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Under Soviet Satellites, How Area 51 Hid (And Invented) Secret Craft
An anonymous reader writes "No word yet on alien starships, but now that many Cold War-era Area 51 documents have been declassified, veterans of the secret US base are revealing some of the clever — and surprisingly low-tech — ways they hid futuristic prototypes from prying eyes."
Roofs?
Why was it called Area 51?
Because calling it "CIA Secret Aircraft Research Area" might have given the wrong idea to the Soviets?
John
If you think about it, it makes perfect sense that you would get a black hole from reading too much about Area51.
Those alien defense systems are pretty good.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Perhaps hiring Sony's IT dept wasn't such a good idea after all...
I've got better things to do tonight than die.
IT'S A TARP!
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
What's up with the deserts?
Are alien UFO:s prone to rust or something?
It's hard to hide secret airbases in downtown Manhattan.
Not according to that documentary I saw several years ago. You know, the one with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.