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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is a clip from Raised by Giants. You can
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
So talk to us about this Genie missile launch that
happened on July nineteenth of nineteen fifty seven in Nevada.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, that was the end result of a program, and
it was the Genie missile program. And for those of
you who don't know about it, happened to I think
the test was in July nineteenth, nineteen fifty seven, and
it was a air to air missile with a nuclear
warhead about three kilotons was its design. And so that

(00:40):
was the test. But it was getting there was the
is the story.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, so how did that happen? I had done a
little bit of research and it ties back to Eisenhower.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, it comes well, so it's the end of the
Korean War was pretty much coming to an end, and
my dad had been there as he was he flew
B twenty six as in the Korean War, he flew
with the rock Royal Republic of Korea Air Force, you know,
and traineers and stuff for them, and and so this
I think had happened in to be nineteen fifty six,

(01:11):
which was a whole long time ago, and he had
he was sort of a missile an expert on some
of the Air Force's missiles or what early parts were.
And so they've been having a real problem with this program.
It kept getting sabotaged again and again, and of course
they just figured it was the commis right. It's nineteen
fifty six, you know, the Cold War is just at

(01:32):
its peak. And so he was he was assigned to
basically to successfully complete the Genie missile project because the
other had been sabotaged so well, he was figured it
was the Commist. So what he did is he he
said a head up plan. You know, he had a
show missile, and then he had a secret missile and
the first one because it'd been sabotaged so much, so

(01:54):
he got a big open room like in the in
the facility where on the walkways you could look into
the bigger room and you could see them working on
the missile. So everybody walking down the hallways would see
the missile there, and it was it was you know,
that kind of kept it. But there was another missile
being built, the second one, and that was in a
back room that my dad only had the keys on

(02:15):
nobody knew about it except of course him and the engineers.
And so so whenever they fix the stuff on the
first missile in the in the kind of the viewing bay,
they would later sneak back to the other room and
do the same thing because he'd know it had been they
had been sabotaged right before they were going to do
testing and stuff. So anyway, so it took a while,
you know, it took several months to build the missile,

(02:36):
get it up to the get it up there. So
they were ready to go for for test firing the
next day. And my dad of course knew that that
would be the time that the saboteurs would hit. So
and and of course the public missile was the bait,
right because it's not just a it's not just to
you know, get the missile completed. It's also to catch

(02:57):
the saboteurs. And so they put it in a big
open space where it's going to be, you know, going
to be moved out tomorrow, and they started wrapping it
in tape and barrier signs and everything, so they made
it physically impossible for someone to get from you know,
those barrier signs and tape to the actual missile itself,
and then it was up on a few paletts of

(03:20):
wood right in the kind of the center of this
big room with the tape around it. And and then
of course they kind of got the guards backed off
and they weren't there, and of course they had those
on the second door where nobody could get in to
get to the to the other missile. And yeah, and
so what happened, I'll tell the story how it got
sabotaged in the middle of the night. Some guy in warehouse,

(03:41):
we'll get to more of that. It decided he needed
to get the palettes underneath the missile, at least, this
is what the story was. And so he went up
from when there was other palettes in the warehouse down below, right,
he didn't need to get them. So he went up
to there where it was in the open, and he
like tore down like all the tape and removed the
barrier sign and all the barriers. There's a lot of them, right,

(04:01):
They made it real difficult to get there. And then
of course he went in to get the pallets and
lifting the missile off, it fell over on its side
and broke itself, right, And and of course you know
the morning had come in. The missile's been damaged. The
general runs say, oh my god, my career is over.
This is over. And my dad said, no, no, no,
that was just the demo display missile. This is the
actual missile. So he took him. He took him back

(04:23):
to the back room, opening it up, and there's where
the missile was hiding. And of course all safe and sound.
The guy said, oh, my career saved all that. But
of course they took the warehouse guy and away because
my dad's just at a certain rank. And he went
he was, let's say, taken away to enhanced interrogation. And

(04:44):
that was a you know, it didn't have the nucletarve
warhead on it. That came later, right before putting it
under the plane. And so he went away, and you know,
they they did lots of enhanced enhanced interrogations on him, right,
just you know, you can imagine, right. And but the
thing was, they no matter what they researched, they couldn't
find any reason. They couldn't make a connection with the commis.

