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.

area 51 declassified: u-2 and oxcart (a-12) programs

In 1955, Lockheed Skunkworks selected Groom Lake aka Area 51, the name provided by a grid map, as an ideal location for testing of u-2 high altitude spy plane as it came off the drawing boards. The dried lakebed made an ideal airstrip and its remote location surrounded by the Nevada Test Site, would help prevent spying. National Geographic provides a good overview in "Area 51 Declassified," of early days there, which can be appreciated by anyone old enough to realize how long the facility remained unknown.

"In only three months a 5,000-foot...runway was constructed and was serviceable by July 1955. The Ranch [Area 51] received its first U-2 delivery on 24 July 1955 from Burbank on a C-124 Globemaster II cargo plane, accompanied by Lockheed technicians on a Douglas DC-3 The first U-2 lifted off from Groom on 4 August 1955. A U-2 fleet under the control of the CIA began overflights of Soviet territory by mid-1956," according to Wikipedia.

In 1960, the A-12 designed to replace the U-2 also known by code name OXCART, required significant expansion to the facility. A longer airstrip and new hangars were built to accomodate the first stealth plane. "The first OXCART was covertly trucked to the base in February 1962, assembled, and it made its first flight 26 April 1962...The A-12 would remain at Groom Lake until 1968 and occasionally deployed to other United States bases overseas. The SR-71 Blackbird, by contrast, first flew at Palmdale, California in December 1964, and Palmdale and Edwards AFB served as the primary operation sites for that model until Beale Air Force Base became active in early 1966." according to Wikipedia's Groom Lake entry, again.

One criticism of National Geographic's hour long documentary, is, it's little more than a collection of "old codgers" who are boring to watch. The present writer believes information on U-2 and A-12 programs in early days of Area 51, outweighs its shortcomings and well worth anyone's time.

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area 51 loses mystique for some after accusations of hoax

'area 51' touts jaw-dropping claim about ufo's
from bookbuzz: Just the term "Area 51" sets UFO theorists trembling with excitement. This week, a book titled Area 51 enters the list at No. 27. Author Annie Jacobsen interviewed 74 people including 32 who worked and lived at the secret Nevada military facility (which the U.S. government has never admitted exists). Area 51 covers the history of the Cold War, but the reason it's climbing the list faster than aliens swarming a spaceship? Jacobsen's jaw-dropping claim about a flying saucer which reportedly crashed in July 1947 in Roswell, N.M. The pilots weren't aliens but Russian or German children and teenagers who were surgically made to resemble the Martians in Orson Welles' 1938 The War of the Worlds radio broadcast, the book claims. Jacobsen says Stalin may have secretly collaborated with Nazi Josef Mengele in hopes of spreading panic in the U.S.

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black triangles: tr-3b astra

Top Secret TR-3B remains only a rumored craft, a product of an off-the-books black project called Aurora. Edgar Fouche, a former Area 51 worker, came forward in the nineties to reveal much of what is known in his book, "Alien Rapture - The Chosen," co-written by Brad Steiger. A description of the craft's capability clearly resembles the Nazi Bell. "The TR-3B has a circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter. The mercury based plasma is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin, and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption."

An article at Rense.com explains further the accelerator's value, "...mass of the circular accelerator, and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by almost 90%. This causes the effect of making a vehicle extremely light and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed--except, of course, those UFOs we did not build. The TR-3 is a reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. "Indefinite" because it uses a nuclear reactor for power." The actual propulsion is provided by three multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. If you need more information there is TR-3B.com.

Is the TR-3B Astra real? You can listen to a Coast to Coast interview of a close encounter with a TR-3B. There's been many sightings of black trangles. Some contend the TR-3B has been retired? Is it buried at Groom Lake?

Edgar Fouche left black ops work to market a behavior modification software package, called Neurosync MIME! It's a chilling thought, people buying subliminal messages that may control more than just how much they smoke or eat? Will it feel strange--or just confusing--to be happy when your rational mind says otherwise? Will you just shrug your shoulders after a brief pause to continue your day? The controllers couldn't be so obvious--could they?

the bob lazar story: s-4 sport model fueled by element 115

The Bob Lazar Story still fascinates, though, the first anonymous interview with George Knapp took place over 20 years ago. Lazar's credibility remains in question to this day, because of an inability to substantiate his background according to this timeline. It appears doubtful Lazar attended either CalTech or MIT and graduated in the bottom third of his 1976 high school class. Lazar still has his backers who found much evidence to support his claims. Lazar's six months in 1989 at Area 51's S-4 site to reverse engineer an alien disc in a project called Galileo, remains spellbinding--either way! You can view a credible Lazar in a well done interview about his experience here. The story propels us into the future with enough detail to pique curiosity.


Lazar's top secret government research career appears to have kicked into high gear by attending a lecture by famous nuclear physicist Edward Teller at Los Alamos, NM on June 28, 1982, where he met Teller. The scientist happened to have the Los Alamos Monitor newspaper opened to an article on Lazar's jet car demonstration of the day before. The article refers to Lazar as a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Teller is provided a resume according to Lazar, but elsewhere, the eccentric nuclear scientist is cited as not remembering ever meeting him. Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, is the character Dr. Strangelove is based so anything is possible here?

The details of the S-4 Sport Model (pictured) described by Lazar, seems more than a passing familiarity and captivates a reader's imagination! The physical description of the alien "sleek sport model" disc, acquired in trade from aliens, lends an air of realism if not credibility to the story. Three gravity amplifiers with wave guides located on the lowest level and a reactor fueled by Element 115 on the middle level, while avoiding a detailed description of the technology that can be surveyed here and here, does leave doubt whether this is a hoax? It's either a good psyop or it's the real thing! Norio Hayakawa, a veteran UFO researcher who still has questions, cannot decide whether Lazar is a fraud in an article here? It's just a fascinating story either way!

conspiracy theory area 51

Conspiracy Theory Area 51 episode with Jesse Ventura provides little known facts about the secret base in Nevada's desert. Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) director Clifford Clift believes there are approximately a dozen alien spacecraft in human hands. Area 51 has thirty levels below ground and most employees fly in from Las Vegas daily. There's also reference to the Area 51 Lawsuit filed by attorney Jonathan Turley for employees exposed to toxic substances, which resulted in the public learning more about the secret base. Randall Fitzgerald, a former editor at Reader's Digest, makes perhaps the biggest impression, when he relates witnesses reported "a wavy distortion in the sky" during the 1997 Phoenix Lights phenomenon. This account of the UFO(s) over Phoenix transits the episode into entirely different direction, following a psyop theme. Fitzgerald adds documents were declassified not long after the event, admitting the government deceived the American people about UFOs, encouraging the belief. Fitzgerald wonders if the lights were holographic in nature, i.e., planes equipped with holographic projection equipment and makes clear the source, in his belief, is Area 51? Your mind reels, asking yourself, which is the psyop?