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The Area 51 Research Center
(also known as Ufomind and Aliens On Earth.)
is a small private company that produces the world's largest
paranormal website and sells books to support it.
We started in Rachel, Nevada, by investigating and publicizing
the base at Groom Lake but our role has since broadened.
Our website, www.ufomind.com,
is the central library for all manner of unproven claims,
from UFOs to parapsychology to conspiracies to speculative science.
Our inquiry is concerned as much
with the nature of humanity
as with any aliens or military projects.
To fund our work and the upkeep of the website,
we sell books relating to our topics of interest.
Although we are a taxable entity, most of our
resources are devoted to "the Project,"
and we expect no significant profit.
[gc 8/2/98]
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Our Rachel bookstore is open again!
The big yellow trailer, the birthplace of the Research Center, is again open to the public. Our store stocks the most popular books and maps found on our website. The new manager is Don Emory. It is easy to spot our facility on the frontage road in Rachel, Nevada (150 miles from Las Vegas). Hours are usually 9-5 daily, but you may want to call ahead to confirm: 775-729-2648. |
We are pleased to offer you a low-graphics, Java-free, music-free, glitz-free web browsing environment that gets you where you want to go as quickly as possible. All graphics on our site are optional, and you will not miss much by turning them off. Ours is a tree-based structure, similar to Yahoo. You can start at our top level and work down the tree to more specialized knowledge. We also provide several mechanisms for searching our site. The URLs we assign to most documents are intended to be permanent and we encourage other web authors to link to any of our pages at any level.
We erect no barriers between our site and the outside world. We are dedicated to academic openness and the free flow of information, and we make other people's sites as freely accessible as our own. Whenever a subject of contention arises, we want you to have access to all sides of the issue. At the same time, we believe in the merits of structure vs. the usual internet anarchy, and we have done our best to create a simple structure that provides easy access to information without unnecessary noise.
Maintainance of this site requires a lot of time and costs a lot of money, and we must sell something to keep afloat. Thus, we have created a catalog of books, maps and selected souvenirs recommended by Our Director. We carry only products that we personally recommend to others. To preserve our independence, we do not sell advertizing to any outside party, and we neither solicit nor accept funding from outside organizations -- which means the catalog is our only source of income. We ain't getting rich in this business and never expect to.
Although we try to build relationships with other competent researchers, we avoid formal alliances with groups and businesses. We are beginning to recognize other ethical principals for this new form of journalism. Although we have our own opinions about who can or cannot be trusted and our own ideas about what cases are worth investigating, we try not to let these biases interfere with our editorial function on this site. Our most important criteria for deciding what can be added to our pages is not whether a claim is true or false but whether it is relevant to the current topic and whether it adds new information. If we demonstrate a bias, it is a desire for specific facts rather than vague theories.
We are also biased in favor of intelligence. This site is designed for thoughtful readers whose logical discipline is comparable to our own. Although we try to treat everyone with equal respect, this site is not intended for novices.
When the U.S. Air Force proposed the withdrawal of White Sides and Freedom Ridge in Oct. 1993, Campbell and his one-man "Research Center" became vocal opponents. The land withdrawal, which would not have been noticed otherwise, provided the "news hook" that first attracted the mainstream press to Area 51. The rest, sadly, is history, with the high points being visits by the New York Times Magazine and Larry King, and the low being the mindless "Independence Day" movie. With nothing substantial to support this publicity, Area 51 is now a "has been" story, and the Research Center, now a real institution, has moved on to broader issues.
The Research Center joined the internet in late 1993, and the first issue of the Groom Lake Desert Rat was published in Jan. 1994. A presence on the World Wide Web followed by the end of the year, and most of our work is now centered around it.
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