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12 UFOs? Aliens? Area 51 Revealed

UFOs? Aliens? Area 51

Revealed

by
Ki Mae Heussner

It's the centerpiece of virtually every modern
UFO theory and a symbol for everything the
government doesn't tell us.
About an hour's bus ride northwest of
Las Vegas, Area 51 is one of the most famous
military bases in the world, in part because the
government barely acknowledges its existence.
According to UFO lore, Area 51, near
Nevada State Route 375, otherwise known as
"Extraterrestrial Highway," is where the
Pentagon has, for decades, stored frozen
extraterrestrials and recovered alien spacecraft.
The only underground area he recalled pointed out that the facility has captured the
In the movie "Independence Day," it was where
was beneath a nuclear testing site at neighboring imagination of Americans for another important
the heroes led a final attack against alien
Jackass Flats. reason.
invaders.
Now that the OXCART program has It has become a symbol of government
But now that the CIA has started to
been declassified, he and his colleagues are secrets and the universe of information too
declassify top secret programs developed at
working with universities and government sensitive for public consumption.
Area 51, former military officers and engineers
agencies to share their knowledge. As a scientist for General Electric,
are beginning to shed some light on the
His program was one of the CIA's better Westinghouse, McDonnell Douglas and other
enigmatic airfield and give the UFOlogists some
programs, he said, but as they declassified high-tech companies, Friedman said he's worked
new information to consider.
information, they realized just how much they on a variety of classified projects that have
"No one really knew we existed," said
didn't know and couldn't share with the shown him government secrets are a fact of life.
Thornton "T.D." Barnes, 72, a former special-
engineers working on similar projects today. Area 51 is just one example of that.
projects engineer at Area 51. "Even our wives
"They're finding that a lot that we did "National security has a real place in all
didn't know where we were going when we left
under secrecy, they're making the same mistakes of this stuff. There is no way to tell your friends
Monday morning and came back Friday
again," Barnes said. without telling your enemies," he said. "A lot of
evening."
Americans woke up to the fact that there's a lot
A specialist in advance radar and Soviet
Maybe They Just Didn't Know going on that they don't get told about." []
MiG fighter aircraft, Barnes said he was tapped
by the CIA to join a "cadre" of experts that could
handle any kind of military project. Harry A. Martin, 77, who supervised the fueling Listen to TD Thornton on The ‘X’
of the spy planes for four years, said his time at Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell
Area 51 was also one of the highlights of his
People Reported Seeing Flashes of Thornton D. “TD” Barnes, author, and
career. entrepreneur, grew up on a ranch at Dalhart,
Light
"I was real proud of what we Texas. He graduated from Mountain View High
accomplished," he said. "I'd never worked with School in Oklahoma and embarked on a ten-year
As an electronics engineer for NASA, he a group of people who were better than those." military career. He served as an Army
worked on the country's first rocket plane, the As for the aliens and UFOs, "people intelligence specialist in Korea and then
X-15, the Apollo space capsule and lunar lander have an imagination," he said. "We laughed at continued his education while in the US Army,
research vehicles. it." attending two and a half years of missile and
At Area 51, he helped develop the A-12 But some UFO experts say the former radar electronics by day and college courses at
OXCART, a super-secret spy plane built by the insiders' accounts don't necessarily eliminate the night. Barnes deployed with the first combat
Lockheed Corporation. Barnes said his
possibility that Area 51 is indeed home to some Hawk missile battalion during the Soviet Iron
colleagues conducted 2,850 test flights of the A-
UFO-related activities. Curtain threat before attending the Artillery
12 out of Area 51.
"Those guys who came forward may Officer Candidate School, where an injury
Traveling 2,200 mph at 90,000 feet, very well be telling the truth, with the caveat that
nothing could catch the planes. But, he said, they wouldn't know if there was something ended his military career.
Barnes’s career includes serving as a
people would see flashes of light. going on," said Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear field engineer at the NASA High Range in
That, he thinks, is what started the physicist, lecturer and top UFO researcher. Nevada for the X-15, XB-70, lifting bodies and
rumors of an extraterrestrial safe haven. Highly classified work is also highly lunar landing vehicles; working on the NERVA
In some ways, Barnes said, the UFO compartmentalized, he said. And the absence of
myths actually helped keep the site's true project at Jackass Flats, Nevada; and serving in
evidence on their part isn't the same thing as the Special Projects at Area 51. Barnes later formed
activities under wraps.
absence of evidence for such work, he a family oil and gas exploration company,
"We considered it to be a bonus," he said.
suggested. drilling, and producing oil and gas and mining
"They made it easier to conceal what we were uranium and gold.
doing."
Americans Waking Up to the Reality of Barnes currently serves as the CEO of
Government Secrets Startel, Inc., a landowner, and is actively mining
No ETs, No Alien Spacecraft, No
landscape rock and gold in Nevada. He serves as
Underground Tunnels?
Friedman said it's still conceivable that the president of Roadrunners Internationale, an
wreckage from what some people believe was a association of Area 51 veterans, and is the
If anything, he emphasized, "We were the UFO crash in Roswell, N.M., could have been executive director of the Nevada Aerospace Hall
UFOs." transported to Area 51. And, he added, "of of Fame.
In reality, he said, compared to previous course" the military has an underground base out Barnes lives in Henderson, Nevada.
positions with frequent missions, "Area 51 was www.area51specialprojects.com
there.
the most boring place I ever worked."
But, regardless of whether or not Area 51
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is indeed connected to UFO activities, Friedman
planets, no underground passageways, he said. INTERVIEW