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America's Secret Space Program and the Alien Connection: Solar Warden

Veiled in Shadows, Guarding the Stars—The Silent Sentinels of a Cosmic Frontier

By taylor lindaniPublished 8 months ago 20 min read
Beyond classified corridors and whispered conspiracies, a fleet moves unseen—charting the depths of space, shrouded in secrecy. If Solar Warden exists, what truths lie beyond Earth’s horizon?

Gary McKinnon's stepfather was into science fiction and space travel and this rubbed off on Gary when he was only 12 years old he joined bufora the British UFO research Association but it all came together when Gary was 13 and had his own UFO sighting he saw a bright red light in the sky that went from Horizon to Horizon in about five seconds at first he thought it was a meteor but it was moving too slowly and erratically he said it moved through the sky in a waving motion like a dolphin bouncing in and out of the water oh you know what space Dolphins move that way on purpose really I only said because they wanted to see him make a face like he smelled the foot as time went on Gary became convinced that governments around the world especially the United States government had evidence that UFOs and aliens were real but this evidence was being withheld from the population of course they withhold it and thank God they do well we'd be out of a jab Amen to that well Gary McKinnon was an expert in computers and networking and worked as a systems administrator even though he was good at his job he was bored with it his real passion was UFOs a passion that was becoming an obsession and if the government was hiding information about UFOs he was going to do something about it Idol fins on a Devil's Playground that's something I teach you on my guppies Gary knew that both NASA and the U.S Department of Defense used Windows which he described as a operating system using skills he learned as assisted men he wrote a program to do one simple thing check the passwords of all computers on a network he wanted to know if they used the word password as a password or if they used no password at all his program ran for a year and found hundreds of wide open government computers to this day he insists he wasn't hacking or attacking the computer systems he said it was more like going fishing for information that phrase is a microaggression save it for Twitter eventually Gary found computers inside the U.S Navy U.S space command and NASA but he didn't find anything interesting until he stumbled across aliens not exactly what did he find he found a spreadsheet sometimes he was so disappointing

Gary McKinnon had accessed some of the most highly classified files in the US government most of what he found was pretty boring lots of Staff reports Department memos mostly just bureaucratic paperwork but Gary found a spreadsheet on a US Navy server that caught his eye it was called non-terrestrial officers and contained a list of names he was looking at a list of people's stations somewhere other than planet Earth the non-terrestrial offices could be humans serving on another planet oh a non-human serving on his planning well that's true but in this case Gary was pretty sure that these were humans because the list showed officer transfers from one ship to another so Gary looked for the ships in the U.S naval registry let me guess the ships wear it on the list they were not they appeared to belong to a secret Fleet a fleet operating in space but that wasn't even the most interesting thing that he found a spreadsheet is just words but you know what's worth a thousand of those a picture a picture Gary McKinnon had heard the testimony of a woman named Donna Hare she was a former NASA employee who worked at the agency for years she said she saw quite a few UFOs in NASA satellite photos but the photos both physical and digital were always altered to remove the UFOs from the images oh you don't say in the 1980s Donna was working for NASA at Johnson Space Center specifically she worked in the highly secure area known as building number eight one day Donna stopped by a co-worker's office about something completely different when she walked in this co-worker had a satellite image on his computer screen he showed her a white cigar-shaped object he asked her what she thought it could be she said it might be a blob on the Emulsion or a scanning defect but then he pointed to something that made Donna have to catch her breath the object was casting a shadow on the ground so whatever it was it was real Gary was intrigued by the story and thought Donna Hare was telling the truth since he already had access to NASA's computers he wrote a program to search for the image he narrowed his list of hundreds of computers down to just a few inside building number eight naturally they had blank passwords so he logged into them one by one most of these machines had empty desktops but one computer had folders named raw filtered processed and unprocessed this was exactly how Donna described the computer in building number eight so this was the one the folder labeled unprocessed contained an image but the file was huge so Gary couldn't download it so he tried to view it on the remote desktop so Gary McKinnon clicked the file and watched as the image appeared pixel by pixel line by line at first he saw nothing but blank space but then the hemisphere of the planet began to form and then he saw clouds and then about two-thirds of the way down he saw what he was looking for a spaceship Gary saw a large silver cylinder completely smooth no rivets or seams of any kind but a few seconds after opening the file Gary noticed the mouse on the remote computer move but he wasn't moving it uh-oh The Jig Is up whoever was sitting at the computer in building number eight turned off their network connection and Gary was disconnected oh did he get a screenshot nope no time so the good news for Gary McKinnon was his suspicions were approved correct the bad news the US government was on to him

