Former Staff Speaks Out On Area 51 Secret Base

Five former staff members of the Area 51 military base officially spoke out on the base and their tasks, confirming its existence.

Conspiracy theory and UFO enthusiasts can finally rest assured because certain scientists and former staff members have decided to end the decades long vow of silence and speak out about one of the strictest kept secrets of the U.S. government concerning its military base located in Nevada`s desert – Area 51.

Base amidst a desert in Nevada

Even though the American government does not wish to confirm or deny its existence, testimonies of five former staff members confirm doubts of a secret base which has officially been inexistent for decades.

Its location is not known, but it is assumed that it is located some 160 kilometres away from Las Vegas between an air base and an abandoned nuclear weapons testing range. Until recently, air space above the supposed location did not allow any crafts flying over.

Colonel Hugh Slater (87) officially spoke out on the matter, who commanded the Area 51 base in the 1960s. Furthermore, 90-year-old Edward Lovick also decided to talk, who tested “invisibility” of some of the world`s most famous crafts for 30 years, U-2, A-12 OXCART and the F-117, along with 80-year-old Kenneth Collins, a CIA test pilot, 72-year-old Thornton Barnes, who worked on special projects at Area 51 for years and 77-year-old Harry Martin, one of the main people in charge of logistics, i.e. procurement of fuel for the crafts.

Area 51 existed, but there were no UFOs

Although the testimonies of former staff members could have provided satisfaction for conspiracy theorists, UFO advocators might be left disappointed. The secret base experimented with stealth technology and according to one of the former commanders, the largest number of sightings identified with UFOs were actually reflections from the bodies of experimental planes.

Thornton Barnes is sure that the OXCART plane caused many false sightings, due to its speed and the altitude it flew at.

The rumour is that the American government and scientists experimented with alien aircrafts at the Area 51 base. Scientists do not deny the experiments, but say the crafts were made by humans.

- We did reverse engineer a lot of foreign technology, including the Soviet MiG fighter jet out at the Area - Barnes said.

CIA Covering it up

According to test pilot Kenneth Collins, he took off in a secret testing plane with the code name OXCART on May 24, 1963, while a malfunction occurred on the engine above Utah. He was forced to eject. After safely landing with a parachute, several civilians came to Collins` rescue.

- Three guys came driving toward me in a pickup. I saw they had the aircraft canopy in the back. They offered to take me to my plane. I told them not to go near the aircraft. I said it had a nuclear weapon on-board - Kenneth Collins recalled.

Later on, the CIA admitted to the OXCART accident as a crash of the F-105 fighter plane and this description is still present in the official records. However, this is not where the cover-up ends. CIA agents found the three men who helped Collins and made them sign national security nondisclosures.

 While reporting on the mission, Collins was forced to take the “truth serum” in case he omitted certain details before the plane malfunctioned.

- Late Sunday, three CIA agents brought me home. One drove my car; the other two carried me inside and laid me down on the couch. I was loopy from the drugs - Collins remembered.

Testimonies of staff members

According to Edward Lovick, the base was intentionally located in the middle of nowhere, amidst a desert in a dried-out lake like Groom Lake, so that nobody distracted CIA experiments with espionage planes.

- The agency located each guy at the top of a certain field and put us together for the programs at Area 51. Our special-projects group was the most classified team since the Manhattan Project – Thornton Barnes said, who worked on special projects at Area 51 for years.

Colonel Hugh Slater controlled the OXCART espionage plane during the War in Vietnam, while he came to Area 51 from CIA`s secret Black Cat team, where his mission was to fly over China.

- When I learned about this Mach-3 aircraft called OXCART, it was completely intriguing to me - this idea of flying three times the speed of sound! No one knew a thing about the program. I asked my wife, Barbara, if she wanted to move to Las Vegas, and she said yes – Hugh Slater, former Area 51 base commander said.

Slater and the others decided to speak out after the CIA lifted the “top secret” ban off the OXCART project 50 years after its realisation in 2007. However, it is not familiar what is currently taking place at Area 51. Perhaps experiments with UFOs and aliens are true, but we may have the opportunity of finding this out in 50 years` time, once another veil of mystery is lifted odd another CIA project.