Is DIA an Area 51 in plain sight?

Is DIA an Area 51 in plain sight?
[link to www.examiner.com]


Put the search terms Denver International Airport Conspiracies into Google and there are
46,600 results. While most DIA conspiracy theories have some similarities, i.e., "suspicious" circumstances under which the airport was contracted to be built, the fact that DIA is one of the most inconvenient of large airports, the fact that DIA was billions of dollars over budget, alleged willy-nilly hiring and firing of contractors so that "no one would get the big picture," alleged "buried" or underground facilities designed for no doubt nefarious purposes, large open fenced in areas (some of which allegedly and inexplicably appear to dotted with hundreds of air vents) that some fear could be turned into a concentration camp like facility capable of holding thousands, odd-seeming murals with "New World Order" or "Neo-Nazi" themes. Then as if DIA was enjoying the conspiracy yarns being spun about it, the airport decided to commission one of the most bizarre pieces of art ever to grace a large airport, a large purple stallion with glowing red (some say demonic) eyes.

According to [link to www.anomalies-unlimited.com] the art at DIA has always been more than a little unsettling. DIA travelers are quoted as characterizing the murals as "sick," and "horrible." Among the objectionable images, are three dead women in open coffins, one African, one Native-American and the third Jewish. Mothers are holding dead babies while a city burns in the foreground, a note written by a child imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp is incorporated into the artwork, all of which is overseen by a large, faceless, heavily armed soldier. Whether some of the art so alluded to still exists is not altogether clear, as anomalies also appears to take credit for some painting over and other changes made to the murals following their inquiries.

Anomalies goes on to repeat the allegations of buried buildings, workers who reported sightings of alien (otherworldly alien, that is) co-workers and an entire runway that was subsequently buried. While I have no inside knowledge of the first two items, the buried runway may well be the result of a story I heard some time ago while DIA was under construction. Unfortunately I have been unable to verify the story from beyond its original source.

What happened, I was told, is that a DIA subcontractor's employee embellished his resume, claiming expertise in soils geology. Subsequently a runway was constructed across a zone that contained a high concentration of bentonite, the swelling soil that when wet expands to several times its original size and has been the cause of numerous cracked foundations and worse in the Denver area since the coming of the white man. The results were predictably disastrous and the ruined runway was buried. The story went further to claim that as a result of the disaster, which cost many millions of dollars, and the fact that there was nothing, apart from firing, that DIA could legally do to the fibbing employee, Colorado law was changed and Colorado became the first state in the union to make it a crime to lie on your resume. Whether, in fact, these events actually occurred or Colorado law was in fact changed as a result, I have been unable to independently verify, although it does seem to be a plausible explanation for an otherwise very odd happenstance.

One of the most well-written and bizarre DIA conspiracy articles
[link to www.newsflavor.com]
was linked to Fortean Times. For those less than well versed in topics such as cryptozoology (the study of animals that may or may not exist such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster), UFOology and the paranormal, the term Fortean refers to Charles Fort, a man who made a lifelong study of the weird and abnormal. Fort's most famous quote was that the earth was a farm, that aliens were the farmers and we were the livestock.

The article alleges among other things, that a "government whistleblower" and geologist named Phillip Schneider claimed that in the last year of DIA construction an underground base, eight levels deep was connected to underground levels at the airport. Schneider also claims to have experienced extremely high levels of "electromagnetic energy," a phenomenon mentioned in other conspiracy theories, the most notable being the so-called "Philadelphia Experiment," and derivatives thereof, including the "Montauk Project," books. Some websites claim that the facility emanates an energy that has made some travelers ill.

Other websites connect DIA to the Jon Benet Ramsey murder, reptilian aliens, mind control experimentation, a Masonic-Alien connection or spaceport (seemingly made plausible by a Masonic capstone at DIA), the location of 2012 survival bunkers for the elite, "a New World Order Concentration Camp," or a sort of Area 51 hiding in plain sight. Then again maybe the whole DIA conspiracy craze might in fact be a cover-up to divert the attention of the conspiracy community from something a whole lot more sinister. Certainly some of the players that would have to have had a least some knowledge of the high weirdness at DIA seem to be taking the conspiracy adherents with a very large grain of salt and some even appear to be having a bit of fun with it.

The article that poohs, poohs the DIA conspiracy theories and appears to claim to have to debunked most if not all of the same is Westword's "DIA Conspiracy Theories Take Off."
[link to www.westword.com]
For the most part the Westword article deals with the murals and the artist who painted the most controversial of the group. The artist is quoted as being incredulous that his work has become the basis for what both Westword and he obviously consider the wild speculations of the conspiracists. While well written and researched the article can do little actually address the most cogent conclusions of the conspiracists, however. Quite obviously in these post 9/11 days DIA could hardly provide Westword with its blueprints or a tour of its most sensitive areas, and it is this very secrecy that is cited as de facto "proof" by the conspiracy community.