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SUBJECT: THE MYSTERY AT GROOM LAKE FILE: UFO2944
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The following article appeared in _Newsweek_, Nov. 1, 1993, p. 4.
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The Mystery at Groom Lake
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IS THE AIR FORCE TESTING A new supersecret aircraft, code-named "Aurora," at
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its Groom Lake facility in Nevada? The air force denies the existence of such
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a project. But NEWSWEEK has learned that Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall on
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Sept. 30 asked Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to close 3,900 acres of public
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land in Lincoln County, Nev., for the "safe and secure operation of activities
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on the Nellis Range."
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Why? In recent months reporters and aviation buffs have stationed
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themselves on two hills on the land, which overlooks Nellis' top-secret Groom
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Lake, known inside the air force as Area 51. They say they've seen up to six
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Boeing 737 commuter jets a day flying workers in from Palmdale and Burbank,
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Calif., and from Las Vegas. And they report night flights of a craft that,
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judging from its lights, has extraordinary maneuverability.
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Now Widnall has moved to shut down the Groom Lake bleachers. The hills are
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part of the 3,900-acre tract she's asked Babbitt to close off. An air force
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spokeswoman confirmed Widnall's request. At Interior, a spokeswoman said: "We
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gather the air force wants the land to create a visual barrier, a buffer to
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keep the public from looking into part of the Nellis Range the air force wants
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to keep secure."
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Aviation expert Bill Sweetman, who's written a new book on the "Aurora"
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mystery, notes that the remote Groom Lake facility is so costly to operate that
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the air force generally uses other bases for its standard secret projects. "So
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what's going on at Groom Lake that Widnall has been persuaded she must hide?"
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he asks.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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