BRITISH TWO-PART TV DOCUMENTARY: 'DREAMLAND'

July 20, 1996
Source: Daily Express - London
An outstanding British television documentary crew recently travelled to the United States to conduct an in-depth investigation into the top secret USAF Nevada facility known as Area 51. The Groom Lake base has also been tagged 'Dreamland' by UFO enthusiasts, convinced that recovered alien spacecraft are being housed there for 'backengineering' purposes.

Dreamland is the appropriately named title of a unique two-part television documentary made by top British TV producer Bruce Burgess and his team from Trans Media Productions Limited, London. It will be broadcast on Sky Television in two one hour segments on 24-25 September. Accompanying Bruce was acclaimed war cameraman Sebastian Rich.

Burgess and his team climbed a 7,000ft summit to spy on the world's most secret base. He says: "We climbed for hours in the heat carrying our secret weapon - a 26 mile zoom camera lens, the most powerful in the world.

"We were told about aliens and saucers, sightings and contact but I approached the project with enormous scepticism. I did, however, very quickly appreciate from previous research that something was definitely going on at Area 51 but what I learned there dumbfounded me. We could see in the hazy distance a ramshackle collection of hangars baking beneath the desert sun. It didn't look like much more than a small landing base.

"Walking across was out of the question, we would be detected instantly as the base was guarded by attack helicopters, armed guards and sensors triggered by motion, microwave and perspiration."

FLIGHT INTO THE UNKNOWN

Burgess decided to get closer to the installation by a means that no one had previously dared contemplate - he would fly over the base.

"We could only find one pilot bold enough to fly into the forbidden territory," he says. "By the time we had got within a mile of the hangars in our crop spraying Cessna, two F-16 fighter jets screamed past on both sides. Any nearer and the jet wash would have sent us spinning down. We had no option but to fly out of there - fast. But we had our mission to complete and so we spent months observing the base.

"We quickly discovered that there was more to it than just a few hangars. Every morning, a dozen Boeing 737s depart from Las Vegas, 70 miles away, for Area 51's runway. They disgorged almost 2,000 personnel. The men only reappear for their transport home but we were told that none of what we saw existed and were harassed rebuffed and redirected at every turn."

The film crew discovered that the workers operated in a subterranean operations centre 'which would make James Bond movies look positively low budget.' "Best of all," adds Burgess, "despite the testimonies of a string of former employees and senior military officers - not to mention all of the above being faithfully recorded on film - the US government insists none of it even exists. Why the secrecy?"

Dreamland will feature credible and incredible statements from unbelievable and believable characters, ranging from Bob Lazar to attributed quotes from former deputy director of the CIA, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman; from a 70 year old man who claimed to have worked with an alien technical advisor called Jarod for 15 years, to former Apollo 14 astronaut Captain Edgar Mitchell.

Burgess says:" If, two years ago, anyone had told me I would one day have a healthy belief in the existence of aliens, I would, quite frankly, have laughed out loud.

"Yet now I have no doubts, I've seen a thriving base that the US government denies. I've heard the testimonies of sane and plain speaking scientists, I've spoken to witnesses.

"Now I know that, in our world, here and now, the US government is recreating extraordinary spacecraft. And that the technology used is derived entirely from the discovery of flying saucers which have crashed on this planet. Yes, I believe in aliens."

Sebastian Rich is a former ITN cameraman who was reporter Martin Bell's favourite war-zone companion and the veteran of three decades of front-line reporting. Rich has seen a great deal and is not easily hoodwinked.

He says: "We all thought it was nonsense when the idea first came up. I've heard of flying saucers and aliens but dismissed it, naturally. To me, a believer in such things was always to be seen as barking mad.

"But I have become convinced that the US government has these discs."

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