Greetings Everyone,
Today’s book delves into one of my cherished topics, that of secret space programs, new exotic propulsion systems, and a behind-the-scenes look at history. In fact, as relationships between the US and China are tensing evermore, not to mention a global paralysis caused by the coronavirus situation, the release of this book couldn’t be more timely. It is my honor to review another one of Michael Salla’s books: Rise of the Red Dragon: Origins and Threat of China’s Secret Space Program (Book 5 in the SSP series).
Background
Rise of the Red Dragon is Michael Salla’s latest installment on the epic investigation saga to uncover the development of a covert secret space program existing since World War 2 by varying factions. Back in June 2018, I reviewed Book 2 in the series titled: The US Navy’s SSP & Nordic Extraterrestrial Alliance (2017). In contrast, this is a departure in the series from a traditional Western/NATO-centric viewpoint, to an exploration of these programs being developed in the East, and particularly in China. It is by all accounts a fascinating re-interpretation of historical events. The Madame Butterfly-Esque tale illustrated in this book describes the story of how the Post-War technological gap between the West and the East was bridged, and most importantly, how one man’s fate affected the course of History.
Tsien Hsue-Hsen [Qian Xuesen], 1911-2009, was a Chinese mathematician, physicist and aeroengineer, today remembered as the Father of China’s Space Program 
Qian as seen in 1948, source: LA Times https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-me-qian-xuesen1-2009nov01-story.html ) 
The paths of these two scientists will cross during WW2.
Qian Xuesen [written in the book as Tsien Hsueh-Shen; 1911-2009], was a Chinese math prodigy, physicists, a prominent aeronautical engineer of the last century, and who plays a central role in Michael Salla’s latest book installation going into his pioneering work in the fields of aerodynamical research and cybernetics (systems design) to his involvement at the cutting-edge of US military research during World War II, including working on reverse-engineering programs of German flying saucers, and even possibly, of recovered extraterrestrial crafts. By the end of his life, Qian Xuesen would be remembered as the Father of China’s Space Program for his important contributions overseeing the technological ascent of China into space.
A summary of Qian Xuesen’s life
Born in Huangzhou in 1911, Qian graduates from Shanghai’s Jiaotong University with a degree in mechanical engineering (1929). Later, he enrolls at MIT for his doctorate but quickly switches over to the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1936. There, he pursues his fascination with rocketry, where he is taken under the wing of Theodore von Karman, a Hungarian-American mathematician, and professor at Caltech, who quickly recognizes Qian as an “undisputed genius”. In 1939, he receives his Ph.D. from GALCIT. A few years later in 1943, he is one of the founding members of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (precursor of NASA today). During this time, Qian is working with top-clearance security alongside a closely coveted elite of scientists including Von Karman, Vannevar Bush, and Jack Parsons. He quickly built himself a reputation as a maverick scientist and an engineer in the field of aeronautic propulsion and cybernetics, and in 1947, is even hired by MIT to become the youngest professor there at only age 35.
Operation LUSTY, U.S. Deportation and Rise of the Red Dragon
German Haunebu craft 
Me-262 (original caption: German aircraft line the deck of the HMS Reaper on their way to the US. Once they were in the America they were ferried to Wright Field, Ohio and Freeman Field, Ind. for testing and evaaluation.) 
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/13636026@N05/6838457163 
General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold (1886-1950) 
In March 1945: US Army Air Force General H. Arnold initiates Operation LUSTY (Luftwaffe Science and TechnologY) tasked with exploring what the Germans aeronautics were up to, with Von Karman reporting directly to the general.
Furthermore, declassified documents obtained through FOIA show Von Karman as being appointed as General Arnold’s principal scientific advisor and head of his Scientific Advisory Group (SAG). He was tasked with “assembling a team of top scientists to interrogate German engineers and technicians who worked on advanced secret projects.” While military historians only mention two teams discussed in the official narrative, there was, according to the book, “a third secret team under the command of Colonel William Shelly. This team was classified as top secret and operated outside of all regular command structures. This team, which highly likely would have involved Qian, in the ambitious mission “to the capture of all machinery, personnel and documents connected with the German flying saucer research.”(ch.2; source)
On this subject, the book further mentions flying saucers known as “Vril craft” built in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Others were extra-terrestrial of origin retrieved from New Mexico. “One, in particular, was a German WWII craft built in 1938 and was jacked up higher on stands because it had a gun emplacement underneath, which he said [Col. Jim; USAF] the Germans called a ‘death ray’. It [the craft] had a diameter of about 50 or 60 feet.”
