| Imagine the look on my face when I heard that | | | | identity and employment constraints. In |
| Area 51 might be the next Kennedy Space | | | | addition, the occasional contacts I have had |
| Center or Air Force Museum? Both the Space | | | | with them have proven to be a good source of |
| Center and Air Force Museum are two of the | | | | information when it comes to the world of |
| most popular, yet least publicized | | | | hidden facts, secret projects and captured |
| attractions in the USA. Boasting an amazing | | | | Alien hardware. The most recent tidbit may be |
| array of exhibits, aircraft, spacecraft and | | | | something for all of us to get a bit excited |
| Imax presentations, these tourist | | | | about. |
| destinations are home to some of our greatest | | | | |
| national treasures. However, could they even | | | | Anyone with half a brain knew that the |
| hold a candle to the popularity of Area 51 as | | | | government was not going to leave captured |
| a tourist destination if it were opened to | | | | Alien hardware lying around a place that was |
| the public? | | | | quickly becoming as infamous as it had been |
| | | | secret. Once Robert Lazar and the other |
| It was over ten years ago that I was | | | | whistle blowers came forward, there was |
| contacted by a small group of former military | | | | little doubt that most of the good stuff |
| personnel who had some amazing stories to | | | | would be or was already in the process of |
| tell. Individually and as a group, they | | | | being moved elsewhere. Given that, the |
| claimed to have piloted captured Alien | | | | Government had some tough choices to make |
| hardware for the U.S. Government. In those | | | | about Area 51. |
| whistleblower days of the late 1980s and | | | | |
| early 1990s, there was no shortage of | | | | Despite a land grab that was designed to keep |
| ex-government folk claiming to have intimate | | | | the curious away from Groom Lake, the area |
| knowledge about the Government cover-up of | | | | quickly became the focus of everyone from |
| information concerning Aliens and UFOs. Some | | | | mildly interested tourists to dedicated UFO |
| of these people were believable enough, but | | | | researchers alike. Over the past decade, new |
| most lacked a story or evidence that stood up | | | | photos of the property available from photo |
| to long-term scrutiny. These guys were | | | | sneaks and private eyes in the sky have shown |
| different. | | | | improved roads and new buildings. Because we |
| | | | know so little about the property, it's |
| Having grown up around active and retired | | | | difficult to say what that kind of expansion |
| military personnel, I always found them easy | | | | means. |
| to spot. Among that group, Officers and | | | | |
| Military Pilots were definite standouts. As I | | | | While we all assume that most of what happens |
| was introduced to this group of men over a | | | | in and around Groom Lake has to do with |
| short period of time, they struck me as | | | | advanced aircraft testing, it's important to |
| officers and pilots. More then that, they | | | | remember that the secret nature of the |
| also seemed to have the kind of technical | | | | property also makes it a prime place for |
| backgrounds and training that would befit | | | | government research into almost anything they |
| Astronauts. It was obvious that these guys | | | | don't want you to know about. Given the |
| were telling either the truth or a | | | | information provided to me by the UFO Test |
| well-scripted story that I was supposed to | | | | Pilot group previously mentioned, I believe |
| believe and share. | | | | that Area 51 may be moving in a new and very |
| | | | unexpected direction. An already successful |
| These 'UFO Pilots' are people of strong | | | | Base model may aid that direction. |
| character and conviction. They came to me | | | | |
| because they had a beef with the Government. | | | | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is the home |
| After watching how whistleblowers like Bill | | | | to the U.S. Air Force Museum and a lot more. |
| English, John Lear, Wendelle Stevens, Robert | | | | A huge facility, it is easily accessible from |
| Lazar and others were belittled or ignored by | | | | several Interstate Highways and convenient |
| the press, roasted by their peers and | | | | local roads. The very public side of the Base |
| mistreated by over-zealous UFO researchers, | | | | in the form of the Air Force Museum hides a |
| they wanted no part of all that. After | | | | very private side as well. It's no big secret |
| hearing me during a guest spot on a local | | | | that some of the most important and secret |
| radio station in Orlando, one member of their | | | | research conducted by the Air Force has been |
