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Bush reissues order keeping Nevada site secret
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Bush reissues order keeping Nevada site secret
By Alex Johnson

Sept. 18 — For more than four decades, an unusual
alliance of mainstream lawyers, conspiracy
theorists and UFO enthusiasts has tried to find
out just what is going on at Groom Lake, Nev.
— the top-security Air Force facility better
known to fans of “The X-Files” as Area 51. Now
they will have to wait at least another year after
President Bush reissued an executive order
Wednesday barring the disclosure of any
information about the site.

IN THE CONTINUATION of a drama played out
every Sept. 18 since 1995, Bush signed the order to make
sure that lawyers pursuing hazardous-waste claims against
the Environmental Protection Agency could not get their
hands on classified information about the site, which lies in
the middle of a remote stretch of desert 100 miles north of
Las Vegas.
The government did not even acknowledge the existence
of the site until the mid-1990s, when it had to begin
responding to workers’ claims of injuries resulting from
hazardous waste practices.
Even now, all the Air Force will say is that the area is
used “for the testing of technologies and systems training for
operations critical to the effectiveness of U.S. military forces
and the security of the United States.” It insists that “specific
activities and operations ... both past and present, remain
classified and cannot be discussed.”
Although exasperated government lawyers say nothing
nefarious is going on at Groom Lake, they have gone to
herculean lengths to make sure no one knows what is going
on at Groom Lake.
President Dwight Eisenhower began the process all the
way back in 1955, when he issued an executive order
restricting airspace over the site. Then, in 1995, President Bill
Clinton raised the stakes by issuing an order clamping down
on discussion or release of any information whatsoever.
That was about the time attorneys for former
government workers began taking their rejected medical
claims to court. Those lawyers believe the government is
trying to keep the site secret to avoid having to admit it
mishandled hazardous materials, exposing the workers to
toxic fumes when it allegedly dumped poisonous resins into
open pits and burned them in the 1970s and ’80s.
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THE ULTIMATE COVER-UP?
There is another group, however, that thinks something
else entirely is going on at Groom Lake — something spooky,
something otherworldly.
To this group, the site is known as Area 51, the nexus of
the greatest government cover-up in history. It is, they say,
where the government studies alien spaceships, where it
keeps captured unidentified flying objects stored in
underground bases, and where it conducts autopsies on
aliens.
Writers for “The X-Files” were able to dredge up
numerous scripts from stories that have built up since May
1989, when a physicist named Bob Lazar told a Las Vegas
television station about nine alien flying saucers he said were
being held near Groom Lake by a rogue agency of the
federal government.
Lazar claimed that the government was studying the
propulsion system of the spacecraft, which were flown to
Earth from the Zeta Reticuli star system. According to Lazar,
the Reticulans have been overseeing human evolution for a
hundred centuries, and since they were found out, they have
been cooperating with the U.S. government on a direct
exchange of technology.







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The government, to the extent that it has commented at
all, says Lazar’s account is utter nonsense.
More prosaically, mainstream scientists suggest, the
government simply wishes to limit its liability as it establishes
the Nevada Test Site at nearby Yucca Mountain as a
storage repository for hazardous nuclear waste. Those
alleging an extraterrestrial conspiracy say instead that Yucca
Mountain was chosen precisely so federal researchers could
have unfettered access to its stored nuclear energy sources
via a secret underground tunnel.
In any event, the government has argued that it cannot
say anything about Area 51, and it has fought workers’
lawyers zealously in court to keep government documents
about the site sealed. One of those lawyers, Jonathan Turley
of George Washington University, described the courtroom
jousting with federal lawyers as “otherworldly.” And every
year since Clinton issued his executive order in 1995, the
White House has reaffirmed the cloak of secrecy on Sept.
18.
Presumably, as Agent Mulder would have it, “the truth
is out there.”
Just don’t ask the president.
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