1) Area 51 has moved to Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Montana or any place else: OK Area 51 has not moved anywhere! Its still right there in its happy little home in Nevada. This one falls into the "sloppy journalism" catagory. I'm not going to get deep into the details (mainly because I'm tired of telling, and hearing the story) but here it is in a nut shell.
--A reporter for Popular Mechanics was
doing an article on Area 51, he took a wrong
turn on his way to the border and ended up at a locked gate that had nothing to do with the Groom Lake Facility. He assumed this
was the Area 51 border and saw no guards
there, then somehow (god only knows how) came
to the profound conlusion that Area 51 had
moved to the abandoned Green River Lauch
Complex in Utah. This theory has been
explored, and dismissed. There is absolutely
no activity at the Green River Lauch Complex,
in fact, it is possible to actually walk onto
the base!--
After this monumental blunder suddenly
everyone and their mother had a theory on
where "the real Area 51" was. The truth is,
the same number of workers as there always
were fly into the Groom Lake Facility every
day. There is still plenty of activity going
on there, and it appears the facility may
even be expanding.
I know, even as I am writing this, that
there is an E-mail yet to be written, that
will find its way into my mailbox. This
E-mail will inform me that the Area 51 we all
know and love at Groom Lake is just a front,
and
that I am an idiot to fall for the
governments ploy. Somewhere, there is the
"true" Area 51, buried under a mountian, or
nestled inside a canyon, or on the moon, or
someplace far out of reach.
I suppose there is a chance that this
could be true, but I haven't seen any proof
of it. I haven't even seen evidence
compelling enough to motivate me to devote
any serious amount of time to exploring the
posibility.
2)The government denies the existance
of
Area 51: For a long time, decades in
fact, this was true. But fairly recently
(199-) the government did officially
acknowledge that there was an "operating
facility near Groom Dry Lake." The government
will not release the offical name of
the facility or comment on its purpose other
than to say that there are top secret
projects going on there that are necessary to
the security of the country.
3)We do not know Area 51's Real
Name, or Area 51 has no name: Offically,
Area 51 is refered to as "Detachment 3, Air
Force Flight Test Center" headquartered at
Edwards AFB. Most other installations at the
Nevada Test Site however, simply refer to it
as "The Groom Lake Test Facility."
So there you have it, maybe that
mysterious base hiding behind the Jumbled
Hills in Nevada isn't so mysterious after all
huh? Don't worry, theres plenty of rumors,
half truths, and bald face lies to sort
through.... The mystery of Area 51 is far
from solved in my eyes.
Majestic
