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ursi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 11:14 PM
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Secret’s out about field we can’t talk about (Area 51)
(sometimes we need a break from all the serious news)

Mon, Jan 21, 2008 (2 a.m.)

Area 51, the top-secret military installation tucked away in a remote part of the Southern Nevada desert, apparently wasn’t always so top-secret.

While doing research for a story on the Las Vegas 51s and their nickname, we stumbled on a satellite image of Area 51 on Google Maps. After we zoomed in as close as possible, there is one fixture that sticks out among the myriad buildings and runways: a baseball diamond. Actually, based on the skin infield, it’s probably a softball diamond — a lighted softball diamond, at that.

Who in the world — or elsewhere — would be playing softball in the middle of the Mojave Desert? Is it even really a softball diamond? Perhaps it’s some sort of cloaking device masking a recovered UFO as a softball diamond. Or maybe it is a softball diamond, used by the military to assimilate captured aliens into our culture by teaching them the game of baseball.

Inquiring minds that we are, we decided to place a call to the public affairs office at Nellis Air Force Base to find out exactly who — or what — is using the field.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jan/21/secrets-out-about-field-we-cant-talk-about/
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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 11:31 PM
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God, that's somebodys LIFE.
They get up, hop on the bus to area 51, and play some softball. Weird, weird, weird.
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tomreedtoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 12:06 AM
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3. No, that's some THING'S life.
They come down to defeat our Earth teams once a week. It makes them feel good and keeps them from unleashing that Cloverfield monster on a city that really counts (New York doesn't).
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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 12:07 AM
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4. LOL!!!!
:rofl:
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ursi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 12:08 AM
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7. ROFLMAO!!!!
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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 11:31 PM
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1. delete dupe.
Edited on Tue Jan-22-08 11:31 PM by lvx35
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Cheap_Trick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 12:01 AM
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2. if we built it
they will come
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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 12:07 AM
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5. hehehe! nt
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 12:08 AM
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6. Top secret stuff
It must be where they test the steroids.
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catnhatnh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 12:27 AM
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8. I hear the baselines are 270' long....
so that the biggest and fastest catchers in the free world can safely slide to a stop....then they are returned to homeplate atop a specially designed sumo wrestler...
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