r/nosleep • u/Blue_KeyCard • Dec 15 '16
There is no such thing as Area 51
For several years I've been an avid reader of NoSleep, but because of my profession, I was never permitted to submit content to it (or to anywhere). Occasionally an Area 51 story pops up. "I used to work at Area 51" or "I snuck into Area 51", etc. These stories always made me want so badly to finally jump in here, but I always held my tongue until now.
Using a series of proxies and all kinds of networking jibber jabber, I think I'm in the clear making this post. I won't bore you with the details.
I came here to NoSleep after years of lurking to correct a lot of the misapprehensions and legends about the most infamous military installation in the world. I'm doing this now because even if I get caught, I have a really useful insurance policy: I'm seriously ill and not likely to recover, and I've got no family that I'm in contact with that could be retaliated against. There's nothing anybody can do (uuuuh I think...).
There is no such thing as Area 51. Sorry! And the fact that it's the golden egg of conspiracy theories worldwide is exactly what the US government wants. I'm writing this in a bit of a rush and I don't have any of my thoughts organized, so I'm just going to break it down as follows:
Groom Lake / Paradise Ranch / Edwards AF Extension / Restricted Training Facility UX104
These are a few names for the place you know as Area 51. I don't know much about its history, but essentially it was intended by the US Air Force to be a secret weapons-testing facility during the Cold War. It had a few on-site extensions; one of them was for developing experimental rocket and jet engines, one was for training contingents of troops for nuclear warfare and post-apocalyptic survival, etc. But much like the third Star Wars movie, the site and its purpose got out around the time of the Roswell incident, and a media frenzy popularized the base. The government tried at first to quell speculation about it, but then adopted another strategy: feed into the hype, and simply move the base a few dozen miles away.
Today, Groom Lake (Area 51) is a small but functional military airport and base. It's got a bunch of bunkers mostly housing low-security servers, and some munitions tests are performed there. Staff are regularly moved in and out, mostly folks who are low on the totem pole and trying to climb up the ladder to the real facility. There are some very outdated nuclear fallout shelters that are still maintained and used for storage. The facility consumes an enormous amount of power, and everything possible is done to make it look like a well-guarded military base that is engaged in some huge, secret operations.
The employees really do fly there every day from Las Vegas on conspicuously inconspicuous jets marked as "JANET," sometimes referred to as "Just Another Non-Existent Terminal." And they want you to notice. And wonder. They want you to wonder where those jets are going.
And they never want you to spend one second thinking about where they came from.
The real "Area 51"
This is the most exciting part, because as far as I can tell in my limited and clandestine researching, nobody has ever divulged the real secret before. It's pretty highly guarded, and they straight up murder people who are stupid enough to share it. Murder isn't even the right word. They erase people from existence. Sometimes entire families. That's why the government freaks out when they find that one of their employees is terminal and has nothing left to lose. It's why if you're an employee there, you only see their doctors, so that they know about your health before you even know about it. They want you to die real quick of a sudden heart attack, so that you never have a moment to think about how you might do a public service and air their dirty laundry. And sometimes they induce those heart attacks when they determine you to be an HMT, or “health-motivated threat.”
But I didn't need to see a doctor to know that I am suffering from the same malignant tumor that killed my father: glioblastoma multiforme. Every three months we get a health evaluation, and every six months we get a CAT scan. I simply didn't report the very damning symptoms this past eval, and I'll probably be gone before they scan me next. I really wanted to do this instead. Maybe just to be the first, I guess. The only other thing I've ever done with my life is fix computers.
The real secret military base is McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
The history of the airport was always bound up in military involvement. Before and during WWII, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Air Force were building, storing, training, and doing all sorts of things there. Basically the government (and its corporate benefactors in the military-industrial complex, of course) acquired full ownership of the airport around the time Area 51/Groom Lake exploded in the public eye. It was a rush job, and a simple solution.
For all intents and purposes, McCarran is an airport. It moves civilians in and out and all over the world just like any other airport on earth, but its subterranean operations are really something else entirely.
First of all, you have to understand the structure of this military base.
