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From: Gerry Lovell" <ed@farshore.force9.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:14:02 +0100
Fwd Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 01:58:08 -0400
Subject: Secret Military Base Inspires Curiosity, Theories


Source: The Detroit News
Date: Aug 27  1998
Header: Secret military base inspires curiosity, theories
Byline: Thomas Hargrove / Scripps Howard News Service


LAS VEGAS -- Many people who believe in UFO's also believe "Area
51" is where the Air Force keeps its stockpile of captured flying
saucers.

And maybe an autopsied alien body or two.

Others believe the military base in the southern Nevada desert
is the testing grounds for America's most secret military
machines, everything from the F-117 stealth fighter to
electro-magnetic pulse weapons that would make Buck Rogers
nervous.

What is certain is that there is something out there in that
moonscape property north of Las Vegas. Officially designated the
"Nellis Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range" on Nevada maps, the
federally protected territory in Nye, Lincoln and Clark counties
covers an area equal to Rhode Island and Connecticut combined.

And more than 1,850 federal civilian workers are employed in
mostly well-compensated jobs at several ultra-high-security
facilities in and near the range, according to a Scripps Howard
News Service analysis of government payroll records maintained
by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

"This really is one of the last big secret military bases in the
United States. It used to be that the Air Force tried to pretend
that Area 51 didn't exist at all," said Jeff Moag, a researcher
for the National Security News Service based in Washington.

The Air Force last year conceded the existence of the base and
its position along dried-up Groom Lake when it released a
publication that suggested experimental Cold War-era aircraft
could have been mistaken for flying saucers.

At a Pentagon press briefing, Air Force Col. John Hanes was
asked about Area 51.

"If you are talking about Groom Lake, Nevada ... quite frankly,
I have no knowledge or expertise in the matter," Hanes said. "I
understand there are classified things that go on there. And
that's all I have to say about it."

Whatever they do in the Nellis Bombing Range, they continue to
do it under the Clinton administration.

There were exactly 2,000 civilian employees of the departments
of Defense, Army, Navy, Air Force and Energy in the Nellis
Bombing Range area as of Sept. 30, 1992.

Five years later, and despite massive job layoffs ordered by
President Clinton, there were 1,851 employees still working
there.

Among the most popular occupations for this workforce are
"miscellaneous administration," "secretary," "general
engineering," "general physical sciences" and "management
programing."

The average salary for the Department of Energy personnel last
year was nearly $59,000 a year, well above average for a federal
employee. The payroll for all of the civilian workers in the
area totaled $80.6 million.

Copyright 1998, The Detroit News

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