1RSU
In July 2021 I wrote a weblog put up, exploring the query of what property had been obtainable to the Australian Division of Defence, which could detect Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP.) One of many property I mentioned, was No. 1 Distant Sensor Unit (1RSU) primarily based at Royal Australian Air Power (RAAF) Base Edinburgh, South Australia. Its function is radar surveillance, and area situational consciousness. 1RSU accesses a spread of sensors, together with the next.
1) Jindalee Operational Radar Community (JORN) – a set of over-the-horizon radar programs overlaying the 1,000 to three,000 kilometres vary, aimed to the north of Australia.
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| https://www.airforce.gov.au/expertise/surveillance-command-and-control/jindalee-operational-radar-network |
2. C – band radar. This commenced operation in 2017, and relies at Exmouth, Western Australia. It’s used for the detection and monitoring of objects in low earth orbit.
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| https://raafa.org.au/c-band-radar/ |
3. The RAAF Area Surveillance Telescope . This turned operational in July 2021 and can be primarily based in Exmouth, WA. It’s designed to have a look at any object in earth orbit, as much as geosynchronous orbit, which is 36,000 kilometres above the floor of the earth.
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| https://information.defence.gov.au/functionality/keeping-eye-space-traffic |
4. Area Primarily based Infrared System. (SBIRS) In a USAF Peterson Air Power Base reality sheet, I additionally discovered reference to the truth that 1RSU is the one operational unit throughout the Australian Division of Defence, charged with conducting the Australian Defence Power’s Area Presence and Area Situational Consciousness (SSA.)
So what’s the SBIRS?
“The Area-based Infrared System (SBIRS) is a constellation of built-in satellites in geosynchronous orbit (GEO) and excessive elliptical orbit (HEO,) and floor primarily based knowledge processing, and command and management facilities.”
The SBIRS is presently managed by the Distant Sensing System Directorate of the U.S. Area Power’s Area Methods Command.
Information from the satellites is downloaded by Relay Floor Stations and despatched on to the SBIRS Mission Management Station at Buckley Area Power Base (SFB), Denver, Colarado; Peterson SFB; Greeley Air Nationwide Guard Station,; and to a again up at Schriver, SFB, close to Colorado Springs.
The SBIRS can choose up nuclear explosions; satellites reflecting daylight; after burners on jet plane; forest fires; volcanoes; meteors putting the environment; re-entering satellites; airplane crashes and explosions.
The forerunner infrared detection satellites to the SBIRS, had been the Protection Help Program (DSP) satellites.
Why is that this of curiosity to UAP researchers?
The UAP literature has, every so often, mentioned infrared satellite tv for pc sensors within the context of UAP.
Vallee 1988
In his e book “Forbidden Science: Quantity 3” researcher Jacques Vallee, in a diary entry dated 28 June 1988, wrote:
“Hal [Puthoff – KB] has seen a 2-inch thick file that particulars UFO obervations by infrared satellites. ‘The objects arrive 3,000 miles from the Earth’ he informed me. ‘The satellites choose them up as they arrive close to the floor and go away the identical method as they got here in.'”
Regehr April 1994
The entrance cowl of the April 1994 (quantity 312) difficulty of the MUFON Journal headlined “Do Spy Satellites See UFOs?” Inside was an article by Ronald S. Regehr. A notice on the finish of the article said that:
“Mr. Regehr has labored for 25 years on the Protection Help Program. He wrote the efficiency/design specs for every sequence of sensor programs, the operationmal software program specs and edited the Satellite tv for pc Efficiency Experiences. He additionally ready the SED (Sensor Evolutionary Design) Familiarization Handbook, used to introduce the DSP to Air Power personnel new to this system.”
The article contends that the DSP satellites “…have detected unidentified flying objects.” He refers to US researcher Lee Graham’s FOIA seek for satellite tv for pc knowledge which might verify detection of UFOs. Graham’s 200 or so FOIA requests led him to such phrases as “Quick Walker.” Nonetheless, Regehr concluded “Repeated efforts have did not reveal the true which means of the phrases…”
Apparently, Regehr reported that “Distant viewing” by Ed Dames is alleged to have confirmed quite a few deep area and air area intrusions by UAPs which had been DSP detected.
In his article, Regehr offers particulars of a 5 Could 1984 DSP commentary which UFO researchers equivalent to Joseph Stefula, cited as in all probability being a UAP. Nonetheless Jeffrey T. Richelson in his definitive e book “American Area Sentinels” (p.118) suggests it was really a US indicators intelligence satellite tv for pc.
The article concludes with mathematically modelling which Reghr states “…thus successfully proving that no less than one among our spy satellites might detect UFOs.”
Stacy and Huyghe August 1994
Omni journal ran an article by Dennis Stacy and Patrick Huyghe concerning the DSP satellites. Citing arguements by Ron Regehr of Aerojet Basic; and knowledge from Edward Tagliaferri, a physicist at Aerospace Company in El Segundo; and Joseph Stefula, they concluded:
“Someplace, on the market, little question, is a sensor system that already is aware of whether or not we’re being visited by UFOs or not, however the house owners of these programs aren’t speaking.”
