The US government’s official name for Area 51 is the Nevada Test and Training Range, which is a unit of the Nellis Air Force Base. Today it is used as an open training range for the US Air Force.

For decades, Nevada’s Area 51 Air Force facility has represented the eye of a conspiratorial hurricane that swirls around “evidence” that aliens (and their technology) exist and are hiding behind its ...

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It's been a perennial American obsession for more than 50 years. It's provided a shadowy backdrop for shows like "The X-Files" and movies like the 1996 summer blockbuster "Independence Day." And in ...

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From Cold War aircraft testing to UFO speculation, the highly classified military testing site has been surrounded by myths for decades. UFO believers look for suspicious spacecraft during a UFO and ...

Following is a transcript of the video. In the early 1950s, US planes were conducting low-flying recon missions over the USSR. But there were constant worries of them being spotted and shot down. So … ...

Area 51 is highly classified, mysterious Air Force base in Nevada. It's been at the center of numerous conspiracy theories pertaining to aliens and UFOs. Over 1 million people have responded to a ...