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Future Tech: The Real Deal on Area 51 |
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Dr. Samuel Says -
Weirdness
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
A slight diversion today, from our Thought You Might Like To Know Bureau: Check out this fascinating archive story from Popular Science: The Top-Secret Warplanes of Area 51. Author Bill Sweetman has been tracking secret "black aircraft" projects for decades, and here he speculates on what's really happening at the top-secret government airbase in southern Nevada.
The article is making the rounds in the wake of the recent rash of UFO
sightings over Texas. Anyone even dimly plugged into popular culture
the last 50 years is aware that Area 51 has long figured in conspiracy
theories about alien visitations and top-secret military programs.
Sweetman sifts the nuts from the bolts, as it were, and gives as much
detail about actual Area 51 going-on as can be provided without, you
know, compromising national security and inviting the Men in Black to
your doorstep.
A few nuggets from his report: Did you know that, every weekday
morning, a fleet of six unmarked 737s fly from Las Vegas' McCarran
International Airport to Area 51? These shuttle flights carry the
1,000-plus civilian and military workers who commute to the airbase
every weekday.
Also, in the last 20 years or so, hundreds of unexplained sonic booms
have been reported from Kansas to Texas to Los Angeles. The government
denies having anything to do with these, of course, but by plotting
their specifics with other researchers, Sweetman has been able to
surmise some details. To wit: The government is testing supersonic
aircraft -- possibly exceeding Mach 5 -- in the skies above the
American West. And has been for quite a while. Sweetman makes some
educated guesses about other projects as well.
Check out the story and bear it mind next time a town full of people
swear they've seen something in the sky, while the media makes of light
of it, and the government denies everything.
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