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Originally posted by easynow
reply to post by A51Watcher
Area 51 - Groom Lake - Papoose Lake - S-4 etc. - has been used since WW2 and many people already knew about it so it's not something Lazar can claim he revealed.
Area 51 - Groom Lake - Papoose Lake - S-4 etc. - has been used since WW2...
Originally posted by easynow
reply to post by A51Watcher
"Bob's very first claim was to reveal the Base's existence to the public"
So what ? He only said what many people already knew....
Originally posted by professornurbs
reply to post by A51Watcher
Very well articulated my friend. Easy believes Stanton (need to sell a book) Friedman is the truth. I believe Bob kicked alot of doors down and led the way. Unfortunately no one had his back alot due to internet access at the time for average folks, also peoples fear to accept that reality.
June 11, 1993:
"Daily Variety", an entertainment industry newspaper reports "New Line Nabs Pic Based on Gov't UFO Scientist". Excerpts from the story: "The life story of former U.S. government scientist Bob Lazar that was recently put into turnaround by Gruber-Peters Prods. has been put on an earthly fast track by New Line Cinema for director Chuck Russell, according to Michael De Luca, New Line's exec veepee/CEO." "New Line finalized the deal for the untitled film on Wednesday after Lazar considered competing offers from producer Steve Tisch, Simpson-Bruckheimer Prods. and actor Steven Seagal, De Luca said." "De Luca said the pic will have an $8 million to $10 million budget and will shoot in fall or early `94 with a `94 release."
It probably should have been common knowledge, it was officially announced in 1957 by the Atomic Energy Commission:
Originally posted by A51Watcher
You act like this base was already common knowledge when Bob first revealed this information publicly. Got anything to back up this claim?.
That wasn't much of a cover story since they actually did fly U-2s there, and they really did collect weather data. They just neglected to mention the additional reconnaissance function of the U-2.
CIA, Air Force, and Lockheed personnel began arriving in July 1955, and the test site soon acquired a new name. During the 1950s, the site appeared in all official documents as Watertown. According to some accounts, the site was named after Watertown, New York, the birthplace of CIA Director Allen Dulles....
On 1 May 1957, the AEC issued an information booklet called "Background Information on Nevada Nuclear Tests" to news media covering the Operation Plumbbob atomic test series. It noted that during 1955, "construction of a small facility at Watertown, in the Groom Lake area at the northeast corner of the Test Site, was announced. The area has been joined to the air closure space over the Test Site in which unauthorized aircraft may not fly, but it has not been made a part of the Test Site." Under the heading of "Watertown Project" it also reiterated earlier statements about the facility and included the NACA cover story. Specifically, it said that "U-2 jet aircraft with special characteristics for flight at exceptionally high altitudes have been flown from the Watertown strip with logistical and technical support by the Air Weather Service of the U.S. Air Force to make weather observations at heights that cannot be attained by most aircraft." So, this official government document not only mentioned Watertown by name, it also gave its location and described the U-2 operation. Only the "weather research" cover story was bogus and only just barely. Although the U-2's primary mission was reconnaissance, the airplane was actually used to collect weather data during training flights.
By the way, I don't recall even seeing Lazar's name even mentioned in that article about the base, or if it's there, I missed it. Clearly that author doesn't think our knowledge of the base is from Lazar if he doesn't even mention Lazar. It's probably best he doesn't since in all likelihood, much of Lazar's story is probably fictitious anyway, just like his degrees.
Conventional wisdom has it that Area 51 is so secret that its existence was not acknowledged prior to 1995. Generally speaking, most people believe that everything about Groom Lake is classified. This is clearly a myth. Documentary evidence proves that the Groom Lake facility has been officially and publicly acknowledged since its inception. Ironically, the mythical secrecy of Groom Lake has done the most to expose its secrets.
Originally posted by LUXUS
I can positively prove Bob Lazar is full of it by telling you something that so far nobody has spotted.
There is a SERIOUS Engineering design flaw in the UFO he presents!
First you have to understand how it flys, bob says that there are three gravity projectors under the craft. He says the craft fly’s in the direction the generators point.
So to get off the ground you need to rotate the projector heads 180 degrees to point towards the sky, and you cant because the max you can rotate them is 90 degrees….so your stuck on the bloody ground, even humans can do better then this
Originally posted by Angelic Resurrection
reply to post by Eurisko2012
Lol. Beaming gravity waves at the earth to fly or lift off?
Bob has pulled a fast one on every1.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
It probably should have been common knowledge, it was officially announced in 1957 by the Atomic Energy Commission:
The biggest secret about Area 51 is that it was never secret.
... On 1 May 1957, the AEC issued an information booklet called "Background Information on Nevada Nuclear Tests" to news media covering the Operation Plumbbob atomic test series...
So with the official announcement, people should have known about it. Whether they actually did or not is another story.
That article goes on to explain how in the late 1970s they started being more restrictive about access to the base....
...so that by the time Lazar told his story maybe a decade later, knowledge of the base wasn't as public.
The Air Force, taking charge of the facility in the 1970s, took a more heavy-handed approach. They used anonymous security guards to close off access to public land, cryptically citing "national security."
Why are the unclassified terms "Watertown" and "Area 51" deleted from declassified documents? Why are Air Force spokesmen and historians constrained to respond with "No comment" when asked about Groom Lake?.....
By the way, I don't recall even seeing Lazar's name even mentioned in that article about the base, or if it's there, I missed it.
Clearly that author doesn't think our knowledge of the base is from Lazar if he doesn't even mention Lazar.
Invasion of the Saucer Men
The secret nature of the base has bred rumor and speculation among fringe groups that believe the U.S. government is hiding captured extraterrestrial spacecraft, or even aliens (dead or alive) at the site.
"Such stories have been circulating since at least the late 1970s."
Starting in 1989, groups of UFO believers began to camp out near the Nellis Range boundaries near Groom Lake to watch for "flying saucers."
Conventional wisdom has it that Area 51 is so secret that its existence was not acknowledged prior to 1995....