[JoeProBono]

Grainy B&W image of supposed UFO , Passoria, New Jersey, 1952. Credit: CIA

The experimental planes produced light flashes that some interpreted as alien spaceships and this was considered helpful by the team in covering their activities.

"We considered it to be a bonus," said Barnes. "They made it easier to conceal what we were doing."

However some ufologists have said the area has only been partly declassified and UFO work at the base may well have carried out though in a region unknown to engineers such as Barnes.

"Those guys who came forward may very well be telling the truth, with the caveat that they wouldn't know if there was something going on," said Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear physicist, lecturer and top UFO researcher.

Friedman added that evidence coming out of places such as Area 51 proved how much was going on in the country without peoples' knowledge.

"National security has a real place in all of this stuff. There is no way to tell your friends without telling your enemies," he said. "A lot of Americans woke up to the fact that there's a lot going on that they don't get told about."

[eyedigress]

I used to work that “Area” and that pic is as hokey as a they come.

[Tucker39]

Having served in the military in one of the intelligence services, I know one thing for sure: Everyone working in Area 51 would have been on a “need to know” basis. So this engineer would have had first-hand knowledge regarding ONLY the specific work and specific projects that HE was assigned. If secret UFO stuff was going on in some remote area of 51, unless this engineer was ASSIGNED to THAT specific type work, he would not have a clue as to ANY of it. So his dismissal of UFO activity, plus $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee at most places, other than Starbucks.

[hunter112]

Yeah, so what? We all know they’ve had plenty of time to move everything to Area 52.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Hmmmm . . .

[Quix]

FRIEDMAN IS RIGHT.

The assertions are . . . non sequiturs.

Thanks.

[FlyingEagle]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

UFO mystery solved according to Area 51 workers
Examiner | April 7, | Michael Salla, Ph.D.
Posted on 04/07/2009 8:01:57 AM PDT by JoeProBono
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2224087/posts