BBC film crew arrested at gunpoint for sneaking into top-secret American 'UFO base'

reply to post by Xaphan


As far as I know they are required to, if it happens. I can't remember it ever happening though. If I have time later I'll try to find out for sue if they do or not. I know for sure that in cases of aircraft accidents they are required to publish a publicly available report, except under certain conditions.

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Thar article says Area 51 is best known for being the site of the Roswell crash.. I am pretty sure that is not true right? Roswell is NM and Area 51 is NV?

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I was thinking the same thing. Shouldn't be too hard at all.


It would be nice if we had the same security on our southern border.

can anyone name any military base where they will let a foreign group or any group just walk in and start filming?

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Eh...how about I just give you the Google Maps coordinates of the place where they buried the bodies? That's as close as you're gonna get, I think.

reply to post by Lucid Lunacy

Area 51 is fenced dude. They stop you long before that...

So it seems like stunt for publicity. They are lucky not o be shot. If they were really smart then I would do a camera on a remote control plane (you can buy them in Hobby stores)

Originally posted by tintin2012
So it seems like stunt for publicity. They are lucky not o be shot.

Yeah, something jessie ventura would do. "I decedied to ask the president himself why he did 9/11. So i walked in the white house and started screaming '9/11 truth i was a navy seal' . They arrested me, what a cover up."

If I were the member of a BBC TV crew, what would I do if I wanted to film at a facility like Area-51? Gee- I don't know- maybe attempt to get permission from the Installation Commander like it says on the freaking sign? Maybe? You know- the sensible thing.

On the flight line for Pope AFB, a base which had C-130's and A-10's, there are signs all over with the saying, "Use of deadly force authorized". Most Airbases have those signs. My point is, if deadly force is authorized on a base that houses 20 year old turbo-prop planes with nothing secret about them, don't you think that deadly force might be an option at a base like Area 51? Knowing how some folks get all jacked up when they have a weapon, I sure wouldn't want to tempt fate. Even for ratings.

You break entry to any military base on the planet with surveillance equipment and get caught!
EXPECT THE WORSE.

I think they got the red carpet treatment in fairness and as another person has already stated, no doubt a publicity stunt.

Beside's i hate it when they use comedians to host UFO programs, it kills any serious debate or understanding before you even watched it.

Trespass a Top Secret base's outer perimeter that have clear signs posted that state the use of deadly force is authorized.


Get detained for hours, investigated and released. Made news headlines for their mischief and antics.

Lucky to be alive.....

Well, as stunts go, this one is not new. What would be new is rolling over the checkpoint in a superheavy armoured vehicle, priming weapons systems as you go, and daring some pathetic bunch of four wheel drive jockeys with M16s to prevent you from doing precisely as you please.

Of course, thats a bloody good way of getting nailed to the floor of Nevada by several Hellfire missiles, fired from Apache helicopters (as if they havent got a few lying around out there), but it would be a new stunt at least. I am a little concerned however. People are going to pay attention to this stunt, and it is going to take attention away from the real news of the day, certainly here in the UK. That news being, of course, that we need to get rid of our current parliamentarians, every last one, and replace them with people who have lived utterly normal, utterly unexceptional lives, so that we can have a government OF the people, by the people, rather than this disgusting old boys network that we have now.

Originally posted by VictorVonDoom
reply to post by Druscilla

 

I was thinking the same thing. Shouldn't be too hard at all.


It would be nice if we had the same security on our southern border.

If you're in Latveria wouldn't your Southern Border be with Serbia?

I know some Serbians, Croats, Bosnians, Macedonians, and other folks from that general area/region. A whole bunch of them showed up in the US during the late 90s.
Nice people.
I wouldn't worry about your Southern border too much.

What's the big deal? They were trespassing and were arrested for doing so! Just as much as anyone else, I'd love to know if there really aliens and their craft stored on the base, but this is a military base where work is done on projects that perhaps we'll need for protection some day, and I don't believe anyone should be allowed to just walk in and go for a stroll around the place. On the other hand however, I wish the damn government (or those who control it), would come clean once and for all regarding the subject of aliens!

Sure this was posted several weeks back?

Area 51 is over-rated in my opinion, but it is still nice to see the BBC show interest for whatever reasons. The more exposure we get for ufos and aliens the better.

Pretty sure the real deal is dulce new mexico and montauk new york. These places are so secret there are no signs posted anywhere but rumors fly wild(and many/most are probably true).

Thomas Castello(who allegedlyworked at dulce) said area 51 was a ufo storage area and bob lazar said there was an S4 facility there that did reverse engineering. Anything worthwhile at area 51 would be underground or inside mountain ranges. The people who work at ground level severly lack the credentials to work or even see ufos, and thus we get all these mainstream opinions of "just airplane and radar testing going on there".

I would say there is much more than meets the eye!!

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They saw nothing worth reporting I assure you. And they (guards at A51) knew they were there long before they got very far. Probably had just barely stepped over the boundary LOL

too bad we will NEVER know what is really going on there...

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Naaaahhh, it's a private security firm most likely. Like blackwater opps. These are professionals. They know that they're tons and tons of film crews and tourists and kids trying to sneak in. They do the same thing to all of them. Fine them, threaten them and let them go. I think only in the very rarest of situations they would kill anyone. These types aren't gun slingers. They just use scare tactics, as they know civilians are easily rattled.

The "deadly force" signs are posted at most military bases, especially around any restricted area. Mainly that's there to scare people. The military would have to report the death to the local (usually county) authorities and they know that would be a PR nightmare. That's why they detain people and turn them over to civillian authorities.

HOWEVER; there are some exceptions. If alert or threat levels go up, particularly if there is a possible risk of infiltration or sabotage then the "use of deadly force" starts to become a little bit more probable than possible, but still depends on the MP/SPs rules of engagement.

The signs are common along flightlines, especially if aircraft are on an "alert" status. And on most airbases (though not all) you shouldn't be getting near the flight line if you aren't supposed to be there, and if you are, there probably was some pretty lax security, or your reasonably good at infiltration.

Originally posted by Druscilla

Originally posted by VictorVonDoom
reply to post by Druscilla

 

I was thinking the same thing. Shouldn't be too hard at all.


It would be nice if we had the same security on our southern border.

If you're in Latveria wouldn't your Southern Border be with Serbia?

I know some Serbians, Croats, Bosnians, Macedonians, and other folks from that general area/region. A whole bunch of them showed up in the US during the late 90s.
Nice people.
I wouldn't worry about your Southern border too much.

And they say Americans don't know geography