is this a UFO and he's smiling at me and he says I can't tell you that what I knew he meant was it was but he couldn't tell me so I said what are you going to do with this information and he said well we always have to airbrush them out before we sell them to the public and I was just amazed that they had a protocol in place or getting rid of UFO pictures Gary McKinnon stumbled onto more evidence of what he saw in the file of non-terrestrial officers evidence of a secret space program within the U.S military and this secret space program isn't new there were clues about it going back over 50 years in the 1960s the U.S Air Force had a program that ran in parallel with NASA's Mercury Gemini and Apollo programs it was called the manned orbiting laboratory or mol the mol program had its own facilities and its own staff they had uniforms and spacesuits but they were completely different from NASA's so there'd be no confusion that the mol employees worked for a completely different program the operation was so secret that not even the wives knew what their husbands were working on and wives don't need to know nothing what happens in orbit stays in orbit you've been divorced how many times three cheap the mol program was created to develop a spy station in space but it was canceled by President Richard Nixon in 1969. what was it right but with Gary McKinnon stumbled onto was something far bigger than some cold war spy program after Gary found the cigar-shaped UFO on the NASA computer and got caught U.S officials began to pressure the UK to help track him down in early 2002 Gary was arrested and charged with 97 counts of causing damage to U.S intelligence assets and he was accused of doing eight hundred thousand dollars worth damage the U.S government claimed he hacked into dozens of military computers and 16 NASA computers they claimed he altered and deleted files and that his activities were in the U.S government's words intentional and calculated to influence and affect the US government by intimidation and coercion these charges were very aggressive clearly the US government was concerned about what Gary found so they wanted to make an example of him and make sure no one else would ever try to access a single document mentioning UFOs Gary McKinnon spent 10 years defending himself against these charges and trying to stay in the UK if he were charged in the United States he'd be facing up to 7 years in federal prison the media picked up the story but downplayed the UFO connection McKinnon was described as a hacker trying to harm the Pentagon the only major publication to mention the UFO side of the story was the UK Daily Mail Gary said this publicity is one of the things that saved him eventually his case landed on the desk of UK Home Secretary Theresa May would eventually go on to be prime minister she ruled that McKinnon could not be taken back to the U.S because he suffered from Asperger's now Gary McKinnon did break the law there's no disputing that but he also did the U.S a favor using the hacker named solo he sent messages to U.S agencies telling them their security was weak he felt he was morally Justified I thought if this technology really does exist it should be used for the good of all of us you know um free energy um or at least very cheap if this has been kept secret why because obviously that'll be used against people if it's being kept secret rather than furthering Humanity um but at the time there was a very popular phrase banded about called heating or eating old age pensioners had to choose whether to pay for their heating or pay to have food and then sit on their chair with a blanket and eat their food Gary McKinnon's case finally ended in 2012 and he became a celebrity in the UFO Community he had exposed or at least said it exposed government knowledge of an alien presence but his case proved there was something much more Sinister going on this wasn't something as simple as the US government covering up UFOs this was proof that there was a highly organized secret space program in place this program has a staff of thousands it has a fleet of spaceships it has weapons more advanced than anything currently in use and this program has a name solar Warden

