Ok here goes,

**Carol Nistri** · Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3354

Ill not reveal the person who sent me this,not for anything,even if you torture me,nope nothing,of course for twenty five cents and a self addressed envelope,ok ok,here goes its a tad long so Ill relish teasing you endlessly.Here goes,I didnt include the first few paragraphs but see if you recognize the style here..

The personal anecdote is my own. I have great things to share with you.

Bear with me as I explain a few things about myself and my work. They are necessary to understand what comes after.

I was employed as a technical writer through a NYC publishing agency for many years and retired in 2001. Since retiring, I free-lance as a technical writer with a few accounts I took with me when I retired. Technical writing takes many forms, and most of us specialize. I write technical manuals for software/hardware combinaton products manufactured by my clients. This occurs in two ways: the initial manual issued when the equipment is first designed and sold, or later updates and amendments to those initial manuals.

Sometimes I am tasked to write the initial "how to" type manual for operating a given system. I usually do this at my in-home office, working from materials provided by the client: CDs, DVDs, Word files, zip files, etc., though sometimes I have to visit the manufacturing plant. The client takes my work and paper-prints it for inclusion with their products when sold to their customers, just like the "how to" manuals you receive along with your new TV, DVD player, computer, etc. Of course, the software & hardware for which I write manuals is far more complicated, with manuals often running to the hundreds of pages, sometimes in multiple volumes, and usually placed on CD-ROM disks instead of being printed on paper. Some companies ask for both.

Other times I am tasked to update an existing manual because the equipment or software connected with the equipment has been upgraded. This work begins with my update of the manual, a task I can usually perform here in my in-home office. However, these product upgrades are also sold to the customers who had purchased the original equipment, and so they need upgrades to their manuals as well. In many of these cases, the customer doesn't use the hardcopy manual (meaning the paper, book-like manual), and uses the computer-based manual so it can be easily accessed by any of their staff requiring it. Each of these companies tends to load the manual into their computer webs differently, and there is no single set of installation directions we can offer. Therefore, I am often asked to travel to the actual locations and add the manual updates directly into these companies' computer programs containing their equipment manual libraries. This places me inside the inner workings of various companies, literally inside their internal computer networks as I upgrade the pertinent manuals, for days at a time.

My education is in journalism. I earned a Masters in journalism from University of Maryland in 1965. I worked as a city desk reporter for fifteen years or so at various newspapers in cities in and around New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, and ended up writing a column on household technology for a metro NY news magazine. The column explained all the fancy gadgets coming out in the 1970s: microwave ovens, dishwashers, TVs, stereo systems, VHS and BetaMax VCRs, etc. These things had existed for years, of course, but until the 70s were too expensive for 'the masses', and were becoming increasingly complicated to operate for the pre-computer society. I had a relative who was an accountant for the publishing house I eventually went to work for - she showed them several of my columns and they gave me my first free-lance technical writing jobs. After 2-3 years, due to the improved pay and luxury of working from my home, I left the weekend magazine and went to work as a technical writer full time.

At first I was given a hodge podge of various jobs with no particular type or topic. Eventually I gravitated towards technology involving computers, mostly due to my having obtained an Associates Degree in Computer Technology in the early 1980s so I could stay on top of this 'wave of the future', as computers were then considered to be. No technical writer can 'know it all', so most of us end up specializing in one or two areas of technology. My specialty turned out to be technical equipment consisting of hardware - machines - that are run not by humans, but by computers. Humans, of course, program the computers to tell the machines what to do, and I write the manuals that explain how on a given piece of equipment.

The reason the machines I specialize in are run by computers is that they work at a microscopically small level - namely bioengineering machines working on living material at the multi-cellular level at the largest down to the level of individual genes and DNA material at the smallest. This material is far too small for the human eyes and hands to work with, so computers are programmed to direct the machinery. That is my specialty: bioengineering machines and the computer programs that operate them.

I relate all this in order to explain how I came into the information I will soon impart to you. I felt it necessary for the reader to have some idea as to what I do and where that job sometimes takes me. So, I'll get right to it.

In July of 2002 I was contacted by one of my private clients, a manufacturer of a bioengineering machine that operates on genes, a gene-splicer to be exact. I won't bore the reader with irrelevant details except to say this company made several types of equipment used to manipulate human cellular material and genes, whether for research, genetic engineering, splicing, bioengineering, etc. They had designed an "add-on" as we call it, a piece of auxilary equipment that expanded the usage of the original equipment. It had its own computer program with which the scientist or researcher ran the new equipment, and I was asked to travel to four different labs or plants to rewrite their operating manuals to include the new device and its computer program in the existing manuals these four labs had in their manual libraries. High tech companies use inhouse 'manual libraries' - computer-based sets of instruction, technical, and specification manuals, including parts lists, diagrams, etc., which explain all the equipment they use in their work, used by their technicians to operate and maintain the equipment. Typically, these techs are experts on the machines themselves, but know very little about how to amend the manuals - that's where I come in as a technical writer.

