Click2Flicks - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Chapter 6

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>INDIANA JONES and the<br> KINGDOM of the CRYSTAL SKULL</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 6 - ROSWELL and AREA 51</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">On the 7th of July, 1947, the public information office at Roswell Army Air Field (in Roswell, New Mexico) <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/roswell.html"><b>reported</b></a> “the crash and recovery of a <a target="_blank" href="images/flying_disc_report_sacramento.bee_8.July.1947_courtesy_lawrence.berkeley.lab_u.c.berkeley.jpg"><b>flying disc</b></a>.” </p> <p>The next day, Roger M. Ramey (the Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force, based in Fort Worth, Texas) announced (inaccurately) that <a target="_blank" href="images/the_remains_ramey.and.jesse.marcel_remains_courtesy_sp.col.div.u.texas.at.arlington.jpg"><b>the remains</b></a> were of a radar-tracking <a target="_blank" href="images/weather_balloon_courtesy_noaa_image.nssl0020.jpg"><b>weather balloon</b></a>,  not a “<a target="_blank" href="images/flying_disc_roswell.daily.record_july.8.1947_courtesy_lawrence.berkeley.lab_u.c.berkeley.jpg"><b>flying disc</b></a>.”  Ever since, people have speculated what really happened during the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUlCBY-K9A8"><b>summer of 1947</b></a>.  </p> <p>Deepening the public’s suspicions about “<a target="_blank" href="http://www.jessemarcelsr.com/Roswell_Crash_Timeline.html"><b>flying discs</b></a>” is a highly protected area at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Is “alien research” taking place at Area 51? Are there flying saucers, or similar vehicles, inside a hanger there? Does Groom Lake Air Force Base, in the same <a target="_blank" href="images/general_location_map_courtesy_wikipedia.png"><b>general location</b></a>,  actually <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ufomind.com/area51/articles/1996/60min_960317.html"><b>exist</b></a>? </p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpaPMA8A2js"><b>According</b></a> to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM-jJ5Itdns"><b>individuals</b></a> who <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZMknyT88_o"><b>claim</b></a> to have <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u_Uq3AVNUg"><b>worked for</b></a> the government <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asIkhVCMO9o"><b>at</b></a> those <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtb9BW5bgP4"><b>facilities</b></a>,  and are <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EnKXELzAVI"><b>interviewed</b></a> in a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbLEMoyXB1g"><b>film</b></a> entitled <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEPSFK3WoOg"><b><i>Dreamland</b></i></a> (another name for Area 51), the answer is yes. Can we believe what they say? (These links are clips from the film.)</p> <p>One thing is clear. An exclusion zone, outside the base, stretches about twenty-six miles. Signs are posted to keep out, with <a target="_blank" href="images/warnings_courtesy_GFDL_flickr.user.x51.jpg"><b>warnings</b></a> that <a target="_blank" href="images/deadly_force_photo_courtesy_area51zone.com"><b>deadly force</b></a> will be used against trespassers, if needed. Anyone who gets close to the restricted zone, including in the air, will soon realize they are being watched by security personnel and well-positioned screening devices. </p> <p>Historically, the government has not acknowledged that Area 51 exists. Military personnel do not provide information when presented with questions. Until very recently, the Groom Lake airport did not have its own identifying code. </p> <p>It is fair to wonder ... if there is anything to the rumors that extraterrestrials have been examined at Area 51, how could the facts remain hidden for so long? Was <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bluebookarchive.org/documentation/about_pbb.aspx"><b><i>Project Blue Book</b></i></a> - ordered by President Truman - a genuine attempt to research <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtb9BW5bgP4"><b>the public’s concerns</b></a> about UFOs and aliens? Although that project officially ended in January of 1970, is the American government <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EnKXELzAVI"><b>still investigating</b></a> this subject? Or ... is this part of Nevada simply used to research and test new U.S. military weapons, such as sophisticated planes? </p> <p>Further ... was <i>Project Mogul</i> (an effort to monitor the Soviet Union’s progress in developing nuclear weapons) the <a target="_blank" href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E7DB113BF93BA2575AC0A962958260"><b>real reason</b></a> for the Roswell “flying disc?” Might new, currently top-secret weapons, also <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbLEMoyXB1g"><b>look like flying saucers</b></a>?  And ... is the Russian government building <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEPSFK3WoOg"><b>something similar</b></a>? </p> <p>At the end of the analysis, based on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEPSFK3WoOg"><b>personal accounts</b></a> and publically available <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9706/24/ufo.presser/"><b>evidence</b></a>,  we are still left with <a target="_blank" href="http://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/physics10/Roswell/USMogulReport.html"><b>unanswered questions</b></a> and lots of speculation. 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