
a Highly intelligent
a An Army product
a Limited civilian academic training
a Logical thinker
a Exposed to craft, some documentation Highly cleared, but not to MJ-12 U.S. Army focus and exposure High integrity, poor memory for dates
=
a “,,,optical wave guide fibers similar to glass rods except they are flexible and have a plastic cladding wrap.” — R&D Lab to Commanding Genl, 2 Sep 47
a Specific Corso reference to Corning a Dow Corning patents in this area
a Name, timing of patent holders
» Circle of friendships
INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
7 | PERSPECTIVE
=a “,,.grid-like lines intersecting groups of dots arranged in circular patterns.” — Twining to Truman, 19 Sep 47
a First references to “integrated circuit” s Comprehensive history by Kuijsten
= Shockley links to war, Bush, R&D
a IC patent holders were proteges
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y IC PATENTS
z Texas Instruments and RCA filed patents in 1959
CONCLUSIONS
= Reverse engineering was inevitable a Leaked documents confirm it
» Corso’s claims are not easily proven = His IC claims seem quite inaccurate
a His fiber optic claims should be further explored via patent searches
= Nobody is claiming travel or propulsion
a Reverse engineering began in the early 40s, not the late 50’s
REFERENCE SOURCES
a Brinkman, William et al. 1997. A History of the Invention of the Transistor and Where It Will Lead Us. IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits 32, No.12, December 1997.
Kuijsten, Marcel. 2001. The Development of the Transistor & the Integrated Circuit: Exploring Col. Corso’s Claims of Extraterrestrial Reverse Engineering. Submitted for publication.
Hamilton, William. 2005. Reverse Engineering. See 3™ Annual Crash Retrieval Proceedings.
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Varginha, Brazil Crash Retrieval Case, January 1966
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From the research team of A.J. Gevaerd and Dr. Roger Leir comes the following, based upon their in-depth research into a spectacular series of alleged alien body recoveries in the
Varginha area of Brazil:
On 20 January 1996, around 8:30 a.m., the Varginha military police headquarters began to receive telephone calls from the district of Jardim Andere of Brazil, with reports that something strange was being seen in the neighborhood. Apparently some children had reported seeing a strange creature that looked half man and half animal and that was making a sound like “a sharp anguished cry.” The entity moved only when someone threw a pebble at it. The local police command then informed the ESA (Escola de Sargentos das Forgas Armadas—School of Sergeants of the Armed Forces) in the neighboring town of Trés Corações that something suspicious was being sighted and reported from Jardim Andere. The ESA sent off a military truck with two soldiers and a sergeant to the scene in Varginha. About 9 p.m., the 13" Company of Special Fire Brigade was ordered to send a garrison to the place under command of Major Maciel, Sergeant Palhares, Corporal Rubens, and privates Nivaldo and Santos.
Curious civilians were gathering around but were strictly told to evacuate the area. An hour later, a creature was spotted. It was captured with a net for catching animals. It offered little resistance and was placed within a wooden box, then loaded on the ESA truck. As it was put onto the truck, according to the Fire Brigade militaries, the alien let off a faint humming sound. The military truck headed ar full speed for the city of Três Corações. Just prior to the capture, shots were heard by witnesses who later saw troops carrying bags with something moving inside.
Later that day, around 3 p.m., the young women who would turn out to be the main witnesses in the case, Liliane de Fatima Silva, 16, her sister, Valquiria Aparecida Silva, 14, and their friend, Katia Xavier, 21, were walking along a pathway on their way home in the district of Jardim Andere, when they were startled by what appeared to be an odd-looking creature that seemed to be in great pain. The creature was crouched and leaning against the wall of a car repair shop. It had large, bulging, lidless red eyes with no irises, and they seemed to be fixed on the witnesses. Its head was disproportionably large with bumps on top and large veins on its base extending from the shoulders up the neck. Its skin seemed to be covered with a thick, shiny, wet and oily substance. Scared as they were, the three witnesses ran off. Later, as they were interviewed by researches, the girls would say that the strange bumps on the creature’s head resembled horns.
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Still on 20 January, between 6:15 and 7:30 p.m., two officers from the Intelligence Service, Marco Eli Chereze and Eric Lopes, probably had the most unusual experience of their military lives, one that would end up being fatal to one of them. By then, the three girls’ story was spreading quickly. Ordered to patrol the Jardim Andere area after a most unusual rain that had fallen over the city, Chereze and Lopes saw something move out of the shadows in a nearby construction site and cross the path in front of their car. The officer driving the vehicle braked immediately. Both men got out.
Chereze saw it first. The apparent “animal” looked either hurt or feeble as it went into the pasture nearby. As both policemen approached the creature, they realized it was certainly not an animal. It was a person—a very different, weird, and apparently deformed person. It was naked and probably dying. In spite of the somewhat repugnant looks of the creature, they put it in their car and drove at once to a first-aid station. There, the attendant was appalled at the sight of the thing and refused to let it in, recommending that it be taken to a hospital or a zoo and concluding: “I don’t want to be in trouble here!”
The two officers took the creature to the Hospital Regional de Minas in downtown Varginha, where vain attempts were made to keep it from dying. The hospital suddenly got crowded with police and military personnel. In an attempt to help the dying alien breathe easier, Someone set it up with oxygen breathing apparatus, which was probably the cause of its accelerated death. The body was then transferred to Hospital Humanitas.
Dr. Fernando Eugênio Prado, responsible for the E.R. patients in the Hospital Regional that day, was barred from getting in by a stranger wearing medical gloves and apron. But he saw the inert body afterwards. He would declare during a medical congress towards the end of 1996 that he could not be sure whether it was a dead extraterrestrial, but it was certainly the strangest thing he had ever seen. Unfortunately, though, when he was interviewed by two UFO researchers investigating the case, Dr. Prado denied the truth of his statement, explaining that he’d said that only to put a stop to the mockery by some of his colleagues who were teasing him about the “Varginha ET”, because he lived in the town of Varginha and wanted everyone to stop mocking his town.
