Unknown object crash near Area 51 fuels cover-up claims

The news investigators telling you for several weeks now about a mysterious object of unknown origin that fell from the sky and crashed just near Area 51 in tonight the public is still in the dark so that crash

was quickly covered up both literally and figuratively. 8 News now chief investigator George Knapp thinks the official story is told by the military is false and

we are lucky because George joins us here in t

surprised, pretty much everything told to the public since then is pure fiction. You can see this in F18. Scanners and computers inside this room listen to and record radio traffic inside Area 51 round the clock. On the morning of September 23rd, Jörg Arnu heard some astonishing news.

Had my cup of coffee and I'm listening to Area 51 security. And all of a sudden there's they get very serious lockdown. The base

Arnew learned there had been a large but totally secret air operation in the middle of the night and that

something had gone wrong. So we just had an asset go down. We had an asset go down. This is this is not creached down. This is not Creech security, this is Area 51 security. And they had an asset go down. And then the next day...

He picked up details about strict security measures which were implemented almost immediately. Not only was Area 51 itself locked down, but within a very short time, so too was a large swath of the Ticaboo Valley. It became clear that some kind of craft had crashed miles outside of Area 51's boundaries on public land adjacent to Highway 375, also known as the E.T. Highway. Arnu jumped in his truck and headed south from his home in Rachel. But while driving on what's known as Mailbox Road, he ran into an armed patrol.

They had the gun in front of them, not pointed at me, but very visibly in front of them. And it was clear they meant business.

He backtracked and headed south on the E.T. Highway to Groom Lake Road, the main entrance to the base. It too was blocked off by sheriff's deputies and military security. A military helicopter with an

attached basket was sitting there, presumably ready to haul out wreckage of something. A pair of porta potties suggested the team planned to be there for a while.

Almost the entire Ticaboo Valley

was shut down at the little alien in Rachel. Employees were in the dark about a crash but saw the beefed up security and closed off roads and knew something big was unfolding. Crashes are not an everyday occurrence out here, but locals have seen plenty of them over the decades. If this thing

would have crashed anywhere in restricted airspace, i

would have never known ab away from the presumed cra aerospace sleuths on his resort dot com began gath bits and pieces of inform the closure of airspace o

in the valley. That was a days after the crash, the security teams vanished. Arnu went back out for a look. The Air Force had used heavy equipment to plow a dirt road across a section of desert. Arnu followed it and found what he thought was the crash site, then shared it online. That's when things got strange, even by Area 51 standards. A second wave

descended on the site, pr any remaining debris, but to cover the entire area of dirt, literally a cover base, which is home to a and other U. A. V. S. Iss

that the quote unmanned aircraft was one of theirs. The same statement claimed someone had been tampering with the crash site and had scattered assorted pieces from other aircraft along with an inert training bomb. The Air Force said the FBI was investigating this alleged tampering at the site. Arnu was amused

but not convinced. The only thing they could get that person for is littering on public land.

That's the story, is it came from Creech and now the FBI is investigating. You think that's bogus?

That's absolutely bogus. I think that was designed to make people not go there.

Arnu drove back out and realized the site he first videotaped was a staging area, not the crash site. 200 yards away, the telltale burn marks on Joshua trees indicated this was where the object slammed into the earth. Both he and another aerospace explorer found pieces of who knows what debris that came from something other than a drone, seemingly planted to confuse anyone who conf looking. But they also fo

the dirt that are likely

pretty sure that this pie

aircraft. Arnou who was a reaper crash years earlie way the Air Force could e of a crashed aircraft. So and sprinkled in some mis earlier says there's no w ever recover every piece So they added some dirt a misdirection instead. If

do just that. Is there a crashed on the dreamland including former military contractors chimed in. Th that the drone was one of the latest generation of AI-controlled craft that accompany advanced fighter planes

and can act independently to get the job done.

The Next Generation Air Dominance Project is the big thing at Area 51. So the pilot flies along and says, hey, there's a target on the ground, drone one, go check it out, and if it's a bad guy, take care of it. drone one goes and does the rest.

If the military wants to keep a secret about strange things that fall out of the sky, they have many tools at their disposal. Lock down the base, seal off the public land, put out a cover story, sprinkle some disinformation over the whole thing. Arne, who says the middle of night operation that ended with the crash is one of the biggest he's ever heard of, nicknamed Black Flag. He has a good idea which hangar at the Area 51 base houses the unknown drones, but is not willing to say more. It is after almost three years to the day since FBI agents kicked in the door of his home

and carted away his computers and cameras. No charges have ever been filed. Back to you. their own. And he's been charged with a crime of attempted murder. He's been charged with a crime of

attempted murder. Today his computers and cameras. No charges have ever been filed back to you. And George. What I really like to say is there's so much more behind a

press release, right? That press release that came in the first one that we talked about here said it was an incident didn't even say it like X files right in our own back. George wants to take Denise and I out there on a bus tour, so we are thinking about sign us up. Hey, if you missed any of that report,

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