Area 51

Area 51 (Currently known as Air Force Flight Test Center, Detachment 3 and also known as Dreamland, Watertown Strip, Paradise Ranch, The Box, Groom Lake) is a remote tract of land in southern Nevada, owned by the United States Air Force, containing an airfield whose primary purpose is the secret development and testing of new military aircraft. It is famed as the subject of many UFO conspiracy theories. Its secretive nature and undoubted connection to classified aircraft research, together with reports of unusual phenomena, have led Area 51 to become a centerpiece of modern UFO and conspiracy theory. Some of the unconventional activities claimed to be underway at Area 51 include: The storage, examination, and reverse engineering of crashed alien spacecraft (including material supposedly recovered at Roswell), the study of their occupants (living and dead), and the manufacture of aircraft based on alien technology. Meetings or joint undertakings with extraterrestrials. The development of exotic energy weapons (for SDI applications or otherwise) or means of weather control. Activities related to a supposed shadowy world government. Many of the theories concern underground facilities at Groom or at nearby Papoose Lake, and include claims of a transcontinental underground railroad system, a disappearing airstrip (nicknamed the "Cheshire Airstrip", after Lewis Carroll's Cheshire cat) which briefly appears when water is sprayed onto its camouflaged asphalt , and engineering based on alien technology. In 1989, Bob Lazar claimed that he had worked at a facility at Papoose Lake (which he called S-4) on such a U.S. Government flying saucer. One major theory is that Area 51 is a place which simulates the environment of the moon. In 2000-2001, Fox Television broadcast a show about Apollo moon landing hoax accusations, in which it was suggested that the whole moon landing in 1969 was a hoax and was filmed in parts of Area 51. Others, however, claim that during the mid 1990s, the most secret work previously done at Groom was quietly moved to other facilities, including Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, and that the continued secrecy around Groom is largely a successful attempt at misdirection.In July 1996, a man named Victor came forward and said on Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM radio show that he had a videotape of an alien interrogation. He said that he copied the tape and smuggled the copy out of Area 51. The video showed the head of an alien in a dark room, possibly using telepathy to communicate with military personnel and scientists.

Lazar says that he met Edward Teller while employed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and that Teller recommended him for an employment interview with EG&G after Lazar had moved to Las Vegas. They passed him over for the job, but not soon after, shuttled him to Area 51 to work on classified projects. As Gene Huff writes, "At area 51, Bob had to sign a secrecy agreement and an agreement to waive his constitutional rights, which is illegal but was made possible by an executive order with Ronald Reagan's signature on it. He also had to sign an agreement which allowed them to monitor his phone line. Bob already had 'Q' clearance, which is top secret civilian clearance, at Los Alamos but he had never gone through anything like this. The clearance he was now attaining would require perpetual monitoring of his activities and would never simply be attained and forgotten about until the next review date. After some abrupt suggestions that he honor his secrecy agreement and watch his general conduct, he and Mariani boarded a bus with blacked out windows and took a 20 to 30 minute ride down a bumpy dirt/gravel road. They arrived at a base near Papoose dry lake bed known as S4."After some allergy tests (due, Lazar said, to the potentially hazardous substances he might be required to use) Lazar was informed that he would be "on call" as needed. He continued working at a photography shop, while making jaunts to S4 about once a week. Eventually, Lazar says he was asked to examine the propulsion system of a disc-shaped aircraft (he insists he saw nine flying saucers in various states of disrepair, but was allowed to closely examine only one of them). Lazar claims that when he first saw disc-shaped craft at the base, he concluded they were secret — but decidedly terrestrial — aircraft, and that sightings of test flights were responsible for UFO reports. Only on closer examination of the craft did Lazar conclude it was designed by and for extraterrestrials.

