EMP and UFO

 Annapolis Bay Bridge Sightings

EMP REPORT

Re:  Washington Post

       Sunday, May 15, 1988

       Page A-19

       by George C. Wilson (Staff Writer)

PENTAGON TO CURTAIL ELECTOMAGNETIC TESTS

(Environmental Impact Study Required for Experiments 

Involving a Type of Radiation)

SPECIAL REPORT: WFBR 1300 AM - BOB OECHSLER

     We've been reporting our investigations over the past several

weeks into the activities surrounding the Bay Bridge UFO Sightings

in Annapolis and our inquiries into the possible interest these

UFO's might have in this area.

     Our theory was that perhaps they may have more than a 

passing interest in the EMP tests (electromagnetic pulse) that we

discovered were being conducted in the area.  It was reported

that MORE THAN A MILLION FISH WERE KILLED in the Chesapeake

Bay during one of these tests early this year.  We reported that

a suit had been filed in federal court against the government to 

stop the testing.  Discussions with officials at EPA resulted in a plea 

of ignorance.  An official with the Navy indicated that the EMP

tests were probably the result of degaussing of ships in the Bay.

     Today in the Washington Post it was announced that The Defense

Department, under a legal agreement reached Friday night, must

stop or moderate its electromagnetic pulse experiments at 

laboratories in Maryland, Virginia, Alabama and New Mexico 

until the government determines whether the energy is harming

people and wildlife.

       The article goes on to say that electromagnetic pulse (EMP)

is one type of radiation generated by nuclear explosions.  The 

Pentagon has been simulating EMP to determine how to protect

the circuitry in its planes, tanks and ships from being disabled

by it.  The Soviet Union, according to duscussions with the Pentagon,

is far along on a "zap gun" that would use EMP radiation to kill

troops and disable vehicles, and the Pentagon is interested in

developing a similar weapon.

     The Justice Department, representing the Pentagon, reached the

agreement this weekend with the Foundation on Economic Trends,

an environmental group that sued on the grounds that the

experiments were proceeding without the government first assessing

their potential harm.  The foundation had taken steps to question

two employees of a Woodbridge, Virginial laboratory constructing

EMP generators, about their environmental concerns and the 

alleged suppression of documents when the Justice Department

suddenly decided to settle the case.

     The settlement states that the Navy's EMP facilities at Patuxent,

Maryland Naval Air Station must be operated at low voltage, not

more than one kilovolt per meter, until the environmental risks

are assessed.  AND the Navy's Empress I EMP simulator in the 

middle of the Chesapeake Bay may not be operated at all until

the impact of its pulses is assessed.  The projected Empress II

pulse generator can not be built unless the  Pentagon first

files an environmental impact statement.

     What impact will this have on UFO activity over these areas?

Only time will tell.

Bob Oechsler - UFO Reports - WFBR  1300