It’s official, or is it? During Sunday’s 36th annual Kennedy Center Honors, President Obama joked that he was making history when he publicly mentioned Area 51, one of the most famous secret military installations in the world.
Obama’s comments raised eyebrows and possibly awareness about the site, located north of Las Vegas, which many conspiracy theorists believe is a repository for extraterrestrials and crashed alien spacecraft.
While the president was honoring actress Shirley MacLaine, who is known for her claims about seeing UFOs, Obama said, “Now, when you first become President, one of the questions that people ask you is, what’s really going on in Area 5l?” He then continued, jokingly, “When I wanted to know, I’d call Shirley MacLaine. I think I just became the first president to ever publicly mention Area 51. How’s that, Shirley?”
Joking aside, the almost obsessive secrecy surrounding Area 51 (aka Groom Lake) has been the stimulus for countless conspiracy theories throughout the years, especially those relating to the acquisition of extraterrestrials and alien spacecraft. Until recently, the site was so secret that the U.S. government refused to ever confirm its existence. Even former President Clinton’s “Presidential Determination,” which exempted the base from environmental disclosure laws, never mentioned the site by its Area 51 name, referring only to it as “the U.S. Air Force’s facility in the vicinity of Groom Lake, Nevada.
Area 51 didn’t “officially” exist until this past August, when the CIA finally released a document confirming its use as a “testing range for the government’s U-2 spy plane during the Cold War.” Also contained within the document was the nickname officials gave to Area 51, “Paradise Ranch, to make it sound more attractive to potential workers.”
In late November of this year, more than 60 formerly released documents regarding Area 51 were “declassified” and posted on the Internet by the National Security Archive, located at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Those documents contain information regarding the “quest to develop stealthy capability in aircraft” in addition to “…the exploitation of covertly acquired Soviet MiG fighter jets.” None of the documents makes reference to anything “unearthly,” however.
So with the president’s public acknowledgment and the CIA’s official recognition, is the controversy surrounding Area 51 finally over, or could there be more to the story?
Renowned UFO researchers and authors Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt believe there’s more to the story. In their latest best-selling book, “Inside the Real Area 51: The Secret History of Wright Patterson,” they provide dozens of eyewitness testimonies by highly credible, honorable and heroic military service men and women indicating that the “real” Area 51 is actually located in the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB) in Dayton, Ohio.
According to Carey and Schmitt, the information regarding what crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 still remains classified, and only a select few have ever had access to the truth about what became known as Area 51. The authors researched deeper, though, and believe the trail from Roswell actually leads to Wright-Patterson AFB. They contend that physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitation is actually buried deep within the confines of Wright-Patterson, making it “The Real Area 51.”
There’s no shortage of stories regarding Area 51, however, especially in regards to aliens and UFOs. Even the movie, “Independence Day,” helped promote the idea that something “out-of-this-world” was going on at Groom Lake. But perhaps one of the more entertaining stories is presented in Christopher Antony Meade’s book, “The Zombie, The Cat and Barack Obama,” in which he reveals “the real reason” for all the secrecy around Area 51. According to Meade’s novella, Area 51 is really a very secure prison for a very special type of prisoner…one who can travel in time and space and is a “vanishing shape shifter from the Pleiades cluster…The Cheshire Cat!”
So whether Area 51 is a base for top-secret military design, a government repository for aliens and their spacecraft located not in Nevada, but in Ohio, or a prison for vanishing cats, the mystery surrounding Area 51 is not likely to go away any time soon. Maybe the question now becomes, “Mr. President, which Area 51 were you referring to on Sunday?”
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