It is a strange feature of the black budget that elaborate mission patches are designed even for projects that are not openly acknowledged. A selection of these is catalogued and discussed in a book by the artist Trevor Paglen (I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me, Melville House Publishing). There is a nice essay at The New York Times discussing the book, and an article at The Space Review focusing on the special subset of black ops missions in space.
Now an Australian journalist, Ross Coulthart has joined the obscure patch trail, by offering up an image of a patch he alleges covers the reverse engineering program of a captured UFO at Area 51 (pictured above). The number sequence seen, 11001001, is associated - strangely - with an episode of Star Trek. One in which technology is shared between aliens and humans. Because it is Season 1 Episode 15, people are seeing the number of Element 115, which in Bob Lazar's famous testimony is the material which powers the said UFO.
Other readings are possible; the lightning may indicate electronic warfare, and the binary code the role of digital technology within that. The binary code reduces to 201 in decimal, and the fact there is an EW unit called the 201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade may close the case, but I think we should note that the date of the Roswell crash was indeed - cue music - a dark and stormy night. So the rabbit hole is there to follow should one wish. And lightning is sometimes just lightning.
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