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The Suppression of UFO Technologies and Extraterrestrial Contact 289
and theoretical work he had done on electricity in space in general and the
electrical charge of the Sun in particular. He tried then to tell our academic
natural philosophers (scientists) that the Sun had a fantastic electrical
charge and that it must generate a solar wind. But to no avail. The experts
knew he was crazy. It would take almost sixty years to prove him right.
However, predicting something is not the same as discovery so the discovery
of our magnetic girdle of radiation rightfully belongs to the man
who was suspicious enough to put a geiger counter on board the satellite,
whichever technician actually thought of it.
Subsequent study showed that this belt, or belts, began in near space
about 500 miles out and extends out to over 15,000 miles. Since the radiation
there is more or less steady it obviously must receive as much radiation
from space as it loses. If not it would either increase until it fried the
Earth or decay away to nothing. Van Allen belt radiation is dependent
upon the solar wind and is said to focus or concentrate that radiation.
However, since it can only trap what has traveled to it in a straight line
from the Sun there remains a dangerous question: how much more radiation
can there be in the rest of solar space
The Moon does not have a Van Allen belt. Neither does it have a protective
atmosphere. It lies nakedly exposed to the full blast of the solar
wind. Were there a large solar flare during any one of the Moon missions
massive amounts of radiation would scour both the capsules and the
Moon's surface where our astronauts gamboled away the day. The question
is worse than dangerous—it's lethal!
In 1963 the Russian space scientists told the famous British astronomer,
Bernard Lovell that they "could see no immediate way of protecting cosmonauts
from the lethal effects of solar radiation." 4 This had to mean that
not even the much thicker metal walls used on the Russian capsules could
stop this radiation. How could the very thin metal—almost foil—we used
on our capsules stop the radiation NASA knew that. Space monkeys died
in less than ten days but NASA never revealed their cause of death.
Most people, even those interested in space, are still unaware that killer
radiation pulses through space. I believe our ignorance was caused by the
people who sell us space sagas. Sitting in front of me is a 9-x-12-inch coffee
table book titled The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space Technology,
printed in 1981. The words "Space Radiation" just do not exist on any of
its almost 300 pages. In fact with the dual exceptions of Bill Mauldin's
Prospects for Interstellar Travel published in 1992 and Astronautical
Engineering and Science written by early NASA experts, no other book I
have read even begins to discuss this extremely serious impediment to
space flights. Do I detect the fine hand of my democratic government at
work