on google earth it looks like a load of runways
The name ‘Area 51’ derives from its marking on 1950’s Nevada Test Site maps. Today, the official name of Area 51 is Air Force Flight Test Center, Detachment 3, or AFFTC Det. 3 for short. For years even our own government denied its existence until Soviet pictures confirmed what many knew all along. The base did exist. The facility was originally designed for the testing of U-2 spy planes, and ultimately Stealth technology would be born there. The secret site has grown to many times its original size. The USAF took over command of Area 51, and its airspace in 1970.
Area 51 was also referred to as Groom Lake (the name of the dry lake Area 51 was built around), Paradise Ranch (a half-serious way to entice employees to accept positions at the remote, rustic base), Watertown (the official name of the test site, given in 1956), and Dreamland (after an Edgar Allan Poe poem).
Area 51’s nickname DREAMLAND was allegedly derived from an Edgar Allan Poe poem by the same name. It admonishes that “the traveler, traveling through it, may not-dare not openly view it; Never its mysteries are exposed, to the weak human eye unclosed.”
This mysterious fortress and its surrounding grounds are strictly off-limits. What secrets are kept inside this highly guarded facility? The rumors abound. Yes, there have been pictures of craft doing amazing maneuvers over these guarded skies, and pictures and video smuggled from inside. These smuggled articles show living and dead aliens, spacecraft of futuristic design, but still the government denies these claims.
The A-12 OXCART required special fuel in order to fly at such extreme speeds and heights. The fuel was made to withstand extremely high temperatures and would not ignite even if someone threw a match into a barrel full of it.
The OXCART cruised at 2200 miles per hour, but because the plane was secret it was kept out of official speed competitions.
The A-12 OXCART consisted of more than 90% titanium. It was the world’s first titanium plane.
An A-12 spy plane was used when the USS Pueblo was captured by North Korea to photograph the area and determine the ship's location.
It's a designated area for the fanatics looking for extra terrestrials and alien crafts from another planet (UFOs). The problem is that none exist!
It is a source for a hundred and one urban myths and literally thousands of people treat it like holy ground cloaked in secrecy and holding alien crafts as well as their dead bodies.
It all started in the 1950s and the military crafted a "Public Relations" department specifically to address this issue.
The work in "Area 51" was to kept secret, no one to see the military experiments. But an accident happened in the area concerning an aircraft. It got blown way out of proportion and before you could say "E.T" myths sprang up about alien space crafts. There was no such thing .... but! ... The military made good use of it.
These so called UFOs that everyone saw were real. The problem for the military was; they weren't supposed to be seen. Every time a civilian spotted one of the experimental crafts going Mach 2 or something like that the military would deny any involvement. This is where the public relations department came in.
I don't remember who the high ranking officer was but he was put in charge of the whole culture of deciet concerning the UFOs. The first thing he did was admit that UFOs existed and the military were looking into it seriously. They felt that in accepting the myths as real, why not go along with the public, play their game, and that would take the glaring eyes off the real thing.
Things like the Spy Plane that the Soviets shot down in the early sixties,(people saw it but no one knew about it. The military had to admit to the aircraft after one was shot down over Russia) and things like the Stealth Bomber before it went public.
So it the whole damned thing is wrapped up in military secrets, public myths, and a great source of entertainment by Hollywood as well as amusement for the public who have both their feet grounded.
Secret place. Something to do with government. They test planes there yeah, it's like testing for wars too because they usually keep the planes covered so like when people fly past they can't see anything, what planes they have, how they work etc.. apparently there's aliens there too O.o but like they really can't tell anyone anything.. Loads of them have split up with their families because their wives and that don't know where they've been.
Edit; I've only got this information from a programme I once watched on it. There was people on it that had been interviewed that used to work there..I found it strange though, all their eyes were like the same.. they all kind of looked different :S
Area 51 is just a United States military base, there are lots of conspiracies surrounding the base, but there is no actual evidence to back any of them up.
Area 52 is a military base in Nevada, believed to have being investigating supernatural beings (aliens) following the Roswell incident....
Suspicions dont JUST happen.
People dont talk just like that.
Either the government started false suspicions so they can protect ANOTHER base by leading eyes away from it..
Or someone else actually did find "stuff" inside
It's a military base. You can look this stuff up online.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51
so what actually happens there?
on google earth it looks like a load of runways
