Pilot Ray Haupt talks Thursday about flying spy planes at Area 51, including the SR-71 Blackbird that appears behind him in a display at the Atomic Testing Museum. Photos by Craig L. Moran.From Review Journal:
Cold War missions in spotlight, not UFOs
Mystique about alien spaceships and little green men at Area 51 took a back seat Thursday to the real men who worked there for the CIA and the spy planes they flew during the Cold War.
In fact, a question about a link between the secret installation 90 miles north of Las Vegas and speculation about flying saucer debris and dead aliens from a 1947 crash site near Roswell, N.M., was glossed over as fiction during a panel discussion at the Atomic Testing Museum.
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