In late August 2002, I was first sent to Nextran Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) where I met with a company liaison who would shepherd me through the process. Two techs who worked for my client (the new machinery manufacturer) came the next day with the new machines and CD-ROMs containing the new manuals which I had already written, but now needed to patch into their existing manual library. The techs got the new equipment installed in less than two days and left. As they worked, I compared what they were doing with what is written about installations in the new manual to make sure everything matched up correctly. Certain all was well, I then set about upload ing the amended manual into the Nextran's existing manual.

A brief word here. When I am working onsite, security is never an issue. The sorts of companies to whom my client sells equipment are usually working on genetic engineering of food crops, trying to create species of plants that produce more or better crops, or that tolerate heat or drought better, that sort of thing. If they employed security measures at all, it was always invisible to me, and I was always allowed freedom to move anywhere around a given research lab or plant. However, on this visit to Nextran I was never left alone and was always accompanied by an employee whose presence wasn't explained to me. He was just there. He never spoke beyond "good morning" or "see you tomorrow". He was polite and non-threatening, just always 'there'. He wore no identification or security badge.

Once I had completed my preliminary work at Nextran it was time for the final 'button push', when the new manual material would be integrated into the existing manual. Again, I won't bore with details, but this is rather more complicated than simply uploading a CD-ROM. Bits and pieces of the manual get placed in varying locations within the overall manual library, each piece pursuant to its function. When I attempted to begin upload, the program balked, shutting back down automatically. I called for my liaison, who called for a certain IT tech of theirs, who turned out to be absent that day, so her supervisor was called instead. That supervisor didn't do this sort of thing everyday anymore, hadn't for years, and needed to go elsewhere to retrieve some hardcopy manual to figure out how to allow my procedure the access it required to their manual library sytem. The supervisor told the security guy, "you'll need to go with me - it's in 4-Lab," implying she wasn't allowed in "4-Lab" without a security escort.

The security guy hesitated and then went with her. I was still accompanied by one of the company's IT techs who wasn't needed for anything I was doing, and just appeared to be curious about the new equipment he'd soon be responsible for maintaining. After about 15 minutes, a phone rang and the IT tech answered it. He handed me the phone. It was the supervisor, who told me she thought she had made the necessary access changes, and asked me to go ahead and try it again before she came all the way back. I again began the upload procedure and it went well for a 30 seconds or so, but then shut down again - I was still locked out of a necessary portion of the manual library. I told the supervisor over the phone it hadn't worked. She told me to hang loose for a few minutes, she'd try something else. At this point the IT tech left the area without a word, apparently bored with the lack of progress, maybe to go eat lunch, I don't know.

After another five minutes the phone remained silent, but the screen on the monitor from which I was working flipped. A menu screen popped up, the table of contents page for the manual library, plus idiot boxes explaining how to proceed to access or to edit. Thinking this was the work of the remote supervisor, I tried to enter into the problem area of the correct manual and succeeded. Where I ended up and what I learned in the brief time I had access to it is at the core of why I am documenting this experience and passing it on.

For a period of about 15 minutes I had open access to every manual file in their system. That is to say, I could look up the purpose and function of every piece of equipment they had, as well as all the operating protocols, including the overall purposes and programs this company was working on. I would find out later that the supervisor, who was rusty in these duties, had inadvertantly and unknowingly given me full access to all manual library files. After five minutes perusal, I realized this was material to which I was not supposed to have access, but what I was reading, or rather, what was hinted at by what I was reading, was too compelling for me to turn away. The part that most intrigued me was the general overview for the lab-wide computer system - everything - the computers than ran the machines, the programs that collected data, the programs that compartmentalized data, the analyst programs - everything was laid open to me. The overview titles and brief descriptions revealed mystifying things, amazing things. Amazing to me anyway, in that I'm not up on the latest in bioengineering research.

This company - Nextran, Inc., of Princeton, NJ - was working on re-engineering human neural cellular material towards the end of creating genetic material for use in the reproduction of genes and cells for the human brain, new 'hardware' for the human brain that would facilitate both extremely fast and extremely low speed neural impulse transfers without degradation of the information thus transferred. The stated overall goal - of which this company's work was a smaller part -was to bioengineer a human whose brain could essentially go into a sort of hibernation, a period of brain near-inactivity, but without suffering any damage and with the ability to return to normal functioning without damage. Human hibernation it seemed to me, though the manuals did not use that language.

(are ya thirsty for more)

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:28 pm

**Carol Nistri** · Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3354

that was just for starters,wait till you read the whole thing.

ok,begin reading..there will be a test at noon.

In late August 2002, I was first sent to Nextran Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) where I met with a company liaison who would shepherd me through the process. Two techs who worked for my client (the new machinery manufacturer) came the next day with the new machines and CD-ROMs containing the new manuals which I had already written, but now needed to patch into their existing manual library. The techs got the new equipment installed in less than two days and left. As they worked, I compared what they were doing with what is written about installations in the new manual to make sure everything matched up correctly. Certain all was well, I then set about upload ing the amended manual into the Nextran's existing manual.

