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UFO or not UFO? Area 51 declassifying pours cold water on theory
thetechherald ^ | Apr 12 2009 | Rich Bowden

Posted on 04/12/2009 6:41:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono

A former engineer at the top secret airfield "Area 51" in Nevada has spoken out about UFO sightings in the region in the 1960s, saying the witnessed flashes of light were part of top secret US aircraft experiments.

In an interview with ABC News, Thornton "T.D." Barnes, 72, a former special-projects engineer at Area 51 said: "No one really knew we existed. Even our wives didn't know where we were going when we left Monday morning and came back Friday evening."

Barnes was an electronics engineer for NASA who also specialised in advance radar and Soviet MiG fighter aircraft and was asked to join a team of CIA experts who would work on secret military projects at the infamous base.

UFO folklore has it that Area 51, about 80 miles north northwest of Las Vegas, is where captured aliens and their spacecraft have been stored by the US military. The conspiracy theory comes in part because of the preponderance of strange, unaccounted for lights that have been seen in the region of the top secret military base.

However Barnes poured cold water on the theory saying the "alien spaceships" were in fact light flashes from top secret spy planes being flown at 2,000 miles per hour at altitudes of 90,000 feet.


TOPICS: UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: area51; ufo
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To: hunter112

I give up, Scully. Let’s go out and get drunk! Fox Mulder


21 posted on 04/12/2009 7:54:02 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: hunter112

I give up, Scully. Let’s go out and get drunk! Fox Mulder


22 posted on 04/12/2009 7:54:30 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: JoeProBono

FRIEDMAN IS RIGHT.

The assertions are . . . non sequiturs.

Thanks.


23 posted on 04/12/2009 7:56:46 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Tucker39

You are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, OF COURSE.

THANKS.


24 posted on 04/12/2009 7:58:05 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Thanks.

Idiots pretending to be definitive . . . clueless or disinfo agents.


25 posted on 04/12/2009 7:59:03 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix

I’m disinfo agent 86 and clueless. :^)


26 posted on 04/12/2009 8:04:52 PM PDT by eyedigress ( Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place.)
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To: JoeProBono

Who?

me?

I eben been tuh church today! LOL.


27 posted on 04/12/2009 8:14:32 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Sundog

Some folks on ATS insist those are CGI.

LMH has interviewed quite a list of contributors of such photos and insists otherwise.


28 posted on 04/12/2009 8:15:15 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: eyedigress

Ever have anything to do with the nuke tests?


29 posted on 04/12/2009 8:16:25 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: eyedigress

Ever see craft

others would be inclined to call UFO’s?


30 posted on 04/12/2009 8:16:44 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: eyedigress

You come across as the opposite of clueless, to me.


31 posted on 04/12/2009 8:17:14 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: JoeProBono

In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It’s you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
CATS: All your base are belong to us.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha....
Operator: Captain !! *
Captain: Take off every ‘ZIG’!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move ‘ZIG’.
Captain: For great justice.


32 posted on 04/12/2009 8:19:15 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Quix

yes, sometimes metals in our area were not identified. Crashes were not common yet understood.


33 posted on 04/12/2009 8:24:39 PM PDT by eyedigress ( Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place.)
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To: Quix

We only received warning of nuke tests and to brace at a given time.


34 posted on 04/12/2009 8:27:06 PM PDT by eyedigress ( Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place.)
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To: eyedigress

. . . substances and materials . . .

as I understand it . . .

were really a whole ‘nother world in a lot of respects . . .

with health consequences for some workers.


35 posted on 04/12/2009 8:30:02 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: eyedigress

Ahhhh.

Thx.


36 posted on 04/12/2009 8:30:40 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: FlyingEagle

37 posted on 04/12/2009 8:31:37 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Quix

It is a place of new technology and a place for masters to learn. It is a place to keep America Free and get our engineers to work without incumbrance.


38 posted on 04/12/2009 8:38:51 PM PDT by eyedigress ( Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place.)
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To: Quix

The basic form has mutated through photographs taken months apart.

Other modules have been hung underneath and different probes extend along the sides. The photographers are always different.

I’ve not heard of any new ones the last two years.


39 posted on 04/12/2009 8:43:09 PM PDT by Sundog (The founding fathers understood what would happen when all three branches of government failed.)
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To: eyedigress

I wish that were entirely true.

Has been evident for a long time that essentially

it serves the

globalist oligarchy

to the destruction of Constitutional America.


40 posted on 04/12/2009 8:45:07 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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