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Jewish World Review
August 19, 2013/ 13 Elul, 5773
Truth about Area 51 finally revealed
By
Dave Ross
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According to a National Geographic special just two years ago, this day should never have come because the Central Intelligence Agency "has never and will never, ever admit there is an Area 51."
But now, the National Security Archive at George Washington University has released the CIA's original documents on its spy plane program.
And in those documents, for the first time, is a mention of Area 51 -- a complex of runways and hangars in Nevada that were used to develop the Blackbird -- the famous cold war spy plane. You can see one in Seattle's Museum of Flight.
At a time when the Boeing 707 was considered cutting edge, the Blackbird could fly more than twice as high and four times as fast, and so of course, commercial airline pilots had seen nothing like it. And test pilots were told to lie.
So test flights became UFO sightings, setting off a phenomenon that just won't die.
Will this new document, finally acknowledging Area 51's existence and its original mission, end the speculation?
No, even Jim Freedman, who was the supervisor of field operations for the original spy plane program and knew exactly what was going on back then, remains curious.
"I've even heard Area 51 is a cover story for a much more secret area. I wish I knew," says Freedman.
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Comment by clicking here. Dave Ross hosts the Morning News on Seattle's KIRO Radio weekdays from 5-9 a.m. He spends his down time tinkering with electronic projects, writing novelty songs, shopping at thrift stores, and playing squash. As an avid hiker, he's earned the title Energizer Bunny from his friends; while they all stop to see stuff along the trail, Dave keeps going and going and going. He enjoys traveling internationally for work and pleasure with memorable stops in Baghdad, Qatar, Israel, Prague, Germany (to cover the Berlin Wall), China, Soviet Union, Niger, Senegal, and Iran.
You can listen to his daily column in audio format by clicking here.
Previously:
• 08/16/13 If you knew how much it cost to raise a child
• 08/15/13 The voice in the nursery
• 08/14/13 When license plates speak
• 08/13/13 The plant that wouldn't die
• 08/12/13 Class warfare at 35,000 feet is just fine
• 08/09/13 Want a good night's sleep? Become homeless
• 08/08/13 When eating too healthy becomes a problem
• 08/07/13 The Die Phone
• 08/06/13 Can't afford a doctor or medicine? There's always the Placebo App
• 08/05/13 Car prowlers taught lesson with call to mom
© 2013, Dave Ross
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