A brief word here. When I am working onsite, security is never an issue. The sorts of companies to whom my client sells equipment are usually working on genetic engineering of food crops, trying to create species of plants that produce more or better crops, or that tolerate heat or drought better, that sort of thing. If they employed security measures at all, it was always invisible to me, and I was always allowed freedom to move anywhere around a given research lab or plant. However, on this visit to Nextran I was never left alone and was always accompanied by an employee whose presence wasn't explained to me. He was just there. He never spoke beyond "good morning" or "see you tomorrow". He was polite and non-threatening, just always 'there'. He wore no identification or security badge.

Once I had completed my preliminary work at Nextran it was time for the final 'button push', when the new manual material would be integrated into the existing manual. Again, I won't bore with details, but this is rather more complicated than simply uploading a CD-ROM. Bits and pieces of the manual get placed in varying locations within the overall manual library, each piece pursuant to its function. When I attempted to begin upload, the program balked, shutting back down automatically. I called for my liaison, who called for a certain IT tech of theirs, who turned out to be absent that day, so her supervisor was called instead. That supervisor didn't do this sort of thing everyday anymore, hadn't for years, and needed to go elsewhere to retrieve some hardcopy manual to figure out how to allow my procedure the access it required to their manual library sytem. The supervisor told the security guy, "you'll need to go with me - it's in 4-Lab," implying she wasn't allowed in "4-Lab" without a security escort.

The security guy hesitated and then went with her. I was still accompanied by one of the company's IT techs who wasn't needed for anything I was doing, and just appeared to be curious about the new equipment he'd soon be responsible for maintaining. After about 15 minutes, a phone rang and the IT tech answered it. He handed me the phone. It was the supervisor, who told me she thought she had made the necessary access changes, and asked me to go ahead and try it again before she came all the way back. I again began the upload procedure and it went well for a 30 seconds or so, but then shut down again - I was still locked out of a necessary portion of the manual library. I told the supervisor over the phone it hadn't worked. She told me to hang loose for a few minutes, she'd try something else. At this point the IT tech left the area without a word, apparently bored with the lack of progress, maybe to go eat lunch, I don't know.

After another five minutes the phone remained silent, but the screen on the monitor from which I was working flipped. A menu screen popped up, the table of contents page for the manual library, plus idiot boxes explaining how to proceed to access or to edit. Thinking this was the work of the remote supervisor, I tried to enter into the problem area of the correct manual and succeeded. Where I ended up and what I learned in the brief time I had access to it is at the core of why I am documenting this experience and passing it on.

For a period of about 15 minutes I had open access to every manual file in their system. That is to say, I could look up the purpose and function of every piece of equipment they had, as well as all the operating protocols, including the overall purposes and programs this company was working on. I would find out later that the supervisor, who was rusty in these duties, had inadvertantly and unknowingly given me full access to all manual library files. After five minutes perusal, I realized this was material to which I was not supposed to have access, but what I was reading, or rather, what was hinted at by what I was reading, was too compelling for me to turn away. The part that most intrigued me was the general overview for the lab-wide computer system - everything - the computers than ran the machines, the programs that collected data, the programs that compartmentalized data, the analyst programs - everything was laid open to me. The overview titles and brief descriptions revealed mystifying things, amazing things. Amazing to me anyway, in that I'm not up on the latest in bioengineering research.

This company - Nextran, Inc., of Princeton, NJ - was working on re-engineering human neural cellular material towards the end of creating genetic material for use in the reproduction of genes and cells for the human brain, new 'hardware' for the human brain that would facilitate both extremely fast and extremely low speed neural impulse transfers without degradation of the information thus transferred. The stated overall goal - of which this company's work was a smaller part -was to bioengineer a human whose brain could essentially go into a sort of hibernation, a period of brain near-inactivity, but without suffering any damage and with the ability to return to normal functioning without damage. Human hibernation it seemed to me, though the manuals did not use that language.

Having completed my work at Nextran, I returned home with a few days off till I had to report to the second of four locations I'd be involved with. I spent this time trying to understand of what possible use human hibernation could be. I still don't like my use of the term 'hibernation', because the summaries I'd read described more of a 'neutral gear' for human life, a sort of controllable, externally induced stasis of life functions. Filled with the anxiety of my many unanswered questions, I packed for the next leg of the run of installations, this time overseas to Martinsried, Germany, to a lab called Xantos Biomedicine AG.
When given my travel itinerary, I'd told my client that I knew only a little French and no German, but was assured this would not be a problem. Sure enough, when I arrived in Germany I was picked up at the airport by private car, and escorted to a nearby hotel by a young woman who spoke perfect English with a slight British accent. My three days at Xantos Biomed were outwardly uneventful, a routine manual patch-in, and oddly, I never heard a word spoken in German my entire time in their facility. The info I'd uncovered at Nextran back in New Jersey, and the many questions it raised, prompted me to exploit any opportunity to scan Xantos Biomed's manual library - and more, if I could gain access. This laboratory had purchased the exact same equipment and software upgrade and appeared to be engaged in the same sort of work as was Nextran, Inc. I did manage to gain access to parts of their manual library outside my required area, but saw only lists of section titles without details or the brief section descriptions found at Nextran. One section listed what appeared to be other labs and facilities, including Nextran, Inc. of Princeton NJ, plus a firm whose name I recognized from my upcoming itinerary, GTC Biotherapeutics of Framingham, Massachusetts. Another section topic read 'Xenotransplantation', a term I'd never before encountered. I made a mental note of the term, completed the work on schedule, and returned to the United States without incident.

