14 October 1942, Nordhausen, Germany. The four engine Messerschmidt 264 breaks the sound barrier five years to the day before Chuck Yeager did the same in the Bell X-1. It is suspected the US did so on the same date and to discount any German records as typos, destroying Paperclip scientists morale.
1861, Corinth, Mississippi: Scottish, Swedish, German, Irish, and French soldiers join the Union Army, marking the beginning of the Civil War foreign enlistment. A Union recruiter won them over by showing off Jolly Jack, a steam-powered, 13 foot tall, bulletproof mech with two 6-barrel Gatling guns.
February 1945. Proud members of the secretive 000 Airborne “Ghost” Wing stand by their Nighthawks. They flew 10,000 feet above the B-29s, who were unaware of their presence or existence, dropping Top Secret laser guided bombs. The mass firebombing of Dresden was simply a distraction and cover story.
31 July 1971. Apollo 15 Astronaut Dave Scott snaps a photo of Jim Irwin at the base of the Apennine Mountains. After telemetering the data back to Houston, they received a message from CIA headquarters in Langley, VA, swearing them to secrecy under the threat of remotely disabling the LEM’s rockets.
7 Oct 1971: Colonel James Irwin is photographed just before Apollo 15, with a Mars patch and Mars globe. The crew did indeed go to the moon, but their “return” was pre filmed; they were actually en route to Mars on the USS Orion, and returned to Earth on 31 October 1981. Mission profile: classified.
12 April 1862: Lincoln sees off Union inventor and daredevil Fletcher Ogletree of Longbottom Labs. Using a pressurized suit of wrought iron and steel, he would be launched skyward in a hot air balloon, reaching heights of 63,000 feet. Visible is his sniperograph, the predecessor to the spy satellite
7 July 1962: Kennedy approves $10T over 10 years in B3 (“Beyond Black Budget) funding for Project Eden to put an American space station around Proxima Centauri. The Eden Prime rocket would be constructed on the far side of the moon and fueled by Helium-3. Thus, the Apollo Program would act as cover.
10 February 2020: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweets that a decade long construction plan has begun on their newest rocket. It will be a permanent structure on Mars providing housing and energy generation. SpaceX purchased Tristan da Cunha, the most isolated island on Earth, to ensure a minimal fatalities.
27 July 2018; General Atomic mobile rail gun is tested in the Nevada Test Site morning on targets up to 100 miles away. If provided with adequate capacitor banks, a rail gun shoots a projectile with no explosive warhead. The target is destroyed from the hypersonic impact, which often ignites the air
