I've made a new friend on the Internet, Ira. He contacted me after reading my last article on Who's That on the Moon? Part 1. "I ran across this about six months ago, and thought you'd want to read it. It was on this website: www.AboveTopSecret.com, under LUNAR STATION ALPHA,"Ira wrote.

The author (unknown) begins:

"I have spoken on occasion recently with a man who has some connections with the Black World (Super secret extraconstitutional groups associated with the military/industrial complex) and he gave me an insight into Lunar Station Alpha. I will not identify him in any way, as I don't know his position on revealing his identity,"

"He claims Lunar Base Alpha is located at the lunar North Pole and has been manned for the past three years. If you think Area 51 is a clandestine operation, just wait until you learn about LSA. It was started about ten years ago by the Lockheed Skunk Works. Specialized vehicles were designed utilizing eccentric centrifugal force to generate constant acceleration. A one way trip to the lunar base is less than 13.5 hours. From what I've been told, the trip to Lunar Base Alpha is basically a shirt sleeve operation. No space suits are required. I was also told that two of the 'pilots' are only engineers and have never flown an airplane, yet they allegedly fly from Earth to the northern lunar hemisphere with little difficulty," the author says.

"At the Lunar Base Alpha site there is a single radio telescope, and a magnetic rail type launch system for payloads less than 250 kilograms. The mag-rail is a quarter mile long, and launches from east to west. The site at the lunar pole was supposedly chosen because of temperature differentials needed to develop electricity. I assume that has to do with areas on the lunar surface subjected to sunlight and high temperatures, versus areas of shadow and extreme cold. It is estimated that there are twenty-five individuals working there now," the article concludes.

Last week Coastal View ran a picture of a supposed mining base on the Moon. I did manage to ID that picture through Richard Hatcher Childress' book Extraterrestrial Archaeology. I found the picture in the back of that book on a page that was not numbered. The photographic mosaic was listed as being taken by NASA's/ DOD's joint effort, Clementine spacecraft. The lunar location is said to be,"37 degrees South Latitude, 193 degrees West Longitude, (167 degrees East Longitude). Right in the middle of the backside of the Moon,"Childress states. "Are these deep grooves simply faults within the huge crater? What could cause such deep grooves?" Childress asks. (And what about all those right angles?) He doesn't come right out and say it, but he is obviously hinting that perhaps this site was, or is, a mining site. And, what better location for one than "the middle of the backside of the Moon?" (Picture is available at WWW.filersfiles.com under "Moon mining?")

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