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Area 51, a History and Update


For a place that doesn’t officially exist, Area 51 has been referred
to by a lot of names over the years. Some of those names included;
GroomLake, Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Watertown Strip, the Box, the
Pig Farm and several others. Many people do not know how or when Area
51 came into existence in the Nevada desert some 85 miles northwest of
Las Vegas Nevada. Most people believe it was a military base, when in
fact it was originally opened by the CIA (Central Intelligence
Agency).

President Truman through the National Security Act of 1947 set up both
the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Back then, the Director of the CIA answered directly to the President.
In 1949 the CIA Act was passed which stipulated that not only would
the CIA’s activities be classified but that it’s budget would also be
classified. The U. S. Government could also deny any responsibility
for the CIA’s activities should they be exposed.

After World War II the United States was very concerned about whether
the Soviet Union had developed an atomic bomb. One way to find out
would be to over fly the Soviet Union in a high altitude aircraft
equipped with cameras. Lockheed’s Kelly Johnson designed such an
aircraft and went directly to the CIA with it. Normally such aircraft
would have been test flown at Edwards Air Force Base, but with the
security required for such a top-secret project as this, it was
decided to look for a new secure site somewhere in the Southwest. A
dozen sites were looked at before deciding on Groom Lake, Nevada,
adjacent to the Nevada Test site. The area which was previously
controlled by the Atomic Energy Commission for testing atomic weapons
was expanded to include Groom Lake and by July 1955 the CIA had its
secret base. A fake construction firm “CLJ” was formed to oversee the
construction on the base mostly done by sub-contractors to build
hangars, a mile long runway, ramps, control tower, mess hall and other
required structures.


Somewhere in the remote Nevada desert is a chunk of land some six
miles wide north to south and ten miles east to west. On that land is
located a paradox: A secret base that everyone knows about.



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The airplane designed by Kelly was known as the “Aquatone” by the CIA,
and as “Angel” by Lockheed. The first prototype was called “Article
341”, and flown to Groom Lake in a transport plane on July 24, 1955.
Eventually that aircraft became known as the U-2.

The thing to remember about the inception of Area 51 is that it was
not an Air Force base, but rather that Lockheed and the CIA were in
charge, not the military. Pilots were recruited from the F-84 pilots
with top-secret clearances from SAC bases. If they became U-2 pilots
they resigned from the Air Force and became CIA employees.

The first mission over the Soviet Union took place on July 4, 1956,
and the missions were quite effective due to their speed and high
altitude capabilities, until May 1. 1960 when Francis Gary Powers was
shot down by a Soviet missile, captured and forced to confess to
spying. That same day the first American spy satellite film was
retrieved which showed more information about the Soviet Union than
all the previous U-2 flights combined. The satellites however did not
put an end to spy planes developed and test flown at Area 51.

With Project Oxcart, which eventually became the SR-71, a longer
runway was needed and in fact a small town was built for the support
personnel assigned there.

The Stealth project began in 1973 and was referred to as “Project
Harvey”. Because of the flat surfaces on the plane to reflect radar
away from their source, such as the appearance of facets on a diamond,
Lockheed named the project “the Hopeless Diamond”. It was renamed
“Have Blue” when the prototypes began arriving at Area 51 in 1977 for
testing.







Other aircraft that have been test flown at Area 51 include the A-10,
A-12, B-1 and the B-2. Captured foreign aircraft are also flown there
such as the MIG-21. Under development and being test flown there today
are such names as the TR-3A Black Manta, the Pumpkin Seed and the
Aurora. Within the last few years, contrails have been seen that leave
a trail that look like “doughnuts on a rope” which is believed to be a
pulsating propulsion system, possibly from the Aurora.

Several researchers have indicated that the crashed saucer from
Roswell, originally taken to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio in 1947, may
be at Area 51 today. Other reports indicate that Area 51 has as many
as 22 levels below ground and the secret base was brought to the
forefront involving UFOs when Bob Lazar claimed to have been there to
back engineer a UFO propulsion system in another area of the base
known as S-4 at Papoose Lake. No real evidence of this has come to
light and Lazar has been seriously questioned on his credibility.


Like Lt Col. Corso, co-author of “The Day After Roswell” whom I met on
three separate occasions, and several of the Roswell witnesses, Lazar
is one of those types that I’d like to believe, but cannot without a
significantly more amount of verification of his claims. Credibility,
verification and validity remain the cornerstones of UFO research.