Fish 2015
Maybe probably the most well-known UAP DSP story comes from the Wikileak e mail sequence referring to John Podesta. The e-mail was dated 6 March 2015 and was from one Robert Fish to John Podesta. The topic line was “Leslie Keane e book – DSP Program.” Fish wrote:
“I had lunch with just a few of them within the cafeteria of a extremely labeled group in El Segundo, CA. Nobody might get into the cafeteria with out TS/SCI clearance, so this was no “light-weight group of gossipers.” A type of instances, a member of that group was actually excited – stated they’s simply picked up Fastwalker (I assumed that very same day.) He described the way it entered our environment from ‘deep area’ (origin really unknown, after all, however from the bottom of the satellite tv for pc) and zipped by the DSP satellite tv for pc fairly shut on its approach to earth. Not solely was it going fairly quick however it made a 30 diploma course correction (flip) which suggests it didn’t have ballistic (free fall) re-entry trajectory {that a} meteorite might need. So, it was below some form of management – though whether or not it was ‘manned’ or simply ‘robotic’ there is not any approach to inform.”
This occasion was in 1991. Australian investigative journalist Ross Coulthart interviewed Robert Fish for his 2021 e book “In Plain Sight,” through e mail in February 2020.
“I wrote to Bob Fish and after just a few weeks he kindly responded, confirming every thing he informed Podesta, and extra.” (p102.)
Ross added that Fish was:
“A beforehand very extremely safety cleared communications intelligence insider, Fish had in depth expertise engaged on labeled initiatives, together with President Reagen’s “Belief however Confirm” nuclear missile disarmament treaty with the Soviets and he assured me that he was comfortable to be quoted about his robust curiosity and beliefs in UAPs.” (p.103.)
FAST WALKERS
Thus, some researchers have identified there’s a time period “Quick Walker” utilized in reference to DSP IR detections, which they equate to imply UAP. Nonetheless, JeffreyT. Richeslon in “American Area Sentinels,” on web page 118, has this to say about “Quick Walkers.”
“In accordance with Air Power Area Command Regulation 55-55 FAST WALKER denotes detection of an area object which incorporates satellites and their particles, in a DSP satellite tv for pc’s discipline of view.”
In 2019, Air Power Area Command turned US Area Power, throughout the Division of the US Air Power.
The Australian context
The Joint Defence Facility at Pine Hole, close to Alice Springs within the Northern Territory consists of tools which downloads knowledge from SBIRS satellites and transmits this to the SBIRS Mission Management Station at Buckley AFB, within the USA. A few of this knowledge returns to Australia and goes to the next:
1. HMAS Harman, in Canberra.
2. Division of Defence, Russell Hill.
3. HQ Joint Operations Command, Bungendore.
A 2019 publication offers the next element:
“Australian Area Operations Centre (AUSSpOC). HQJOC
is accountable for processing area help requests and does so utilizing
the specialist assets of the AUSSpOC, which is established inside
HQJOC’s Air & Area Operations Centre (AOC), to offer:
a. evaluation of satellite tv for pc vulnerability studies (SATVULREP) for drive
components in coaching or as deployed on operations and workout routines.
b. warning studies of area particles re-entry over areas of curiosity and
liaisons with EMA.
c. monitoring of the impacts of area climate forecasts on operational
area capabilities.
d. dissemination of area situational consciousness advicee. liaison with the US CSpOC.”
4. 1RSU Edinburgh, South Australia.
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| https://defence.gov.au/publications/newspapers/Raaf/editions/5916/5916.pdf |
1RSU operates the SBIRS Australian Mission Processor (AMP.) This AMP was constructed by Northrop Grumann The system was ordered in 2013, and have become operational in September 2015. An August 2016 article, states that the AMP “…employs the US Air Power-derived space-based infrared satellite tv for pc knowledge to detect infrared occasions in Australia’s space of curiosity.” The identical article said “Section III then produced the complete operational system, permitting the RAAF to interpret, analyse and disseminate infrared occasions in actual time…” For an attention-grabbing have a look at how “area climate” impacts the mission of 1RSU, click on right here.
DOD organisation
In wanting the place SBIRS knowledge administration sits within the Australian DOD organisational construction, I discovered on their very own web site, that throughout the RAAF we discover:
“SBIRS Mission Management Station” below “Directorate of Area” below “DG Air Defence & Area – AF” below “Head Air Functionality – Air Power.”Nonetheless, this will change as on 19 Could 2021 the DOD introduced {that a} “Defence Area Division” can be established in early 2022.
In on the lookout for present DOD doctrine on area, I discovered the DOD has a 2019 publication titled “Air-Area Integration” of their “Doctrine Word Sequence,” which talks concerning the “area area.” It spells out that “Chief of Air Power (CAF) is the aptitude coordinator of Defence Area capabilities.”
The preliminary head of the newly established “Defence Area Division” was given as Air Vice-Marshal Catherine Roberts, an aerospace engineer. The function was said as to “coordinate Australia’s Area Defence actions.” One wonders if this can then embrace the Australian finish of the SBIRS?
Endnote
So, the query stays as as to if or not, the SBIRS picks up objects that stay unidentified? The quick reply to this; is there isn’t a doubt it does. Nations equivalent to Russia and China launch satellites for clandestine functions which initially are detected and classed as unidentified. Nonetheless, the actual query is, are any of those “unknown area objects” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena as UAP researchers would outline them? The Australian Division of Defence through 1RSU’s capabilities might effectively know the reply.
Acknowledgement:
Thanks to Isaac Koi within the U.Ok. and Melbourne primarily based researcher Paul Dean, for analysis help with this text. I like to recommend readers check out Paul Dean’s sequence of weblog articles, “NORAD and the UFO Smokescreen” particularly components eight and 9.
