posted on Aug, 23 2006 @ 11:27 AM
The Groom Lake facility was never deserted/closed. The writer (from Popular Mechanics magazine) who drove to the fenceline and decided it was
abandoned simply took the wrong road. He ended up at a more remote section of the Nellis Range boundary, saw no activity, and decided to wite an
article about "Area 51" being cllosed.
His "work" was quickly debunked, but not before he had been interviewed for a Discovery Channel program called "Inside Area 51." Unfortunately, he
was a very last minute addition to the program, so it was too late to add any rebuttal interviews from people who knew better. As a result, most
viewers had the impression that the Groom Lake base had been closed despite the flood of evidence to the contrary. All this because of a jounalist
who was too lazy to do any real research.