US Government Finally Admits: Yes, Area 51 Exists

from gizmodo.com: It's a good day to be a conspiracy theorist. Ending a decades-long game of leak after leak without any official word, the US government has finally admitted the existence of Area 51 in a recently declassified CIA report detailing the history of the U-2.

The National Security Archive at George Washington University published the report, "The Secret History of the U-2," and within its pages are numerous references to Area 51, which the US used as a secret test facility for the Cold War-era plane. Describing how they came to settle on that particular, now notorious piece of Nevada land, the report states:

On 12 April 1955, Richard Bissell and Col. Osmund Ritland (the senior Air Force officer on the project staff) flew over Nevada with Kelly Johnson on a small Beechcraft plane piloted by Lockheed’s chief test pilot, Tony LeVier. They spotted what appeared to be an airstrip by a salt flat known as Groom Lake, near the northeast corner of the Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) Nevada Proving Ground.

After landing on the lake bed, the group concluded that they had found the perfect place to host their covert tests—and the consequent cascade of alien and UFO conspiracy theories that would soon follow. But the name Area 51 (which came from its map designation) doesn't exactly inspire that warm, fuzzy feeling, so after getting President Eisenhower's approval, they went for something a little more feel-good. According to the report:

The outlines of Area 51 are shown on current unclassified maps as a small rectangular area adjoining the northeast corner of the much larger Nevada Test Site. To make the new facility in the middle of nowhere sound more attractive to his workers, Kelly Johnson called it the Paradise Ranch, which was soon shortened to the Ranch.

But just because Area 51 hadn't been officially recognized until now doesn't mean that people weren't fully aware that it was, in fact, a very real thing. Still, what this government milestone does mean is that, now that they've fully admitted to the base's existence, this opens up a whole slew of potential soon-to-be-declassified documents that would otherwise have remained closed off thanks to their close connection to Area 51.

new year's eve retrovision: red planet mars

On the precipice of 2012, the year will live up to some prediction simply due to number thrown at us! James Evan Pilato, Mediamonarchy.com host, relates belief in weekly episode 245, the coming year will see further ramping up of Project Blue Beam faked alien invasion propaganda. Cyber/space\war posts document odd trend of formalization of alien contact, "united nations 'to appoint space ambassador to greet alien visitors'" and "earth must prepare for close encounter with aliens." What would really happen if alien contact were made? Would it be an Orson Welles inspired panic as in 1938's "War of the Worlds"? The 1952 Film "Red Planet Mars" starring a youthful Peter Graves, presents surreal resemblance to our present situation! Or, does movie imply how long the agenda has been with us? Wikipedia entry relates plot summary after alien contact publicly announced: 

"This knowledge [of alien contact] leads to political and economic chaos, especially in the West. The American government imposes a news blackout after the first four messages, only to reveal many messages later that Earth's people can be saved if they return to the worship of God. Revolution sweeps the globe, including the Soviet Union. But there remains doubt about the messages being genuine, as an ex-Nazi who developed the original communication device prototype prepares to announce that he has been duping the Americans with false messages from a secret Soviet-funded radio transmitter high in the Andes mountains of South America. The mystery thickens as it appears the messages may have continued even after the secret transmitter was destroyed in an avalanche."

The movie can be panned as a Red Menace propaganda movie with message return to God and Christianity and the Red Scare can be defeated! Red Planet Mars is eerily fascinating and the plot superior to today's formula Hollywood films, admission is free!