FINDING A LANDING ZONE

“We had to have a remote location which would not give way to any adverse public knowledge.”

“There were literately hundreds of locations selected and analyzed. Most of the locations first selected were remote islands. But there were logistical problems with those locations. We would have to sail ships to these remote locations and that just might give us away.”

“We had to choose a location that would not be suspicious, but still remote.”

“The group decided on a location west of Holloman AFB near Alamogordo, NM. They actually decided on two locations. One was a fake location on Holloman, and the actual landing location was at White Sands.”

The source then continues his narrative about planning for further operations: “Sometime in late 1962, we all met again, this time at a very secure underground facility at Los Alamos.”

“We got the real startling news: Our government planned to exchange a U.S. military team with the aliens. [Redacted] doesn't remember all of the details, but he remembers that a lot of key officials in the meeting thought that was a wrong [bad] idea.”

“The reasoning behind the skepticism was this: We knew virtually nothing of this alien race, except what one surviving alien told us [EBE-1]. How could we trust sending a team of people to another planet?”

“We knew very little about the planet except it was about 40 [38.42] light years away. How long would the trip last and how could our team prepare for such a trip? These were questions all members asked.”

“But the powers that be, mainly General Cabell, said all of that had been worked out. How? Maybe we established better communications with the aliens. It's doubtful that most of the members knew it all.”

“A lot was compartmented and not everyone knew everything. [Redacted] surmised that maybe the aliens landed prior to the scheduled 1964 date and possibly exchanged information. But he never had any official knowledge of this.”

Different accounts and details of the process of the selection and training of the 12-person team and back-up candidates have been made public previously. The information released today appears consistent with the previous reports.

“The next big problem was selecting a team. Bob Hall, the commander of a space flight training squadron, was in charge of this. We also had CIA people and some people from the newly created DIA.”

“The disguise was that the USAF was selecting a special team to travel to the moon and these people must undergo special training and a special selection process. None of the military people trying out for this team knew the real mission.”

“About 500 people applied and that narrowed down to about 160. But there was a problem. Some specialists required on this mission were missing. Besides, the requirement called for each Team Member to be single, never married, no children and if possible, orphans. The USAF had to go out and recruit two doctors and several other specialists.”

<“Finally, after several months of the selection process, 16 team members were selected, 12 who would go and four (4) alternates. Once the team was selected, they underwent about six (6) months of extensive training at various locations around the world.”

“Each selectee went through the most difficult and demanding training in the world. Most of it was similar to astronaut training. A lot of physiological stress training, high-altitude training, and also parachute training at Ft. Bragg.”

“Each member went through weapons and combat training and the possibility of capture by going through survival, evasion and escape training.”

“They also learned the basic alien language, alphabet and phrases. This was difficult since the alien spoke a tonal dialect, basically like singing in a high pitch voice. Most had extreme difficulty learning this, but the two linguists on the team learned it quickly [Team Members #420 and #475].”

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