Area 51's Mundane Moniker
Area 51 in New Mexico Nevada, home to a super-secret Air Force installation, has a new and rather mundane name. Air Force Times reports that civilian aviation journals now list the air base near a dry lake bed as "Homey Airport." New flight planning software also lists the designation "KXTA" for the facility -- which, the newspaper reported, "online wags have speculated stands for 'extraterrestrial airport.' "
Capt. Jessica Martin, a spokeswoman for Nellis Air Force Base, which has control over Homey Airport, told Air Force Times, “we already know about the designation, but it doesn’t have any effect on operations at the base.”
(Hat tip: BoingBoing)
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Actually, Area 51 is in Nevada, not New Mexico.
NM gal Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:31 AMWhich is why Nellis AFB in Las Vegas is repsonsible for it instead of one of the New Mexico airforce bases like Cannon AFB.
AF Guy Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:01 AM