AVCO Mark IV Re-entry Vehicle, used in the Atlas 8F and Bluegill Triple Prime tests
Something crashed from the sky - sparking an urgent retrieval mission - after that, the world changed.
On
October 26, 1962, the United States conducted the Bluegill Triple Prime nuclear test as part of
Operation Fishbowl, a subset of
Operation Dominic.
The Bluegill Triple Prime test detonated a nuclear warhead 48 kilometers above Earth to study how high-altitude explosions affect ballistic missile systems.
Decades later, newly declassified evidence suggests something far more extraordinary —
a possible collision with an unidentified object, which I believe was a craft advanced non-human origin.
Footage, scientific reports, and naval recovery logs hint at a dramatic event where nuclear weapons technology intersected with the unknown.
This test was a key Cold War experiment.The XW-50-X1 warhead was built to emit high-energy X-rays, designed to disable missile re-entry vehicles by causing intense heat and internal damage, a process called thermo-mechanical spall.
While the test aimed to push missile defense technology, the evidence shows it may have done much more.
A mysterious object following the Avco Mark 4 re-entry vehicle appears to have been destroyed, raising questions about what really happened that day — and what was in the sky with us.
Comment: Former presidential advisor Harald Malgren (the "shadow Kissinger"), mentioned above, posted this response on X endorsing Cruickshank's analysis of the Bluegill Triple Prime test:
I want to thank @ChrisUKSharp for publishing Geoff Cruickshank's deep dive into the events around one missile test in 1962 that I worked on in my capacity as and advisor to The Joint Chief's. He has done an excellent job of explaining the significance of the test. It helps us understand why JFK, LBJ and soon after, I myself, all rushed to visit @LosAlamosNatLab soon afterwards.
The results of this specific XW-50-X1 Oct 23, 1962 was directly reported to me as leader of anti- missile projector for JCS, and reported directly to JFK. Thus it was official input to my official task. Was that not sufficient basis for my decisions? I went to Los Alamos to verify.
When asked when he knew a UFO had been downed, Malmgren replied:
As soon as I received the report from Los Alamos in early November, at the same time as that report was made to JFK
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