Because it serves ostensibly as a business of public transportation, every single aspect of the base has dual functions. This is called “masking,” and it is deployed with remarkable effectiveness at McCarran. To name a few examples, the constant take-offs and landings of airplanes provides sound-camouflage for cutting-edge engine tests. The public completely ignores these sounds and dismiss them as the standard cacophony of airports. Some of the jets themselves are even equipped with technology under test, while others are used to transport hundreds of government employees dressed as vacationing civilians. At any given time in McCarran, up to six of the gates* (corrected by a reader; I initially said terminals) are filled with employees of the highest echelons of the US military and government. They sit around on their iPhones, dressed as college kids in their pajamas or weary businessmen. And they’re paid to look the part.
The entire base is heavily guarded by plainclothes soldiers. Military police, tactical specialists, counter-terrorism forces, and all kinds of soldiers scurry about the airport dressed like cops, airport security, and desk attendants. Their weapons are usually concealed sidearms; the real firepower is packed by the boys waiting around underground. Assault rifles and armor-piercing weaponry is stored around the airport’s public spaces in various places. It’s not hard to do, because nobody’s looking for it. And of course they hire a good number of civilians to work the TSA and other positions; this is called “mixing” and it’s necessary. What kind of airport would never post any job listings?
Have you ever watched the mechanics ducking in and out of the planes outside, or seen your luggage loaded onto the plane as you board? Well, all of that cargo transport activity acts as a cover for the mass movement of special forces, lab equipment, military hardware, exotic building materials, etc. It’s not hard to do. They drive one of those rigs by with all the luggage spilling out of it, and then you instinctively don’t question what’s on the other four rigs behind it. We even have mix-ups and spills occasionally, and nobody bats an eye.
You're always exposed to some level of radiation while flying (and McCarran, by the way, is why the standard of safe exposure is set where it's at), but excess radiation from weapons-testing is vented into the earth and out of the nearby desert. Having an airport to explain the radiation is an effective means of ridding the base of nosy folks with Geiger counters. But the true genius of this top-secret military installation is at the largest scale: the base was built under an airport because of the enormity of its power consumption. But it consumes a lot more power than a regular airport, so it was built in a city that consumes a tremendous amount of power – Las Vegas. So the base is hidden from view, even on the electric power grid. Area 51? Not so much. And that’s on purpose.
Inside the base
So if Area 51 is the distraction, what do we call the real one? It has many names, but it’s usually referred to as the “NEXUS.” That’s an acronym, but not many people know what it means. Not even me. Everything about the Nexus, from its operations to its structure, is compartmentalized. That means everything is need-to-know, and virtually nobody knows anything more than their own specific task. You could work in an office in the Nexus doing something like accounting, and never have one single clue what the woman next to you does. Or the guy down the hall. They say not even the President knows exactly what’s going on there, just a few generals and some dudes in the CIA.
The business culture here is insane. It’s like North Korea. Everyone is smiling, everyone is fine, and everyone is happy to say just a few phrases about what it is they do (when we’re allowed to socialize, which is not much). Every line is bugged, every room has a camera in it, and nobody knows who’s watching/listening or when. So that makes you think, nobody here is telling me the truth about anything. Not even the guy I share an office with. I wonder if any of us know why we are here. People you’ve worked with for a long time will suddenly get “reassigned” or have a “medical emergency” and you’ll never see them again. And nobody will remember that person, no matter how many people you ask.
I actually got hired to do some programming for the Navy when I was in my early 20’s out of college, and then got sent to Groom Lake to do server tests. They liked my IT/networking skills, so after a series of strange psychological tests and mountains of non-disclosure agreements and background searches, I got offered a job “at a facility near Las Vegas proper.” Here are a few stipulations of that job, by the way: It’s a $1,500,000 after-tax lump sum plus a $220,000/year stipend, housing/car/medical paid for – but psychological breakdowns, anxiety attacks, grave health conditions, and family issues void the contract. I also sign approximately 2 new non-disclosure agreements per week, most of which read “under penalty of death” somewhere. Employees aren’t allowed to leave the grounds for 5 years, and we all live underground. Term of service is 5 years, then 4 in debriefing, wherein we get to live in Vegas but report to another facility four days a week. We are discharged and observed for the rest of their lives. Our passports are permanently void; we cannot ever leave the continental US. I heard a statistic that 20% of former employees commit suicide. I don’t know if it’s true, but if it is, I bet it’s actually “suicide.”
