Posted on 04/03/2010 6:11:27 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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Edgar Mitchell, the last American to walk on the moon, said in ‘09...Roswell happened...a saucer crashed, bodies and a broken machine from another planetary sysem WERE recovered.
He claims to have been briefed on it...he wasn’t granted details because of “need to know”.
I don’t know...but I think there’s something out there besides us.
Around 97 several former employees sued the U.S. Government for illnesses caused from working at area 51 and Groom Lake. The story was on the front page of the feral Times. So much for secrecy.
“Federal Times” oops LOL.
Abandonded????? Ummm. I don't think so. NTS may not be actively testing live weapons, but it's hardly "abandonded".
While these things were going on in the open air, an elderly gentleman of scientific attainments was seated in his library, two or three houses off, writing a philosophical treatise, and ever and anon moistening his clay and his labours with a glass of claret from a venerable-looking bottle which stood by his side. In the agonies of composition, the elderly gentleman looked sometimes at the carpet, sometimes at the ceiling, and sometimes at the wall; and when neither carpet, ceiling, nor wall afforded the requisite degree of inspiration, he looked out of the window.
In one of these pauses of invention, the scientific gentleman was gazing abstractedly on the thick darkness outside, when he was very much surprised by observing a most brilliant light glide through the air, at a short distance above the ground, and almost instantaneously vanish. After a short time the phenomenon was repeated, not once or twice, but several times; at last the scientific gentleman, laying down his pen, began to consider to what natural causes these appearances were to be assigned.
They were not meteors; they were too low. They were not glow-worms; they were too high. They were not will-o’-the- wisps; they were not fireflies; they were not fireworks. What could they be? Some extraordinary and wonderful phenomenon of nature, which no philosopher had ever seen before; something which it had been reserved for him alone to discover, and which he should immortalise his name by chronicling for the benefit of posterity. Full of this idea, the scientific gentleman seized his pen again, and committed to paper sundry notes of these unparalleled appearances, with the date, day, hour, minute, and precise second at which they were visible: all of which were to form the data of a voluminous treatise of great research and deep learning, which should astonish all the atmospherical wiseacres that ever drew breath in any part of the civilised globe.
He threw himself back in his easy-chair, wrapped in contemplations of his future greatness. The mysterious light appeared more brilliantly than before, dancing, to all appearance, up and down the lane, crossing from side to side, and moving in an orbit as eccentric as comets themselves.
The scientific gentleman was a bachelor. He had no wife to call in and astonish, so he rang the bell for his servant.
‘Pruffle,’ said the scientific gentleman, ‘there is something very extraordinary in the air to-night? Did you see that?’ said the scientific gentleman, pointing out of the window, as the light again became visible.
‘Yes, I did, Sir.’
‘What do you think of it, Pruffle?’
‘Think of it, Sir?’
‘Yes. You have been bred up in this country. What should you say was the cause for those lights, now?’
The scientific gentleman smilingly anticipated Pruffle’s reply that he could assign no cause for them at all. Pruffle meditated.
‘I should say it was thieves, Sir,’ said Pruffle at length.
‘You’re a fool, and may go downstairs,’ said the scientific gentleman.
‘Thank you, Sir,’ said Pruffle. And down he went.
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Edgar Mitchell, the last American to walk on the moon,...
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Just a friendly comment (from someone not expert on space travel history)...
A few weeks ago, Gene Cernan did an interview (On FOX?), criticizing
the current administration’s bias against manned space travel.
At least on FOX, Cernan was called “the last man to walk on the moon”.
Wikipedia (which I don’t totally trust!) seems to concur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Cernan
You’re right...Mitchell had the LONGEST walk.
I thought it was interesting to find out that Purdue U. has the distinction
of having the first man to walk on the moon (Armstrong) and the last
(for now) in Cernan.
And it’s gonna’ be a hoot when mankind gets back on the moon...
and find the initials of Cernan’s daughter, still there in the lunar dust.
THX
Still reading Paola Harris’s books from the Aztec Conference. Some newish stuff in them.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Cernan:
"...as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969; and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972. In that final lunar landing mission, Cernan became "the last man on the moon" since he was the last to re-enter the Apollo Lunar Module during its third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA). (While crewmate Harrison Schmitt was "the last man to arrive on the moon" as Cernan left the module first). Cernan was also a backup crew member for the Gemini 12, Apollo 7 and Apollo 14 missions."
AND from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Mitchell:
"Edgar Dean Mitchell, D.Sc. (born September 17, 1930) is an American pilot, engineer, and astronaut. As the lunar module pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon."
If you don't get the facts, anyone can check, correct, it is hard to make yourself believable.
They sure love their disinformation gigs.
No, you had it right the first time :-)
I meant to say “longest”...it came out wrong. Sorry.
Does anyone know the approximate perimeter of the prohibited area around this location? Could it be around 40 miles? (10 X 10 X 10 X 10) I would be curious to see how much it costs to secure that many miles of land with the effectiveness that they can. One could then extrapolate those numbers out to compare with the length of our southern border. You could then come up with an amount that it would take to completely shut down the border.
Get an aeronautical chart for SoNv, there is a restridted MOA (Aka The Box) ‘about the size of Groom LAke.
For years I worked just north of there at the Tonopah Range, and West at the Tolicha Peak range.
There are tons of “Area 51” sites on the web, with photos, most of which are actually pretty good.
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