MysteryQuest features MUFON expedition to Area 51

A new expedition to Area 51 looks for clues in the Nevada desert during an episode of The History Channel's MysteryQuest series.

The following is a press release from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) on the show.

The History Channel's new feature series "MysteryQuest " airing this coming Wednesday, Oct. 14th at 10 p.m. will feature a Certified Field Investigator from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) who embarks on an expedition to the Jumbled Hills of Southern Nevada and the Black Hole known by many names including Watertown, The Groom Lake Country Club and Area-51.

A spin-off of the widely popular "MonsterQuest " show, MysteryQuest is a new series that dispatches teams of experts throughout the world to try to solve some of mankind's strangest and most persistent mysteries.
MUFON's

Mark Easter, who is the Nevada State Director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) as well as a Certified Field Investigator and MUFON's Director of Public Relations, was invited to take part in an expedition with the MysteryQuest crew to the Extraterrestrial Highway and Area-51 Mark teamed with Peter Merlin who is the NASA AMES Research Historian on an expedition with MysteryQuest to uncover the truth about a recently declassified Black Project known as The OxeCart Program. For a facility that doesn't exist, there was a lot of activity that happened during the Cold War in this C.I.A. sponsored secret base of operations and testing!

Triple digit heat in the Southern Nevada Desert! Searching the scorching desert floor for debris overlooked after the crash of an unidentified flying object associated with Area-51! An expedition to the South and North Gates of Area-51 and beyond! The History Channel's MysteryQuest production crew left no stone unturned on this expedition which included a long and breathtaking mountain climb to Tikaboo Peak which is the only vantage point left in the valley where the public can see into Area-51.

"The MysteryQuest team set a record by bringing with them the largest telephoto lense ever set up on Tikaboo Peak so we could look farther into the base than anyone has dared," says Mark Easter. "Half way up the mountain our crew was buzzed by an extremely low flying 2 seater F-16 that literally screamed through the mountain gorge we were climbing," Mark recalls, laughing, shaking his head and adding, "the production crew had to hire four highschool boys from Alamo, Nevada just to lift and carry the huge shipping case for the lense to the top of the mountain. I could only imagine what was going through the pilot and co-pilot's minds in that jet as they made their third pass through the gorge."

The entire crew froze in their tracks on that mountainside waiting to see what would happen next. They didn't have to wait long!

Mark continues painting the picture of what was happening to him in this helpless and vulnerable situation, "The roaring jet was bad enough, but next came the black helicopter that proceeded to circle overhead while the History Channel producer was on her cell phone talking with History Channel lawyers about how we all will be bailed out of jail."

The air date for History Channel's "MysteryQuest Area-51" is this coming Wednesday, Oct. 14th, 2009 at 10pm.