Area 51 De-Classified

[DJR210]

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/area-51-its-purpose-declassified-no-ufos-lots-u-2-6C10931555

[DMC]

Cool, now about that UAV training base in the mountains of Utah...

[lefty]

Cool, now about that UAV training base in the mountains of Utah...
Is it related to that famous ranch ?

[DMC]

Is it related to that famous ranch ?

By marriage I think.

[lefty]

ha

[lefty]

Skinwalker RanchFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Coordinates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/WMA_button2b.png/17px-WMA_button2b.png40°15′29.37″N 109°53′18.21″W (http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Skinwalker_Ranch&params=40_15_29.37_N_109_53_18.21_W_)According to local legend, Skinwalker Ranch, also known as Sherman Ranch, is a property located on approximately 480 acres (1.9 km2) southeast of Ballard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballard,_Utah), Utah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah) that is allegedly the site ofparanormal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal) and UFO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO)-related activities. Its name is taken from the skin-walker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker) of Native American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States) legend.
Claims about the ranch first appeared in the Salt Lake City, Utah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City,_Utah) Deseret News (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_News),[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch#cite_note-Van_Eyck-1) and later in the alternative weekly Las Vegas Mercury (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Mercury) as a series of articles by journalist George Knapp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Knapp_(journalist)). Knapp and co-author Colm Kelleher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm_Kelleher) subsequently authored a book[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch#cite_note-Kelleher-2) in which they describe the ranch being acquired by the National Institute for Discovery Science (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Discovery_Science) (NIDSci) to study anecdotal sightings of UFOs, bigfoot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot)-like creatures, crop circles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_circles), glowing orbs and poltergeist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist) activity reported by its former owners.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch#cite_note-Griggs-3)
The ranch, located in west Uintah County (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uintah_County) bordering the Ute Indian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_Indian) Reservation, was popularly dubbed the "UFO ranch" due to its ostensible 50-year history of odd events said to have taken place there. According to Kelleher and Knapp, they saw or investigated evidence of close to 100 incidents that include vanishing and mutilated cattle, sightings of unidentified flying objects or orbs, large animals with piercing yellow eyes that they say were not injured when struck by bullets, and invisible objects emitting destructive magnetic fields. Among those involved were retired Army ColonelJohn B. Alexander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Alexander) who characterized the NIDSci effort as an attempt to get hard data using a "standard scientific approach".[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch#cite_note-DeseretNews-4) However, the investigators admitted to "difficulty obtaining evidence consistent with scientific publication." Cattle mutilations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation) have been part of the folklore of the surrounding area for decades, but NIDSci founder Robert Bigelow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bigelow)'s purchase of the ranch and investigation funding was reportedly the result of his being convinced by stories of mutilations that included tales of strange lights and unusual impressions made in grass and soil told by the family of former ranch owner Terry Sherman.[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch#cite_note-ModestoBee-5)
In 1996, skeptic James Randi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi) awarded Bigelow a Pigasus Award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigasus_Award) for funding purchase of the property for what he termed a "useless study" of "a 'haunted ranch' in Utah".[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch#cite_note-JREF-6)
A film, titled Skinwalker Ranch, was released in 2013, and is very loosely based on the folklore behind the ranch.[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch#cite_note-7)

[lil'mo]

No ufo's but u-2 spy planes, oh ok, guess we can close the book on that one then :rolleyes

government is so stupid

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

And here I thought Skinwalker Ranch was just George Lucas' nudist colony.

[lefty]

And here I thought Skinwalker Ranch was just George Lucas' nudist colony.
:lol

[DJR210]

I wonder if the Stealthhawk was being tested before it was used in the raid to kill OBL..

De-classified or not the site still has crazy security measures, Google can't take pictures of it, and if you approach the perimeter you still risk being arrested or killed.