From: robertjo@gmail.com   
      
   "LH"  wrote in message   
   news:XreSd.2465$873.219@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...   
   >   
   > > area 51 being anything other than an airbase,   
   >   
   > I used to work at one of the US National Labs.  A friend of mine got a   
   > compartmentalized security clearance (way above TS) and read into some of   
   > the A51 stuff.  He was going to do some work there.  This was before the   
   > media/public learned about the base.  He wouldn't tell me anything about   
   it   
   > other than, "you wouldn't believe me if I told you."  I told him, I   
   probably   
   > would, but he wouldn't tell me anymore.  Of course this doesn't mean much,   
   > but it made me wonder, especially coming from him.   
      
       There was a fellow who broke into Area 51 years back in order to   
   research a book on certain wagon trails. He pretty much proved that the   
   extreme security measures that have been reported just don't exist, although   
   he was an experienced hiker and claimed there were armed guards and that the   
   biggest problem was running out of water (he had actually ran out at one   
   point due to a river that was supposed to have been there but has since   
   dried up).   
       Anyways he said he saw nothing that would lend credence to Alien studies   
   at area 51 except for one small story about a glow in a small building with   
   no real idea of what he saw. As he said, it could've just been that a night   
   lite was plugged in there.   
       Area 51 itself is an airforce R&D facility, so it's no wonder that   
   people who have tried to spy on it have seen strange aircraft around the   
   base. It's also no wonder that the government has tried to protect that area   
   from spying (by doing things like buying up the land the people were   
   watching on), since there's really no way to tell if someone who's watching   
   is just a UFO fan or someone trying to gather US military information for a   
   forgien government.   
        So far though there has been nothing coming out of Area 51 except   
   strange aircrafts, which is hardly an indication of alien studies being   
   conducted there considering what Area 51 is. Look at, say, a stealth bomber.   
   Looks an aweful lot like an alien spacecraft if you've never seen one   
   before, and it was built by human means.   
      
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