Born in Deutschland 1965, hometown was Bütthart, parents were not U.S. government employees. However, when father was tricked into joining the U.S. Air Force Civil Service, in 1969, with the promise that we could remain in Germany, we were promptly shipped off to Iran. Due to one of my Iranian educators being disappeared, along with her husband, by the U.S. ally Shah of Iran's Israeli & U.S. created Savak (for the then official terrorist act of promoting the idea that women can vote), and due to my U.S. citizen mother being placed on Savak's Terrorist Arrest List (for supporting the idea that women should vote, at that time the U.S. ally Shah of Iran did not allow women to vote, now they can) we left Iran for the United States in 1973, literally in the middle of the night. At the U.S. Embassy airbase the CIA operated Gooney Bird (C-47) was so packed with other U.S. citizens fleeing our ally Iran (because the Shah gave the OK to arrest any U.S. citizen for such terrorist acts as promoting the concept of voting) that we were turned away by the Loadmaster and had to take a chance on a civilian flight out of Tehran's airport.
My father told me he and my mother had three culture shocks; first when they arrived in Germany as civilians, then after being shipped off to Iran as U.S. government employees, then again returning to the United States as unemployed civilians (because so much had changed in the U.S. while they were gone, their only news source was the U.S. Armed Forces Radio & Television Service which heavily censored information about the home front).
Since I graduated high school in 1982 I've worked for U.S. government contractors and state & local government agencies (in California), convenience store manager in California, retail/property management in Georgia, California and Idaho. Spent the 1990s in the TV news business producing number one rated local news programs in California, Arizona and Idaho. 14+ years with California and Idaho Army National Guard and the U.S. Air Force. Obtained a BA degree in International Studies from Idaho State University at the age of 42.
Unemployed since 2015, so don't tell me the economy has recovered.
U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Eric Harris, 07APR2018.
In April 2018, an F-86 Saber (for some reason the USAF liked to use the British empire spelling of Sabre) tangled with a MiG-15 (NATO reporting name Fagot [as in the British empire slang for cigarette, not the U.S. slang for somebody living an ‘alternative lifestyle’]) over March Air Reserve Base in California.
USAF photo by Master Sergeant Eric Harris, 07APR2018.
I remember when it used to be March Air Force Base, and prior to the creation of the U.S. Air Force (a couple of years before the Korean conflict) it was called March Field by the U.S. Army.
March Air Reserve Base conducts the largest airshow in Riverside County and in April 2018 celebrated 100 years since March Field was established, and 70 years since it became a U.S. Air Force operation.
USAF photo by Senior Airman Kaylee Dubois, 16MAR2018.
In March 2018, the same Saber showed up at the Yuma Marine Corps Air Station airshow, Arizona.
F-16 cockpit view video of F-86, over Davis-Monthan, Arizana, March 2015:
The F-86 calls Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, in Arizona, home. The plane is part of the Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation, and Davis-Monthan is home to the Heritage Flight Training Course.
Air show video:
U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Sergeant Colin Broadstone, 05MAY2018.
In May 2018, a MiG 17 (NATO reporting name Fresco) invaded Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, in North Carolina.
USMC photo by Sergeant Colin Broadstone, 05MAY2018.
MiGs operating over the United States are privately owned (at least that’s what they tell us).
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 26FEB2020.
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, February 2020.
During the last week of February 2020, the Oregon Military Museum decided to put together an F-86F Saber (Sabre).
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 26FEB2020.
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 26FEB2020.
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 26FEB2020.
The volunteers, guided by a worried looking couple of employees from museum consultant Century Aviation, took care in piecing it together.
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 26FEB2020.
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, February 2020.
It helps if you have a couple of forklifts, it took about a week for the volunteers to put together.
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, February 2020.
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, February 2020.
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, February 2020.
F-86 number 12892 served with the U.S. Air Force until 1956, then with the Republic of Korea (South Korea) until 1963. It was then acquired by the Oregon National Guard.
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, February 2020.
Oregon National Guard time lapse video, by Sergeant First Class Zachary Holden, of the assembly:
Radar equipped Shamsher leads U.S. Super Hornets and Indian Su-30MKIs. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Brandie Nuzzi, 28MAR2021.
