HEMET CA SEPT. 2016:  Watch the above public domain 4K resolution videos in full screen for max effect. Be warned, though, that I did not edit them in any way and they have some dead spots as the drone circles. Golden Era Productions, the Scientology prison compound, the cult Vatican, the center of all things Scientological just got buzzed.  I'm no talking about drugs, because they are against them. No some clever member of Anonymous named "Angry Thetan" flew an ultra high definition camera on a drone all over the facility.  This just had to make the paranoid cult ultra high def furious!  And this footage is in the public domain now so anybody can use it.   I must have been asked a dozen times in YouTube comments about when I was going to do this. Now I don't have to!  This person and I have communicated several times but we chose to leave him Anonymous.

As the camera sails round the overbuilt complex two things are obvious: almost nobody is there and they waste a staggering amount of water.  Next to nobody is walking around and there are very few vehicles anywhere. While the rest of the area in this Riverside County locale is parched and grey the cult compound is full of lakes, fountains, trees and a golf course.  All during California's worst drought ever.

Because the cameras on the Phantom 4 drone are four times the resolution of a feature film even a still frame has a massive amount of detail in it. Wear and tear on the facility is obvious and ex-cultists have remarked that the maintenance has gone downhill since they left.  Probably shot on a Sunday morning with still air when it was not too hot, the drone must not have been very loud because people were not reacting to it.

Journalist and blogger Tony Ortega has an in-depth report on the buildings you see and discussions with Scientology whistleblowers who used to work at the facility.  To read their thoughts on these wonderful videos just click here for part one and here for part two.

Now we can add Gold Base to the list of buildings invaded by drones.  Previously HBO shot the Big Blue Complex and the Hollywood Celebrity Centre for the docu "Going Clear," but they are a fraction of the size Golden Era Productions.  This involved some risk because those other locales are in the city of Los Angeles and the Church can't do much about it.  But Golden Era is in the middle of no where.  If the drone pilot had gotten got they may have been beaten or arrested. But they didn't get found out!