“Mother Nature doesn’t operate on a calendar, so this is a reminder to always be prepared.”-Colonel Jeffrey A. Van Dootingh, 403rd Wing USAF Reserve
U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Christopher Carranza, 16MAY2020.
Despite the Atlantic Hurricane Season not officially starting until June, on 16MAY2020 the U.S. Air Force Reserve launched its hurricane tracking WC-130J aircraft based at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi.
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Christopher Carranza, 16MAY2020.
The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron is concerned about a possible developing tropical depression or storm near the Bahamas (on 16MAY2020 it was called Invest 90L).
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Christopher Carranza, 16MAY2020.
Short video of first WC-130J launch of 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season:
On 17MAY2020, Invest 90L became Tropical Storm Arthur. This is the sixth year in a row that a Tropical Storm developed in May.
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Christopher Carranza, 16MAY2020.
During ‘invest’ flights the WC-130Js fly at low altitudes (500 to 1,500 feet, 152 to 457 meters) to determine if there is a closed circulation. Once a system becomes a storm the WC-130Js fly at higher altitudes (5,000 to 10,000 feet, 1524 to 3048 meters), and fly through the eye of the storm several times during a mission. Dropsondes are launched from the aircraft into the storm, which then communicate with the National Hurricane Center via satellite link. (What’s a storm tracking Dropsonde?)
The Lighter Amphibious Resupply Cargo-5 tons capacity (LARC-V) was developed by the U.S. Army in the 1950s. Just short of 1-thousand of the aluminum hulled boat-trucks were made, almost half being intentionally destroyed as the United States ended its occupation of Vietnam. About 1-hundred are now privately owned. Perhaps in response to concerns about climate change, the U.S. Navy ordered a SLEP (Service Life Extension Program) refurbishment of the versatile LARC-5, and since 2006 has accepted 42 of the upgraded decades old swimming trucks.
U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Brandon Raile, 17SEP2019.
In September 2019, the U.S. Navy used LARC-5 Duck Boats to transport equipment that would allow Navy ships to transfer fuel oil to Alaskan villages onshore. It’s part of preparations for an expected major natural disaster that could cut-off remote villages along the U.S. Pacific coast.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Jack D. Aistrup, 12JUN2019.
Landing Craft Utility (LCU) ship with a couple of boat trucks during Baltic Operations (BaltOps) 2019.
Video of boat-truck (Duck Boat) actions on Kallaste Beach, NATO-Estonia, during BaltOps 2019:
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Jacob I. Allison, 19OCT2018.
Vice Admiral Richard Brown, then Commander of Naval Surface Force-U.S. Pacific Fleet, inspects the increasingly relevant (despite their old age) LARC-5s in San Diego, California, October 2018.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jacob Owen, 14JUL2017.
Inside the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), July 2017.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jacob Owen, 14JUL2017.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Sabyn L. Marrs, 14JUL2017.
USN photo by Mass Communications Specialist Third Class Kenneth Gardner, 22MAY2017.
May 2017, launching a LARC-5 from astern the USNS SGT WILLIAM R. BUTTON during NATO’s Saber Strike 17, in Latvia.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Ricardo Davila, 22MAY2017.
Driver’s position.
USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Jeanette Mullinax, 29OCT2016.
Entering the well deck of amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20), October 2016.
Video, LARC-5s coming aboard USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) via an LCU, October 2016:
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Raymond Minami, 22MAR2016.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Raymond Minami, 23MAR2016.
Entering USS Bataan (LHD 5), March 2016.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Raymond Minami, 23MAR2016.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class David A. Cox, 13AUG2015.
In August 2015, LARC-5s were used to help survivors of Typhoon Soudelor, on the Marshal Islands.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class David A. Cox, 13AUG2015.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Elizabeth Merriam, 02SEP2014.
Driving into the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20), September 2014.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Tamara Vaughn, 30JUL2014.
Inside amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), July 2014.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Tamara Vaughn, 30JUL2014.
U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Edward Gyokeres, 05JUN2012.
An abandoned and rusting (yes, aluminum does corrode) LARC-5 at Mackall Army Airfield, North Carolina, June 2012.
USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Brien Aho, 07JUL2010.
LARC-5s took part in a landing at Salinas Beach, Peru, July 2010.
USN photo, 17SEP2009.
September 2009, this boat-truck helped with the salvage of an abandoned and wrecked sailboat, near Coronado, California.
USN photo by Chief Petty Officer Daniel Taylor, 14JUN2009.
Fun in the sun at Camp Onslow Beach, North Carolina, June 2009.
