The Gliese Project

Drs. Chambers, Baqri, and Ahuja, all technically-oriented Ph.D.s with a different set of skills, were drawn together in an unlikely alliance in a mysterious set of circumstances by an employer who was only identified as “HETC.”

They were offered, as a team, very lucrative, month-long engagements to conduct research at HETC’s isolated underground headquarters in the California desert near the Nevada border. This, their fourth assignment, was to reverse-engineer a technology called “Quantum Vacuum” or “Zero Point Electromagnetic Generators,” which had been discovered in and extracted from a salvaged UFO. The project itself was called “Demeter” after the Greek goddess of the harvest. This project not only brought them back together with three of the four “experts” they had worked with on the previous project, but also included a mysterious participant whose identity they were asked to keep secret. All this was done under the umbrella of one of HETC’s four main projects — The Gliese Project — which was focused on Energy Technologies.

Their research culminated in startling conclusions, and the experiences they had during their stay at HETC finally brought them all the answers to their questions.

W. D. Smart, "Bill" to his friends, was born and raised in the United States Midwest and later lived in various cities on the West Coast and in the Deep South.  He has six adult children and twelve grandchildren.  His education includes undergraduate degrees in Liberal Arts, and Computer Science and Engineering. He also has a Master's in Business Administration.  For most of his life, Bill's professional focus has been working as an information-technology consultant designing data-based business solutions and building descriptive and predictive analytic models for companies all over the world.His work has allowed him to travel broadly and spend significant time living and working in North and South America, Europe, Africa, India, Australia,and Asia.  Bill also holds a USCG Master Captain's License, has worked captaining oil rig supply boats in the Gulf of Mexico, has sailed extensively, and has studied and practiced zen for over fifty years.
 
     Bill is now retired and lives in the mountains of Central Thailand where he writes, tends a small farm with his wife on which they grow tamarinds, mangoes, bananas, limes, tapioca, and pepper; and helps manage their rice fields in a nearby valley.