tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34957215118396692072024-03-05T17:11:51.654-08:00Area 51 Loose EndsNew tidbits on my experiences at Area 51 in the 1990s.Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-91908909807936410422013-12-09T05:54:00.004-08:002013-12-09T05:55:49.400-08:00The President Utters "Area 51"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Time Magazine: <a href="http://swampland.time.com/2013/12/08/obama-area-51/">Obama Becomes First President to Acknowledge ‘Area 51’</a></div>Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632955833407831511noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-9464236129281998252013-08-29T06:05:00.000-07:002013-08-31T03:28:12.699-07:00Area 51 and Element 115 Officially Confirmed!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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By <a href="http://glenn-campbell.com/">Glenn Campbell</a><br />
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This has been a big week for Area 51 fans, with two major announcements in the news. <b><a href="http://area51looseends.blogspot.com/2013/08/area-51-declassified.html">The U.S. Government has officially acknowledged Area 51</a></b> (sort of), and <b><a href="http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-element-115-ununpentium-confirmed-20130827,0,2224471.story">the existence of Element 115 has been formally proven by scientists</a></b>. Although my own interest in Area 51 waned long ago, as a supposed Area 51 "expert" in the 1990s I feel obligated to say something about these milestones. If you care about Area 51 and the UFO claims there, they are actually big news!<br />
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Did the government really "reveal" Area 51? Well, not in the way they reveal things in Hollywood movies, with a big press conference. As far as I can tell from the press accounts, the only thing that happened a few days ago is that one office of the government released a previously classified history of the base. While most of the information in the report was already publicly known, the fact that the government itself was releasing this information implies a deliberate declassification of certain aspects of the base's history. In essence, Area 51 was "officially acknowledged" for the first time, but it's not like anyone was actually announcing anything. (I should confess that my own interest in the topic is so low that I haven't even bothered to click on the URL to pull up the report itself, because that takes too much energy.)<br />
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While making things secret is relatively easy, declassification is hard, in part because you have disentangle the stuff it is okay to release from the stuff you still need to keep secret. (For example, the fact that a bomb was dropped on Hiroshima is obvious to everyone, but the exact way the bomb was dropped might reveal something about how atomic bombs are made, so how much of the mission do you declassify?) For all we know, the releasing of the Area 51 history now could have been the result of a declassification request made back in the 1990s, and it just took the bureaucrats this long to decide that it was okay to reveal things that were largely known to the world anyway.<br />
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People may ask, "Why now?" What is the government's plan? There may not be any. The timing could essentially be random. There are certain procedures involved in releasing any previously classified document. These procedures take time, and they end when all the hoops have been jumped through. It's like a very slow wagon train arriving at its destination. It just happens when the journey is over.<br />
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Of course, the released report says nothing about UFOs (according to press accounts about a report I haven't bothered to look at myself). It only talks about known aircraft programs like the U-2. The report also doesn't say what is going on at Area 51 <i>right now</i>. So if you want to believe in aliens at Area 51, there is still plenty of room to do so. Obviously, the UFO involvement must still be classified, and even people who wrote the report and who worked on conventional planes aren't privy to it. If you need to believe in something, there is always a way to believe in it.<br />
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The old guys who worked on the U-2, SR-71 and other formerly secret aircraft at Area 51 seem to have no problem talking about their projects now. (They even meet every year at the public Roadrunners convention.) Even if their projects are still technically classified, there is little the government can do to shut them up. (Seriously, how can you threaten an old guy?) Having met dozens of former Area 51 workers myself, I know that their UFO beliefs pretty much mirror the general population. Some believe and some don't, but no one I have talked to has actually seen anything themselves. (It's always in the next hangar, the one you haven't seen, where the alien craft must be stored.)<br />
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The only "former workers" making specific UFO claims about about Area 51 (or vicinity) are those who can't even prove they have ever visited the base—like Bob Lazar, who claimed to have flown into Area 51 on his way to a secret flying saucer facility nearby. Sure, the government can purge their records, but these people should still be able to describe the base cafeteria or what you see when you first get off the plane. (Lazar couldn't!)<br />
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No matter how much of the base you declassify, there will always be a closet someplace where the aliens could be kept. And of course, they could be underground, too, where the real estate is virtually unlimited, but by that logic, aliens could be underground anywhere—even under your feet right now—not just Area 51. Human technology has its known limits, but when you talk about alien technology, there is no end to what might be possible.<br />
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TV shows desperately want you to believe in UFOs at Area 51 to pump up their ratings, so they will always construe ambiguous evidence to favor an alien presence. Nothing in recent news will slow them down. Especially don't trust any TV show that I have been on! (TV Interviewing 101: If I talk for three hours about the history of the base, making a lot of skeptical statements about UFOs, and I say one sentence that suggests UFOs may be possible, TV shows will use that sentence and discard the rest of the interview.)<br />
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Hard core believers will also be unconvinced. No matter how much information you release about Area 51, there will always be some way to rearrange the game board to believe that aliens or alien technology are in government hands. Even if you open the base to journalists and let them go anywhere, it will be obvious to believers that<i> the flying saucers have been moved</i>. In the case of the Lazar story, the saucers weren't even at Area 51 itself but at the ostensibly empty Papoose dry lake just to the south. There is no evidence of anything at all there, but it is always "possible".<br />
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You can never prove aliens<i> don't</i> exist—at Area 51 or even in your own backyard. The best you can do is prove or disprove specific physical claims... which brings us to Bob Lazar and Element 115.<br />
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In his flying saucer claims, Lazar said that the craft he worked with were powered by Element 115, a theoretical superheavy element that human scientists had not yet synthesized but that aliens had mastered. Element 115, when it decayed, supposedly emitted some sort of gravity wave which was harnessed to distort physical space and displace the craft. Lazar described wedged-shaped hunks of the stuff, stable enough to hold in your hand.<br />
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A part of the Lazar story that is not widely known is that he even <i>smuggled some Element 115 out of the base</i> to Las Vegas, where he formed a corporation with New Age philanthropist Robert Bigelow to study it. So this "flying saucer fuel", probably the most precious substance on Earth, was housed in one of the world's most secure facilities, and yet this rookie technician was someone able to grab some of it and abscond with it. Credible? You can doubt this smuggling took place, and you can even doubt that Lazar made such a claim, but the corporation was definitely real: the "Zeta Reticuli 2" Corporation registered with the State of Nevada, with Lazar and Bigelow as officers.<br />
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The confirmed existence of the corporation (now defunct) leads me to my own personal theory about Lazar: that his story was a <i>deliberate fraud</i> intended to obtain money from Robert Bigelow. "Fraud" is a harsh word, and I hate using it, but keep in mind this is just a theory. This theory just happens to explain nearly all of the facts except for Lazar's apparent sincerity and/or extraordinary acting ability. (See <a href="http://area51looseends.blogspot.com/2011/10/lazar-story-fraud-for-bigelow-funding.html"><b>my article on this theory</b></a>.)<br />
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Under my theory, the "Element 115" part of Lazar's story came from a Scientific American article on superheavy elements that came out just before Lazar made his claims. At the time (early 1989), scientists had not yet synthesized Element 115 or neighboring elements and could only theorize about them. There was some suggestion that these elements could be stable, so if Lazar was in a fraudful state of mind, Element 115 would be a good element to choose. I have no direct evidence that Lazar ever saw the Scientific American article, but as an intelligent guy in the pre-internet era (when people read physical objects called "magazines"), it's a fair assumption that he did.<br />
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Back then, Lazar could make any claim he wanted about Element 115, because no one had ever seen the stuff, so no one could prove him wrong. Things changed this week. Now human scientists have synthesized enough Element 115 to formally announce that it is real and to confirm its basic characteristics. (Please, please, can we call it "Lazarium"?)<br />
