The category that owns 400 acres of Nevada land just three nautical mile from the famed Area 51 — and has possess said land for over 100 years , long before the tightlipped military facility moved in — is fighting an “ high domain ” takeover by the US government , according to CNN .
The official tidings :
The Air Force wants the state because , after decades of escorting family unit members into the highly qualified space , it can no longer ensure the family ’s safety during the “ near-24/7 operation ” at the al-Qaida , formally known as “ The Nevada Test and Training Range . ”
The Sheahan house has been volunteer $ 5.2 million for the land by the Air Force , which includes the Groom Mine and is where the current genesis of Sheahans ’ paterfamilias is buried . The familybelieves the prop is worth at least $ 29 million .
The case is now being decide by federal court , theLas Vegas Review - Journalwrites :
The Air Force says legion break attempts to buy the property within the boundaries of the Nevada Test and Training Range have forced its script .
“ After exhausting all sane crusade to talk terms a sale and the landowner ’s rejection of the Air Force ’s offers , the Air Force requested the Department of Justice file a condemnation action in Federal District Court , ” Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations Jennifer Miller wrote in a instruction after the offer ’s expiration .
The Sheahans begin and terminate their response by written material , “ We are heartbroken . ”
“ We are loyal Americans who have served our country in combat , and we still think in America . Nevertheless , our account is one that is dominant with criminalism and immorality perpetrate on us by our own governing . ”
As the CNN clause notes , this is n’t the first clock time the Sheahans have gone toe - to - toe with the Air Force . In the 1950s , they launched an stillborn spot to process the Air Force aftera mine processing millwas destroy by what they believed to be “ an aircraft engine that fell from the sky . ”
pic of land surrounding Area 51 byDoc Searls
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