By By JohnThomas Didymus Oct 11, 2012 in Odd News Military personnel arrested a BBC film crew at the secret Area 51 military base in Nevada where UFO conspiracy theorists claim US authorities are keeping bodies of aliens and debris of an ET "flying disc" that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. According the They were arrested after they had sneaked past the security perimeter, and were forced to lie on the ground for three hours while officials at the base carried out identification checks. According to Darren Perks, the crew was touring California, Arizona and Nevada with Andre Maxwell and four other UFO enthusiasts. They visited Area 51 to do a night watch to see if they could film anything unusual. According to Darren, the crew arrived at the base on May 14 at about 5 p.m. Perks said they drove to Rachel, the nearest town to Area 51, then to the "Black Gate" of the base known as "Rachel Gate NT TR Boundary North," where they stopped their bus about 50 meters from the security perimeter and began filming. The "There was no one around, no guards, no vehicles - nothing. We filmed for approximately 30 minutes and tried to call the guards but there was no one there and no sign of them. So we all decided to walk past the barriers onto the restricted area past the security huts and basically onto Area 51. Nothing happened..." After they had filmed for another 30 minutes, one of the members of the crew said she saw guards eating dinner and watching TV in one of the security huts. The guards apparently saw them but did nothing. But when a crew member walked to the hut door and knocked, armed guards rushed and forced the crew members to lay on their faces at gunpoint. They security guards searched them and confiscated their wallets, phones, IDs and film equipment.The crew members were forced to lie on the ground for three hours while the officials checked their credentials. After their credentials had been checked, they were taken to the sheriff's office where they were issued tickets and lectured on the consequences of their action. Darren said they were fined £375 each. He said: "We were told that this incident was so serious that Washington had to call London to advise that 12 'Brits' had just breached security at America's most top-secret military base and that we all were at one point going to jail for six months." The crew were released at about 11:30 p.m. and allowed to leave on their tour bus. Another guard told him there were detectors on the ground that could detect vehicles and people approaching the base. The guard implied that they knew the crew was approaching and that they were being monitored. According to Area 51 warning sign Finlay McWalter Area 51, Roswell incident and UFO conspiracy theories Other theorists say joint projects with extraterrestrials, R&D in new energy and weapons systems, weather control technology, time travel, teleportation technology and research activities related to an alleged world government organization called There are also claims that the base has a transcontinental underground railroad system, and a disappearing airstrip (the "Cheshire Airstrip") based on some form of alien technology. Claims by alleged former employees at Area 51, include a story by a 71-year-old mechanical engineer who featured in a 1996 documentary Probably the most controversial testimony in the Roswell UFO incident came from 1st Lt. Walter Haut After the press release generated international media attention, the authorities retracted the claim, saying that only a weather balloon had been recovered. In December 2002, Haut signed a sealed affidavit in which he gave details about a government cover-up in the The interview and the affidavit were not released until after Haut died in in 2005. The full text of the affidavit was published in June 2007 in a book titled "Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60 Year Cover-up." The book claimed that Haut had sworn to his superior, Colonel Blanchard, not to reveal the facts of what happened at Roswell. According to book, Haut's promise to Blanchard explains why he said in earlier interviews that he did not know anything about the incident and that he had only prepared and released the first statement on the order of his superiors. In the new affidavit, Haut claimed that after he put out the press release about a "flying disc," he was taken to a base hangar where he saw an egg shaped craft about 15 feet long and several ET bodies with large heads about four feet tall. Haute said he was convinced that the bodies were ET. Haut also claimed that there were two major crash sites and that the bodies were found on a site unknown to the public. Haut claimed he attended a meeting where senior officials discussed and decided what the public was to be told The crew was trying to sneak into the base while filming a BBC documentary "UFO: Conspiracy Road Trip," to be aired Monday.According the Daily Mail , the 12-member film crew included Irish comedian Andre Maxwell and UFO conspiracy theorist Darren Perks.They were arrested after they had sneaked past the security perimeter, and were forced to lie on the ground for three hours while officials at the base carried out identification checks.According to Darren Perks, the crew was touring California, Arizona and Nevada with Andre Maxwell and four other UFO enthusiasts. They visited Area 51 to do a night watch to see if they could film anything unusual. According to Darren, the crew arrived at the base on May 14 at about 5 p.m.Perks said they drove to Rachel, the nearest town to Area 51, then to the "Black Gate" of the base known as "Rachel