TLDR: Bill Moore had it wrong. In 1939, Atomic pioneer, Enrico Fermi delivered a lecture for the NRL. Townsend was subsequently assigned to the Philadelphia Naval Yard, working in the hydraulic power plant there. He did such an excellent job that the Director of the Yard wrote to the Navy, asking th...

Townsend habitually referred to his business acquaintances by the names of their location. Thus when he wrote to Jo, that he met with, or intended to meet with Prescott and Willaims he was likely referring to individuals in the NW corner of Arizona. The population centers there are Prescott, William...

Paul, thanks for playing! Sorry for the wall of words. I have years of pent up Townsend talk, patiently waiting for my wits to grow sharper. I am not sure if Winterhaven was a complete misdirection. I recall tracking a seemingly related contract from initial study until it was swept out the Black do...

San Antonio: an alternate theory. After “meeting” Townsend through Paul and Linda, I began researching the history of clandestine signals organizations operations, beginning with Elizabeth Friedman cracking the bootleggers code, until the end of the Cold War. Though I have an extensive library from...

Laughing at the Josephine photo. I still make that bosqiol cobbler. Thank you, Phil. Did you note that the report of the lighting project was received via radiotelephone? Quite high-tech for the time. I also smiled at the note that the pineapple growing lights, turned on for ten minutes at midnight,...

hey there, Nate. Thank you for the link. That is where I read the story originally. What a string of names, some of whom I had forgotten about! Brown most certainly moved in an overlapping Venn circle with the Stanford CIA psi research. George Leach recalled seeing plants in the basement, as part of...

Paul, Jess, Nate, Phil...it's good to see you all here again. I am a historian by virtue of my undergrad degree, but my first real job out of college was as a systems analyst for the US Navy. (There was a severe shortage of computer science graduates in 1972). I had visibility to some of the advance...

Testing