Aliens have been worried for centuries about visiting this planet, and the American Government are just trying to show them they do accept MasterCard.
Quote: "It was a spy-plane and they tried to cover it up by saying it was a UFO."
See, what's scarey about that is. People seem to believe the lies better than they believe the truth.
They don't want to believe that things are just secret government aircraft, they want to believe they're alien space-craft. Given the level of technology America have I highly doubt they have any recovered alient technology.
Think about it. Either they would've blown themselves up by now, suddenly jumped technologically with thier aircraft designs (and perhaps other areas of technology), or opened it up to the world.
After all the American government are known for spending money on worthless projects, but unless it gets reasonably quick results they scrap it. Just like they scrapped funding on Jet Engines given Pratt & Whitney couldn't get thiers to work until they stole technology from Rolls Royce.
By which point the government then refunded them. Thing is as far as alien technology goes, there is no way to gaurentee it'd ever work again. I mean think about it.
If you went back in time and gave some Roman a car, say a Ford Focus or something. What do you think he would do with it?
Without training you can't exactly understand how they work... well maybe an American version as they're all Automatic, but I mean how long did it take most people here to learn (with training) to change gears just so that you could get the car to move?
This is let alone understanding how it works and whatever. I mean we know how it works because of science, but thier science would be so far behind that they wouldn't even understand the concept of an explosion, let alone the gas expansion created from such things.
You've really got to think in the same terms with alien craft that could visit earth. This said, the Americans did claim to have landed on the Moon. Despite the fact that publically the understanding of how to achieve that without people dying is still not something we know how to do.
I dunno, it's just silly imo. From what I understand Area 51 itself is unhabitable given the radation fall-out (I mean you conspiricy nuts do realise why it's called Area 51 right?). The Groomlake Airbase itself is co-owned by Lockheed, where they've tested some of the most advaced US Military Aircraft Hardware. They may also test land hardware too. Who knows.
Personally I don't see the security they want with that base being tight because of ET crap. More because they don't feel like sharing the fact they might have a new Radar Impervious Fighter Jet or something.
Think about it, they used to test the F-117A there. The craft is black, oddly shaped, reflective, impervious to radar (or used to be) has the maneuverability of a fighter jet, yet also has some pretty ridiculous speed given it's payload design.
For all inteded purposes to anyone seeing it being tested in the 70s they would've seen a UFO. Cause they don't know what it is, and it would look alien. When it was unvieled in the 80s, people would've known what it looks like, and in the 90s footage of testing and information on it became more openly available given the Cold War was over and TNA were no longer really needed.
Think of it all in context really.
Still I guess ppl need hobbies.
