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