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CIA Unlocks Real 'X-Files'

Military personnel laugh off UFO rumors

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(Newser) – For decades, the government barely acknowledged the existence of Area 51, the mysterious military base in Nevada where it allegedly stores frozen extraterrestrials and alien spacecraft. But now, with the CIA declassifying the site’s top-secret programs, insiders are coming forward to dispel the myths, ABC News reports. If anything, “we were the UFOs,” said a former engineer at Area 51.

He said he believes the alien rumors began after military personnel conducted test flights of a spy plane, causing observers to see flashes of light. “Area 51 was the most boring place I ever worked,” he added. But a leading UFOlogist said while the account may be true, the engineer and his colleagues likely “wouldn't know if there was something going on.”

This photo taken in December 2006 at the Area 51 exhibit at the Alien Zone in Roswell, N.M., shows a staged alien autopsy.
This photo taken in December 2006 at the Area 51 exhibit at the Alien Zone in Roswell, N.M., shows a staged alien autopsy.   (AP Photo/Justin Norton)
A warning sign marks the boundary of Area 51, March 12, 2000 in Rachel, Nevada. This sleepy Nevada town is located just a stone's throw from the secret U.S. military base known as Area 51.
A warning sign marks the boundary of Area 51, March 12, 2000 in Rachel, Nevada. This sleepy Nevada town is located just a stone's throw from the secret U.S. military base known as Area 51.   (Getty Images)
In this image released by 20th Century Fox, David Duchovny, left, and Gillian Anderson are shown in a scene from,
In this image released by 20th Century Fox, David Duchovny, left, and Gillian Anderson are shown in a scene from, "The X-Files: I Want to Believe."   (AP Photo/20th Century Fox, Diyah Pera)
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National security has a real place in all of this stuff. There is no way to tell your friends without telling your enemies. A lot of Americans woke up to the fact that there's a lot going on that they don't get told about. - Stanton Friedman, UFO researcher

No one really knew we existed. Even our wives didn't know where we were going when we left Monday morning and came back Friday evening. - Thornton "T.D." Barnes, former special-projects engineer

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AnnieChrist
Apr 10, 09 1:33 PM CDT
Aliens are coming to take our jobs, hopefully they only take those jobs that earthlings won't do. Someone call lou dobbs! Reply
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Apr 10, 09 2:04 PM CDT
Sure, because the same government who lies to me about, WMD's, Friendly Fire incidents, can be trusted to tell me what they are really doing on a remote secret base. LMAO. Reply
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