I had another five days before traveling to the third of four stops, this time to Streck Labs in La Vista, Nebraska. I went online and checked on the definition of 'xenotransplation' at Wikipedia to learn that it describes the practice of transplanting tissues or organs from one species into another, typically from nonhuman to human in most research and development. The Wikipedia article stated it was a newer area of medical research and was very controversial, receiving criticism from both animal and human rights groups, and also raising concerns of medical ethics from various groups. The purpose of xenotransplantation was to change human physiology by introducing tisses, organs, or genetic material from other species.

So far I had learned that Nextran was involved in bioengineering and possibly genetic engineering, with a goal of human hibernation or something like it, while Xantos Biomed in Germany was involved in 'xenotransplantation' with some goal unknown to me. Furthermore, Nextran of NJ was listed in Xantos Biomed's manuals library, as was GTC Biotherapeutics of Framingham MA, my final of four stops after completing the next, Streck Labs of La Vista, Nebraska.

My time at Streck Labs proved the least dramatic in terms of new discoveries - nothing but routine work and I was unable to access any new information about what Streck might be working on. However, Streck Labs had far tighter security than the first two firms I had visited. I was frisked and scanned upon every building entry and exit, went nowhere without escort, and did nothing without security personnel looking literally over my shoulder. I had zero opportunity to do anything but my manual update work. One somewhat disturbing detail did emerge: the security personnel were not internal - they wore civilian clothes, did not appear armed, and clipped to the belt of each was a plastic Blackwater USA identification card.

My knowledge base had grown to this: A set of biomedical/bioengineering firms, interconnected in some way, were working on various parts of some overall program, and were using genetic and otther bioengineering techniques, including xenotransplantation, with a still unknown overall goal of improving the human physiology with 'hibernation' abilities as one part of the improvements. At least one of the firms was protected by Blackwater USA, a security firm believed to contract only with governments and their militaries for work in 'hot' zones of tension, conflict, or even open warfare, such as they are currently employed by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan.

My last stop was GTC Biotherapeutics of Framingham, Massachusetts, where I arrived in early October, 2002. Security there was not as intense as at Streck Labs, but security personnel were always nearby, again Blackwater USA, according to their ID badges. Rather than being tightly accompanied in every move, I was just kept within the line of sight of security personnel at all times. Curiously, although there were many staff present when I worked on the IT floor, my one day on the two lab floors at GTC Bio, which came in the middle of the work week, was spent totally alone, with only the security personnel present. I have no security expertise, and can only testify as to what security measures I could see. For all I know, I was on a dozen security cameras at all times.

At GTC Biotherapeutics I was therefore left alone at different monitors on multiple occasions for long periods, and many times my security escort was on the wrong side of the monitor to determine which files I might pull up. I recognized the same tech manual library formatting that was used at Xantos Biomed in Germany, and was again only able to review manual library topic titles. Among many curious listings, I found several sections and subsections addressing 'Absorptiometry' and 'DXA'. I would later discover these referred to dual X-ray absorptiometry, used to measure human bone mass density. I also found section titles that seemed in line with those found earlier at Xantos Biomed in Germany, references to xenotransplantation and bone-related 'xenografts'. In fact, the wording was exactly the same and included specific references to Xantos Biomed, Germany. GTC Biotherapeutics' involvement in the mysterious overall program appeared to address human bone density losses and, I assumed, the improvement or prevention of human bone density loss. My sense was that if 'xenotransplantation' meant using the bio-material of one species to reengineer another species, then 'xenografting' must be the term for the actual process of taking bone material from one species and placing it into bone material from the human species, an assumption I later found out to be accurate.

It was also at this fourth and final stop on my 'tour' that I learned the most disturbing of several disparate, vaguely connected details. In the GTC Biotherapeutics manuals library, where I read most of their section titles and subtitles, I read one in particular which seemed to address the sources of 'xeno' biomaterials, that is, those animals from which the biomaterials (tissues, cells, DNA, etc.) were drawn for use in humans. I saw several subtitles using the term 'porcine', which refers to pigs and hogs, a species I later learned is commonly used in xenotransplantaton research and development. There was one subsection devoted to 'piscine', which refers to fish, and one specific species (rather than family) was listed: the capybara, which looks like it's from the pig family, but is actually the world's largest rodent, from the family 'rodentia'. This was all well and good, but one particular entry, one mysterious term, stood out and away from all others, and I cannot say I was ever to determine with certainty what it meant or to what it referred. The term was "xenosolaric". As a writer I knew that 'xeno' means 'foreign' and that 'sol' is the latin root used to refer to our sun. One interpretation of the word xenosolaric, therefore, could mean "foreign to our sun" or "foreign to our solar system". Then and since, I have tried to convince myself that I am reading into the term more than the evidence - or sanity - allows. Still, the term haunts me: xenosolaric.

