{"id":1247,"date":"2019-04-09T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2019-08-02T17:37:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:37:43","slug":"area-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/area-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Area 51 &#8211; Declassified Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>Area 51 is a nickname for a military base located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States (83 miles north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas). Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large secretive military airfield. The base&#8217;s primary purpose is to support development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the 2013 story that Area 51 was finally officially acknowledged, is incorrect. Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I received back in 2001 an official document explaining Area 51 by the Department of Energy. In 2004, I obtained another from the Central Intelligence Agency acknowledging Area 51.<\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documents\/ufos\/area51\/area51.pdf\">Area 51 &#8211; The Department of Energy Explanation<\/a>\u00a0[4 Pages, 1MB] &#8211; This document was released to The Black Vault in July of 2001<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/ufos\/Area51Admission.pdf\">The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 1992<\/a> [407 Pages, 64.9MB] \u00a0(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The National Security Archive<\/a>) &#8211; This is the document that made headlines as being the &#8220;first ever&#8221; admission that Area 51 existed. As we can see with the above, the entire media conglomerate WORLDWIDE is reporting incorrect facts. We&#8217;ve known (officially) about it&#8217;s existence for YEARS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/ufos\/area51-cia.pdf\">The CIA Records pertaining to the declassification of the above document<\/a>\u00a0[3 Pages, 0.7MB]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/cia\/DOC_0005632352.pdf\">Return of Wreckage of A-12 #125 to Area 51, 10 January 1967<\/a> [1 Pages, 0.8MB]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/cia\/CIA-RDP90B00184R000100020001-6.pdf\">1129th USAF Special Activities Squadron, Station Report, Las Vegas, Nevada and Area 51, March 1964<\/a> [14 Pages, 1.4MB]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/cia\/CIA-RDP81B00879R001000120005-7.pdf\">Discussions with the Commander of Area 51, 26 July 1963<\/a>\u00a0[5 Pages, 0.8MB]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documents\/nro\/Area51AerialObservation.pdf\">Area 51 Aerial Observation, 6 April 1962<\/a>\u00a0[1 Page, 0.5MB] &#8211; This document was released to The Black Vault in May of 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background Area 51 is a nickname for a military base located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States (83 miles north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas). Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large secretive military airfield. The base&#8217;s primary purpose is to support development and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,32],"tags":[615,235,296],"class_list":{"0":"post-1247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-military-defense","8":"category-the-fringe","9":"category-ufo-phenomena","10":"tag-area-51","11":"tag-military","12":"tag-ufo"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wfm_x51_area51_warningsign.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}