Area 51, located in the southern Nevada in western U.S., is the country’s secret military base in which the government alternatively deny and acknowledge its existence until the 1990s.

There are have been rumours about the UFOs’ wreckage and the dead body of aliens from the UFO crashes that are keep in Area 51 and that scientists have been doing reverse engineering of alien technology.

The name Area 51 has its own several theories as well. The most famous one is the fact that Area 51 borders the Nevada Test Site (NTS). NTS was used by the AEC as testing grounds for nuclear bombs. It is mapped as a grid of squares with 0-30 numbers. Though the military facility is not part of the grid, Area 51 borders Area 15.

Conspiracy theory believers think that transposing the 1 and 5 of its neighbour is the origin of the name Area 51. Another theory also insisting that number 51 was selected because it will not be likely utilized in the future as part of the NTS.

Here are some things about Area 51:

• The Extra-terrestrial Belief

Many believe that the U.S. has captured aliens travelling using their UFOs. What is catchy about this thing is that scientists at Area 51 are believed to have reverse engineered alien spaceships to develop the iPhone and the iPad.

• The Vicinity

Area 51 is on a large area of land, so huge that no one can even think that it is an active military base. Many reported that it is half the size of the entire Switzerland but it was never confirmed by the media because journalists are not allowed to enter the base.

But based on the satellite images, it can be seen that the Area 51 is so large.

• The area is under extreme monitoring

The area is heavily guarded by camouflaged guards. It is known that they do not hesitate to shoot down anyone if he/she makes suspicious move. It is also believe that Area 51 has motion sensors that could even detect human sweat. It can also detect presence of human as far as 20 kilometres.

An unidentified flying object (UFO) near the controversial Area 51 was captured in camera as Nevada resident managed to photograph the strange event. Alien skeptics and believers have been arguing for many years about real activities in Area 51 whether aliens or alien technologies have been studied or just a usual research for advanced military equipment.

An unnamed witness reported a UFO sighting to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) claiming to notice a bright sphere hovering above a desert in Alamo. The sighting was happened on September 29 and was filed on December 30 in MUFON.

The UFO report was supported by a photo.

According to the report, there was no activity of flying aircraft out of Nellis AFB or Groom Lake in the day of the event. Behind the mountains is Area 51 and the sun was behind the person who took the picture of the UFO as determined by the shadows on the ground in the image.

Area 51, UFOs, and Aliens

There have been so many rumours for many decades on the real activities in Area 51. The highly guarded military base has been associated with experimental spaceships, aliens, time travel explorations and among other things related to the existence of advanced aliens and technologies. The most popular alien story connected with Area 51 is the alleged UFO crash in Roswell, NM in 1947.

These interesting photos of a solid metallic UFO over Area 51 in Nevada were taken on November 8, 2012.

Here’s the witness report: As a small group of tourists we had just left Rachel Nevada (Lil Ale’in) and stopped at the black mailbox en route to the Area 51 entrance. Earlier in the day we saw a helicopter in the area and two people in our group insisted that we were being followed by another man in a blue car. While we were doing our tourist thing at the black mail box, one of the group members shouted something that caused all of us to turn around. Two or three people began snapping photo’s of a shiny object in the sky. It hovered for a few seconds, seemed to move back and forth in different directions and after 30 seconds or so took off in an incredible speed. I could not hear noise coming from the object but it certainly freaked me out. Obviously, everyone was pretty excited, but strangely enough one lady in our group from Germany got physically ill almost immediately after the sighting. When we got to the entrance to area 51 she got diarrhea directly in view of the men in the white truck that sit on the hill. I thought you should have these pictures but I really don’t want any publicity. I can assure you of one thing…I will never go back to Area 51.

Source: LUFOS: New daytime photos of UFO over Area 51, Nevada

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Security forces at Area 51 in Las Vegas, Nevada were reported to have captured a 12-man BBC film crew who trespassed on America’s top-secret military base. The crew members, including Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell and UFO specialist Darren Perks, were forced to have their faces lie on the ground at gunpoint.

According to military officials, the film crew unlawfully entered the Area 51, which has been alleged to have captured a crashed UFO and held pilot aliens alive. In response, Perks explained that they tried to call the guards to ask for permission. Since they got no response and did not see any corresponding military officer, they entered in the vicinity as part of their concept to tour across Nevada, California and Arizona.

