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Veterans left struggling after work at secretive Area 52 made them sick
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T.K. RandallJune 2, 2024 ·
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Nuclear testing at the site produced a lot of radiation. Image Credit: Bing AI / Dall-E 3
Air Force technicians who studied captured technology at Area 52 are now suffering from health complications.
You have most likely heard of Area 51, but what about Area 52 ? This is the name assigned to a highly secretive US military installation situated around 70 miles to the north-west of Groom Lake in Nevada.
Also known as the Tonopah Test Range, the base is generally believed to be in use today as a nuclear weapon delivery systems research, storage and testing facility, but back in the 1970s, it was also believed to house captured Soviet fighter jets.
Mark Ely, a former Air Force technician who once worked on these jets at the site, has since revealed that, in later years, he has suffered from a miriad of health problems as a result of exposure to radiation from various types of nuclear tests that had been going on there.
"Upholding the national interest was more important than my own life," he told
CBS News.
"It scarred my lungs. I got cysts on my liver.... I started having lipomas, tumors inside my body I had to remove. My lining in my bladder was shed."
The problem is made much worse by the fact that he is unable to request healthcare assistance from the government because, as far as they are concerned, none if it ever happened.
He even signed a non-disclosure agreement to this effect at the time he was working there.
Ely isn't the only former Area 52 worker to be suffering from radiation exposure.
Dave Crete, who worked as a military police officer at the site, was also exposed to the same radiation and now has multiple health issues ranging from breathing problems to tumors.
While billions of dollars in federal assistance has been made available to other government employees who worked at the base, this particular group of men is simply ineligible due to the secretive nature of their work.
"It makes me incredibly mad and it hurts me too because they're supposed to have my back," said Ely.
"I had theirs and I want them to have mine."
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