What are some facts about Area 51?

Answer 1

Facts:

• Area 51 is in reality a US Air Force installation.
• Area 51 is under top secret security by the Federal Government.
• Area 51 installations and activities are classified because it is used to test the most secret military air craft and equipment.
• Due to issues of national security, what is really at Area 51 and what activities actually take place, no real information allowed to the public. When a vacuum of information exists, some people are driven to fill it with whatever their imagination dictates.

Answer 2

'Area 51' is in reality a US government facility in Nevada, about 83 miles northwest of Las Vegas. As part of the Nellis AFB built in 1941, it's designated purpose is the development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems which includes restricted airspace.

The suspicion that the government had also been hiding more than military secrets began in 1955 when the CIA designated additional land area to test the U-2 and the Dept. of Interior withdrew an additional 60 sq. mile rectangle of land beneath the airspace in 1958. The speculation went into high gear in 1989 when a Las Vegas TV station broadcast a series of interviews with a self-proclaimed aerospace engineer, Robert Lazar, who said that he had been hired to help examine an alien spacecraft at the facility. He claimed that the government had recovered an extraterrestrial spacecraft which it kept stored in an underground bunker.

That's how the whole thing started and since Mr. Lazar's interviews, there has been no end to the stories and speculation involving Area 51 and the surrounding area. The AFB is a top secret installation with numerous signs surrounding it that advise this fact, trespassing is forbidden. Anyone who actually has security clearance for the facility is not allowed, under penalty of treason, to say anything about the facility. This fact allows anyone to tell any stories they want about what happens there because there is no one to dispute their claims.

Answer 3

It's a U.S. Air Force facility in Nevada, once used for flight testing.