WEBVTT - Area 51 and the Surveillance Industrial Complex: Spooky Week #3 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:10.319 Kill them all. This has been it could happen here 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:16.040 the show where I just kill them all? Harrison and Chris, 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:20.240 do you want to I want to take over? Oh boys, 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.000 woke up. I haven't have coffee yet. That is incredibly 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.720 spooky murder. Well, it is spooky. You're right, this is true. 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.040 I didn't realize that until Joe's now, but retroactively that 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:37.760 makes it fine spooky. Yeah, what are we doing? Who 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.560 are we? We're we're doing We're where it can happen here, 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:44.000 We're doing this is this is This is a podcast 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.919 where we talk about spooky stuff that happens around Halloween, 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.800 and today we are doing the spookiest thing of all, 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.760 which will be revealed shortly. Oh boy, I hope it's 0:00:55.800 --> 0:01:00.560 Will Wheaton. Is not what Wheaton? Well, unfortunately the spook 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:02.680 I really I really should have looked for that tie 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:06.240 in because there might be one. Is the CIA asset? 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.680 We might get there? I don't know. Okay, see this 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:12.199 is this is I'm hacking a fraud and I didn't 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:17.880 actually look into this. Yeah, well we missed it, you 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.560 and most journalists. Yeah, all right, what are we? What 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.080 are we doing? What do we do? It? On June four, 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.880 a rancher named W. W. Mac Brazil and his son 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.160 Vernon with driving me across their property when they encountered 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.640 quote a large area of bright wreckage made up of 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.800 rubber strips, tinfoil, and rather tough paper and sticks. Yeah 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:44.240 me too, Just a regular night in in in Oregon. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.000 But yeah, yeah, well buzzles back in a time where 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.960 people are baffled when weird things happened, instead of going 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.760 oh it's Tuesday, so oh man, what a time. Yeah, 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.080 so they didn't just go straight to Twitter. No, no, 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.200 he he, you know, he doesn't think that was Actually, 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.440 you know, I kind of like reasonably a reasonably responsible 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.760 thing to do in which is that he spends about 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.520 a week like picking up all of the scraps that 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:09.359 he can and like putting them in a box, and 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.880 that he drives it to the sheriff, and the sheriff 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.000 his name is George Will. That says a lot about 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.760 the difference in urgency back then, where it's like, oh, 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.600 this is important, I'll spend a week getting everything together, 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.360 take it off to the share. Like before the Internet, 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:30.240 you could really afford to sit. It was an era 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.440 in which, like if you had a busy life. Three 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:40.519 things happened. Okay, yeah, So so George Wilcox, the sheriff, 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:42.920 looks at this and it's like, I have no idea 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.160 what any of this crap is, Like, what is happening? 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:49.079 So he takes it to Roswell Air Force Base for 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:55.200 further investigation. Now, Colonel Butch Blache, the commander of Roswell 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.720 Airfields of five O nine Composite Group you know send 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.000 sends a team out to analyze the wreckage, which includes 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.440 an Air Force intelligence officer named Major Major Jesse Marcel. 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.480 Now Marcel gives a now infamous series of quotes to 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.480 the media that results in the Roswell Daily Record running 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.519 the sentence quote. The Intelligence office of the five O 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.880 ninth Bombardment Group at Roswell Airfield announced at noon that 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.600 the field has come into possession of a flying saucer. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.520 Now this is the birth. Yeah, I mean, this isn't 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.760 the birth of modern uphiology, but this is, you know this, 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.639 this is one of the most important error events. And 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.760 the pictures do rule all of all of the Roswell 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.840 pictures are super rad because it's just random ship in 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.720 the field and they're like it's aliens. There's a random 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.520 ship in the field. Now, this this is all happening 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.040 to be just like like scattered sort of reports of 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.120 UFOs that have been cropping up throughout the sort of 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.240 like the post war era. Yeah, and the next day, 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.720 the Air Force releases a statement saying there's no flying 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.320 saucer in the wreckage. Is just an air balloon? Is 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.960 this you know it's it's it's just why the are yeah, yeah, 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:05.960 so the airport sure air Force weather balloon. Yeah. Yeah, 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.600 they're lying. Everyone knows they're lying. But this is where 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.120 things get bad, because when Mark Brazil really discovered with 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:17.000 something even spookier and more sinister an aliens. Mark Brazil 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:23.200 had discovered was the American military industrial complex. That's what's 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.560 really spooky. It's it's it's real spooky. It's yeah, we're 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:28.560 by by by the end of this episode they will 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.640 have I had to cut two times. They almost killed 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.840 everyone on Earth. Okay, well all right, so we're gonna 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.600 be judging folks for almost killing everyone on Earth, like 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.599 you haven't almost killed everyone on Earth? Come on, that's true, 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.800 that's true. Podcasting saves me from a mass distinction of 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:50.160 the entire human race and will eventually end all life 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.920 on this planet. I believe in podcastings potential to kill 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:58.000 absolutely everyone. Yeah, it's it's great, It's it's a time. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.200 It's actually you know this part part of this is 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.440 actually going to be about how we get to the 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.440 point where everyone is podcasting on the internet, develop things 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:12.880 that that does. This does absolutely plague in to the 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.839 swell incident. Yeah, because there's a there's a strong line 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.720 between ship like Coast to Coast FM and the old 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:25.320 like conspiracy you know, the precursors to that alien UFO 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.200 whatever radio shows and ship on the on the wide 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.839 band back in the day, and uh in the podcasts 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.160 where we are right now. Yep, it's it's great, it's 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.160 a it's a good time. We're descended from great media. 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.520 We're going to continue to produce green media where totally 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.320 not just like an extremely a much larger version of 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.200 the radio broadcast you get right before genocide. That's like, 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.800 that's not what's happening here. It's all in fact good 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.440 and cool. I mean, this is why I tell people 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.800 to get machetes. It's true. That was a bad yeah, 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.280 made that made that comment. Look, we just we just 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.919 we just we just go to make sure only ways 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:07.880 to blaze on right ahead. Now, the Air Force is 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:09.640 lying out of its ass. But the Air Force isn't 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:11.279 lying out of its ass because they have a flying saucer. 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.400 The Air Force knows precisely what they've gotten their hands 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.960 on here because the other identified flying object that has 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.240 crashed at Roswell is actually something called Project Mogul. Now 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.400 to understand Project Mogul, we need to go back a 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:27.919 little bit. Now, in the US drops two nuclear bombs 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.800 of Japan. And this does a lot of things literally, 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.120 all of which are bad um. And what one of 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.480 which is that it sets off a sort of and 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.920 it's it sets off you know, the thing that we 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.839 all live in now, which is the nuclear arms race 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:44.080 between the U S and the U S s R. 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.840 Who you know, but pretty quickly after World War Two 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:51.000 are just bitter enemies. And you know, by there's just 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.719 bores raging across the world between commnist anti companist forces. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.000 This is what's war in China, I mean in Greece, 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.400 which I think people know. People know more about the 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:03.160 Chinese of war, people know less about Greece. Were just 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.560 like the British. The British are like, oh, the Communis 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.880 are gonna take power, so they just like give all 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.920 the guns back to the fascists and they start doing 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.120 the Holocaust again, and that you know, sets off this 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:18.400 own and another civil war there. And you know, as 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.400 as as Europe becomes you know, divided between the two 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.960 great powers, the US becomes increasingly worried about the USSR 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.440 crying acquiring their own nuclear weapons. So to detect the 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:31.320 potential Soviet nuclear tests, the US embarked on Project Mogel. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.760 Project Mogul sent six d and fifty seven foot balloons. 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.480 These are like massive, they're twice the size. That's actue 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.960 of liberty. Yeah, those balloons are bigger than a balloon 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.560 needs to be. Yeah, they're they're too large. It's too 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.320 big for balloons. And they so they load these balloons 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.960 with like sensor and listening equipment to detecting nuclear detonation. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.080 They like they like float them into the upper jet stream, 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:55.720 and the jet team like pushed them to Russia. Is 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.160 sort of the plan behind it, And this sort of works, 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.200 except the Russians of nukes yet. So yeah, this, by 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.520 the way, is also why the song Red Balloons was 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.880 not just a banger, but also very realistic because we 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.000 absolutely could have had a nuclear exchange over some fucking balloons. 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:17.680 Oh yeah, yeah, Actually I'm not sure there's any direct 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:23.280 balloon related near nuclear exchanges in this episode, but don't worry. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.720 It happen. Yeah, well, you know, and what what what 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.920 it did actually do was, you know, set off the 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.600 modern UFO thing because you know what, one of these 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.319 balloons like fails and it's it's views the records around 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:44.120 and you know there's yeah, this this, you know, this 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:45.720 is this. Then you see a bunch of the problems 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:47.400 that are gonna happen with the rest of how the 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.200 course of UFOs God, because you know, you have initially 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:52.920 the government's like we have a flying saucer and then 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.080 they turn around and do this like incredibly half ass 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.800 cover up that like everyone knows his fake and you know, 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.559 you know, because Americans are Americans, they don't assume that 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:07.079 like the US is, you know, creating a devastating new 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.720 surveillance and intelligence program that would used to further total 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.080 nuclear war. Instead there you go, it's aliens. Yeah, because 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.000 we're great at Okins Raiser. Yeah, yeah, it's it's a time. 