Post by N on May 10, 2009 9:15:49 GMT -5
Area 51 declassified: No UFOs or aliens say ex-employees
Michael Cohen m.cohen@allnewsweb.com
Reports are filtering through that the famous Area 51 has been de-classified by the CIA and for the first time some of those who worked there are able to speak openly about the projects they were involved in.
Area 51 has long been the centrepiece of UFO conspiracy theories and central to its importance is the belief that the U.S military and other associated agencies are storing frozen alien bodies and retrieved UFOs somewhere on or beneath its grounds. Many believe that scientists working there were or are involved in the reverse engineering of UFO technology.
Indeed it has been revealed that the area was treated as a top secret facility. For years the US Government has all but outright denied its existence.
Now a number of ex-employees have openly come forward and conceded that it was indeed a complex specifically designed for experimentation with the most exotic flying apparatuses, however all deny any UFO or alien connection.
Some of the stories coming out now are indeed incredible if not extraterrestrial in nature.
For instance, employees worked on a project developing a super-secret spy plane known as the ‘A12 Oxcart’ or just ‘OXCART’. In 1963 Kenneth Collins, now 80, a CIA experimental test pilot was required to fly the ‘OXCART’ out of restricted airspace. The craft became unstable and Collins ejected and landed into a field. Three civilians happened to see the pilot and stop to lend a hand. Collins warned them away from the nearby aircraft telling them it had a nuclear bomb on board.
The civilians were later tracked down and ‘asked’ to sign national security non-disclosures. Collins himself was asked to take a truth serum in case he forgot any details of the incident that might have jeopardised national security..
Collins and all other ex-employees insist that no alien activity occurred here at all while conceding that these rumours have their origins in real activities. They admit there were underground facilities and that craft were reverse-engineered: Russian aircraft however, not extra-terrestrial ones.
Ufologists are noting the intriguing fact that much of what is being revealed today highly corresponds to what was stated by the much discredited Bob Lazar of the early 1990’s, who claimed to have worked at Area 51.
Veteran ufologist Stanton Friedman warns that the accounts of these employees are not conclusive and that there might well have been UFO and alien activity at the facility. The ex-employees now willing to speak might not have known about them in a world where information was highly compartmentalised and only given out on ‘a need to know basis’. Ufologists such as Friedman might claim that in reality Area 51 is only partly declassified and hidden layers of information, possibly involving aliens, remains out of public view.
Others are of the opinion that perhaps it is time for American UFO researchers to accept that aliens, who have gone to the trouble to come to earth from so far away, simply aren’t as interested in hanging around empty dustbins in US Southwest and boring military facilities as they are. Perhaps they say, in this case it is time to accept the obvious. A cold war was happening, no one doubted the area was used for military and aeronautical projects and exotic spy-craft can be easily mistaken for UFOs.
Whatever the truth one can be sure of this: The mystery surrounding Area 51 will continue to fascinate many for years to come and recent revelations’ do not mean that everyone will regard this is topic as ‘case-closed’.
Michael Cohen m.cohen@allnewsweb.com
Reports are filtering through that the famous Area 51 has been de-classified by the CIA and for the first time some of those who worked there are able to speak openly about the projects they were involved in.
Area 51 has long been the centrepiece of UFO conspiracy theories and central to its importance is the belief that the U.S military and other associated agencies are storing frozen alien bodies and retrieved UFOs somewhere on or beneath its grounds. Many believe that scientists working there were or are involved in the reverse engineering of UFO technology.
Indeed it has been revealed that the area was treated as a top secret facility. For years the US Government has all but outright denied its existence.
Now a number of ex-employees have openly come forward and conceded that it was indeed a complex specifically designed for experimentation with the most exotic flying apparatuses, however all deny any UFO or alien connection.
Some of the stories coming out now are indeed incredible if not extraterrestrial in nature.
For instance, employees worked on a project developing a super-secret spy plane known as the ‘A12 Oxcart’ or just ‘OXCART’. In 1963 Kenneth Collins, now 80, a CIA experimental test pilot was required to fly the ‘OXCART’ out of restricted airspace. The craft became unstable and Collins ejected and landed into a field. Three civilians happened to see the pilot and stop to lend a hand. Collins warned them away from the nearby aircraft telling them it had a nuclear bomb on board.
The civilians were later tracked down and ‘asked’ to sign national security non-disclosures. Collins himself was asked to take a truth serum in case he forgot any details of the incident that might have jeopardised national security..
Collins and all other ex-employees insist that no alien activity occurred here at all while conceding that these rumours have their origins in real activities. They admit there were underground facilities and that craft were reverse-engineered: Russian aircraft however, not extra-terrestrial ones.
Ufologists are noting the intriguing fact that much of what is being revealed today highly corresponds to what was stated by the much discredited Bob Lazar of the early 1990’s, who claimed to have worked at Area 51.
Veteran ufologist Stanton Friedman warns that the accounts of these employees are not conclusive and that there might well have been UFO and alien activity at the facility. The ex-employees now willing to speak might not have known about them in a world where information was highly compartmentalised and only given out on ‘a need to know basis’. Ufologists such as Friedman might claim that in reality Area 51 is only partly declassified and hidden layers of information, possibly involving aliens, remains out of public view.
Others are of the opinion that perhaps it is time for American UFO researchers to accept that aliens, who have gone to the trouble to come to earth from so far away, simply aren’t as interested in hanging around empty dustbins in US Southwest and boring military facilities as they are. Perhaps they say, in this case it is time to accept the obvious. A cold war was happening, no one doubted the area was used for military and aeronautical projects and exotic spy-craft can be easily mistaken for UFOs.
Whatever the truth one can be sure of this: The mystery surrounding Area 51 will continue to fascinate many for years to come and recent revelations’ do not mean that everyone will regard this is topic as ‘case-closed’.