In 60 seconds
For seventy years sailors and pilots have watched objects go into the sea and come out again. The Navy built the means to watch and recover under water: MITRE's Navy programs, Project Sand Dollar, and from 1969 the undersea reconnaissance office NURO. Gerb's strongest claim is that MITRE has monitored a city-block-scale site in a deep trench off the Bahamas since about 1970, a "tic-tac factory", and Grusch now describes an underwater facility of several city blocks that manufactures devices.
The claim, in our words · Gerb's reading, across 20 of our records
“Something has a fixed base under the sea, and a small Navy and MITRE circle has watched it since about 1970, out of sight even of senior admirals.”
How it branched
Each line is a branch, named at its end. Dots are the key moments below.
Seen from the surface
Reports from ships and coasts; the Navy builds deep-recovery capability.
Key moments
Watched from below
NURO and MITRE listen on the sea floor and find the site.
Key moments
Said out loud
DeLonge, Stratton, Grusch and Gerb describe the base in public.
Key moments
All 20 events, branch by branch, in the Workspace →