Area 51 Top Sekrets.
Area 51, an extremely secretive, remote branch of Edwards Air Force Base, was built in 1955 as part of a larger Nevada Test and Training Range complex, originally as a testing facility for the U-2 spy plane.
According to one account, in 1955, Area 51 was selected for testing of U-2 spy planes.
Located 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Area 51 is contained in the Air Force-operated Nevada Test and Training Range — an enormous, government-controlled chunk of land (the largest contiguous expanse of air and land space available to the free world for peacetime military operations, according to NTTR itself) that is about as big as Connecticut.
The facility is northwest of Las Vegas, and is part of the massive 368,000-acre military complex, which includes the Nevada Test Facility, established to conduct nuclear weapons tests, and the Nevada Test and Training Range, used to conduct air tests and target practice.
Area 51 shares its boundary with the Yucca Flats region of the Nevada Test Site, which has hosted 739 of the 928 nuclear tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy at NTS).
The airspace over Area 51 is known as R-4808N, and is restricted to all commercial and military flights that do not originate at Area 51 itself (except, of course, for the Janet commuter). Although Area 51 has never been declared Top Secret Base, this zone is heavily protected and restricted for use by land as well as aircraft.
What we call Area 51, she added, is just one of the many military bases, national labs, and government science research centers around the country dealing in classified — and Top Secret, even — information, where workers and visitors require security clearances.
For decades, the remoteness and restricted access of Area 51 has fed speculation about whether military officials conduct covert extraterrestrial experiments there, as well as storing evidence of alien visitors and UFOs. One of the sites many mysteries is how this creepy military base became a magnet for UFO conspiracy theorists, with people convinced that it was the home to an underground laboratory in which spaceships — and possibly even extraterrestrials — were hidden. The belief has been thoroughly mythologized over the years in popular culture, becoming firmly ensconced in extraterrestrial lore.
The testing of secret, new military planes is probably responsible for most connections between Area 51 and UFOs, especially considering the fact that the term UFO does not refer to an extraterrestrial craft directly, despite what is commonly perceived in popular culture.
Radford says that there are still legitimate government and military reasons to keep the activities at Area 51 a secret.
According to one account, in 1955, Area 51 was selected for testing of U-2 spy planes. According to the CIA, covert flight tests had been conducted at Area 51 since 1955, when the Army began testing U-2 CIA spy planes, about the time U.F.O.
Because of the ironclad security surrounding the facility, as well as the experimental nature of black planes tested there, rumors of unidentified flying objects, captured extraterrestrials, and other mysterious activities have swirled around Area 51 since the 1950s.
For decades, the remoteness and restricted access to Area 51 has fed speculation that military officials conduct covert experiments with extraterrestrials there, as well as storing evidence of alien visitors and UFOs. The desert base, which is completely off limits to civilians, has long been at the centre of conspiracies by alien enthusiasts and UFOlogists — people looking for UFOs.
Area 51, located in Nevada, has plenty of history, having been associated with extraterrestrials nearly from its founding.
No one knows for sure why Area 51 is called Area 51, but one theory suggests that it comes from the fact that it is close to Nevadas nuclear test sites. Area 51 has been the focus of extraterrestrial conspiracy theories in the United States for decades.
Believed to have been thoroughly mythologized over the years in popular culture, it has become a deeply embedded part of the lore about the extraterrestrials. The testing of secret, new military planes is probably responsible for most connections between Area 51 and UFOs, especially considering the fact that the term UFO does not refer to an extraterrestrial craft directly, despite what is commonly perceived in popular culture. For years, speculation has swirled around Area 51, particularly amid increasing reports of UFO sightings near it.
What we are calling Area 51, she added, is just one of a number of military bases, national labs, and government science research facilities around the country dealing in classified — and Top Secret — information, where workers and visitors require security clearances.
Radford said that there are still legitimate government and military reasons to keep the activities at Area 51 a secret.