Shamsher, MiG-29KUB and Su-30MKI, 23JUN2021, USN photo.
In the above photo notice the Indian two seat MiG-29KUBs are not simple trainers, but have full combat radar system and a different cockpit area.
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.
Surrounded, finders keepers! NATO reporting name for the Soviet era Mil 8 is Hip.
USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.
USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.
USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.
USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.
CH-47 anticipating sling loading Mil 8, Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, August 2019.
Video explainer, CH-47 sling loads Hip bones in Germany, June 2019:
USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.
Note that the tail boom, main rotors, landing gear and other loose ‘Hip’ bones are shoved into the fuselage. Storck Barracks, Illesheim, Germany, 12MAR2019.
USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.
USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.
Video explainer, using Hip bones for sling load training in Germany:
Prepping a Mil 8 for use as a sling load trainer, Hohenfels, Germany, 12MAR2019.
USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.
USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.
Video, CH-47 Chinook recovers junk Mil 8 in Afghanistan, November 2017:
USMC photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.
“And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third Beast saying, ‘Come’, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat upon him had a balance scale in his hand.And I heard a voice from among The Beasts, which said, ‘A two-quart measure of wheat for a denarius and three two-quart measures of barley for a denarius, and you shall not harm the wine and the oil.'”-Revelation 6:5-6, Aramaic Bible
Never before in the history of the United States has the National Guard been activated specifically to control food distribution! It wouldn’t be the first time a superpower controlled its people by controlling the food: Food Provisioning and Social Control in Ancient Rome
Video, National Guard control the FoodShare Ventura County food distribution operations at Freedom Park Camarillo, March 6th (video wasn’t released until April):
Delaware; Video, National Guard delivers food to school children forced to stay home, April 6th:
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.
In September 2019, U.S. Marines used what remained of a UH-1 to conduct fire fighting and recovery training at U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Grounds (YPG), Arizona.
USMC photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.
USMC photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.
USMC photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.
Video, Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 1-20 at Site 2, YPG, 25SEP2019:
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Claudia Nix, 28MAR2019.
They did the same thing earlier, in March 2019.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Claudia Nix, 28MAR2019.
From 2017, “Just what I need for my collection.”
This pic of the tail section recovery was taken in March 2015.
Video from 2015:
From September 2014.
Also from September 2014.
U.S. Army’s Company D, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, conduct Downed Aircraft Recovery Team (DART) training on Hohenfels, Germany, January 2018.
April 2017, U.S. Army’s B Company, 277th Aviation Support Battalion, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, conduct DART training on Oberdachstetten Training Area, Germany.
U.S. Army’s 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, 7th Infantry Division on Yakima Training Center, Washington June 2016.
Video from the Huey’s tail rotor as it’s taken for a ride by a UH-60M Black Hawk:
“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.”
Two UH-60 Black Hawks bound for Afghanistan about to be eaten by a Russian An-124 in Huntsville, Alabama, 26APR2019.
USA photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.
USA photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.
USA photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.
USA photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.
U.S. Air Force video, by Staff Sergeant Bethany La Ville, November 2018 Super Typhoon Yutu relief in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (the Ukrainian operated An-124 was contracted by U.S. Air Force):
Video, October 2017, Russian operated An-124 delivers disaster relief equipment to Puerto Rico, paid for by U.S. taxpayers:
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Brooke Deiters, 01AUG2016.
U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, August 2016.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Brooke Deiters, 02AUG2016.
Russian operated An-124 takes-off from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, August 2016.
USA photo by Staff Sergeant Richard Andrade, 22OCT2013.
October 2013, Russian operated An-124 delivers U.S. taxpayer funded Russian made Mil-17V-5 Hip helicopter to the Afghan military, in Kabul.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Kevin Jones, 09JUL2013.
A large U.S. Marine CH-53E Super Stallion inside the belly of the An-124 beast, July 2013.
USMC video, by Corporal Jeffrey Scarmazzi, 11JUL2013, U.S. Marines on Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, load UH-1Y Venoms into a contracted An-124:
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Natalie M. Rostran, 17JUN2013.
