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An interesting <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011461015_area51vets28m.html" target="_blank">article</a> about Area 51 veterans finally emerging in public includes this wonderful image:
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 13px;"><em>Barnes believes the Air Force and the "Agency" didn't mind the stories about alien spacecraft. They helped cover up the secret planes that were being tested.</em></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 13px;"><em>On one occasion, he remembers, when the first jets were being tested at what Muroc Army Air Field, later renamed Edwards Air Force Base, a test pilot put on a gorilla mask and flew upside down beside a private pilot.</em></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 13px;"><em>"Well, when this guy went back, telling reporters, 'I saw a plane that didn't have a propeller and being flown by a monkey,' well, they laughed at this guy — and it got where the guys would see [test pilots] and they didn't dare report it because everybody'd laugh at them," says Barnes.</em></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 13px;">Read the full <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011461015_area51vets28m.html" target="_blank">piece</a> at the<em> Seattle Times.</em></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 13px;">A fascinating full-length <a href="http://digital.library.unlv.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/nts&amp;CISOPTR=1225&amp;CISOBOX=1&amp;REC=7" target="_blank">interview</a> with A51 vet TD Barnes, conducted as part of the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project, can also be found <a href="http://digital.library.unlv.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/nts&amp;CISOPTR=1225&amp;CISOBOX=1&amp;REC=7" target="_blank">here</a> , in which he talks about working on the CIA/NSA Palladium project, which I identify in <em>Mirage Men</em> as the probable source for a number of UFO incidents.</p>