Project Aurora

摘要

In 1985, a censor's error let an item labelled 'Aurora', with no further explanation, appear in that year's Pentagon budget request, with a reference to 'production funding' for 1987. It was located next to the operating budgets for the SR-71 and U-2. The Pentagon refused to comment on the item and it has never been mentioned since. In 1986, the US government sealed off large areas of land around the top secret Groom Lake base in Nevada. Many new buildings have been built at Groom Lake during the 1980s, and intense activity continues. The government is currently in the process of taking over more large areas of land around the base, in order to make it impossible to observe the base from publicly accessible land. The extensive security measures imply that some very important and very secret activity is going on there. Officially, the USAF won't even admit that the base exists...