The memoirs of the ex-pilot of the RC-135S Cobra Ball reconnaissance aircraft Robert Hopkins have been published in the USA. Judging by his story, at the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union literally "lit up" a secret weapon. Experts are puzzling over what the Dome of Light was intended for.
The former pilot told an amazing story the other day to The Drive. However, as it turned out, a narrow circle of American military experts had long been privy to his secret, according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
So, it was in the late autumn of 1988. The team of the 24th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, where Robert Hopkins served, was based at Shemya Air Force Base in Alaska.
It was during this period that the Soviet Union, in accordance with the treaty on the elimination of the INF (now deceased), launched the SS-20 (Pioneer) missile.
Actually, it was Hopkins' crew that was assigned to watch this process. All by mutual agreement. The Americans were notified that the rocket would be launched in the direction of the Kura test site.
After that, the pilots discussed what had happened with each other, making sure that it was not a hallucination, and both saw the same thing.
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After some time, having gone on a similar mission, the crew again encountered the "Dome of Light". This was the name of the mysterious phenomenon.
Of course, the management was informed about everything. Scientists from the Air Force's Department of Foreign Technologies undertook to study the phenomenon, but the matter did not advance beyond hypotheses.
Experts speculated that the effect was caused by the special fuel of the rocket, or it was part of the launcher, which would blind American satellites with a flash of light.
Later, Robert Hopkins tried to get to the bottom of the truth himself. I studied various documents, but did not learn anything fundamentally new.
Robert Hopkins managed to intrigue the staff of the publication with his story. They, in turn, also tried to "dig up" something about the "Dome of Light".
The article about the mysterious weapon was found in the Los Angeles Times on January 24, 1988. It said that the system could serve as a cloak for launching intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), blinding early warning satellites. Actually, the same version was voiced by Hopkins.
There is also a more exotic hypothesis. Journalists stumbled upon her in Omni magazine (March 1988). Its essence is that weapons were created in the Soviet Union based on the ideas of Nikola Tesla. A supporter of this theory is retired Lt. Col. Tom Bearden, who worked as a weapons analyst for an aerospace company.
For years, he has collected reports of unexplained explosions. For example, about the "gigantic expanding sphere of light" emanating from the "depths of the Soviet Union." Allegedly, this phenomenon was recorded in Afghanistan in 1976.
In his opinion, combining and focusing electromagnetic and gravitational waves can create incredibly powerful weapons. Tesla called it "scalar electronics".
The publication does not undertake to analyze the plausibility of this version. However, journalists draw attention to the fact that such weapons were publicly discussed even before Robert Hopkins collided with the "Dome of Light".
Now this story, according to the authors, is acquiring special relevance. The United States and Russia have entered a new round of the Cold War, the main treaties on the containment of nuclear weapons have collapsed, the Pentagon is working hard on a new space missile defense system.
“Perhaps all this,” the newspaper believes, “will push Russia to revise the concept of the“Dome of Light”, if it really existed about three decades ago.”
