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Astronauts and Area 51: the Skylab Incident
The Space Review ^ | 01/09/06 | Dwayne A. Day

Posted on 01/09/2006 5:35:01 PM PST by KevinDavis

Far out in the Nevada desert, miles from prying eyes, is a secret Air Force facility that has been known by numerous names over the years. It has been called Paradise Ranch, Watertown Strip, Area 51, Dreamland, and Groom Lake. Groom is probably the most mythologized real location that few people have ever seen. According to people with overactive imaginations, it is where the United States government keeps dead aliens, clones them, and reverse-engineers their spacecraft. It is also where NASA filmed the faked Moon landings.

However, for humans whose feet rest on solid ground, Groom is the site of highly secret aircraft development. It is where the U-2 spyplane, the Mach 3 Blackbird, and the F-117 stealth fighter were all developed. It has also probably hosted its own fleet of captured, stolen, or clandestinely acquired Soviet and Russian aircraft. Because of this, the United States government has gone to extraordinary lengths to preserve the area’s secrecy and to prevent people from seeing it.

This secrecy was threatened in early 1974 when the astronauts on Skylab pointed their camera out the window and took pictures of a facility that did not officially exist. They returned to Earth and their photographs quickly became a headache for NASA, the CIA, and the Department of Defense. That story has never been told before.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: area51; artbell; skylab; space
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1 posted on 01/09/2006 5:35:03 PM PST by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 01/09/2006 5:35:51 PM PST by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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To: KevinDavis

Surely the stories from Richard Hoagland and Goerge Nori are true???


3 posted on 01/09/2006 5:38:41 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant; All

The day I believe Richard Hoagland is when I french kiss Helen Thomas..


5 posted on 01/09/2006 5:40:17 PM PST by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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To: KevinDavis
This secrecy was threatened in early 1974 when the astronauts on Skylab pointed their camera out the window and took pictures of a facility that did not officially exist.

Whoops!

If you've ever been out in that area, you know how creepy the moonscape is and how easy it is to imagine aliens. LOL!

ET phone home?

6 posted on 01/09/2006 5:40:50 PM PST by phantomworker ("Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake..." --William James)
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To: RadioAstronomer

Wave at your radio and TV -- the NSA will be watching you forever ;)


7 posted on 01/09/2006 5:40:51 PM PST by freedumb2003 (American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
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To: pissant
I have talked to guys that worked there...they wouldn't talk about it. They made vague references...but that was it. Then one worked on the stealth. They live in at Nellis and they fly them by chopper at the start of the week and fly them back at the end of the week. They get to eat real well and they have nice work out facilities...
8 posted on 01/09/2006 5:42:33 PM PST by marmar (Pray for our Warriors...they are the greatest there is............)
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To: KevinDavis

Groom Lake is one of the remote airstrips for testing of new designs of military aircraft. Of course what goes on there is secret, even now, but everybody around there has known of its existence all along, and many have had jobs there.


9 posted on 01/09/2006 5:43:01 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: KevinDavis

Mister, you are this close (holding my thumb and forefinger very closely together!) to being reported for abuse!

The visual concept of someone french-kissing Helen Thomas is too evil to comprehend and is worthy of being reported for abuse.

Will you apologize?!


10 posted on 01/09/2006 5:44:41 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: marmar

Not by chopper. The flew them by plane. My brother was one of them.


11 posted on 01/09/2006 5:45:01 PM PST by Fledermaus (Please explain the difference between Al-Qaeda and the Left? Anyone? Anyone?)
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To: RightWhale

History Channel has this on, right now....8:45 est


12 posted on 01/09/2006 5:45:13 PM PST by ThreePuttinDude ()......Politically incorrect by Intelligent Design........()
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To: KevinDavis

For instance, the existence of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which manages America’s spy satellite program, first became known in a 1971 New York Times article

The Old Grey Whore at work.


13 posted on 01/09/2006 5:45:14 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: RadioAstronomer

Yeah but it doesnt show the massive network of facilities underneath the surface, and our alien overlords.


14 posted on 01/09/2006 5:45:38 PM PST by aft_lizard (What does G-d look like then if we evolved from nothing?See Genesis Ch 1:26-27)
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To: MplsSteve

LOL!!!


15 posted on 01/09/2006 5:46:08 PM PST by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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To: Fledermaus

I thought it was by chopper...but that was a while back.


16 posted on 01/09/2006 5:46:11 PM PST by marmar (Pray for our Warriors...they are the greatest there is............)
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To: zot; SeraphimApprentice

area 51 run, hide, they are after us.


17 posted on 01/09/2006 5:46:17 PM PST by GreyFriar ((3rd Armored Division -- Spearhead))
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To: pissant

Heck that's nothing.

One of the later moon landings "lost" all the stills and movie film from their side trip to a crater which had previously been the location of unexplained lights.


18 posted on 01/09/2006 5:46:33 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: aft_lizard; freedumb2003

LOL!


19 posted on 01/09/2006 5:46:51 PM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: KevinDavis

Please DO NOT post that picture if it comes to pass!!!!


20 posted on 01/09/2006 5:46:53 PM PST by pissant
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