UFOs, Underground Bases, and Government cover-ups
Julian Mercado
DeVry University, ENG135
October 1, 2010

UFO, Underground Bases, and Government cover-ups
Introduction
UFOs have been seen by people all over the world. People of different cultures and ethnicities have different names for these unknown craft. In Spanish it is “objeto volante no identificado”, and in German it is actually UFO. Regardless of what race you are, UFO means the same thing, “Unidentified flying Object”. Let me be clear on this. It means it is a flying object that cannot be identified. We will delve into the world of UFOs and underground military installations, and examine the history of UFOs, their hot spots, and look into evidence of government cover-ups.
UFO History
Unidentified flying objects have been around a long time, one of the earliest sightings in 593 BC, recorded in the Bible in the book of Ezekiel 1:16. Ezekiel talks of encountering a flying object near Cheber River Chaldea, in today’s Iraq. "Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them. As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl” (1, Ezekiel 1:16 English standard version, 2010). Perhaps it sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but many historians have taken this biblical account seriously. He described what he saw with words and phrases from the reality and time he was living in. Even so, there is enough information there to conclude that he was witnessing a craft of some kind and its occupants. There is also the famous story most people know of; the crashed UFO in Roswell, New Mexico that happened in July, 1947. This happened the same year Kenneth Arnold spotted nine mysterious, high-speed objects while flying his private plane near Mt. Rainier, Washington, just a month earlier. “His report made international headlines and triggered hundreds of similar accounts of “flying saucers” locally and across the nation” (Maccabee, 2002).
UFO Hot-Spots Although UFOs have been sighted all over the world there are particular places that seem to have a high percentage of sightings, and these areas are called “hot-spots”. The United States has a number of hot-spots, particularly in the southwest. This area has some of the most astonishing occurrences of sightings on record. In addition to the countless sightings, there are reports of abductions and animal mutilations, but that’s another matter we won’t get into. With little research you will find that Arizona and New Mexico have been hot-spots for a long time. Arizona’s Phoenix lights were seen by hundreds of people, some witnessing what looked like flares and others reporting a very large triangular craft. New Mexico is riddled with stories of UFO sightings and crashed disks.
One well known hot-spot is the “Texas Triangle”. “This is a strip of land with triangular sides approximately 180 miles in length, and runs between Texas and Albuquerque, New Mexico” (Space 2001, 2001). It covers the area of Roswell, New Mexico, the town famous for its story of a recovered crashed disk. Recently in California, there has been a report of a UFO crash in the town of Fresno, California on August 27, 2010. The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) received a phone call on their 24 hour hotline about a crashed triangular disk. MUFON, is an American non-profit organization that investigates cases of reported UFO sightings.
Witnesses reported seeing a flying object crash into the side of a mountain and the military quickly swooped in to surround it (Unexplainable.net, 2010). This has to be one of the most significant events since Roswell, and it happened this year, just a little over a month ago.
The witnesses claimed they saw a black triangular craft crash into a mountain on the north side of Fresno. They also saw a number of military vehicles headed toward the crash site. It is assumed they were there to cover-up the evidence. However, one might also hypothesize it was attributed to a secret aircraft made by the U.S. It could very well have been a test flight gone wrong. But then why did it seem like they were chasing it? Witnesses describing events related to a sort of conflict between military forces and large black triangular craft (Unexplainable.net, 2010). There is video of the event showing footage of the crash site at the “Latest UFO Sightings.net” Web site.
Underground Bases It should be noted that this event occurred in proximity near the "ANGB/Fresno “Deep Underground Military Base” located at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport, formerly Fresno Air Field (The UFO chronicles, 2010). Under the direct oversight of NORAD, is the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, founded on May 12, 1958. Although NORAD was built inside a mountain, the facility is partly underground as well. This joint command base of the United States and Canada is responsible for supplying aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for the two countries. Connecting to Canada’s East and West sectors of the Air Operations Control Centre’s, it is located in the underground complex at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) North Bay in Ontario, Canada (Crystalinks, 2010).
