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Area 51 - Myth or Reality?

Posted: 04/08/2012 00:00

A name that most members of the public would have heard off, either from TV or from the press. It is probably the world's most top secret military installation and depsite official denial and confirmation that it exists, the world is aware that it is there.

Also known as Dreamland or Groom Lake, it's a real place, a top secret military installation that I have seen and been detained on for tresspass.

Why could entering this part of the Nevada desert cost you your life? Is the US Government hiding UFOs there and using their technology to build craft unimaginable?

Situated about 85 miles North West of Las Vegas in the Nevada desert, the official maps stop. Nothing beyond that point is 'clearly named' or pointed out. This is a vast area of roads, creeks, mountains, bunkers and a huge five mile runway. Signs warn of trespassing and photography and if your caught then you could face a fine, six months in jail or a visit from the secret services and even death threats. If you 'disappeared' your body would never be found, say the boundary security guards aka 'Camo Dudes'.

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I got caught trespassing on the base on 14 May 2012. I was filming a UFO documentary and although we were harmless to security, it turned out to be one of the most frightening days of my life. It was literally a case of being held at gunpoint face down in the dirt for three solid hours, thinking that you may never see your family again.

But I took in what I saw and heard, and lying there on the ground I suddenly realised that we should not be ignoring the fact that this base has a big secret to hide.

Read more at: www.ufoshropshire.co.uk

So it's a real place and it's reality, what about all the hype regarding Extra Terrestrial technology?

The base was founded in 1954 as a top secret facility in which Lockheed Aircraft Corporation could develop spy planes for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). Area 51 is still home to some of the most futuristic projects that man has ever been capable of making. The stealth bomber was tested here, along with other unconventional aircraft.

Read more on the aircraft www.dreamlandresort.com" target="_hplink">here.

It has always been shrouded in mystery and is well known with conspiracy theories and myths and some elaborate stories. The USAF (United States Air Force) only admitted it's existence in 1994 but only because it represented the cutting edge of technology.The only trouble with this, is that the technology was not American. Neither were the people that built it, and both are from outer space...

Ever since the base was established, people have reported odd looking objects and craft in the sky above Nevada. The claims have always rubbished by the authorities, but denial soon turned to embarrassment when one of their own alleged that not only were UFOs above Area 51, but the USAF was actively working with Extra Terrestrial technology.

The whistle blower was a man called 'Bob' Lazar. He was contract scientist who worked on the base from December 1988. He revealed in 1989 that the US Government was then working on nine flying saucers and were trying to reverse engineer and adapt the extra terrestrial technology.

He then went on to describe another top secret area nearby called the 'S4' site which can be found next to Papoose Lake within Area 51. This is where the Extra Terrestrial craft were stored, and he revealed that he was part of a team of 22 engineers who had the job of trying to figure out how the propulsion systems operated.

S4 is also belived to be the place where a crashed UFOs from Roswell and Aztec where taken and there inhabitants stored in large grey canisters deep underground.

According to Lazar, S4 was an underground complex which went right underneath a whole mountain range. When he worked on the craft he described them of having "no physical seams, no welds, bolts or rivets." He described the propulsion unit as "a baseball sized object that radiated an anti-gravity field through the centre of the craft."

These were incredible claims to make, but since the claims he made more than a dozen or so people have come forward over the years with supporting evidence and claims.

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Year after year people visit Area 51 and try to get as close as they can. Belive me I tried and was lucky to get off with a fine of $600. But more questions need to be asked...

Why has the US Government never officially confirmed the base even though everyone knows it's there?

What really is being hidden or stored there, that suggests having a 25 mile boundary in place?

We may never know the answers to these questions, but slowly over time more information is becomign available and only time will tell.

Still 'something' is certainly happening deep in the Nevada desert. We know that the secret 'black programs' exist, and they are said to eat up over $35 billion of public cash every year. But there is more to it than this...

The craft are ultra secret, silent and incredibly fast. They can cloak themselves so that they disappear from the naked eye, and it is said that they can with stand massive G forces. All this and the finger points frimly in the direction that it was all developed from Extra Terrestrial technology.

The staff that work there all live in the state and travel from places such as Las Vegas by private aircraft or commute from places such as nearby Alamo and Rachel. They are bound by data protection and secrecy and have to undergo very strict criteria to even be able to work on or near the base.

The bottom line is that Area 51 is no myth. It's reality... and it really does have some weird and wonderful things. The question is who gave us the technology and where did it really come from...

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Read more about my trip to the USA and Area 51 on my website blog: UFO Shropshire

 
 
 

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A name that most members of the public would have heard off, either from TV or from the press. It is probably the world's most top secret military installation and depsite official denial and confirma...
A name that most members of the public would have heard off, either from TV or from the press. It is probably the world's most top secret military installation and depsite official denial and confirma...
 
