Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies
One of the most surprising of all the revelations made by Bob Lazar was that by 1988–1989, the team out at S-4 had made very little progress when it came to the matter of trying to understand the alleged extraterrestrial technology.
In fact, at times, it sounded like the environment was more akin to a museum than a place where high-tech research and development was speeding along. To some degree, the image mirrors the final scenes of the hit 1981 movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, starring Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.
In those final moments, we see the Ark of the Covenant—which the Nazis were desperate to get their hands on—hidden away from just about everyone as a result of its awesome, destructive powers. Could it be true that rather than having duplicated the alien technology, the staff at S-4 are in a very similar position: they have a mountain of alien-originated technology but no significant way to use it? A lack of understanding of the alien science may have ensured that much of the recovered material is just sitting on shelves boxed away and remaining largely untouched until our science catches up. Let’s explore this possibility to a greater degree.
If creatures from another world really did crash to the Earth in July 1947 (I am, of course, talking about the Roswell affair) and wound up at Area 51, then why is it that the material evidence has never surfaced? That important issue aside, Roswell, as an event, is a matter of record. The case has, after all, been the subject of numerous nonfiction books and has been featured in a near-endless number of TV series and documentaries, movies, and novels. The controversy has also been the focus of two U.S. Air Force investigations and a report by the Government Accountability Office.
Regardless of what really happened on that now infamous, remote ranch all those years ago, Roswell is the cornerstone of ufology, no doubt about it. Roswell is to ufology what the 1967 “Patterson film” is to Bigfoot research and what the 1945 disappearance of Flight 19 is to those who believe in the existence of the Bermuda Triangle. My personal opinion is that the U.S. government (and I use those words—“the U.S. government”—as a catchall term for the U.S.
Air Force, the intelligence community, and elected officials) is, today, out of the loop when it comes to knowing the full, unexpurgated facts surrounding Roswell. Far more likely, as I see it, the Roswell secrets are maintained by a kind of “shadow agency”—a group that is (a) answerable to no one; (b) not officially known to exist; and (c) funded in a deeply clandestine fashion. It’s almost certainly operating out of Area 51.
All of this has another side to it, though.
It’s one thing to have a secret group that oversees the Roswell case at S-4, but it is, however, quite another issue for this group to have successfully hidden every bit of wreckage, every single page of every single document ever prepared on the event, and every highly classified photo, all without making a single mistake (just one!) to the point where absolutely nothing—not even the merest scrap—has surfaced in seven decades. How is such a thing possible?
Let’s face it: we hear numerous stories of extraterrestrial debris found on the Foster Ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico, which is then (sooner or later) “back-engineered,” perhaps at Area 51 or elsewhere. We’re told that the Roswell technology and materials played major roles in the development of everything from night-vision goggles to integrated circuits and from lasers to fiber optics. If the stories are true (even just a few of them), then such programs would have required the dedicated, secret work of countless people and numerous companies and industries.
With so many scientists and personnel involved—combined with the reams of paperwork such studies and research would surely have generated since 1947—is it too much to expect that not even one legitimate smoking gun would surface? No, it is not. Something is wrong with this picture.
Since we clearly don’t have that much-sought-after smoking gun (if we did, you would hardly be reading these words right now), the skeptics conclude that that’s because it doesn’t exist. However, another angle needs to be addressed.
It’s an angle to which few people ever give much thought.
What if aliens did crash in New Mexico in 1947 but very little (if, indeed, any) notable progress has been made in studying and understanding the alien technology? More to the crux of the matter: what if the recovered evidence has barely been investigated in the slightest? Taking things a step further than that, what if the material is so baffling and appropriately alien that it has just been hidden away museum style and that’s all? Such a scenario might sound strange, but bear with me.
What if all the stories of “back-engineering” are bogus and were designed —at the height of the Cold War—to unnerve and confuse the Soviets. What if the reality is that zero progress has been made when it comes to the examination of the Roswell materials? This is very close to the scenario that Lazar described.
Now, with that said, let’s go back to Roswell. Despite what has been stated about a UFO crashing in New Mexico in 1947, the fact is that—for the most part —we actually have very few credible stories of a UFO being found on the Foster Ranch. What we have, chiefly, are reports of a massive field of debris and a varying number of bodies of perceived nonhuman origin.