It sounds more like the webiste is being monitored rather than the
individuals themselves.

Having monitored law enforcement doing personal surveillance, I can
say it is quite an extensive job. Typically 3 cars are used in a tail
to make sure you don't constantly see the same car in your rear view
mirror. Just in the event you shake the tail, they use a bumber beeper
(radio tracking device) to find the target again or even a chopper.
[To help the bird in the sky find the feds at the start of the tailing
operation, a g-man car is often parked in a funny manner so that it
stand out from the air. For example, on a busy street, the g-man may
park in the opposite direction, i.e. against traffic. ]  To monitor a
website, some guy in the office is assigned to read it and attempt to
trace the posters. They may get the ISP to cooperate so that the
network addresses contained in the log can be read by the agent in
charge. The FBI does this all the time for illegal types of porn.

I think it would be really hard to monitor a house in Rachel. It's not
like you can do the usual rent the house accross the street trick.
Everybody knows everybody there, and strangers stick out big time. Now
monitoring somebody in a metro area like Vegas would be pretty easy.
Getting back to Rachel, I suppose the feds could monitor the town from
the hills, but the Ufers poke around the same hills so the odds of
being outed are pretty high.

I'm sure the feds monitor alt.conspiracy.area51 as well. I'm sure they
are more sick of the fake moon landing thread than the rest of us.


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From LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL
June 21, 2003:

ONGOING INVESTIGATION: FBI raids home near Area 51

Man says authorities were searching for photos, data about classified military
base

By KEITH ROGERS 
REVIEW-JOURNAL 

FBI agents and other law enforcement officials raided a Rachel man's rented
trailer home Thursday while he was out of state, searching for what he said
were photographs and data stored in his computers about the classified military
installation known as Area 51. 

"Area 51. That's what it's for," said the man, Chuck Clark, when asked by
telephone about the search warrant that he found Friday on a table inside the
trailer in the rural Lincoln County community, 100 miles north of Las Vegas. 

"They timed this very nicely while I was in Denver with a TV crew," said Clark,
57, author of the "Area 51 & S-4 Handbook." 

Clark said he thinks the search warrant was triggered by his research into
motion-detection sensors that are buried on public land along trails miles away
from the restricted area around the classified installation near the dry lake
bed of Groom Lake, 90 miles north of Las Vegas. 

Clark and other Area 51 buffs think the sensors are linked by radio signals to
an automatic alarm network that alerts the installation's security personnel
about possible intruders. 

"I dug them up, photographed them, recorded their GPS and put them back," he
said, referring to Global Positioning System coordinates. 

"I resent the fact they put them on public land. All I did is document them ...
to make an issue of putting them outside of restricted land," Clark said. He
described himself as a semi-retired photographer and writer who has spent 10
years researching Area 51. 

Clark said the search warrant was issued by U.S. Magistrate Judge Lawrence
Leavitt and that the agents who executed it left a four-page inventory of items
seized. An FBI spokesman in Las Vegas, Jim Stern, confirmed that a sealed
search warrant had been executed on Clark's residence Thursday. 

The FBI agents were accompanied by other law enforcement authorities who were
part of a task force, but Stern declined to confirm the nature of the task
force. 

There were no arrests, Stern said, noting, "This is an ongoing investigation of
Clark." 

He said items were taken from Clark's residence but declined to give details
about what prompted the investigation. He also would not comment on the scope
of the search warrant or say what was seized. 

"That area is of a concern just by virtue of location," Stern said, referring
to the general vicinity of Rachel. 

An annual presidential directive issued by President Bush and former President
Clinton keeps government information about the Groom Lake installation
classified. 

Clinton, in 1995, became the first president to sign the annual exemption,
which stemmed from lawsuits brought by widows of two men who claimed that their
husbands died from exposure to hazardous and toxic materials while they worked
at the installation. 

Government officials will not say what activities are conducted there but the
Groom Lake facility has been widely reported to be where high-tech U.S.
aircraft are tested against foreign radar systems and planes. S-4 is located
near the southern edge of Area 51.

reviewjournal.com -- News: ONGOING INVESTIGATION: FBI raids home near Area 51

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Jun-21-Sat-2003/news/21577139.html

Here is also a news report from KLAS-TV:
http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1330758&nav=168XGVQf

ADDITIONAL NEWS:

Joerg Arnu, Area 51 researcher, colleague of Chuck Clark and webmaster of the
world's largest online resource on Area 51, has also been placed under heavy
FBI surveillance since last week.
The website,  Dreamland Resort
http://www.dreamlandresort.com
(which contains some information on government sensors located on public land
in the buffer zone outside the main buffer zone of Area 51)
is now under heavy monitoring by the FBI.  
  For the record, he stated: "Chuck and I are the subject of a federal
investigation.  Be aware that activity on this website is most likely
monitored.   Upon advice from my attorney I will not comment any further, or
rspond to any inquiries on this matter.   The Dreamland Resort website will
remain online".


from Norio Hayakawa
AREA 51 NEWS UPDATE
http://www.hometown.aol.com/area51watch/index.html