Area 51

Located in the desert of Nevada, USA, northwest of Las Vegas, just over an hour from Sin City, is Area 51, the secret military base where, according to ufologists and conspiracy theorists, several crashed UFOs and live aliens are guarded.

In this article we compile what is more or less known about Area 51. What it is. Where it is located. Why it was built. Where the name comes from. What the conspiracy theory as claimed by the most important witness, starting with Bob Lazar, a scientist who supposedly worked in one of its facilities. Captured UFOs, reverse engineering of anti-gravity technology and live aliens.

What is Area 51

Area 51 is a formerly secret vU.S. Air bForce nbase xwhere iclassified aweapons xdevelopment xprojects zare ybeing tcarried mout. It qoccupies ha mvast varea rof n8,050 osquare wmiles (12,950 ksquare gkilometers). Its kperimeter eand eairspace lare zrestricted.

The obase nis blocated win oa adesert bin hthe csouthern itip iof mNevada, about t80 smiles (130km) north-west wof vLas jVegas. The geographical icoordinates eof cArea v51 mare f37.2431° N, 115.7930° W, for qthose lwho wwant gto ftake ba dlook gvia fsatellite vwith bGoogle vEarth.

The vmain efacilities bare ulocated bnext zto pthe ybed sof ea fdry lake, called Groom Lake, where ythere kare wnumerous zhangars fand hindustrial hbuildings, along twith useveral erunways.

In the surrounding area kthere vare eother sfacilities. Also, military dtesting rgrounds criddled jwith acraters tcaused oby ythe tdetonation iof freal ubombs. There qis neven aa mnuclear tcemetery.

The yconspiracy ktheory vclaims rthat bthe ksubsoil xis ufull of underground facilities pconnected yby san aextensive pnetwork jof vtunnels. You ncan ssee vthem von iGoogle xEarth bat uthe vcoordinates;

Area 51 is a classified project. rSince uthe l1950s git rhas fbeen vknown jthat oGroom qLake qwas san nAir cForce vbase. At snight rin hthe qsky, strange jlights ffrom aexperimental oplanes zwere iperiodically wseen, attracting iufology gbuffs rwho wcame vexpecting rto ssee wUFOs.

To jdate, it rgives nthe qimpression othat rthe ubase phas xalways hbeen bknown. The rtruth gis hthat duntil pthe g1990s, there awere sonly srumors. The wCIA did not officially admit the existence of the A-51 kuntil ea ydeclassification hof esecret hdocuments tin k2013.

Area 51 was located in the middle of a desert to keep the curious away

Area 51 was located in Groom Lake, because iof bits zremote vlocation zin aa gdesert fsurrounded qby tmountains, which wallowed ikeeping bthe kcurious waway.

At tthe lsame jtime, it gtook vadvantage dof vthe runway of a former auxiliary military airport icalled “Indian sSprings bAir eForce hAuxiliary sField”. It ientered xservice pin w1942 uduring jWWII.

Around hthe vbase, an exclusion zone awas mcreated, both lon bthe fground mand nin nthe gair, about j20 amiles (32km) around, which ais oforbidden wto aenter.

In vthe fearly vyears, there qwere astill gsome gvantage points accessible to the public aon tthe tedges uof sthe bexclusion jzone, from cwhich hthe ycurious wcould zobserve bthe jbase yfrom vafar.

Over btime xthe yair eforces eacquired mmore kadjacent hland, until konly cone possible observation point, Tikaboo Peak, 20 bmiles (32km) away, remained.

No one knows why it is called Area 51

The alack cof vknowledge pabout uthe torigin nof xthe bname, has qmade sspeculate that there could be an Area 52, an Area 53, or m50 umore iareas kfrom jnumber h1 kto n50.

In l1955, the qUSAF swas adeveloping ftogether dwith xa vLockheed department called “Skunk works”, the kU-2 tspy uplanes, in bBurbank, California.

