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1959

April 7: A meteorite falls near Přibram, Czechoslovakia, about 30 miles from Prague.

June 8: Project Horizon proposes a lunar outpost by 1966. Officially, it never progresses beyond a feasibility study and is abandoned in favor of the Apollo project. It is revived after the attack on Apollo 13.

October 13: A meteorite strikes a house in Hamlet, Indiana, close to Chicago.

1965

April 16: Project Moon-Blink begins a survey of the Moon to search for signs of Black Sun activity.

December 24: Meteorite fragments shower Barwell, England, close to Birmingham.

1966

December 24: Luna 13 lands in the Ocean of Storms, transmitting images to Earth for five days before being disabled.

1967

July 11–15: Meteorites fall on Denver, Colorado, close to the Rocky Flats nuclear weapon facility and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) center.

1968

December 24: Apollo 8 achieves lunar orbit and takes high-resolution photographs of the surface, including the Walhalla base.

1969

July 19: Apollo 11 enters lunar orbit. While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the Moon, Michael Collins conducts a classified photographic survey of the Walhalla base.

1970

April 14: Apollo 13 is damaged by long-range fire from the Walhalla base, forcing the mission to be aborted. The remaining Apollo missions are simulated while Operation Lyre is planned.

1971

January: The revived Project Horizon begins landing components for the creation of an American moonbase.

1972

March 17–19: US forces from Horizon base attack Walhalla but are repulsed. Both US and Soviet planners switch their strategy from attack to defense.

1973

March 15: A meteorite falls in San Juan Capistrano, California, close to Los Angeles.

May 28: Salyut 2 begins the Almaz program, aimed at creating a ring of armed Soviet satellites to defend against US intercontinental ballistic missiles and saucers from Walhalla.

October 27: A meteorite falls near Canon City, Colorado, close to the NORAD command center and the US Air Force Academy.

1978

February 22: The first GPS satellite is launched as the US aims to counter the Soviet Almaz program.

1980

December 29: First reported sighting of a “black triangle” UFO, near an American air base at Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England.

1983

March 23: US President Ronald Reagan announces the Strategic

Defense Initiative. Officially this is a response to the Soviet nuclear threat but it is also intended to track and shoot down trespassing Black Sun saucers.

1985

September 13: The US conducts a successful test of the Vought ASM-135 antisatellite missile, launched from an F-15 fighter from 38,100 feet. The ASM program is developed as a backup to SDI satellite defenses in case of a saucer attack from Walhalla.

1990

January: The Japanese probe Hagoromo loses its transmitter after coming under fire from Walhalla, and is unable to transmit any data back to Earth.

1992

October 9: A meteorite falls in Peekskill, just outside New York City.

2006

September 3: The European SMART-1 probe is shot down.

2009

Date uncertain: Surveillance images show construction of a large turret, possibly for a giant KSK weapon. Dubbed the “GSK,” this structure becomes a high-priority target.

March 1: The Chinese Chang’e 1 probe crashes onto the lunar surface after being fired on by Walhalla.

June 10: The Japanese Kayuga orbiter crashes into the lunar surface. Officially the crash was planned, but the crash date was brought forward by two months owing to damage from an unspecified source. The Okina relay satellite, part of the same Japanese mission, is brought down a few days later.

August 29: Contact with the Indian Chandrayaan-1 probe is lost, probably as a result of fire from Walhalla.

2010

January 18: A meteorite falls in Lorton, Virginia, close to Washington, DC.

April 22: First launch of the X-37 unmanned space vehicle, ancestor of the MQ-14 drone.

2012

April 22: A meteorite explodes above Sutter’s Mill, California, not far from San Francisco.

2013

February 15: A huge meteorite, estimated at over 10,000 tons, explodes over Chelyabinsk, Russia.

2014

January 25: China’s Yutu rover is immobilized a few hundred yards from the Chang’e 3 lander after suffering unspecified “mechanical damage.” Further Chang’e missions are postponed.

2015

May 8: Operation Eclipse begins with the first MQ-14 Lunar Hawk drone attack on Walhalla. Attacks have been ongoing up to the time of writing.

Officially canceled in favor of the Apollo program, Project Horizon was revived after the attack on Apollo 13. (Artwork Hauke Kock)

Further Reading, Watching, and Gaming

Books

Farrell, Joseph P., Reich of the Black Sun (Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, IL, 2005). Provides a broad overview of Nazi weird science, including UFOs and the Antarctic refuge.

Hastings, Robert, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites (Author House, Bloomington, IN, 2008). A painstaking collection of accounts of UFO incidents at American nuclear facilities since 1948.

Heinlein, Robert, Rocket Ship Galileo (Del Rey, New York, 1977). Plucky young astronauts travel to the Moon in a home-modified rocket and encounter a secret Nazi moonbase.

Herwig, Dieter and Heinz Rode, Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Strategic Bombers 1935–45 (Midland Publishing, Earl Shilton, UK, 2000). Covers various advanced aircraft, including designs for the Amerikabomber project.

Hite, Kenneth, The Nazi Occult (Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2013). A brief but wide-ranging survey of Nazi occult and weird-science projects.

Myrha, David, Sänger: Germany’s Orbital Rocket Bomber in World War II (Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 2002). An account of one ancestor of Nazi Germany’s space program.