According to Bob Lazar, who worked at area 51, this is how some of the
UFOs look that are reversed engineered there

Rumors have been rampant for sometime that the base is or has moved.
That’s just not true, as one of my sources has recently informed me
that a new gigantic water storage tank has recently been constructed
at Area 51. Employees are moved around from base to base when their
projects are completed, so the number of employees at the base varies
from time to time depending on what projects are being done there.
Daytime stealth is one of things we believe currently being tested at
the base. If successful it would make the surface of an aircraft
appear invisible by taking on the appearance of the background.

Each year the President of the United States issues a Presidential
Determination pertaining to classified information concerning the Air
Force’s Operating Location near Groom Lake, Nevada. Basically that
determination states that “information concerning activities at Groom
Lake have been properly determined to be classified, and disclosure
would be harmful to National Security. Continued protection of this
information is therefore in the paramount interest of the United
States”.


As a tax payer who has helped pay for the base over the years, I
certainly would be disturbed if the base were shut down or moved,
particularly after being lied to about it’s existence in the first
place for many years. I do have very mixed emotions about Area 51
however, as I look at it as a “catch 22” situation. As a world leader
our country needs a location to test newly developed aircraft and
other technology, because we certainly don’t want our advisories
knowing what we’re developing, but if alien craft or beings are being
kept there, I think we deserve to know it. Because of the governments
past record I am highly suspicious that they are hiding something
other than the development of new aircraft. As recently as 1995 the
Department of the Interior withdrew 4000 acres of BLM land from public
access creating an even larger buffer zone to prevent the public from
seeing any activities at Groom Lake. This means the area of land
incorporated into Area 51 is now the size of Connecticut and the
restricted airspace above the base, encloses almost a thousand square
miles.

Security at the base continues to be some of the most stringent of
anywhere in the world. I have been told that security is handled by
ASI (not Wackenhut anymore) and in addition to the white Grand
Cherokees we have heard about for years, they now use Ford and Chevy
pickup trucks also. Highly sophisticated sensing devices are still in
place as well, using camera’s, motion detectors and sensor’s that can
determine the difference between human and animal odors and
perspiration. F-16’s and black un-marked helicopter gun ships fly
around the perimeter of the base to keep the curious out. The signs
posted still say “the use of deadly force is authorized” and they mean
what they say.

So for those of you that have thought that our government can’t keep
secrets, I’ve just presented you with a few examples of some secrets
they have kept at least at Area 51. The base (with a land area the
size of the state of Connecticut) existed under the control of the CIA
for some 25 or 30 years before anything public was acknowledged about
it’s existence. Today we are told that a base exists there, but
nothing else. We found out about the stealth F-117 during the Gulf War
in 1991, whereas it had been test flown at Area 51 in 1977 under the
name “Have Blue” and it’s development had begun in 1973.

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With the other projects going on at Area 51 including radioactive
projects, and the fact that as a taxpayer I’m helping to fund these
projects, I feel you and I have every right to be suspicious and
should continue to seek whatever information we can about what is
taking place at this base.

I highly recommend web site www.dreamlandresort.com to anyone with an
interest in Area 51.



Dennis G. Balthaser













Area 51: Still Above the Law



Since 1955 the United States has developed and maintained a secret
military base 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada, known by
several names, such as Groom Lake, Dreamland, the Box and the most
popular name, “Area 51.” This is no small piece of real estate in the
Nevada desert, but rather a land area the size of the state of
Connecticut, containing an even larger restricted air space. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order on August 19, 1955,
restricting the air space over Groom Lake, Nevada, which is still
heavily in force today

Originally set up to test the U-2 reconnaissance airplane by the CIA,
it has served as a test facility for nearly every newly developed
aircraft since then including; the A-10, A-12, Stealth F-117, B-1 and
B-2 bomber. Whatever has come off of the design drawing boards since
then is probably being test flown there now, which could include such
craft as the Black Manta, The Pumpkin Seed, the Aurora and other
military aircraft that we can’t even speculate about.

The Air Force finally admitted to the existence of Area 51 on April
17, 2000, when an Air Force spokeswoman told the Associated Press
reporters, “We acknowledge having an operating site there (Area 51),
and the work is classified”. She also stated that the work done at
Area 51 includes “operations critical to the U.S. military and the
country’s security.”



