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AREA 51….GROOM LAKE….DREAMLAND

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Groom Lake is a top secret military base in the middle of Nevada. It is in grid number 51 of the areas of the Nevada Test Site, thus, Area 51. The United States Air Force Flight Test Center, based at the famous Edwards AFB, controls the base. It is a flight test center for classified aircraft and other exotic weapons. The base was supposedly created in 1954 as a place to test the secret U-2 spyplane that was used to fly reconnasance missions over the Soviet Union. ÊIt was laster redesigned to accomodate the SR-71, A-12 and D-21 drone. The Have Blue experimental stealth aircraft was tested there and along with the full scale F-117a. Later, in the 1980s, the bases size has doubled and the length of the runway increased to 27,000 feet. Mysterious lights began to appear over the airspace of the base and armed guards with M16 assault rifles strictly enforced the border.

Today, the government has closed numerous viewpoints that have direct views of anything that goes on at the base. The location where the picture above was taken was closed. In 1989, a physicist named Bob Lazar claimed that he worked at a base south of Area 51 and also claimed that Area 51 was testing extremely advanced aircraft. Since then, Area 51 has been thought to be the test center of captured UFOs because of the lights in the night sky.

‘Area 51’ Last of the Secret Military Bases
Scripps Howard News Service – January 2000
Many people who believe in UFO’s also believe “Area 51” is where the Air Force keeps its stockpile of captured flying saucers. And maybe an autopsied alien body or two. Others believe the military base in the southern Nevada desert is the testing grounds for America’s most secret military machines, everything from the F-117 stealth fighter to electromagnetic pulse weapons that would make Buck Rogers nervous.
What is certain is that there is something out there in that moonscape property north of Las Vegas. Officially designated the “Nellis Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range” on Nevada maps, the federally protected territory in Nye, Lincoln and Clark counties covers an area equal to Rhode Island and Connecticut combined.
What also is certain is that more than 1,850 federal civilian workers are employed in mostly well-compensated jobs at several ultra-high-security facilities in and near the range, according to a Scripps Howard News Service analysis of government payroll records maintained by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. “This really is one of the last big secret military bases in the United States.
In 1997 the Air Force last year conceded the existence of the base and its position along dried-up Groom Lake when it released a publication that suggested experimental Cold War-era aircraft could have been mistaken for flying saucers. At a Pentagon press briefing, Air Force Col. John Hanes was asked about Area 51. Whatever they do in the Nellis Bombing Range, they continue to do it under the Clinton administration.
There were exactly 2,000 civilian employees of the departments of Defense, Army, Navy, Air Force and Energy in the Nellis Bombing Range area as of Sept. 30, 1992. Five years later, and despite massive job layoffs ordered by President Clinton as part of his government reinvention policies, there were 1,851 employees still working there.
The payroll records show that the Department of Eergy, which has control of the nation’s stockpile of nuclear bombs, employs 32 people in the town of Mercury, Nev., the only city inside the bombing range. This town can be found on most maps but is not counted in the U.S. Census. Some or all of these people may be employed as part of Energy’s Yucca Mountain project, a plan to open an underground repository to deposit America’s used nuclear fuel.
Non-government military observers for several years have s aid they believe that hundreds, or thousands, of military and civilian workers who are employed in the desert facilities take daily flights from Las Vegas airfields into the base. The computer records appear to confirm this.
The Department of Energy officially employs a total of 448 people in the Las Vegas area, even though there are no known federal projects in the city that could justify such employment. The Air Force has 1,068 civilian employees there, some of whom certainly work at Nellis Air Force Base.
But more suspect are the 166 civilian employees of the departments of Defense and Army, the 156 Environmental Protection Agency workers, the 10 Federal Emergency Management Agency employees and at least two representatives of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff. Some of these people work in the still classified operations conducted inside the bombing range. Among the most popular occupations for this workforce are “miscellaneous administration,” “secretary,” “general engineering,” “general physical sciences” and “management programming.”
The average salary for the Department of Energy personnel last year was nearly $59,000 a year, well above average for a federal employee. The payroll for all of the civilian workers in the area totaled $80.6 million. The analysis found that federal cutbacks that have removed nearly 16 percent of the civilian federal workforce and about 20 percent of the military during the Clinton administration has been especially mild in the area around Groom Lake. Slightly more than 7 percent of this civilian federal workforce in southern Nevada declined from 1992 to 1997.

