This and the decades of media promotion and proliferation of this topic have prompted me to believe we are alone on this planet:
"CIA acknowledges secret Area 51" by Hannah Dreier | Associated Press, August 17, 2013
LAS VEGAS — UFO buffs are celebrating the CIA’s clearest acknowledgment yet of the existence of Area 51, the top-secret Cold War test site that has been the subject of elaborate conspiracy theories for decades.
The recently declassified documents have created a buzz online, though there’s no mention in the papers of UFO crashes, extraterrestrials, or staged moon landings.
Related: Fly Me To the Moon
I'm starting to doubt that, too, and I know I'll be scolded in some quarters, but after 9/11, Sandy Hook, and the Boston Marathon, who knows what seeing is believing means anymore?
‘‘I’m thinking that they’re probably testing the waters now to see how mad people get about the big lie and coverup,’’ said Audrey Hewins, a Maine woman who runs a support group for people who believe they have been contacted by extraterrestrials....
The woman is either under mind-controlling hypnosis (how odd that David Frost died today), a disinformation agent in on the game, or is just flat out nuts.
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"Area 51’s boring reality" August 22, 2013
Area 51 — the secret government site in Nevada whose existence remained unconfirmed for decades — occupies such a fertile place in the imaginations of conspiracy theorists that the CIA’s admission last week that it actually exists came as an anticlimax. It turns out that the secret camp in the Mojave Desert was the test site of the U-2 spy plane, one of America’s most famous Cold War weapons. Also included in the newly declassified release were kernels of information regarding the site itself, such as how it was originally going to be named “Paradise Ranch,” presumably to make it seem more appealing to the grumbling operatives sent to the desert to work on the U-2 project.
The documents also revealed previously classified information about the U-2, such as the fact that Taiwanese pilots flew the spy planes for the CIA to gather intelligence on the Chinese, and that the U-2 was used to spy on French nuclear test sites in Polynesia.
And now the U.S. just sweeps up all world communications.
Such revelations might have raised some ire in France and China a half century ago, but caused barely a ripple today.
Have you forgotten all about Snowden yet?
Less satisfied were those who believed the rumors that the secret site was home to an alien spaceship or even a living Martian. The government release, made in response to a request by Jeffrey T. Richelson, a senior fellow at George Washington University’s National Security Archive, made no mention of space aliens or UFOs. But that’ll hardly appease the most hardcore conspiracy theorists — for whom the new release probably looks like more proof of a coverup.
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The fact that the Globe would editorialize on such a thing let's you know it's a crap conspiracy as they shoot it down. This goes into the file with the Bigfoot and Loch Ness monster baloney.
Sorry, Jesse.
"Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., said he handled UFO debris; at 76" by Amy Beth Hanson | Associated Press, August 29, 2013
HELENA, Mont. — Jesse Marcel Jr., who said he handled debris from the 1947 crash of an unidentified flying object near Roswell, N.M., has died at the age of 76.
The timing sure is odd, huh?
Denice Marcel said her father was found dead at his home in Helena Saturday, less than two months after making his last trip to Roswell. He had been reading a book about UFOs.
His dad finally rubbed off on him.
Over the past 35 years, Dr. Marcel appeared on television shows, documentaries, and radio shows; was interviewed for magazine articles and books; and traveled the world lecturing about his experiences in Roswell.
‘‘He was credible,’’ said his wife, Linda. “He wasn’t lying. He never embellished — only told what he saw.”
Unlike the AmeriKan government or it's mouthpiece media when trying to gin up wars.
Dr. Marcel’s father was a US Air Force intelligence officer and reportedly the first military officer to investigate the wreckage in early July 1947. Dr. Marcel said he was 10 when his father brought home some of the debris, woke him up in the middle of the night, and said the boy needed to look at it because it was something he would never see again.
His father maintained the debris ‘‘was not of this Earth,’’ Linda Marcel said. ‘‘They looked through the pieces, tried to make sense of it.’’
The item that Dr. Marcel said fascinated him the most was a small beam with some sort of purple-hued hieroglyphics on it, Linda Marcel said.
After an initial report that a flying saucer had been recovered on a ranch near Roswell, the military issued a statement saying the debris was from a weather balloon.
‘‘They were told to keep it quiet, and they did for years and years and years,’’ Linda Marcel said. Interest in the case was revived, however, when physicist and UFO researcher Stanton Friedman spoke with Jesse Marcel Sr. in the late 1970s.
Now I am suspicious of the whole damn thing.
Friedman wrote the forward to Dr. Marcel’s 2007 book ‘‘The Roswell Legacy,’’ and described him as a courageous man who ‘‘set a standard for honesty and decency and telling the truth.’’
‘‘His legacy is that he had the courage to speak out when he didn’t have to about handling wreckage that his dad brought home,’’ Friedman said Tuesday. ‘‘He worked with artists to come up with what the symbols on the wreckage looked like. He didn’t have to do that. He could have kept his mouth shut. A lot of people did.’’
Dr. Marcel graduated from medical school at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in 1961 and joined the US Navy in 1962. He retired after nine years and later joined the Montana Army National Guard and became a flight surgeon in 1981.
