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Well it is time for me to get my aluminum foil out and on my head to ward off the psychlotrons.

From today's Baltimore Sun:

Yes, Virginia – there is an Area 51. After years of denials, Pentagon confirms existence

IMG_CT-NY205_2_1_OS31E436.jpg


By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. The Washington Post

For decades, Americans were told that Area 51 didn’t exist and that the U.S. government had no official interest in aliens or UFOs. Statements to the contrary, official-sounding people cautioned, were probably the musings of crackpots in tinfoil hats. Well, score one for the crackpots. The Pentagon has officially confirmed that there was a $22 million government program to collect and analyze “anomalous aerospace threats” – government-speak for UFOs.

As The Washington Post’s Joby Warrick reported, the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was a rare instance of continued government investigations into a UFO phenomenon that was the subject of multiple official inquiries in the 1950s and 1960s.
The admission – and the fact that the government spent $22 million on UFO research – gives any theory a patina of credibility.
But what about the rest of us who have not jumped onto the tinfoil-hat bandwagon? What are we to make of 70 years of stories centered on a secret government base an hour’s drive from the Las Vegas Strip?

In 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower “approved the addition of this strip of wasteland, known by its map designation as Area 51, to the Nevada Test Site,” according to a CIA history of a spy plane declassified in 2013. The area was near the Atomic Energy Commission’s vast, desolate proving grounds and was used to test the high-altitude U-2 reconnaissance plane.
A parade of top-secret aircraft was tested in the area, according to Reuters, including the A-12 aircraft, a spy plane that flew faster than the speed of sound, and the angular F-117 stealth ground-attack jet.

But Area 51 became a wire frame for not-quite-verifiable musings about alien life, secret technology and supernatural behavior.
Gaping holes in out-there theories had an easy explanation – the government is working diligently to keep the real story under wraps.
The biggest working (conspiracy) theory is that Area 51 is where the U.S. government stored aliens and spacecraft that crash-landed on Earth, particularly the unidentifiable debris discovered by William “Mac” Brazel.
Brazel, a farmer, discovered metallic rods, pieces of plastic and silvery paper scraps in Roswell, N.M., in 1947. He called the sheriff, who called the military, who carted the debris off in armored vehicles.

But the secret was out, and it captured the imagination of the American public.
The government, the theories go, experimented on the aliens and tried to harness the technology in their ship to manufacture interstellar spacecraft and produce powerful energy weapons. Lab-coated Area 51 scientists also were said to be mulling ways to manipulate or weaponize the weather, travel through time and teleport.
For decades, people reported seeing strange lights in the desert around Area 51 – presumably alien aircraft taking off or being tested at the government facility.
Adding fuel to the alien theories, Ray Santilli released a video in 1995 that purported to show an alien autopsy after the Roswell crash.
The crowd that believed something wasn’t quite right at Area 51 was buoyed by a lawsuit filed by workers at the facility. They reported rashes, respiratory ailments and even deaths related to their jobs.

The alien aspects of those theories has crumbled under decades of scrutiny. Some have been explained away by declassified documents; other theories have been outright fabrications.
The debris Brazel found on his farm was part of a government cover-up. It just didn’t involve aliens.
The Air Force claimed it was using high-altitude balloons to try to detect Soviet nuclear tests.
Other officials have speculated that the debris came from a crashed nuclear bomber that had broken up over New Mexico. Roswell was the home of the 509th Composite Group, the atomic weapons unit that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
“We do believe that something did happen at Roswell,” one source close to the investigation told Jack Anderson and Michael Binstein in 1995. “Something big. We don’t know if it was a plane that crashed with a nuclear device on it ... or if it was some other experimental situation. But everything we’ve seen so far points to an attempt on the part of the Air Force to lead anybody that looks at this down another track.”

Santilli’s autopsy footage was easier to debunk. He admitted that it was a fake – though he maintains that it was based on actual footage.
And the space around Area 51 was where the United States tested several of its more experimental aircraft as the Cold War raged adding to its mystery.
Incidents such as the crash on Brazwell’s farm or the sighting of several bright lights were shrouded in secrecy and half-baked excuses that became fodder for people who believe “the truth is out there.”

The experimental aircraft may have had something to do with the injuries suffered by the workers, as The Post’s Richard Leiby reported in 1997. They claimed materials, including anti-radar coating and other classified substances, had been burned in open pits on the base.
Filmmakers took notice of the intrigue. Over the past 70 years, Area 51 has been cemented as a popular science fiction trope.
Experiments on aliens and their spacecraft was an important plot point in the 1996 summer blockbuster “Independence Day,” in which a U.S. resistance force converges on Area 51 to launch a final battle.

