The Area 51s

I sometimes go back into the blog’s earlier years and run across a post that’s puzzling, like the one below. This evening I chose a month at random – November 2011- and this post was the one that caught my eye. The post  itself is something of a synchro for me.

Earlier in the evening, I read through a chapter in the young adult book that Rob and our friend, Bruce Gernon, are writing on the Bermuda Triangle. This chapter dealt specifically with AUTEC, a U.S. Navy base on Andros Island in the Bahamas, and events that occurred in 2009, when Rob and I, Bruce and his wife, Lynn, flew there to meet with the cast and crew of UFO Hunters. AUTEC is known as the underwater area 51.

Here’s the older post, which was called UFO, Area 51 Synchro:

A friend, let’s call her Harriet (she doesn’t want her real name used) was en route to New Berne, North Carolina. She had a window seat and was peering out and saw an odd light. At first, it seemed to be dark, then it turned paler and brighter, then it began to move in an erratic way, and finally shot off quickly in a way that normal aircraft simply can’t do.

She snapped a photo with her iPhone, but it didn’t turn out clearly at all. There was too much reflection from the window.   But the woman in the seat next to Harriet saw the object, too, and the two women discussed what they thought it was.  Harriet was pretty sure she had just seen a UFO and lamented that her iPhone just couldn’t render what she saw in any clear way.

The plane landed at the New Berne Airport and Harriet hurried off to find a bite to eat. She burst out laughing when she saw the sign for the Area 51 Deli – and took the photo above. Her phone got this one clearly!   She knew it was a synchro and a confirmation of what she’d seen.

We thought it was odd that Area 51 would be mentioned at some small town airport in North Carolina. Harriet says  there’s some sort of secret military base in New Berne, so that could explain it.  There’s an element of the trickster here – even though she couldn’t get the picture she wanted, she sees Area 51 Deli s soon as she’s off the plane.

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I don’t recall the real name of the woman who sent us this, don’t even recall writing this. I guess Area 51, underwater or on land, is just around us now!