From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates.nul>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:28:17 -0500
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Subject: Nevada Day Celebrate The UFO State




Source: The North Lake Tahoe Bonanza - Nevada

http://www.tahoebonanza.com/article/20041029/OUTDOORS/110290015

10-29-04

Nevada Day: Celebrate The UFO State

This Sunday, Oct. 31, the state of Nevada will be 140 years old.
As you may know, it suffered a premature birth in 1864.

The normal rules and conditions for statehood were not followed.
The United States invaded the Nevada Territory because Nevada
had WMDs, "wide mineral deposits" of gold and silver.

The Comstock Lode was discovered in 1859, and Virginia City
became the original "Income Village" of Nevada.

The following is a brief history of Nevada's connection with
astronomy and space exploration. It's just a little bit shorter
than the long version.

It was in Virginia City that Virginia Lee "Jennie" James was
born on May 16, 1864 on the side of Mount Davidson.

So who was Jennie James, and what was her contribution to
astronomy? In 1889 she became the mother of Edwin Hubble in the
state of Missouri.

And Edwin Hubble was the most celebrated astronomer of the 20th
century. He is the "Hubble" in the Hubble Space Telescope.

A 1907 Nobel Laureate in Physics also lived in Virginia City as
a child in the 1850s. He was Albert Michelson who with Edward
Morley performed the famous Michelson-Morley experiment that
established the speed of light as a fundamental constant.

In more modern times, at least one person crossing Nevada
noticed that it greatly resembled the desolation of the moon in
certain places.

It was because of this that Apollo astronauts used Nevada in the
1960s as a training site for future manned explorations of the
moon.

The area used, appropriately known as Lunar Crater Volcanic
Field, covers more than 100 square miles in southern Nevada.

Admittedly, the above is not much to brag about. But in one
"outer space" field, depending upon whom you talk to, Nevada for
once ranks right at the top of all the states in the Union.
Nevada is known throughout the world as the UFO State.

Consider the fact that Highway 375 north of Las Vegas, between
Tonopah and Ash Springs, was designated as the "Extraterrestrial
Highway" by Governor Bob Miller in 1996.

It received this honor because of the high incidence of UFOs
appearing in its night skies. As far as I know, Nevada is the
only state with a designated Extraterrestrial Highway.

It is also the state that houses the worst kept top-secret, the
notorious Area 51.

Area 51, a part of the Nellis Air Force Base in southern Nevada,
didn't officially exist until recently.

This is where the government supposedly hides all of its
captured aliens, flying saucers and spaceships.

Of course, this is all nonsense, but you can be arrested for
taking pictures of the area.

Signs around Area 51 warn that "Use of Deadly Force (is)
Authorized"; apparently, you can lose more than a few dollars by
being curious in the area.

So what other state can compete with Nevada for recognition as
the UFO State?

The answer is New Mexico. A UFO crashed (really) just in time
near the slowly- being-boarded-up and abandoned city of Roswell
in 1947.

The crash changed everything. The boards are down for one thing
and Roswell is doing quite well now.

It draws thousands of devotees and curious tourists to its
annual UFO/Alien festivals, and the Roswell International UFO
Museum and Research Center throughout the year. Roswell makes
money from UFOs.

But, that doesn't matter. We know that the aliens recovered from
the crash near Roswell are being kept in Area 51, Nevada! Happy
birthday, Nevada, the UFO State.