The Eye in the Sky at Camp Humphreys

Big hat tip to Nomad for pointing out this classic piece of journalism from Oh My News. I have always maintained that Oh My News is way left wing in their writing but this article is just plain kooky. At Camp Humphreys located in Pyeongtaek, South Korea; they have a radar dome that towers over the base because the camp is home to a major airfield shared by both the US and Korean militaries. The Oh My News “reporter” speculates that the radar is actually part of a sinister super secret US “Orwellian” plan to rule the world:

“Its been there about seven or eight years. We have no idea what it is; we just thought it might be a water tank or something. People have said is an oil tank, or some kind of antenna. But why should we even bother to try to figure it out. Isn’t it easier if we just consider it as a big ball? I like it because it makes the scene of our village very familiar from a distance.”

A titan standing 30 meters tall, the “ball” is about eight years old. For the residents living near the field of Daechu-ri, located in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, their lives have revolved around a mysterious ball mounted in the sky, all the while never knowing exactly what it is.

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“Right now, somebody is watching your every movement.” This may sound like something from a science-fiction movies, but instead, it’s real.

In the greatest surveillance effort ever made, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) created a global spy system — codename ECHELON — which captures and analyzes virtually every phone call, fax, email and telex message sent anywhere in the world. ECHELON is controlled by the NSA and operated in conjunction with the Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) of England, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of Canada, the Australian Defense Security Directorate (DSD), and the General Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand. These organizations are bound together under a secret 1948 agreement, UKUSA, whose terms and text remain under wraps even today.

I wonder if this super secret 007 golf ball is manned by Elvis and Bigfoot? That is just about as credible a theory as the one put forth by Oh My News. What’s next, an article on the Indianhead statue in front of Camp Casey is actually a US homing beacon for UFO’s to land on the camp and dump flemeldahyde into doo-doo creek thus creating the Lochness Monster of Dongducheon? Just when you thought journalism in Korea couldn’t get any worse, it does. Well it’s good that the “reporter” at least has some serious photographic talent because the pictures in the article are quite good. However, he is going to need that photographic talent in the future because he sure isn’t going to make it as an investigative journalist for much longer unless he writes for the Weekly World News.