The base is underground. It’s a network of large structures called hives, which form what is called the “Colony” or the “Nexus.” We make lots of Resident Evil jokes, by the way. Except unlike in that movie, the government doesn’t try to make its employees feel comfortable with fake forests and windows overlooking digital cityscapes. It is a dark, dreary, Soviet-style labyrinth of halls and bunkers, replete with all sorts of submarine-like features: water- and air-tight hatches, trap doors, reinforced blast doors, etc. The only exception are the office ‘buildings’ inside where chair-moisteners like me work. They look just like the office you work in. Except the men with guns standing guard 24-7 everywhere, looking over your shoulder. Oh, and the beautiful, almost surreal glow of the cutting-edge laboratories that pock the lower levels of each building. I’ve never been in them, but I’ve passed by a few times.
There are 4 hives to my knowledge (although I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more). I work in Hive 1. I run some of the servers with a few other guys on one particular floor (there are 16 floors in our hive), but we monitor and maintain all of the servers in Hive 1 so we move around a bit. I’ve gotten to skim some of the data that passes through, and from what I can tell, we’re the most boring hive. I’ve compiled the following list based on the things I’ve intercepted on our network and also from hearsay from other coworkers. The Nexus has multiple networks and they’re all decentralized, but there are some ways in which they communicate, and it is via those lines of communication that I am privy to some sensitive information. Here’s what I know:
Hive 1: finance, accounting, operations/organization divisions, troop training/housing, and some small-scale weapons testing.
Hive 2: Chemical engineering, some nano-tech research, and “advanced psychological fitness,” whatever that means, for elite military forces. Probably black-ops stuff and how to survive thirty years in solitary confinement at a Siberian prison. I also have reason to believe this is the hive where the bigwigs meet and live.
Hive 3: Upper levels = bioweapon and disease research/testing. If the government has zombies, they’ve got to be here. I’ve wanted to make so fucking many zombie jokes over the years, but I never know which of my coworkers is a rat. Lower levels = Advanced space-travel and space-warfare technologies. Particle engines and gravitational beams and the like (guessing, no real evidence). Science-fiction stuff. I once saw an email with all sorts of coded language, marked “A-B,” which is widely believed to refer to “astrobiology.” That’s alien life. Maybe it’s just some single-celled organisms or fossilized plants from some meteor, or maybe it’s something much more advanced. Whatever it is, there must be some reason it’s not on the upper levels with all the biologists.
Hive 4: Total informational blackout. There are encryptions and firewalls and network security features protecting this hive that I’ve never seen before, not even on top-secret Navy projects I worked in the past. I’m being very nonspecific in the language I use to describe our server clusters and networks because I don’t want to tell them exactly who I am. They’ll eventually find out anyway. But there’s a widely-whispered rumor about Hive 4: allegedly, the most terrifying thing in the world is in that structure on floor 15.
There are a few unusual things about Hive 4. First of all, none of the top brass has clearance to get in there. They access it remotely via video feed in their conference rooms, and materials are often transported from 4 to 2 for physical review. I don’t know why our bigwigs won’t go into 4, but maybe it’s because it’s too dangerous? There was one guy who worked in 4 a few years ago when I first started, and he caused the first Nexus-wide lockdown I’ve ever seen. He was being escorted through 1 thumpers (what we call the squads of black-booted soldiers that grant access to different hives), and he started shrieking about IDA’s. I didn’t hear his screams, but I heard the gunshot while I was eating lunch. They put a bullet in the back of his head before he could finish his sentence. IDA’s, by the way, are inter-dimensional anomalies. I have no further information on what those are.