Underground bases are nothing new, and they are certainly not figments of the imagination. The government has built these underground bases for a variety of reasons, one of them obviously is to hide secret projects from the prying eyes of other countries. Another reason is to shuffle the President, his chief of staff, and members of Congress to these underground shelters in case of a nuclear attack, to maintain the "Continuity of Government" or COG. An elusive report in the August 7, 1989 edition of U.S. News and World Report reveals the secret plan to carry on government in case of a disaster. It is a highly classified program designed to keep the government functioning in the event of an apocalypse. This program is known as “project 908 (History Commons, 2004).
Moreover, one of the well known secret bases of America that’s not really a secret anymore is above ground, and in plain view. This is “Area 51” near Groom Lake in Nevada. The base is hidden by mountain ranges that surround it in an isolated region of the Nevada desert. It’s protected by almost 1,000 miles of restricted airspace and its perimeter warning signs are a constant reminder for anyone foolish enough to wander into. The signs say “Restricted Area, No Trespassing, use of deadly force authorized”. This means if they catch you in there, they have the right to kill you, and there is not a federal or local law enforcement agency anywhere that can do anything about it. That’s pretty scary when you think of it because it means they are not bound by any laws in the country.
The question I have to ask is what is so important and so secretive that they would go through so much trouble to keep people out by any means necessary? The reason people are so curious about this place is because of the many sightings of uncharacteristic craft that seem to defy gravity, and behave like no aircraft we are familiar with. They behave much like the UFOs reported around the world that can travel at ridiculous speeds, can do 90 degree turns, and stop on a dime, with g-forces that would kill the average person. Yes, UFOs are spotted regularly at that base, which makes you wonder if they are being operated out of that base. Much of the interest comes from people in UFOlogy who believe there are crashed alien spacecraft and alien technology hidden in underground warehouses beneath it. It didn’t help matters when the state of Nevada named a barren, 98-mile stretch of Route 375, which runs near the base, the “Extraterrestrial Highway” (Noa, 2010). I can’t verify anything of the alien connection and I won’t try to because that would be impossible. After all, it is top secret and any details regarding them would undoubtedly be classified. There are other alleged secret underground bases and tunnels connecting them in Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and other southwestern states. However, I will not go into the details of these bases for the simple reason that I cannot validate any of this as fact. There is no evidence that you can see above ground that would lend credence to their existence. I can verify the reports that UFOs are frequently seen near these alleged secret military installations. One of them is in the small sleepy town of Dulce, New Mexico. I can only tell you of my own experience while investigating this town, and I must say it is a strange town indeed. Dulce is located on the Jicarilla Apache Indian reservation at an elevation of 7,500 feet just 10 miles south of the Colorado border. This town holds a dark secret that not many people know about. That secret is hidden below the tangled desert brush of the Archuleta Mesa, which overlooks the town. It is rumored to have a joint U.S. government /alien biogenetics facility in a deep underground base beneath it. Again, I cannot verify if any of this is true, but I can tell you about the things that I saw when I was there. After researching online I have found that this place, and generally in the four corners area, has had a large percent of UFO activity. I took a trip down there out of curiosity and to find out if there was any truth to it. After crossing into New Mexico off U.S. 84 on to route 64, it seemed like I was the only one there. It was kind of eerie. All I could see was this desert terrain, and rugged mountains that seemed isolated from everything. It was quite literally in the middle of nowhere. The nearest town was 30 miles away.
When I arrived I stayed at the Best Western hotel, which is the only hotel in the entire town. I asked the hotel attendant if it was ok to hike around the mountains. He said yes, but to be careful because there were mountain lions around there. This didn’t deter me from hiking, but I did keep it in the back of my head while surveying the area for hidden air vents that would show evidence of something underground. I couldn’t find any air vents, or lions fortunately, so I headed back to the hotel until it got dark.
