Could it be that this is also what happened at Area 51 with Bob Lazar? Was everything he saw a charade? Lazar believes not, and suggests that one of the key arguments against such a scenario is that it’s wholly implausible to imagine that the permanent stabilization of Element 115—or, as it’s officially known, Ununpentium, an incredibly heavy element in the periodic table — could be achieved on Earth. In 2004, however, Russian scientists from the Dubna-based Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, along with U.S. colleagues at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, reported that they had achieved very brief synthesis of Element 115. Can we, therefore, completely rule out the possibility that someone else has secretly achieved long-term synthesis? If so, perhaps they did not originate in some far-away galaxy, but from Nevada — at Area 51’s S-4.
Spy Game
It is a matter of historical record that, particularly from the mid-1980s onward, when the Air Force — by its own admission — illegally grabbed nearly 90,000 acres of open Nevada land as a means to further restrict public access to Area 51, Russian spies were quietly checking out the area, attempting to bribe base personnel into spilling the secrets of what was really going on at that mysterious installation. There were serious concerns, acknowledged openly by Walter Bosley, that members of the UFO research community might be clandestinely exploited by the Russians as a means to uncover the truth about the United States’s secret-aircraft programs.
Gerald Haines, a historian of the National Reconnaissance Office, said, with respect to CIA involvement in UFO investigations in the 1980s, “Agency analysts officially devoted a small amount of their time to issues relating to UFOs. These included counterintelligence concerns that the Soviets and the KGB were using U.S. citizens and UFO groups to obtain information on sensitive U.S. weapons development programs (such as the Stealth aircraft).”[3]
In that case, there might very well have been a great deal of motivation for Area 51 staff to briefly hire a somewhat maverick character like Lazar to act as the fall guy for an elaborate scheme in which they expose the man to what he is led to believe are alien craft. Because they had done background checks on Lazar and his character, they could guess that he would probably be unable to resist talking about such monumental issues, so they wait patiently until he decides to go public. But maybe Lazar doesn’t talk quite as quickly as the S-4 guys might have anticipated or preferred, so they initiate a mock assassination attempt to speed things up — one that was never intended to physically harm Lazar at all, but was certainly designed to scare the you-know-what out of him, and ensure that he quickly went running to some outfit like KLAS-TV. Then, the alien story is out, wildly circulating among the media and the UFO research community, and there’s no turning back.
Then, with tales of UFOs at the base circulating here, there, and everywhere, Area 51 security personnel sit back and wait to see if anyone named Boris or Ivan starts poking their noses around, attempting to bribe both Area 51 employees and UFO researchers with links to the aviation industry as a means to learn more about what’s afoot at Area 51. Then, like a spider moving in on a fly, American agents quickly pounce. Boris and Ivan have been ingeniously lured into a complicated web as a result of Lazar’s revelations, arrests have been made, and — here’s the most important issue of all—no legitimate secrets have been compromised in the process.
So in this theory, the saucers were not alien craft, and the revelations of Lazar were not accurate. But the attempts of the Russians to learn the secrets of Area 51’s super-classified aircraft — such as Aurora—were all too real, and the U.S. government’s real secrets were successfully protected by a complex UFO-themed smokescreen. That the Russians may have been foiled by a brilliantly executed plan involving spurious data on UFOs, aliens, and extraterrestrial technology, with the involvement of Bob Lazar — quite possibly the biggest unknowing patsy since Lee Harvey Oswald himself — is, in many ways, even stranger and more sensational than the notion that Area 51 might really be home to nine crashed (or donated) UFOs from a world far, far away.
It is important to note that even Lazar himself admitted that, while he was at S-4, the base personnel played “so many mind games there.”[4] Those five words — which probably remain unappreciated by most that have followed his story — just might have been Lazar’s most revealing words of all.
Then again, perhaps Lazar really was speaking the literal truth from the very beginning: Maybe, while the gamblers are systematically drained of their dollars and the strippers bleed dry those who prefer to spend their money in more entertaining ways, as the bright lights of the city forever flash with a hypnotic allure in downtown Las Vegas, fewer than 100 miles away, those nine flying saucers still sit in that classified base known as Area 51, their amazing secrets known only to a select few — one of whom, just maybe, for a brief time in the late 1980s, was Robert Scott Lazar.
C-2
Close Encounters of the Underground Kind
During the early 1950s, my father, Frank Redfern, served with the British Royal Air Force as a radar mechanic, and was involved in a series of extraordinary UFO incidents that occurred throughout the course of three days and nights during the latter part of September 1952. The encounters took place at the height of a military exercise code-named Mainbrace, and involved a number of fast-moving, unidentified targets that were tracked over-flying the North Sea by radar operators at RAF Neatishead, Norfolk, England, for several days. The aerial encounters mystified the finest minds of the Air Ministry’s scientific and technical personnel.
When my father related this story to me I was barely 13 years old; it proved to be a key turning point in my life and ultimately led me on a continuing quest to determine the strange truth that lies behind the UFO puzzle. I made mention of my father’s experience in my first book, A Covert Agenda, which hit the bookstores in late 1997. Following its publication, a number of important sources came forward to corroborate the remarkable events of September 1952—including a man named Bill Maguire, who had enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 1950. To say that Maguire had an interesting story to tell of a Top Secret facility is quite an understatement.
Bill Maguire
For a brief period in September 1952, at the height of Operation Mainbrace, Maguire was holed up in a Top Secret military facility buried far below the English countryside. It was hardly of conventional proportions: The entrance-point was a metal hatch that sat atop a small mound in the middle of a normal-looking field near RAF Sandwich, in the county of Kent. Maguire was afforded a truly astonishing, firsthand taste of just one of many government-controlled underground lairs that secretly dominate the world below our very feet. As he lowered himself into the entrance-point, Maguire was confronted by a staircase that descended for approximately half a mile into a huge room populated by more than a hundred people, all frantically involved in tracking something sensational on the huge wall of radar screens that dominated the room.