Search: The Web or BeYoND-THe-iLLuSioN Only 
From: "Nicky Molloy" 
Subject: IUFO: Argyll, Scotland - The UK's Area 51?
Date: 4 Mar 2000 00:24:32 -0500
To: "Armageddon or New Age?" ,
        "IUFO" ,
        "Andrew Hennessey" 


->  IUFO  Mailing List

http://www.sightings.com/ufo2/uks51.htm
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
SIGHTINGS
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----

Argyll, Scotland -
The UK's Area 51?
By Robert McNeil
www.scotsman.com
2-6-99


PICTURE the scene in a remote Highland glen. Sheep are munching grass, a
hawk flies overhead, a fish in the stream comes up for a fly, and men in
white masks are dismantling a space ship.

Is it a film, is it a scene from a sci-fi novel? No, it's a very real
possibility, according to the author of a recently published book on UFO
sightings in Scotland.

Ron Halliday, the chairman of Scottish Earth Mysteries Research, claimed
yesterday that remote areas of rural Scotland could be the equivalent of the
notorious Area 51 in the United States, where secret aircraft are supposedly
tested and where the alleged alien victims of the Roswell Incident were
taken for dissection.

According to Mr Halliday, one prime candidate for Scotland's Area 51 could
be the former NATO base at Machrihanish in Argyll, which has long been the
subject of rumour and often bizarre speculation. The idea was shot out of
the skies by the Ministry of Defence yesterday, but believers, or the
self-deluding, are unlikely to be deterred.

Expounding on his book, Mr Halliday, who works as an assistant registrar at
Stirling University, said the MoD owned huge areas of land in Scotland where
no-one knew what they were up to.

He said: "I often wonder why the MoD needs to hold on to such enormous
acreage, as most of it rarely seems to be used, though it may be that I've
been too short-sighted and some of these sites have been put to mysterious
use.

"These are parts of Scotland where people just never visit because access is
so difficult. Extra-terrestrial flying discs could be stored here as,
geographically, we're in a good situation for communication with London, the
US and western Europe."

Mr Halliday, who has been investigating paranormal activity for 20 years,
said the runway at Machrihanish was huge, and the base so well protected it
would have been ideal for testing secret technology.

In his book, he writes: "For several years rumours have circulated regarding
the nature of the secret activities that were carried out at this site and
the experimental craft that may have landed here.

"Machrihanish would be an ideal spot from which to operate aircraft
technology that the Government wanted to keep secret - including devices
allegedly developed from captured alien discs."

He said yesterday anecdotal evidence was plentiful about alien technology
having fallen on Britain, but there was a frustrating lack of documentary
evidence caused by the establishment's habitual clandestine approach.

"There is just a general climate of secrecy in this country. The Government
and the military in particular don't believe anyone should know what is
going on apart from themselves," he said.

However, local people living in the village of Machrihanish were sceptical
about there being anything worth knowing. Visitors from the Outer Hebrides
were one thing, but callers from Outer Space quite another.

One woman at the golf club, who perhaps unsurprisingly did not wish to be
named, said: "I doubt this is happening. The airport may explain flying
objects in the night. There are no aliens here and we're all pretty human."

MoD officials were even more dismissive, denying the UK had any involvement
in storing or testing UFOs.

A spokesman said: "We do not have any such bases. And if we are talking
about UFOs, the only interest we have is in how their presence would
allegedly impact our defence of the UK if they were to exist."

Area 51 is located in the middle of the Nevada desert and has long attracted
wide attention, from cults to the plain curious. Officially, it is an air
force base and nuclear testing site, but it was said to be the base where
bodies and technology from an alleged UFO crash near Roswell, a remote New
Mexico town, were taken in 1947.


UFO Scotland by Ron Halliday is published by B&W at £7.99
http://www.scotsman.com/news/ne22spoo990206.1.html

---


Or...Is This The Truth?

Posted by Paul Ross

Disclaimer: The file contained in the box above or displayed in a separate window from a link in the box above is NOT owned nor implied to be owned by BeYoND THe iLLuSioN. Most files at BeYoND THe iLLuSioN are originally from public Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) which were popular in the days before the Internet or from gopher, web, and FTP sites from the early days of the Internet which no longer exist today. Essentially, all files were acquired from the public domain in one for or another.

However, there have been occasions when copyright protected material has appeared on BeYoND THe iLLuSIoN without permission of the copyright holder. In these instances, we have and will continue to remove the copyright protected file as soon as it is brought to our attention. This can now be done using our Report Copyright Material form. Fill out the form, and the webmaster will be notified of the situation.

There are also times when files found on BeYoND THe iLLuSioN have a real home somewhere else on the Internet. In these instances, we will gladly replace the file with a link to its true home whenever it is brought to our attention. If you know of the true home of any of these files, you can use our Report Original URL form to bring it yo our attention.