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thrilled when he'd seen Simmons's credentials and publish- It had been reasonably
warm in Rachel, but with the de-
ing history. At last someone with a little bit of credibility parture of the
sun, the temperature had plummeted.
and pull, had been the way Franklin had put it, and he'd They both turned
as they heard a low roar coming in
promised to put Simmons as close to Area 51, the code from the eastern
horizon. The sound grew louder, then
name for the Groom Lake complex, as he possibly could. Franklin pointed.
"There. See the running lights?" He
Simmons wondered if Franklin might not be the "Cap- snorted. "Some
of the people who camp out at the mailbox
tain" who had sent him the tape and letter, but he didn't mistake aircraft
running lights for UFOs. When a plane's
think so. There didn't seem to be any need for the subter- in its final flight
path the lights seem to just hover, espe-
fuge, and Franklin had seemed genuinely surprised to see cially since it
comes in almost straight over the mailbox."


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AREA 51
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"Is that the 737 you told me about?" Simmons asked. "Ready," Simmons
acknowledged.
Franklin giggled nervously. "No, that's not her." The air- "Let's do
it." Franklin took a few deep breaths, then
plane banked over their heads and disappeared over White headed for a
cut in the steep mountainside and began
Sides Mountain, descending for a landing on the other striding up.
Simmons followed, his boots making a surpris-
side. A second one, just like the first, came by less than ingly loud clatter
in the darkness as he scrambled up the
thirty seconds later. "Those are Air Force transports. Me- loose rock.
dium-sized ones, probably C-130 Hercules. You can hear "Think we
were spotted?" Simmons asked.
the turboprop engines. Must be bringing in something. Franklin shrugged,
the gesture lost in the dark. "Well, we
They haul in pretty much all their equipment and supplies know the sensors
didn't pick us up. If there was a camo
to Area 51 by plane." dude out there
in the dark and he saw my truck going down
They heard the abrupt increase in the whine of engines the road, then
the sheriff will be here in about a half hour.
and the sound lasted for a few minutes, then silence We'll see the
lights from above. The camo dudes, who are
reigned again. the outer perimeter
security people for the complex, will
He held out his hand. "Camera." drive by on this