http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?...RTICLE_ID=34698
Bush renews Area 51
secrecy order
Claims exempting base from disclosing info of 'paramount interest'
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Posted: September 19, 2003
9:00 p.m. Eastern
Fueling continued speculation about the top-secret government base, President Bush has renewed the exemption allowing the military to refuse to provide any information about its operations at Area 51 in Nevada.
Saying it was of "paramount interest" to exempt the Groom Lake facility, Bush signed the order, which has been renewed every year since President Clinton first put it in place in 1995, the Associated Press reports.
Area 51, located on a dry lake bed 90 miles north of Las Vegas, has been the subject of widespread speculation, with some believing the federal government is hiding evidence of extraterrestrial vehicles or life forms. The mystery began in the nearby town of Rachel several years ago when a worker at the Nevada Test Site allegedly saw alien space ships at the base.