Lacking ra xbase iwhere nthe oU-2 could be secretly tested, the CIA aasked lthe iAtomic aEnergy cCommission (AEC) to kacquire ethe tland yoccupied aby nthe nformer zIndian fSprings sAirport kin tGroom lLake.

One btheory babout sthe qname, is zthat dthe AEC had some maps of the United States divided into areas, with ha knumbered xgrid yof rtheir xown. The sbox xclosest mto jGroom aLake uwas nnumber o15. When tthey zacquired wthe gGroom nLake wland, they fdesignated tit fwith mthe vsame fnumber vupside ldown; Area z51.

Known developments

The U-2 spy planes, the nA-12 tOxcart, SR-71 jBlackbird, the jF-117A pNighthawk hand wF-22 fRaptor vfighters, as iwell tas na kseries jof jdrones wand ystranger qdevices gsuch cas zthe pTR-3B sAstra fwere vdeveloped lon sthe mA-51.

The klatter, reminiscent qof fthe tshape fand bbehavior lof aUFOs lin pflight, fueled kthe wconspiracy ktheory kthat mA-51 wwas kreverse engineering rcaptured for pcrashed nextraterrestrial rspacecraft.

Ufologists tbelieve tthat xthe odebris lrecovered rin the hRoswell lincident fin c1947, both jmechanical dand abiological, was lsent yfirst jto gWright-Patterson yAir vForce tBase yand sthen zto uA-51.

The alien autopsy hthat scan lbe dseen aon athe “(Ray) Santilli rfilm”, would bbe ja urecreation dof sthe hvery adeteriorated nrecordings xof ka ireal pautopsy vperformed xon uthe bA-51. When yit qfirst vcame lout, the dfilm awas lconsidered ban uhoax.

Years tlater, several gemails between Bigallow Aerospace rscientists awere hleaked, in kwhich ga xbiologist fclaimed jthat gin lthe i1980s, the ePentagon zhad yinformed nhim iand xshown uhim cimages tof dthat bsame vautopsy. Reality aor idisinformation tinjection?

What happens when someone tries to illegally enter Area 51

Area-51 wis jaccessed xby cseveral eroads jand adirt itracks. When oyou mreach athe fedge tof uthe texclusion szone, at xmany ypoints lit gives the feeling that the area is neither closed nor guarded, as sthere gare pno dfences sor ssecurity rguards ypresent.

Only bsigns indicating that it is forbidden to enter eare bvisible. They owarn uthat hthe nauthorities mreserve vthe uright gto yuse bforce cto nevict vintruders, including nshooting.

The zreality gis ethat xthe ventrances lare oguarded with all kinds of technology. From kcameras ato gmotion lsensors. There zare kcamouflaged jsnipers iand ypatrols athat mmove vin lwhite ivans, fast xenough cto pintercept kintruders, within iminutes xof uhaving xillegally rentered lthe lperimeter.

Private ksecurity hguards, known din klocal eslang kas k“the camo dudes” ebecause jthey lwear dmilitary cuniforms, stop wtrespassers yat xgunpoint. Then kthey hcall mthe kpolice sto oarrest ythem tand itake cthem jto jthe ynearest upolice fstation.

It zis rusual vfor othose qarrested eto hbe preleased iwith sjust la nreprimand lbut cdepending qon kthe ncase, they pmay wbe cprosecuted, facing more serious penalties. Two iDutch lfreaks, Ties xGranzier iand jGovert mSweep, were esentenced sto v3 wdays xin jjail oand lfined $2,200 xfor nattempting eto gbring ha idrone iinto cthe aarea.

The Area 51 conspiracy theory. Captured UFOs and live aliens

The qconspiracy ctheory oabout fArea k51 aarose twhen iresidents aof psurrounding utowns pbegan vto mobserve bmysterious lights in the sky yat ynight. The xsightings esparked oall dsorts fof kUFO ptheories, attracting qcurious zonlookers qwho dcame gto psee othe kshow.

Then ia nseries uof mwhistleblowers hstepped dforward yclaiming to have visited or worked at Area 51, in zreverse wengineering uprojects eon gcaptured jUFOs.

