Knowing the Future: CIA, 9/11, UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Presence Part Four

On July 28th, 1999, during the very month that Nostradamus had predicted the world would see a "great and terrible king" arrive, former US Web CEO Joe Firmage issued this statement concerning his venture to reverse engineering alien technology:

"I am hoping to receive the backing of 20 leaders of commerce. ISSO is accepting 20 ten million dollar philanthropic investments ... exclusively from those with the most ability and therefore the most responsibility to support humanity in both social good and accomplishment. If I fail to raise these funds, then ISSO will probably fail."

In little over a year, and in spite of Firmage promoting his ideas in the press, over the Internet, and on national radio in interviews with paranormal talk show host Art Bell, ISSO had faded quietly from public view.

In an interview with ZDTV's "Big Thinkers," Firmage explained his view of the secrecy behind the alleged cover-up of extraterrestrial technology:

"I'll tell you the best information I have. The best information I have is that the organization that does have, shall we say, better knowledge than the public is much smaller than you might guess. It is very small. It is also quasi-private, established over a half a century ago and essentially custodians for one of the greatest secrets of all time."

By October of 1999, the world was still here, and NASA was interested in what secrets may or may not have been passed at Firmage's International Space Sciences Organization.

The Examiner reported that NASA Special Agent Keith Tate had been calling around looking for information about ISSO meetings.

In July, Firmage had announced the appointment of a NASA Ames Research Center veteran, Creon Levit, as Director of Research for ISSO Science.

Levit, who worked for NASA on "Aerospace applications of molecular nanotechnology," had previously co-authored a paper with Dr. Jack Sarfatt.

Sarfatti was quietly working behind the scenes and across the Internet on the problem of finding a new physics to explain the strange flight behavior observed in alleged UFO sightings.

Sarfatti had spent years on the Internet writing about topics connecting conscious awareness and extraterrestrial inspired technologies, such as "sentient warp drive beyond the quantum" long before Firmage arrived on the scene.

Levit had also explored the fringe edge of nanotechnology at NASA.

One topic of interest at NASA Ames was the idea of using "swarms' of nano-robots: active materials that could in principle "change shape and exert force on their environment under software control."

Swarming technology might explain the strange morphing behavior reported by some UFO witnesses.

Levit's role at ISSO, combined with numerous physicists from Russia and elsewhere, almost certainly had set off alarm bells.

Space propulsion was not the only item of interest to the ISSO.

Alternative energy, perhaps even explosively powerful alternative energy, was also under discussion.

Rumors of a "subquantum atomic bomb" concept were among the new ideas leaking from ISSO research.

And foreign scientists were involved, including J.P. Vigier, who had been the personal assistant to one of the founders of quantum theory, and a known supporter of communism. Other foreign sources ISSO investigated made claims of unusual nuclear reactions in their experiments.

Although the NASA investigation was reported in the media, less is known about CIA's interest in Firmage's efforts.

One person who may have been interested in the "sources and methods" behind ISSO research was Dr. Ron Pandolfi.

By 1999, Pandolfi was already well known for his involvement in official investigations, as well as alternative topics, like UFOs.

According to a 2002 Congressional Research Service report, "A CIA analyst, Ronald Pandolfi, had reportedly prepared a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on how Hughes may have helped improve China's missile capabilities in reviewing the explosion of a Long March rocket in January 1995 ... Pandolfi, briefed the Senate Intelligence Committee on what he had found ... the CIA then allegedly alerted Hughes about Pandolfi's briefing, reportedly according to an internal CIA cable dated Sept. 23, 1998. The committtee then asked Attorney General Janet Reno for a criminal investigation into whethe the CIA improperly obstructed a Senate invesigation."

A story by Kenneth Timmerman reported, "After Pandolfi testified in closed session before Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), he was removed from the China division and put to work on developing alternative energy sources.

And then Joe Firmage arrived on the scene.

The mystery surrounding so many persons involved in both intelligence work and alternative physics attracted the attention of journalists investigating the secret world of black budget government research.

Nick Cook, author and aerospace journalist for Janes Information Group in the UK wrote to me, "What intrigues me in this whole business are the connections ... I wonder why so many of these names keep recurring in these peripherally related -- but deeply weird --- orbits."

The connections go even deeper, and twist and wrap around seemingly disconnected threads.

In September 2005, I contacted Dan T. Smith, the civilian associate of Dr. Pandolfi. Smith had claimed his friend at CIA seemed to have prior knowledge of the events of September 11th, 2001.

"I understand that you have gone to the FBI with this information?" I asked.

"Correct. On about 9/19/01 I met with a female agent right outside the Baltimore FBI office and gave her my and Ron's particulars and a synopsis of what had transpired between us in the previous two weeks. She took notes and said they would handle it. They would have already been aware of my being part of Ron's special domestic collection effort.

On that same day I also contacted Chris Straub, former ranking member on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, with whom Ron and I had previously met."

Six weeks prior to Mr. Smith's trip to FBI, dream-psychic Chris Robinson, who was under observation by Professor Gary E.R. Schwartz at the University of Arizona, had a nightmare of planes crashing into buildings.

Only this nightmare repeated, until the fateful events of September 11th.

I wondered if CIA had been monitoring Schwartz and Robinson and the nightmare that foreshadowed 9/11.

I wondered if anyone had paid attention to the DIA psychics spies and their warnings of planes used as weapons of mass destruction, nearly twenty years earlier.