In the movie “Super 8,” the train crash that motors the plot involves material transported from Area 51.
But in the real world, government employees had been poring over their own film, captured by fighter pilots, of possible UFOs.
Chris Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who worked for the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, said investigators had interviewed pilots who claimed they saw weird things in the air. Mellon, who now works with UFODATA, a private organization, described one video of an encounter with an unidentified object to

Politico:
“It is white, oblong, some 40 feet long and perhaps 12 feet thick. ... The pilots are astonished to see the object suddenly reorient itself toward the approaching F/A-18.
“In a series of discreet tumbling maneuvers that seem to defy the laws of physics, the object takes a position directly behind the approaching F/A-18. The pilots capture gun camera footage and infrared imagery of the object. They are outmatched by a technology they’ve never seen.”
The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program generated at least one report, a 490-page volume that describes alleged UFO sightings in the U.S. and numerous other countries over multiple decades.

Please see: Moment UFO spotted by US Navy jet - CNN Video
 

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Did someone say Psychlotrons??!!


Well it is time for me to get my aluminum foil out and on my head to ward off the psychlotrons.

From today's Baltimore Sun:

Yes, Virginia – there is an Area 51. After years of denials, Pentagon confirms existence

IMG_CT-NY205_2_1_OS31E436.jpg


By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. The Washington Post

For decades, Americans were told that Area 51 didn’t exist and that the U.S. government had no official interest in aliens or UFOs. Statements to the contrary, official-sounding people cautioned, were probably the musings of crackpots in tinfoil hats. Well, score one for the crackpots. The Pentagon has officially confirmed that there was a $22 million government program to collect and analyze “anomalous aerospace threats” – government-speak for UFOs.

As The Washington Post’s Joby Warrick reported, the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was a rare instance of continued government investigations into a UFO phenomenon that was the subject of multiple official inquiries in the 1950s and 1960s.
The admission – and the fact that the government spent $22 million on UFO research – gives any theory a patina of credibility.
But what about the rest of us who have not jumped onto the tinfoil-hat bandwagon? What are we to make of 70 years of stories centered on a secret government base an hour’s drive from the Las Vegas Strip?

In 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower “approved the addition of this strip of wasteland, known by its map designation as Area 51, to the Nevada Test Site,” according to a CIA history of a spy plane declassified in 2013. The area was near the Atomic Energy Commission’s vast, desolate proving grounds and was used to test the high-altitude U-2 reconnaissance plane.
A parade of top-secret aircraft was tested in the area, according to Reuters, including the A-12 aircraft, a spy plane that flew faster than the speed of sound, and the angular F-117 stealth ground-attack jet.

But Area 51 became a wire frame for not-quite-verifiable musings about alien life, secret technology and supernatural behavior.
Gaping holes in out-there theories had an easy explanation – the government is working diligently to keep the real story under wraps.
The biggest working (conspiracy) theory is that Area 51 is where the U.S. government stored aliens and spacecraft that crash-landed on Earth, particularly the unidentifiable debris discovered by William “Mac” Brazel.
Brazel, a farmer, discovered metallic rods, pieces of plastic and silvery paper scraps in Roswell, N.M., in 1947. He called the sheriff, who called the military, who carted the debris off in armored vehicles.

But the secret was out, and it captured the imagination of the American public.
The government, the theories go, experimented on the aliens and tried to harness the technology in their ship to manufacture interstellar spacecraft and produce powerful energy weapons. Lab-coated Area 51 scientists also were said to be mulling ways to manipulate or weaponize the weather, travel through time and teleport.
For decades, people reported seeing strange lights in the desert around Area 51 – presumably alien aircraft taking off or being tested at the government facility.
Adding fuel to the alien theories, Ray Santilli released a video in 1995 that purported to show an alien autopsy after the Roswell crash.
The crowd that believed something wasn’t quite right at Area 51 was buoyed by a lawsuit filed by workers at the facility. They reported rashes, respiratory ailments and even deaths related to their jobs.

The alien aspects of those theories has crumbled under decades of scrutiny. Some have been explained away by declassified documents; other theories have been outright fabrications.
The debris Brazel found on his farm was part of a government cover-up. It just didn’t involve aliens.
The Air Force claimed it was using high-altitude balloons to try to detect Soviet nuclear tests.
Other officials have speculated that the debris came from a crashed nuclear bomber that had broken up over New Mexico. Roswell was the home of the 509th Composite Group, the atomic weapons unit that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
“We do believe that something did happen at Roswell,” one source close to the investigation told Jack Anderson and Michael Binstein in 1995. “Something big. We don’t know if it was a plane that crashed with a nuclear device on it ... or if it was some other experimental situation. But everything we’ve seen so far points to an attempt on the part of the Air Force to lead anybody that looks at this down another track.”

