Special Report: Area 51 Uncovered

[133724]

Feb. 23) -- The infamous Nevada military base known as Area 51 is one of the most secretive places on Earth. For years, the government wouldn't even admit the base existed. Eyewitness News has aired many stories about the base over the years but we've never had much of a look inside -- until now. A private satellite company has developed something that allows people to fly in and take a look.

Anyone who's ever tested the outer perimeter of Area 51 knows about the security cameras and hidden sensors, about the cammo patrols and ominous signs and armed choppers. Now, however, it's possible to fly over all those security measures, to slip silently over the mountains, head for the dry lake, and take a birds eye view of everything inside Area 51.

This software isn't a toy. It's not a video game. It's the result of high-resolution satellite photos taken by the commercial satellite IKONOS , which was launched into space in 1999 and was hired a year later to photograph this once supposedly non-existent facility.

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=1662942&nav=168XKCXa

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Their links are dead

FUNNY

[Kutjara]

2. The photos appear to be gone from the site already.

Even better, the article is dated Feb 23. <cue Twilight Zone music>

[133724]

3. cool time travel... I always wondered what they did there...n/t

[Bryn]

4. Pixs taken down?

I think men in black came

[Liberal In Texas]

5. Yep, looks like they're gone. However, last I looked, you could still get some pretty good images

on Google Earth. Just, well, google it.