Entry 002 - operation wigwam was never about subs.

 the official explanation for Operation Wigwam in '55 is one of the most transparent lies of the Cold War. the public story is that the Navy towed a 30-kiloton nuclear depth charge 500 miles off the coast of San Diego to "test its effectiveness against submarines." this is nonsense on its face. they had already conducted multiple shallow underwater tests and amassed a wealth of data.

Wigwam was not a test. it was a live-fire mission under the authority of Project ARCHER. My grandfather's logs from the attached sonar vessel, the USS Tawasa, are very explicit. for the 72 hours preceding the detonation, the entire fleet was holding position over a single, stationary sonar contact at a depth of over 12,000 feet. the target was designated ANT-Sierra. It was not a submarine or a geological feature. it was a massive, coherent signature that was passively absorbing all active sonar pings, creating a "deaf spot" on their screens that was miles wide.

the depth charge wasn't a test article; it was a purpose-built weapon. the ARCHER labs had theorized that a deep-water, high-pressure detonation could create a "reverberating inversion wave," the only known method for neutralizing a deeply entrenched ANT. the high-yield device was an attempt to use hydrostatic pressure to collapse the entity's bubble.

the mission was only a partial success. the logs state that the ANT signature fractured into three smaller, mobile contacts that fled into the Pacific and could not be tracked. the operation was a failure, and the public "submarine test" story was fabricated to hide the fact that they had just confirmed a hostile, non-terrestrial entity was nesting less than 500 miles from California, and they had just failed to kill it.

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