The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies: Area 51
The year 1994 saw the world of Area 51 thrust yet further into the worlds of the public and the media, but it had nothing to do with classified aircraft, aliens, or UFOs. Rather, it all revolved around highly toxic substances that had made certain employees at the base seriously ill. The outcome? They chose to take legal action against the U.S. government. It’s a fact that people sue various elements and agencies of the government just about every day, but it’s most certainly not every day that someone decides to try to take on the power and clout of Area 51. That, however, is exactly what happened.
It hardly takes a genius to realize that when the words “Area 51” and “lawsuit” came together in relation to the same issue the UFO research community sat up and took note. More significantly, though, the mainstream press did likewise. From the government’s perspective, this was all very worrying. History has shown that the government was far less concerned about being sued but far more worried by the distinct possibility that as a side issue to the case, swathes of data on Area 51 would surface, and the government was certainly not going to see that happen, no matter what. Let’s now take a look at what, precisely, happened.
By the mid-1990s, Area 51 had been a subject of deep interest for the public and ufologists for roughly half a decade—which is when Bob Lazar blew the whistle on what he claimed was afoot at S-4. The media skirted around Lazar’s accounts—unsure of how to handle such a story aside from ridiculing it or placing it in the good-humored “and finally” part of the nightly news. That was not the case with what happened in 1994, though. Here was a story that had traceable legs—and investigative journalists went looking.
The story, in essence, is a simple one, but that simple case opened up a massive can of worms that, to a large degree, even the power of the U.S. government had a hard time quashing. A number of people who had worked on the Nevada Test and Training Range—including the surviving relatives of a pair of contractors who died on-base—decided to file a suit. Those two men whose lives were cut short were Robert Frost and Walter Kasza. Outraged and devastated by the deaths, their widows decided to take decisive action.
They and the families of a number of other victims—all of whom were unnamed in the suit—knew they were fighting an uphill battle. After all, taking on Area 51 is not easy, but it was a hill they were determined to climb no matter what. They did so with a man named Jonathan Turley, who was intent on doing his utmost to bring justice to the families. As a law professor at George Washington University, Turley was the ideal person to not just get the ball rolling but also to hopefully see the government do the right thing. It should come as no surprise to learn that the battle wasn’t just uphill, it was practically vertical.
As we have seen, the huge Nevada Test and Training Range not only is home to numerous facilities, it’s also a place at which a variety of agencies have installations. Among those agencies are the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The story goes like this: Robert Frost and Walter Kasza were just two of an unclear number of people who died as a result of their work at Area 51, although admittedly it’s impossible to know how many more might have died without their surviving relatives having any inkling that those same deaths had a link to the work they performed at Area 51.
You will recall that on a number of occasions at Area 51, various secret aircraft—which crashed on the range—were buried deeply and far away from the prying eyes of Russian spy satellites, but it wasn’t just aircraft that were being buried. It was also potentially deadly chemicals that had been used for a variety of operations. Incredibly, those tasked with disposing of the chemical waste were ordered to burn the chemicals in large, open holes in the ground— which were later covered over—but it was the burning process that caused all of the problems.
Those problems involved issues with the victims’ livers as well as their skin: blisters, rashes, and more were just the start of it. Some of the chemicals found in the bodies of those who died were dioxins. If you aren’t familiar with what dioxins are, let me help make it clear. Agent Orange, controversially used in the Vietnam War, is a dioxin. Dangerous and deadly are its calling cards.
Trichloroethylene is generally used as a solvent, but it can cause significant damage to the nervous system and provoke arrhythmia—an irregular heartbeat which, in extreme situations, can cause a heart attack and even death. A third chemical found to be in the bodies of the men was dibenzofuran, an organic compound. Polychlorinated dibenzofurans are particularly dangerous. They are mutagens, which can cause terrible mutations in the growing babies of pregnant women and can mutate cells to a dangerous degree.
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