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.839 But I think what's really important here is it. What 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.160 Brazil had actually made first contact with was America's new 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.280 thermal nuclear monarchy. And this is something that I think 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.960 more people should talk about, which is that having nukes 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.839 just as a thing massively centralizes power into sort of 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.120 individual people, into the executive branch. Because you know, so 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:39.920 if you have nuclear weapons, right, the theory is that 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.880 you have to have one person who presses the button 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.640 to shoot them, and you can't have like, you know, 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.640 there's not enough time for like a parliament or delivered 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.439 or body to like set the dukes off. And so 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.840 this becomes this rationale for enormously centralizing the party executive branch. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:10:00.040 And this this produces an absolutely terrifying new way you 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:04.240 state secrecy, filled with increasingly powerful and clandestine government agencies 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.679 and bureaucracies ranging from the CIA are good friends to 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.920 the much lesser known Atomic Energy Commission, and these agencies 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.880 the power of their secrecy is so strong that, I mean, 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:20.520 by the NIES, atomic Energy Commissions like successor agency decides 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.280 that they can keep secrets from the president on the 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.960 basis that the president does not need to know, which 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.920 is absolutely horrifying. Well, yeah, I mean, look, it's just 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.760 you've got a democracy, and that's going to be a 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.840 problem because in a democracy, people presumably get to make choices, 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.240 and if you don't want them to decide not to 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.160 continue making weird ship to throw into the sky, then 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:49.320 you know why, you probably should just not tell anybody anything. Yeah, well, 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.720 and that that particular story is also grim I it's 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.280 one thing that's debating covering they're they're covering up the 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.440 fact that they deliberately poisoned enormous like hundreds and hundreds 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.760 of people with radiation, did human testing on them. Yeah, 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.240 it doesn't like it doesn't need to know about you know. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.120 I mean it's like we don't tell Sophie. Guys, a 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.080 lot of the things that we do our budget. Um, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.959 like when we irradiated all those people for a podcast, 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.800 we're we're still not telling Sophie that. Yeah, it could 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.679 happen here, black budget remain secret. Yeah, it is a 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:29.160 lot of money. Please continue. Now, all of the secrecy 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.280 around this and the fact that these cover ups are 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.520 like the most half asked ship anyone has ever seen, 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.640 you know, it continue it fuels his rampant speculation around 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.040 UFOs and the conspiracy theorists are also aided by the 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.319 fact that people keep seeing weird flying objects. Sure do 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.760 we love we love to see weird ship in this guy. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.479 We are very good at it. Yeah, it's we're we're incredible. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.160 It's it and this guy is full of weird. It's true. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:59.920 I saw crow the other day anyway. Yeah, in ind 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.920 if people start who are on airplanes start seeing these 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.320 just enormous flaming crosses flying in possibly high and possibly 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:13.120 fastened the sky and publicly k k's game spaceflight, it's 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:17.920 it's worse than that. It's it's it's the people. The 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.400 people doing this are worse than the KKK, which is 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:25.240 what a sentence. It's great, it's yeah. So so you know, 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.000 in public, the U S. Governments like whatever, these aren't 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.000 a thing. They're fake whatever their mediological to services. Uh. 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.760 In private, the passengers who are on these jets that 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.959 that see these flaming crosses are all detained by the 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.880 FBI and sworn to secrecy after providing accounts of what 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.320 they'd seen. Awesome and yeah, and this this is also 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.800 part of the surf ufil mythology. And this does actually happen, 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.840 like that the FBI does actually show up to these people. Well, 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:50.760 that's who you send in when you want people to 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.760 stop wondering if something shady is going on. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.600 it's here. The FBI is telling people to shut up 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.160 about something. I think, well, that's not worth looking into 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.719 it all. When of five men in suits and sunglasses 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.920 show that your talk about something, you know, that means 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.800 definitely thing is fine and normal. You know what I 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.840 don't think of when I think of the FBI UFO 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.199 cover ups. It's great. Yeah, this is this. This is 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.280 America's first contact with yet another new part of its 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:24.040 clandestine military military bureaucracy. Area fifty one. Area fifty one 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:28.040 is a secret military aeronautics research and development facility built 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.520 on a salt flat called Lake Groom inside the massive 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.959 Nevada Test and Training Range. Um. This place, by the way, 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:35.880 this place is massive. This place is like the size 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.280 of connect Like it's like larger than Connecticut. It's larger 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.760 than than most of the Eastern State. Yeah, it's enormous. 