The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies: Area 51
To demonstrate that the connection between Area 51 and UFOs goes back a significant number of years—and long before Bob Lazar was on the scene —we have to go back to the dawning of the 1970s. The story comes from a man I’ll call John, who I met back in the mid-2000s. It’s a story of incredible proportions that clearly demonstrates that when it comes to the matter of aliens and the legendary secret base, nothing is as it seems to be. In fact, it’s much weirder.
From the latter part of the 1940s to the end of the 1950s, John was employed by the New York Police Department. The work was exactly what one would expect in a packed, bustling city like the Big Apple. However, John’s career had one unusual aspect to it. It was in late 1957 that John and a couple of his colleagues were brought into a program to assist the FBI in uncovering a Russian spy ring that was afoot in the city. The belief was that the Soviets were trying to infiltrate a certain company that worked in the field of weapons development for the U.S. government. They may indeed have infiltrated it— period. The reason why John was brought in was because it was suspected that the Russians had recruited Mafia figures—and they were Mafia figures who John had crossed paths with on previous investigations.
By all accounts, the operation ran as smoothly as these things can: a number of Soviet operatives were rounded up and arrested, as were a couple of Americans. John found himself in another operation involving the feds just two years later. Again, John did a good job and impressed the higher-ups in the bureau. In 1970, John was contacted by an old friend in the police, who said that a prestigious job was coming up that John might find of interest. Intrigued, John asked his friend what the gig was.
The response was a job with Wackenhut (now known as G4S Secure Solutions). It’s a company that was established in 1954 by George Wackenhut that provides security to numerous companies that undertake contract work for the U.S. military, the government, and the intelligence community. Wackenhut also had the contract, in 1964, to provide all of the security for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. In other words, Wackenhut was involved in matters relative to national security on a daily basis, and John would have a significant position in the field of security—if he chose to take the job.
According to John’s friend, the job that was coming up would be at a highly sensitive facility in the Nevada desert. Since its classified name was definitely not in the public domain at the time, John had no idea that it was named Area 51.
John’s friend informed him that the pay would be very good, that the job would guarantee John a lot of new contacts in his working career, and that it was definitely not an opportunity to be missed. John was sold on the idea. Little did he know at the time just how strange his life and world were about to become John had a definitively cloak-and-dagger-type initial interview in New York, which was followed by a second one in Las Vegas. On top of that, an extensive background check followed. Both the FBI and the NSA were involved in the investigation of John’s life, career, and background. Everyone was pleased with the results—especially John. He would soon find himself working at one of the most mysterious locales on the entire planet.
John stated that one of the primary reasons he got the job was because, at the time, he was a single man: he had never married, although he did later in life. This was seen as a good thing because John was expected to work approximately three weeks on and one week off. Yes, the hours were a bit torturous, but—as a former police officer—John was accustomed to working odd and long hours. He had no major problem with that.