Another incident I knew someone in quarantine with the Apollo Astronauts he told me that the Apollo astronaut saw crap on the moon when we landed the astronauts are told to keep this quiet they're not allowed to talk about it at the same time Gary McKinnon was snooping NASA's servers rumors were going around about a secret space program named solar Warden solar warden came out of the program called the Strategic Defense Initiative but this was a Reagan Era defense program nicknamed Star Wars by the media now this program has multiple space platforms similar to aircraft carriers its mission is to scan the solar system for unauthorized alien intrusions and Report those intrusions to the U.S space force according to the rumors the U.S and other nations have treaties that say only a small number of alien visitors are allowed on Earth at a time but the aliens had been breaking the treaties for decades at Torrance everybody knows those damn arturians can't be trusted that sounds kind of racist save it for Twitter touche as The Story Goes Reagan was briefed on the aliens by military and civilian leaders he immediately became determined to protect the Earth from the alien presence now how do we know this Reagan said so himself in 2007 Harper Collins published the Reagan Diaries this book is an insight into the president's daily life in the White House his entries aren't written like a memoir they're just thoughts that Reagan jotted down throughout the day and on page 334 dated June 11 1985 the president made the following entry lunch with five top space scientists it was fascinating space truly is the Last Frontier and some of the developments they're in are like science fiction except they are real I learned that our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people whoa to give a little big one slip eh he sure did now if you know the space program this entry makes no sense the maximum capacity of a NASA space shuttle is eight people at the time the entire fleet was only four even if all the shuttles were used at the same time which they never were that's only 32 people so what's Reagan talking about later people suggested Reagan might not have been talking about space shuttles at all maybe he was referencing a program that was supposedly canceled in 1979 a program to develop a space plane called star acre oh like the James Bond movie no that was Moonraker oh right uh hey you know that girl at the end of the movie had braces yep I thought so too but she didn't that's a Mandela effect can't get my brain to accept it I can't either anyway the star raker unlike the shuttle could carry a lot of people it was bigger than a 747 it could carry a payload of 200 000 pounds more than enough to put 300 people on a space platform so it's possible that Reagan was right and solar Warden Is Real at least technically the first reference to a secret space program with the name solar Warden is from early 2006 an anonymous post appeared on a bulletin board called the open Minds forum we have a space Fleet which is codenamed solar Ward there were as of 2005 eight ships equivalent to aircraft carriers and 43 protectors which are space blades I've almost lost recently to an accident Mars orbit while it was attempting to resupply the multinational Colony within Mars This base was established in 1964 by American and Soviet teamwork not everything is as it seems we have visited all the planet in our solar system at a distance of course except Mercury we've landed on Pluto and a few moons these shits contain Personnel from many countries and have sworn an oath to the world government the technology came from back engineering alien disc wreckage and at times with alien assistance for a few years solar Warden flew mostly under the radar in UFO circles but in 2012 solar Warden was back in November of that year a Huffington Post article by reporter Darren perks was the first major news article about solar Warden it was also the first to tie in the story of Gary McKinnon the article claimed that the program began in 1980 and operates under the U.S naval Network and space Operations Command the nnsoc the space fleet has eight massive carriers each over 600 feet long each carrier is staffed by 300 people and protected by about 40 Scout ships and these ships are used to intercept alien Intruders according to the report there are permanent multinational bases on the moon and Mars that are supplied by the carriers so that's why we never went back to the Moon right at least not publicly Darren perks personally investigated the solar Warden story in 2010 he was contacted by a whistleblower in the U.S Department of Defense this contact confirmed that solar Warden is real while conducting a foia freedom of information request with the dod Department of Defense in 2010 I had a much unexpected response by email from them which read about an hour ago I spoke to a NASA rep who confirmed this was their program and it was terminated by then President Obama he also informed me that it was not a joint program with the dod the national rep informed me that you should be directed to the Johnson Space Center for your manager so assuming perks wasn't lying the email response clearly indicated solar Warden existed or something like it did but was canceled by President Obama in the early 2000s perks never followed up on his original art vehicle and as you might expect neither NASA nor the dod has ever mentioned it so if all we have a report from Anonymous people that's not much proof of solar Warden but in 2007 we'd get more evidence and this time they're pictures

