Report: Area 51 Was Locked Down After 'a Mysterious Object of Unknown Origin Fell From the Sky and Crashed'
MyLoupe. Getty Images.Admittedly, there are a lot of buzzwords in that headline, suggesting a Halloween-appropriate story somewhere between an X-Files and a Simpson's Treehouse of Horror, with interstellar craft and a government coverup. And those buzzwords are in quotes because that is word for word how this news report phrased it. And some parts of it are literally true:
Source - A mysterious object of unknown origin fell from the sky and crashed just outside of Nevada’s secretive Area 51 military base, and five weeks later, the public is still in the dark.
The crash was quickly covered up, both literally and figuratively. 8 News Now Chief Investigator George Knapp thinks the official story as told by the military is demonstrably false. …
Scanners and computers at Dreamland Resort listen to and record radio traffic inside Area 51 around the clock. On the morning of Sept. 23, Joerg Arnu heard some astonishing news. …
He learned there had been a large, but totally secret air operation in the middle of the night and that something had gone wrong. …
He picked up details that strict security measures were implemented almost immediately. Not only was Area 51 itself locked down, but within a very short time, so too was a large swath of the Tiikaboo Valley.
It became clear that some kind of craft had crashed, miles outside Area 51’s boundaries, on public land, adjacent to highway 375, also known as the E.T. Highway [and] ran into an armed patrol. …
He backtracked and headed south on the E.T. Highway to Groom Lake Road, the main entrance to the base. It too was blocked off by sheriff’s deputies and military security. A military helicopter with an attached basket was sitting there, presumably ready to haul out the wreckage of something. A pair of porta-potties suggested the team planned to be there for a while. …
Then, four days after the crash, the security teams vanished. Arnu went back out for a look. The air force had used heavy equipment to plow a dirt road across a section of desert. Arnu followed it and found what he thought was the crash site, then shared it online. That’s when things got strange, even by Area 51 standards.
A second wave of cleanup crews descended on the site, presumably to pick up any remaining debris, but they also used graders to cover the entire area with a thick layer of dirt, making this literally a cover-up.
Creech Air Force Base, which is home to a fleet of Reaper drones and other UAVs, issued a statement explaining that the quote “unmanned aircraft” was … one of the latest generation of AI-controlled craft that accompany advanced fighter planes and can act independently to get the job done.
OK, so it would appear even George Knapp, who's a legitimate journo and the leading UFO researcher, and this Joerg Arnu, who seems to be a lovable crackpot who lives in the desert monitoring radio chatter, are claiming this was some alien craft. Apparently this isn't going to lead to some juicier story about cattle mutilations or abductions involving way more rectal probing than any species capable of interstellar travel should be interested in:
But it's still very noteworthy. Mainly because one of the major theories to explain the UFO/UAP phenomenon is that it's United States military tech. It would explain a lot. Why the Pentagon denied the existence of Area 51 for so long. Why all the increased sightings of unexplained vehicles buzzing the sky these past few years. Why so many of them have been spotted around sensitive military operations. So this is at least plausible.
My only advice is not to exaggerate this particular incident. Even if this was some kind of drone prototype, it doesn't explain much. Like how the Tic Tac UFO as able to go from an altitude 50,000 feet to a few feet above the waves in a split second. How they don't seem to give off any sort of a heat signature. How they've been known to shut down our nuclear missiles. And most of all, how these sightings go back centuries. That even Columbus recorded such sightings in his Captain's Log while crossing the Atlantic in the late 1400s.
Listen, I hope this is the full explanation. The idea of our best and brightest developing the next generation of advanced weapons for our side to keep the Commie hordes at bay is a lot more comforting than the alternatives. Then again, both things can be true. After all, the most likely explanation is what plenty of whistleblowers have already reported. That yes, we're developing this tech. But crashed UFOs that we've retrieved are exactly where we've developed it all from. Based on how fast and efficient this retrieval team was at hiding this crash and covering up the crash site? That's the most plausible theory of all.
Happy Halloween, all.