New testimonies about Area 51 – UFO Secrets – Medium

Annie Jacobsen is known in the US as an investigative reporter. Recently, she addressed the issue of the famous Area 51, a secret military area located 160 kilometers from Las Vegas in the Nevada desert between an Air Force base and an abandoned nuclear test site. Officially, Area 51 does not exist; it cannot be found in any document.

Those who approach this place are stopped and turned out of the way. Therefore, Area 51 has become one of the favorite themes of those who love conspiracy theories. They are convinced that captured UFOs are dismantled there, frozen bodies of aliens are kept there, and other secret underground bases can be reached through the tunnels.

Jacobsen, in search of the truth, collected the testimonies of five people he identified as having worked here. The first is Kenneth Collins, now 80, a former CIA test pilot. He had flown 51 top-secret planes in Aria. On May 24, 1963, due to a malfunction, the plane crashed over the state of Utah, and Collins ejected. He immediately drew the attention of the soldiers who came to retrieve him by telling them not to approach the wreckage, lying that there were nuclear weapons on board.

They were then interrogated and made to sign a confidentiality agreement. The accident was presented as that of an ordinary F-105, and that is how it appears today. Collins himself was interrogated, after being given an injection of sodium pentothal (“truth serum”), to make sure he hadn’t forgotten something to declare.

Edward Lovick, now 90, worked at Area 51 for thirty years as a radar operator. He emphasized that the place was chosen because the surface of the dry Groom Lake was excellent for testing secret planes such as the U-2, A-12 OXCART, or F-117. Colonel Hugh “Slip” Slater, 87, was even the commander of the military base at Area 51 in the sixties, after having been a CIA pilot on U-2 missions in China.

He said that after 1960, when the Russians shot down a U-2 spy plane over the city of Sverdlovsk, this plane was no longer a secret, but in Area 51, 200…