For the past several decades, the Air Force has officially denied the existance of Area 51. A recent statement reads as follows: “There are a variety of facilities throughout the Nellis Range Complex. We do have faciliities within the complex near the dry lake bed of Groom Lake. The facilities of the Nellis Range Complex are used for testing and training technologies, operations, and systems critical to their effectiveness of U.S. military forces. Specific activities conducted at Nellis cannot be discussed any further than that.”
Area 51 is a secret Air Force base secluded deep within a wide-ranging tract of restricted government land in the remote Nevada desert. It is 100 miles north-northwest of Las Vegas.
To drive there one must drive on Interstate Highway 375 now renamed “Extraterrestrial Highway”.
People often see lenticular clouds overhead…clouds that camouflage UFO’s.
There is a famous “black mail box” on the road. It looks like any ordinary mailbox. It marks the crossroads that lead to a large secret military complex. People come from all over to watch pecular lights streaking across the skies like nothing they have ever seen before. Some report craft flying at approximately 10,000 miles per hour, that suddenly stop dead.
The alleged source of these UFO’s is hidden behind the mountains along a dry lake bed. A top secret base known as Dreamland or Area 51. It has a five mile long runway. Every day at least 1,000 workers commute to the base from Las Vegas on it’s own private airline.
Some report that “black projects” are worked on there. “Black project” means “black budget” – the public does know about this spending….or these projects. I have also read that much of the money comes from drug trafficing from South America.
The super secret SR 71 spy plane and the stealth fighter were reportedly developed and tested here. Some people contend the military uses the base to study downed and captured alien craft, even aliens themselves, eventually using the alien technology in American military projects.
What scares many people and investigators is that the government can use this blanket claim of national security to hide anything and everything which is what they have been doing in Area 51.
The secrets of Area 51 are increasingly well protected. The Air Force gained control of the best vantage points over looking the base and closed them to the public. Heavily armed men in white jeeps and camouflaged uniforms drive well beyond the boundaries of the base onto public land reported detaining and intimidating anyone who gets too close. Many people have been harassed some even arrested apparently with no legal authority because these people won’t say who they are. As usual the government has nothing to say!

Most Detailed Images Ever of Top-Secret U.S. Air Base Show Major Expansion
April 23, 2000 – space.com
Detailed images of Area 51 just released may not show evidence of little green men, but they do show that the super-secret Air Force base has grown significantly over the years.
“I want to see flying saucers as much as anyone,” said Federation of American ScientistÕs John Pike, who ordered the 1-meter (3.2-foot) images, the most detailed to date, from Thorton, Colorado-company Space Imaging. Instead, the photos — captured over the past few months — show that the area has significantly expanded since the first images were snapped of the infamous site over 30 years ago.
“ItÕs interesting to contemplate what is going on there. It seems as though there is tons of money going in there and nothing is going out,” he said.

Runway at Area 51
n particular, the photos show a runway that is about 3,800 meters (2.36 miles), or about 42 football fields, long. ThatÕs even longer than the runways for the worldÕs largest commercial aircraft.

The barracks – home of people who live on the base
The images also show a burgeoning growth in the area, including a complete rebuilding and expansion in size of the housing complex for base personnel over the past 30 years. In addition, there are new support facilities.

The munitions storage area
A geometrically-shaped munitions storage area is also identified.

The aircraft hangar
And four aircraft hangars are visible off the runway. Conspiracy theorists have long believed that one of these hangars, dubbed Hangar 18, is the holding area for the alien bodies and captured alien technology taken from crash sites.
These high-resolution images, captured by Space ImagingÕs IKONOS satellite on April 2, were released less than a week after Raleigh, North Carolina-based Aerial Images unfolded its series of 6.6-foot (2-meter) photos of the mysteriously secretive area over the Web, crashing the site for days.
Though the public’s ravenous appetite for these images was made obvious this past week, PikeÕs purpose for getting these photos was different.
Pike said the request was a test to see how long it would take to gain access to these images and how they may be used by military agencies around the world.
“This is an interesting case study that enables us to explore in practical rather than theoretical terms just what is this ‘Brave New World’ weÕve entered into.”
This so-called 3.3-foot (1-meter) resolution technology once was available only to intelligence agencies through their own spy satellites. But it has been estimated that by the year 2003, at least 11 companies in five countries will have high-resolution, remote-sensing cameras in orbit.
That sort of commercial technology in space worries government officials because they believe such detailed imagery could encourage industrial espionage, terrorism or more cross-border military attacks in the developing world.
But Pike seemed unfazed by the impact of this imagery on national security.
Because it took 2 months to get the images, he said the technology would only be useful during peacetime for monitoring specific regions instead of during wartime, when the military may need to target a strategic area.
“The war may already be over before you get your picture,” Pike said.
Space Imaging’s Mark Brender argued that obtaining images doesn’t always take so long. “We can turn stuff around in 24 hours,” he said. When twin tornadoes touched down in Texas on March 28, for example, Brender says that within a few hours they were evaluating the images and ready to release them to the public within 24 hours.
“We can produce images very shortly for natural disasters and crisis, ” he said.
Area 51 — 75 miles (121 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas Ð occupies about 150 square miles (390 square kilometers) of a dried up lakebed in the Great Basin Desert, Nevada. It was named after the grid it occupies on an old Nevada map and came into existence in 1955 when aerospace company Lockheed Martin landed there to test the U 2, a high-altitude surveillance plane.
The top-secret base later became a proving ground for several generations of high-tech prototypes, including the F 117-A Stealth fighter.
The shroud of secrecy thickened once the Air Force bought up about 9,000 acres of land around the base to prevent the public from getting too close. In August 1994, an Air Force official admitted the base existed, saying the Air Force has “facilities within the complex near the dry lakebed of Groom LakeÉused for testing, training technologies, operations and systems critical to the effectiveness of U.S. military forces.”
Ufologists have long believed that unidentified flying objects from other planets are entrenched in underground bases in the region and insist alien autopsies are being conducted there. But, conventional wisdom says the base is likely a center for super-secret operations dealing with sophisticated military aircraft.