Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force Base, the facility is officially called Homey Airport or Groom Lake (after the salt flat next to its airfield).
Details of its operations are not made public, but the USAF says that it is an open training range, and it is commonly thought to support the development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems. The USAF and CIA acquired the site in 1955, primarily for flight testing the Lockheed U-2 aircraft.
The intense secrecy surrounding the base has made it the frequent subject of conspiracy theories and a central component of unidentified flying object (UFO) folklore. It has never been declared a secret base, but all research and occurrences in Area 51 are Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information. The CIA publicly acknowledged the base’s existence on June 25, 2013, following a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2005, and declassified documents detailing its history and purpose.
Area 51 is located in the southern portion of Nevada, 83 miles (134 km) north-northwest of Las Vegas. The surrounding area is a popular tourist destination, including the small town of Rachel on the “Extraterrestrial Highway”.
The Freedom of Information Act has demonstrated … that in the early 1960s, the CIA quietly opened a file on Cayce’s work. Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies “Noah did everything just as God commanded him.” The story continues: “And Noah and his sons and his wife and his … Read more
Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies Although the U.S. military has succeeded in moving small objects via acoustic levitation, the ability to raise multi-ton stones still eludes them. Other avenues have been explored to try to resolve the matter, however. As the Freedom of Information Act has shown, in … Read more
Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies In 2011, a weird and controversial story surfaced that linked Area 51 to none other than the Spear of Destiny of biblical legend. The revelation was made in a short-lived TV series on the SyFy Channel called Legend Quest. Is it possible that … Read more
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The original designs in possession of the Horten brothers were hidden in a salt mine in Salzdettfurt, but the model tested by Eugen was destroyed in April 1945. Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies “The Horten brothers, together with Dr. Betz, Eugen and Dr. Stueper (the test pilot of … Read more
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Research undertaken by the ACS uncovered the fact that much pressure was exerted in an attempt to ensure that Operation Paperclip succeeded. Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies Research undertaken by the ACS uncovered the fact that much pressure was exerted in an attempt to ensure that Operation Paperclip … Read more
Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies Many UFO researchers remain highly doubtful of the theory that from 1951 onward, staff at Area 51 secretly worked on a flying saucer built by German scientists—on the orders of Russian premier Joseph Stalin—that crashed outside of Roswell in the summer of 1947. … Read more
Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies The following Air Force report of January 3, 1952 (on the subject of UFO sightings investigated by the Air Force in the late 1940s and early 1950s) from Brigadier General W. M. Garland to General John A. Samford, Air Force director of intelligence, … Read more
Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies When it comes to the topic of UFOs, few issues create more emotion than that relative to so-called “Nazi flying saucers.” The story goes that in the latter stages of the Second World War, Hitler’s hordes began working on radical, circular-shaped aircraft designs … Read more
