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8 8 Searching for the Truth Searching for the Truth The main entrance to Area 51 is down a Searching for the Truth to Area 51), contacted me about possibly being 13 mile well maintained dirt and gravel road Searching for the Truth a speaker at this years conference, and knowing it would be a financial loss, due to the distance, that has no signs present on Nevada 375 (the (Always Telling the Truth Means time and expenses, I gladly agreed to be part of Extraterrestrial Highway) between Ash Springs Never Having to Remember the conference, for the simple fact that I would and Rachel, to indicate anything is there. Driving down the road toward the base have an opportunity to see first hand what all Anything) the "hype" was about related to the secret base entrance, I expected to see the guards in a gray in Nevada. I was not in the least disappointed. pickup or white Jeep come up over a hill to let The conference lasted 3 days in May 2006, and me know we were approaching the entrance. I'll never regret the cost due to the first hand Much to my surprise, when I drove around a knowledge I obtained about the security, at least corner and saw the warning signs, I also saw a at the entrances to the base. gray pickup truck with two occupants parked on For years I have read and heard reports a hill just up from the signs, watching me about the intense security involved at Area 51, approach with binoculars fixed on me. They but to actually be there and see it working were waiting for me as I assume a sensor had doesn't compare with what I've read or heard. warned them someone was approaching. The It's real and it's serious. guardhouse is about a quarter mile beyond the signs (out of view from the dirt road), so they have time to get in their vehicle, park on the hill and be your welcoming committee. The main entrance where the warning signs are located has no gate of any kind, so if you go beyond the signs you are on restricted land, and the consequences are obvious. On the hills Dennis G. Balthaser surrounding this entrance solar powered cameras and listening devices are evident. There Security Is A Live And Well At is no fence ---only orange colored plastic boundary markers located every several yards to Area 51 indicate where the boundary is. Having seen pictures of this scenario many times in the past, it was quite an experience for me to actually be standing there Stop and think for a minute that the base by the signs and boundary markers, and has been in existence since 1955 when the CIA realizing that this is all too real. You can't help (Central Intelligence Agency) opened it to test but wonder what all transpires on or under the the U-2 spy plane in secrecy. Many of the base that we don't know about, to require such aircraft we have in our military arsenal since high security? then that were developed in secrecy, have been After my second lecture on our last day test flown there (and several we don't yet know in Rachel, Chuck Clark asked me if I wanted to about). During those 51 years that the base has drive out to the back gate entrance to the base. been in existence, security to my knowledge has Knowing very little about the back gate not been seriously breached, and remains off entrance, I jumped at the opportunity to go. The limits to anyone not authorized to enter. back gate is a little closer to Rachel than the So why is it that we can prevent anyone main gate and appears to have higher security from going past security at Area 51, but cannot visible than the main gate. Apparently most I know for a fact that the security at Area control our own United States borders? Perhaps deliveries to the base enter through the back 51 is alive and well, since I just returned from our borders need a few signs like are present at gate. there, and experienced it first-hand. Area 51, that state in no uncertain terms "The In my many years of doing this research, Use of Deadly Force is Authorized", and I have always tried to present information that apparently mean it. Signs also list the penalties was verifiable and confirmable, when possible. for violating the warnings, of either six-months That hasn't always been an easy task, imprisonment and a $1000.00 fine, or one-year considering the amount of disinformation being imprisonment and a $5000.00 fine based on two spread around, particularly with a lot of that separate Federal Internal Security Act information being presented on the Internet. Regulations. The guards (Cammo dudes as their When doing lectures or writing sometimes known) are also a positive deterrent, editorials about a particular subject, I find it and make their presence obviously known to helps one's credibility if you have first-hand anyone approaching the entrances to the base, knowledge of the subject. It's kind of like the which to me indicated that these people are 2000+ web sites on the Internet about the serious about enforcing security. Roswell Incident. When you do some checking, most of those people that have Roswell Incident web sites have never been to Roswell or Once again after driving on a well- interviewed a witness related to it, but claim to maintained, un-marked dirt road, you see the all be authorities on the subject. From now on to familiar warning signs. At this entrance when someone asks, "have you ever been to however you are also greeted by two swing- Area 51?"---I can say, "Yes I have---at least to down gates with stop signs attached, a the entrances to the base". guardhouse that has all the windows darkened I have been researching Area 51 for so you can't see in, and a surveillance camera several years, working closely with Chuck and other equipment. Clark, who I consider the predominant person with knowledge about Area 51. Serching for the Truth Continues Last year, Ike Bishop, who arranges the annual Rachel Nevada UFO Conference, (next on Page 9