Military officials said that the ground in Area 51 have detectors that are capable of detecting any intruders. They confiscated the team’s film equipment, cameras, I.Ds and wallets to look for credentials. The things were very serious that London had to receive a call from Washington about the incident. A crew member even confessed that a guard told that they could be killed and that their bodies will never be found.
The film crew found relief when the sheriffs from Lincoln Country arrived. They were fined 375 British pounds each and were allowed to go back to their hotel at Alamo, Nevada. They were also facing imprisonment of 6 months but spared by an unknown official from the Washington.

There have been claims and speculations that there is an UFO activity inside the Area 51. Many have been curious why military officials are so strict that anyone who tries to trespass can be imprisoned or perhaps killed. Skeptics believe that there is an existing government conspiracy in an attempt to hide UFO information from the public.

Area 51

One of the mysterious facilities in the U.S. is the site called Area 51, located near Las Vegas, Nevada. Whatever lies inside this facility is unknown to the eye of the public. In fact, many have tried to pull the curtain but they went unsuccessful. The stringent security at the facility makes it harmful for anyone who wants to trespass.

But for the man named Edward J. Ruppelt, information about secrets at Area 51 might be transparent. Ruppelt worked as an Air Force Officer of the United States from 1953 to 1959. He spearheaded the agency’s project Blue Book and wrote a very controversial book in 1956. Ruppelt is claimed to be knowledgeable of the confidential activities in the Las Vegas facility, attributing to his work as an investigator of incidents related to UFO appearances. He was highly appreciated by the agency for converting his unorganized public office into a much improved Air Force division.

The Blue Book project started as a one-man mission under officer James Rogers. It then became an operation consisting of ten people with an aim to investigate unusual activities similar to that of Area 51. UFO sightings are already common in 1950s. The number of witnesses never came low as claims continue to exist. This has also fueled the growing interest in Ruppelt’s controversial book, whose copies became in demand after his death in 1960 due to heart attack.

Area 51

The Area 51 is the most top secret US military base installed at the southern part of the Nevada State, USA. Its existence is buried in secrecy and the U.S. Government kept affirming that the military site is used for testing US aircraft. However, many speculations have emerged alluding that aliens were being isolated beneath the Area 51. It is just 100 miles from Las Vegas and surrounded by other Air Force military base and an abandoned nuclear testing grounds. None has ever entered the facility unless a person has its authority. The base is extremely isolated that if anyone dared to come across the fence shall be killed. Sign boards illustrating the restriction can be seen at the perimeter. No one inside is allowed to disclose anything they have seen.

The facility Area 51 has been a holy grail for conspiracy theorists. UFOlogist asserted that the Pentagon ordered scientists in Area 51 to conduct reverse engineering to extraterrestrial spacecraft, like flying saucers, and preserving aliens for Biological study. Residents in the U.S. believed that Area 51 is connected to other underground bases installed throughout the country through tunnels.

In 2001, a popular TV show titled Today Show hosted by Katie Couric broadcasts that 7 percent of the Americans doubted the first moon landing occurred in the Nevada dessert. X-files enthusiasts strongly believed that the truth was in Area 51 but concealed in secrecy. Recent Google satellite image of Area 51 regarding the Strangelove esque hangars where also denied by the U.S. Government.

People know that the truth is out there but no one ever tried to justify the dispute concerning Area 51′s secret activity. However, 5 brave men emerged and claimed to have worked in Area 51 disclosing several activities done in Area 51. They are Colonel Hugh “Slip” Slater, an 87-year-old man who was a commander at Area 51 in the 1960s. Edward Lovick, a 90-year-old man who was allocated in radar testing department for the world’s most famous aircraft (including the U-2, the A-12 OXCART and the F-117) for three decades and was featured in “What Plane?” in LA’s March issue, Kenneth Collins, and 80-year-old man who was a CIA experimental test pilot and received a silver star. Thornton “T.D.” Barnes, a 72-year-old man was a special-projects engineer in Area 51. And Harry Martin, a 77-year-old man who was one of the men in charge of the base’s half-million-gallon monthly supply of spy-plane fuels.

