Area 51 Revealed In Ufo Hunters Series On History Channel
"Dreamland Area 51" (website "Black Projects Declassified") is a desert area, larger than Connecticut, in the Nevada desert, north of Las Vegas, in a dried out bed of "Groom Lake". The closest town is Rachel, and it can be reached only by a dirt road.
The show starts with television producers, on a cold March day, finding they are being watched by agents ("Camel Dudes") with binoculars and choppers as they approach the restricted area.
The show centers around a particular physicist, Bob Lazar (website here), who says he was employed at Area 51 to "reverse engineer" an alien spacecraft. The craft supposedly used a nuclear energy source created by bombarding element 115 (ununpentium) with protons to create element 116 (ununhexium) which is unstable enough to create an unusually focused energy source that can warp space time, as in a warp drive. (This concept was covered in the History Channel's "Light Speed" (from "The Universe") which maintains that space-time can be modified at a speed faster than light, whereas light within it cannot exceed "c" and is modified by the medium it travels through). (A good Periodic Chart website is "Webelements" here).
Fillmakers gathered HD camera equipment and hiked up Peekaboo mountain, 6900 feet, at night to be able to view the entire base both at night and in the following day, 26 miles away. There were an enormous number of hangars and even dormitories for employees, as well as runways. They went on a bizarre late winter "Night Hike" and filmed it in Army green night vision.
The program reports that, while Area 51 may have been set up in the 1940s, it underwent enormous expansion in the 1980s, supposedly to meet the Soviet threats.
I remember finding an Area 51 exhibit in one of the major strip casinos (I think it was the Luxor, where I stayed) in 1997. The show demonstrated people watching the departure of certain government-owned red-striped airplanes from McCarran airport for Area 15.
You can go to "Rachel NV" on Google Maps (on Highway 375, the Extraterrestrial Highway, which I visited in May 2000), switch to satellite view, and navigate to the southwest and find what looks like Area 51, but some of it looks blocked out, to me at least.
If the government really does have credible information of alien visits, the aliens, depending on what there civilization is like, could pose a grave and unanswerable threat. Maybe an alien civilization 40 light years away based on artificial intelligence and immortality and almost infinite time wants to wipe us out with an upper atmosphere EMP blast. Could we stop anything like that? Sounds like another Sci-Fi channel scenario.
(Picture: Lakes on Titan, from NASA JPL, public domain, source here.)
Update: April 16, 2009
Check out the story by Annie Jacobsen "The Road to Area 51: After decades of denying the facility's existence, five former insiders speak out" in the Los Angeles Times today (as a "Backstory") here. The story was introduced on AOL.
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