Ever Hear Of Area 51?

[MainerMikeBrown]

When I was in the Junior ROTC program back in high school, the younger kids in our class one day were talking amongst each other about Area 51.

The Major in the class then started laughing at them, as he thought they had been watching too much TV. He said that he'd never heard of Area 51!

He may have been laughing at these students. But he was the one that was way off.

 

[Monster]

Yup, Area 51 does exist.

 

[MainerMikeBrown]

For years, a lot of weird objects were spotted flying in the air near Area 51. Many felt it was aliens. But the reality is that it was likely just U.S. military experiments.

 

[Monster]

What I find interesting is when people see UFOs with navigation lights ... this looks too much like a terran craft.

My grandma and their whole town saw a low-flying UFO once in the late 80ies or early 90ies. They said it was huge and triangular. Might have been a prototype of a B-2 Spirit that flew just 20-50 meters above ground. Not sure if they can fly slow enough at that altitude to be spotted by people, however. We did and do have US (and German) military bases around here.

In Area 51, I'm sure there's been some tests of secret airplanes ... it was rumored there was one or more antigravity craft (one called XR-3B or something), which used rotating plasma (some prototypes were mentioned as early as the 1970ies). Here's a video I found that speculates about various inventions in that field:

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One interesting fact is that Motorola semiconductors (now Freescale) sold ECL chips with a picosecond gate clock back in the 1970ies (for GHz logic that might be required to precisely control a rotating electromagnic field), and one guy that spoke about these projects claimed he saw a GHz computer in the 1970ies, which is entirely possible when ECL logic was used (which was very expensive at about $50 per gate but affordable to the military).

 

[MainerMikeBrown]

If there really are aliens making trips to Earth and the government isn't letting us know, then that's good on the government's part. Who wants widespread panic?