Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Ever since Richard Shaver's stories of the Deros half a century ago, it seems that we have been trying to put aliens "underground", so to speak. Even further back than that, if one enters the world of myth and legend and of the hollow earth.

Underground bases are certainly real. Is it any surprise to find that many, if not most, military bases and government centers have underground components? Think back to the 1950s and 60s, if you were alive then. If you're too young, then ask your parents. The cold war was raging, and Americans believed that there was a real danger of attack with nuclear weapons. In most every American

This self-sufficient underground city was built to house the U.S. government in the event of a nuclear attack. It's now said to be the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). These are just a few of the hundreds of underground installations of various sizes across the country. It would be no surprise at all to find that every U.S. military base, where it's practical, has an underground bunker. What about defense-related industries? Sure. State governments? Bunkers under Governor's mansions and state legislature buildings? Why not?


ALIENS UNDER THE GROUND?

What do you think?

An Alien Base at Dulce?

Many of these maps also purportedly show the locations of underground alien bases. Archuleta Mesa, near Dulce, New Mexico, is the place most often mentioned as the site of an underground alien base, with Area 51 being a close second. It's very likely that there is an underground facility at Area 51, but the evidence for an alien presence is apparently rumor and nothing more.

How did Archuleta Mesa, or Mount Archuleta, become a suspected alien base? It goes back to about 1979, when Paul Bennewitz, a physicist from Albuquerque, NM, went up to the area to investigate cattle mutilations on ranches near Archuleta Mesa.
Around the same time, Bennewitz and Dr. Leo Sprinkle made the acquaintance of Myrna Hansen, an abductee who claimed she had been taken to an underground base by aliens after being abducted in northern New Mexico. Apparently, Bennewitz put these two things together, plus a few UFO sightings that he himself had at Mount Archuleta, and came up with the idea that there must be an alien base inside the mountain. Bennewitz' theory was picked up by John Lear and others, and soon the idea had taken hold, with more stories of the base being added by people such as Phil Schneider. Perhaps Bennewitz should have looked closer to home. Richard Sauder says that there is a large underground base at Manzano, which was practically within shouting distance of Bennewitz' home.

Is there a base, either alien or military, underneath Mount Archuleta? An Indian reservation is a very unlikely place for such a base. Reservations are owned by their Native American occupants, who generally don't take kindly to the government coming in and using their land for such purposes. A location on the Nevada Test Site would be more likely. Mount Archuleta has no security to speak of. The area is open to oil, gas, and coal exploration. Anyone can come and go as long as they don't antagonize the Jicarilla Indians. Several people have gone and checked out the site. Most people who go there don't find any evidence of an underground base.

THIS LITTLE ARTICLE IS FROM THE FOLLOWING PAGE:
 http://ufos.about.com/cs/governmentsecrets/a/aa032204.htm




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Word of the Day for Tuesday March 23, 2004

woebegone WOE-buh-gon; -bee-, adjective:
1. Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful.
2. Being in a sorry condition; dismal-looking; dilapidated; run-down.

Socrates, condemned to death by the people of Athens, prepares to drink a cup of hemlock, surrounded by woebegone friends.
--Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

This woebegone lot includes Henry, a real-estate developer whose dream project has, like his marriage, slipped into bankruptcy; Henry's sister, Wiloma, who has hurled herself headlong into the arms of a New Age church to survive her own divorce; and Henry and Wiloma's decrepit Uncle Brendan, a former monk whose faith has eroded along with his health, stranding him in a nursing home.
--Jennifer Howard, review of The Forms of Water, by Andrea Barrett, New York Times, June 13, 1993

After 40 years as a producer he thinks of himself as a battered, scarred but well-armoured animal, "like an old turtle"; and if such creatures could speak they would probably sound like [him], a bit woebegone but drolly unsurprised by life's vicissitudes.
--"Time for another Hugo hit," Times (London), May 22, 2000

Woebegone is from Middle English wo begon, from wo (from Old English wo, woo, "grief") + begon, past participle of begon, "to go about, to beset," from Old English began, bigan, from bi-, "around, about" + gan, "to go."

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for woebegone


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