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.720 And but you know it's something I think it's very 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.200 interesting about this is that, for all it's mystique. Area 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.480 fifty one is not the most dangerous facility on the 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.719 Nevada Tests and Training right now. That's there fifty two, 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.600 the sub level below where they store the real weird ship. Yeah, okay, 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.199 so I watched I watched a few YouTube videos. I 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.120 think I know what I'm talking about. Well, definitely so 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:03.559 that we are actually going to get all right, Yeah, Well, 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.920 the thing that's actually really dangerous is areas twelve, nineteen 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:12.199 and twenty, because that's the Nevedic areas. Do these motherfucker's 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:16.560 names there? All these things? Yeah, all the other thing 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.199 because I mean this this this is like a state 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.960 sized like testing facility, right, Okay, they get all these 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.640 fucking areas, but the branch Davidians have one compound where 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.560 they don't even do very many illegal things, and suddenly 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.800 it's a problem. Here's the thing. Let's see Howans never 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.560 had nukes, and that that that that could could you 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:39.360 imagine though pretty amazed. You know what if they'd had nukes, 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:43.560 about like eight people would still be alive maybe they 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:47.520 actually or everyone would be dead. Yeah, that's the two 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.360 a d. People would be alive or everyone on earth 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:55.480 would be did so. Area fifty one is the partner 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.920 of the Nevada Test Site, which which is Areas twelve 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.560 nineteen and twenty and that's where the real danger ship happens, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.400 which is the US test nuclear weapons there. Okay, but 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.560 we need to make it clear at the outset we 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.520 should not be underestimating Area fifty one. That place has 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.960 done irreparable harm to the cause of world peace and 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.800 very nearly like cause us all to go extinct several times. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.520 So do not underestimate the power of of of military 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:26.720 spy airplanes. Yeah, can lead us all destruction. Are honestly 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.680 way more, way, more spooky than any little gray creatures 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:34.560 at large. Different various planes just with cameras on them 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.520 have gotten us closer to the extermination of all life 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:43.280 on Earth than basically anything else except for that one 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.280 computer buck that that the Russians had that would have 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.280 killed us all if not for Petrov I think his 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.120 name is, I'd forget his last name. That one guy 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:52.800 who was like, we're not going to have a new 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.320 clear Ward right now. Well, there's there's a lot this is. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.800 This is weirdly the Soviets come out looking like so 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.680 it's like every every time there's almost a nuclear war, 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.000 it's like it doesn't happen because the Soviets are like, no, 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.600 and the Americans are like, we want this war and 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:14.680 the like when it comes to atomic apocalypse stories, if you, 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.080 if you, if you tally up all the columns, because 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.400 the Soviets definitely have a few in their side, but 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.520 it winds up way more fucked up nuke incidents on 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.040 the U S side of things than the Soviet side 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.360 of things. Although there wasn't that time they built a 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.440 bomb so big that it might have changed to the 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.320 tilt of the earth if they and at the last 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.640 moment they were like, let's take half of the zile 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.000 material out of this. This seems like a bad idea. 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.240 It's it's great, Yeah, so so speak speaking of bad 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:49.920 ideas involving in involving nuclear weapons. So are oh no, 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:54.920 I not thought you're doing a yeah speaking speaking bad ideas. 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.560 You know what else will change the tilt of the earth? 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.520 The products and sir us is their quality. It's so 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:08.359 intent that it's like the Czar bomba it is just 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:23.840 like that explosive potential. Yeah. Area fifty one was founded 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.439 in nineteen one by the Atomic Energy Commission, a federal 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.960 agency established as a successor to the mother of all 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:34.480 black projects, the Manhattan Project. Now black projects are secret 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.960 off the book's military defense projects, the existence of which 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.679 are kept secret even from Congress, which is a totally 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:41.840 cool and normal thing to have in a democracy when 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:46.040 you're representative body does not know what anyone else what 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.760 the military is doing. Now, Area fifty one is interesting 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:52.879 because it's it's basically like a black project for a 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.600 black project. It's so secret that like the Vice President 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.960 lb J, who is like not a funk off right Price, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:07.600 tod right, this is lv J, Like LBJ, He's he's like, yeah, yeah, 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.280 and she's also gonna show up the story briefly, but yeah, 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.920 like even he didn't actually really know what was going 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.240 on there until like after JFK was assassinated. So this 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:20.560 this place is really secret, and as best we can tell, 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.199 in its first four years, it was essentially the Atomic 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:29.440 Energy Commission. I basically wanted a place to do off 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.440 the books, like pilot and aircraft testing, and they're able 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.280 to do the successfully that like we basically don't know 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:39.200 what they did for four years. But yeah, but but 