{"id":1888,"date":"2008-01-23T17:27:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T23:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2008-01-23T17:27:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T23:27:09","slug":"area-51-has-a-new-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/01\/area-51-has-a-new-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Area 51 has a new name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/221914402\/area-51-has-a-new-na.html\" >Area 51 has a new name<\/a>:<br \/>\nArea 51, the Air Force&#8217;s infamous top secret test site <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">and UFO landing strip<\/span> in Southern Nevada, apparently has an official new name: Homey Airport. (For a fun cultural history of Area 51 and its mystique, I highly recommend  Phil Patton&#8217;s great book <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0375753850\/boingboing0e-20\" >Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51<\/a>.) From the AirForceTimes <em>(image from the Wikimedia Commons)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/images\/_wikipedia_commons_8_87_Wfm_area_51_landsat_geocover_2000.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"198\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\" Wikipedia Commons 8 87 Wfm Area 51 Landsat Geocover 2000\" \/><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Homey Airport\u00e2\u20ac\u009d now appears as the official name for a certain air base near a certain dry lake bed in Nevada, according to reports in the Web site of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, as well as the Daily Aviator blog and others. New editions of flight planning software and civilian aviators\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 GPS gear lists the name and the official designation \u00e2\u20ac\u0153KXTA\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which online wags have speculated stands for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153extraterrestrial airport.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153k\u00e2\u20ac\u009d designation indicates only that the field is in the U.S., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.)<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Jessica Martin, a spokeswoman for Nellis Air Force Base, which sits 85 miles south of Homey Airport and is responsible for the airspace and any ground facilities, said that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we already know about the designation, but it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any effect on operations at the base.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2008\/01\/airforce_area51_newname_080122w\/\" >Link<\/a> <em>(Thanks, <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/paladesigns.com\/resume\/\" >Vann Hall<\/a><\/em><em>!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Area 51 has a new name: Area 51, the Air Force&#8217;s infamous top secret test site and UFO landing strip in Southern Nevada, apparently has an official new name: Homey Airport. (For a fun cultural history of Area 51 and its mystique, I highly recommend Phil Patton&#8217;s great book Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/01\/area-51-has-a-new-name\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Area 51 has a new name<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-us","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}