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The main problem for Lazar supporters is that the Element 115 discovered by Earth scientists is highly unstable. They have created only a few atoms of it, which decay almost instantly. There is no way you can hold a hunk of it in your hand or smuggle it in your coat pocket. It would be gone before you got to the door. (And I assume you'd be gone too!)<br />
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The solution, of course, is that Lazar was talking about <i>a different form of Element 115</i>, one that is stable and transportable at room temperature. Sigh! There is always way to come to Lazar's defense. There is no end to the rationalizations you can come up with if you truly want to believe in something or someone.<br />
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What is my own position on all of this? I am agnostic. I stop short of calling Lazar a liar, because I just can't say for certain. I don't know if UFOs are real or not real. I can't say whether an alien visitor has ever set foot on this planet or whether just <i>one </i>UFO sighting might be real. (All you really need is one, right?) Agnostic means "I don't know," and I am comfortable with that. I realize that I am going to live and die without knowing a lot of things. That's just the nature of knowledge.<br />
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The only thing I can say with confidence is that investigating UFOs is not the best use of my time compared to other things I could be doing. The truth is, I'm dying! I have only a few decades left on this planet and I want to make the most of them. Chasing UFOs with little chance of reward isn't <i>completely </i>meaningless to me; it's just not high enough on my current priority list to actually spend my time on. (See <a href="http://philosophy.baddalailama.com/2013/01/ufos-and-area-51.html"><b>My Position on UFOs and Area 51</b></a>.)<br />
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Those who have chosen to dedicate their lives to UFOs have made a religious choice, based on their own emotional needs, and it is not my place to question people's religion. Everyone has to find their own source of meaning. They just shouldn't expect to make any actual progress in the investigation. Since the 1950s, a whole generation of UFO believers has lived and died without making the slightest movement toward proving that UFOs are real.<br />
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Being a supposedly superior race with advanced technology, any aliens will reveals themselves when they choose to. I say, just accept it and move on with your life on Earth.</div>
Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632955833407831511noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-73567532647792112482013-08-15T16:53:00.001-07:002013-08-18T15:49:01.182-07:00"Area 51" Declassified?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The name "Area 51" has finally been acknowledged in an officially released public document.<br />
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See articles:<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-now-admits-theres-area-51/68389/">The Government Now Admits There's an 'Area 51'</a> (Atlantic Wire)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB434/">The Secret History of the U-2</a> (National Security Archive, shown above)</li>
<li><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/08/16/cia-says-area-51-exists-but-forget-about-ufos/">CIA Says Area 51 Exists, But Forget About UFOs</a> (Wall Street Journal)</li>
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Darn! It was way more fun when it didn't exist.<br />
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Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632955833407831511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-63963310062496921572013-04-26T10:53:00.001-07:002013-05-05T10:00:19.568-07:00Bob Lazar's Area 51 UFO talk in 1993<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Probably the highlight of my experiences at Area 51 was watching Bob Lazar answer questions at the Ultimate UFO Seminar on May 1, 1993. Although circumstantial evidence suggests he is a fraud, I am still awed by his performance.<br />
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Today, someone drew my attention to <a href="http://youtu.be/zuSy4S1PCrg"><b>a video of Lazar's talk</b></a> (above). The 1½-hour video was uploaded in 2011, but I wasn't aware of it until now. (Although the video is labelled as 1991, I know it was May 1, 1993, because I was there.) It makes me remember just how convincing Lazar was—and still is! I am less interested in Element 115 and the claimed details of the alien craft than in his emotional authenticity throughout this free-form Q&A session. Whatever question you threw at him, he had an authentic sounding answer, including expressing skepticism about most other UFO claims. If nothing else, this was one of the best acting performances in history! If he is lying, I don't understand how he did it. This is far better than any Hollywood actor could do.<br />
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The talk went on for close to two hours. (It was interrupted in the middle for a UFO sighting—a balloon or floating piece of paper in the sky— but most of that is edited out of this video.) The two-day was held under a tent in the open air outside the Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel, Nevada. There were 100 or more people in attendance, including several reporters. The event was recorded on audio tapes, and now I know it was recorded on video.<br />
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I stood transfixed at the back of the tent. I asked no questions, but I drank everything in. Later, with considerable time and effort, I transcribed Lazar's whole presentation, working from the audio tapes. <a href="http://www.ufomind.com/area51/people/lazar/ultimate.html"><b>Here is the full transcript</b></a>. Hopefully, it should match what you see in the video above. I figured the transcript was the first step to investigating Lazar's claims.</div>
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Once I had the transcript, I investigated the only thing I had the means to: Lazar's claimed educational credentials at MIT and Caltech. Here are <b><a href="http://www.ufomind.com/area51/people/lazar/hohsfield.html">the results of my investigation</a>,</b> showing pretty clearly that Lazar never went to MIT as he claimed he did. (Sure, the government could have suppressed his educational credentials but not every professor or classmate he had.) The only conclusion is that he lied about MIT, and if he lied about that, how could you believe anything else he said.<br />
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A few years later, after gaining more experience with the characters and environment around Area 51, I published my most rational theory about Lazar, which I called <a href="http://www.aliensonearth.com/area51/list/1997/sep/a18-001.shtml"><b>Lazar Theory #1</b></a>. If I had to bet me life on anything, that's the conclusion I would choose. (Also see my <a href="http://philosophy.baddalailama.com/2013/01/ufos-and-area-51.html"><b>general position on UFOs.</b></a>)<br />
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Still, since I don't have to bet my life on anything, the Lazar performance of 1993, and all his previous appearances before that, still mystifies me. If it is a lie, how did he do it?<br />
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The story was further enhanced by the appearance of Bill Uhouse around 1995. (He is now deceased.) Uhouse basically supported Lazar's claims but from a different angle, like two people working on different details of the same project. Uhouse's claim is that he worked on simulators to train pilots to fly flying saucers. When Uhouse spoke, he was a rambling old man, but like Lazar, his claims had all the relaxed authenticity of someone who was really there.<br />
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It is important to state that I would not trust Lazar or Uhouse today. Both men were caught in verifiable lies in the non-UFO realm. Both were immoral characters, and if I met either one again, I would want to get away from them as quickly as possible. Having had experience with both, I know both were capable of lying and using others. Even so, I still don't know how they were capable of pulling off such complex, subtle and internally consistent lies. Watch the video above, and you'll see what I mean.</div>
Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632955833407831511noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-7971155933831618392013-01-08T06:52:00.002-08:002013-01-08T06:52:16.453-08:00Glenn Campbell on UFOs and Area 51<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My new blog post: <a href="http://philosophy.baddalailama.com/2013/01/ufos-and-area-51.html">My Position on UFOs and Area 51</a></div>
Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632955833407831511noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-20734144943514938482013-01-08T06:46:00.001-08:002013-01-09T07:14:21.032-08:00Sean Morton: Prolific Prophet Pilfered Profits Forcing Furious Fed To File For Fraud<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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New update on Sean Morton! Ufo Watchdog: <a href="http://ufowatchdog.blogspot.ie/2012/12/judge-orders-sean-david-morton-to-appear.html">Judge Orders Sean David Morton to Appear</a> (12/24/12)<br />
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Poor guy! He was always his own worst enemy.<br />
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My only contribution to this investigation is this headline: <b>Prolific Prophet Pilfered Profits Forcing Furious Fed To File For Fraud</b><br />
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Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632955833407831511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-2084986389529064572012-10-11T18:19:00.001-07:002012-10-11T18:20:57.489-07:00BBC Crew Detained Outside Area 51<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Article published today: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216077/BBC-film-crew-held-gunpoint-trying-failing-sneak-U-S-Area-51-military-base.html">BBC film crew was held at gunpoint after trying to sneak into Area 51</a><br />
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This is what happens when a TV crew fails to consult me. What these clowns don't realize is they could be barred from the USA for their stunt.</div>
Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632955833407831511noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-44562045241011893612012-05-02T14:00:00.005-07:002020-12-17T02:53:20.457-08:00Area 51 Viewer's Guide now available in FREE PDF<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For the first time in history, my Area 51 Viewer's Guide from the 1990s is available FREE to anyone who cares to download it. This is my visitors guide to the secret military base in Nevada, home of UFOs, government conspiracies or anything else you care to imagine. (Okay, I don't take you inside the base itself, but I tried to catalog and collate all the information we did have at the time.) This guide was instrumental in bringing legitimate press attention to the base and making Area 51 a public phenomenon.<br />
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Here is the <a href="http://aliensonearth.com/area51/viewersguide/Searchable_Area%2051_Viewer%27s_Guide.pdf">whole 120-page document is right here in a PDF file</a>.<a href="http://aliensonearth.com/area51/viewersguide"></a></div>
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I am the author and publisher and I am authorizing its free release (superseding the copyright statement in the book itself). Before you download it, however, please read my terms, conditions and warnings below...<br />
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<li>I am authorizing any member of the human race (and alien races with PDF capabilities) to copy, download and print this document for their own personal use.</li>
<li>However, I still retain my copyright to this work. I do not authorize reproduction, modification or excerpts for any commercial purpose. You can not sell this document or steal passages from it and claim them as your own.</li>
<li>I'm pretty sure Edition 4.01 was the final one.</li>
<li>Although 17+ years have passed since the last revision, little has changed in the area. My Area 51 Research Center no longer exists (now an empty lot), but most everything else is as it was. (July 2011 was the last time I visited the area and hiked Tikaboo.)</li>
<li>The most important change for the traveler to be aware of is THERE IS NO GAS IN RACHEL. Be sure to gas up a Ash Springs or Alamo. The Quik Pik convenience store is closed.</li>
<li>The Tikaboo hiking advice at the end of the book remains current.</li>
<li>You can ignore the "unauthorized duplication" warnings in the document itself, since I am now authorizing duplication. You can also ignore the copy number on the front cover. (That was a made up number anyway, to make you THINK I was keeping track of all copies.)</li>
<li>I'm not really sure how many copies of this document I published and sold, but I guess it was something around 10,000. (Modest for a "book" but remarkable for a self-published document.)</li>
<li>I assume no liability if any of the info in this book is out of date. Needless to say, I will not be updating it. If you get in trouble because of any outdated info in this publication, that's your problem!</li>
<li>If you want to tell people about this document, please give them the <a href="http://area51looseends.blogspot.com/2012/05/area-51-viewers-guide-now-available.html">address of this blog entry</a> (not the document address) so they have a chance to read these notes (which could be expanded later).</li>
<li>My Desert Rat newsletter that accompanied the Viewers Guide - sort of an ongoing update of it - has always been available online at
<a href="http://aliensonearth.com/area51/desertrat/">http://aliensonearth.com/area51/desertrat/</a></li>
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I am grateful to David Mallinson for scanning this document for me. I would have made it available earlier, but I didn't have such advanced alien technology myself. (It was originally written in MS Word, but I long ago lost the original files.)<br />
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As of Feb. 2013, this version is now searchable, replacing the
non-searchable version originally released, although they should look
the same when printed. This just means that you should be able to search for keywords in the document. <br />
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If downloading and printing this document yourself seems like too much work, you can buy the same thing from an Amazon seller for $50-500 (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Area-Viewers-Guide-Glenn-Campbell/dp/B0006QZTYK/">Amazon's entry</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200315852551286&l=bc84f226cd">screenshot</a>). Your choice!<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
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Glenn Campbell</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Shortlink for this post: <a href="https://j.mp/area51viewersguide">https://j.mp/area51viewersguide</a> (12/17/20)</div>
Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632955833407831511noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-24485893498032490302011-10-01T04:54:00.000-07:002011-10-01T06:38:07.415-07:00Lazar Story: A Fraud for Bigelow Funding?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I just came across this 1997 article of mine offering a skeptical theory about Bob Lazar and his claims:<br />
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<a href="http://www.aliensonearth.com/area51/list/1997/sep/a18-001.shtml">Lazar Theory #1: Fraud for Bigelow Funding</a></div>
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Excerpt:<br />
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<tt>Lazar made up the story on his own based on his own significant technical knowledge, his peripheral work with a contractor on the
Nellis Range and the prior Area 51 alien claims of John Lear (aliens eating humans in a vast underground base), which Lazar "cleaned up" and made more plausible.</tt> </blockquote>
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<tt>What was Lazar's motivation? Money. Under Theory #1, Lazar cooked up the story to obtain funding from Las Vegas philanthropist Robert Bigelow, who was known to sponsor far-out projects.</tt> </blockquote>
Some details not mentioned in the article...<br />
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<li>The registration for the "Zeta Reticuli 2" corporation is a public record at the Nevada Department of State, which registers corporations. Both Lazar and Bigelow are listed as officers. As the story goes, Lazar not only worked with Element 115; he managed to smuggle some of it out, and the corporation was somehow intended to test or exploit it. (So much for intense base security! How can a low-level employee smuggle what is arguably the most precious substance on Earth?) We still don't know the purpose or business plan of the Zeta Reticuli 2 Corporation. The only thing certain is that it existed. We can also assume that when a private corporation is formed, its intent is to make money.</li>
<li>Lazar himself had no idea his story would get so big. He was just out to pull off a modest con (according to Theory #1). Almost from the day the story was broadcast (and he was identified publically as the source), Lazar has been trying to put the brakes on it. </li>
<li>Lazar has never been to Area 51! If he had, he could have described
innocuous details of the base that any genuine worker would know -- like
the cafeteria or what you first see when you get off the plane. There
are a LOT of people who can verify these details, and one former worker
in particular (who I met) grilled Lazar in private about them and got
nowhere. Funny that someone would be willing to reveal details of a
super-secret saucer program but not details of the cafeteria. </li>
<li>Lazar had reason to be afraid of the government! If he had a
security clearance, he could have been prosecuted for releasing
classified information or any information about classified facilities --
even innocuous non-alien information. (LOL! So maybe THAT'S why he
can't discuss the Area 51 cafeteria! If he had been there, he could have
been prosecuted for that, whereas he can't be prosecuted for revealing a
nonexistent saucer base at Papoose Lake.) </li>
<li>FBI interest in Lazar was real. Knapp describes interaction with an
agent "Mike Thigpin" who was apparently investigating Lazar. Knapp takes
this as evidence the Lazar story is true. My interpretation, however,
is that as soon as the Lazar story was broadcast on KLAS-TV, the
government itself was scrambling for answers to determine if any
classified (non-alien) information had been released.</li>
<li>Lazar says that he went public on KLAS only to save his own life. There could be an element of truth to this! Remember that Lazar first appears on KLAS in shadow as "Dennis". If the government managed to identify him anyway and Lazar had a security clearance, then they are going to start harassing him. Every if the story is fictitious, he has certainly breached security protocols. The best way to save his own ass is to go fully public with his (fake) story. Then he is protected by publicity and the government can't touch him.</li>
<li>Knapp says that Los Alamos denied Lazar worked there, but Knapp
found Lazar's name in an official facility phone directory. Proof of a
cover-up? Not exactly. Los Alamos is a big place, with lots of
contractors and sub-contractors. Lazar could have worked "at" Los Alamos
without working "for" Los Alamos. There is no question he worked for a
contractor there (which certainly would have given him a primer on
government secrecy).</li>
<li>I remember seeing a document in the pre-internet era (although I haven't been able to
find it again) which purported to be an internal military memo, released at the time of the KLAS broadcast, confirming
that Lazar had worked on the Nellis Range, but that he had never been
to any "forward areas", apparently meaning Area 51. It remains plausible
but unproven that Lazar worked briefly on the Nellis Range and could have
picked up many details of his story there. That he worked on the range
and/or had a security clearance was reason enough for the FBI to take an
interest in him after his claims were broadcast.</li>
<li>Lazar is a smart dude, no question about it! (That is, smart in technical ways, not necessarily in his own life choices or in the ways of other people.) Although he probably misjudged public response to his story and probably didn't gain the reward he sought, he can certainly look a few chess moves ahead and say, "If I do this, then this other bad thing will happen to me." That may explain why he hasn't exploited his story in the obvious ways, like taking big fees for speaking at UFO conferences or giving interviews. (However, that hasn't prevented him from seeking Hollywood deals. Maybe he is just trawling for bigger fish.)