According to NASA, it was in 1973 that one of its employees became intrigued with how high speed tractor-trailer rigs created massive ‘suction’ as they drove-by slower moving vehicles. In 1975 a study showed that big-rig trucks moving at 55 miles per hour (the national speed limit at that time) displaced as much as 18 tons of air for every mile traveled. About half of the truck’s horsepower was needed just to overcome aerodynamic drag.
After leasing a cab-over tractor-trailer from a Southern California firm, Dryden (Edwards Air Force Base) researchers added sheet metal modifications that look very much like what you see on today’s big-rigs. They rounded the front corners and edges, and placed a smooth fairing on the cab’s roofs and sides extending back to the trailer. During the investigation of truck aerodynamics, the techniques honed in flight research proved highly applicable. By closing the gap between the cab and the trailer, for example, researchers discovered a significant reduction in aerodynamic drag, one resulting in 20% to 25% increase in fuel economy.
NASA estimates that its contribution to the ground vehicle industry has reduced fuel consumption by as much as 6-thousand-8-hundred gallons per year per vehicle!
Researchers also installed a boat tail structure on a passenger van. During the tests, the vehicle’s sides were fitted with tufts, or strings, that showed air flow. The investigators concluded that rounding the vertical corners front and rear reduced drag by 40%, with at a decrease in the vehicle’s internal volume by only 1.3%. Rounding both the vertical and horizontal corners cut drag by 54%, resulting in a 3% loss of internal volume. Adding a faired underbody helped reduce drag by about 15%.
In a kind-of control test, the passenger van was first covered with a sheet metal box with intentionally squared corners.
“And I saw The Holy City, New Jerusalem, descending from Heaven from beside God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.”-Revelation 21:2, Aramaic Bible
They’ve been happening since the end of 2010, Sky Cities making appearances over coastal cities in Southern China. The most recent was over Yangtei City, in August 2019, and even got the attention of the official communist government TV news known as CCTV:
Here’s a May 2018 video from another communist government TV channel, CGTN. What looks like a giant apartment building “near Beach #1 in Qingdao” in the background, it seems to appear on the ground:
The government controlled news media dismisses these as mirages. I’ve seen mirages of water caused by heat waves rising off hot desert roads or dry lake beds, but they are not ‘steady’ like these. The mirages of water I’ve seen are wavy, from the heat rising, and it’s that wavy-ness stirring up the air molecules that give the effect of water on the road or dry lake bed, and they don’t last long, simply shifting your perspective can make them go away. I have never seen a steady, sharp edged mirage that reaches up into the sky and lasts for long periods of time!
Here’s a video from 2011, Xin’an river, which looks to be near flood stage. The problem I have with it is that it’s hard to tell which is the Sky City and which is the real city, there’s no explanation in the video:
CGTN video, March 2016, skyline appears just above the water along the port of Dalian in Liaoning Province:
One possibility is the melting of glaciers is not only flooding the oceans with fresh water, but permeating the air with humidity. However, if you compare the images in the sky with the landscape on the ground they are very different. The sky cities appear to me as if they were megalithic blocks, something you’d see in an early science fiction silent film movie about a stark future-city. Is this what inspired the megalith builders of the super ancient times?
Is it possible that increased humidity in the air can project an image of one city over another city? China is full of what the ‘western’ news media calls ghost cities; giant cities built but never populated with people, and many were built in the desert regions of China:
In the June 2018, Australian Broadcasting Company’s (ABC News) video you can see some of the buildings in those ghost cities look like blocky megaliths. Also note that there are lines of unfinished buildings with construction cranes still present. In some of the videos of the Sky Cities you can barely make-out what looks like construction cranes. Again, is it possible that atmospheric conditions caused by Climate Change is projecting ghost cities from desert regions into the sky above coastal cities?
In this video, from Xinhua, a ghost city in China’s Inner Mongolia with fog wrapping the lower half of the buildings, it look just like the Sky Cities that appear over water in other parts of China:
Note that at the beginning of this article I pointed out that the first Sky Cities appeared in 2010, that’s about ten years after the construction of the ‘ghost cities’ was started, that’s enough time for many of the buildings to be nearly finished.
Are they human made holograms? Hologram technology has advanced so far that now they can even create the sensation of touch and sound! Here’s a November 2019 explainer from C/NET:
The C/NET report shows you how far hologram tech has come in just the past two years. Here’s an NBC News explainer about how holograms work, as of January 2018:
For those of you who are too religious, natural mirages or human made holograms do not refute End Times signs, it could back them up with scientific explanation.
The natives of the Southwestern area of United States not only talk of Sky Cities, some of them still live in Pueblos. That’s correct, that plateau of protruding rock in the above pic has a city on top of it! It’s known as the Acoma Pueblo.