U.S. Marines CH-46E Sea Knight off-load at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, June 2013.
USA photo by Sergeant D. Brennan, 07FEB2013.
February 2013, U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter is fed into the An-124 Condor at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.
At least three OH-58Ds. USA photo by Sergeant D. Brennan, 07FEB2013.
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Krystal Wright, 30JUN2012.
Russian operated An-124 gets an MRAP suppository at Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina, June 2012.
USAF photo by Airman 1st Class Krystal Wright, 30JUN2012.
Now a satellite up-link suppository, all destined for U.S. Forces Korea.
USMC photo by Mitch Moore, 05OCT2011.
Joint Operating Base Bastion, Afghanistan, An-124 delivers mobile medical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, October 2011.
USAF photo by Sergeant Anderson J. Grant, 21MAY2011.
The U.S. Air Force even showed-off the Ruslan at a public air show on Shaw AFB, May 2011.
USAF photo by Captain Erick Saks, 06MAY2011.
May 2011, An-124 delivers Rough Terrain Container Handler (RTCH) to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.
Photo by Jerome Bishop, 01DEC2005.
Pope Air Force Base , North Carolina, December 2005. Russian contracted An-124 eats a UH-60 Black Hawk, for delivery to Egypt.
At least four UH-60s. Photo by Jerome Bishop, 01DEC2005.
A big water/fuel tank turned into a boat. Intercepted in 1999.
For more than five decades Cubans who don’t like living on their island country have sailed, some even tried swimming, to the United States. This is partly because the U.S. Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA) of 1966 ‘fast tracks’ citizenship for any Cuban who can make it to U.S. territory.
U.S. policy is to sink all intercepted migrant boats.
Looks like simple 2×4 construction. Intercepted in 2016.
Even since the year 2000, Cubans still come up with ingenious, or maybe desperate, ways of getting to the United States.
Not sure what this is. Intercepted in 2016.
Wood planks strapped to 55 gallon drums. Intercepted in 2015.
My favorite. A 1951 Chevy truck mounted on empty 55 gallon drums. The riders actually attempted to drive it to the U.S. The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted the boat-truck in July 2003.
The truck-boat plugged along at eight miles per hour and made it just 40 miles from U.S. shores before sinking.
But wait! In 2004 two Cuban families tried to drive to Florida in their 1959 Buick. The families had tried to do the same thing in the 1990s but their Buick developed electrical problems and they turned back. The U.S. Coast Guard ended their 2004 attempt, catching them before they could reach the shore, sending them back to Cuba, and their classic car to the bottom of the ocean.
But two failed attempts didn’t stop the people in the Buick, they tried again in 2005, this time in a floating 1948 Mercury stretched taxi.
As is U.S. Coast Guard policy, and despite the boat being a classic car, the Cuban taxi-raft was sunk.
Indian Navy Harrier
Flying with U.S. Navy Super Hornets, 2017.
Indian Navy Aérospatiale Alouette-3 (Chetak) over Goa, August 2017.
Onboard USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52).
In 2018, Indian P-8A Poseidon (militarized Boeing 737) took part in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.
HAL license built Dornier 228 and Hawk-i, and HAL HTT-40, airshow Aero India 2019.
Su-30MKI and HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) Tejas, airshow Aero India 2019.
HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) attack helicopter, airshow Aero India 2019.
HAL Dhruv helicopter demo team, airshow Aero India 2019.
Mil 8, airshow Aero India 2019, Air Force Station Yelahanka, Bengaluru.
Indian Navy Mil 17(171), November 2019, exercise Tiger TRIUMPH in Kakinada.
Indian Navy Sikorsky UH-3H Sea King, November 2019, exercise Tiger TRIUMPH in Kakinada.
MiG-21, Defense Expo 2020.
From 2017, “Just what I need for my collection.”
This pic of the tail section recovery was taken in March 2015.
From September 2014.
Also from September 2014.
Fort Stewart, Georgia, 2014.
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 
My favorite. A 1951 Chevy truck mounted on empty 55 gallon drums. The riders actually attempted to drive it to the U.S. The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted the boat-truck in July 2003.
