Area 51 - The Truth Is In There

The US government has never provided a description of what goes on at Area 51.
For more than 40 years they refused to confirm the very existence of the site. It wasn't until the mid-90s, as the UFO movement was growing exponentially, that a former Secretary of Defence revealed they were using the base. It took until 2003 for the US government to officially concede that operations were ongoing at Groom Lake.
Surrounded by motion sensors, patrolled by helicopters and guarded by mysterious men in blacked out trucks, Area 51 has always held a forbidding, almost eerie fascination for conspiracy theorists.
In the absence of an agreed government line, the official side of the story has been filled in by ex-commanders from the site and former senior defence figures in Washington.
Area 51 is reported to be the central development hub for top secret aircraft testing by the air force. In the late 1950s it was used to trial the U-2 spy plane, which went on to play a vital role in sneaking information out of Soviet Russia.
Some of the most advanced aircraft ever produced have come through the Groom Lake site, including the F-117 Nighthawk or stealth bomber. The base is estimated to have hundreds of scientists living on site, and hundreds more from defence contractors EG&G who are bussed or flown in each day from Las Vegas.
What these experts are doing, and how these ultra-advanced aircraft have been developed remain a mystery.
In 1995 the exclusion zone around Area 51 was extended, and the government seems to have no interest in revealing any more than it absolutely has to about the facility.

The secrecy surrounding the Area 51 facility has been the inspiration for a string of theories.
It does not appear on any maps.
It is surrounded by guards and signs threatening the us of deadly force.
It is off limits even to unauthorised military pilots training in the area.
So covert are the operations at Groom Lake that employees are not allowed to discuss their jobs with their families or the projects they are pursuing with their colleagues.
In recent years though, some former CIA spies and top-level scientists have broken their silence, building a disturbing picture of the realities of life inside Area 51.
Physicist Robert Lazar claims to have worked on highly-evolved propulsion systems at a lab cut into the side of the mountains that surround Area 51. He says the engines were a form of anti-matter reactor that produced an enormous surge of energy to drive the flying saucers.
In 1994, following a compensation claim from former employees exposed to toxic chemicals at Area 51, Bill Clinton issued a presidential banning order on all environmental lawsuits, and effectively classified all information to do with the Groom Lake facility.
Reports of goings-on inside the base range from secret testing on alien bodies recovered from Roswell (see last week's blog) to time travel and teleportation experiments.
One former engineer claims to have worked with an alien being called J-Rod at the Groom Lake facility to teach human pilots how to fly alien spacecraft, though his claims are not substantiated by any evidence. He also says he saw four living extraterrestrial beings at the site.
What almost all of the conspiracy theories surrounding the shadowy Area 51 share is the basic belief that government scientists are using alien technology to reverse engineer hi-tech combat aircraft.
The number of "out of this world" fighter jets, including the stealth bomber, developed at Groom Lake has often been pointed to by theorists as proof that this back engineering of alien craft continues to this day.

- Dozens of former NASA, CIA and military personal have come forward to talk about the alien spacecraft examined and back engineered at the Groom Lake site.

- The sheer number of sightings of UFOs is staggering, and is the primary cause of Area 51's notoriety. Though the government has tried to explain away these flying saucer stories, some of the amateur video footage show aircraft that appear to be other-worldly both in their appearance and motion.

- Evidence of a cover-up by the US government is circumstantial but persuasive. They could just be trying to conceal advanced human technology, but the level of secrecy and the lengths the intelligence services have gone to are excessive.

- Robert Lazar's evidence is too quickly dismissed by many sceptics. Despite having newspaper clips showing he worked at Los Alamos Laboratory and official University records, no school or previous employer has any record of Lazar being there. This would suggest he has been deliberately hushed up and "disappeared" by the authorities, which adds to the suspicious circumstances surrounding Area 51.

- The descriptions of the strange metal substances used at Area 51 are consistent with the eyewitness descriptions of the material recovered at Roswell. This lends weight to the argument that the crashed UFO found in the New Mexico desert was taken to Area 51.

- The US government claims that Robert Lazar never worked for them. Some theorists believe he is a patsy set up by the government to divert investigators away from the truth. The way in which he seems to have "disappeared" could be argued as supporting or destroying his story. Either he is a fantasist, or he has been deliberately discredited by the military.

- For a top secret base, the existence of Area 51 is now widely accepted and is openly discussed by millions of inquisitive Americans. If the site was ever used to store secret alien technology, surely the US government would have moved this evidence to other, less high-profile, bases.

- None of the former staff or military personal who have come forward have been able to produce credible photographic evidence of either alien spaceships or extraterrestrial corpses.

- As with Roswell, the large number of UFO sightings could be explained away by the fact that the military base is testing top secret aircraft that move in unusual ways.

Something strange is undoubtedly going on at Area 51. The level of secrecy and security surrounding the base seems excessive, and the idea that alien technology may have been harnessed by the US government is not too far fetched when you look at some of the craft they have developed. The claims that extraterrestrials are alive and well inside the facility seem a little too out there, but the assertion that a crashed spaceship could have been recovered and is currently being reverse engineered is persuasive. Though there is no hard and fast proof, there is enough circumstantial evidence to suggest that Area 51 may hold some very sinister secrets.............