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Probably a good deal of that blur can be removed though - there are some stunningly detailed images of area 51 from 26 miles away taken through a telescope using multiple images to remove the atmospherics:
http://www.dreamlandresort.com/area51/panorama_0608.html

Naturally this would be a little more challenging with the ISS since it's moving pretty fast through the scope - probably need a motor drive on it to keep it steady.

Naah. The airplanes (the Janet flights out of Las Vegas' McCarran Airport) are just 737s. No logo, only an FAA Registration number and a red stripe along the side.

If you want to see more information about them go to Dreamland Resort and click on Area 51 FAQs on the left, then click on the link "What are the Janet flights?"

Rachel is located at the southern end of the Sand Springs Valley, an otherwise empty, bowl-shaped valley about 25 miles wide. To the northwest of town is a dry lake without a name, and to the west are the huge green circles of the Penoyer Farms, where alfalfa is grown using well water.

What if someone put a videocamera on a fast RC-model plane like http://www.powerlabs.org/images/planeandme.jpg
and flew over Area 51?

Should be able to get closer than Tikaboo Peak:
http://www.dreamlandresort.com/area51/panorama_090 1.html

Perhaps it would travel too fast for a good picture?

I agree to an extent. I don't see any problem with burying them, but at least, they could have labeled these better. Ie, a plate that says "It is unlawful to mess with this device. Offenders can be charged with multiple felonies, fined a ludicrous amount of money, and sent away to jail for the rest of their natural lives." I know that technology exists. Instead, we have stenciled on the side "US Government Property". Let me add that there's a lot of legally obtained nongovernment property with that stenciled on the side. Now there may have been other signs elsewhere that forbid such activity, but this still seems pretty weak legal warning.

Area 51 has many flights going in daily. Code named "Janet," these flights shuttle the base employees to and from work. Go to Dreamland Resort for more info.

Message posted by Joerg (Webmaster) on May 25, 2004 at 17:18:30 PST:

For the record: I was suckered into that interview under false pretenses. Only at the very end of the interview did Mr. Poulsen reveal the true nature of his article, namely to accuse my friend Chuck Clark of stealing one of the sensors. This is a lie, fabricated for a cheap story!

Upon learning this, I immediately requested that he not use my interview. Mr. Poulsen refused, hung up on me and since then does not return my calls or emails.

This is certainly not very good journalism, and I most certainly want to distance myself from the article, which is based on lies and speculation.

Although most of my experiences with the media were very positive, all it takes is one bad experience. In the future I will certainly be more reluctant to work with the media. A lesson Chuck has obviously learned long before me.

Message posted by Joerg (Webmaster) on May 25, 2004 at 17:18:30 PST:

For the record: I was suckered into that interview under false pretenses. Only at the very end of the interview did Mr. Poulsen reveal the true nature of his article, namely to accuse my friend Chuck Clark of stealing one of the sensors. This is a lie, fabricated for a cheap story!

Upon learning this, I immediately requested that he not use my interview. Mr. Poulsen refused, hung up on me and since then does not return my calls or emails.

This is certainly not very good journalism, and I most certainly want to distance myself from the article, which is based on lies and speculation.

Although most of my experiences with the media were very positive, all it takes is one bad experience. In the future I will certainly be more reluctant to work with the media. A lesson Chuck has obviously learned long before me.

Right. Since I couldn't find a map of the sensor locations on his website, one thought might be that the sensors are on the roads leading up to the base. Which, out in the Nevada desert, could easily be "miles away".
With a secure location, you'd want to know beforehand if someone was trying to enter. Not wait until they cut the fence.

Tell me that NORAD, Raven Rock, or Weather Mountain doesn't have motion sensors on the roads leading up to them...

http://www.dreamlandresort.com/area51/new_sensors. html

Third image on the page, clearly shows device, labled 'U.S Government Property'.

Neothermic

Correct Link: Correct Link

In this post on the Area 51 site linked to from the article, Joerg Arnu (one of the "hackers" in the article) claims that Poulsen lured him into the interview under false pretenses, then refused his requests not to use the interview, hung up on him, and didn't return any further messages. I haven't read much of Poulsen's stuff, but is this typical of him?

I'm so cool I had to reply to myself.

Cool pictures and stuff here.

Here is the link from the article to the photos of the sensors. Sensor Photos

The best source for current information about the happenings at Area 51 is Dreamland Resort.

In maybe a 10-year timeframe, spintronics will be on par with electronics

If the actually manage to go from idea to commerically competitive "spintronic" circuitry in only a decace, I'll consider that proof of some sort of space-alien technology transfer deal going on.

Every once and a while they take a bunch of people out to the facilities they built, then blew up at the Nevada nuclear testing sites. That's what I'd check out.