Keep Out!: Top Secret Places Governments Don’t Want You to Know About

206 Pages·2011·1.78 MB·English

by  Nick Redfern

Nick Redfern
Keep Out!: Top Secret Places
Governments Don't Want You to
Know About
For Ken Gerhard, a great friend and seeker of the
strange.
Acknowledgments
I would like to offer my very sincere thanks and deep appreciation to
everyone at New Page Books and Career Press, but, particularly, Michael Pye,
Laurie Kelly-Pye, Kirsten Dalley, Kara Kumpel, Gina Talucci, Jeff Piasky, and
Adam Schwartz; and to all the staff at Warwick Associates for their fine
promotion and publicity work. I would also like to say a very big “thank you” to
my agent, Lisa Hagan, for her constant great work and support.
Introduction
Area 51, Hangar 18, Montauk, Pine Gap, Fort Detrick, Rudloe Manor,
Zhitkur, Porton Down, the Dugway Proving Ground, and the Dulce Base: These
are just a handful of the many highly classified installations of which the
governments of the United States, Australia, China, Russia, the United
Kingdom, and elsewhere prefer we, the general public, remain steadfastly
ignorant. Those governments have extremely good reasons for wishing us to
remain in the dark. It is at these secret facilities that, for decades, clandestine
research is said to have been undertaken into lethal viruses, genetic
manipulation, crashed UFOs and deceased alien entities, biological warfare,
mind-control experimentation, futuristic aircraft and spacecraft, teleportation,
weather-modification, invisibility, time travel, and much, much more of a
conspiratorial and cosmic nature.
Whether situated deep under the oceans, far below the ground, or within the
heart of hidden, remote desert locales, these super-secret places are guarded with
paranoid zeal by those in power who wish to keep their secrets buried and locked
far away from prying eyes. Sometimes, however, the huge, steel, near-
impenetrable vault-like doors that help to hide the truths open wide — or are
forced open — and the shocking secrets within are revealed…
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The Ultimate Secret Base
We have to start somewhere on our quest for the truth about top-secret sites,
so it seems appropriate that our attentions should first focus upon the most
infamous of all classified installations. Can you guess its name? I strongly
suspect you can.
It all goes back to 1989, when a man by the name of Robert Scott Lazar went
public with a series of sensational claims that continue to reverberate to this day.
A self-admitted maverick scientist, Lazar asserted that for a brief period of time
in the late 1980s he was employed in a scientific capacity at an incredibly secret,
well-protected installation situated in the harsh wilds of the Nevada desert. The
program to which Lazar had been assigned was, he said, one of astonishing
proportions and profound implications: a clandestine operation to evaluate,
comprehend, and ultimately duplicate an impressive fleet of spacecraft of
nonhuman origin that had, quite literally, fallen into the hands of the U.S.
government — or, perhaps more accurately, into the sweaty palms of an elite
scientific body of officialdom that quite possibly was not answerable to the
presidential office. Yep, you read it right: According to Lazar, behind closed
doors, watched over 24/7 with a Shoot first and don’t even bother asking
questions later attitude, Uncle Sam was intensively researching real-life, honest-
to-goodness flying saucers — and maybe even their extraterrestrial crews as
well. Thus was born, or was exposed, the legend of Area 51.
Without doubt the definitive secret base, Area 51 is an installation composed
of a mass of huge, impenetrable hangars, mysterious underground chambers, and
winding, labyrinthine tunnels. The idea that such a place could at the same time
be both classified and widely recognized might sound like the ultimate
oxymoron, but it happens to be absolutely true. The U.S. government steadfastly
— and somewhat ridiculously, given that practically everyone has heard of it
and knows of the alien rumors — refuses to discuss the specific nature of the
Area 51 facility.
Just the Facts
Before we get to Lazar and his alleged UFOs, let’s first take a look at what
we can say with certainty about this particularly intriguing installation. Despite
Area 51’s reputation as some sort of remote fortress buried far, far away from
civilization, it most certainly is not. The surprising reality is that the base is
located less than 90 miles from the glittering lights, spacious hotels, countless
slot machines, and gyrating strippers of Sin City. What makes Area 51 so
impenetrable — to the vast majority of people, anyway — is not its distance
from Las Vegas, but the extent to which its innermost secrets are maintained.
Area 51: The ultimate secret base.
Try piloting a plane over the base’s strictly enforced no-fly zone and you risk
being blasted out of the sky by a missile. See what happens if you decide to take
the highways and byways to the base: You’ll soon find yourself watched closely
by humorless, Men in Black — style private-security goons who, if you fail to
heed the signs and stark warnings to turn back, will be only too happy to make
life extremely difficult for you. Significant monetary fines, several months of jail
time, and even the use of deadly force may be invoked to deter you from making
an exciting road trip with your buddies into the desert in search of E.T. Given
that such security extends for literally miles outside of the perimeter of Area 51,
it’s little wonder that — just as is the case with its glitzy, money-draining near-
neighbor — what happens at Area 51 is forever destined to stay at Area 51. At
least, most of the time. Just occasionally — to the chagrin of officialdom —