Walter Bosley, a former FBI counterintelligence agent and Air Force OSI officer, traces a hidden lineage of anti-gravity and advanced propulsion research from a secretive 1850s German immigrant group in California (the Sonora Aero Club) through the 1890s mystery airship wave, World War II-era Nazi programs, and into the modern black-budget world — arguing that a continuous, compartmentalized development program has been concealed behind public narratives of extraterrestrials, while his own intelligence career and personal investigations repeatedly intersected the same covert networks.
The Sonora Aero Club and the 1850s flying machines
In the 1850s, a group of German immigrants in Sonora, California, built and flew maneuverable, powered aircraft called “Aeros” — decades before the Wright brothers — using a rotating, bell-shaped device (the “generator cone”) as part of their propulsion system.
The only source is Charles Dellschau, a German immigrant who claimed he was sent by a mysterious organization called NYMZA (based in Brandenburg, Germany) to monitor the club; Dellschau produced hundreds of coded journals and illustrations between the 1890s and his death in 1923, discovered in a junk shop in 1971 by Pete Navarro.
The club’s leader, Peter Mennis, reportedly died in a fiery Aeros crash after refusing a demand from a visiting Prussian officer (representing NYMZA) to weaponize the craft for military use; Bosley suspects Mennis faked his death and the club dispersed.
Dellschau’s drawings depict a bell-shaped, rotating component strikingly similar to the later Nazi “Die Glocke” (The Bell) — a purported anti-gravity device first described in postwar Polish intelligence accounts — suggesting a direct technological lineage from the 1850s to the Third Reich’s most exotic projects.
The 1890s mystery airship wave
Beginning in November 1896, newspapers across the western U.S. reported thousands of witnesses seeing large, controllable airships — often landing to take on water, with crews openly identifying themselves (e.g., Colonel Samuel Tilman, a chemist/cartographer, and electrical engineer Amos Dolbear).
Crew members named Wilson (Hyram and Willard) claimed the craft could reach South America and return in hours; the sightings followed the “Outlaw Trail” used by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, hinting at a covert logistics network.
Bosley argues the 1890s airships were the evolved product of a post-Civil War black-budget program — the first U.S. government–private industry partnership — developing the Sonora Aero Club’s technology; Solomon Andrews had demonstrated a controllable “Aereon” to Lincoln’s War Department in 1863, which the government shelved publicly but likely continued in secret.
The airships used advanced versions of the same rotating generator cones and multi-propeller systems shown in Dellschau’s 1850s drawings, representing a “Model T to 1958 Buick” evolution.
Charles Dellschau’s journals and the Nazi Bell prototype
Dellschau’s pre-1923 illustrations include a “generator cone” — a bell-shaped device spinning on a central axis — that Joseph Farrell and others identify as a proof-of-concept prototype of the Nazi Bell, which later added counter-rotation, a mercury-like serum, and high-voltage electromagnetism to achieve purported anti-gravity effects.
The Nazi Bell (Die Glocke) appears only in postwar intelligence lore (Igor Witkowski, Polish intelligence), with no surviving WWII documents; but Dellschau’s pre-1923 depiction of the core concept strongly implies the German breakaway group (NYMZA) preserved and advanced the 1850s technology into the Nazi era.
The journals were acquired in the 1970s by the Demil organization (linked to JFK assassination researchers) and later by the Steven Romano Gallery, which published a high-end volume of Dellschau’s work; some diary pages remain undecoded.
Walter Bosley’s mentor and entry into intelligence
At 16, Bosley experienced a spontaneous consciousness shift (seeing textures, sensing interpersonal stress) followed by a vivid lucid dream in 1981 whose elements manifested over 20 years (e.g., a landscape in Germany he later encountered).
His maternal uncle, a former Army intelligence officer (101st Airborne, recruited 1950), became his mentor; the uncle described his own encounter with a “Blue Lady” entity and told Bosley, “If you really want to learn more about these things, you should go to work for the government.”
In 1986, the uncle had Bosley submit an SF-80 application at the back door of a NASA building at Redstone Arsenal (Huntsville); Bosley then applied to the FBI in November 1987 — his background check was completed in weeks (not the usual 18 months), and two separate agencies ran concurrent investigations on him.
By March 1988 he was hired as a GS-3 mail clerk in LA; within 45 days he was recruited into the FBI’s Special Support Group (counterintelligence surveillance/undercover), promoted to evidence technician, then selected for surveillance teams tracking KGB/GRU officers at the San Francisco consulate.
