Posted on 07/14/2019 5:24:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
Just yesterday we were discussing what I’m still holding out hope turns out to be one of the most widespread pranks in history. Nearly 400,000 people have signed on to a crackpot scheme on Facebook to “storm” Area 51, the top-secret military base located near Groom Lake in Nevada. The guy who actually started it is assuring the authorities it was a joke (and begging not to be arrested) but his followers don’t all seem to agree. The situation is being taken seriously enough that the Air Force actually responded to a question about it. While not coming out and specifically threating to burn all of these people to cinders if they cross the fence, they sure sounded like they were implying it. The following was offered up by Air Force spokeswoman Laura McAndrews. (The Hill)
Air Force spokeswoman Laura McAndrews declined to elaborate on specific details.
However, she did issue a warning to those who may be serious about a plan to infiltrate the Nevada Air Force base.
“[Area 51] is an open training range for the U.S. Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces,” McAndrews told the paper.
“The U.S. Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets,” she added.
The Air Force stands ready to protect America and its assets. And you can rest assured they have plenty of assets out at Groom Lake. Whether it’s the next generation of stealth fighters being developed or an interstellar cell tower so ET can phone home, they don’t allow anyone in. The other assets they have on hand include both Apache choppers and fighter jets.
Depending on how you read the spokeswoman’s rather veiled comments, it’s not hard to imagine that she’s hinting at precisely what I was suggesting yesterday. If one or two people show up and try to sneak in, odds are some guys in an SUV will show up, tackle you, detain you for questioning for a few days and then let you go. But if more people than can be tackled all swarm the place at once from multiple entry points, particularly if it looks like some of them will make it to the airstrip, what do you think they’re going to do?
Do you really think they wouldn’t give the order to just start ripping the crowd up with weapons? That’s an awfully big assumption to literally bet your life on.
Our Air Force and other military officers take the same oath as most elected officials. They will protect against “all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Don’t become one of those domestic enemies. You won’t like how it ends.
For those who are really curious about what Area 51 looks like but don’t want to wind up as a grease stain in the middle of the desert, here’s one of the most recent videos anyone managed to take of the base. A guy and his son scaled their way up to the top of Tikaboo Peak, from which Area 51 can be seen at a great distance. You’re not supposed to climb that mountain, but they managed to not get caught. The guy dragged up a video camera with an extremely powerful zoom lens and start filming. Spoiler alert: He didn’t see any aliens.
AREA 51 FROM TIKABOO PEAK PART 1 (THE BASE IS VERY ACTIVE)
SPECTRE. Its not just for taliban anymore.
Retired and replaced with GHOSTSHIP (aka AC-130J)
“””The Blue Angels do not fly at Air Force bases””””
Um, seen them many times flying at Andrews Air Force base in DC/MD.
Andrews is not an Air Force base. Correctly titled, Andrews is Joint base Andrews
Andrews is not an Air Force base. Correctly titled, Andrews is Joint base Andrews.
back in the day it was Andrews Air Force base. Also I no longer live in the shit hole of a state (MD) so I wouldn’t know of the name change. Thanks.
Spectre is being phased out. Ghostrider is the new kid.
I really don’t think these idiots are going to try anything. Even Antifa isn’t that ballsy or stupid. The sight or even the thought of real men, resolute , with a cold hard stare and automatic weapons leveled at you will convince any living in mom’s basement ‘’social justice warrior it’s a much better idea to try and burn down a Starbucks.
Maybe a serious deadly purge of infiltrators will send a message to those who think the Rio Grande is just a resort river to the north side.
Most of these morons would die of dehydration before they even got close.
To me any “reverse engineering” would be so difficult. Example: hand a person from 1890 a cell phone, laptop and flat screen HD TV and let them figure out to replicate them.
Marconi’s friends had him taken to a mental hospital because he told them his radio set invention allowed him to talk to far away people and hear them in his own room without leaving.
I am amazed how we could use the downed UFOs to set up B-2 and F-117. Oh, yeah, that’s just a myth. Forgot.
Yes. The Area 51 festival is a new version of Woodstock but instead of Jimi Hendrix burning a guitar (which was actually at Monterey) the loonies will try to burn a military vehicle.
Never a good plan.
Popping the corn should act as a heatsink. Brilliance!!
They are our servants, our agents. They answer to us, we don’t answer to them.
The services are the military of the deep state.
Dig it?
Have you ever been in the military?
The Constitution named the President the Commander-in-Chief of the military. They are not our servants, nor are they our agents. They do not answer to us, we had better answer to them.
35 years ago my dad won a contract to do work at the local military base where construction was going on. the equipment needed to be moniterd 24 hours but no real work to do so my dad had me there at night because the contract called for the monitoring. I was visited 4 times that night by base security and each time told don’t leave the immediate vicinity because it being at night I might be shot before security realized I was just a 15 year old kid who out of boredom decided to wander....I stayed in the truck and only left to do the minimal work that was needed....the site was a nuclear silo and the men were deadly serious about the fact that if I left the area I was in I might be shot.
Westover's about an hour from me.My sister lives pretty much at the end of their runway...C5s fly over her house constantly.
I was there during the Blue Angels Show.
Massachusetts,not Pensacola.
1. Go to pet store.
2. buy a white mouse.
3. wrap it in foil.
4. place in microwave.
5. nuke for 2 minutes.
6. check results.
It’s just over the hill from Las Vegas.
Take 93 north for about 100 miles.
Turn west for about 40 miles and have a brewski at the L’il Ale-inn.
Swap some tales and then head south to your destination!
I went to a naval base that had some sort of a do, and walked all over the place, even into a dorm. No one gave me a second look. It felt like being a swabbie again.
Yup.
There were NO more Kent States after Kent State.
Sad but true!
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