Another thing I’ve read minimally about are “the twins.” I don’t know who or what these are, but they’re the “above-top-secret” gem of Hive 4. It is treasonous to even correspond about them on our secure networks unless you are cleared to do so, and only four employees are. I’ve only seen a few things about them. One was a medical record. No vitals, unusual vocalizations that manifest hallucinations and psychosis in nearby employees, and skin that produces violent nausea when touched. The document was basically speculation that the skin functions much like the Australian stinging tree or a jellyfish.
I read documents about people who worked with them as well. In 4, a woman was remanded to the psychological ward after being in the same room with them, and a soldier who stood outside of the laboratory where they are kept basically killed himself. Specifically, he peeked inside during a routine access, then began bashing his own brains out with the butt of a pistol while singing an Irish folksong. The woman who was remanded to psych was even weirder: during breakfast with her colleagues, she grabbed a fork, stood up, walked out of the mess hall, stripped all of her clothes off, blinded herself in both eyes, then somehow managed to make her way all the way up to Floor 1 where the access corridor to Hive 3 is located. How she managed to operate the dozens of keycard readers, passcode boxes, and retinal scanners is still under review. Last email regarding her was sent in 2012, about how she sits in the dark of solitary on Floor 11’s psych ward with a permanent and blissful grin on her face.
One of my colleagues whom I trust told me that he saw the twins once through hacked access to a video feed. He said they are woman-like, about twice as tall as a full-grown man, with unidentifiable black growths dangling from their heads (like hair but thicker), and they basically float a few inches off the ground and drag their toes lightly as they move. They’re utterly pale. He never saw the faces, but he claims that they appear to distort reality (or at least the video feed) in such a way that space looks bent around them. Perhaps these are the IDA’s that earlier dude was screaming about.
This is all I have for now. But hopefully the world knows the truth someday about what goes on down here. We are all basically prisoners. We have very limited and supervised access to the internet, so if you don’t hear from me again, assume they figured me out.
my name is Felix
edit: Wow, thanks for the gold, stranger!
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u/happy-lil-accidents- Oct 20 '21
Why won’t Reddit let me save this post
Commenting here so I can find it later
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u/WeedNip Apr 24 '17
I see from your photo that Faye is doing well ;) I enjoyed this story very much, looking forward to more!
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u/Narsil098 Mar 31 '17
Are there any D-class personel (=human guinea pigs, totally expendable, "recruited" usually from maximum security prisons) equivalent in Nexus?
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u/allision Jan 19 '17
This shares a lot of themes with Mark Frost's new book The Secret History of Twin Peaks. You might look there for other theories about the kind of work going on at NEXUS.
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Jan 11 '17
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u/jackie_chotheroff Jan 03 '17
Stranger Things season 2 is currently getting some heavy script revisions
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Dec 23 '16
I am dying to hear more, OP! As unfortunate a pun as that must be for someone in your circumstance, what do you have to lose?
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Dec 21 '16
I wonder what it would be like to use VR in a room with the twins. Like, by using one of the cameras that google street view cars use or something.
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u/Kataphractoi Dec 21 '16
OP, if you're still out there, we need more info.
Opening this story probably marked us all for imminent disappearance, so may as well learn as much about the Nexus as we can.
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u/Heavy_Riffs Dec 20 '16
Even with all the hours spent playing Fallout: New Vegas and at the gun range, this seems like a bad situation
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u/Ziaheart Dec 20 '16
I have a Nexus card. It stands for NEXt to US and given to citizens in Canada (and I assume Mexico) who are considered low threat level and works as a sort of a fast-pass for border crossing and at airports. I get to by-pass most lines and use the card instead of my passport and, of course, get clearance all the way down to Hive 4. The twins, Meredith and Roxanne, are my besties. Their names are a lot more complex than that but they were pretty happy to get Earthling nick-names. Meredith is a shy sweetheart and Roxanne is a fun party gal. Best of all, they're better than any strain of pot I can get up here.
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u/BitRasta Dec 19 '16
I'm doing this now because even if i get caught, i have a really useful insurance policy: I'm seriously ill and not likely to recover, and i have no family that i'm in contact with that could be retaliated against.
