They party among us

Skeptics, patriots and believers descend on Rachel to celebrate Area 51's 50th birthday

BY SKYLAIRE ALFVEGREN

"My belief is that it is all our technology."

The secrets of Area 51 got more attention when a group of former workers contended they were made sick by shoddy environmental policies practiced at the base, including the open-pit burning of stealth materials. But in 1995, President Bill Clinton, and later President George W. Bush, have issued executive orders allowing the Air Force to keep secret happenings at the base if classified secrets would be disclosed. That's made lawsuits all but impossible to prosecute.

Tall whites, star seeds

No mentions of Project Snowbird or Project Aurora, and little speculation on Bob Lazar and John Lear (who drew attention to Area 51 in the 1980s), could be overheard at the camp site -- but just up the Extraterrestrial Highway, a largely separate group of celebrants filed into the Rachel senior center for talks on alien and human hybrids and the "Tall Whites" one former Nellis employee claims to have encountered while working at Indian Springs.

"Albert Einstein, Angelina Jolie, David Bowie, Mother Teresa ... are all Star Seeds," said Richard Boylan while holding up a crude drawing of a reptoid creature by one of the "Star Kids," his name for earthly children genetically modified by extraterrestrial visitors.

Boylan believes humanity is in the midst of a major transformation.

"We're realizing that a dominance-oriented society doesn't work," he said, while engaging those gathered in a remote viewing exercise. "We're all at least two generation E.T. hybrids," he continued, expressing a wish for a special school (a la X Men) for the differently gifted youngsters. "If not for the intervention of the Star Visitors, we'd all be eating bananas and dragging our knuckles on the ground."

Whether toasting a half-century of aviation innovation or seeking a new paradigm complete with little gray men, everyone gathered on the Extraterrestrial Highway could agree on one thing this past weekend: The real show is in the sky.

Skylaire Alfvegren is a local freelance writer.

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