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<li>In May 1989, around the time Lazar first went public, Scientific American published an article on hypothetical elements in that vicinity. Back in those ancient pre-internet days, everyone read the same magazines. Lazar was certainly well-read and intelligent, and Scientific American would have been on his reading list. It is conceivable he picked up Element 115 from there.</li>
<li>My ex-wife once worked at TTR and she drove back and forth in her own car between there and Rachel. She passed "Site 4" every day, although she swears it was labelled "S4". It's a radar facility on a plain with no hillsides you could build saucer hangers into, but this real name could have found its way into Lazar's story. Perhaps he indeed worked there! (If so, then he might have attained a degree of legal protection by displacing it to Papoose Lake.)</li>
<li> Before making his UFO claims, Lazar was a friend of Jim Tagliani, who worked
at TTR at the time. He could have told Lazar about "Site 4" on the Nellis Range as
well as other information about range operations.</li>
<li>There's nothing at Papoose Lake. Nothing. We've looked at it from every angle (short of setting foot there). The key thing is roads. There's no road infrastructure that could support even a few buses a day, let alone a major construction project in the area.</li>
<li>I like this quote from my article: "True or false, I feel the Lazar story has enriched my life in many interesting ways."</li>
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Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-88807773093954197682011-07-29T12:39:00.000-07:002011-07-29T12:45:32.356-07:00Area 51 Guide Service Discontinued<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">As of Aug. 2011, I have discontinued my Area 51 guide service, at least for the general public. (I may still do it for members of the media, however.)<br />
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<div closure_uid_pg6qrc="59">The reason is simple: I don't live in Nevada anymore. I haven't lived there since 2008, but until now, I have been a laid-off airline worker who could fly for free, so I could go back there whenever I wanted. As of September 2011, I lose that privilege, so continuing the guide service just isn't practical. (Anyone who employed me would have to pay my airfare to Las Vegas from whether I happened to be.)</div><br />
I have enjoyed the tours I have given and the people I have met, but the orbs are telling me to move on to new adventures.<br />
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I am still VERY active on social media, so check in there to see what I'm up to: <br />
<ul><li><a href="http://twitter.com/baddalailama">Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="http://facebook.com/kilroycafe">Facebook</a></li>
<li><a href="http://youtube.com/KilroyCafe">YouTube</a></li>
<li><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/https//plus.google.com/115733109019925173615/">Google+</a></li>
<li><a href="http://glenn-campbell.com/">Glenn-Campbell.com</a></li>
</ul>Glenn Campbell</div>Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-81837670008834268662011-01-09T16:36:00.000-08:002011-01-10T01:30:31.394-08:00Paul, the Area 51 alien (movie trailer)<object height="250" width="400"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cxCAQkhr3cY?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cxCAQkhr3cY?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="250"></embed></object><br />I can confidently say I had nothing to do with this. Learned about it just now on <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/movienation/status/23759635555033088">Twitter</a>.<div><br /></div><div>I think you pretty much got the whole movie in this here trailer. Worth the 2:23, I'd say! (But not necessarily worth the two hours to sit through the movie.)<br /><br />It's not the only Area 51 movie in the pipeline.</div>Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-61364973353372242462011-01-08T14:59:00.000-08:002011-01-18T10:30:35.530-08:00I am Investigated by Homeland Security for Suspicious iPhone Photography!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitBZ8w3uER7gXgXqBYVzsGDldHRCJ0Nd91ThrOC2wn8OIq3YIfAD32hU4e39Cd5XyfSnjiYcA6TICpr4AJkmzaIouA908QnRBaCDX_lkiMG4oetCQoAaIg9kuUQRgOYVXsIqoQR6VkEKg/s1600/IMG_0770a.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitBZ8w3uER7gXgXqBYVzsGDldHRCJ0Nd91ThrOC2wn8OIq3YIfAD32hU4e39Cd5XyfSnjiYcA6TICpr4AJkmzaIouA908QnRBaCDX_lkiMG4oetCQoAaIg9kuUQRgOYVXsIqoQR6VkEKg/s400/IMG_0770a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Honest, I'm trying to be good. It has been years since I've tested security at Area 51, and I've been trying my best these days not to antagonize authority. Still, every once in a while, authority and I seem to bump into each other.<br /><br />Turns out,<b> I have been investigated by the FBI and Homeland Security!</b> Not in the 1990s, but within the past week.<br /><br />Two days ago, I got an email from a driving client. One of my business schemes is to drive people's cars and pets across the country, and I had driven this car from Cleveland to Florida in late November. The client was a bit concerned because he just received a visit at his Cleveland office from an FBI agent working with Homeland Security. Apparently, the federal government was concerned about my activities while driving the car.<br /><br />As the story goes, a man was lurking outside a chemical plant in West Virginia on Nov. 29, taking photos. As soon as a security guard approached him, he jumped in the car and drove off. In this era of heightened security, there was concern that he might be a terrorist casing the facility for a future attack.<br /><br />That was me! I emailed the client that it was true: I was indeed taking photos outside a chemical plant. Only the "jumped in the car and drove off" part wasn't quite right.<div><br /></div><div>I was lucky that my client was a lawyer, familiar with the concept of "innocent until proven guilty". (Most people would be totally freaked out by a visit from the FBI, regardless of guilt.)<br /><br />Truth is, I had stopped for a couple of minutes along the side of a public road and snapped three photos with my <b>iPhone </b>of this pretty DuPont Chemical plant on the banks of the Kanawha River in Belle, West Virginia. Above is one of the photos. Although it shows a No Trespassing sign, it clearly establishes that I am on the GOOD side of the sign and that a fence prevents anyone from going any further. For the record, there was no No Photography sign of any kind (which I doubt would be legal anyway).</div><div><br />These weren't my best photos by any means, just bearly meeting my standards for publication. Later in the day, I posted them in my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2054443&id=1003315385&l=ad89ab3be6">Virginia and West Virginia</a> album.<br /><br />The exact location, on Google Maps, is <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/ImOM" style="font-weight: bold;">here</a>. (I know it for sure, because it is a point where a stream enters the plant, as shown in the photo below.) The other two photos were nearly identical, as shown below...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2uNfUYcQGHjEEhpYvFrfpRTdmCGVPCrDGRvS9VtwTFWZFoLZ7_9qNJzFNuvw5JRQoMkKI0xcJ3YA4-5xQ_XFJd67v2SGGnd_CCfWlsZpx3Bf_CdMn5VDFgUILhlzhMB0vZ2Zn3a2b5Rs/s1600/IMG_0771.