What do you know abt AREA 51?
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The Groom Lake Base is this top-secret military base located 90 miles north of Las Vegas (which is in Nevada). It's in grid number 51 of the Nevada Test Site, so it's called Area 51. The United States Air Force Flight Test Center controls the base. It's best known for testing exotic aircraft and weapons. The base was created in 1954 as a place to test the secret U-2 spyplane that was used to fly missions over the Soviet Union. Then it started to house the SR-71, A-12 and D-21 drone. The F-117A was tested there, also. In the 1980's the base increased in size, along with the runway (which increased to the present 6 miles). Then, mysterious lights began to appear, and armed guards known as the cammo dudes started patrolling the border. The government closed many viewpoints from which the Area 51 base could be seen. In 1989, a "physicist" named Bob Lazar claimed that he worked at a base south of Area 51 and also claimed that Area 51 was testing extremely advanced aircraft and UFO's they got by trading with the aliens. Since then, Area 51 has been thought to be the test center of captured UFOs because of the lights in the night sky.
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UFO means "Unidentified Flying Object", right?\n\nBut Area 51 is on the ground.  If the objects were at Area 51, they would not be flying.  So they would not be flying objects.  Therefore, it would be a misnomer to call them Unidentified FLYING Objects.  So, in reality, the possibility of UFOs at Area 51 does not exist.\n\nDespite the fact there are no UFOs there, there is a web page at the Wikipedia documenting what is known about Area 51.  Also, it recounts a lot of fiction about the US government site - as well as some interesting trivia.\n\nI have included the link, so that you don't go away completely empty-handed.
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No aliens, no UFO, unless you consider top secret aircraft *designed* by human beings of this planet -- which are flown only at night so they will not be identified -- as UFO.\n\nIf aliens from outer space had come to Earth, they would have had the technology to not be captured in the first place; and they could have gathered all the info they would have needed from orbit anyway.\n\nArea 51 is secret because there are captured airplane from other countries in there; and the US government does not want anyone -- especial the foreign governments -- to know what they know about them.\n\nBut flying saucers?  No way.
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I grew up just north of there. And I suspect the reason why few people are knowledgeable of UFOs is the obvious one. There aren't any. At least in the sense of alien or secret government spacecraft or triangular black blimps or whatever is in vogue today.\n\nWhile I would love for there to be aliens cavorting around the planet (I used to be an astrophysicist) it is often embarrassingly obvious that various UFO sightings are less than they appear.\n\nBasically, the best verified sightings are of lights (which could come from a number of obvious and not so obvious phenomena), and the most detailed sightings (aliens, probes and that whole bit) are the least verified.\n\nIt is also very suspicious that the nature of UFO reports has evolved to match our current level of technology. A century ago it was myster blimps and night flights of spindly aircraft, then it turned into flying saucers.\n\nThe big "incidents" have been reviewed numerous times and are clearly not anything out of the ordinary. Roswell for example *was* a coverup - of secret military high altitude balloons intended to detect Soviet atomic bombs, Project Mogul. This has been known for years now, but Roswell still pops up on TV along with Area 51 as the secret storehouse of alien spaceships or whatnot.\n\nThen there is stuff which pops up that says the B2 stealth bomber is using alien antigravity technology or something, which is all very silly. There is a well known (and public) trail for the technology of stealth (the nitty gritty details are secret, but the principles are well known) and the flying wing design.\n\nBasically one has to conclude that a government that couldn't pull off a simple burglary or hide its secret prisions and info-tapping more recently, can keep all this alleged alien stuff under wraps for 50+ years. That seems the hardest bit the swallow.\n\nKarl Pflock wrote a book about Roswell, now unfortunately out of print, which is excellent. He started as a beliver and ended up convinced that it was all due to Project Mogul.\nsee: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006PBXB4/sr=1-5/qid=1137560494/ref=sr_1_5/102-4624807-3864156?%5Fencoding=UTF8
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Our governement has definately recovered at least three flying saucers. UFO means Unidentified Flying Object, so just about any air-base that runs night operations is a UFO base. A bug can be a UFO, a cloud can be a UFO, if it flies and you cant identify it, its a UFO. Area 51 did house some really interesting 'out of this world' stuff at one time, but it is not known to me if it still does or even if it housed the 'stuff' for long. Area 51 is the focal-point of alot of flying saucer mythology because of an event or two that transpired there many decades ago. Our government knows about this weird stuff, to some degree or another, but will NEVER come clean on it, so dont ever involve them in anything if you find something very interesting. They would just 'clean up the mess' and you would probably get 'rubbed' in the process. The truth, as far as ive been able to piece together, is that the flying saucers and those who pilot them are coming not from outer space, but from within the Earth. Im not talking some Hollow Planet, Inner Sun gibberish here, but it is pretty kooky, none the less. There is at least one civilization of beings who reside in gigantic caverns and networks deep beneath the crust of our planet, possibly near or at where continental shelves pull apart or meet but dont touch together everywhere, or something. I think they, the real 'they', are the decendants of human-sized, intelligent, bipedal dinosaurs who got trapped in caves and found places that harbor life deep in the earth. They eventually developed scientific stuff including genetic manipulation and created the hairy dwarves, 'bigfoot', and 'grey aliens' that are sometimes reported seen. They may have had something to do with our own development. That would help explain why their mind tricks are so effective on us. A random process that developed on a completely alien planet would probably not be as strong as their mind tricks are when used on us.
