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Spy vs Spy

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PROJECT BLUE BOOK – Season 1 Episode 6 – SPOILERS

doom town

David O’Leary tweeted: “To test the impact effects of an atomic blast on populated areas, military technicians built entire fake towns in remote areas complete with houses, shops, and even mannequin families. These settlements got the ominous nickname ‘doom towns'”

The countdown to a nuclear test inexplicably starts too soon, and stops seconds before detonation. Shortly thereafter, the fake town designed to study the effects of the blast is buzzed by several bright green UFOs. Hynek and Quinn are sent to investigate. Unknown to Quinn, Hynek has gone over the heads of the Generals (to the Secretary of Defense?) and gotten his camera-matrix project approved. He arrives well equipped to photograph whatever flies by.

Green Fireballs are a type of UFO that, after Roswell, began to habitually appear in high-security areas. It seems possible that these are reconaissance probes that are less vulnerable to being shot down than their parent craft.

In 2010, U.S. Air Force Captain Robert Salas told The London Telegraph that he witnessed such an event first-hand on 16 March 1967 at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana (which at that time housed Minuteman nuclear missiles). “I was on duty when an object came over and hovered directly over the site,” he said. “The missiles shut down – 10 Minuteman missiles. And the same thing happened at another site a week later. There’s a strong interest in our missiles by these objects, wherever they come from.” Continue reading →

Circles, Saucers, and Spies

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PROJECT BLUE BOOK – Season 1 Episode 4 – SPOILERS

Matt O'Leary

Mimi’s stalker turns out to be Lieutenant Fuller (Matt O’Leary), who might be suffering from exposure to alien technology.

Mimi‘s stalker turns out to be Lieutenant Fuller (Matt O’Leary), the guy who chased a UFO with his plane in Episode One. He has been following Mimi in an effort to speak to her husband. Fuller is not a well man, and when Mimi does not humour him in his paranoia, he decides she is one of his enemies. Fortunately, Susie has been listening in through that bug she had planted. (The mike they installed was quite sensitive. It picks up Mimi’s kitchen conversation clearly, though it is located in the study.) Susie shows up with a gun and chases Fuller away. Her timely arrival makes Mimi a bit suspicious, but she decides not to question her rescuer’s motives, at least not very closely. Continue reading →

Cold War UFO’s

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PROJECT BLUE BOOK – Season 1 Episode 3 – SPOILERS

Michael Malarkey, Peter Skagan, and Aidan Gillan

The Lubbock County Sheriff (Peter Skagen) showing Quinn and Hynek a truck deformed by an encounter with a UFO. (Skagen was Shorty in the first three episodes of WYNONNA EARP)

Someone is following Mimi and not being at all surreptitious about it. A guy with his hat pulled down over his eyes turns up at the hardware store as Mimi is attempting to buy a pre-fab bomb shelter, and appears again later, standing in front of the Hynek residence while Mimi and Susie are assembling the shelter the next day. He gives the impression tha he wants to talk to Mimi privately. He does not telephone her, so he might be aware that Susie’s associate had bugged the place earlier.

When Susie (Ksenia Solo) visits Mimi this time she does not use the doorbell, but instead noisily rattles the doorknob as though expecting the door to be unlocked. The two women apologize to each other and are friends again. Mimi (Laura Mennell) says the reason she abandoned Susie at the beatnik club was because if she were seen there it might cause problems for her husband. Susie demonstrates some carpentry skills as she helps Mimi build that bomb shelter, and we learn a little about her “My father always wanted a son,” she tells Mimi. “I never volunteered, but he made sure I knew how to swing a hammer.” Continue reading →