Pilot/Photographer Of OKC "Ryder Truck" killed In Air Crash

By Norio Hayakawa - Civilian Intelligence Network

It has come to the attention of the Oklahoma City Bombing research community, per courtesy of H. Michael Sweeney's report, that a certain Sergeant Robert Louis Harding of Oklahoma National Guard and a facility manager at Camp Gruber,had actually been killed in the crash of his small home-built aircraft just a few hundred yards from a covert operations site on May 15, 1995 after he had earlier allegedly taken the controversial aerial photo of the site which included a mysterious Ryder Truck.

For detailed analysis of this mysterious "air crash", go to H. Michael Sweeney's website http://www.proparanoid.com/OK2.htm#fraud

The original, controversial aerial photos first appeared on the Internet at: http://members.aol.com/bardsquill/truck.htm

In 1995 Anthony J. Hilder had passed on the controversial photos he acquired to Norio Hayakawa who first posted them on the Internet.

A detailed background information on the controversy surrounding Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, is located, once again, courtesy of H. Michael Sweeney, at: http://www.proparanoid.com/OK1.htm#public

According to H. Michael Sweeney, "the NTSB report claims it was a simple case of pilot error - attempting take off when the engine performance was inadequate, resulting in an alleged entanglement with a power line. If that was true, it makes me wonder if the take off might not have been far more Urgent than normal, such as in a life or death escape attempt? Like the NTSB omission, there is also a strange omission of details in the obituary notice which fails to mention the air crash at all, much less that it happened at Camp Gruber.

Note that it ironically appears next to an article on the OK blast itself. Friends of Harding, also extremely reluctant to speak on the record or even provide their name...as well as citizens who live nearby...and even National Guardsmen working at or transiting Camp Gruber...all tend to speculate privately and off the record that there was some connection between the crash and the bomb factory images. One has even stated that the crash took place within a few hundreds yards of the "DARPA" facility directly on Central Europe Avenue which fronts the site just off the satellite magnified image to the right. Actually, the take-off flight path does reportedly angle towards the "DARPA" site.

Could it be that Harding was the one who took the original images, and was attempting to document something else when he was somehow caused to crash? USGS satellite images taken just days earlier tell us that DARPA had vacated the site sometime after the mid-February date of the first images and May 1 (while the top USGS image was dated May 9, many of the close-up images were dated as early as May 1), and logically, we might presume several weeks before the OKC blast. But the satellite images also tell us something else rather interesting, something that would have been worthy of photography to whomever took the first pictures. The site has been sanitized, something which likely took several days to weeks to accomplish given the extent of sanitation.

Perhaps Harding was trying to document that oddity for us because such steps only make sense if there was something which needed to be hidden: The gravel has been removed or covered with dirt, and even so, there is still a problem where the chemical spill had once before been visible; all structures and vehicles have been removed; and the greatest mystery, a portion of the landscape has been bulldozed into the shape of a "foot". (Approximate crash site off image edge...The length of the foot is sufficient to bury the long cylindrical machine).

But if the pictures were being taken, where is the camera. No camera was mentioned in the NTSB investigation. No camera was returned to Mr. Harding's family. Yet eye witnesses have said that there was indeed a camera attached to Harding by a lanyard (a common pilot practice to keep cameras from straying in aerial maneuvers)...and that, in point of fact, Harding did not die immediately in the crash." (Quote from H. Michael Sweeney)

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Source: Civilian Intelligence Network