Posted on 08/17/2013 4:56:08 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Newly declassified documents, obtained by George Washington University's National Security Archive, appear to for the first time acknowledge the existence of Area 51. Hundreds of pages describe the genesis of the Nevada site that was home to the government's spy plane program for decades. The documents do not, however, mention aliens.
The project started humbly. In the pre-drone era about a decade after the end of World War II, President Eisenhower signed off on a project aimed at building a high-altitude, long-range, manned aircraft that could photograph remote targets. Working together, the Air Force and Lockheed developed a craft that could hold the high-resolution cameras required for the images, a craft that became the U-2. Why "U-2"?
They decided that they could not call the project aircraft a bomber, fighter, or transport plane, and they did not want anyone to know that the new plane was for reconnaissance, so [Air Force officers] Geary and Culbertson decided that it should come under the utility aircraft category. At the time, there were only two utility aircraft on the books, a U-1 and a U-3. told Culbertson that the Lockheed CL-282 was going to be known officially as the U-2.
The next step was to find a place from which the top-secret aircraft could be flown.
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My grandfather used to marvel at the fact that he was born before the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, and that he watched Neil Armstrong step foot on the moon within the same lifetime.
This is why I brought up the black triangles. Given the pace of our government’s classified technological developments, I can’t help but think that they’re real, and that they’re ours.
Yeah, we would, but we'd also like to leave without an extra hole in our heads for having seen what we've seen :-)
And Area 49.....LOL!
I didn’t write this story....
Nobody ever asks these questions.
My Father was born in July 1901. My mother in 1903.
Dad lived into his 80s, Mom into her 90s.
A lot of stuff happened in their lifetimes.
I was born in 1939.
Now what do we do about the Roswell incident....
By the way I have been there....saw no aliens.
maybe in another 50 years they’ll tell us what all was done there
My granddad once told me that when he was little, the kids would chase any car they saw, because it was a rare treat to actually see one in real life. By the time he retired, there were traffic jams all around him, every day.
I sometimes wonder if the 21st century will bring as many fundamental changes to our way of life, as the preceding century did. I think it will, if we can right the disastrous state of affairs in this country.
> Now what do we do about the Roswell incident....
By the way I have been there....saw no aliens.
All you would have had to do was drive down to the nearest Home Depot early in the morning
If they have a secret base on the dark side of the moon it is buried under millions of socks and mountains of dryer lint.
This is nothing more than a diversion from what is really important! I guess they think that by confirming what we already know will take some of the heat off all the other scandals right now.
I thought Area 51 had been well known for many years. Was it not the catalyst that started the stupid Roswell ET UFO myths?
Dey got dem ETs in underground vaults at Area 51, and alls de pezidents done been der to seeum, dontcha know?
Fast and Furious? IRS? NSA? Benghazi? Extortion 17/Seal Team 6?
What else?
Back in the '50s I worked in a print shop that had a little old lady in tennis shoes running one of the presses. She mentioned that her mother said had seen President Grover Cleveland. I asked her to ask her mom what was the greatest invention she had seen, figuring it was the automobile, the aeroplane, or the then-new television.
The next day she said, "You're not gonna believe this." It was the fact that people could go outside their house and turn on the hose to water the lawn. Her mom had grown up as a sod buster in Nebraska and said they used to pray to God for rain, and now you just had to turn the handle on a faucet.
“They’ve probably built some huge hangers on base so they can test everything in complete secrecy.”
Is there a runway at that site where the NSA is building its industrial park out west?
Fascomatimg.
“It was conceptualized and brought to reality just over 50 years after the invention of heavier than air powered flight”
Courtesy of Kelly’s skunkworks.
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