Gate NT TR Boundary North," where they stopped their bus about 50 meters from the security perimeter and began filming.The Daily Mail reports Darren said:After they had filmed for another 30 minutes, one of the members of the crew said she saw guards eating dinner and watching TV in one of the security huts. The guards apparently saw them but did nothing. But when a crew member walked to the hut door and knocked, armed guards rushed and forced the crew members to lay on their faces at gunpoint.They security guards searched them and confiscated their wallets, phones, IDs and film equipment.The crew members were forced to lie on the ground for three hours while the officials checked their credentials. After their credentials had been checked, they were taken to the sheriff's office where they were issued tickets and lectured on the consequences of their action. Darren said they were fined £375 each.He said: "We were told that this incident was so serious that Washington had to call London to advise that 12 'Brits' had just breached security at America's most top-secret military base and that we all were at one point going to jail for six months."The crew were released at about 11:30 p.m. and allowed to leave on their tour bus. The Sun reports Darren said that while their things were being signed off, he talked to one of the guards who said: “Listen, son, we could make you disappear and your body would never be found.”Another guard told him there were detectors on the ground that could detect vehicles and people approaching the base. The guard implied that they knew the crew was approaching and that they were being monitored.According to The Sun , Darren admitted that in spite of the risk they took, “We didn't see anything except a bit of tarmac.” Digital Spy reports that the BBC series "UFO: Conspiracy Road Trip," will debut on BBC Three on Monday, October 15 at 9 p.m. Area 51 has long been the subject of UFO conspiracy theories probably because the facility is used for classified aircraft research. Conspiracy theorists have alleged that the facility is being used by the US government for storage and reverse engineering study of crashed alien spacecraft, specifically the alleged Roswell "flying disc." UFO theorists also allege that alien occupants of the alleged spacecrafts, both living and dead, are also being held at the facility.Other theorists say joint projects with extraterrestrials, R&D in new energy and weapons systems, weather control technology, time travel, teleportation technology and research activities related to an alleged world government organization called "Majestic 12 organization," are being conducted at Area 51.There are also claims that the base has a transcontinental underground railroad system, and a disappearing airstrip (the "Cheshire Airstrip") based on some form of alien technology.Claims by alleged former employees at Area 51, include a story by a 71-year-old mechanical engineer who featured in a 1996 documentary Dreamland by Bruce Burgess, and claimed that he worked on a "flying disc simulator" based on a crashed ET craft. Such claims have fueled stories that Area 51 is being used as storage site for the Roswell UFO and ET beings.Probably the most controversial testimony in the Roswell UFO incident came from Lt. Walter Haut 1st Lt. Walter Haut (June 2, 1922―December 15,2005) was the public information officer (PIO) at the 509th Bomb Group based in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. He was the official who, on July 8, 1947, drafted the press release on the order of Colonel William Blanchard that announced the USAF had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a nearby ranch.After the press release generated international media attention, the authorities retracted the claim, saying that only a weather balloon had been recovered.In December 2002, Haut signed a sealed affidavit in which he gave details about a government cover-up in the Roswell UFO incident . Earlier in 2000, he had given an interview in which he claimed he saw an alien craft and an alien body in a Roswell Army Field base hangar and that he was present at a meeting where senior officials discussed what to say to the public. Haut claimed that Brigadier General Roger M. Ramey of the Eight Army Air Force in Forth Worth, Texas was present at the meeting. It was Ramey who later released the retraction that the "flying disc" was really a "misidentified weather balloon."The interview and the affidavit were not released until after Haut died in in 2005. The full text of the affidavit was published in June 2007 in a book titled "Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60 Year Cover-up." The book claimed that Haut had sworn to his superior, Colonel Blanchard, not to reveal the facts of what happened at Roswell. According to book, Haut's promise to Blanchard explains why he said in earlier interviews that he did not know anything about the incident and that he had only prepared and released the first statement on the order of his superiors.In the new affidavit, Haut claimed that after he put out the press release about a "flying disc," he was taken to a base hangar where he saw an egg shaped craft about 15 feet long and several ET bodies with large heads about four feet tall. Haute said he was convinced that the bodies were ET.Haut also claimed that there were two major crash sites and that the bodies were found on a site unknown to the public. Haut claimed he attended a meeting where senior officials discussed and decided what the public was to be told More about BBC film crew, Nevada, Area 51, UFO BBC film crew Nevada Area 51 UFO