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2uNfUYcQGHjEEhpYvFrfpRTdmCGVPCrDGRvS9VtwTFWZFoLZ7_9qNJzFNuvw5JRQoMkKI0xcJ3YA4-5xQ_XFJd67v2SGGnd_CCfWlsZpx3Bf_CdMn5VDFgUILhlzhMB0vZ2Zn3a2b5Rs/s400/IMG_0771.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />You see some tiny people on the bridge, who may have notice my presence.<br /><div><br /></div><div>The photos were taken with an iPhone app calls <a href="http://eyeappsllc.com/Home.html">proHDR</a>, which analyses the scene, takes two photos and combines them into one (for more vivid colors). So I had to stand there for 30 seconds for each photo. My entire excursion a few feet out of the vehicle lasted no more than 5 minutes, but as I was getting back in the car, an unmarked pickup truck pulls up across the road from me, driven by a security guard with Wackenhut insignia.<br /><div><br />Right away, I know what was happening, and it amused me to no end. This was a CELLPHONE camera, and I'm on a public road. Instead of "jumping in the car and driving off", I sloooowed myself down to West Virginia speed and waited for the guard to come over to the car.<br /><br />At this point, I was in the driver's seat of the car, and I rolled down the window as he approached. He was a very timid guard, obviously inexperienced. He asked me if I was taking pictures. I said I was, and I showed him my iPhone. He asked me why, and I said I was just driving by and the plant looked pretty.<br /><br />I pointed out that I was on a public road and there was nothing illegal about taking a photo here. I then SHOWED HIM THE PHOTOS I HAD JUST TAKEN, but I also made sure the phone remained securely in my own hand and not in his.<br /><br />I pointed out the photos were very low resolution and that any terrorist can get better photos of the plant from Google Earth without leaving home. (If it had made a difference, I could also have talked to him at length about the only federal photography statute, <a href="http://vlex.com/vid/photographing-sketching-installations-19190932">18 USC 795</a>, and its case law, but clearly this fellow didn't have a clue about anything called "law".)</div><div><br />The guard then asked me if I would come with him—apparently inside the plant.<br /><br />I said (in a slow West Virginia way): "I see no reason at all I should come with you. I haven't broken any law. You want me to go from a public road, where I have rights, onto private property, where I have none? I'm sorry. If you want to call the police, you can, but I'm not going anywhere with you."<br /><br />He then said he would have to record my license plate. I said: "You can do anything you want." I then patiently waited for him to walk to the back of the car and write down the plate number, then he walked back his truck and I SLOWLY drove away.<br /><br />He didn't even have the courage to ask for my name or ID. (If he had, I would have SHOWN him my ID, but it wouldn't have left my hand. This is not a law enforcement officer, and I am not on his property. I have no obligation to give him anything, and I put myself at risk if I do.)<br /><br />So then, a month and a half later, the FBI visits my client, the owner of the car.<br /><br />I think my client/lawyer did a pretty good job of defending me. He gave the agent my name and phone number, but he also pointed out that I take a lot of photos, which are available online. He suggested to the agent that I was probably just driving by on the trip from Cleveland to Florida and stopped to take a photo of something that struck my eye.<br /><br />The FBI agent told my client he would contact me, but it hadn't happened 24 hours after the visit, so I called him myself! Yesterday, I called a number the agent gave my client and introduced myself. The agent knew who I was right away! He said he had been looking me up on the internet and was quite impressed with what he found. As far as I could tell, he had no special knowledge of me from FBI files, but he seemed to have a pretty good grasp of what I was all about just from what he gleaned on the internet. Honestly, I should have more fans like that!<br /><br />I told the agent the whole story (with great amusement), and it seemed to satisfy him. He said they investigate 100% of these complaints, and most of them turn out to be dead ends like this one. Although he didn't say so explicitly, I imagine the case is closed.<br /><br />I think the agent was relieved that I called. He had found my <a href="http://facebook.com/KilroyCafe">Facebook page</a> (which is mostly public), was looking through my massive cache of photos and had been debating about whether to contact me. My call relieved him of the burden of deciding.<br /><br />I told the FBI agent he should friend me... although I imagine they're not allowed to do that (friend the person they have just been investigating for possible links to terrorism). In any case, the phone call ended with no further action required.<br /><br />But is the case really closed? If the agent looks more closely at my Facebook page, he will find that I spent <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2092913&id=1003315385&l=94ca377665">Christmas in <b><u>PALESTINE</u></b></a>—a hotbed of terrorism. Maybe I was delivering my iPhone photos of the chemical plant (because the internet isn't secure enough). And where else would terrorists strike first than West Virginia? After all, it <u>is</u> the crossroads of Appalachia. A Bhopal-style accident might wipe out the entire town of Belle and a few more communities down the river. Why hit Manhattan when you can strike at the heart of America?<br /><br />Fortunately, I am not the young Psychospy of the 1990s. He would not have taken it so calmly. <b><u>He would have come back to Belle with the biggest-ass camera lens he could find and shot the hell out of that plant!</u></b> He would have taunted those Wackenhut dudes from two inches outside the boundary until the local police came and there was an assertion of rights. Of course, there would have been a website recording all this. It might have got ugly.</div><div><br /></div><div>This incident wasn't damaging to me, but it could have been to someone else. When the FBI visits your employer, that can have a huge effect on the security of your employment, regardless of your guilt. This spurious complaint is also using up a significant amount of law enforcement resources—at least a day of one FBI agent's time. Is it Dupont's policy to report anyone to the FBI who points a cellphone at the plant? If so, Dupont is probably doing a lot more damage to national security than helping it.<br /><br /></div><div>It irritates me that I'm engaged in a legal activity on public property, I'm completely open about what I'm doing and am willing to answer questions, and still I get pulled into an FBI investigation. The only "crime" I committed was choosing not to go inside the plant's property when I was asked to. Had I been less certain about my rights, I would have essentially been kidnapped to a place where I had no rights. Once I was on their property, could Dupont have seized my iPhone?</div><div><br /></div><div>What are Dupont's policies on this? I'd really like to know.