| unique little group decided to attend a | | | | and continues to be carried out there. Hide |
| seminar that I gave in Florida. While unsure | | | | in plain site seems to be their motto. |
| whether to trust me or not, he liked the fact | | | | |
| people at the seminar seemed to trust me with | | | | Alleged home of the legendary Hangar 18, |
| personal stories and decided to give me a | | | | Wright-Patterson was at least one destination |
| try. | | | | of some material from the 1947 Roswell UFO |
| | | | crash. Many believe that one or more captured |
| After a short series of cloak and dagger | | | | Alien spacecrafts have been brought, studied |
| style contacts, I met with the guy I call the | | | | and possibly stored there over the years. |
| "UFO Pilot' and heard his amazing story at a | | | | Home to exotic Air Force agencies of the past |
| small motel in Florida. He came to me because | | | | and present like Project Bluebook and the |
| several of his crewmates died in what he | | | | Foreign Technology Division, many consider |
| considered unnecessarily dangerous tests of | | | | Wright-Patterson to be the very heart of the |
| Alien hardware in different places around the | | | | Air Force. |
| USA. In at least one case, several civilians | | | | |
| were killed as well. To understand his | | | | During the early 1990s, a television news |
| frustration, I have to share a few details | | | | crew was allowed access to some of the areas |
| about these tests. | | | | underneath the base. Although access was |
| | | | severely limited, their camera work revealed |
| The men and women of this special team of | | | | the existence of underground tunnels, vaults |
| pilots worked under more then unusual | | | | and storage areas. These could simply be |
| conditions. Due to the mechanical nature of | | | | bunkers with a few connecting passages, but |
| the Alien objects they were flying, it took | | | | maps and documents leaked out over the years |
| up to five people to pilot one craft. These | | | | seem to indicate a large number of |
| people were jammed in a most uncomfortable | | | | interconnecting underground facilities |
| and unsafe way into what amounts to a 'wooden | | | | beneath the base. None of this seems to have |
| box' inside the control area of the object. | | | | affected the ability of Wright-Patterson AFB |
| The 'wooden box' structure provided a still | | | | to host foreign military visitors, national |
| unclear measure of safety and access to human | | | | and international dignitaries and the general |
| operation of the object that was never fully | | | | public. |
| explained to me for security reasons. Inside | | | | |
| the box, the human pilots had access to | | | | It has worked with Wright-Patterson, so why |
| controls that had been specially built for | | | | not Area 51? If the UFO Pilots are correct, |
| them. These special devices gave the pilots | | | | parts of Area 51 may soon be open to the |
| some, but not a full measure of control | | | | public. How open and which parts remain to be |
| needed to operate the craft. | | | | seen. Will they follow the Disney model of |
| | | | opening a Welcome Center before anything else |
| The pilots had been told very little about | | | | is ready? If such a plan exists, only select |
| how the object they were trying to fly came | | | | parts of Area 51 will be available for public |
| into U.S. Government hands. It was obvious to | | | | visitation. After all, every major division |
| them that the technology and design of the | | | | of the U.S. Military and various U.S. |
| craft came from a completely different sphere | | | | Government agencies are represented there. |
| of technical influence. It seemed as though | | | | |
| the beings that built this craft started from | | | | If we are to believe our own eyes, satellite |
| a framework of manipulating the natural | | | | photos indicate that quite a bit of building |
| forces of the universe, while we started our | | | | has gone on since Area 51 first came to the |
| modern era of transportation with the | | | | public's attention. It's a given that some of |
| internal combustion engine. This made for two | | | | it has to involve underground construction as |
| very different and often incompatible | | | | well. After all, the place already has a |
| technologies. The result of trying to combine | | | | reputation for hosting deep underground |
| the two was often disastrous. | | | | bunkers, tunnels and research areas. It would |
| | | | be logical to assume that the Nevada heat and |
| After several crashes, near crashes and | | | | need for secrecy would create the certainty |
| deaths within their group and among the | | | | of utilizing the space below ground in as |
| civilian population of areas where tests took | | | | many practical ways as possible. |