Collins, on May 24, 1963, flew and maneuvered Area 51′s top secret spy plane OXCART that was built by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Unfortunately, while he was flying through Utah, the aircraft flipped, lose control and crashed. However, luckily survived but dropped into a field of weeds. In 2008, Collins was having his hot coffee in San Fernando Valley when suddenly a group of men came and took him into the van. “Three guys came driving toward me in a pickup. I saw they had the aircraft canopy in the back. They offered to take me to my plane.” said Collins. “I told them not to go near the aircraft. I said it had a nuclear weapon on-board.” he added. The story fit right into the Cold War backdrop of the day, as many atomic tests took place in Nevada. Spooked, the men drove Collins to the local highway patrol. The CIA disguised the accident as involving a generic Air Force plane, the F-105, which is how the event is still listed in official records.

The men who picked Collins were tracked down and were asked to sign national security nondisclosure. Collins was asked to take truth serum as part of his debriefing and to successfully remember the plane crash incident on May 24. 1963. “They wanted to see if there was anything I’d for-gotten about the events leading up to the crash.” said Collins. “Late Sunday, three CIA agents brought me home. One drove my car; the other two carried me inside and laid me down on the couch. I was loopy from the drugs. They handed Jane the car keys and left without saying a word.” he added.

After Collins’s OXCART incident, CIA pilots had been flying spy plane over Area 51 for 8 years to prevent the facility of testing nuclear weapons for warfare. Aerial strategy was the most typical effort CIA had done during that time while the U.S. Government ordered Area 51 to build bomb shelters for the best of the country’s defensive power over Soviet Union.

“It wasn’t always called Area 51,” said Lovick, a physicist who developed stealth technology in Area 51. Lovick superior Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson who was a legendary aircraft designer entitled the place as a Paradise Ranch to encourage the facility’s personnel and staff to leave their families to give their best shot in science and technology as part of their contribution in the country against terrorism. “Test pilot Tony LeVier found the place by flying over it,” said Lovick. “It was a lake bed called Groom Lake, selected for testing because it was flat and far from anything. It was kept secret because the CIA tested U-2s there.” he added.

Titanium A-12 spy-plane

When Frances Gary Powers was shot down over Sverdlovsk, Russia, in 1960, the U-2 program lost its cover. But the CIA already had Lovick and some 200 scientists, engineers and pilots working at Area 51 on the A-12 OXCART, which would outfox Soviet radar using height, stealth and speed.

Colonel Slater came to action during the Vietnam War and maneuvered the OXCART as part of his mission. “I was recruited for the Area after working with the CIA’s classified Black Cat Squadron, which flew U-2 missions over denied territory in Mainland China. After that, I was told, ‘You should come out to Nevada and work on something interesting we’re doing out there.” said Col. Slater while having his Cuban meat and cheese sandwich at the Bahama restaurant.

Col. Slater accounted himself as a fighter pilot from his heart. In World War II, he fulfilled 84 missions, and working in Area 51 was a great call and opportunity for him. “When I learned about this Mach-3 aircraft called OXCART, it was completely intriguing to me–this idea of flying three times the speed of sound! No one knew a thing about the program. I asked my wife, Barbara, if she wanted to move to Las Vegas, and she said yes. And I said, ‘You won’t see me but on the weekends,’ and she said, ‘That’s fine!’ “ said Col. Slater while having his dinner with her wife Barbara.

“We couldn’t have told you any of this a year ago,” said Slater to the interviewer. “Now we can’t tell it to you fast enough.” Slater knew that in 2007, CIA has been declassifying the 50-year-old OXCART program. Recently, there are many people accounted to have seen the information about the program.

Barnes married his wife when he was 17 and her wife Doris was 16 at that time. At the young age, he couldn’t financially support his wife. He looked for a job and became an electronics wizard. He buys bricked televisions sets, radio and other electronics and fixed them to work again. To earn money, he sells all those bricked electronics he had fixed five times the original price. His eyes have already seen the poverty of life in Texas, which made sturdy in his journey of life. He had partaken the Korean War, there he played a significant role. When he was 22 years old, he demonstrated an uncanny aptitude for radar and Nike missiles systems. From that, CIA has been looking for him because the organization knew that Barnes has something to contribute for the U.S. Government, especially in the OXCART project. When he reached 30, he was part of the nuclear secret project.

“The agency located each guy at the top of a certain field and put us together for the programs at Area 51,” said Barnes. “Our special-projects group was the most classified team since the Manhattan Project,” he added.

Harry Martin, a person who specializes in Fuel and once worked in Air Force, no doubt why CIA called him for duty. He undergone psychological and physical test to ensure that he could still work and contribute to the OXCART program. His family was relocated to Nevada after Martin passed CIA’s initiation for a reason that the OXCART needs to be fueled most of the time. He admitted that he had been to Area 51 for several times for quality control check and refueling the spy plane. “My wife took one look at me in these arctic boots and this big hooded coat, and she knew not to ask where I was going.” said Martin.