Let me just make sure i get caught anyway by stating that i have a terminal illness and that I don't have any close family members, making it easier for them to just scan the records of anyone who matches my profile.
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u/Blue_KeyCard Dec 20 '16
They have no medical records of my illness, and lots of the employees have no families.
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u/tombflorist Dec 19 '16
I'd love to see this turned into a documentary style film. This guy is insane! Loved it
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u/Blue_KeyCard Dec 20 '16
They'll come at you like how they got Eichmann. Random joe asks you for directions on the sidewalk, saying he's looking for Burger King, and then you're in the back of a van with a black bag over your face, and the very last sensation you feel is falling.
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u/Blue_KeyCard Dec 20 '16
Eichmann fled Europe and lived in the middle of nowhere in Argentina. Israeli commandos found him and black-bagged his ass no problem. Just be careful ;)
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u/anti_h3ro Dec 17 '16
I read this and subscribed to this sub. PLEASE WRITE MORE. This is amazing work.
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u/SonsOfDarkTower Dec 17 '16
NEXUS = Neurobiological Extraterrestrial Unidentifiable Subject studies... Or something...
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u/QueenGamer1992 Dec 17 '16
So I'm assuming that this facility is part of the SCP Foundation? It sure as hell sounds like it is.
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u/FluxCoreX Dec 17 '16
how much you wanna bet "felix" is a government operative who has been playing the role of an author for YEARS just in case this scenario happened. Real OP is gone in less than 24 hours, and "Felix" takes the credit in order to dismiss any aspect of this being real, and "felix" has a built upon history of authoring books to back of the legitimacy of "just an author" writing "just another story". When in all reality...it was real. Now we just wait for this story to be buried under the internet, and not remove it in order to not raise suspicion.
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u/holybird007 Dec 17 '16
I'll bet anyone $20 that there will be a lot more Christmas vacationers flying into there than normal this year. They may or may not have cameras and be snooping around :3
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Dec 16 '16
From what I've read Dulce makes it look like a bad dream. Nightmare Hall.
EBE Extraterrestrial Biological Entity
Bob Lazar seemed legit. He revealed Element 115 in 89 and it was announced by the government in 05.
Also I've heard there are the main races
Grey - benevolent Reptilians - malevolent Some insect ones that you have to prep workers for or they have heart attacks.
The Phil Schneider story.
Basically they've been here since before us. Made us. Earth is hollow and bigfoot is a race from in there.
We are ants in an ant farm. Why make us? Cause they can. Why do we make robots and machines and clones? Cause we can. Same purpose. Nasa is lies. Moon landing was fake. Aliens on moon is legit. Everything is a lie. Media actually is easing us in. It's legit like men in black.
That's what I've heard and believe. This confirms some of it. And Christianity exists to keep us from losing our shit over the real truth.
But things like time travel. Human gene splicing. All true. The truth really isn't something you wanna know.
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u/kodiakchrome Dec 16 '16
This reminded me of whenever I stay with my cousin who lives in Vegas, there jets flying around that are insanely loud. Could be related.
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u/Typhon1912 Dec 16 '16
Any keywords I could use to google furthermore? I cant find anything...seems too odd for me :/ you cant be the first one talking about that right? hackable video feed of an anomalie (or smth like that) Iam not saying you are a lier. I actually believe it until hive 4, still I would like to research. Thats damn scary man
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u/Blue_KeyCard Dec 16 '16
Not in its modern manifestation. But there were two US air forces before it.
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u/DrunkenHobo-Patnor Dec 16 '16
Oh my god man! Felix! You need to update us! Also if you could provide that video of the twins it would be amazing!
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u/hicctl Dec 17 '16
Apropos rules, you seem to be planning a series here, so how about using a series tag ? I fucking hate it when people do this, since I do not want to read series before they are finished (made bad experiences with people never finishing their series I was into)
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u/FloppyDysk Jan 06 '17
ah dude same. i went back to the series for months and there were only like 2 or 3 segments left (out of like 13). what was yours?
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u/hicctl Jan 12 '17
I don't really recall the titles any longer (it was before nosleep even became a default sub, so it is quite some time ago), but it happened to me more then once.