I have always maintained that Area 51 (at least for me) is a “Catch
22” situation. I totally agree that we (the United States) need a
place to test newly developed aircraft to keep our adversaries from
knowing what we are developing. That would also explain to me why much
of what is at Area 51 probably is hidden in underground facilities or
in hangars to keep the prying eyes of foreign satellites from knowing
what is going on there. Rumors have surfaced over the years that the
base has as many as 22 levels underground, and some of the hangars
seen from locations miles from the base indicate structures of
gigantic size. One of the two runways at Groom Lake is 30,000 feet
long, indicating some aircraft are landing at tremendous velocity, to
require that length of runway. As a comparison, one of the Roswell
Army Airfield runways is 13,000 feet and was used by B-29 and B-52’s
to carry atomic bombs in the 40’s, 50’s and early 1960’s.





MYSTERY OF THE LONG RUNWAY: During the close of WWII, General Patton's
army came upon a very unusual find at a captured German facility in
France (near the V1 and V2 launch sites).

This finding was described in Patton's biography, which included
specific data and photos, and also in an official document known as
the "Patton memo". In fact, General Patton specifically warned the
U.S. military of unbelievable facilities being found.

General Patton described coming upon a huge runway that was 200 feet
wide, 11,300 feet long, and was made of concrete which was 14 feet
thick. The memo stated that the runway was built by the Germans using
thousands of slave laborers, and took several years to complete. It
was his written opinion that the construction materials and labor
force "surpassed that of the great pyramids" (his words). The runway
incorporated a unique feature at the far end. An upward turned "ski
slope" was built into the runway to allow larger aircraft with heavy
cargo loads to take off more easily. This "ski slope" feature was
later incorporated into the designs of British and Russian aircraft
carriers.

The U.S. constructed such a runway in 1972 for our incoming and
outgoing SECRET horizontal take off and landing spacecraft at Hunter
Army Airfield (Savannah GA.), which was never officially closed.





Other than the flight-testing of aircraft, we know very little about
what transpires at the base, but due to the security around the base
and in the air, it’s obvious that other highly secretive projects are
conducted there on a regular basis. At least one of those projects
involves the production, use, and disposal of toxic waste, which all
government and private business’s except Area 51 are required to
report in their waste disposal procedures, as required under the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), administered by the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

For the fifth year in a row, the President of the United States has
recently granted the Air Force an “executive exemption” from legal
requirements to disclose information regarding solid or hazardous
waste disposal operations at Area 51. Under federal law 42-U.S.C. 6961
(a), the President can exempt any solid waste management facility of
any department or agency in the executive branch from compliance with
such a requirement, if he determines it to be in the paramount
interest of the United States to do so. I have always believed that
the President of the United States does not have the security
clearance to know all there is to know about UFOs, and other secretive
projects of our government and/or military, because he’s a temporary
employee---in office a maximum of 8 years. Making the exemption every
year for Area 51 was decided in 1997, when a court ruled that the
exemption for “an operating location near Groom Lake” had to be issued
by the White House. The first exemption was issued by President
Clinton in 1998 and is being continued yearly by our current resident
in the White House, George W. Bush, who issued the most recent
exemption (Presidential Determination No 2003-39) on September 16,
2003, according to an “immediate release” issued by the White House
Office of the Press Secretary



It’s believed the yearly exemption by the President is the result of a
lawsuit filed in 1996 on behalf of two former civilian employees at
Area 51. Both died of illnesses connected to inhalation of smoke from
toxic materials being disposed of at Area 51. Attorneys for the
families of the two employees claimed the Air Force and EPA violated
the RCRA by illegally burning hazardous waste at Area 51 in open pits.
The attorneys were not seeking monetary damages, but were asking that
the Air Force be required to disclose what the chemical nature of the
hazardous waste was, and their method of disposing of the chemicals at
Area 51. When the lawsuits were filed, the Pentagon denied the
existence of Area 51, and the Air Force lawyers indicated the deceased
former employees could not have possibly inhaled "non-existent" smoke
from "non-existent" hazardous waste disposed of at a "non-existent"
Air Force Base. When the court handed down it’s ruling, it ordered the
EPA to conduct annual inspections at “the operating location near
Groom Lake” for compliance with RCRA and to make it’s findings public.
To avoid any information going public, the federal law mentioned above
was invoked and the Air Force was able to maintain their secrecy at
the base, with the blessing of the President by virtue of the
exemption issued each year. The widows of the former employees will
probably never know what their husbands were exposed to that caused
their deaths, while employed at Area 51. There are undoubtedly other
secretive bases within the United States that also do not need to
comply with the EPA laws, simply exempted from the law, with the
stroke of the President’s pen. What about the ranchers, livestock and
wildlife in the vicinity of Area 51? Are they also in jeopardy of
being exposed to deadly radiation from the unlawful means used to
dispose of toxic wastes at the secret base?