On 22 January, a military convoy headed for the School of Sergeants of the Armed Forces in the city of Três Corações carrying an awkward cargo, all sealed in heavy boxes. The next day, military vehicles rushed to Campinas, in the State of São Paulo, going straight to Unicamp, the State University in the city of Campinas, carrying two boxes. In one box was the body taken away from Hospital Humanitas, Varginha. The other box contained something living—perhaps the creature captured earlier on the 20" by the Fire Corps.
One of the creatures was taken to an underground laboratory in the premises of the state university. The box, with two holes on each side, was carried by two Army men. In the days that followed, a whole staff of scientists and physicians began to virtually live in those quarters of Unicamp, among them Dr. Fortunato Badan Palhares. Food was brought in at most irregular hours, including vegetables, fruit, milk, mixed soup and yogurt. There was no contact between the employees who carried the food around and the working doctors. The
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food would be passed quickly through a door, which was just as quickly closed. Eventually, serum was requested.
On the 26", American militaries, as well as some NASA officials, arrived at Unicamp. The official purpose of the visit was to discuss the possible participation of Brazilian scientists in future space missions.
One of the most serious and regrettable incidents in the whole sequence of events was the death of Corporal Marco Eli Chereze, one of the officers from the Intelligence Service of the Military Police who took part in the capture of the second creature on the night of 20 January 1996. Witnesses say that the officer might have died of general infection after having touched the alien, which was specified in the necropsy report. However, his death certificate presents no defined cause for his death. A witness said that, at the moment of its capture, the creature made a slight movement that led the officer to touch its left arm without his gloves.
On the 23", Chereze’s father asked his son what was “all the nonsense” people had been talking about the rumors of the military having captured a little monster or strange being. With a serious countenance, Marco Eli Chereze replied that “it was no nonsense,” adding that a lot was yet to be said about the affair. On the 26", as his family watched the evening news talking about the Varginha ET, Marco said sternly, “Do not watch that sort of thing. It’s no good.”
On February 6, a small tumor similar to a boil appeared in Chereze’s armpit. The officer complained of severe pains in his back and was taken to the hospital. He underwent a minor surgery to have the tumor removed and was sent back home. On February 10, Chereze complained of pains in his back and high fever and was sent to Hospital Bom Pastor, where he was seen by a cardiologist named Dr. René. The doctor and his staff were unable to produce a precise diagnosis of his illness. He was transferred to Hospital Regional do Sul de Minas, where he died on February 16 of acute respiratory deficiency, septicemia and bacterial pneumonia.
Examinations prior to his death included urine tests, X-rays of his back, spine, and sacrum, and an orthopedic evaluation performed by Dr. Rogério Lemos. A disc hernia was possible. Blood tests showed a blood count with leucocytosis, left deviation, and toxic granulations of the neutrophils.
“These are signals of a significant infection, with high capacity to cause toxemia—not to my surprise, there were toxic granulations,’ Dr. Lemos said. Two antibiotics were prescribed, penicillin and gentamicin, since doctors thought that it might be a case of pneumonia, due to the location of the pain, or a urinary infection. HIV tests were also undertaken “since it was realized that he had an immunodeficiency.” A simple urinary infection or pneumonia, or both, “would not lead a person to a septicemia condition, taking two antibiotics. This is almost impossible and it only occurs in cases of immunodeficiency.” Despite the antibiotics, the infection was getting worse. Six hours later, Chereze died.
His body was taken for autopsy, which revealed a urinary tract infection caused by
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enterobacteria, confirmed by examinations at Hospital Bom Pastor. There was also a lung infection—a small pneumonia. The doctor explained that it could not have been a case of congenital immunodeficiency; otherwise Chereze could not have lived to age 23 in good health. “For this reason, the immunodeficiency was surely acquired. How he acquired it, no one knows. I say the cause of death was not found because it wasn’t pneumonia, nor the urinary infection, nor the abscess that killed him. We still don’t know the cause.”
The blood count issued by the laboratory of clinical analysis of Hospital Bom Pastor revealed the following information: “Presence of cytoplasm vacuoles. Presence of fine toxic granulations in 8% of neutrophils. Little poikilocytosis.” Interpreting these data, cardiologist Cesário Furtado stated that “the fine toxic granulations appear in the neutrophils of a person
when he is being attacked by highly virulent bacteria. That forms a mass of combat—let's
call it that—that could reach 50% to 60%. The report shows 8% because it was the first blood test. It already shows an infection, which made us prescribe the two antibiotics.”
Their presence indicated serious infection. “But what led to death is yet unclear. An immunodeficiency, for sure... [But] I assure you that no abscess can cause an immunodeficiency. An abscess may even cause septicemia, but it can’t kill a person. Besides, any antibiotics can cure it. That was not the case. It was not the bacteria penetrating the arm that caused the infection.”
According to Dr. Furtado, Marco Eli Chereze had a “strange death, without a rational explanation. In the course of my professional life, 1 have seen two individuals aged about 25 die of an infection, but we knew that both had immune deficiency. Both of them, if I recall, had had removal of the spleen following an accident. After a certain delay, that causes immunodeficiency. In that situation, the person may decease rapidly if he finds himself in the condition of a septicemia. But, once again, this was not the case [with Chereze].”
Not long after the strange encounters reported by Liliane, Valquiria, Katia, and other civilian and military witnesses, other mysterious incidents were reported in Varginha that may or may not be related to the “ET” from Varginha, as the creature—or creatures—came to be known, but which certainly bring to mind the affairs involving the capture of both