Another insightful anecdote is mentioned regarding a device created by german inventor Hans Coler (Kohler) with a propulsion system designed by Otto Schumann, dubbed the Schuman SM-Levitator: a zero-point energy device capable of modulating the electromagnetic field ahead of the craft using high-voltage electrostatics and thus able to generate enough thrust for gravity control (similar in principle to the Biefeld-Brown effect).
In particular, one document shown describes a “Nazi SS flying saucer production document showing 17 Vril-I craft, built and flight-tested 84 times. Additional Nazi documents show the crew size of Vril-I as two, with a flight duration of 5.5 hours and a top speed of 7,200 mph (12,000 km/hr). Another type of craft, known as the Haunebu series, employed a propulsion system based on a German designation for “tachyonator-7 drive (aka Thule Triebwerk)”, an alleged improvement on the Schuman-Coler device. According to Salla, the Haunebu-III craft was capable of an astounding 24,855 mph (40,000km/hr) speed.” Moreover, the book mentions some of the companies that built the key components, MIC corporations the likes of “Dornier, Siemens, I.G. Farben, Messerschmitt, Zeppelin, Krupp, and others” (chapter 2)
A notable claim parsed from the author’s research seems to confirm Qian would have had interrogated Werner von Braun about his knowledge of V2 rocket propulsion during the debriefing process of Operation LUSTY (chapter 2).
After the Korean War, The exotic crafts evacuated under Operation LUSTY’s were promptly shipped to Wright Field (later renamed Wright-Patterson AFB) for reverse-engineering. By 1958, the four crafts in possession were moved to the S-4 facility at the base colloquially known as Area 51. Although not mentioned in the book, this is the same top-secret facility, where, two decades later, Bob Lazar would be undertaking very similar work of reverse-engineering recovered ET crafts under the utmost secrecy. This new piece of intel provides, if indeed real, further credibility to Lazar’s story, as well as broaden the scope to how far back this research goes. But I digress.
By 1949 Qian becomes a target of harassment by the FBI until on June 6, 1950 “he was visited by two FBI agents. They claimed he was suspected of being a communist, despite the lack of concrete evidence establishing his ties to communism.” This unfortunate event would put Qian in limbo, with, on one hand, the US State Department worried about his intimate knowledge of classified US military programs, as well as the close support from his renowned peers. Yet, on the other hand, the FBI along with the immigration bureau, were harassing and ultimately charged him with espionage charges as an agent of China’s communist party. According to Salla, it was only in 1955, after the end of the Korean War, that President D. Eisenhower signed a prisoner swap deal, allowing Qian to finally return to China in exchange “for eleven captured American airmen”. This ordeal effectively marks the end of Qian’s involvement in exotic propulsion research in the US and is the catalyst for China’s literal propulsion into the Space Age.
Regarding the circumstances that led to Qian’s deportation, Salla makes a characteristic bold claim in chapter 4, pointing to a more nuanced and unified view (I.e. holofractal).
- Accordingly, the first scenario proposes an obtuse view that Qian may have suffered sheer bad-luck, mixed with the prevalent social-political contexts of that time (McCarthyism, racial discrimination and poor judgement by bureaucrats).
- A second possibility is the Deep State, or Hidden Hand’s involvement in orchestrating a long-term strategy to bridge the technological gap between US and China. This would ultimately serve to play each other off in constant rivalry, thus perpetuate war, poverty and scarcity (and ultimately giving the Deep State control of both sides in a Hegelian fashion). Thus in this light, Qian would be sent back to China to help develop the country to the Space Age with all that he has learned in the US.
- Finally, the third possibility is the participation of a wider planetary intelligence to bring about equilibrium among the major powers, as a way to foster global peace, equality and abundance (potentially resulting in a leap towards a Type-1 civilization). Salla calls this, the Zeitgeist Hypothesis, borrowing from James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis, pointing to Earth’s larger mind emanating from an aggregate of the biosphere. From this wider perspective, “Tsien’s [Qian] involvement in the establishment of secret space programs in both the US and China is, therefore, part of a plan by which higher intelligence to introduce greater harmony and a deeper manifestation of “Absolute Spirit” to the planet“. This is in effect the author’s matryoshka dolls:
Qian’s subsequent return to China opens up a whole new vista for the maverick scientist: including the frustrations, having witnessed cutting-edge exotic propulsion, and knowledge of non-human civilizations, during his 20 years in the US. Instead, the lack of facilities and resources back in a still young communist China, not to mention the political taboo of Extraterrestrial phenomena that was discredited as mere American propaganda under Mao’s rule, were all added to his frustrations.