<br /><br /><hr /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/KilroyCafe/posts/132658230131449">Facebook comments</a><br /></div></div></div>Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-84278788989740786892011-01-07T09:33:00.000-08:002011-01-07T09:37:03.070-08:00Groomstock Photos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh98IMeTgzOiUFjwYI8xQlmpz5Ls_potkaQiKJEdrO5OjWgov3h-WHH-sCr3nDuWqtZ2IQe7ahyjbzol64IISKh4XbmloZR1A8wdkENaEZ_AFzluVA-1IEQYLwNMt1zHPddZjRk20zDgOw/s1600/groomstock.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh98IMeTgzOiUFjwYI8xQlmpz5Ls_potkaQiKJEdrO5OjWgov3h-WHH-sCr3nDuWqtZ2IQe7ahyjbzol64IISKh4XbmloZR1A8wdkENaEZ_AFzluVA-1IEQYLwNMt1zHPddZjRk20zDgOw/s400/groomstock.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Groomstock 2010 is three months past now, and I forgot to post any photos, so here they are...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2083623&id=1003315385&l=9586d61251"><b>Groomstock 2010 Album</b></a></div><br />We had a nice time, but not really much to report. No helicopter fly-bys. No encounters with security. Just your standard secret base doing what secret bases do: sitting there. It was a surprisingly small group, given that the WHOLE WORLD was invited, but it's quality that counts, not quantity. (In addition to those shown here, there were several who camped with us but didn't make the hike, including Agent Coyote from our early years.) The trip proceeded as previously announced, with most of us camping at the trailhead and a few staying in Alamo.<br /><br />I have no idea yet whether there will be another Groomstock in 2011. (If there is, it will probably be in the summer.)Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-69958661039102190432010-10-05T04:36:00.000-07:002010-10-05T04:43:44.453-07:00Groomstock 2010 - THIS WEEKEND!<center><img src="http://www.aliensonearth.com/area51tours/group.jpg" /></center><br />Our free public campout and hike at <nobr>Tikaboo Peak</nobr> is STILL ON -- just as previously announced!<nobr> Oct. 9-10, 2010</nobr><br /><br />You can join us for the camp-out on Saturday night or just for the hike on Sunday morning. RSVP is appreciated but not required. Just come!<br /><br />For more information, including <u>meeting time and place</u>, see the <a href="http://www.aliensonearth.com/area51tours/2010/">Event Announcement</a> and the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110825272309442">Facebook Event Page</a>.Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-57441914212318123522010-09-01T08:53:00.000-07:002010-09-08T01:12:45.301-07:00Groomstock 2010 - October 9-10, 2010<center><img src=http://www.aliensonearth.com/area51tours/group.jpg><br /><br /><font size=+1>Join us for a free public campout and hike at<br /><nobr>Tikaboo Peak (Area 51 viewpoint)</nobr>,<br /><nobr>Oct. 9-10, 2010</nobr></font></center><br /><b>THE WHOLE WORLD</b> is invited to a free public camp-out and hike at <B>Tikaboo Peak</b>, the last remaining public viewpoint into the secret Area 51 base in Nevada.<br /><br />Tikaboo Peak is an 8000-foot mountain about 2-1/2 hours north of Las Vegas. It is indistinguishable from other local mountains except that it offers an <B>unobstructed view of the secret military base at Groom Lake</b> (albeit from 26 miles away). Getting there requires a 2-1/2-hour drive on paved and dirt roads and a strenuous 1-2 hour hike to the summit. We will be camping in the desert near the<br />trailhead on Saturday night (Oct. 9) and making the hike on Sunday morning (Oct. 10). You are free to join us for one or both events. <br /><br />This is the same hike portrayed (with some dramatic license) on <u>UFO Hunters</U> and <u>MysteryQuest</U> on the History Channel. The hike itself is a little over a mile and ascends from an elevation of 7000 feet to 8000 feet. The trail is steep, rocky and unmaintained but not dangerous in itself. The main burden is the altitude. Most people who exercise regularly can handle it, but couch potatoes and smokers may see their life pass before their eyes.<br /><br /><B>For more information, including <u>meeting time and place</u>, see <a href=http://www.aliensonearth.com/area51tours/2010/>Event Announcment</a></b><br /><br />(A Facebook event page will be coming soon!)Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-36829155408532525582010-08-26T09:43:00.000-07:002010-08-27T16:58:27.783-07:00Public Hike of Tikaboo Peak on October 10 - Good idea???<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPijwajqnAaDkQ1Mw9Jl7m0wqIgHfm4C3nOtYqS8C4ds_UNgvHT_CTrnL9fWlNViqEFrwETJcvwxIF6uE4pZbFmGZ6uRqIyu7d5OEstPs_ZccNGXGFuPcISXYD8Ph7es_GmDWjBUlkOh4/s1600/tikaboo.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPijwajqnAaDkQ1Mw9Jl7m0wqIgHfm4C3nOtYqS8C4ds_UNgvHT_CTrnL9fWlNViqEFrwETJcvwxIF6uE4pZbFmGZ6uRqIyu7d5OEstPs_ZccNGXGFuPcISXYD8Ph7es_GmDWjBUlkOh4/s400/tikaboo.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="332" /></a></div>I'm thinking of putting together a FREE PUBLIC HIKE of Tikaboo Peak on Sunday, <b>Oct. l0, 2010</b> -- but before I commit myself, I want to get people's feedback and gauge if there is sufficient interest.<br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">NOTE: This is currently a PROPOSAL only! Wait until a formal announcement around Sept. 1 before making any plans!</blockquote>Tikaboo Peak is the last remaining vantage point on public land where you can still see the Area 51 base. (The base is very small and distant--26 miles away--but you can see the main buildings and runway.) The hike requires a 90 minute drive from Las Vegas on paved roads, followed by a 45 minute drive on good dirt roads, then a hike of 1-1/2 to 2 hours (and 1000 feet elevation change) on a primitive trail. Experienced hikers in good shape will find it a breeze, but most people (especially sea level dwellers) regard the hike as strenuous.<br /><br />It would be just like the old days! The whole world would be invited, but because the location is remote, the whole world isn't likely to come. At the peak of the Area 51 hype in the 1990s, no more than 20-30 people would come to these hikes.<br /><br />I'm targeting Oct. 10, because I've already agreed to do a hike then and it's the perfect time of year for it. This also happens to be the weekend of a big Renaissance Faire in Las Vegas, one of the best in all the land. See <a href="http://lvrenfair.com/">http://LvRenFair.com</a> . On Friday night and Saturday, I expect to attend the faire (dressed as a mere peasant), and perhaps you'd like to, too! See <a href="http://www.roamingphotos.com/us/nv/lasvegas/renaissance/">my past photos</a>.<br /><br />I normally conduct these tours for a fee (See my <a href="http://www.aliensonearth.com/area51tours/">webpage</a>.), but if I invited the whole world, I would waive the fee for everyone. It would be free! (apart from the significant expense of getting there)<br /><br />There would be two possible ways we could meet up: (1) We could meet at the paved highway (US 93 south of Alamo) at a certain time Saturday evening, then we would all drive to the trailhead and camp there, doing the hike in the morning. Or (2), We could meet at the paved highway early on Sunday morning, and convoy up to the trailhead for the hike. (#1 sounds more fun, but I want your feedback. Camping in these parts is easy: All you need is a sleeping bag and an air mattress. In either case, people arriving later would be given instructions on how to find us.)<br /><br />After the hike, there would be an optional journey into the Tikaboo Valley (to wave at the border guards), and some people may want to go on to Rachel.