That same night I drove over to the mesa to star gaze and look for anything unusual. While watching the stars, I suddenly saw a flash of light near the cliff of the Archuleta Mesa. It looked like a lighting flash in that it light up everything but it was contained to the back side of that cliff. I suddenly saw what appeared to be shooting stars but these stars seemed to be emitted from the side of that cliff, like they were coming out of it. I didn’t think of anything at first but when I saw like six of them flying around doing maneuvers that were 90 and 30 degree turns, I knew these were not shooting stars. Not only were they traveling at different speeds, but they were all leaving a perfectly straight luminous yellow line that temporarily stayed visible before gradually fading away. These lines were so perfectly linear, it was as if placing a ruler on the sky and drawing a line. My heart started racing and my adrenaline was at an all time high; I could not believe what I was seeing. It seemed to me that these glowing yellow lines were a propulsion signature from some kind of craft. As I watched these lights bounce around in the night I kept thinking, am I really seeing this? I couldn’t believe it and I had to pinch myself to be reassured of what I was witnessing. I stayed in Dulce for three nights before leaving for Colorado. I talked to the town’s people mostly Indians and they all had stories of UFO sightings and encounters. In fact there are so many sightings there that it was not a big deal to them anymore because it was so common. Some of them flatly told me they believed there was some kind of base under the mesa because they frequently saw black unmarked helicopters and military personnel in the area. When I was leaving the town, after stopping at the gas station on route 64 headed north, to my surprise I noticed 4 military hummers in a single file headed down Hawk road toward the Archuleta Mesa.
Incidentally, there was a UFO conference in Dulce New Mexico that was posted on Sept. 26, 2010, where it was revealed that the base has an official name called “Rio Arriba Scientific & Technological Underground Auxiliary”. Researcher Anthony Sanchez interviewed a retired Air Force Colonel in January of 2010 when the Colonel invited him for a private interview in his cabin in California (Hayakawa, 2010). He told Sanchez that the base actually had three sections to it which is named TA-D1, TA-D2, and TA-D3. He also relayed that the main underground installation is named TA-D1 and is located under Archuleta Mesa, confirming the long-existing rumor. “One documentary evidence item to back up the claims of the Colonel was shown to some researchers by Sanchez at a press conference held on September 11, 2010 in Angel Fire, New Mexico” (Hayakawa, 2010). Take from this what you will, but I believe there is definitely something going on in that strange little town.
Government cover-ups
The government will stop at nothing to keep information about these bases secret, even if that means using deadly force. A fellow by the name of Phil Schneider claimed to have been one of the people involved in the construction of underground bases including Dulce. You see, Phil Schneider was an ex-government engineer, geologist and explosives expert. “At Dulce, Schneider maintained, "gray" humanoid extraterrestrials worked side by side with American technicians” (Camelot, 2010). This brave man knew he would be killed for the classified information he was revealing to the public in his lectures. Whatever you might think of his claims, he was of particular interest to the FBI and CIA. Phil Schneider died on January 17, 1996, reportedly strangled by a catheter found wrapped around his neck the bizarre death being dismissed by the authorities as suicide (Camelot, 2010) The crash in Roswell, New Mexico was investigated by congressman Steve Schiff who challenged the Air Forces assessment that what crashed was a weather balloon. Schiff wrote a letter to the Defense Secretary seeking a definitive account of what transpired and why. The letter said that based on witness testimony, the balloon was a cover story and that “federal authorities sought to intimidate witnesses and their families into silence” (quoted by Frazier, 1997, 126)
Conclusion
There is a news story about UFOs being spotted in Manhattan, New York City, which happened just yesterday, Wednesday October 13, 2010. The evidence of the correlation between UFOs and secret underground bases is hard to deny. There are too many reports of sightings near bases that still happen to this day. Our government considers the subject material to be a matter of national security and therefore any evidence of their existence should be kept secret at all cost. With all the facts given, statements taken from credible witnesses, and those involved in the construction of these bases, it is becoming increasingly hard to ignore or dismiss.

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