By mid-October of 2002 I was safely back at home with no immediate jobs to handle and nothing but the free time of retirement on my hands. Disturbed by what I had learned over the last several weeks, and internally conflicted by the implications as factored against the possibility I was letting my imagination get well away with me, I decided to sit down and try to organize what I had learned, hoping some semblance of sense would emerge from the effort. These are the points of knowledge that emerged:

1. Nextran, Streck, Xantos, and GTC Biomed were all involved in bioengineering human physiology.

a. Nextran appeared involved in preparing the human brain for what I inadequately term as 'human hibernation'.

b. Streck Labs was involved in human bioengineering (the only use for the equipment being installed), but in what way remained unknown.

c. Xantos was involved in 'xenotransplantation' of biomaterials from animal species into the human species.

d. GTC Therapeutics was involved with xenotransplantation and human bone mass loss issues, citing sources for biomaterials from pigs, hogs, capybaras, and a 'xenosolaric' species, however that term is defined.

2. All four firms are referred to in each others' tech manual libraries, indicating a connection, to what exact purposes unknown, but almost certainly as individual components of some larger effort.

3. At least one of these firms - Streck Labs - employed Blackwater USA for security.

a. Blackwater USA and Blackwater World usually work only as paramilitary security, contracting only with governments and the military.

4. One firm, GTC Therapeutics, uses a term found no where else in traditional xenotransplantation medical research, nor in any medical research, nor anywhere else that I can find: "xenosolaric", which - having no other way than word roots by which to judge -appears to mean "foreign to our solar system" and if so, is nearly synonymous with the word "extraterrestrial", which means "not from Earth". It is possible, I suppose, for biomaterial to have an extraterrestrial (off-Earth) source, but still not be a xenosolaric (from outside our solar system) source. Biomaterial from Mars or Io (a moon of Jupiter) would be extraterrestrial but not xenosolaric, for example. Again, this assumes my definition of xenosolaric is accurate.

5. Given the presence of Blackwater security, it may be assumed that the US government or military is the primary contractor behind the overall research and development project revealed in my findings and experiences.

After returning home I pondered for a couple months over my experiences and distilled what I had learned down to those facts and reasonable assumptions listed just above. After considerable hemming and hawing on my part over how deeply I wished to get into this, I finally decided to see what would happen if I were to submit a FOIA request for information (Freedom Of Information Act, wherein a citizen may petition the federal government for specified information on a given topic, program, event, person or persons, etc.). I initially filed two FIOA requests, one each for any information on federal government programs or research conducted by Nextran, Inc. of Princeton NJ, and Streck Labs of La Vista, Nebraska. These were mailed out in mid-January of 2003. I received my first FOIA packet concerning Streck Labs in early April, 2003, and the other concerning Nextran about one week later. The Streck set of papers held 17 pages of which 90% was blacked out. The Nextran set contained 36 pages, and again, about 90% was blacked out. I learned nothing new from either, but did prove my assumption that the US government or military had contractual connections and a history with all four facilities.

I immediately submitted two more FOIA requests on the other two firms: Xantos Biomedicine AG of Martinsried, Germany and GTC Biotherapeutics of Framingham, Massachusetts. Same result - after about three months, in mid-July 2003, I received both replies within a week of each other, Each contained about 15-20 pages, nearly all of which were blacked out. The GTC papers contained nothing new to me. One very interesting new detail I learned from the FOIA requests was that the presence of the acronym "NASA" was left readable in the Xantos material, was not blacked out, though everything around it was blacked out and any contextual reference was lost. The Xantos material also contained a reference to Blackwater, though it was Blackwater World, not Blackwater USA, and again, everything around it was blacked out, so context was lost.

I went online and looked into the various UFO-type organizations, thinking they might be interested in this information and may in fact already know something about it, but what I found on their websites sort of put me off. I did not get any sense of probity or professionalism, and felt I'd more likely cause myself grief rather than learn anything new. I had been an amateur UFO investigator myself from 1966 to 1975 and had thought the field was getting a little wacky even then. It appears it has gotten only worse in the intervening years. I was a member of APRO's New York state chapter, and remained with APRO when many of its members separated from APRO to form MUFON in 1969. I left APRO soon after they refused to publish the results of Travis Walton's failed polygraph test results in 1975, but immediately published the one he finally passed. MUFON began with poor credibility, and APRO lost its credibility with the Walton case, and I left both APRO and the UFO field altogether in 1975 as a result. I just wasn't interested in playing games.

I then emailed a couple of the 'name' skeptics, Robert Sheaffer and Phil Klass to be specific, and offered a brief outline of events, but each said pretty much the same thing, that they got a lot of claims similar to mine and that without something more concrete than my say-so, they'd have to politely decline involvement. I fully understood this when I put myself in their position of receiving outlandish claims from a complete stranger.

