The United States Air Force facility commonly known as Area
51. It is highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base within
Nevada Test and Training Range. It’s correct name is Homey Airport and Groom
Lake. The name Area 51 is used in a CIA document from the Vietnam war. It is
referred to as restricted area.
Some facts about Area 51 –
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The name Area 51 is derived from it’s marking on
1950 Nevada Test Site maps.
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Area 51 was also referred to as Groom Lake,
Paradise Ranch, Watertown, and Dreamland.
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It’s name Dreamland was derived from an Edgar
Allan Poe poem by the same name. It admonishes that the traveller, travelling
through it, may not dare not openly view it. Never it’s mysteries are exposed.
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Early on the only entertainment at Area 51
consisted of single cement tennis court and a small bowling alley. There was no
television, and radio signals only made it through the surrounding mountain’s
in the evening.
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After an increase in UFO sightings in 1952, the
CIA concluded that ‘’there is a remote possibility that they may be interplanetary
aircraft’’ and that it was necessary to investigate each sighting.
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90% of reported UFO sightings could be easily
debunked, while the other 10% were ‘’ a number of incredible reports from
credible observer’’.
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