| place, these men were made scapegoats. All | | | | |
| were unceremoniously dumped from the program | | | | Apart from the quiet mutterings of the UFO |
| they were involved in. That was not akin to | | | | Pilots and other insiders, making Area 51 a |
| just losing a job. They were blamed for being | | | | place for public visitation would be a |
| unable to properly operate Alien technology | | | | brilliant move from a publicity standpoint. |
| that was never meant to be touched by humans. | | | | At a time when many people in the USA either |
| This made them pariahs as possible test pilot | | | | love or hate the military, opening Area 51 |
| candidates for any other future government | | | | might have a very positive effect on public |
| programs involving secret or captured air or | | | | perception. Although I do not see any sign of |
| space craft. In addition, the secrecy side of | | | | the UFO cover-up lifting, opening the Base |
| their work made them unavailable for flight | | | | and exposing the conventional side of the |
| duty or employment of any kind inside or | | | | Area 51 story would allow us all access to |
| outside of the U.S. Military. | | | | some level of forbidden history. |
| | | | |
| Although I felt sorry for them, I knew that | | | | Most government insiders fail to recognize |
| anytime anyone accepts unusual duties within | | | | the value of 'coming clean' about past |
| the U.S. Military or Government Services; | | | | secrets. Whenever that happens, there is |
| they throw the dice of life. There are no | | | | always a rise in the level of confidence |
| shortage of Veterans, long forgotten by an | | | | people have in their government and the |
| allegedly grateful nation, who are dying of | | | | military. It's almost ridiculous that there |
| diseases and medical problems directly | | | | are still classified documents that have |
| related to their service. Many have limited | | | | never been released to the public dating back |
| or no access to government medical services | | | | to the days before World War I. Most |
| and have not been properly compensated for | | | | classified document researchers believe that |
| their sacrifice. | | | | it may be at least fifty to well over one |
| | | | hundred more years before even a small number |
| The best I could do for these people was to | | | | of the many secret files from the World War |
| share their story in my newsletter and | | | | II time period are released. |
| through my seminars. Lacking the ability to | | | | |
| learn or share their identities or other | | | | When Area 51 became the target of |
| specifics about the world of secrecy in which | | | | investigative journalists and UFO |
| they existed, I had few options. Calling a | | | | researchers, it also became a place with new |
| press conference would be fruitless. It did | | | | security concerns. There can be little doubt |
| not and has not worked for even the most | | | | that at least a few of the many thousands of |
| impressive former military or technical | | | | people who have taken bus tours or day trips |
| people claiming involvement with secret UFO | | | | out to the very edge of the property have had |
| projects and it would not work for them. | | | | other agendas. Some may have been foreign |
| | | | operatives. Others could have been potential |
| Although extremely intelligent and well | | | | terrorists. Either way, no secret facility |
| trained, I could easily see that these people | | | | could ever survive the kind of scrutiny |
| were very naïve about the U.S. | | | | leveled at the Groom Lake test facility for |
| Government's ability to just throw people | | | | very long. |
| away. None believed it could or would happen | | | | |
| to them, until it did. I could also | | | | Area 51 faces an enemy greater then foreign |
| understand their lack of enthusiasm when it | | | | agents or investigative journalists. That |
| came to sharing specifics or personal | | | | enemy is expansion. While the government |
| identities. They were all left with some sort | | | | still owns or controls most of the land area |
| of small financial compensation and none | | | | in Nevada, the southwestern housing boom is |
| wanted to risk the stipend they were | | | | bringing people ever closer to the |
| receiving despite their frustration, anger | | | | government's front door. Despite |
| and feelings of betrayal. | | | | environmental concerns, alleged water and |
| | | | electricity shortages and economic slowdowns, |
| Although I have had infrequent contact with | | | | permanent housing and all the support |
| most of these people, the news has been | | | | structures that come with it are moving ever |
| promising. All have managed to move on in one | | | | closer every year. |
| way or another, despite their obvious | | | | |