Thus in 1956, the Fifth Research Academy of the Ministry for National Defense was established to develop the space effort, and Qian was able to catalyse the technological research to develop ballistic missiles (later armed with nuclear warheads), as well as launching their own the satellites and eventually, their own secret space program. Here once again, Salla reveals worthy anecdotes about how Qian’s collaboration with the Soviets to develop the DongFeng missiles, may also have led to a cross-pollination of his knowledge and experiences with exotic crafts (after all, the Soviets were also interested in Nazi research similar to Operation LUSTY/Paperclip). The book also highlights Qian’s fascination with the ESP phenomena, a field which he would later pioneer in China, known as “Somatic Science”. There are several of declassified documents from Central Intelligence on the subject courtesy of the US Freedom of Information Act which I would recommend checking:
Other great rabbit holes this book goes into includes: 12,000 year-old artefacts found in Chinese caves; the Tibetan connection to Agartha and the Inner Earth communities, some of whom may regularly be in regular contact with humanity; the existence of advanced flying crafts in ancient Chinese folklore; Pyramids in the Gobi desert; and China’s ascent into the space age.
This last point concerning China’s development of zero-point-energy devices and gravity-control is very timely, pointing to the mysterious patents released by the US Navy by Salvadore Pais. He claims is that China has used industrial espionage to gain access to these breakthrough technologies, a fact that the US Navy specifically mentions as a cause for concern and justification thus to release these patents to gain leverage (after needing to file an appeal to the initially rejected patent, no less).
Something which occurred a few weeks ago and not mentioned in the book is a headline that circulated concerning the US Navy’s release of its UFO footages while the world was in the middle of a lockdown. For the record, my views on this Luis Elizondo, aka military-industrial-complex sponsored disclosure is a scam, and in this context, I would also suspect this curious move was targeted at the Chinese government as a covert but serious threat. The rising tensions between the two countries are palpable and one can’t ignore the impression of letting children playing with big weapons.
At last, I can’t finish this review without mentioning the AI threat concern. Simply put, the proposed narrative describes an existential risk posed by AI [Artificial Intelligence] once unleashed on humanity, caused by an untethered development of the technology, which is increasing in reach and leverage of our modern cybernetic (digital) infrastructures. While this isn’t a new claim by Salla, it is reiterated in the context of China’s explicit strategy to integrate AI in its military arsenal.
As a result, the author makes the claim that there are multi-scale risks: (1) the most obvious one being the threat of an overreaching technocratic totalitarian influence using AI and (2) AI as a literal Djinn-type entity reaching a sufficiently advanced state to hijack humanity as a whole. While this latter dystopian scenario seems to come right out of a Phillips K. Dick novel, it is corroborated by various insiders, including William Tompkins, Corey Goode and others. Without delving too deep into Book 2 of the series, Salla those same insiders described this scenario being well-known and seriously studied by factions of the US SSP, and seeded these narratives through predictive-programmings in popular culture by, including through the production of TV shows like Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica, where the latter is literally about mankind’s fight in space against an army of human-looking cyborgs known as Cylons. This concept is also more esoterically epitomised in a scene from The Matrix (1999) when Agent Smith interrogates Morpheus (see below). I’m also tempted to add in the recent podcast between Elon Musk and Joe Rogan, where Musk was describing in detail about the Neuralink brain interface to effectively fuse mankind with machines, something the notorious Jose Delgado had achieved by the late ’60s. Indeed, it’s hard not to see a clear parallel between the aforementioned testimonies and the clues being seeded in mainstream culture.
Ultimately, this book is a gold-mine of previously hidden information that re-connects the dots of historical events as we know it. Far from suggesting the end of the world that will have us fight WW4 with sticks and rocks, it is suggesting the potential for a worldwide catharsis to happen, as we are on the cusp of either destroying ourselves to oblivion, or inversely to lifting the whole world out of poverty. Perhaps, the existential threat of AI dominance can shift society towards climate based on mutual interests and cooperation instead of one based in competitive aggression. And indeed, one of the silver-linings of this coronavirus epidemic seems to be the increasing realisation of our inter-dependence between all nations, whether we like it or not. This fact should make us realize the inevitability of a process of evolution.
Thank you for reading this review, I hope that you’ve enjoyed it as much as I did. You can find Dr Michael Salla’s book in bookstores (Online on Lulu and Amazon), as well as by visiting his website at ExoPolitics.
Dr Salla is also on Twitter (@MichaelSalla)
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