DEFCON 3 TO TOP SECRET UMBRA - A NATIONAL
SECURITY CRISIS WITH A UFO CONNECTION IN 1973
On a narrow west coast peninsula, over one thousand kilometres to the north of the main centres of population in Western Australia, stands an enigmatic monument to the military ethic. It is a remote spot even for a country as vast and thinly populated as Australia.
A vast array of antennas and towers stand out in stark contrast to the harsh natural beauty of the surrounding terrain. The facility is divided into 3 principal sites - Areas A, B and C. Area A lies on the northernmost tip of the peninsula. Rising to a dizzying height of 387 metres is Tower Zero -- the central structure of a vast array. Another 12 towers stand in two concentric rings around it. The towers support "large spiderwebs of wire" -- the Very Low Frequency (VLF) antenna array covering one thousand acres -- the largest in the world.
A few kilometres to the south is Area B. It consists of the installation's headquarters and the High Frequency transmitter site. Area C - the main receiver site of this secretive facility - is located 60 km further to the south.
Collectively the 3 sites function as a window into an extraordinary world that few of us are privy to. I refer to the vast and often mind boggling world of military intelligence. The site is officially called US Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt. It is more popularly known as North West Cape.
In the vast scheme of facilities that make up the worldwide US intelligence gathering network, North West Cape, until recently, played an important and acutely sensitive role. It was never very far from the drama and controversy that pivoted around the fears of possible nuclear war between the superpowers.
In his 1980 book, A Suitable Piece of Real Estate, Dr. Desmond Ball, senior research fellow in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, wrote, "NW Cape....is presently one of the most important links in the US global defence network." Its main function was "to provide communication for the US Navy's most powerful deterrent force - the nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine."
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