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Area 51 and its purpose declassified: No UFOs, but lots of U-2 spy planes
NBCNews ^ | 8/15/2013 | Alan Boyle

Posted on 08/15/2013 11:52:25 PM PDT by South40

A newly declassified CIA history from 20 years ago spills the story about Nevada's Area 51 and its secret mission — which was not to study UFOs, but to test the U-2 and other spy planes.

The CIA's story about the legendary test site is contained in "The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: the U-2 and Oxcart Programs." The document was approved for release in June, with just a few remaining redactions, in response to a Freedom of Information request filed by George Washington University's National Security Archive back in 2005.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Nevada; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aerospace; area51; callingartbell; cia; coldwar; foia; mystery; nevada; oxcart; parpro; planecrash; reconnaissance; sr71; thexfiles; u2; ufo; usaf; waronterror; xfiles
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To: AlexW
Nothing needs "proving" about worm holes.

My garden is full of them.

21 posted on 08/16/2013 12:41:59 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: South40

So if the network that lies in it’s sleep says that Groom was a U2 base, that likely means that U2 is a designation for an alien craft or a refrigerator...but there probably never was a Lockheed U2 within 100 miles of it ;)


22 posted on 08/16/2013 12:45:52 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: tet68

If you can’t believe the CIA, who can you believe?


23 posted on 08/16/2013 1:06:32 AM PDT by RC one
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To: VerySadAmerican

Actually Miliary technology is moving backwards, in that what you saw was a time-travel vehicle travelling back to re-arrange history.


24 posted on 08/16/2013 1:32:59 AM PDT by goron (If this be treason, make the most of it! - Patrick Henry)
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To: South40

bookmark


25 posted on 08/16/2013 1:53:01 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: South40

They moved all the aliens too Washington.


26 posted on 08/16/2013 1:54:34 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: ApplegateRanch

“Nothing needs “proving” about worm holes.”
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hahahaha...I think you know what I was referring to :P


27 posted on 08/16/2013 2:17:11 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: AlexW
LOL! Yes, you caught me. I knew it wasn't garden variety worm holes you were referring to. It was these:


28 posted on 08/16/2013 2:37:20 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: VerySadAmerican

“I saw something that moved faster than anything I’d ever seen move that fast in the military.”

I think it was Patton reversing course and regrouping his Third Army so that they could relieve the 101st during the Battle of the Bulge.


29 posted on 08/16/2013 2:37:21 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: ApplegateRanch

Yes, I can imagine many jokes about worm holes.
I see it as the only way that ET can be here, but they have not been discovered or proven to exist.
I understand that many see numerous visual whatevers in the sky, and I find them interesting, but I think any ET would have made himself known by now.
The ET kooks can get back to me when one makes itself known.


30 posted on 08/16/2013 2:48:01 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: AlexW

“I have never seen or believed in UFOs from another world.”

You mean aliens wouldn’t spend centuries in flight, even at light speed, just to cut crop circles in Wilshire or anal probe a redneck leaving a bar in Arizona? Don’t they have teenagers?


31 posted on 08/16/2013 3:04:05 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather

“You mean aliens wouldn’t spend centuries in flight, even at light speed, just to cut crop circles in Wilshire or anal probe a redneck leaving a bar in Arizona? Don’t they have teenagers?
________________________________________________

Haha, that was funny.
I will believe in ET when he lands and makes himself known.
I will not hold my breath waiting, but it is sometimes fun to listen to Kook to Kook.


32 posted on 08/16/2013 3:37:49 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: South40

Di*si-nfor*ma*ti*on.


33 posted on 08/16/2013 4:17:34 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: pepsionice
What about bigfoot, loch ness, and cattle mutilations? Surely, one of these has to be true.

That's right! There must be at least a 1 in 3 chance that ONE is true.

Right? ;)

34 posted on 08/16/2013 4:20:42 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: AlexW
Get back to me when worm holes are proven :)


35 posted on 08/16/2013 4:32:48 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (')
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To: South40
..Skully, Mulder and the boys from Lone Gunman say hooey!

FBI A D Walter Skinner

36 posted on 08/16/2013 6:44:53 AM PDT by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: Vision Thing

These days, so celebrities can take rides to 70,000 feet.


37 posted on 08/16/2013 7:30:28 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: South40

38 posted on 08/16/2013 7:39:40 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: AlexW

They have an lndavincebility cloak, ya can’t see’m.


39 posted on 08/16/2013 8:47:03 AM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: AlexW

Mathematically speaking, there is an extremely high probability they do exist, and that light speed is not the end-all. Waxman is proof that aliens inhabit this planet.


40 posted on 08/16/2013 8:55:58 AM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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