He scored highest on the language aptitude test and was sent to a Russian course at the NSA’s Fort Meade annex (not Monterey) — where he and his FBI class were likely used as unwitting training targets for the remote viewing program, with a witting NSA employee in the class acting as a “human antenna” (confirmed years later by remote viewer Lyn Buchanan).
Remote viewing, disinformation, and the Bennewitz affair
Bosley suspects remote viewing was operational long before the official 1970s start date, noting that Jack Finney’s 1970 novel Time and Again and Richard Matheson’s 1975 Bid Time Return describe a mental time-travel protocol nearly identical to the later RV methodology — both authors had military backgrounds and may have been seeding public awareness.
As an OSI agent in the 1990s, Bosley was briefed on Rick Doty as a “cautionary tale” regarding UFO groups as cover for foreign intelligence; he concludes the NSA (not Doty, OSI, or Bill Moore) drove Paul Bennewitz to breakdown by projecting audio/visual phenomena into his home, while Doty’s role was standard counterintelligence monitoring.
Bosley believes the “ET narrative” was encouraged by intelligence to mask domestic advanced technology: “If the Air Force has something advanced flying around… and the public wants to think it’s from another world, that makes my job easier.”
Operation Paperclip as a Trojan horse
Bosley, drawing on The Thousand-Year Conspiracy (Winkler, 1937), argues Operation Paperclip was not a U.S. initiative but a Prussian/NYMZA plan: German scientists proposed it to ingratiate themselves with the coming victors (the U.S.), just as their ancestors had infiltrated and betrayed the Teutonic Knights and successive powers.
The “Prussian” faction behind NYMZA drove German unification, backed the Nazi rise, and when defeat loomed, executed a controlled transfer of personnel, technology, and ideology into the U.S. military-industrial complex — creating a postwar “fascist international” (Farrell’s “Nazi International”) that has directed U.S. policy since, with the JFK assassination as a coup consolidating their control.
The Soviets received more Paperclip scientists (~2,700 vs. ~1,800), many specializing in a different physics (torsion fields, asymmetric tech), which may explain Russia’s modern exotic weapons claims — though Bosley notes neither side has deployed such tech visibly in Ukraine.
Antarctica, breakaway civilizations, and the “inking the water” test
In 1996, Bosley’s mentor told him that circa 1960, a U.S. team in Antarctica found a massive ancient tunnel/hole under the ice containing huge, very old machinery and encountered beings — half the team went insane; the mentor forbade Bosley from speaking of it.
Years later, the same narrative emerged publicly in UFO circles as a “recent discovery”; Bosley views this as an “inking the water” loyalty test — the story was seeded to see if he would leak it; someone else did, and it became a controlled narrative.
He distinguishes this from the “Secret Space Program” disinformation wave (Corey Goode, Jason Rice, 2015–2020), which he believes was a deliberate diversion from serious SSP research by Fitts, Farrell, Dolan, et al., who were tracing missing trillions and off-planet industrial development via anomalous financial instruments.
The 33rd parallel, Disneyland, and psychotronic engineering
Bosley’s book Latitude 33 centers on the 33rd north parallel — a band linking the Trinity test, Hiroshima, JFK assassination, Jerusalem, and Disneyland — arguing it marks a natural telluric current (extreme low-frequency planetary energy) intersection that amplifies consciousness and physics anomalies.
Disneyland’s site (Anaheim) was selected by engineer C.V. Wood (Stanford Research Institute), who knew of the telluric intersection and was a co-founder of the Mind Science Foundation (psychic phenomena); Wood placed the King Arthur Carousel directly atop the three-current intersection, hypothesizing its rotation drew up and distributed the energy through the park’s bowl-shaped berm, enhancing visitor experience — a “psychotronic device.”
Wood was fired by Walt Disney (1959–60) for claiming credit; he later applied similar principles to Six Flags over Texas (on a current line through Dealey Plaza), while parks he built off the currents failed; Disneyland’s 1982 Fantasyland redesign moved the carousel ~30 feet, disengaging the device.
Bosley experienced a striking synchronicity: in 1981 at Disneyland he met an old man named Alfred; in 1992 in Manhattan he found Alfred Watkins’ 1925 The Old Straight Track (ley lines) with a photo of Watkins — identical to the man at Disneyland — published the year Wood died.