 
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Darren Perks
09:37 PM on 08/07/2012
Check out my website for new updated maps on how you can view the base without getting arrested:
http://www.ufoshropshire.co.uk/?page_id=752
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Darren Perks
04:49 PM on 08/05/2012
I see the sceptics are out again in full force. You do provide some great humour though ;-)
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kella
09:14 PM on 08/05/2012
We saw a flying saucer not a UFO. I am a reliable witness for my upbringing and my profession, but people tend to joke about it. Talked to a physicist in California that is part of an organization that is made of scientists in related fields. Not opened to the public. He believed me and told me hed had reports on the particular object we saw.
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10:30 PM on 08/04/2012
Probably the most interesting ufo period was from 1940 to 1960 .The detonation of atomic weapons in the earth's atmosphere would look mad dog to any E.Ts watching. The washington flap of early 1950s
and the subsequent military investigations did not reveal the truth..Winston Churchill was moved to ask about flying saucers with both USAF AND RAF reporting unexplained encounters with unknown
U.F.Os during 1950s long before the CIA used them as a cover story for top secret military aircraft.
09:27 PM on 08/04/2012
Area 51, the secret place where Cameron and Clegg have hidden the economic recovery plans. What...it's not just fiction..??.....OK show me the plans!
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rg9rts
Carpe Diem! This aint rehearsal
07:33 PM on 08/04/2012
The appeal of area 51 is the same as a bra!!! It's hiding something and I want to see it !!!! The US gov. would be overjoyed to have equipment that is 1/10 as efficient as the UFOers would claim. When I worked with the SR 71 we could circle the globe in under an hour!!! Please people leave the "I want to believe" poster on Mulders wall.
03:04 PM on 08/04/2012
I checked it out using Google Earth! no need to be caught trespassing dude!

Saucer shaped planes are nothing new, the germans were working on them during WW2 as a possable Amerika Bomber because conventional aircraft did not have the range or altitude capability required. When germany fell the plans, documents and scientists where grabbed by the US and Russian millitary. No surprise they both went on to develope the craft and made efforts to encourage the handy rumors of alien visits as a great cover story. Everyone knows real aliens dont come in saucers, they work in DC.
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rg9rts
Carpe Diem! This aint rehearsal
07:41 PM on 08/04/2012
Reality be known, the ideas have always been there but the technology has been lacking. ie.; the flying wing, developed and flown in 1947 had a tendency to flip over. I took the intro of computer technology to make it actually flyable. The same thing applies to the F 111. Computer goes you are toast.~~(^..^)
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SecularAdvocate
Media Watcher
11:34 AM on 08/04/2012
Here's an even more awesome and amazing conjecture:

We're all alone here. Too far from anywhere else for it to make any difference.
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rg9rts
Carpe Diem! This aint rehearsal
07:42 PM on 08/04/2012
You hope! ~~~(^..^)
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SecularAdvocate
Media Watcher
11:29 AM on 08/04/2012
You wish.

And you project.

And that's all you got.

You might as well join a church.
08:29 AM on 08/04/2012
I think they're trying to create anti-gravity fast food so that America can munch as many burgers and Twinkies as it likes without putting on any weight. Theres as much chance of that being true as most of what's above.
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rg9rts
Carpe Diem! This aint rehearsal
07:44 PM on 08/04/2012
Yes. Sadly Twinkies is going out of business.
11:48 PM on 08/04/2012
We don't really know what they are in England it just seems like a nice generic term for cakey food.
06:48 AM on 08/04/2012
I lost count after 50 typo's. Hope your research into UFO's is more thorough!
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HeadlineZoo
01:41 AM on 08/04/2012
I wonder what Darren Perkins thinks of this:

http://ow.ly/i/A4By
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erebus99
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
01:21 AM on 08/04/2012
There is actually a small grain of truth underneath the mountain of bull**** here. I lived in the Mojave Desert at several times in the 60's and 70's, and I and the people I was with - who all had backgrounds in science - saw strange triangular-shaped craft fly over on occasion. They were always at a very high altitude, and usually in the evening or early morning when the sky was pretty dark.
In all the endless hours I'd spent doing amateur astronomy out there they were the only thing I ever saw that came close to being a classic UFO, and I always wondered what they were - until the Air Force unveiled their new radar-evading B-1 bomber.
Which, by necessity, had been developed and tested at the most isolated and secret location they had.
But, hey - somebody's gotta give those late-night radio talk show hosts something to live for, so don't let me stop you.
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SecularAdvocate
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11:30 AM on 08/04/2012
Quite.
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rgray222
01:09 AM on 08/04/2012
For a comprehensive read on the facts and secrets of Area 51 check out
http://www.educatinghumanity.com/2011/06/area-51-facts-secrets-things-you-did.html
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GetACluepeople
Because common sense is very uncommon
12:16 AM on 08/04/2012
What makes most folks doubt the Alien connection and all the backward engineering speculation is if we could do that and build a home grown UFO why are DMV's all across the nation still screwed up? Now serving E-5 at window number 26! :)
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rg9rts
Carpe Diem! This aint rehearsal
07:48 PM on 08/04/2012
E-5 Is a winner!!!
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hagagaga
You can't take the sky from me.
11:39 PM on 08/03/2012
There really is a part of Nellis Air Force Base called Area 51.