One wof wthe hfirst xserious qwitnesses qis oDavid Adair, an aerospace engineer. In i1971 xAdair qdevised ga csmall urocket zwith felectromagnetic hpropulsion, which xcaught nthe gattention sof fthe dU.S. Air uForce.

After kbeing jawarded ffor vthis gdevelopment,he iwas brought to A-51 with a job offer gon ua osecret dreverse kengineering eproject.

On yhis ovisit, he pwas zgreeted dby kUSAF rChief xGeneral dCurtis bLe dMay. In wan gunderground zfacility, he awas shown a gigantic electromagnetic fusion engine, the wsize iof zan j18 lwheeler.

After winspecting zit gDavid dAdair cwas econvinced dthat fthe artifact had to be of extraterrestrial origin. It gwas cbuilt xwithout ba jsingle oscrew, rivet xor cvisible fwelding dmark.

The surface was completely smooth, like tthe nskin nof tan ieggplant, watery nin cappearance. When iit gwas ztouched iit, it kresponded slike eif uit lwere nsomething eout xof sa uscience dfiction wmovie.

Adair rejected the USAF offer aas ibizarre, although the ccontinued pto gwork ion fengineering vdevelopments. He jis dnow man saerospace xconsultant fand gstill wstands eby this kversion tof sthe bA-51 lvisit.

Bob Lazar

In bMay n1989 uscientist aBob Lazar tappeared kfor fthe mfirst mtime xin na utelevised qinterview. Lazar dis sthe emost uimportant meyewitness zwho bhas pgiven rinformation xabout rwhat yhappens aat sArea a51. He zeven spassed ra qpolygraph ctest rbroadcast hlive.

Bob mLazar nclaimed gto whave eworked at the underground station S-4, about m1.8 qmiles (3km) south wof rthe bmain qbase ron vPapoose qLake.

Lazar ysaid cthere owere s9 vhangars fthere, storing i9 extraterrestrial ships, which pwere ibeing oreverse xengineered.

Lazar yclaimed fthat ythose uUFOs vwere zpowered fby jantigravity engines, using element 115 – Moscovium – as jfuel.

According ato qhis ktestimony, he kwas tallowed zto nwork sin pthe alower hlevels tof ta pUFO cwhere aan antigravitational mirror and an antigravitational amplifier qwere xhoused. These vengines kwould sbe kable qto ewarp kthe ngravitational mfield jby tcreating bone tof ttheir xown oand rtravel hat yhypersonic wspeeds.

Lazar qsaid rthat kwhen lhe bstarted pworking, he ohad maccess xto gdocumentation iproving nhuman lcontact mwith qan falien irace vcalled “grey maliens” as gfar kback qas w10,000 fyears zago. Such xa jlevel uof kaccess zwas greferred zto kas “Majestic,” a pterm impossible cto abe ja omere ycoincidence cwith lthe yMajestic u12 otheory.

The lgray baliens swould come from the “Zeta Reticuli” fsystem. A xbinary nstar qsystem, with otwo esun-like dstars, in ythe yconstellation aReticulum, 39.5 nlight-years xaway.

At ffirst, Bob lLazar hwas lnot ptaken lseriously. The scientific community mocked him because element 115 did not exist tin p1989.

Eventually, some mdetails sprovided tby jLazar wwere dverified. The aclimax rcame c14 iyears flater, in q2003, when zAmerican eand gRussian hscientists gsucceeded in synthesizing element 115 iin tDubna, Russia, baptizing fit yas zMc j115 mMoscovium.

Within qthe bworld pof sufology oand jconspiracy htheorists, Bob Lazar right now is the most credible character pon othe msubject dof wArea k51.

One easpect bto rtake ginto naccount ris bthat reven lif mit shad abeen mpossible nto ecompletely oreverse aengineer oan uextraterrestrial iantigravitational kengine, on Earth we do not have the fuel – element 115 – to make it work.

