Adventurous breach of Area 51 restricted airspace led to pilot’s quick demise | #277

Shepard Ambellas Show · Jan 25, 2023 · 1h

An audio tape from the 1990s reveals an adventurous amateur pilot set out on a suicide mission to expose one of the world’s most well-guarded secrets before succumbing to antiaircraft fire. That is if the call was genuine. As the story goes, an unnamed aviator attempting to reveal the secrets of Nellis Air Force base’s secret Area 51 managed to get put on air after calling into a live broadcast of the Art Bell Show from the cockpit of his aircraft. The pilot claimed he was flying in a modified propjet aircraft and heading north into the restricted zone above Indian Springs, Nevada, while his…