He was called back to active duty in October 2004 and served as a flight surgeon in Iraq for just over a year. He reached the rank of colonel.
He worked as an ear, nose, and throat doctor and retired from the Veterans Administration Hospital near Helena.
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Related: Roswell
It's a good movie, and that's all. The fact that it is a movie at all should tell you something. Like Mulder, I wanted to believe once, and isn't the timing of that suspect now?
Printed Globe still covered this up as I searched the stars with Google:
"Area 51 is real, according to declassified documents" by Hannah Dreier | Associated Press, August 16, 2013
LAS VEGAS — UFO buffs and believers in alien encounters are celebrating the CIA’s clearest acknowledgment yet of the existence of Area 51, the top-secret Cold War test site that has been the subject of elaborate conspiracy theories for decades.
The recently declassified documents have set the tinfoil-hat crowd abuzz, though there’s no mention in the papers of UFO crashes, black-eyed extraterrestrials or staged moon landings.
Audrey Hewins, an Oxford, Maine, woman who runs a support group for people like her who believe they have been contacted by extraterrestrials, said she suspects the CIA is moving closer to disclosing there are space aliens on Earth.
They are walking among you! They are called war criminal world leaders!
I can't imagine anything more alien that mass-murdering war-mongers, can you?
‘‘I’m thinking that they’re probably testing the waters now to see how mad people get about the big lie and cover-up,’’ she said.
For a long time, U.S. government officials hesitated to acknowledge even the existence of Area 51.
Which makes you really wonder WHY NOW? What propaganda purpose does this diversion serve?
The CIA history released Thursday not only refers to Area 51 by name and describes some of the aviation activities that took place there, but locates the Air Force base on a map, along the dry Groom Lake bed.
It also talks about some cool planes, though none of them are saucer-shaped.
George Washington University’s National Security Archive used a public records request to obtain the CIA history of one of Area 51’s most secret Cold War projects, the U-2 spy plane program.
National Security Archive senior fellow Jeffrey Richelson first reviewed the history in 2002, but all mentions of the country’s most mysterious military base had been redacted. So he requested the history again in 2005, hoping for more information. Sure enough, he received a version a few weeks ago with the mentions of Area 51 restored.
The report is unlikely to stop the conspiracy theorists. The 407-page document still contains many redactions, and who’s to say those missing sections don’t involve little green men?
Not me because I really don't care. Either get down here and free us from these war criminal leaders, or get lost in space!
It’s not the first time the government has acknowledged the existence of the super-secret, 8,000-square-mile installation. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush referred to the ‘‘location near Groom Lake’’ in insisting on continued secrecy, and other government references date to the 1960s.
Related: Welcome to Utah, the NSA's desert home for eavesdropping on America
Forgot all about that, haven't you?
But Richelson, as well as those who are convinced ‘‘the truth is out there,’’ are taking the document as a sign of loosening secrecy about the government’s activities in the Nevada desert.
Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.
It better be because it is not here in my newspaper.
The site is known as Area 51 among UFO aficionados because that was the base’s designation on old Nevada test site maps. The CIA history reveals that officials renamed it ‘‘Paradise Ranch’’ to try to lure skilled workers, who can still be seen over Las Vegas flying to and from the site on unmarked planes.
Beginning with the U-2 in the 1950s, the base has been the testing ground for a host of top-secret aircraft, including the SR-71 Blackbird, F-117A stealth fighter and B-2 stealth bomber.
Thus the "aliens are here, and all those rotten 1950s movies.
Some believe the base’s Strangelovian hangars also contain alien vehicles, evidence from the ‘‘Roswell incident’’ — the alleged 1947 crash of a UFO in New Mexico — and extraterrestrial corpses.
The CIA history mentions an ‘‘unexpected side effect’’ of the high-flying planes: ‘‘a tremendous increase in reports of unidentified flying objects.’’ The report notes that the U-2 and Oxcart planes, which flew higher than civilians believed possible, accounted for half of UFO sightings during the 1950s and ‘60s.
A likely story, said Stanton Friedman, a self-described Ufologist from Canada.
Another Unbelievable Friedman Outrage sighting --
‘‘The notion that the U-2 explains most sightings at that time is utter rot and baloney,’’ he said. ‘‘Can the U-2 sit still in the sky? Make right-angle turns in the middle of the sky? Take off from nothing? The U-2 can’t do any of those things.’’
Even for those who do not believe in UFOs, the mystery surrounding the site — situated about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, across miles of desert speckled with Joshua trees and sagebrush — has been a boon.
One Nevada bicycle event company produces an ‘‘X Rides’’ event that incorporates mountain biking near a certain heavily guarded patch of Nevada desert. Las Vegas’ minor league baseball team is called ‘‘the 51s.’’
Small-town restaurants along State Route 375, officially designated the Extraterrestrial Highway, sell souvenir T-shirts to tourists making their way to the boundary of Area 51, which consists of a no-trespassing sign, a surveillance camera and an armed guard on a hill.
Well, I'm glad $omeone is making a buck.
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But I know aliens are real because I saw 'em -- as if you could believe anything you see on your TV today!
Related: Operation Mockingbird
I hope that is not too conspiratorial for you.