<br /><br />I'll decide around Sept. 1 whether I'm going to go ahead with this public invitation. If I do, I'll put it up as an event on <a href="http://facebook.com/kilroycafe">Facebook </a>as well as posting it on this here blog. That would give everyone plenty of time to plan their travel. The invitation would include detailed directions and information.<br /><br />What do you think?<br /><br />Glenn Campbell - email: glenn {at} kilroycafe.comGlenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-75960210613184825072010-08-07T02:25:00.000-07:002010-08-07T02:28:05.375-07:00Video: Area 51 Exposed at Last! (again!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRIqb7JPrSI" imageanchor="1" ><img style="width: 404px; height: 228px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2_Kl51tOyLgg5FDmOiDX56B-iCUvAfojKrb9Zq0q1XU5kT1UlsVSFNqRlZuUPT1vaBToPIZ9SLQ_Gys49Fql1CSi6JgqTslz7ZgDmAAMSkyeOCJhPBunOzsfS5kwmIradIrO16MWig9I/s640/area51.jpg" border="0" /></a></div>After a 2-month hiatus, Pointline is back!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRIqb7JPrSI" onmousedown="'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this)," rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRIqb7JPr</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span>SI</a>Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-37909878351512081342010-06-29T21:37:00.000-07:002010-07-02T12:09:41.263-07:00New Video: Area 51 Exposed at Last!NOTE (7/2): I have "unexposed" the video that was posted here. It was bad timing, given the SyFy show coming up. I'll "reexpose" the video at some later date.Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-60337695425098598712010-03-29T15:57:00.001-07:002010-03-29T16:11:31.269-07:00Area 51 Workers Talk... But, Sorry, No Aliens!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/zoom/html/2011461348.html"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwOt5dCnOMgETV96LoqbxSp_u8AvKsAa1FkNU5Qp7LGh5sTATbKrUETCvr07gXFPizqkT00id9Rc5KD3weH_kqyjRXqaAwEUt-z-qNUsaeWTfTpCnizOfE2jLMzyPAtVntEeqO6Rrfs0s/s400/2011453567.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454194318611862594" border="0" /></a>New article published March. 27 in the Seattle Times...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011461015_area51vets28m.html">Area 51 vets break silence: Sorry, but no space aliens or UFOs</a><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>- Newly revealed stories from people who used to work at Area 51 shed light on a site still shrouded in mystery.</span><br /></div><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">Noce and Barnes say they never saw anything connected to UFOs.<br /><br />Barnes believes the Air Force and the "Agency" didn't mind the stories about alien spacecraft. They helped cover up the secret planes that were being tested.<br /><br />On one occasion, he remembers, when the first jets were being tested at what Muroc Army Air Field, later renamed Edwards Air Force Base, a test pilot put on a gorilla mask and flew upside down beside a private pilot.<br /><br />"Well, when this guy went back, telling reporters, 'I saw a plane that didn't have a propeller and being flown by a monkey,' well, they laughed at this guy — and it got where the guys would see [test pilots] and they didn't dare report it because everybody'd laugh at them," says Barnes.<br /></blockquote>Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-69149345583059881002010-03-09T07:04:00.001-08:002010-03-09T07:08:03.526-08:00Updated Photo of Sean Morton<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNrIfUzqJ0z4xuheyQbrvrj5u-FSyHBzU2RUuYAxjqzjpbner-WkttQqYNLNv65g4t9DUwUmkH25S2B1nUHnnIbBuVLEaVsAaYczvTixnReC0wgSkbE0JKGgromYCWHZUgVuO7Knh5PgY/s1600-h/mortons_limo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNrIfUzqJ0z4xuheyQbrvrj5u-FSyHBzU2RUuYAxjqzjpbner-WkttQqYNLNv65g4t9DUwUmkH25S2B1nUHnnIbBuVLEaVsAaYczvTixnReC0wgSkbE0JKGgromYCWHZUgVuO7Knh5PgY/s400/mortons_limo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446650335628734930" border="0" /></a>Here's Sean and his wife in their limo, from <a href="http://ufowatchdog.blogspot.com/2010/03/sean-david-morton-charged-with-fraud.html">UFOWatchDog</a>.<br /><br />Looks like securities fraud is treating him well!<br /><br />His wife looks surprisingly normal. Either she's a con artist like him or a hopeless sucker.Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-32473580538663145812010-03-05T07:27:00.000-08:002010-03-05T17:32:35.718-08:00Sean Morton Charged With Securities Fraud!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjKvB0izfV0c5vIDNl3kBI3RLuOwa85RpGzpNQ6mnuGKt_u3ZHOmjS8S-WMFP21_W855XrnlvzJ4Vc6sbmpU7kFGPylCM4kbosukdlWfbgz4zq622NpvJc5nweicLfWKhgvJlJudbgvWY/s1600-h/Sean+David+Morton.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 341px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjKvB0izfV0c5vIDNl3kBI3RLuOwa85RpGzpNQ6mnuGKt_u3ZHOmjS8S-WMFP21_W855XrnlvzJ4Vc6sbmpU7kFGPylCM4kbosukdlWfbgz4zq622NpvJc5nweicLfWKhgvJlJudbgvWY/s400/Sean+David+Morton.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445175193929952674" border="0" /></a>OMG! This is fantastic! Sean David Morton, my arch-nemesis in the 1990s (who happened to be the subject of my <a href="http://area51looseends.blogspot.com/2010/02/follow-sean-morton-on-twitter.html">last post</a> a month ago), has been formerly charged with securities fraud by the SEC, for allegedly swindling investors out of $6 million based on his alleged psychic powers.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">New York Times:</span> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/business/05psychic.html">For Psychic, Suit Came as Surprise</a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">He calls himself “America’s Prophet,” a psychic, trained by Nepalese monks in the art of time travel, who can foretell the future of the stock market. But to the authorities, Sean David Morton is simply a fraud — and a really, really bad psychic.<br /></span><span><br />This article includes the full text of the lawsuit!</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wall Street Journal</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100304-719292.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines">SEC Charges Sean David Morton, 'America's Prophet', With Fraud</a><br /><br />Also see <a href="http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=sean+morton">Google News Search for "Sean Morton"</a><br /><br />But let's not rush to judgment here. He has only been charged, not convicted. Here is Sean's response to the charges, as posted on the Coast-to-Coast website....<br /><br /><a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/sean-david-morton-statement">Sean David Morton Statement</a><br /><br />The SEC filing is only a civil action at the moment, which can't send him to jail. All they can do is "enjoin" him from doing stuff and seize his assets, of which he claims none. Sean is nothing if not resilient, and I'm sure he will rise to the occasion and find a new scam to work. The important thing now is to play the victim, thereby tapping into the anti-government subculture. It's a whole new reservoir of suckers to milk!<br /><br />You can't <span style="font-style: italic;">buy </span>publicity like this, Sean. Run with it!<br /><br />(Thanks to Ray McClure for the tip-off.)Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-38554199688987986832010-02-06T05:39:00.001-08:002010-02-06T05:49:22.521-08:00Follow Sean Morton on Twitter!