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CIA papers reveal that Area 51 does exist

Declassified CIA documents provide proof that Area 51 is a real place, but there is no mention of UFOs.

FOR THE FIRST time the CIA is acknowledging the existence of Area 51. The top-secret military test site has been the subject of elaborate conspiracy theories about aliens and spaceships for decades.

Recently declassified documents have mentioned the sites existence, though there’s no mention in the papers of UFO crashes or extraterrestrials.

Area 51 is mentioned by name in the CIA papers and describes some of the activities that took place there. The documents also describes some planes that were present at the site, but there is no mention of any alien crafts.

CIA documents

The records were released following a public records request by the George Washington University’s National Security Archive.  They hoped to obtain the CIA information on Area 51′s most secret Cold War projects, the U-2 spy plane program.

National Security Archive senior fellow Jeffrey Richelson first reviewed the history in 2002, but all mentions of Area 51 had been redacted. So he requested the history again in 2005, hoping for more information. He received a version a few weeks ago with the mentions of Area 51 restored.

Conspiracy theories

The report is unlikely to stop the conspiracy theories as the 407-page document still contains many redactions.

The site is known as Area 51 among UFO aficionados because that was the base’s designation on old Nevada test site maps.

The most famous conspiracy theory linked to Area 51 is that the base is holding evidence from the Roswell incident – the alleged 1947 crash of a UFO in New Mexico.

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    Mute Muiris Ó Cluanaigh
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    May 24th 2013, 11:07 AM

    I had a RTA with a 80 year old woman not so long ago! She pulled straight off a cross in front of me in her Nisan micra! I was driving a jeep and towing a trailer and was doing 70k as I was in no rush! If I had been driving my car it could have been worse as I’d be doing speed limit!

    Thankfully there were no injuries the lady was shook and her car wrote off she said she thought I was further back! She paid for all damage to jeep and vowed never to drive again! When I look back I thank god it was me and not a lorry or a motor bike who she pulled in front of as it could have been worse.

    A few weeks later while driving in traffic a old man drove across a corner and ploughed into a car in front if me! He never took the corner and thankfully no one was hurt! He said he couldn’t remember it! The lady he hit had children in the car!

    Maybe people should be tested in some way at that age to see if they are capable of driving! Incase they are a danger to themselves or others! Then again the way people are driving now a days we all should be tested!

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    Mute John Hayes
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    May 24th 2013, 2:54 PM

    Muiris you meet a lot of accidents i shan’t be taking a lift with you sir.

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    Mute Ciaran McCann
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    May 24th 2013, 10:12 AM

    I’ll answer all of the above- it’s hard enough for for a guy my age to drive at 2 am on the morning. One reason is vision, the next fatigue! So anyone who questions why an 80 year old is on the road at that time is perfectly right to! An no, your driving licence doesn’t state what time you can drive between, but remember politicians down in Kerry pushing for the drink limit increase so elderly and people in rural areas can socialise! I don’t think anyone would phone an 80 year old at 2am for a helping hand and ask him or her to drive themselves to the destination. Let’s get the facts, which we won’t-Was he drink driving??

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    May 24th 2013, 11:57 AM

    What a ridiculous statement the whole lot of it …. Stay in school

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    Mute Ciaran McCann
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    May 24th 2013, 12:58 PM

    If that’s the sum of “Your thoughts” you may change your name!!

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    Mute On Raglan Road
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    May 24th 2013, 4:07 PM

    Ciaran. If your vision is poor, poor enough to fail an eye test you should do the decent thing and hand in your license.

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    Mute Larry Ryan
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    May 24th 2013, 8:07 PM

    @ciaran. I’m thinking this man was on the way to a Dublin hospital to visit his partner. I met him last night. He didn’t appear to have been drinking to me. RIP Martin.

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    Mute Ciaran McCann
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    May 24th 2013, 11:31 PM

    Night vision you clown@ raglan road

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    Mute On Raglan Road
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    May 25th 2013, 2:26 AM

    So are you going to apply for a daylight driving license? or an early bird license? or a sunny and bright license? Uncle Albert if your vision is poor just keep off the road, If you got a few slices removed you would be as thick as that Kerry idiot!

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    Mute Stephen McMahon
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    May 24th 2013, 8:27 AM

    Rip. Wonder why an 80 year old was driving at 2am?

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    Mute iwantjustice5
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    May 24th 2013, 9:00 AM

    @Stephen “There is a speed limit on our roads, not a time limit!”

    R.I.P to this Gentleman

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    May 24th 2013, 9:59 AM

    @Stephen
    … I wonder why it is any of your business why he was driving at 2am…. Maybe he was going to the airport or the hospital maybe he got a call and wanted to help someone…. Maybe he was In the pub all night but only drank water… Why does it matter where he was going at 2am?

    -RIP-

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    Mute Stephen McMahon
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    May 24th 2013, 10:38 AM

    Ok have it your way. Only boring, basic, informative posts now. No questions, no queries, no supposition, no interest. Dry boring people ye really are.

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    May 24th 2013, 10:52 AM

    Articles regarding RTA’s are not usually a place of debate.
    Unless u know something about the road conditions in that area it’s frankly none of your business what happened in that accident. That’s just my own personal ‘boring’ view of course.

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    Mute richardmccarthy
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    May 24th 2013, 11:23 AM

    I asked myself the same thing until it dawned on me, that a man i knew who was over 88 was still driving to do the shopping,in a busy town in daylight mind,even though he could have availed of free dilevery,for some freedom is just too hard to give up,even if you are nearly ninty

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    May 24th 2013, 12:03 PM

    We all like our independence and no matter what age we are…. We all hold the right to be independent.

    If he was claiming for a career off the state to chauffeur him around he would be slated that way too….

    The elderly get treated so badly in this country all because they are old and vulnerable.

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    May 24th 2013, 12:04 PM

    Remember- we will all get old some day…. I’d like to see your license taken from you at 80 if your in good health and independent ….

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    Mute Ciaran McCann
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    May 24th 2013, 1:00 PM

    That’s the point Richard, IN DAYLIGHT!

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    Mute John Collins
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    May 24th 2013, 1:28 PM

    Quit. Uve no argument here

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    Mute Brian Daly
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    May 24th 2013, 11:35 AM

    Tipperary people – There seems to be quite a few incidents on this stretch of the M8 particularly around those junctions (J11 and J12). What seems to be the problem there?

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    Mute Stephen O'Connell
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    May 24th 2013, 2:02 PM

    I do this drive on a regular basis. This particular stretch of road is winding and there is a temp speed limit of 80 and constant signs telling people to slow down in bad weather. I doesn’t surprise me one bit

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    Mute Deirdre O'Connor
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    May 24th 2013, 2:08 PM

    Me too Stephen. Camber of the road feels a bit odd.

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    Mute Vinny O Brien
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    May 24th 2013, 9:26 PM

    @larry he couldnt of been goin to a dublin hospital as he was heading southbound heading towards cork and @brian daly around where accident occurred you can see from old dublin road by glengarra woods theres a long sweep corner there with bad dip in middle of it

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    Mute Vinny O Brien
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    May 24th 2013, 10:50 PM

    Ya thats what we all hearing here too question is how did drive bout 3-4miles up wrongside without someone noticing

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