Dark Eagles: A History of the Top Secret U.S. Aircraft

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Agent X [pseud.], 'Oh. THAT Secret Base!' Nose (April 1994), 26–28.

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Private source.

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The Groom Lake Desert Rat, no.4, March 6, 1994, 3.

838

Private source; and The Groom Lake Desert Rat, no.4, March 6, 1994, 3.

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The Groom Lake Desert Rat, no.6, April 6, 1994, 1–3.

840

Ibid., no.7, April 10, 1994, 1.

841

Industrial Outlook, Aviation Week and Space Technology (April 18, 1994), 13.

842

ABC News Groom Lake transcript, quoted in The Groom Lake Desert Rat, no.7A, April 20, 1994. The broadcast did not include the statement about the 'New World Order' or the reading from the Koran. The resulting impression of the hearings was less colorful than the actual event.

Again, the involvement of fringe UFO believers in the controversy was glossed over.

843

Campbell, 'Area 51' Viewer's Guide, 50–54.

844

Private source.

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Campbell, 'Area 51' Viewer's Guide, 51.

846

Private source. The exact quote used a derogatory term for black people. The source called this a 'Rachel slur.'

847

Roy J. Harris Jr., ''Earthlings Welcome' in Tiny Nevada Town Notes 339 Where Mysterious Aircraft Often Fly Overhead,' The Wall Street Journal, December 28, 1993.

848

Dennis Stacy, 'The Ultimate UFO Seminar,' MUFON UFO Journal (June 1993), 3–8. It is worth stressing that not all UFO believers accept the stories of Lear and Lazar. There are degrees of belief — the MUFON UFO Journal is a believer's publication, but it is much more critical than the magazines that carry the conspiracy tales. For a more complete account of the origins and development of the flying saucer belief systems, see the author's book Watch the Skies!.

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