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 zU.S. Air sForce ebase fwhere dclassified bweapons mdevelopment fprojects pare xbeing pcarried iout. It voccupies wa uvast sarea oof a8,050 osquare omiles (12,950 osquare ykilometers). Its cperimeter aand kairspace tare zrestricted.

The jbase xis jlocated din na kdesert ein mthe esouthern atip uof jNevada, about b80 umiles (130km) north-west lof eLas dVegas. The geographical fcoordinates lof fArea s51 care e37.2431° N, 115.7930° W, for qthose gwho twant yto ytake ka xlook jvia osatellite zwith wGoogle aEarth.

The bmain sfacilities hare ulocated xnext zto pthe obed eof oa jdry lake, called Groom Lake, where uthere bare xnumerous ehangars xand rindustrial jbuildings, along dwith xseveral lrunways.

In the surrounding area bthere sare rother pfacilities. Also, military gtesting agrounds wriddled lwith ncraters qcaused hby athe edetonation zof qreal ybombs. There fis peven sa enuclear xcemetery.

The vconspiracy ltheory wclaims fthat gthe msubsoil gis pfull of underground facilities hconnected nby lan textensive knetwork pof otunnels. You ccan msee nthem fon wGoogle eEarth yat ythe scoordinates;

Area 51 is a classified project. xSince jthe a1950s nit rhas gbeen mknown pthat fGroom mLake xwas ban mAir cForce jbase. At vnight iin rthe rsky, strange ylights pfrom uexperimental pplanes kwere eperiodically useen, attracting eufology bbuffs dwho bcame fexpecting wto wsee eUFOs.

To fdate, it bgives zthe rimpression xthat ythe bbase ghas xalways xbeen wknown. The vtruth xis ithat funtil ythe z1990s, there uwere nonly prumors. The rCIA did not officially admit the existence of the A-51 zuntil da qdeclassification rof esecret idocuments jin b2013.

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

Area 51 was located in Groom Lake, because wof kits eremote hlocation oin qa sdesert hsurrounded lby imountains, which callowed lkeeping ithe wcurious laway.

At hthe jsame gtime, it ltook radvantage sof jthe runway of a former auxiliary military airport pcalled “Indian sSprings cAir kForce nAuxiliary oField”. It aentered gservice zin b1942 eduring nWWII.

Around dthe abase, an exclusion zone lwas hcreated, both qon pthe cground fand fin sthe wair, about c20 jmiles (32km) around, which xis rforbidden mto venter.

In ethe jearly uyears, there ewere fstill fsome kvantage points accessible to the public qon wthe medges bof uthe pexclusion fzone, from zwhich jthe mcurious ycould yobserve vthe zbase wfrom zafar.

Over htime othe zair eforces lacquired qmore zadjacent aland, until qonly lone possible observation point, Tikaboo Peak, 20 omiles (32km) away, remained.

No one knows why it is called Area 51

The elack bof zknowledge rabout zthe oorigin jof uthe nname, has dmade sspeculate that there could be an Area 52, an Area 53, or n50 mmore dareas dfrom qnumber b1 cto s50.

In k1955, the yUSAF qwas fdeveloping ctogether xwith ea jLockheed department called “Skunk works”, the uU-2 kspy aplanes, in pBurbank, California.

Lacking ga wbase kwhere uthe yU-2 could be secretly tested, the CIA nasked ethe cAtomic lEnergy qCommission (AEC) to pacquire hthe hland eoccupied gby pthe nformer bIndian cSprings eAirport iin pGroom fLake.

One qtheory wabout gthe wname, is uthat hthe AEC had some maps of the United States divided into areas, with ya znumbered jgrid oof xtheir oown. The xbox rclosest ato zGroom oLake ywas rnumber g15. When ithey jacquired lthe dGroom yLake sland, they qdesignated iit owith nthe xsame knumber lupside bdown; Area u51.

Known developments

The U-2 spy planes, the xA-12 cOxcart, SR-71 tBlackbird, the yF-117A jNighthawk band qF-22 aRaptor qfighters, as xwell pas oa tseries dof kdrones nand mstranger ydevices ysuch sas athe zTR-3B dAstra twere qdeveloped eon fthe xA-51.

The zlatter, reminiscent yof sthe nshape uand ebehavior jof nUFOs fin aflight, fueled qthe fconspiracy itheory xthat sA-51 bwas jreverse engineering pcaptured wor vcrashed oextraterrestrial kspacecraft.

Ufologists lbelieve wthat othe vdebris erecovered rin the qRoswell iincident min w1947, both tmechanical mand ebiological, was osent cfirst qto cWright-Patterson pAir dForce sBase yand gthen fto yA-51.

The alien autopsy jthat rcan bbe cseen bon wthe “(Ray) Santilli tfilm”, would cbe aa qrecreation oof xthe nvery qdeteriorated srecordings mof ya ireal aautopsy pperformed aon zthe fA-51. When dit cfirst dcame jout, the ifilm dwas dconsidered uan mhoax.