The Empire of the Wheel: 1915 San Bernardino murders and the Sundance Kid
Investigating a 1915 “suicide” of an unidentified woman in a San Bernardino lake (labels removed from clothing), Bosley and co-author Rick Spence uncovered six other deaths on telluric current lines/intersections — a pattern repeated 50 years later by the Zodiac Killer’s seven classic attacks.
The woman matches Etta Place (Sundance Kid’s partner), last known in San Francisco (1906); her public funeral was conducted by Episcopal minister Walter Franklin Prince (later head of the American Society for Psychical Research, Houdini’s partner in exposing fraudulent mediums) — Bosley argues Prince knew she was an intelligence asset, not a suicide.
Harry Longabaugh (Sundance) was likely an undercover Secret Service/Pinkerton agent: he never shot anyone despite being a crack shot; the Hole-in-the-Wall gang robberies align with intelligence operations; Bosley has a 10-page documented case that Longabaugh worked for ONI in South America and recruited Butch Cassidy.
The 1915 deaths tie to a Hindu-German gun-running network (WWI) moving arms through San Bernardino (rail hub) to San Diego for shipment to India; British, German, and Indian agents operated in the area; Etta Place was likely monitoring this.
Bosley’s investigation drew overt surveillance (parked car, confrontational coroner’s office, a “wandering bishop” — Episcopi Vagantes — who revealed knowledge of Bosley’s sources); his mentor (later revealed as James Jesus Angleton’s protégé) ordered him to break contact: “These guys mean you harm.”
Karmic frequencies, synchronicity, and the 2015 San Bernardino attack
Bosley describes “karmic frequencies” — numerical symmetries across generations (e.g., his father born 1936, age 27 in ‘63 when Bosley born; Bosley age 27 in ‘90 when son born — all multiples of 9) — that amplify synchronicities and reveal “threads of the fabric of reality”; deep pattern recognition can become hazardous (the “Number 23” effect).
In Empire of the Wheel (2011), Bosley and Spence predicted a 2015 event in San Bernardino on the 100th anniversary (Hecate’s number); on Dec 2, 2015 (100th anniversary of victim Hedges, age 14), the San Bernardino terrorist attack occurred at a telluric current intersection — 14 victims, perpetrators pledged to ISIS (Egyptian goddess linked to Hecate).
Bosley wonders if the attackers read the book and staged the synchronicities deliberately, or if the pattern reflects a deeper operational reality.
Moon landing, classified space program, and Gary McKinnon
Bosley believes the Apollo landings were real (China, Japan, India later imaged the sites) but that the public was not told the full technology: Joseph Farrell hypothesizes the lunar module’s odd liftoff motion suggests Bell-derived anti-gravity assist, since rocket tech alone was risky for return.
He suspects Apollo 11 was not the first landing — the DoD would have tested secretly during the Cold War; the Air Force originated the manned space program (Mercury) before NASA’s 1958 creation and likely continued a classified parallel program, later absorbed into Space Force.
Gary McKinnon’s 2002 NASA hack (finding “Non-Terrestrial Officers” and a cigar-shaped craft in orbit) triggered an aggressive U.S. extradition effort, suggesting he accessed real data.
Harry Houdini, spiritualists, and intelligence
Houdini was a Secret Service asset; he and Walter Franklin Prince investigated corrupt spiritualist mediums in the 1920s who had high-level political clients; Bosley argues Houdini was murdered by these mediums (per Kalush & Sloman’s The Secret Life of Houdini), and the first California spiritualist temple was in San Bernardino — linking the 1915 deaths to a “black magic ritual” on telluric currents.
Unresearched gap and the 1903 Mars airship
Bosley acknowledges a gap in his research: 1900–1945. The only lead is a story (via Jim Keith, Tim Swartz) that Nikola Tesla was commissioned in 1903 to engineer an airship for a private group intending to reach Mars, using Oliver Heaviside’s “Gravito-Electromagnetics” (energy bubble life support) — a “nugget of truth” possibly connecting the 1890s airships to later breakaway development.
Personal philosophy on truth-seeking
Bosley advises: do five years of private, boots-on-the-ground UFO/paranormal research — no books, podcasts, or publicity; the “people who know the truth” and the phenomenon itself will notice sincere, quiet investigators — but be prepared for high strangeness and the “hitchhiker effect.”