“X-rays couldn’t penetrate it; it showed up on X-ray as a solid object. They tried to open it and penetrate its hull; they couldn’t,” the whistleblower said.
Taber said he was told engineers weren’t able to gain access to the object (stock images) (Image: Getty)
A whistleblower has sensationally claimed that an “egg-shaped” metallic UFO was stored at Area 51 in the 1980s, after being discovered by the CIA in a remote desert location.
Engineers at the Nevada airbase claimed the mysterious craft was then brought to them to investigate, but it was later moved to another base after they weren’t able to open up the object.
Eric Taber has worked as a defense aerospace contractor for over a decade and has had security clearance to work on military aircraft.
Speaking to DailyMail.com, he revealed his late great uncle Sam Urquhart, an Area 51 contractor, reluctantly revealed the story.
“My great uncle served in the Air Force for 28 years, E8 rank [equivalent to a First Sergeant],” Taber told the outlet. “He told me he worked at Area 51 from 1997 until 2014.”
Entrance to top secret government facility Area 51 (Image: Getty)
Urquhart started his role at Area 51 working for EG&G, a defense contractor that later partnered with Raytheon to become JT3 LLC and later JT4 LLC.
He said: “He was head of security for his engineering group, and a data configuration specialist. His group did radar cross-section testing.
“I kept asking him about UFOs. He said ‘I know nothing’. Then one day we were on his back porch and he said ‘Ok, I’ll tell you about one craft that I knew of.’
“He said, ‘When I first got there in 1997, I had a personal conversation with a senior EG&G engineer whose group was tasked with trying to reverse-engineer an object that was brought there by some CIA people in the 1980s.’