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European Air Controller on Groom Lake Airspace

[The following correspondent says he is an Air Traffic Control
supervisor at an airport in Europe. (I'm not saying which one.)  I've
tried to email him back, but the address he gave reports configuration
errors. -- GC]

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 17:34:30 +0200
To: campbell@ufomind.com
From: [withheld]
Subject: A little suggestion

Dear Mr. Campbell:

I [..] work as an ATC Supervisor at [withheld] Control Tower. I've
been interested in the UFO phenomena since I was twelve or so, and
since 1990 I've been extremely interested in the Area51 affair.

I know you receive a lot of e-mail messages every day, but I am
confident in catching your attention a little bit about this one.
Thank you.

In the Area 51 subjet, we must distinguish between two things:

1) In the area including and surrounding Groom Lake (incluiding
Papoose Lake), in the Nevada state, there are, without any doubt,
several installations (or facilities, if you wish) which, acording
with the several warnings laid out there, are managed by the
government of the USA (so I can't really understand how that
governement can denny its existence in any way. You know, you can
denny the existence of something it's not possible to see - a fully
underground facility or a department burried among thounsands of
similar ones in a building the size of the Pentagon -, but to try to
do the same - and to have been successful about it until the moment -
with something that is not difficult to see, it's something that
really puzzles me a lot !). We have also known the purpose (classified
until recently) of the main facility (south and adjacent to Groom
Lake): Highly classified flying projects: Lockeed U-2, A-12, etc. In
fact, a runway about 6 miles long (incluidind the dry lake bed part)
have almost nothing to do with alien flying crafts, but with projects
that required a lot of runway lenghts: underpowered Northrop Flying
Wings, the North American X-15, the present Space Shuttle, etc. We've
also known that, apart from this, that area has been used for certain
'black projects', thus it's not a fantasy at all to suspect that,
among these 'black proyects', could be one or more that deals with
'back engineering' of 'foreign' technology.

I sincerely think that it could be possible to get an statement from
official sources about the existence of those facilities at the Nevada
desert, provided no reference is made about the ' Area 51 '

NB: Area 51 DOES NOT EXIST officially. It must be clear for everyone
that this expression reffers to a nomination in force in the 'sixties
for different areas within the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. (you know,
'The Paradise Ranch' - or simply 'Ranch' - was adjointed to the real
NTS for security reasons when it was created in 1947, and the AEC took
officially control of it at that time)

2) To protect the flying activities to and from the Groom Lake runway,
a Restricted Area was established sometime in the past to cover the
whole group of ground facilities and their surrounding area: this more
or less square area, melted with the one stablished to protect the
real nuclear tests area, is known nowadays as Reatricted Area R-4808.
R-4808 South (S) covers the real Nevada Nuclear Test Site, and R-4808
North (N) covers the Groom Lake and Papoose Lake facilities (the
'square' everybody knows as Area 51)

I'm going to focus in this late paragraph: the Restricted Area R-4808
is despicted in all charts and maps dealing with flying activities
(VFR & IFR) in the Nevada region, beeing stated in these charts that
this area HAS NOT a CONTROLLING AGENCY (this is, the referred area is
active 24 hours a day during the whole year, so non authorised flights
are allowed within it at any time).

According with the US' Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR's), part 73,
every Restricted Area in the USA has a USING AGENCY, and some of them
(in fact, the mayority), a CONTROLLING AGENCY (remember, these are
official - federal, in fact - regulations). In FAR's part 73, section
73.19, is stated that -referring to any Restricted Area within the USA
- every using agency must forward by the end of January every year, an
annual report of its activities in the twelve months before, finishing
each September 30th, to the FAA Manager of the general area in which
the Restricted Area referred to is contained. It is also stated there
that, at least once, every using agency must forward a report,
incluiding appropiate skettches, of the airfields within the referred
area, traffic patterns, flying paths, etc. So my question is: has
anybody ever tried to get from the FAA (directly or via a FOIA
request) this annual report  about the Restricted Area R-4808 N
activities and the mandatory sketches Far's part 73, section 73.19
refers to? I have quite clear that any governement in the world can
lie about the activities of a certain facility or group, but I think
it could be quite interesting to know what the AEC (is it today
enclosed within the DOE, perhaps?), or whatever R-4808 using agency
is, has to officially say about it's activities in the Restricted Area
R-4808 N.

Thank you for all your attention. This has been my first and last
e-mail to you, unless you contact me for anything.


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