Man and Mystery v06 Mysterious Planet by Pablo C Agsalud Jr Rev 06.pdf

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A collection of intriguing topics and fascinating stories
about the rare, the paranormal, and the strange
Mysterious Planet
Volume 6
Discover nature’s weirdest and longest-lived creatures.
Jump into the world of lost civilizations and extinct animal kingdom.
Discover mysterious places and bizarre natural phenomenon.
Pablo C. Agsalud Jr.
Revision 6
Foreword
In the past, things like
television,
and words and
ideas like
advertising, capitalism, microwave
and
cancer
all seemed too strange for the ordinary
man.
As man walks towards the future, overloaded with
information, more mysteries have been solved
through the wonders of science. Although some
things remained too odd for science to reproduce
or disprove, man had placed them in the gray
areas between
truth
and
skepticism
and labeled
them with terminologies fit for the modern age.
But the truth is, as long as the strange and
unexplainable cases keep piling up, the more likely
it would seem normal or natural. Answers are
always elusive and far too fewer than questions.
And yet, behind all the wonderful and frightening
phenomena around us, it is possible that what we
call
mysterious
today won’t be too strange
tomorrow.
This book might encourage you to believe or refute
what lies beyond your own understanding.
Nonetheless, I hope it will keep you entertained
and astonished.
The content of this book remains believable for as
long as the sources and/or the references from the
specified sources exist and that the validity of the
information remains unchallenged.
Mysterious Places on Earth
What mystery lies on Earth
and the ancient civilization who witnessed it?
Area 51
Wikipedia.org
Area 51 is a military base, and a remote detachment of
Edwards Air Force Base. It is located in the southern
portion of Nevada in the western United States, 83
miles (133 km) north-northwest of downtown Las
Vegas. Situated at its center, on the southern shore of
Groom Lake, is a large military airfield. The base's
primary purpose is to support development and testing
of experimental aircraft and weapons systems.
The base lies within the United States Air Force's vast
Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), formerly
called the Nellis Air Force Range (NAFR). Although the
facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base
Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility
appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Force Flight
Test Center (AFFTC) at Edwards Air Force Base in the
Mojave Desert, around 186 miles (300 km) southwest
of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force
Flight Test Center (Detachment 3).
Though the name Area 51 is used in official CIA documentation, other names used for the
facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home Base, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, and
most recently Homey Airport. The area is part of the Nellis Military Operations Area, and the
restricted airspace around the field is referred to as (R-4808N), known by the military pilots in
the area as "The Box" or "the Container".
The facility is not a conventional airbase, as frontline operational units are not normally
deployed there. It instead appears to be used for highly classified military/defense Special
Access Programs (SAP), which are unacknowledged publicly by the government, military
personnel, and defense contractors. Its mission may be to support the development, testing,
and training phases for new aircraft weapons systems or research projects. Once these
projects have been approved by the United States Air Force or other agencies such as the CIA,
and are ready to be announced to the public, operations of the aircraft are then moved to a
normal air force base. The intense secrecy surrounding the base, the very existence of which
the U.S. government did not even acknowledge until July 14, 2003, has made it the frequent
subject of conspiracy theories and a central component to unidentified flying object (UFO)
folklore.
U.S. government's positions on Area 51
The federal government explicitly concedes (in various court filings and government
directives) that the USAF has an "operating location" near Groom Lake, but does not provide
any further information.
Unlike much of the Nellis range, the area surrounding the lake is permanently off-limits both
to civilian and normal military air traffic. Radar stations protect the area, and unauthorized
personnel are quickly expelled. Even military pilots training in the NAFR risk disciplinary action
if they stray into the exclusionary "box" surrounding Groom's airspace.
Area 51 border and warning sign stating that
"photography is prohibited" and that "use of deadly
force is authorized" under the terms of the 1950
McCarran Internal Security Act. A government vehicle is
parked on the hilltop; from there, security agents
observe the approach to Groom Lake.
Perimeter security is provided by uniformed private
security
guards
working
for
EG&G's
security
subcontractor Wackenhut, who patrol in Humvees,
SUVs, and pickup trucks. The guards are armed with
M16s, but no violent encounters with Area 51 observers
have been reported; instead, the guards generally follow visitors near the perimeter and radio
for the Lincoln County Sheriff. Deadly force is authorized if violators who attempt to breach
the secured area fail to heed warnings to halt. Fines of around $600 seem to be the normal
course of action, although some visitors and journalists report receiving follow-up visits from
FBI agents. Some observers have been detained on public land for pointing camera equipment
at the base. Surveillance is supplemented using buried motion sensors.
The base does not appear on public U.S. government maps; the USGS topographic map for
the area only shows the long-disused Groom Mine. A civil aviation chart published by the
Nevada Department of Transportation shows a large restricted area, but defines it as part of
the Nellis restricted airspace. The official aeronautical navigation charts for the area show
Groom Lake but omit the airport facilities. Similarly the National Atlas page showing federal
lands in Nevada does not distinguish between the Groom block and other parts of the Nellis
range. Although officially declassified, the original film taken by U.S. Corona spy satellite in
the 1960s has been altered prior to declassification; in answer to freedom of information
queries, the government responds that these exposures (which map to Groom and the entire
NAFR) appear to have been destroyed. Terra satellite images (which were publicly available)
were removed from web servers (including Microsoft's TerraServer-USA) in 2004, and from
the monochrome 1 m resolution USGS data dump made publicly available. NASA Landsat 7
images are still available (these are used in the NASA World Wind). Higher resolution (and
more recent) images from other satellite imagery providers (including Russian providers and
the IKONOS) are commercially available. These show, in considerable detail, the runway
marking, base facilities, aircraft, and vehicles.
Although federal property within the base is exempt from state and local taxes, facilities
owned by private contractors are not. Area 51 researcher Glenn Campbell claimed in 1994
that the base only declares a taxable value of $2 million to the Lincoln County tax assessor,
who is unable to enter the area to perform an assessment.
When documents that mention the NTS and operations at Groom are declassified, mentions of
Area 51 and Groom Lake are routinely redacted. One notable exception is a 1967 memo from
CIA director Richard Helms regarding the deployment of three OXCART aircraft from Groom to
Kadena Air Base to perform reconnaissance over North Vietnam. Although most mentions of
OXCART's home base are redacted in this document, as is a map showing the aircraft's route
from there to Okinawa, the redactor appears to have missed one mention: p15 section #2
ends "Three OXCART aircraft and the necessary task force personnel will be deployed from
Area 51 to Kadena."

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