Santilli’s autopsy footage was easier to debunk. He admitted that it was a fake – though he maintains that it was based on actual footage.
And the space around Area 51 was where the United States tested several of its more experimental aircraft as the Cold War raged adding to its mystery.
Incidents such as the crash on Brazwell’s farm or the sighting of several bright lights were shrouded in secrecy and half-baked excuses that became fodder for people who believe “the truth is out there.”

The experimental aircraft may have had something to do with the injuries suffered by the workers, as The Post’s Richard Leiby reported in 1997. They claimed materials, including anti-radar coating and other classified substances, had been burned in open pits on the base.
Filmmakers took notice of the intrigue. Over the past 70 years, Area 51 has been cemented as a popular science fiction trope.
Experiments on aliens and their spacecraft was an important plot point in the 1996 summer blockbuster “Independence Day,” in which a U.S. resistance force converges on Area 51 to launch a final battle.

In the movie “Super 8,” the train crash that motors the plot involves material transported from Area 51.
But in the real world, government employees had been poring over their own film, captured by fighter pilots, of possible UFOs.
Chris Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who worked for the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, said investigators had interviewed pilots who claimed they saw weird things in the air. Mellon, who now works with UFODATA, a private organization, described one video of an encounter with an unidentified object to

Politico:
“It is white, oblong, some 40 feet long and perhaps 12 feet thick. ... The pilots are astonished to see the object suddenly reorient itself toward the approaching F/A-18.
“In a series of discreet tumbling maneuvers that seem to defy the laws of physics, the object takes a position directly behind the approaching F/A-18. The pilots capture gun camera footage and infrared imagery of the object. They are outmatched by a technology they’ve never seen.”
The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program generated at least one report, a 490-page volume that describes alleged UFO sightings in the U.S. and numerous other countries over multiple decades.

Please see: Moment UFO spotted by US Navy jet - CNN Video
 

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alien.jpgRoger come home.................... [MENTION=11639]rjisaterp[/MENTION]
 

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You A-Hole do you have any Idea how hard it is to get foil at this time of year where I live ? DO YA
And now I have 6 dogs to foil up and the Pretyone as she is here for 2 weeks ( Toga pressed and ready bud )
Ya ever tried to foil a deaf Dane eh M8 ????????
Bulldogs are good no issue think there alien to be honest , but your not off the hook got a 3 legged to foil runs faster the the Bloody Dane
And do not give me this crap about order from Amazon , it,s Christmas , get your crap together.

shakes head !
 

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You A-Hole do you have any Idea how hard it is to get foil at this time of year where I live ? DO YA
And now I have 6 dogs to foil up and the Pretyone as she is here for 2 weeks ( Toga pressed and ready bud )
Ya ever tried to foil a deaf Dane eh M8 ????????
Bulldogs are good no issue think there alien to be honest , but your not off the hook got a 3 legged to foil runs faster the the Bloody Dane
And do not give me this crap about order from Amazon , it,s Christmas , get your crap together.

shakes head !


Atta' boy [MENTION=8958]natski282[/MENTION] Let him have it!!!:laugh::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:
 

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:yoda2::gremlin::starwars: I have spoke to some alien like creatures before but I just suspected they were weird people.
 
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Great. I thought I was alone.

But I guess the reason is becasue everyone went to see the latest installment of Star Wars...... But I remember the First Star Wars sexually explicit........

Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care what you smell!'
'Luke, at that speed do you think you'll be able to pull out in time?'
'Put that thing away before you get us all killed.'
'You've got something jammed in here real good.'
'Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?'
'You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought.'
'Sorry about the mess...'
'Look at the size of that thing!'
'Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!'
'She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.'
'I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me.'
'Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?'
'There's an awful lot of moisture in here.'
'But now we must eat. Come, good food, come...'
'That's okay, I'd like to keep it on manual control for a while.'
'Hurry up, golden-rod...'
'I must've hit it pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh kid?'
'Possible he came in through the south entrance.'
'And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!'
'Control, control! You must learn control!'
'Hey, point that thing someplace else.'
'I look forward to completing your training. In time you will call me master.'
'I never knew I had it in me.'
'There is good in him, I've felt it.'
'Hey, Luke, thanks for coming after me -- now I owe you one.'
'Back door, huh? Good idea!'
'She's gonna blow!'
'I think you'll fit in nicely.'
'Rise, my friend.'
'Wedge! Pull out! You're not doing any good back there!'
 
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You A-Hole do you have any Idea how hard it is to get foil at this time of year where I live ? DO YA
And now I have 6 dogs to foil up and the Pretyone as she is here for 2 weeks ( Toga pressed and ready bud )
Ya ever tried to foil a deaf Dane eh M8 ????????
Bulldogs are good no issue think there alien to be honest , but your not off the hook got a 3 legged to foil runs faster the the Bloody Dane
And do not give me this crap about order from Amazon , it,s Christmas , get your crap together.

shakes head !

Oh stop your complaining....suck it up, and drive on! By the way...Have a very Merry Christmas.
 

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