Thursday, October 22, 2015
The U.S. Air Force
Just Repossessed an Alien House
A family in Nevada is
hoping to fight back in court after losing their property overlooking UFO
hotspot Area 51 to the U.S. government.
It’s tough to lose a
house. It’s even tougher to lose an alien house.
That’s exactly what
happened to the Sheahan family, who for more than a century owned a mining property
that overlooked Area 51. When the family refused to accept a $5.2 million
government buyout of the property, the U.S. Air Force condemned the mine and
repossessed it by order of a federal judge.
Now the Sheahans, who did
not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast, have to figure out
what to do with all the stuff that has accumulated in a property they’ve owned
since Ulysses Grant was president. That includes, but is not limited to, human
remains belonging to generations of Sheahans buried in an alien wasteland.
The mine is surrounded by
a government buffer zone that is constantly guarded to keep curious visitors
from gaining access to or seeing the secret test base (thinkIndependence Day)
known as Groom Lake, or Area 51.
The U.S. Air Force did not
respond to a question about whether it repossessed the property to conduct
further alien testing.
The repossession is just
the latest challenge for the hardy Sheahans, who have witnessed military planes
strafing their buildings over the decades and radiation seeping in from nuclear
testing in the ’50s and ’60s.
“This has been, like I
said, a 60-plus year nothing short of criminal activity on the part of the
federal government, the AEC, Black Ops, CIA, and you can go on and on,” Joe
Sheahan told Las
Vegas’s CBS affiliate.
Not to mention having to
fend off imminent alien threats in their backyard. Sheahan’s father is
also buried on the property, near the area where the U-2 spy
plane was crafted.
The family is seeking a
jury trial, but the issues of said legal battle would only pertain to
compensation for the land from the Air Force and distribution of equipment left
on the site.
The Air Force values the
land at $1.5 million despite offering the Sheahan family more than $5 million
for the property. But the owners have always been adamant about holding on to
the property until they were left with no choice.
“Everyone says, ‘Oh no,
you’re going to come out with nothing,’” Joe Sheahan saidin September when the Air Force first made its offer.
“But I’m not going to let them take what my grandfather and father and mother
worked hard for.”
“They created this
problem,” Sheahan added. “The Air Force, the federal government. They
created the problem.”
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