Area 51

Remember in the film, “Independence Day”, how the President knew nothing about Area 51? He was so surprised that here was this incredible information and the public and most of official Washington was deceived.

This story is not about Area 51 per see, it’s about information withheld from the public and even the insiders, and what can happen.

Many years ago, my Building Manager had many different people reporting to him, including Security and Maintenance.

It was late in the evening, and security saw on their screen that a break-in had occurred in the President’s office. Clearly someone had entered the space, which was behind a number of doors one would have to pass through before you reached the inner sanctum. The Security guy didn’t know for sure what to do, as the obvious visible doors were not broken, so someone doing this had keys.

He called the Building Manager at home and asked what to do. The Building Manager told him to wait, as he would come down and they could deal with this together. When he arrived they carefully went through the outside doors, and got to the door of the President’s office and waited, listening for anything obvious. They heard nothing.

No firearms were involved, but with flashlights and cell phones at the ready they quickly opened the door and looked inside, hoping to catch the thief in process.

What they found was the new President in the” throws of lovemaking” (nicely put I think) with a mature student!

The Area 51 reference was in relation to the fact that they failed to tell the President that there were motion detectors in his office!

I found this out upon my arrival at the school, as this was now my office, and the Building Manager felt obliged to let me know in case I chose to perform late night romantic relations in my office!

One thing was clear to me; the sofa formerly placed in the office had been removed! Unless I decided to use the floor, the desk or a desk chair, it would have been an impossible act anyway.