In the course of protecting our restrain at Dreamland Resort (see "Burning Ancient history"), SHADOWHAWK put in a group a moderately polite report of the tale Interceptor spin group. Grant were copious others, but these nine do the "Committee of Elders" who the rest of you are directly to bow down to. At distribute the Committee is 78% not dull, but this feature could attempt at any time. Shadowhawk's report, as posted:For community who don't unplanned their history, display were nine of us.Jim Goodall is considered to be the first. He was exact by a variety of secret message names (Yes, we all had nonsensical secret message names. We never took ourselves too momentously). Jim was variously exact as "The Put the last touches on One, Sales rep Orangey," and "Spy Two." He was an aviation create who acknowledged the Blackbirds and stealth aircraft from in advance the time copious of them were delcassified. He left agreat submission of time lurking shout Tonopah and Handle 51. For whatever logic, he was equally intrigued by the report of Bob Lazar, who claimed to carry on worked gone alien spacecraft in an underground government space. Jim silt, really, an flat surface nut, not a UFO nut and fix in aircraft resoration at the Museum of Migration in Seattle, Washington.John Andrews, "Spy One," of Testors Unyielding - the camaraderie that brought us platic models of the "F-19" and "SR-75" - was a male in all greetings, gone advanced refinement and dexterity than all the other Interceptors amassed. He worked for sparkle wily plastic model kits of both real and bookish military craft. His document rummage around was to release models of secret aircraft in advance the government notorious their existence. He voted for away specific sparkle ago.Trace Farmer, "Sales rep X," was a freelance essayist and photographer from Juneau, Alaska. He was incessantly one to provoke the grounds of the pack, be it in military watching, in hot-headed sports or in matters of vogue. He had all the latest hardware: night-vision goggles, drop, camera gone a massive telephoto lens, scanner radio, way of life victuals for a week. And of course he was in a classy manner attired in protection fatigues that were exactly moderate for this careful give related.Tom Mahood, "Undertake," was a interest group platform from Irvine, California, gone a secret work physics. At the rear slinking shout gone us feathers the barrier of Handle 51, he went on to serious a physics Master's regular in the grassland of wisdom, stirred by the aspiration to examination or uncover unquestionable UFO claims. He then worked for a grouchy time at a government laboratory in Washington Terra firma that was conducting hidden research participating in the silhouette of wisdom. He finally returned to interest group business. He was an roller investigator, real decided on solving the current mystery, whatever it it happened to be. In the same way as a mystery was solved, he cast it aside go for a ended crossword bewilder and stirred on. That was how he treated Handle 51. Tom was the race atmosphere exact to carry on climbed Tikaboo Face for the sincere purpose of screening Handle 51 and the firs t to wear a map out up to the height. He equally placed the crash site of an A-12 (Broadsheet 125).Mike Dornheim, "The Ayatollah," was a Los Angeles-based aviation essayist and arch-skeptic. As West Shoreline Editor for Aviation Week and Extent technology Journal, he fought unsucessfully opposed to publishing unendorsed stories about myhical aerospace planes. He understood in data, not hypothesis, but his was a distinct chimney weeping in the backwoods. He died in a disastrous car failure a few sparkle ago.Jim Bakos, "Sales rep Go like a bullet," was a active from Hemet, California, exact for his charming zeal, whose proudest work was the design and construction of the official Interceptor decoder headset. Sales rep Go like a bullet owned his own factor shop, stamping out singular metal connectors and other parts, and specific of his prevalent patrons were military contractors. Not wishing for to nibble the hand that feeds, Go like a bullet diffident a low recording on the road to the news media.Stuart Tan, "The Minister of Spoken communication," was a opposite dramatist for Dressed in Science magazine, rouse in Hollywood, California. He acknowledged specific of the Interceptors' antics in print and in monitor interviews. He without hesitation lives in New York.Glenn Campbell, "Psychospy," was the forlorn Interceptor who definitely lived denouement Handle 51. He was a processor programmer who developed an lush mean in all property linked to Handle 51 and stirred to Nevada(Does this fount go for anyone else we know?). In January 1993, he bag his camper from Boston to Rachel and stirred in put away the Slight A'Le'Inn. Haughty the entrance a variety of sparkle, he explored several detail of the area, published the "Handle 51 Viewer's Tourist information" and decide the opening dealings that brought the Interceptors in a group. He scheduled himself population associates executive for the secret base and entertained several form of visiting news media. He rate a rigid passage amongst beliver and debunker, and was advanced discerning in the psychlogican and cultural aspects of Handle 51 than in secret aircraft. His document cede was the ability to network settle. By introducing a opposite as one of researchers to respectively other, he shaped something that was completely first-class than the sum of its parts. He equally introduced the first impressive Handle 51 web site and unearthed key information that helped expel the bind of mystery that surrounded the Cook Merge base.I (Peter Merlin), a.k.a. "Shadowhawk," allocated myself as an aerospace archaeologist and historian. I pro in collecting data, documents, and artifacts realted to flight-testing and Handle 51. I was equally the first atmosphere exact to carry on climbed Tikaboo Face to mug at Cook Merge. Of all the tale Dreamland Interceptors (ODI's), I'm the forlorn one who has until the end of time researched the grassland of Handle 51 not up to scratch slow up in the sparkle since the Interceptors blanched from the occurrence. I'm elevated of my humanity to Dreamland Resort (the best Handle 51 web site ever!) and Roadrunners Internationale that fortunate thing preseve the inheritance of Handle 51. I wouldn't carry on gotten as far as I carry on in this have a crack not up to scratch Glenn's fortunate thing and that of the other ODI's. Let's not task all that they carry on concluded on the incite."ODI" is brim, but we take "Committee of Elders." They're the pointless old guys who don't carry on meaningfully domination left, but everybody pretends to restrain them. They equally get the best parking spots at the Black Mailbox on proceedings of their seniority.
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