in 2007 a British amateur astronomer named John Leonard walson started using a new technique film the night sky by attaching special equipment to his telescope he records objects in visible infrared and UltraViolet spectrums he then takes the clearest frame from each band and combines them this process is called luminous layering wallson first used the technique to view the space shuttle and the International Space Station and experts confirmed that his technique works but things got really weird when he started recording videos of stars in the sky Watson discovered that many of the stars are not stars at all they're in fact massive highly reflective space platforms exactly the type that solar Warden uses some platforms have solar panels other have what looks like weapons attached to the structures he said some of the objects look like spaceships from Star Trek that might be used by the Federation or Klingons oh oh what a toilet paper and Captain Kirk have in common please don't they both fly past Uranus and wipe out the Klingons oh Wilson seemed to be confirming the presence of a vast Fleet in the space above us exactly a solar Warden Believers claimed oh the government probably hates this guy yet they sure do not long after releasing his images the infamous black helicopters appeared flying very close to his house foreign said that he was even being intimidated by what he called a government goon and they even got physical at one point but there's more to solar Warden than just questionable videos taken with a telescope in the mid-1980s rumors emerged of a secret government project codename Aurora Aurora is a triangle-shaped space plane the program was even covered in aviation magazines now there weren't many UFO sightings described as triangles before the 80s but now this is a common type of UFO also during this time the British Ministry of Defense opened up a highly classified office dedicated to quietly investigating UFOs one of its employees was Nick Pope Nick said on the wall of the main office was a large photograph of an object known as The Calvin UFO which was taken near Calvin England on August 4th 1990. the original photo has disappeared but it depicted an 80 foot long wedge or diamond shaped object in the sky being chased Away by a Harrier jet this happened in front of Civilian Witnesses who took the picture using the Recollections of people who had seen the actual photos computer artists later recreated the image and that was the last anyone heard about the UFO photo but in 2022 a former British intelligence officer named Craig Lindsay released a scan of what he claimed was the authentic original Calvin UFO photo it showed the diamond-shaped object the Harrier jet and the fence in the foreground almost exactly matching the artist's rendering of the scene Lindsay's photo was confirmed by experts to be authentic so it was real well no well maybe probably not the photo paper was authentic and typical for the 90s but the originals are supposed to be color photos Lindsay's is black and white also the exact location of the original Calvin UFO photo was found and the background didn't match there should be Hills and Fields and trees in the background and there just aren't now supporters say you can't see the background in the photos because it's too foggy but weather reports say the day the photo was taken was perfectly clear so whatever Lindsay's photo is it's probably not one of the originals but the original photograph was taken by two civilian hikers and for some strange reason their identities are classified until the year 2076 and the photos do match the craft developed by the Aurora project and there are plenty of witnesses who say that's exactly what the Calvin UFO really is so unless the original photos are found or we can speak to the hikers we may never know what the object really was now Skeptics of solar Warden say it's too difficult to keep such a large program secret that people who were part of the program would talk and they're right people would talk in fact they did