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:41.919 but in nete five, the facility has taken over by 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:47.000 an even spooky organization, the Central Intelligence Agency, our our 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:51.879 old friends. Now that the c I a you know, 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.440 this is this nine five, and the CIA has spent 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.040 the early years of the Cold War getting just it's 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.800 absolute ass handed to it in Europe because you know, 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:01.760 this is what happens with a bunch of different Harvard 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:05.360 grads and like yeah, because people with acid and that's 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.880 all they're doing. Yeah. Yeah. But the problem, so they're 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.119 running into a real intelligence agency, which is the KGB, 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.760 who like, like those guys do not around. I don't 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.800 just poison people with acid. They they they they're they 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.640 they're They're much much more intense than than the early 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.280 fifties the CIA. Yeah, yeah, and so and so they 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.719 have this real problem which is that they the CIA 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.520 basically can't get intelligence out of Eastern Europe, which is 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:33.119 bad when your whole, like your entire like state is 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.320 based off of like fighting Eastern Europe. So this kind 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.720 of your main target. Yeah. Yeah, So the solution is 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.160 to fly a plane really high over Russia and uses 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:47.879 to take pictures. Yeah, Like I think like this sounds 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:49.560 like I think kind of banal to us in the 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.480 twenty one century, where like this is this is like 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.640 this is like this is like pre satellite Yeah yeah, 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.360 and you know, like like we were all just sort 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.280 of used to the fact that like the government minutes 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.840 buying on us at all times. We sure are, but 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.359 you know, in in in the nine this is incredibly radical. 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.800 Like the the US, the US has only had intelligence 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.880 agencies for like ten years, and there is no precedent 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.080 at all. There's none, no precedent for flying surveillance over 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:19.560 a country you aren't actively at war with, Like the 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.160 only reason you fly airplane over countries if you're about 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:25.040 to bomb them. People should note also that like the 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.480 first ten years or so that we had an intelligence industry, 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.119 every single or that we had an intent like intelligence agencies, 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:36.320 every single vote for funding them, every single like vote 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:40.040 for giving them new powers was like universally supported by 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:43.600 both parties. There was there was zero dissent about whether 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:45.399 or not we should have a c I A and 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.479 they should have a giant black budget to do all 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:49.760 sorts of scary ship that might provoke a nuclear war. 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:52.920 People are just like, well, of course it's really bad, 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:54.680 and I think this is this is you know, this 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.960 is what Area fifty one actually is. The Area fifty 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.240 one is the place where the development the permanent intelligent 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:06.840 industrial complex is permanently solidified, and this all starts with 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:11.440 the you two. Now, the CIA brings in Luckeed Martin 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:15.040 and a little known but very powerful and influential defense 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:18.320 contractor called E. G and G. Who I mean, they 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.520 do a lot of stuff, but a defense contractor, Yeah, 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.000 it's it's it's it's like it's the ultimate defense contractor name. 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:25.760 And nobody knows who they are because they make like 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:29.960 cameras and like film equipment and stuff. But like, you know, 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.320 so these are the people who like made the cameras 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:36.240 that could take pictures of nucleus. Yeah, yeah, and you 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:38.080 know and so and so, the the CIA brings them 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.200 all to this like remote testing rage in Nevada to 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:43.240 work in a secret project called Dragon Lady. Now in 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:45.520 its early stages, Area fifty one is so secret that 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:48.159 like even the Air Force doesn't know about it. And 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:52.280 this like really pisss off the Air Force's senior senior generals, 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:54.240 in particular a guy who was going to become very 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:58.480 important to the story, Air Force General Curtis LeMay, who 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:04.359 like the man like that. I I don't say this 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:07.560 very often about historical figures, but like if someone had 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:11.040 assassinated General Curtis lomaid the world like we would like 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.600 the amount safer that the world would have been described 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:18.520 the architects of saturation bombing started in World War Two 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:23.800 and continuing. Uh and from up to now we didn't stop. 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.520 And that is that is not the worst thing he's 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:31.200 involved in, yeah, now, but in Lomay is extremely piste 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:34.359 off that the CIA doesn't tell about this, and he's 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:36.960 going to remember that that's gonna become important later in 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:39.600 this story. But eventually the CIA is forced to bring 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:41.680 the Air Force into Area fifty one for a number 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:44.880 of reasons, partially because they're flying airplanes, and partially because 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:46.440 the YouTube is like kind of a piece of ship, 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:49.440 you know, and part of it Okay, so they're learning 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:51.720 how to fly planes really high for the first time, 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:55.439