I decided to research the medical aspects of the case which had turned up: bioengineering, bone mass density loss, human neural functions, xenotransplantation, etc. I spent a couple weeks online, compiling related data into Word files to review as a whole. Nothing I read brought the mystery into any closer focus for me and I began to despair of ever learning more. Then, in late August 2003, I received a telephone call from a man identifying himself as FBI Special Agent Charles Jameson of the Richmond VA Field Office. He asked if I would volunteer to speak with him concerning my FOIA requests of earlier in the year. He assured me I was not under any duress to do so, was not under any sort of official investigation, and should feel free to refuse if I wished. I agreed to speak with him, but indicated I was quite a long distance from his Richmond, Virginia offices. He informed he was scheduled to be at Camp Lejeune, the US Marine Corps base in Jacksonville, NC, in mid-September and suggested we meet at that time. Comforted by his lack of being in any sort of hurry, I agreed, and we set plans to meet at a Wendy's in Jacksonville on the last day of his visit there.

On Friday, September 19, 2003, I met with Special Agent Jameson at the Wendy's restaurant on North Marine Blvd in Jacksonville, NC. I had thought this was just an easy-to-find place to meet and that we'd then go to a more private location to conduct his interview, but he was content to stay there at Wendy's, and indeed, bought my lunch for me. We sat in a booth at the rear of the restaurant and Agent Jameson wasted no time. He simply asked me what my interest was in the four research and development firms for which I
had submitted FOIA requests. Anticipating this, I told him that while installing tech manual updates at these firms I had noticed that security at one of the firms was provided by Blackwater USA, a NC-based paramilitary private security firm, and I was curious at to why a security outfit that only contracts with government and military was now providing security for a private medical research firm. It was my hope that he would assujme I was one of those people who felt that the existence of a secret paramilitary organization like Blackwater warranted all sorts of conspiracy fears, and that I was a protester against the war in Iraq where Blackwater has a heavy presence. It was my hope he'd believe I was interested in Blackwater, not in the business of any of the four facilities for which I had submitted FOIA requests.

I gained some insight into how little he knew of my involvement with the four firms when he showed surprise that I'd actually visited and entered all four on work-related duties. This was no secret - I had signed into each firm's visitor's logs - but it showed his interest in me was spurred only by my FOIA requests. He seemed a bit perturbed by this new information and jotted down a rough outline I provided him of my firm-to-firm itinerary. He seemed satisfied that my interest in these firms was limited to their use of Blackwater USA for security and asked me no questions concerning any projects the firms may be working on. I asked him why he was interested in me and he said it was a routine security check made necessary by anti-terrorist protocols (in September 2003, 9/11 had occurred just two years earlier, the war in Iraq was only 6 months old, and the presence of Blackwater was not as yet widely known). He said that the four firms - Nextran, Xantos, Streck Labs, and GTC Biotherapeutics - were all subcontractors for assorted research programs for the US federal government and anyone showing undue or unclear interest would be approached and simply asked about it. I told Agent Jameson that I had heard a rumor that Blackwater USA founder Erik Prince, former Navy SEAL and current Republican activist, had channeled hundreds of thousands of dollars to President Bush's reelection campaign, and further, that he had been rewarded with several no-bid government contracts to provide security all over the US and world. I intimated that I thought this to be highly unethical and wanted to develop information on such wrong-doing before next year's (2004) presidential election. If Agent Jameson didn't buy this, he did not let on.

I will say that my entire interaction with Agent Jameson was pleasant and polite, that there was no intimidation, veiled threats, nor hint of any trouble coming my way, and I'd felt no sense of having risked anything. He did appear to be satisfying his stated task to conduct a routine security-related interview. He made no threats, nor did he tell me to do or not do anything. He thanked me for my time, gave me one of his business cards, left the restaurant, and that was that. I let go of my earlier concerns that I had brought trouble unto myself with my FOIA requests. I felt relieved - until I went home.

When I returned to my home on Ocracoke in the Outer Banks, all was as I left it except for one thing - the set of four FOIA request replies was gone from the top of my desk. I searched my home and my car to no avail. They were simply gone. Nothing else was missing or out of place.

On top of my desk, right where I'd left it, was the manila file folder of all the internet articles I'd printed off addressing all the medical aspects involved at the four firms. The folder lay open to a printout of an article on Vanderbilt University's Center for Space Physiology and Medicine. I had only skimmed the first page of the article and do not recall placing it on top of the pile of at least two dozen various articles and printouts.

The article addressed all the assorted physiological problems that happen to the human body while engaged in the weightlessness of space flight: neural problems, heart problems, problems with blood pressure regulation and chronic fatigue, and so on, and there, near the end of the list of problems involved with prolonged space flight, I saw the section title that brought it all into focus for me: "Prevention of Bone Loss During Manned Space Flight". This article has now been moved to the following link:

http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/gcrc/space/

All the areas of research and development with which the four firms were involved were also areas where humans experienced severe health issues whenever engaged in long-term weightlessness, that is to say, when involved in long-term space flight. The US government had contracted with the four firms - and no doubt with many other firms unknown to me - to find solutions to the problem of long-term space travel.