the Air Force official response to any reports of uh that nature is that we have no such program but there's a growing body of evidence that seems to indicate otherwise the Hypersonic aircraft to a speed of around 4 000 miles per hour if you look at it from underneath the what you see is a perfect Triangle really quite unlike anything else has ever been flown and according to Bill Sweetman there's the Air Force's secret test base in southern Nevada called Groom Lake if there is something going on a very large scale and simply denying that anything like Aurora exists leaves wide open the question of what's going on there still the Air Force says it knows nothing shortly after the solo Warden story emerged several witnesses came forward each claiming to have been a part of the secret space program one of these was Laura Eisenhower great-granddaughter of President Dwight Eisenhower she said that at an early age she'd been kidnapped and sent to other planets she claimed she was involved in a war with an alien species called the archons Andrew vasiago was another whistleblower he said he was recognized at an early age as an ideal fit for a secret space program he claimed that he used a teleporter not a spaceship to travel to Mars on many occasions and while on Mars he engaged in armed conflict with alien species and by 2015 other whistleblowers confirmed their involvement not just in a vague secret space program but specifically in a program called solar Warden Corey Goode said he was removed from his old life in the 1980s then reverse aged 20 years and recruited into a secret military program I'd like to reverse stage 20 years you and me both pal now Corey Goode described a friendly race of blue avians that were part of a super Federation of aliens the Federation is trying to help the human race fight off Alien Invaders including a reptilian race is it people from out of space yep so most of these unwanted entrances into our solar system would be more small groups of ETS or single craft that are trying to be sneaky right a little kind of slip in Marauder groups that would come in and do hit and runs to come in and take things and leave illicit people are crafty so very very crafty good said some people part of the secret space program are trying to push full disclosure trying to force the alien presence into the open by doing flybys of the International Space Station and popping up on photos and videos but disclosure still hasn't happened and solar Warden is virtually unknown to most of the population so either there's no such thing as solar Warden or a secret space program or it is true and our solar system is a far more dangerous place than any of us could have possibly imagined solar Warden and the secret space program is a major branch of ufology and because of social media it's becoming more mainstream solar Warden is covered everywhere from YouTube to tick tock to the occasional mainstream news story but is it true no well maybe um some of it Gary McKinnon is certainly a real person but he says he doesn't know anything about solar Warden or how he got associated with it he never saw that name on any document or image that he accessed it seems that the article by Darren perks in 2012 is what connected Gary to the solar Ward mythology and it's easy to understand the connection the picture of the ship McKinnon saw sounds a lot like the carrier Platforms in solar Warden stories but even if Gary McKinnon saw a picture of a UFO and I believe he did it's a leap to go from one photo to a huge secret space program conspiracy now other aspects of the story The carriers the fighters the large Crews and the guarding of the solar system these sound like the plots of well-known science fiction books and TV shows for example a spaceship moon bases and Fighters that monitor the solar system come straight from a 1970 British TV show called UFO who is that The Groovy one with the moon girls in short skirts and silver cat suits and the purple wigs that's the one mention the short skirts you did it is a great show he's really uh he's such a good day I always say I always like the uh well we're waiting he's a good uh Canyon okay snap out of it sorry the show also featured Sid the space Intruder detector its job was to scan near Earth space for alien Intruders just like solar Warden and some of the eyewitnesses like Corey Goode have been exposed as froths he was forced to testify under oath that he made the whole thing up especially the part about the blue avians helping to protect the Earth well maybe he made that but lizard people are definitely real eyewitnesses like Laura Eisenhower and Andrew basiago may be telling the truth but their stories are a hodgepodge of every science fiction Trope you can think of time travel teleportation Zero Point Energy and the list goes on now I'm not saying they're lying but I am saying they both tell very convoluted Stories the only aspect of solar Warden that holds up to any scrutiny is Gary McKinnon's personal testimony but unfortunately that's all we have his word now think of the logistics involved in something like solar warden in order for it to work every nation on Earth would have to be involved Russia China the US and really every industrialized country on earth is aware when any other country launches a rocket of any kind you couldn't put a fleet's worth of equipment into space without somebody noticing you'd also have to constantly be sending food and water and air into space to resupply the fleet or they raise their own livestock in space and they grow vegetables with Hydroponics what do you know about Hydroponics let's just stay in college I was very uh industrious so if solar Warden does exist that would mean every nation on Earth has set aside their differences and come together for a common goal that's actually a nice thought unfortunately that common goal is protecting the human race from destruction by an alien invasion now that's terrifying so I don't know if solar Warden is real but when I think about its purpose I really hope it isn't thank you so much for hanging out with us today my name is Taylor Lindani that's hecklefish greetings Earthly.Drifting between secrecy and speculation, the legend of Solar Warden lingers at the edges of plausibility—an unseen armada traversing the cosmos, operating beyond the reach of public scrutiny. Is it mere myth, or a silent truth concealed beneath classified corridors? If such a fleet exists, then our understanding of space, defense, and interstellar engagement is not just incomplete—it is deliberately obscured.

If humanity already commands the skies beyond Earth, who else shares the domain we once thought was ours alone? Let me know in the comment and don't forget to subscribe, like and thanks for reading untill next time.

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