Therefore, urban folklores, speculations and myths are merely not connected to what’s really happening in Area 51. Collins, Lovick, Slater, Barnes and Martin deliberately disclosed about the OXCART without dread. This only shows that allegation from conspiracy theorists, personnel and staffs in Area 51 are not allowed to disclose anything, are false and no truth, and that folklores circulating around the world were only spun from threads of fact.

Regarding the so-called allegation of “Reverse Engineering” to extraterrestrial spacecraft, Barnes affirmed that the facility Area 51 had conducted reverse engineering several times but not to those extraterrestrial spacecraft but on to those Soviet MiG Fighter Jet. However, concerning the underground tunnels that many people accounted to be true, he confirmed that underground tunnels do exist and, they connect underground bases but not throughout the U.S. He was allocated to a project named NERVA, code-name of nuclear rocket project, which he confirmed that it was installed beneath the Jackass Flats in Area 51′s backyard. “Three test-cell facilities were connected by railroad, but everything else was underground,” said Barnes.

When talking about the conspiracy theory that alluded that Pentagon has been capturing alien spacecraft, the 5 men agreed that OXCART looks like an extraterrestrial spacecraft when maneuvered. OXCART was designed to convey vast quantity of fuel to other bases, and it is indeed a disc-shape aircraft. Its exterior is made of titanium metal and when it reaches its speed at 2, 000 plus mph, it would reflect the sun’s rays that made eyewitnesses thought of a UFO flying.

Slater laughed after knowing that many people believed they had sighted a UFO. In all 2, 850 OXCART test flight since it was made, he couldn’t imagine how many people believed that they saw a Flying Saucer in the open sky flying. “That’s a lot of UFO sightings!” said Slater. “When they’d land in California, they’d be met by FBI agents who’d make them sign nondisclosure forms.” he added. Because of this case, the U.S. Air Force was forced to open the project Blue Book when UFO lore began circulating. Blue Book allows anyone to report their UFO sightings within the Nevada State.

However, only few Air Force officials understood the OXCART, though, it was a joint CIA/USAF project and, UFO sighting from nearby residents caused the Air Force to issue internal military alarms. Some Air Force generals presumed that Russia has been sending stealth craft to America’s open sky to incite paranoia and create widespread panic of alien invasion. As of now, Air Force’s Blue Book has reached 37 cubic feet (74, 000 pages) of case files concerning UFO sightings and currently isolated in the National Archives.

Unfortunately, the Project Blue Book was closed-in in 1969, just years after the OXCART project was shut down. Since Blue Book has no longer in service, recent activities in Area 51 would take another 40 years to disclose and, eyewitnesses are not allowed to file a report of such sightings.

Serious believers of UFO may have a good reason to get out for one night this September.

Las Vegas-based Smithsonian Institution affiliated museum made announcement to its plans for one night event that would feature speakers from both U.K. and the U.S. military in an effort to go deeper about UFO and alien mysterious activities in Area 51.

The event will be scheduled on September 22 as announced by the National Atomic Testing Museum. It plans to reveal personal stories from men who write books and conduct investigations both outside and inside the military.

One of the scheduled speakers Col. John Alexander said that the panel will be composed of people who worked with the military, and believe that UFOs are real and worth of research. While participants will just few, they are highly credible, according to Col. Alexander.

Joining Col. Alexander in the discussion will be Col. Bill Coleman of the U.S. Air Force. Coleman was working with Project Blue Book and ex-FBI investigator of UFO reports between 1947 and 1969.

Alexander is the event’s chief spokesperson.

Also expected to be part of the discussion is Col. Robert Friend, former director of Project Blue Book that already reported 701 UFOs out of 12, 618 from 1947 to 1969.

The event organizers added international flavor among guest speakers with the inclusion of former UFO investigator at U.K.’s Ministry of Defence Nick Pope and ex-Deputy Base Commander at Bentwaters Col. Charles Halt.

Mr. Pope is set to share how both the U.S. and U.K. governments collaborated in forming study groups over UFO sightings and why both agreed to close their records on the issue.

The event is part of ongoing series of lectures on Area 51 held by the museum and will present what they believe real alien artifacts from around the world.