Lazar claimed that the placeholder element ununpentium (Uup) was the fuel that enabled extraterrestrial craft (commonly called flying saucers or UFOs) to travel interstellar distances. Uup's role was twofold. Firstly, it provided an energy source which would step up to ununhexium under particulate bombardment. The ununhexium would then decay, including a small measure of antimatter in its decay product. Its second function, discovered later, allegedly lay in the intense strong nuclear force field of its superheavy nucleus. This field extended barely usably beyond the atom's perimeter. But properly amplified, this could be employed as a variant of gravity. "Gravity B", as he claimed project scientists referred to it, could thus be employed to "shape" a craft's relation to the gravitized space around it. Lazar said this property explained the "triple dome" structure frequently shown in sketches and photographs of saucer-shaped UFOs, which he believed to be the crafts' gravity amplifiers.

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Lazar described ununpentium as a heavy dull orange metal which had to be properly machined for such use. He ascribed the element's absence on Earth to the fact that the supernovae in Earth's region of the galaxy were insufficiently massive to produce nuclei of this density, but other parts of the universe are richer in this element. These areas, according to Lazar, are inhabited by the adventurous (but to date comparatively reclusive) extraterrestrial visitors who could employ it. A significant supply, he claimed, was acquired through direct exchange by supersecret US government operations at Nevada Test Site Area 51.

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Eventually, insists Lazar, he gradually came to dislike his job at S4, for several reasons: he disliked the secrecy, intimidation and the danger to his health, and he also thought that the evidence of extraterrestrials visiting earth should be exposed.After driving some friends to S4 to witness test flights of the craft, Lazar decided to alert the public to the goings on. He first appeared on Knapp's program under the pseudonym "Dennis" with his features hidden. His true identity was later revealed, and the story garnered some major attention.When quizzed about Lazar's claims, Teller said "Look, I don’t know Bob Lazar. All this sounds fine. I probably met him. I might have said to somebody I met him and I liked him, after I met him, and if I liked him. But I don’t remember him . . . I mean you are trying to force questions on me that I simply won’t answer."

His claims are that the strong nuclear force of element 115's superheavy nucleus extends beyond the electron shell. Upon amplification, the macroscopic manifestation of the strong nuclear force is a variant of another fundamental force, gravity. Lazar referred to this force as "Gravity-B". These claims haven't been confirmed, as the only yet known isotopes of Ununpentium have a half-life of approximately 100 milliseconds, however it's expected more stable isotopes exist. There is also no known mechanism directly equating the strong nuclear force with gravity. There have been no stable isotopes of element 115 yet created, however the "magic number" of 184 neutrons for the island of stability hasn't been reached. Element 115 also is in the same group as Bismuth, which has unique diamagnetic properties, which aren't fully understood.

Although dozens of books have been written about the infamous Roswell, New Mexico, and "Area 51," north of Las Vegas, Nevada, both supposed sites of extraterrestrial biological entities (EBEs), most of these books rely on indirect evidence and questionable witnesses, and the present work is no exception. Darlington (The Mojave, LJ 4/1/96) conducted a series of interviews and direct observations of the now tourist-infested Area 51 site. Unfortunately, he uncovered no new evidence or credible testimony to finally prove the existence of EBEs. Darlington follows the trials and tribulations of Bob Lazar and Glenn Campbell (not the singer)?characters with dubious backgrounds who attempt to spread their beliefs in UFOs. Unless readers are interested in the life of an amateur UFO investigator or trailer life, they will likely find nothing new or even entertaining here.?

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written by Moriah on December 31, 2008

This is very interesting. I love this website!

This stuff about Area 51 freaks me out. We've all seen movies or TV shows that depict "alien autopsies" or whatever. But I really think we shouldn't go looking for trouble in this way. What if we accidentally harmed peaceful otherworldly astronauts? All this sounds like a recipe for interplanetary war sometime in the future to me.

But then again, my friends do say I am too paranoid for my own good.

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written by Tim on February 22, 2009

Technically, the government land that Area 51 resides on is DOE property.The DOE leases different areas to various government agency's as needed.
It is all a part of the DOE Nevada Test Site.

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top secret??
written by jezreel iyyar d. valdeavilla on July 09, 2009

is that true??

that there's a alien in area 51??>

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