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Documents reveal Area 51 Cold War secrecy

By T.K. Randall
November 15, 2013 · Comment icon 33 comments

Documents pertaining to the base remained classified for decades. Image Credit: sxc.hu
Several newly declassified documents have lifted the lid on Area 51 and the struggle to keep it a secret.
It was only a few months ago that the first documents acknowledging the existence of the base were released to the public. Far from being a home to captured alien technology however these documents revealed the base to have been a testing ground for a number of more conventional operations such as the U-2 and OXCART aerial surveillance programs.

Unsurprisingly, during the Cold War there was great concern over the potential for the Soviets to obtain images of the base using spy satellites. A newly released National Reconnaissance Office document from 1962 outlines the rationale behind taking photographs using America's own satellites of the base in order to see what, if anything, the Soviets could see if they should attempt to photograph it themselves.
Another document that was released outlines concerns over an incident in which astronauts on the Skylab space station took a photograph of the base from orbit. In a letter from the deputy director of the NRO, the document outlines the merits of retaining the photograph "as a high-priority secret national security installation versus the merits of the NASA belief that there would be domestic and foreign problems created by withholding the photograph."

In the end the photograph was released and placed in a satellite remote sensing data repository.

Source: Space.com | Comments (33)




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Comment icon #24 Posted by DONTEATUS 10 years ago
YEah ! THey Bury everything way underground so All the eMole people can get the Good Stuff ! Bob Lazar types ! THen THey Battle it out and Kill off hindreds of Aliens, ANd We never get to See it on the Nightly NEws !
Comment icon #25 Posted by SaraT 10 years ago
YEah ! THey Bury everything way underground so All the eMole people can get the Good Stuff ! Bob Lazar types ! THen THey Battle it out and Kill off hindreds of Aliens, ANd We never get to See it on the Nightly NEws ! Some posts are simply too deep for me...
Comment icon #26 Posted by Merc14 10 years ago
20+ years in jail getting roughed up and detained by the military and essentially disappearing forever is what stops people from even attempting anything as stupid as flying in drones into area 51, you wouldn't make it a mile down the highway before you were stopped and tossed in the back of a truck. Examples please. I am sure you have many examples of people roughed up and jailed forever so let's have a look. yes because "not my copter sorry" is a valid excuse once they take you in for fingerprinting and find it all over your copter. and as if you'd be able to get away with just leaving a dro... [More]
Comment icon #27 Posted by Detective Mystery 2014 10 years ago
Just some woo talk and anger that a country would try and protect its military secrets. There are times when I think that encounters with EBEs and UFOs are encounters with servicemen and prototypes to make the trails go cold. They're cases of misdirection. The Bennewitz case comes to mind as one example that went horribly wrong. The poor man passed after having a nervous breakdown brought on by a very cruel psy-ops campaign. I'm agnostic on abductions in that I don't know who the abductors are. I believe the accounts of the Hills and Walton, along with some others, but I'm not sure who's behin... [More]
Comment icon #28 Posted by bendigger0 10 years ago
Government "released" the files, indicating No Aliens at Area 51.... of course YOU believe them don't you?
Comment icon #29 Posted by Merc14 10 years ago
There are times when I think that encounters with EBEs and UFOs are encounters with servicemen and prototypes to make the trails go cold. They're cases of misdirection. The Bennewitz case comes to mind as one example that went horribly wrong. The poor man passed after having a nervous breakdown brought on by a very cruel psy-ops campaign. I'm agnostic on abductions in that I don't know who the abductors are. I believe the accounts of the Hills and Walton, along with some others, but I'm not sure who's behind those events. They could have been staged by the military to darken our black ops even... [More]
Comment icon #30 Posted by Detective Mystery 2014 10 years ago
I don't doubt that the military would alllow a UFO report about a crashed black program to continue on unabated as it solves their problem for them. I don't believe in the abduction stories and neither do I believe that extraterrestials are visiting earth. i reviewed teh Bennewitz case and saw zero, nada, zilch proof of a very cruel psyops program that drove the poor man crazy. Benewitz appeared to all of his compatriots to be a mentally ill individual who was afflicted with paranoid delusions and was in and out of mental health institutions most of his adult life. Some other UFOlogist, Bill M... [More]
Comment icon #31 Posted by DONTEATUS 10 years ago
I love Area 51 Its a great think tank& Development base !
Comment icon #32 Posted by dr no 10 years ago
Government "released" the files, indicating No Aliens at Area 51.... of course YOU believe them don't you? Show us the proof there are aliens there and i'll believe it but YOU haven't got any!
Comment icon #33 Posted by DONTEATUS 10 years ago
Im telling you Just watch the Documentry The one with Will Smith ! There out there man ! que Video !


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