I found this realization exciting, but no real surprise - standard research for any country with a space program like NASA's - until I remembered that one of the firms was trying to engineer the human brain and nervous system to be capable of a sort of hibernation or suspended animation, while another firm was using the biomaterials of other species to engineer other remedial changes in the human physiology to address other health problems associated with long-term space flight, and the kicker was that sole reference to the mysterious term: "xenosolaric", describing biomaterials, living matter, from a species apparently not from this solar system!

I do not know it to be absolutely true, and I certainly cannot prove it, but my ultimate theory as to what is happening is this:

1. The US government is trying to develop what is essentially a new species of human being better suited for long-term space travel.

2. That these space travel plans must be of sufficient length and distance to require that these genetically reengineered human astronauts be placed in some sort of hibernation or suspended animation for the duration of the flight, lest they suffer excessive physiological damage and impairments.

3. Some of the biomaterial used has originated from a living source not native to our solar system, a living being more adapted to the deleterious effects of long-term space travel.

4. Since we are already technologically capable of space travel within our solar system, the plan must be to travel to some other solar system, the nearest being over four light years away.

Implications:

1. We have had some level of contact with some form of life from outside our solar system, though that contact may have been an interstellar 'phone call,' so to speak, rather than face-to-face visits here on Earth.

2. We have obtained the technology required for interstellar space flight at speeds respective of the human life span and human physiology - or of the new physiology of the reengineered new humans.

3. We have also obtained technological assistance in how to hybridize biomaterials from outside our solar system into the human physiology.

4. Popular culture allegations of alien abductions and alien/human hybrids are almost certainly untrue, but are coincidentally similar to a genuine hydridization project being conducting not by aliens on humans, but by humans on humans, using alien biomaterials and alien assistance, all towards the end goal of enabling humans to be physically capable of long-term, interstellar space flight.

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It's mid-November 2007 now. I'm an old man, 66 years old and none too healthy, though I expect I'll creak along for another decade or so, God willing. I haven't the legs to pursue this any further than I have. Everything I've written out above was known to me four years ago. I've done nothing to learn more, mostly out of self-interest - I can't risk losing the business of my free-lance tech writing clients, which provides nearly half my retirement income. I don't know what more I could do. I won't again risk drawing the attention of the FBI or some other federal agency who might again break the sovereignty of my own home.

I've begun treatment for a heart condition during the past year, nothing serious, but enough to remind me of my own mortality. I'm alone in this world, having lost my wife many years ago. We had no children. I have many friends, but none who would consider what I've written here as anything more than the lunatic ramblings of a lonely old man. I do not wish to die and let all this disappear into the dust of the ages, so I've written it up and dumped it in your lap, quite rudely I must admit, and quite without your permission. I did not want to waste it on the current set of talking head nitwits who make up what currently passes for "ufology", each of them wrestling over media microphones and cameras, all trying to be The Next Big Thing, all about self-promotion at the cost of honest investigation. If I gave this to modern day ufologists, they'd only screw it up. They'd release it immediately in order to make themselves the first to disclose - they'd serve their own needs first, in other words. I want it to find its way into the hands of someone who is genuinely interested in the whole "are there aliens?" question, someone interested solely for the sake of natural human curiosity, someone not likely to read my account and ask this as their first question: "How can I make some money off of this?" I felt you to be as good a choice as anyone.

I don't care what you do with it. Throw it in the trash, send it to the president, whatever. Just so long as it is off of my desk and out of my heart, for it has become a terrible burden to believe one has uncovered such wondrous and amazing things, and yet, to fear sharing it with any other living soul. I feel honored to have had such events occur in my lifetime, but I am clearing my desk, my computer, my files -everything- of any reference to it. Know this one thing well - it is all 100% true, as accurate an account as I can make.

The story of these events is yours to have and to hold. Make of it what you will.

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Will Sheephogan · Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 624 Location: Pahrump Nevada

First comments from my email appearing;

From my bro -in-law. Someplace in Texas, doing something secret.....with computers.

**Carol Nistri** · Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3354

oh man,does this mean hes busted? Hey,you,the guy that sent me this,if you faked this for ha has then good for you you must be laughing your bass off.However,Im also disappointed that you chose me to fool,I thought we were at least cyber friends.

**TheScamDetective** · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 1351 Location: California

It reads more like a poorly written novel!!
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**Carol Nistri** · Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3354

poorly written Scam,wow,your the very first one thats read this and said it was poorly written,I thought it was nearly brilliant,but hey,what do I know.

**Skeptical** · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject:

Most people here know I work in Information Technology (since 1983 in fact). The thing that bothers me about this story is how easily the author found the things he discovered. I realize computer security is a myth - anything I can make to secure a system can eventually be broken. But, the author was clearly not making a concerted effort to hack into the system. He pretty much nonchalantly stumbled across this information in not one but four companies - and he was so cool, he managed to do this while under surveillance. That is one lucky guy and he's got ice-water in his veins to boot.

