After
many decades of denial, now is over and it is public the existence of the
already well known Area 51, at Groom Lake, Nevada.
Years
ago, it was already possible to obtain pictures of the Area taken by
satellites.
The
only difference now, is that there was a public recognition of the Area which
its mere existence was denied officially before.
Of
course, this also puts an end to the conspiranoic and speculative way of
thinking of the mythical existence of a “flying saucer” that was studied in
Area 51 to apply reverse engineering, etc.,(the tale of Bob Lazar well known
within the Ufological environment).
There
never has been such a thing. Instead what now is recognized is the use of the
Area for a lot of very secret projects related to the operations of CIA spying different countries with the use
of the famous U-2 (Project Aquatone) –which continued to be used well after one
of them was shoot-down on May 1, 1960 over the USSR territory.
There
have been bases operatin for the U-2 in Nationalist China, India and the United
Kingdom, among others.
But
Area 51 was also the place where an extraordinary airplane with the same
purposes that the U-2 was tested and developed, under project OXCART. That was the A-12, a forerunner of the wonderful
SR-71 Blackbird, and the place for the test and development of a lot of drones
during the 60’s and 70’s.
Among
those drones there are two very interesting:
one is called Axillary, and the other Aquiline. The last one is a drone
with the shape of a bird!
There is a new secret testing area somewhere in the state of Utah.
The
CIA report is a 407 pages document.
If
you like to know more about Area 51 we suggest reading the following article
published in “Foreign Policy”:
