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My dad worked as an electrical engineer at White Sands in the mid/late 50’s. I’m not sure exactly what he did at that time, but by the early/mid 60’s his “thing” was microwave antenna/circuit design.

Anyway, he said they had a bunch of interesting egghead types in Alamogordo. He said that by 1960 or so there were those that thought they could manipulate (or affect) certain layers of the atmosphere by basically using big electromagnets.

Problem at the time was that they didn’t have a power source big enough. My dad said a mid-sized nuke plant would be dandy (or that’s what they indicated).

It’s interesting to me because probably between 1973 and 1978 (not sure of the dates – was a kid and not paying attention) my uncles were electricians out of NW Florida. There wasn’t a single job in the area – not even the mills in St Pete or Port St Joe.

So they took jobs “off the board” at the IBEW and ended up in either Texas or New Mexico, depending which one you talk to – one swore it was Texas, the other swore it was NM. Sounded like they’d meet somewhere on/around Ft Bliss, then a bus would take them all on an hour and fifteen minute bus ride.

They said the bus (two at the time) would drive in a tunnel and end up in a big elevator and would lower them down to some area where they ran conduit and mounted panels and pull boxes and pulled wires and stuff.

They did that for 8 – 10 months at a pop for several years (they were both single at the time). Supposedly some sort of power plant job…

I’ll be the first to admit it probably isn’t related to the weather modification stuff. Still, you take the road from El Paso to Alamogordo and you have Ft Bliss on your right and you’ve got White Sands on your left…