The other thing that bothers me is that it is highly unlikely that a manufacturer would send a tech writer out to their clients to install documentation updates. It would be much cheaper and efficient for them to develop a piece of update software which can be burned to a CD or encrypted and sent via e-mail. In a high-security environment, this approach would be even more likely, simply because you don't want outsiders schlepping around your facilities or your computer systems.

Now, I am not saying unequivocally that it could not have happened in the way the author described. But after years of consulting with more than a dozen different client companies (including Wright-Patterson AFB), it just doesn't seem likely.

S
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Jeremy Vaeni · Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 471 Location: New York

Okay I'll play devil's advocate here...it's also highly unlikely that a small town doctor could suddenly have meetings with CIA peeps and politicians and gather a bunch of military people to speak out on disclosure but somehow in the not-so-distant past Dr. Greer pulled it off. I think he's a phony and a fraud but he did, in fact, do that.

And, if I'm not mistaken, the producers of the original Tim Burton "Batman" lied their way to the top. They pretended to be big-shot producers, someone bought the con, and before you know it they were what they claimed.

Sometimes it happens that way.

As for Wikipedia...I cannot advocate for the devil on that one. Facts are facts in this case so that's where it falls apart IMO.
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**Carol Nistri** · Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3354

you know whats so good about this,no one is absolutely certain this couldnt have happend.

**Skeptical** · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:46 am Post subject:

It may very well have happened, Carol, but, as I mentioned over on Brand X forums, the entire story's strangeness hangs on a single word - xenosolaric. It is possible that the author made it up. It is also possible that the researchers used the word because they liked the sound and implications of it, but the author's catholic translation of the word may have little to do with its actual meaning. I've worked with computer systems with acronyms like UFO and SLUT - nothing to do with their actual function - just a bunch of bored IT guys entertaining themselves.

Lastly, it may be a real word the meaning of which is just being misconstrued. Xenosolaric may refer to lifeforms that do not require sunlight. Scientists have found a number of such animals here on Earth which live deep in caves, deep in Antarctic ice and even in the black depths of ocean trenches. I can see that scientists involved in studying long-term spaceflight might be interested in such animals, simply because astronauts will have to survive in the relative darkness of space. It's already been determined that the human psyche is affected by the shorter days of winter - how much more so in space (especially in the outer reaches of the solar system or even in interstellar space)?

So bottom line, there is really only a thread of strangeness to this story - an even that is speculation on the part of the author. Knowing the author (at least in a general sense) this doesn't make sense to me because this person did not strike me in the least as one given to speculation or drawing tenuous conclusions.

S
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**Carol Nistri** · Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3354

Skeptical,how did he find his way here,I noticed most people accepted your invitation to come here but this guy just showed up?

Will Sheephogan · Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 624 Location: Pahrump Nevada

Since there was a question at Peanuts on the gender of the writer, I ran 2000+ words of the text through the Gender Genie algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel. There was a 500 point spread, comfortably 'male'. I don't really like to over analyze things like this so I sent it to the company's in question to get their response... Also,I have a buddy that is checking the science. Should have something back by the 15th of December or so.
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**Skeptical** · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject:

Frankly, Carol, I've sent out any number of invitations to people who I think would contribute to the discussions here at Department 47. I don't know that I specifically sent one to the author of this story, but, most likely, I did.

You might find it interesting that I did some quick date checking and this person showed up at Department 47 a couple weeks before I opened discussions with the fine folks over at Skeptomania. That would lead me to conclude that he is not associated with them. My apologies to the folks over there. My apologies to the author as well.

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**TheScamDetective** · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 1351 Location: California

It just seems too co-incidental that he had "accidental" access to either "all" the files or "some" of the high security files at more than one place. Plus, he had enough time to read and absorb the info each time.
ONCE..perhaps....more than once...doubtful, imo.
He said he writes or updates "how to" manuals.
I could be wrong, but I would think that even if he "accidently" got into high security files, they would have ways of knowing those files had been opened and by whom.
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**Skeptical** · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject:

It depends on how paranoid the computer operation is, Scam. There is software that will track every keystroke and every mouse click - but not every place uses it. As for file access, it is normal to see the date and user ID of the most recent update, but not necessarily the last access (read).

The thing to remember is that most places have distributed computer networks now. That means not all the data is kept in one place and no single person has access to all places. Some highly secure systems and databases are not on the network at all. One company may have data dispersed over hundreds of servers, all of which require security privileges. As noted, the really sensitive stuff is pretty much invisible.

Think of the Brit who was charged with hacking into the Department of Defense systems to look for UFO info. First, he didn't find anything he was looking for and, second, he got caught. So here was a skilled and motivated hacker who is facing serious jail time and he got bupkis for his efforts. All that means is that it is extremely unlikely that a guy off the street is going to be able to stumble across related sensitive data in four disparate locations.

S
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