Area 51 Finally Acknowledged

Hi ya! How're you doing today, eh? Keeping a tight lid on things? Well, heck...let 'er loose. Fill your coffee mug and snag a virtual treat while I tell you why you'll have to be more careful than ever roaming around cyberspace. They're out there and you don't want to bump into anything...just in case, eh!

Officially it has never existed, but the truth about Area 51 is finally out there. For the first time ever, newly declassified CIA documents refer openly to the top secret parcel of land in central Nevada that has become the global focus of conspiracy theories, rumours of crashed UFOs, alien bodies and futuristic air force projects. 

The acknowledgement comes in a US government history of the U2 spy plane program, obtained by George Washington University's National Security Archive through a public records request. It includes an unredacted map of the secret site chosen to test the jet in the 1950s - but never identified on any government map.

Researcher Jeffrey Richelson first reviewed the history in 2002, but all mentions of Area 51 had been redacted. He requested the history again in 2005 and, after an eight year wait, he finally received it a few weeks ago with the references restored.

"President Eisenhower also approved the addition of this strip of wasteland, known by its map designation as Area 51, to the Nevada Test Site," the history reads. "The outlines of Area 51 are shown on current unclassified maps as a small rectangular area adjoining the northeast corner of the much larger Nevada Test Site. To make the new facility in the middle of nowhere sound more attractive to his workers, Kelly Johnson called it the Paradise Ranch, which was soon shortened to the Ranch."

Officials have already acknowledged in passing the existence of the facility, but Mr Richelson believes the new document shows the CIA is becoming less secretive about Area 51. 

Doo..doo...doo...doo...and I don't mean doggy doo-doo either. And they're still at it. Listen to this:

A senior White House official has insisted there is "no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth".

And in a blow to millions of conspiracy theorists, the member of Barack Obama's administration added there was no credible information to suggest evidence of alien life is being kept from the public.

The unusual comments were in response to several petitions lodged on a White House website.
Senior space policy official Phil Larson said: "The US government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race."

Uh-huh. Right. Exactly. If the government says so, it must be true, eh.  Or not. Doo..doo...doo...doo..

See ya, eh!

Bob