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjWC1uBNDHkyXnXl8Z7iXE0mJrNSTbNz3EL1tIgOKtC7N9cVHDQilrSTYiBxjQb3HXLOqrNT1hjaOc7FVckMJuCE2yZtWjQwVbY32keE0tGMPvk_jMeCgaZUByBzdGifHsoNRgpNtlo8k/s1600-h/sean.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 167px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjWC1uBNDHkyXnXl8Z7iXE0mJrNSTbNz3EL1tIgOKtC7N9cVHDQilrSTYiBxjQb3HXLOqrNT1hjaOc7FVckMJuCE2yZtWjQwVbY32keE0tGMPvk_jMeCgaZUByBzdGifHsoNRgpNtlo8k/s400/sean.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435124720537207138" border="0" /></a>This is a blast! You gotta follow this guy on Twitter: Sean David Morton<br /><a href="http://twitter.com/SeanDavidMorton"><br />http://twitter.com/SeanDavidMorton</a><br /><br />He's still alive... and peddling snake oil.<br /><br />BTW: Here's <a href="http://twitter.com/g_knapp">George Knapp on Twitter</a>.Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-61959914661904682302009-12-10T01:48:00.000-08:002009-12-10T02:00:48.453-08:00Campbell Kills Caminos on Freedom Ridge<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVBNwzeZ2IHYvmMJ3u4eo_Eo-GZ-VOTpdacvbQqm_uprPpL38x-gSo0JZqNLZpiYbVOR4wCZjMDVatkPYkrRkY7b1YnLG9DfKnZON4ruG2IBGxyPMUmtcQiaZhHmbFsFrgi5ODxRnmMCA/s1600-h/campbell-kills-caminos.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVBNwzeZ2IHYvmMJ3u4eo_Eo-GZ-VOTpdacvbQqm_uprPpL38x-gSo0JZqNLZpiYbVOR4wCZjMDVatkPYkrRkY7b1YnLG9DfKnZON4ruG2IBGxyPMUmtcQiaZhHmbFsFrgi5ODxRnmMCA/s400/campbell-kills-caminos.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413545070116292642" border="0" /></a>Someone has just drawn my attention from one of my old postings from 1997 about a radio intercept back when Freedom Ridge was open...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ufomind.com/area51/list/1997/nov/a10-001.shtml">Campbell Kills Caminos on Freedom Ridge<br /></a></div><blockquote>[CAMINO 04, APPROACH APPROVAL STILL WITHHELD] DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT'S GLENN CAMPBELL AND HE HAS NOT DEPARTED THE AREA. HE IS JUST DOWN THE HILL. WATCHDOG IS STILL IN EFFECT.<br /><br />[SECOND VOICE] UNDERSTAND YOU ARE BRINGING THE CAMINOS IN NOW?<br /><br />I'M GOING TO TALK TO THE D.O. AND THE S.O.F. AND TRY AND GET APPROVAL FOR YOU TO DO PATTERN WORK AS LONG AS GLENN CAMPBELL IS DOWN THE HILL</blockquote>I don't remember anything more about the incident than you read in the posting. I don't remember who the journalist was who made the recording. Although the incident happened on Oct. 31, 1994, I apparently didn't publish it until 1997 because I didn't want to reveal the fact that I had their frequencies.<br /><br />I guess it's a tribute to the restraint of the US government that I'm not dead right now!<br /><br />(It's also a tribute to my current disinterest in Area 51 that I have purged all this from memory.)Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-71003653742964719182009-11-03T20:15:00.001-08:002009-11-03T20:31:37.352-08:00Area 51: Soft Porn Edition<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQnet294-6O8ts6vjhzvw2yL6gqyy_1YdvRV_wolZImniyc0zeLecjn4DA0sEkR-U8LqEjSl-o762EpnMgGxAFBg_F4uWguOdZAvvK1y7x6mS3pcjUqo1-wNhdvOIfLIl_DZ3DzplVME/s1600-h/areola51.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQnet294-6O8ts6vjhzvw2yL6gqyy_1YdvRV_wolZImniyc0zeLecjn4DA0sEkR-U8LqEjSl-o762EpnMgGxAFBg_F4uWguOdZAvvK1y7x6mS3pcjUqo1-wNhdvOIfLIl_DZ3DzplVME/s400/areola51.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400097335241646674" border="0" /></a>Agent Archangel has alerted us to further penetration of Area 51 into popular culture. Area 51 porn! It's only soft porn, shown on late night Cinemax, but it's a start!<br /><br />Here's the <a href="http://cosmic-cinema.blogspot.com/2009/07/areola-51.html">only known review of "Areola 51"</a>. Apparently the aliens have a certain fascination for female nipples. (Who wouldn't travel the galaxy for some good titties?)<br /><br />Don't expect this one at a Red Box near you, but you might catch it again on Cinemax.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjggZrl9C2Oqqyq8U76ZljisHQnnuDFAIcH-vmb2FWUnjXHavpPbPh7ztBiaCQoH-sk-oaH3VNMoUTxI51rX9kEJ1c6Fq1YNYZkxtGo74tg3pAFPkJAWH0w6M03pl-7AmmrdS8PKWdSYWE/s1600-h/areola51ss.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjggZrl9C2Oqqyq8U76ZljisHQnnuDFAIcH-vmb2FWUnjXHavpPbPh7ztBiaCQoH-sk-oaH3VNMoUTxI51rX9kEJ1c6Fq1YNYZkxtGo74tg3pAFPkJAWH0w6M03pl-7AmmrdS8PKWdSYWE/s400/areola51ss.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400098402959151650" border="0" /></a><br />Archangal notes that there is also an Austin-based band of the same name: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areola_51">Areola 51</a>.Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495721511839669207.post-85778380939802539122009-10-08T15:45:00.001-07:002009-10-08T16:04:28.659-07:00Area 51 on MysteryQuest on the History Channel, Oct. 14, 10pm<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://roamingphotos.com/a?mysteryquest"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 381px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj2Cfv9QRx_tTVAQ6zKtaIYVYdehIKCuH5dMdomqW3_tDhcPdpULgsG0E-V7TP2sxi8eSkroWRFyxIoHzuQk9ogz6ddmx5lztUWH9Zph2HkCauaMqtrY5ml7QZe-R_DyXLqzTxqBKlEBQ/s400/IMG_2679.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390364542596806738" border="0" /></a>Ratings for the Area 51 <span style="font-style: italic;">UFO Hunters</span> show were so good that History Channel has come back for more! There will be a brand new Area 51 episode airing this <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wednesday at 10pm</span> on a new series called <a href="http://www.history.com/content/mysteryquest">MysteryQuest</a>. Not promising any revelations, mind you, but Yours Truly will be probably be getting a fair amount of gratuitous face time. (Above, he is trying to look serious for his "hero shot".)<br /><br />That's Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 at 10pm (Eastern and Pacific Time) or 9pm Central Time. If you miss it, no sweat: It will no doubt be repeated... and repeated.<br /><br />The main new thing about this episode is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">first-ever televised visit to the abandoned Green River Missile</span> complex in Utah (named as the "New Area 51" by Popular Mechanics a few years back). We will be sneaking around in underground facilities there and discovering (as you might have guessed) no new Area 51 there.<br /><br />The episode filmed back in June. To bring you up to speed, here is my <a href="http://roamingphotos.com/a?mysteryquest">photo album of the shoot</a>. Also check out this blog regarding the previous <a href="http://area51looseends.blogspot.com/search/label/UFO%20Hunters%20%28TV%20show%29">UFO Hunters show</a> and <a href="http://area51looseends.blogspot.com/search/label/Green%20River%20-%20Utah">Green River</a>.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://roamingphotos.com/a?mysteryquest"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 385px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnT-GgFLEuRVT51BZkxpGCt-KAJ_GGxDeHFd1LLWDqKFl8HAjPDSw3n0VBMmjPtsgKVVjX-tgRHfWMFbdgDTdYaIv8wRinS5kTdGo8912C_wN9STnX2gktq7_0gJkqI1g-DetCfxi3pVY/s400/IMG_2665.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390367419175780514" border="0" /></a>Glenn Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289793330141562661noreply@blogger.com4