Operation Fishbowl

So you build a proper test.

Operation Fishbowl inside the larger Operation Dominic series, joint effort between the Atomic Energy Commission and the Defense Atomic Support Agency.

And here's the part I want to sit on for a second, because it's the strangest detail in the whole story.

James Van Allen.

I, I don't know, man.

I think that there, there's some validity to, uh, Operation Fishbowl-

Mm-hmm

... where they were shooting missiles up into the atmosphere or trying to break through the atmosphere, and they were just blowing up up there.

But your question still remains, what is above us? I mean, I don't think we really know for sure.

There was something known as Operation Fishbowl and Operation Dominic, which occurred decades ago of these alleged nuclear weapons being shot up into the sky by the government.

Like, why were they doing that? Some say, well, they were trying to send these explosives up there to see if there is a firmament enclosure.

But until we go up there and actually observe for ourselves, I don't know if we can know with certainty what's there.

They did it anyway.

Subsequently, Project Starfish Prime and Project Fishbowl, that was the detonation of hydrogen bombs in the magnetosphere.

They thought that could collapse the entire atmosphere and kill everything on Earth.

They did it anyway.

Okay, so right after that, they had a series of projects.

They had Operation High Jump, Operation Deep Freeze, Operation Fishbowl, and they were all subsumed beneath the umbrella of a larger operation called Operation Dominique.

Okay, so I'm kind of like tangenting off for a second because these are big, complex ideas, so I kind of have to add some texture to what I'm talking about.

So what happened is the progression The chronological progression is Admiral Byrd comes back, and all these operations get flying.

And one of them was Operation Fishbowl, where they had a high-altitude nuclear explosion.

They were testing high-altitude nuclear warheads.

Well, what was happening, and by the way, Operation Dominique, the fishbowl, like, firmament, living in a bowl and a dome.

Now, this is what the military was calling it, Operation Fishbowl.

What could it be?

[clears throat] Operation Fishbowl, Fishbowl.

Uh, it was, they wanted to see, again, how nucle- nuclear weapons act into space.

So they shot five missiles into space.

And Project Dominic.

Operation Fishbowl.

Operation Fishbowl.

High-altitude nuclear weapons tests.

Now, they said nuclear weapons.

Oh, really? I thought it was the, I thought it was Antarctica.

No, it was the Arctic, and then because then militarily Admiral Byrd ended up going down to the Antarctic with, like, 5,500 troops, and that's where Operation High Jump took place and Operation Fishbowl and all of that.

But the diaries point to the Arctic Circle, the, the Arctic, where all of that stuff, where he allegedly got escorted into the in- the middle of the Earth.

But either way, the guy's right.

Okay, we're gonna talk about that.

I was feeling a little wacky this morning, so here we go.

In 1962, the government actually tried to punch a hole in the sky, aptly named Operation Fishbowl.

On official record, it was to study radiation in the atmosphere, missile defense, and just to see what happens when we launch nukes into outer space.

Okay.

Operation Fishbowl.

I vaguely know something about this.

Okay.

Yeah, it might have been.

But when I looked it up, I couldn't find exactly where I did look up.

It was multiple like trials, you know, and it's odd that it was called Operation Fishbowl because that's really like, yeah, yeah.

People have really hung up on that.