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1997 Peru UFO Crash Retrieval - the Story of Jonathan Weygandt
Former Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan Weygandt tells Gerb in person about securing a crashed egg-shaped craft in the Peruvian jungle during Operation Laser Strike in 1997, then being seized, held about two days and threatened by a recovery team in DOE jackets. Gerb sets this beside Weygandt's earlier tapes in Greer's archive, the documented operation and the DOE's NEST teams, and reports that one named sergeant denies any such incident. His reconstruction of the radar site, the recovery from Sandia and the holding base is his own reasoning.
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1953
Camp Polk egg"HJ" describes an egg-shaped craft and small occupants at Camp Polk (Stringfield).
1996-1997
Operation Laser Strike tracking45,000 tracks and 21 aircraft forced or shot down from Apr 1996 to Apr 1997.
Mar-Apr 1997
Weygandt finds the craftA 20 m egg-shaped craft embedded in a ridge, leaking fluid, with an arm in the hatch.
1997
Weygandt held and threatenedHeld about two days and made to sign two forms by a USAF lieutenant colonel.
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On the record (5)
Operation Laser Strike tracked 45,000 targets in a year and forced down or shot down about 21 aircraft, with radars at Pucallpa, Andoas and Iquitos.DTIC study of the drug war in Peru.analysisDTICThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
Gerb confirmed that the three Marines Weygandt named are real career Marines.Gerb's own checks.analysisThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
NEST teams deploy on Citation jets with DoD aircraft support, and NEST considered deploying to Bolivia or Colombia for Mars 96 debris in 1996.NEST briefings and Richelson's Defusing Armageddon.analysisJeffrey RichelsonNational Nuclear Security Administration (NEST, OST, SRT)Sandia National Laboratories
DOE security response teams wore black fatigues in the 1980s and were trained by Wackenhut, which Inman later chaired.Records of DOE security forces; the link to Peru is Gerb's reasoning.analysisWackenhutBobby Ray Inman
DSP satellites collect hard UFO data.Bob Fish email to John Podesta (WikiLeaks); the email exists, its claim is Fish's.analysisBob Fish
Witness testimony (10)
Weygandt overheard USAF personnel in the radar center discussing objects moving in and out of the atmosphere at Mach 10 or more, and saw a colonel take the log books.His own account.firsthandThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
Sent with two sergeants to secure a downed aircraft, Weygandt found a 20 m egg-shaped craft embedded at 45 degrees in a ridge.Named firsthand witness; one named sergeant denies the incident.firsthandThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
The craft was iridescent purple-green and looked sculpted, cast no shadow except at its vents, and gave off a deep hum that died as a light around the hull stopped.His own description.firsthandThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
A clear syrup-thick fluid leaked from the craft and ate his uniform, and his leg hair never grew back.His own account.firsthandThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)Hurt by UAP: the medical files
A four-fingered arm hung from a half-open hatch.Greer cut this from the 2000 release; Weygandt confirms he told Greer.firsthandThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
Compasses spun, radios failed, and he felt a telepathic plea to help the occupants get out.Subjective experience, reported firsthand.firsthandThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
Men in black fatigues without insignia, then about 30 people in DOE jackets and protective suits from CH-47s, seized him.His account; Gerb's sessions add that the black-clad team arrived before the helicopters.firsthandThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
He was held about two days, threatened against his family, and made to sign two forms by a USAF lieutenant colonel without a name tag.His own account.firsthandThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
The holding base had armed Chinese and Germans as well as Americans.New detail from Gerb's sessions.firsthandThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
One named sergeant wrote that the operation is still classified, he knows of no unique downed aircraft, and Weygandt never deployed to Laser Strike.An affirmative denial, not a missing statement; Gerb withholds the sergeant's name.firsthanda named sergeant (withheld by Gerb)The crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
Alleged / one person's word (4)
The recovery was a DOE NEST team flown from Sandia, with CH-47s from JTF-Bravo or the 160th SOAR, and he was held at NAMRU-6.Gerb's reconstruction from documented units.speculationNational Nuclear Security Administration (NEST, OST, SRT)Sandia National LaboratoriesThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
The radar site was USAF Radar Detachment 5 at Iquitos, not Pucallpa.Gerb's reconstruction.speculationThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
The craft's rear gash came from a Hawk missile, probably Peruvian.Weygandt's own guess, not Gerb's.speculationThe crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)
At Camp Polk in 1953 "HJ" saw an egg as wide as a ranch house and medics carrying small occupants in green suits.Stringfield source known by initials; a real Lt Whitting was at Camp Polk.anonymousHJ (anonymous)HJ → Leonard Stringfield → told it