(05:07):
They researched the background, they just couldn't make any connection.
It was like somebody took over his brain and made
him go do this insane thing. Of course he was
you know, probably spent some time behind bars and everything.
But but that was the weirdest think after they briefed
my dad, you know, a month or so afterwards on
what went down, because it was successful, and I think

(05:28):
in the show notes you probably have a link where
they can actually do that. Yeah, because what they had
to do it's an air to air missiles. You fire
it and go about six miles or something and it's
set off like a three kiloton nuke to a one
kiloton move depending on what they wanted it. And originally
they said the whole thing was they're going to make
the Genie to shoot down Russian bomber bomber fleets, right

(05:51):
that are coming to attack America. But they ended up
making three thousand of them and the Russians didn't even
have a hundred bombers, right, So that's what the excuse.
And also that Soviets aren't stupid, right, they're not going
to be flying their bombers, you know, and information obviously
because they'll know about the Genie missile. Of course they did,
you know, and so and so that whole that whole

(06:12):
explanation is basically just bs. What they were really built for.
They were really built for to shoot down flying saucers,
because if you fire this thing off, it's got like
a thousand foot kill radius. I mean just the radiation
will kill you, let alone the blast of a three
kilos on nuke, right, you know, it's kind of like
with hand grenades and horseshoes and nuclear bombs. You just

(06:35):
kind of get close to to do the thing. So
it was actually designed for to shootdown flying saucers, is
what the actual purpose of that thing was. And that
was and they successfully defeated the sabotage attempts that and
so the missile was launched, and of course they they
made it and became a success. But you know that

(06:55):
that was a mystery, and it was years later, you know,
my dad had told me the story, and and there's
a lot of things that people don't talk about or
you know, it's kind of out there in a mystery
and the various let's say, extraterrestrial forces on our planet.
And I don't know if your listeners have ever heard
about it, Amesesia, I'm butchering Italian, sorry about that. Italian

(07:20):
speakers out that it's friendship in Italian It says fifty
years of Amessesia and it was it was one of
the classic Are you familiar with this, with this kind
of sighting that happened in the fifties in Italy?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
No, I am not, but that was getting ready to
be My question was was your dad? Did your dad
tell you about this whenever you were young? No?

Speaker 1 (07:46):
No, this is this was this was figured out later,
because this is years later when I was doing research.
You know, the modus operandi of the people that sabotaged,
the sabotage the the Genie missile, it was, it was
there kind of what these guys did. So it's probably

(08:06):
these guys and of course they do have flying saucers
and shooting, getting shooting and having a missile that can
take out of flying saucer is not a good idea.
And I'll kind of give you a little breakdown of
the case. Probably maybe if you haven't heard it, maybe
some of your listeners will happened in like the mid
nineteen fifty six of it the same time, you know,
my dad was doing his thing, having that whole Genie

(08:26):
missile project. Go there, and there's two books. This is
the one you probably want to read first fifty years
of Friendship or a messia. Sorry about the butchery there
and the bit looking back fifty years. You know, they
realized that they were being you know, manipulated and kind
of used, and this was a serious operation. You know

(08:47):
people talk about, oh they touch you feel it. They
actually spent over the extraterrestrials provided Basically it was this stuff.
The book's written by Stefano Breccia and he's the author
of the book, and he knew he was in contact.
The main protagonist or contact guy is a Bruno sam Cccia,

(09:07):
and he was the main contact. Those are probably butchered
Italian names. And so this guy, Stefano, he just basically
wrote like a book of what really went down. He
was sort of like the recorder of it all. And
so the first book he made was a mass Contacts.
That's kind of that was written right after the events,
and it's sort of like a just just a countdown

(09:31):
on what went down. And the fifty years is afterwards
they kind of realized, you know, they were having him
do lots of different weird things, and some of them
like the world depends on you doing this and getting
a So there was like dozens of people involved. Right,
this is not just a small contact. And they had
these human looking aliens. They looked like humans except they
were extremely
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