Skyguard: The Aegis Trilogy -- The Story of Skyguard

Welcome to Skyguard! Since you have successfully passed our rigorous security screening procedures, I assume you have been authorized to view this information. My name is Richard E. Stuart, General, United States Air Force, the Commander of Skyguard.

Skyguard is, to the public, an interagency consortium of the government which tracks asteroids, comets, and other near-earth objects. The NEAT (Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking) portion of Skyguard is headquartered in Arizona. From two mountain peaks, six optical telescopes search the heavens for any indication of a space object whose path or orbit may endanger the earth.

But there is another side of Skyguard; it also searches the heavens, but not for asteroids--it searches for evidence of extraterrestrial presence or influence.

Skyguard started life as Projects Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book--official investigations conducted by the U.S. Air Force. Blue Book investigated almost 17,000 sightings, 701 of which were unexplainable. In addition to unexplainable sightings, Blue Book, in concert with the Top Secret "Majestic-12" group, gathered enough evidence of Extraterrestrial Biological Entities (EBE's) to create a completely covert agency to continue investigations without public scrutiny. (Note: Doctor Campbell, our official historian, has thoughtfully included a page in this Web site which explains Project Blue Book in detail). Project Blue Book was publicly terminated in 1969, but its activities since then have been greatly expanded and consolidated into Skyguard.

SKYGUARD HEADQUARTERS

In the early fifties, Project Blue Book personnel constructed a large radar installation on a high hill overlooking the small city of Bartlesville, Oklahoma (see photo below), and it also constructed a huge hangar at the Bartlesville Municipal Airport. Ostensibly, this installation was for tracking severe weather, but it was really tracking potentially alien spacecraft.
In 1979, the radar equipment--still using vacuum tube technology--was declared obsolete and the radar installation was dismantled. New radar equipment--much smaller due to solid-state electronics--was installed in the penthouse of the hangar. The employees who worked on Radar Hill (the local residents' name for the old radar installation) were relocated to the hangar and today they conduct Skyguard business covertly under the cover of Pendragon Aviation--a legitimate company which operates as a flying circus and air museum. The Pendragon hangar has five levels above ground and four levels below (see photo, above). The small building to the left of the hangar is our private school, Powell Academy, and our daycare center.

SKYGUARD/PENDRAGON STAFF

As of this writing, total combined staff of Skyguard and Pendragon Aviation is 317, roughly ten percent of whom are Air Force military staff, and none of whom ever wear military uniform. The rest are civilian employees; mainly scientists, investigators, aircraft maintenance personnel, pilots, and administrative/support.
The following is a list of management staff:

NAME	TITLE	MIL/CIVILIAN
Richard E. Stuart	Commander	USAF/Brig. General
David L. Powell, Ph.D.	Dir. of Operations	Civilian (USAF, ret.)
Laura W. Powell	Dir. of Operations	Civilian
Mary J. Powell	Asst. Dir. of Ops	Civilian, Mil. Pilot
Rachel R. Powell	Asst. Dir. of Ops	Civilian, Mil. Pilot
Sandra K. Rhodes	Dir, Pendragon	Civilian/AFR
Rosarita Martinez, MD	Dir, Forensics	Civilian/ANG
Lawrence Evans, Ph.D.	Communications	Civilian/ANG
Emery L. Craighead	Chief of Security	USAF/MSgt.
Benjamin Vanetta	Red Team Leader	Civilian
Elaine S. Parker	Blue Team Leader	USN, Lt. Commander
William Campbell, Ph.D.	Consultant, Historian	Civilian/Veteran, USAF

INVESTIGATIONS

Skyguard has 61 field investigators on staff; assembled into teams of varying strengths and expertise depending on the investigation. Two nine-person teams, (Red and Blue) are permanent and consist of scientists and forensics experts who handle "close encounters."
Investigations are classified by Type (originally devised by J. Allen Hyvek, Ph.D.) and are outlined below:

TYPE	DESCRIPTION OF EVENT	Close Encounter Class
A	Nocturnal Light. A visual sighting of a light in the sky at night.	-
B	Nocturnal Disc. A visual sighting of a UFO in the form of a structured light or lights seen at night.	-
C	Daylight Disc. A visual sighting of a UFO with distinct shape seen at daytime.	-
D	Radar Cases. UFOs detected on radar (bogies).	-
E	Radar Visual Cases. UFOs detected on radar and visually at the same time.	-
F	A UFO observed within 150 yards.	CE-1
G	A UFO that leaves some kind of evidence like burn marks on the ground or fragments of some kind.	CE-2
H	A UFO with visible occupants.	CE-3
I	Abductions.	CE-4
J	Communications between a human and an alien.	CE-5
K	Other incidents of alleged alien activity (crop circles or "signs," cattle mutilations, etc.)	-

PROOF SCALE

All reported incidents are measured against a Proof Scale, listed below in descending order of validity:

The alien visitors themselves, or the alien spacecraft or other alien artifacts.
Irrefutable physical evidence of a visit by aliens or the passage of their spacecraft.
Indisputable photograph of an alien spacecraft or its occupants, or other alien artifacts.
Human eyewitness accounts.

Depending on incident Type and level of proof, resources are allocated to the investigation. Results of investigations are reported on a periodic basis to the Air Force Chief of Staff, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the President of the United States in the daily Threat Matrix (if appropriate.) Further action, if required, is undertaken by Skyguard or the appropriate governmental agency. NOTE: Skyguard is not associated with the Department of Homeland Security.