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More than two million people have signed up during the past two months to converge on Area 51, the air base near Rachel, Nevada, with hopes of seeing aliens. Although the organizer has called the “Storm Area 51" event a hoax, city officials estimate that 30,000 to 40,000 people could show up this weekend.
Each year, Area 51’s mythology draws tourists from around the world. People come to catch a glimpse of otherworldly aircrafts and the mysterious base, which may house foreign spacecrafts. Some of the legend of Area 51, which has been discredited for years, is based on true events—if you know the history of Area 51.
When the CIA started developing spy reconnaissance planes during the Cold War, then-CIA Director Richard Bissell, Jr. realized a private was needed to build and test prototypes. In 1955, he and Lockheed aircraft designer Kelly Johnson selected the secluded airfield at Groom Lake to be their headquarters. The Atomic Energy Commission added the base to the existing map of the Nevada Test Site and labeled the site Area 51.
Within eight months, engineers developed the U-2 plane, which could soar at an altitude of 70,000 feet—much higher than any other aircraft at the time. This allowed pilots to fly well above Soviet radar, missiles, and enemy aircraft. (Read how Area 51 engineers used cardboard to mislead Soviet spy satellites.)
After a U-2 was shot down by a Soviet anti-air missile in 1960, the CIA began developing the next generation of spy plane at Area 51: the titanium-bodied A-12. Nearly undetectable to radar, the A-12 could fly across the continental United States in 70 minutes at 2,200 miles an hour. The plane also was equipped with cameras that could, from an altitude of 90,000 feet, photograph objects just one-foot long on the ground.
With all of the high-tech flights out of Area 51—including more than 2,850 takeoffs by the A-12—reports of unidentifiable flying objects skyrocketed in the area. “The aircraft’s titanium body, moving as fast as a bullet, would reflect the sun’s rays in a way that could make anyone think, UFO,” sources told journalist Annie Jacobsen for her book on Area 51
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More than two million people have signed up during the past two months to converge on Area 51, the air base near Rachel, Nevada, with hopes of seeing aliens. Although the organizer has called the “Storm Area 51" event a hoax, city officials estimate that 30,000 to 40,000 people could show up this weekend.
Each year, Area 51’s mythology draws tourists from around the world. People come to catch a glimpse of otherworldly aircrafts and the mysterious base, which may house foreign spacecrafts. Some of the legend of Area 51, which has been discredited for years, is based on true events—if you know the history of Area 51.
About 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, somewhere between mile markers 29 and 30 along Nevada’s “Extraterrestrial Highway” (State Highway 375), lies an unmarked dirt road. Although no buildings are visible from the asphalt, the track leads to Groom Lake or Homey Airport—as it’s called on civilian aviation maps. For those in the know, it leads to a military base with many unofficial names: Paradise Ranch; Watertown; Dreamland Resort; Red Square; The Box; and The Ranch; Nevada Test and Training Range; Detachment 3, Air Force Flight Test Center (Det. 3, AFFTC); and Area 51.
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