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I actually think the Air Force was telling the truth on this one, there are no aliens in their custody at Area 51 or any other place. The 'craft' found in the late forties really was a weather baloon.\n\nPlease remember, at the time the weather baloons were the only way for the USAF to obtain spy photographs of the Soviet Union, and this was before the Berlin Blockade, so the USA was still technically USSR's ally. We did not want to admit that we were spying and provoking war. Also, Roswell was the only airbase with an active force of aircraft capable of nuclear delivery. Well into the 1950's the US military still had no idea of how to handle nuclear material safely, thus the recurrence of above ground testing, soldiers marched into mushroom clouds in the desert and the Bikini Atoll fiasco, not to mention the strange wounds reported at the base hospital.\n\nI don't think there is a greater intelligence in the universe. I think we are it, and we're pretty stupid all in all!
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there have been several UFO crashes through out the world in the last 50 years..including the United States..and more recent Russia in the eighties with none human bodies recovered from the sites...but it is all the same..they are kept secret for their own gains and advantages..they are real...I have seen them several times in day and night in the sky...anyone who has that kind of government clearance ..to the ufos are under very close scrutiny..they are risking life if any information was to get out..that would be why...we never get any info about area 51..yes it is the greed factor...pity...we all could probaly be better off if those technologies from the downed crafts we given to the world to use..for the good of mankind ..and for our poor poor planet Earth
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I know alittle bit,BUT need more Info.
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My gues would be that the government is using the faacility for flight testing of next-generation manned and unmanned aircraft, as well as other flight-related research.\n\nHowever, the *really* super-secret stuff (whatever you believe it to be) is being conducted elsewhere. The government allows everyone to think that something shady is going on in Area 51, so as to keep their attention focused on it, while the really juicy stuff is going on out in same out-of-the-way location that nobody pays any attention to.
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Who knows? Even if we can see there, may be they already cloack their entire base. Just kidding, I don't know. And may be we will never know. Oh well, even if there's someone who indeed know that there is an alien base there, that person won't be with us anyomre to tell us the truth, because he's already abducted by CIA.
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Are we alone? Probably not. It would be fairly conceited to think otherwise. What is the 'grand secret' the government doesn't want us to know? I really doubt there is any secret. I don't believe any foreign intelligent life has ever visited the earth. Frankly, if they have the technology to cover the vast distances to visit us, then they would have no interest in doing so. If it was the land they were interested in, then we would not be hear anymore. They probably could anihalate us in the blink of an eye.
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"Area 51 (also known as Dreamland, Watertown, The Ranch, Paradise Ranch, The Farm, The Box, Groom Lake, and The Directorate for Development Plans Area) is a remote tract of land in southern Nevada, owned by the federal government of the United States, containing an air field apparently used for the secret development and testing of new military aircraft. It is famed as the subject of many UFO conspiracy theories."\n\nVia Wikipedia.
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The area is Nellis Air Force Range and nuclear test site, more commonly known as Area 51, (the name is derived from the way the country was divided according to old maps). It was founded in 1954 and its exact location is at the heart of area 51, Groom Lake. But you can't go there, you can't even take a photograph without the risk of being fined, sent to jail or even killed. \nIn fact, the military denied its very existence until they were forced to admit it in 1994.
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They say they have the alien bodies in a hangar at some air force base in Ohio or  area 51 in Nevada, so how can they be from Earth?
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Be careful especially if you are in California.  Area 52 (area 51 is a misdirection) is in California.  Flying saucers have been coming to California for decades, abducting people onto the saucers, probing them, then returning them to earth/California where they become California democrats.  Thousands of Californians will testify under oath to that abduction, and they are all democrats.  If they are not democrats probably they are faking it.
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There are so many inexplicable details I have read regarding the an alien spaceship crashing in Roswell NM, which supposedly resulted in alien bodies being stored in AREA 51.\n\nIf there was really no crash, why did the military and the government threaten so many people to keep silent about what they saw?  Why was the area sealed off and every inch combed by hundreds of military personnel?
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"I, I don't have a whole lot of time. Um, OK, I'm a former employee of Area 51 video tape imbedding project. I, I was let go on a medical discharge about a week ago and, and... [chokes] I've kind of been running across the country. Damn, I don't know where to start, they're, they're gonna, um, they'll triangulate on this position really soon.\nOK, um, um, OK, what we're thinking of as, as aliens, they're extradimensional beings, that, an earlier precursor of the, um, space program they made contact with. They are not what they claim to be. Uh, they've infiltrated a, a lot of aspects of, of, of the military establishment, particularly the Area 51 and.\nThe disasters that are coming, they, the military, I'm sorry, the government knows about them. And there's a lot of safe areas in this world that they could begin moving the population to now. They are not! They want those major population centers wiped out so that the few that are left will be more easily controllable." Faaip de Oiad -Tool\n(From transcripts of the Art Bell AM radio show, and Mother’s own edit.)