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A defense contractor claims that in the 1980s a silverish gray, egg-shaped, metallic-looking UFO about the size of an SUV was seen inside of Area 51.
The story comes from a man named Eric Taber, who was a defense aerospace contractor for 13 years.
According to DailyMail.com, “Engineers at the Nevada airbase claimed the CIA found the strange craft in the desert and brought it to them for investigation – but later shipped it to another base after they were unable to get inside the object.”
Taber, who has held a security clearance to work on military aircraft, says it was his late great uncle Sam Urquhart, a 28-year Air Force veteran who worked at Area 51 for defense contractor EG&G, who told him about the UFO.
“My great uncle served in the Air Force for 28 years, E8 rank [equivalent to a First Sergeant],” Taber told DailyMail.com. “He told me he worked at Area 51 from 1997 until 2014.
“He was head of security for his engineering group, and a data configuration specialist. His group did radar cross-section testing.
“I kept asking him about UFOs. He said ‘I know nothing’. Then one day we were on his back porch and he said ‘Okay, I’ll tell you about one craft that I knew of.
“He said, ‘When I first got there in 1997, I had a personal conversation with a senior EG&G engineer whose group was tasked with trying to reverse-engineer an object that was brought there by some CIA people in the 1980s.”
He also claimed that the UFO was fully intact when it was discovered in a remote desert location.
“The senior EG&G engineer described to my great uncle that it was egg-shaped, about the size of an SUV, smooth and seamless, metallic-looking, silverish gray in color, with no control surfaces, no flaps, no inlet, and no exhaust, and no writing or symbols on the outside.
“These are the best and brightest engineers you can think of. They tried to no avail to figure out what the power source was, how to activate it, and how it works. They tried to induce electricity to it.
“X-rays couldn’t penetrate it; it showed up on X-ray as a solid object. They tried to open it and penetrate its hull; they couldn’t.”
Taber, who testified to the Pentagon’s UFO office (AARO) in May, said the engineers “concluded it was not made on Earth.”
His uncle also revealed that one day while inside a secure data vault storage room in the main control building of Area 51 he personally saw a perfectly clear color photograph of that very UFO. That photograph never left Area 51.
The UFO was later shipped to another base and his uncle didn’t hear about or see it again.
“Sam said the American people would probably never get to see it,” Taber said.