A former CIA specialist has exposed secrets about Area 51 that had never been made public before. He is the leader of a group of former Area 51 employees who have been speaking out about the work they did at the military base.
Thornton D. “T.D.” Barnes, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Radar Specialist who worked on special projects at Area 51, has been trying to blow the lid off the secretive military base for over a decade.
Barnes is a veteran of Army intelligence, was a member of the first Hawk missile battalion deployed during the Cold War, and spent several years on a NASA High Range radar site in Nevada tracking the X-15, XB-70 Valkyrie, and experimental lifting body programs that eventually became the Space Shuttle.
In 1968, he joined the Special Projects Team for the Central Intelligence Agency’s projects at Area 51 and for about half a century his family and friends he worked on special projects at Area 51 for the CIA.
Barnes has probably done more than anyone to lift the veil of secrecy from Area 51. He’s the head of the Road Runners, a group of former Area 51 employees who came out into the open more than a decade ago to talk about the work they did in the Nevada desert.
Barnes took things further by nudging the CIA to declassify photos and documents about the base, things even the CIA didn’t seem to know, including the base’s real name— “Station D,” which was the CIA’s original name for Area 51.
The designation “Area 51” started in 1958 when the CIA needed to annex land from the nearby atomic testing range to develop the A-12 Blackbird.
Sometime in the 1960’s, the “51” disappeared from maps and the military started pretending there wasn’t a base out there at all, even though Russian spy agencies knew it was there.
Lockheed Martin, the aerospace and defense company, referred to it, sarcastically, as Paradise Ranch, which then became The Ranch, then Red Square or The Box.
The government has claimed in the past that Area 51 is a NASA weather station or an atomic energy research facility, neither of which was true.
Back in 2009, after the CIA has began to declassify some of the top secret programs developed at Area 51, T.D. Barnes told ABC News.
No one really knew we existed. Even our wives didn’t know where we were going when we left Monday morning and came back Friday evening. Those who worked on secret government programs at the base were glad people thought there were UFO’s there.
The US government’s official name for Area 51 is the Nevada Test and Training Range, which is a unit of the Nellis Air Force Base. Today it is used as an open training range for the US Air Force.
According to the CIA, the name Area 51 comes from its map designation. It was also previously referred to as “Paradise Ranch” in order to make the facility sound more attractive to those that would be working there.
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We are not alone, we have never been alone.
That could be very childish to assume?
If Area 51 had aliens present and their aircraft why has the USA not by this time developed propulsion systems that got their energy from the universe – eg- “flying saucers “, nobody would be able to challenge American World supremacy ?
While many secret projects were tried out there they have got no further than jet aircraft using turbines or battery operated drones. Vertical takeoff still requires a jet engine to achieve it – I worked in a VTOL factory.
Maybe reverse engineering failed due to lack of materials?
Thats possible IF as well as lack of technical know how -that’s a hard one to give a definitive answer to due to secrecy.
The Skinwalker Ranch experiment shows a lot more about what energy fields in different dimensions can do to our so-called advanced electronics, except for infrared scans that are able to show and detect movements in the researched environment.