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Albion W. Hart, one of the first engineers to graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was assigned a project in the interior of Africa. While he and his men were traveling to an almost inaccessible region, they had first to cross a great expanse of desert. At the time, he was puzzled and quite unable to explain a large area of greenish glass which covered the sands as far as he could see.
"Later on during his life," wrote Margarethe Casson in Rocks and Minerals (No. 396, 1972), "he passed by the White Sands area after the first atomic explosion there, and he recognized the same type of silica fusion which he had seen fifty years earlier in the African desert."

MIT was founded in 1861. Let's say that Hart graduated in 1870 at the age of 22 (I'm being generous here).

Trinity happened in 1945. That's seventy-five years. Hart would have been 92 at the time of the explosion. And I doubt he would have been able to go anywhere near the site until after he was 100.

The only references I could find to Albion W. Hart were circular - the same reference recycled across mutiple website entries interested in this subject. I call bogus.

Trinity happened in 1945. That's seventy-five years. Hart would have been 92 at the time of the explosion. And I doubt he would have been able to go anywhere near the site until after he was 100.

It fits the rest of the writing. And it holds for more conspiracy stuff. You start with traces of actual facts. Throw in a slight dose of rumor and conjecture and then slap in some unsupported conclusions. For example they don't mention that thousands of years old ruins can look 'melted' due to acid rain and other erosion. And they don't mention that volcanoes can throw out glassy bits.

A good example is the part about the Sahara. They start off with facts about how it was once greener, and that there is recent evidence of that, and then the author jumps right to a claim that it was obliterated all at once, without any intervening steps of logic or evidence.

I think there is lots of stuff out there not explained, or totally misunderstood. But the way most 'conspiracy theory' type stuff is so lacking in credibility or logic that it is kind of disappointing. Nazi UFOs or ancient nuclear war would be nifty stuff if there was anything to back it up that had a continous thread of reasoning.