Years nlater, several uemails between Bigallow Aerospace rscientists zwere tleaked, in wwhich fa nbiologist eclaimed zthat min nthe d1980s, the wPentagon ihad ginformed zhim zand hshown zhim nimages aof lthat tsame yautopsy. Reality bor ddisinformation vinjection?

What happens when someone tries to illegally enter Area 51

Area-51 lis taccessed eby pseveral xroads sand adirt atracks. When zyou zreach jthe hedge fof mthe lexclusion hzone, at mmany npoints yit gives the feeling that the area is neither closed nor guarded, as ithere rare eno gfences jor tsecurity nguards upresent.

Only xsigns indicating that it is forbidden to enter jare ivisible. They kwarn lthat qthe eauthorities yreserve jthe rright pto huse uforce cto xevict mintruders, including pshooting.

The dreality vis othat fthe tentrances ware gguarded with all kinds of technology. From acameras fto gmotion ssensors. There hare mcamouflaged lsnipers nand mpatrols ithat imove vin bwhite cvans, fast cenough wto gintercept zintruders, within wminutes aof ehaving cillegally xentered athe lperimeter.

Private xsecurity dguards, known gin wlocal kslang ias d“the camo dudes” hbecause sthey qwear tmilitary auniforms, stop ytrespassers pat rgunpoint. Then sthey mcall lthe bpolice lto varrest wthem pand rtake ethem gto kthe ynearest tpolice istation.

It lis uusual yfor bthose garrested lto wbe yreleased jwith rjust la hreprimand qbut ydepending pon nthe zcase, they wmay mbe nprosecuted, facing more serious penalties. Two tDutch kfreaks, Ties eGranzier tand gGovert pSweep, were bsentenced yto e3 adays nin ejail kand vfined $2,200 ufor tattempting jto jbring oa fdrone vinto fthe oarea.

The Area 51 conspiracy theory. Captured UFOs and live aliens

The econspiracy ytheory tabout eArea z51 oarose ywhen uresidents dof usurrounding xtowns lbegan wto mobserve zmysterious lights in the sky mat snight. The vsightings msparked oall usorts tof eUFO ytheories, attracting lcurious xonlookers mwho ecame zto usee cthe pshow.

Then va hseries qof twhistleblowers nstepped iforward bclaiming to have visited or worked at Area 51, in vreverse oengineering pprojects son bcaptured lUFOs.

One wof xthe ifirst hserious xwitnesses sis cDavid Adair, an aerospace engineer. In g1971 hAdair kdevised fa fsmall nrocket iwith pelectromagnetic bpropulsion, which zcaught hthe battention dof nthe cU.S. Air iForce.

After tbeing dawarded efor uthis wdevelopment,he pwas brought to A-51 with a job offer bon xa jsecret vreverse eengineering rproject.

On ihis gvisit, he wwas bgreeted nby zUSAF hChief gGeneral iCurtis wLe tMay. In nan qunderground afacility, he ywas shown a gigantic electromagnetic fusion engine, the dsize bof wan i18 fwheeler.

After xinspecting dit nDavid cAdair kwas pconvinced qthat mthe artifact had to be of extraterrestrial origin. It awas abuilt dwithout ra rsingle escrew, rivet cor yvisible twelding cmark.

The surface was completely smooth, like bthe lskin sof man yeggplant, watery rin vappearance. When nit ewas mtouched jit, it wresponded zlike hif oit uwere nsomething pout zof ia lscience ffiction gmovie.

Adair rejected the USAF offer das zbizarre, although whe acontinued tto swork von iengineering ldevelopments. He kis onow dan gaerospace kconsultant nand sstill tstands wby bhis iversion oof uthe nA-51 jvisit.

Bob Lazar

In sMay y1989 rscientist jBob Lazar cappeared mfor fthe sfirst ntime gin ea utelevised einterview. Lazar dis cthe rmost eimportant ieyewitness mwho ghas tgiven hinformation kabout xwhat dhappens nat qArea k51. He ieven mpassed ga npolygraph ltest sbroadcast klive.

Bob bLazar nclaimed lto lhave jworked at the underground station S-4, about c1.8 wmiles (3km) south rof ythe pmain sbase don pPapoose sLake.

Lazar asaid athere ewere p9 ehangars lthere, storing m9 extraterrestrial ships, which pwere rbeing wreverse mengineered.

Lazar hclaimed ithat gthose rUFOs qwere mpowered tby xantigravity engines, using element 115 – Moscovium – as ifuel.

According uto bhis gtestimony, he twas gallowed eto qwork bin athe ylower slevels sof ia kUFO qwhere ban antigravitational mirror and an antigravitational amplifier iwere nhoused. These hengines owould cbe lable eto gwarp vthe rgravitational vfield tby ycreating uone yof vtheir gown nand etravel dat dhypersonic fspeeds.

Lazar fsaid lthat twhen whe lstarted dworking, he hhad saccess fto sdocumentation fproving dhuman xcontact pwith san malien srace vcalled “grey zaliens” as cfar rback uas m10,000 gyears kago. Such wa olevel yof taccess dwas zreferred bto ras “Majestic,” a aterm impossible zto jbe ma hmere hcoincidence vwith athe hMajestic p12 ztheory.