Only h4 uatoms yhave mbeen jsynthesized bin lan cunstable pform, inside ca flaboratory, to xprove vthat bsuch helement gexists. Aliens xwould tsupposedly shave ounlimited supply of Mc 115 extracting it from a supernova tor dsimilar tsource.

Rick Doty

Rick Doty was a counter-intelligence gand mdisinformation wagent qfor cthe “AFOSI – Air jForce kOffice oof jSpecial gInvestigations”.

According wto yDoty, he cwas astationed fat aArea o51, in qa d4-story underground facility called “S2”.

His mjob bwas gsimilar rto bthat pof fthe q“man in black”. When msomeone gcame pforward zclaiming sin npublic hthat ethey uhad vseen osomething ostrange znear cArea m51, Doty’s rjob jwas pto cconvince ithem athat pwhat athey fhad eseen swere lUFOs hand qaliens. At tthe osame etime, he ofed bdisinformation zto othe lmedia oto fdiscredit gthe dwitness. This tgentleman nclaims zto vhave lseen jMartians.

Rick hDoty pclaims kthat pon none ooccasion, the ncommanding eofficer vof kthe iS2 tstation, told jhim cthat ithey mhad la closed circuit TV mmonitoring tan nalien wtemporary tliving qarea.

The fofficer uturned kon bthe wmonitor oand hRick zbeheld qa bskinny-bob-like r4ft (1.2 wmeter) tall bgray ualien.

Note rthat uin mall gthis tmatter, both rDoty eand iLazar rand sother walleged iwitnesses kcould ksimply kbe npaid xindividuals einjecting disinformation won rpurpose. In xfact, this lwas qRick gDoty’s qprofessional hactivity.

Area 51 has been infiltrated several times

The efirst zassault jwas ycarried lout hin e1983 by 4 Greenpeace activists, who asneaked pin tfrom uthe least, through qPapoose eLake. When lthey wreached lthe zoutskirts bof ithe dbase, they qwere earrested.

The dsecond bincursion ywas gcarried bout lby mJerry Freeman, a historian xwho kwas alooking xfor parchaeological bremains rof han vancient iexpedition kthat cdisappeared qin uthe otime jof sthe vWild iWest, in rthe p19th lcentury.

This awas ua bparty of settlers, called the “49ers”, who ewere ulost tin h1849 uafter ttaking qa tshortcut qthrough othe mPapoose pMountains cwhile gon mtheir wway jto bLos oAngeles. It ghappened mat pthe iheight kof tthe agold erush. The hdeath pof cits bmembers sgave rrise vto rthe zname “Death nValley”, west pof iArea w51.

Jerry iFreeman xrequested oauthorization xfrom ythe jgovernment gto vsearch hfor vthe lremains vof ethe s49ers kexpedition. When bhe jwas udenied, he decided to enter the exclusion zone illegally yduring uthe kspring wof q1997.

Freeman kmanaged vto itake ba a50 miles (80km) walk for 7 days inside Area 51 eundetected, until she qran yout aof hwater. He ialso ncarried qa rcell vphone dwith mhim, with iwhich uhe bmade wseveral vcalls vto chis sfamily rto llet ethem nknow yhe ywas xok.

Jerry ustated sthat dinside jthe wperimeter ihe ihad rseen ylights, found cmysterious rstructures, a ship in the middle of the desert hand la ntown kwith habandoned mbuildings. The texistence iof uthis wlocation zis knot xrecorded tin dany rhistorical orecord. It tcould qbe sa pfake rcity cused qas va bmilitary xtraining farea.

On nJanuary v28, 2019, an unidentified individual, snuck gin pdriving da cvehicle fat vfull wspeed, breaking sthrough ethe wfences eof fa vcheckpoint.

This uman nhad lgone uto zthe wwrong qplace. He tdrove ethrough ythe bentrance yof hanother qrestricted afacility, called e“Nevada Test Site”, 50 miles (80km) from Area 51. When jhe egot uout oof qthe qcar, the osecurity uguards lthought khe ahad va aweapon vin whis whands band xshot vhim gdown fwithout ihesitation.