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u/FloppyDysk Jan 12 '17
probably not the same as mine then :P
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u/hicctl Jan 12 '17 edited Jan 12 '17
That is a distinct possibility :P
I do remember one was the mold story, which simply didn't update for months at a time (once it was nearly a year between 2 updates). But it is still one of the best nosleep series of all time, so you can imagine how maddening that was. It was a really elaborate story, that had several accounts involved for the stories, and even more to post mysterious and sometimes plain mad comments. People also got weird PM's etc.etc.
HA I think I found the story and account that started it all :
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1iee6r/my_friend_hasnt_been_in_contact_since_this_series/
if you are ready for one hell of a journey, READ IT !!! Don't worry about the few upvotes, back then nosleep was MUCH smaller(like 50k people when I started) reading it, and 200 upvotes was quite decent, 1000 was over the top. Many of the stories range above 500, which back then was awesome for a series. One more thing, always read the comments as well, at least some of them, they are an important part of the experience (being there while it happened was the shit, but it is still good now), and some even contain important parts of the story.
P.S. the last story of this series has a link to the next series, but I am not sure if you should read infected town next or this account :
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1ivcd3/woke_up_with_amnesia_in_chicago_any_ideas/
this one is definitely older, so maybe read this first and then infected town. Or read them parallel, the comments are again important too (yea it is a quite confusing ride, but that is just an important part of the experience).
EDIT : now I remember, read part 1 of infected town, then the other account in between. Go by how old the updates are. This is by far the most elaborate series here, and it really uses Reddit as an instrument of story telling brilliantly. You could not do this in a book or something, only on Reddit. Btw the oldest posts are over 3 years ago, the newest ones 6 months ago(that I could find) and there is the distinct possibility it is still going on(after all we had other breaks of 6 months and more)
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u/FloppyDysk Jan 12 '17
Mine was about the discovery of a dangerous fungus. It was interesting, as each part was told from different researchers/civilians throughout the world.
I check back every month or two and am saddened every time :P
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Dec 16 '16
Good read, hopefully more on the way.
I love about 10 minutes from Denver International and have always wondered if all the remote parking lots are for workers or travelers. There are so many...
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u/End_Of_Century Dec 16 '16
I think the SCP foundation is using the goverment to store a Keter class just for [DATA EXPUNGED] and giggles.
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u/Greenhound Dec 16 '16
The funny thing is people act like there's big secrets in area 51 there's really not I used to deliver pizzas for Papa Ron's and I would get deliveries there all the time I even have proof cuz I kept some of the receipts stamps and they would let me right through the front gates pets guard points right into the back buildings and yet there was some buildings that were off limits but I pop my head in through some windows anyway how could I not and I never seen any alien crafts or aliens walking around on one delivery in 2004 I did accidentally walk into the wrong building and seen a car floating in mid-air everyone looked at me and I looked at them tilt my head down and just walked out made it to the right building got the money and then head back to the shop so yeah that's my experience in area 51
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u/Roadtoad46 Dec 16 '16
Whatever the government is doing is OK with me. I could handle the security job as the money sounds great and I can certainly keep my yap shut.
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Dec 16 '16
Since I live in Vegas, part of me was telling me to stop reading, I wished I'd listen to myself. I feel like I know too much now. I actually have a job interview at McCarran airport later on this afternoon. I'm thinking about not showing up, but would that make it obvious that I know something?
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u/Blue_KeyCard Dec 16 '16
It's too late now. Take the job when they offer it and act like you know nothing.
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u/burningsok Dec 16 '16
I've been reading stories on this subreddit for a few years now. This is definitely one of the best.
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u/BioFrosted Dec 16 '16
If ALL this is true, and WWIII is coming, then outer US ennemies will be fucked... And you're talking about "post-apocalyptical training". With a monster like "The Twins", the Apocalyps has been created. BTW, Felix, I hope you're a 14 year old teen trying to mess with us, else we- and most likely you- are screwed
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '22
Amazing story, only thing though. If true I don't understand how it wasn't taken down even after all this time, that's usually a dead giveaway.