Thursday, July 19, 2007

New Top Secret Construction at Area 51





Something big is in the works at Nevada's legendary Area 51 military base. A massive new building is under construction at the top secret location. Aviation experts say there's a good chance that a new, highly classified aircraft might soon be zipping around the Nevada skies.

(Via The Anomalist.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

See also:
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=6810117

For further news on the Area 51 new
construction. Mighty damn big hangers, apparently. From the George Knapp authored Las Vegas Now article:

"But aviation writers are thinking more exotic thoughts. For months, there's been speculation in aviation circles about a successor to the SR-71, call it the SR-72. Model airplane companies already have their version of the so called "dark bird," which theoretically could fly twice as fast as the Blackbird.

Peter Merlin says he's been told by engineers at Lockheed that the SR-72 project was canceled, but new reports in aviation media note the Air Force has just awarded a new contract to Lockheed for a plane that sounds exactly like the SR-72, a Mach 6 reconnaissance plane that could also carry weapons, and unlike the SR-71, this one would be unmanned.

It would make for a comfy fit inside that new hangar. But Merlin thinks there are other possibilities also in the works at Groom Lake.

"There are at least seven and maybe as many as eleven manned classified air craft that have not yet been unveiled that have been flying since 1985 and countless unmanned programs as well. Most of these things have been tested there. I know some of the guys that have flown these airplanes," Merlin continued.

Among the suspects is something called the Black Manta, a stealthy hypersonic craft that might explain the wispy images captured in a few photos around the world. Various black triangle-type craft have been spotted over American military bases and cities for years, some of them huge in size, big enough to require a big hangar.

Aviation journalist Bill Sweetman has long argued for the existence of the Aurora, another plane rumored to have been flown at Groom Lake. Sweetman says black budget figures hint at the existence of the plane, which some have dubbed the SR-75 penetrator. Whichever of these ambitious projects ends up in full development, it's abundantly clear that the testing location of choice for top secret planes is still Area 51."

Oh, and as an example of pareidolia, if you look at the whitish grey outline of Groom dry lake bed, doesn't it kind of remind you of a face or head and hair outline of someone beginning to sing (mouth lower left), with boufant swept-back over the forehead hair? I just knew Elvis never really left us, but I had no idea his spirit would come to rest as an outline of a dry lake bed at Area 51, ready to burst forward with an invigorating version of "Blue Sued Shoes!" 8^}