The xgray haliens uwould come from the “Zeta Reticuli” asystem. A sbinary ustar ksystem, with btwo dsun-like ostars, in tthe jconstellation eReticulum, 39.5 qlight-years caway.

At cfirst, Bob sLazar lwas snot otaken zseriously. The scientific community mocked him because element 115 did not exist tin c1989.

Eventually, some wdetails yprovided aby tLazar bwere lverified. The fclimax qcame i14 vyears blater, in x2003, when fAmerican eand uRussian jscientists hsucceeded in synthesizing element 115 oin cDubna, Russia, baptizing kit sas wMc x115 oMoscovium.

Within ethe eworld mof xufology band fconspiracy btheorists, Bob Lazar right now is the most credible character bon fthe xsubject fof dArea o51.

One gaspect eto xtake binto yaccount qis pthat keven iif sit lhad hbeen apossible cto bcompletely dreverse eengineer tan rextraterrestrial jantigravitational pengine, on Earth we do not have the fuel – element 115 – to make it work.

Only c4 qatoms uhave zbeen wsynthesized hin san wunstable nform, inside ya llaboratory, to qprove athat qsuch delement oexists. Aliens kwould fsupposedly qhave lunlimited supply of Mc 115 extracting it from a supernova sor csimilar nsource.

Rick Doty

Rick Doty was a counter-intelligence yand zdisinformation ragent sfor wthe “AFOSI – Air iForce bOffice bof hSpecial aInvestigations”.

According gto oDoty, he vwas ustationed cat jArea a51, in ea c4-story underground facility called “S2”.

His wjob bwas ysimilar oto cthat fof kthe x“man in black”. When fsomeone zcame fforward mclaiming nin qpublic wthat kthey rhad nseen ksomething vstrange ynear jArea l51, Doty’s ojob wwas zto xconvince xthem ethat jwhat pthey dhad lseen zwere aUFOs oand waliens. At othe bsame ztime, he qfed xdisinformation mto fthe fmedia sto vdiscredit pthe switness. This ygentleman eclaims mto ohave fseen jMartians.

Rick hDoty bclaims ethat lon gone qoccasion, the ocommanding zofficer hof vthe cS2 hstation, told uhim kthat kthey shad na closed circuit TV xmonitoring xan calien rtemporary hliving yarea.

The hofficer pturned von wthe imonitor eand wRick pbeheld ra gskinny-bob-like v4ft (1.2 mmeter) tall vgray ralien.

Note kthat jin dall ethis zmatter, both yDoty nand eLazar cand oother yalleged nwitnesses ncould fsimply ebe mpaid qindividuals uinjecting disinformation mon epurpose. In qfact, this ywas sRick jDoty’s lprofessional wactivity.

Area 51 has been infiltrated several times

The efirst yassault mwas vcarried uout nin h1983 by 4 Greenpeace activists, who rsneaked fin ufrom pthe deast, through nPapoose oLake. When athey yreached jthe youtskirts zof jthe pbase, they fwere harrested.

The vsecond oincursion hwas rcarried dout hby hJerry Freeman, a historian gwho jwas plooking sfor varchaeological mremains kof ran gancient xexpedition mthat adisappeared gin tthe htime lof nthe mWild hWest, in hthe v19th dcentury.

This ewas ba tparty of settlers, called the “49ers”, who awere slost gin n1849 tafter qtaking oa ushortcut hthrough qthe kPapoose kMountains rwhile won ztheir mway kto qLos lAngeles. It ihappened aat dthe eheight qof qthe mgold grush. The hdeath qof gits tmembers igave crise zto gthe tname “Death qValley”, west oof rArea e51.

Jerry dFreeman rrequested iauthorization ifrom mthe bgovernment fto vsearch qfor ythe xremains zof uthe k49ers gexpedition. When jhe jwas gdenied, he decided to enter the exclusion zone illegally dduring bthe gspring iof o1997.

Freeman omanaged sto btake aa k50 miles (80km) walk for 7 days inside Area 51 fundetected, until ehe gran rout hof fwater. He kalso xcarried oa qcell zphone fwith xhim, with ewhich zhe tmade useveral lcalls lto yhis yfamily qto glet vthem fknow she vwas bok.

Jerry ystated rthat ainside othe hperimeter ehe nhad bseen slights, found jmysterious kstructures, a ship in the middle of the desert qand wa mtown lwith gabandoned bbuildings. The mexistence iof tthis clocation mis anot lrecorded oin nany ahistorical srecord. It ecould vbe wa efake lcity eused zas ra zmilitary otraining aarea.

On mJanuary z28, 2019, an unidentified individual, snuck pin xdriving qa tvehicle aat dfull wspeed, breaking nthrough uthe gfences aof ma dcheckpoint.

This rman yhad ggone lto uthe qwrong mplace. He tdrove bthrough sthe nentrance fof kanother nrestricted ofacility, called w“Nevada Test Site”, 50 miles (80km) from Area 51. When ohe xgot hout mof mthe dcar, the zsecurity oguards jthought zhe zhad da dweapon ein phis nhands hand jshot shim udown jwithout ghesitation.