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A-12 60-6925, No. 122, mounted inverted for radar testing at Area 51. After development and production at Skunk Works, in Burbank, California, the first A-12 was transferred to Groom Lake test facility (Area 51). [18] On 26 April 1962 it was taken on its first (unofficial and unannounced) flight with Lockheed test pilot Louis Schalk at the ...
Project OXCART was established in August 1959 for "antiradar studies, ... They believe that the rumors helped maintain secrecy over Area 51's actual operations. [7]
Project Dark Gene, a CIA–Iranian program of intrusions into Soviet airspace to explore Soviet air defense systems, continued operations up to 1979. Aerial reconnaissance of mainland China continued with the Ryan Model 147 "Lightning Bug" RPVs (Remotely Piloted Vehicles); several of these drones were shot down or recovered by the Chinese ...
U-2 operations halted in the late 1950s, but other top secret military aircrafts continued tests at Area 51. ... To Area 51’s west, there’s the Alien Cathouse which is advertised as the only ...
The book, based on interviews with scientists and engineers who worked in Area 51, addresses the Roswell UFO incident [1] [2] and dismisses the alien story.. Instead, it suggests that Josef Mengele was recruited by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to produce "grotesque, child-size aviators" to be remotely piloted and landed in America to cause hysteria in the likeness of Orson Welles' 1938 ...
This memo is particularly notable because the redactor failed to remove all mentions of OXCART's US base of operations - on page 15 (the 17th page of the PDF document) paragraph #2 ends "Three OXCART aircraft and the necessary task force personnel will be deployed from Area 51 to Kadena."
Most of what is known about AQUILINE was revealed in 2013 with the declassification of the 1992 Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954–1974. [1] However, British U-2 historian Chris Pocock wrote in 2011 about it [2] based on two open source accounts and interviews he conducted. [4]
An international law enforcement operation has dismantled an encrypted communication platform, known as Ghost, notorious for enabling large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering, Europol ...