Nothing about any aliens, UFO craft or otherworldly things was ever
mentioned by the former employees or the attorney’s representing their
families, when the lawsuit was filed. There is no factual proof or
verification that anything related to UFOs is taking place at Area 51,
however the rumors continue to flourish, based primarily on statements
made by individuals who claim to have worked there at one time or
another. Those rumors will continue I’m sure until such time that the
government or military decides to inform the public about what really
transpires at the base that has the highest security in the world. As
taxpayers we are entitled to know some things, however if national
security is involved, care must be taken in who is told what. That
however does not in my opinion relieve our government from complying
with the same laws that all other businesses have to comply with.
Politicians constantly rant and rave about the environment, while
dedicated employees such as the two mentioned in the lawsuit are
exposed to toxic waste, that apparently had fatal results while
employed at Area 51, and exemptions continue to be given.

The original Presidential Determinations signed by then President
Clinton and more recently by George W. Bush in 2000 did not mention
the lawsuit. Both the 2002 and 2003 Determinations signed by Bush
however do mention the litigation, in Kasza v. Browner and Frost v.
Perry.


We can assume then that Area 51 is still alive and well. The signs
around the perimeter still indicate “the use of deadly force is
authorized”, and the patrols by the “cammo dudes” in their Jeeps, and
4 wheel drive Ford and Chevy pickups, still monitor any unauthorized
individuals approaching to close to the boundary of the base.

I agree that some of the work being done at Area 51 probably deserves
to be classified, but it does not give the government or military
permission to break the law or to abuse the rights of its employees.

Dennis G. Balthaser




I have been thinking about those rumors of a crashed UFO being studied
at the Groom Lake facility, and it got me thinking about the
possibilities. If the stories were true, I doubt they would gain much
useful knowledge from it. Technology far in advance of your own, (or
even moderately in advance of your own) would be unfathomable.
Consider the following:

A modern F-16 enters a temporal vortex, and crashes on the White House
lawn, back in 1862 or so. The pilot is dead, and the plane will never
fly again, but President Lincoln realizes the by studying the wreckage
of this futuristic machine, they might be able to develop a flying war
machine that would bring a speedy victory against the south. He
summons the top scientists and engineers of the day to study the wreak
and learn what they may.

They would discover that the machine is made of wondrous materials -
Aluminum was newly discovered and more expensive than Silver in that
day. Titanium was unknown, as would be carbon fibre and other
composites. They could discover some of its physical properties, but
would have no idea how to manufacture it.

The principle of the turbine was known, but they would likely assume
the aircraft was steam driven. The electronic fly by wire controls and
on board computer systems would of course be completely unfathomable.
It would be doubtful they could even determine the function of the
countless electronic black boxes on board, let alone try and reproduce
them. Even if the plane and landed intact and the pilot were co-
operative, he could not help them design and build another F16 with
the technology of the day. It is doubtful they could even refine the
fuel that would enable the one aircraft they had to fly a single
mission!

An examination of the overall aircraft would not give them any
advantage in learning how to build a flying machine either - aircraft
of the early 20th century bear no resemblance to a modern jet fighter.
If the Wright brothers were given the opportunity to carefully examine
one before they started building their flyer, it would have set them
back many years. They might have been wasting time trying to build gas
turbines, instead of using internal combustion engines with
propellers. Also, modern fighters are not aerodynamically stable, a
sacrifice made to improve maneuverability. They require active
computer control systems - if the onboard computer goes down, so does
the plane. And 1900's era flying machine design attempting to emulate
the construction of a modern fighter would be doomed to failure.






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