Note the blocky megalithic appearance of the mud-brick buildings, from a distance. Unfortunately, as you’ll see in this official New Mexico video, Acoma is now a tourist trap Sky City:
For the native people of the U.S. Southwest, Pueblos came into use due to a need to escape climactic factors and even competing humans. A good example are the Anasazai who once lived on the flat lands and built their cities partially buried in the ground, but then abandoned them. Anasazai myth says their ancestors lived in the ground like ants, until the sky gods told them it was safe to come out. Archaeologists think the Anasazai civilization was ended by a catastrophic climate change (drought), and that the survivors split-up and started building in the hills and on plateaus.
The Navajo talk about The Fifth World. It is not the same as the Mesoamerican Fifth World, this appears to be the Sky World. It is above the ground where humans and other animals live (Fourth World), and below the place where the Soul (Spirits) of Living Things live (heaven?), and above that The Place of Melting (source of creation?).
The Fifth World (sky?) is connected to multiple End Time events in that it appears to be the battle ground between the Spirit World and the Fourth World of animals. Humans/animals don’t like living on Ground (Fourth World) and yearn to live in Sky (Fifth World), but the Spirits of heaven (Spirit World) routinely interfere, even saying “What are you doing here? This is not your country.”
Just in time for the 2020-2021 hurricane season, a lucky U.S. Air Force Reserve SAR (Search And Rescue) unit in Florida got a brand new HC-130J Super Hercules-Combat King-2.
The first HC-130J for USAF Reserves in Florida, takes off from its birthplace in Marietta, Georgia, 02APR2020.
FL-892 will call Patrick Air Force Base its home, cared for by the 39th Rescue Squadron-920th Rescue Wing. They are the first, and so far only, Reserve SAR unit to get a new HC-130J. (they do fly the older models of HC-130 SAR Hercules)
The HC-130J is one of nine versions of the C-130J series, specifically built for SAR and aerial refueling missions.
Video, HC-130Js operated by 23rd Wing out of Nellis AFB, Nevada, arrived at Moody AFB, Georgia, for up-load of equipment and supplies for SAR ops relating to the Hurricane Harvey disaster in 2017 (interesting how the new C-130Js with their new engines and six bladed props still sound like the old C-130s, well almost):
Video, a 23rd Wing HC-130J returns to its home on Nellis AFB, Nevada, after conducting SAR ops over Texas following the 2017 Hurricane Harvey disaster:
The final ‘shell’ emplacement had been delayed by unusually high water levels, but now that water levels have dropped the U.S.$1.22-billion Kentucky Lock Addition Project can continue. Ten ‘shells’ were needed to build the new lock addition in dry conditions. Reports say that since December 2019 the level of the Tennessee River was over-topping the nine shells already in place, each shell is 31-feet/9-meters high.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spending at least U.S.$16-million to repair a breach in the Buffalo North Breakwater, which was caused by the Halloween Night Storm last year.
Altus Air Force Base is experimenting with a new cheaper way to clean-up its ground water, called a ‘bio-wall’ (‘bioreactors’ filled with locally sourced micro-organisms): “The purpose of the bio wall is to degrade the manmade contaminates currently found in the groundwater and break them down into naturally found elements. The bio walls act like a big water filter that is 30 feet underground. As the water flows through the wall, we are purifying it from the potentially harmful chemicals that were put in the ground a long time ago.”-Mary Bitney, Altus AFB Remedial Project Manager
Virginia; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a U.S.$23.7-million contract to Florida based contractor to rebuild the eroded beach at NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, including construction of breakwaters using 1.3-million cubic yards of sand.
A U.S. Navy sailor conducts weather observations aboard USS Makin Island (LHD 8), 16APR2020, somewhere in the Eastern Pacific.
President Donald Trump authorized the
U.S. Marine collects weather data on Camp Pendleton, California, 22APR2020.
This is a portable ground based weather surveillance system at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.
The natives of the Southwestern area of United States not only talk of Sky Cities, some of them still live in Pueblos. That’s correct, that plateau of protruding rock in the above pic has a city on top of it! It’s known as the 
The first HC-130J for USAF Reserves in Florida, takes off from its birthplace in Marietta, Georgia, 02APR2020.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spending at least U.S.$16-million to repair a breach in the Buffalo North Breakwater, which was caused by the Halloween Night Storm last year.
Altus Air Force Base is experimenting with a new cheaper way to clean-up its ground water, called a ‘bio-wall’ (‘bioreactors’ filled with locally sourced micro-organisms): “The purpose of the bio wall is to degrade the manmade contaminates currently found in the groundwater and break them down into naturally found elements. The bio walls act like a big water filter that is 30 feet underground. As the water flows through the wall, we are purifying it from the potentially harmful chemicals that were put in the ground a long time ago.”-Mary Bitney, Altus AFB Remedial Project Manager
C-17s of the 911th Airlift Wing, Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania, 07FEB2020.
