In , Lear described Groom Lake, Nevada — a. Lazar is believed to have fabricated his educational background , making up degrees from MIT and Cal Tech, institutes he seems to have never attended. He also claimed to have worked for the Los Alamos particle laboratory during years when bankruptcy filings instead listed him as a photo and film processor. Nonetheless, when he appeared on KLAS he was calm and articulate as he spoke of dismantling and test-flying flying saucers at Area As late as , new claims and conspiracies about Area 51 were still finding their way into the mainstream.
The source told her that a Nazi doctor surgically enlarged the heads of abducted teenagers to make them resemble aliens, supposedly on the order of Joseph Stalin, who the source says forced the teenagers to pilot flying saucers over the US as a Cold War scare tactic. Then, he claims, the remains of the crash were brought back to Area While no evidence of Nazis creating fake UFOs for Stalin — or of federal cooperation with aliens — has ever come to light, the US government does have a long history of investigating reported UFO sightings.
These investigations date back to and include focused studies like Project Blue Book , which covered, among other things, the first reported record of alleged alien abduction , in Ufology — the study of UFOs — has been enjoying a banner moment lately.
In , reports of UFO sightings have been happening at a staggering rate , with some recent ones coming from reputable members of the US Navy. On June 20, , the libertarian-flavored podcast The Joe Rogan Experience , one of the most popular podcasts in existence, published a two-hour-long interview with Bob Lazar and filmmaker Jeremy Corbell.
Throughout the interview, Lazar mostly repeats and embellishes his original story about aliens at Area 51, as told to KLAS in He also adds details to explain his apparently fabricated academic and job history, claiming that nebulous government entities seem to have made his birth certificate, employment records, and college transcripts disappear. The documentary was critically panned for its production values and lack of skepticism toward Lazar, his suspicious academic and professional credentials, and the entirely unverified claims he made.
The Storm Area 51 event rapidly grew into a real-world festival called Alienstock, slated to be held in the desert town Rachel, Nevada. It was born out of the curiosity of the internet, and the curiosity surrounding aliens, UFOs, everything like that, and just wanting to gather and throw cool parties.
Jeremy Corbell will be one of the speakers on hand. Two Dutch YouTubers have already gotten arrested for trespassing. Will Storm Area 51 reveal what aliens look like up close and personal?
But, because of its clandestine beginnings and cutting-edge tech, many Americans came to associate the base with extraterrestrial ships and little green men. So, what is Area 51 really? What do we know for sure? How did a Cold War espionage operation become associated with theories of deep-state cover-ups of crash-landed aliens? And why did dozens of people put their lives on hold in September to drive into the Nevada desert to stand outside of it?
Here's what we do know about Area Today, the U. Air Force uses the 38,acre patch of desert as a training site. Sometimes called the Nevada Test and Training Range, the base is located next to a salt flat called Groom Lake and is home to some of the longest runways in the world. The closest town is Rachel, Nevada, population The airspace above the base is extremely off-limits. And the land around it is peppered with warning signs to would-be trespassers.
We also know that workers aren't commuting there by car. Air traffic control audio out of a private terminal at Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport suggests that government-owned passenger jets flying under the name "Janet Airlines" make daily flights to and from… somewhere in the Nevada desert.
Not much was happening on this swath of land before World War II. In , prospectors discovered silver and lead around Groom Lake salt flat. A man named Patrick Sheahan built a humble homestead and founded Groom Mine in The Sheahans' homestead was about as isolated as it gets; Las Vegas wasn't even founded as a city until and was inaccessible by railroad until But the family's quiet lifestyle abruptly changed in , when the government sent agents to scout the area for use as a training site for bomber planes.
In March , President Dwight D. Eisenhower was worried that America's lack of knowledge of Russia's military developments might leave America vulnerable to attack. So Eisenhower recruited a panel of experts to figure out how the United States could use science to thwart a potential Russian attack.
In the middle of the barren Nevada desert, there's a dusty unmarked road that leads to the front gate of Area It's protected by little more than a chain link fence, a boom gate , and intimidating trespassing signs.
One would think that America's much mythicized top secret military base would be under closer guard, but make no mistake. They are watching. Beyond the gate, cameras see every angle. On the distant hilltop, there's a white pickup truck with a tinted windshield peering down on everything below. Locals says the base knows every desert tortoise and jackrabbit that hops the fence. Others claim there are embedded sensors in the approaching road.
What exactly goes on inside of Area 51 has led to decades of wild speculation. There are, of course, the alien conspiracies that galactic visitors are tucked away somewhere inside. One of the more colorful rumors insists the infamous Roswell crash was actually a Soviet aircraft piloted by mutated midgets and the wreckage remains on the grounds of Area Some even believe that the U.
For all the myths and legends, what's true is that Area 51 is very real—and still very active. There may not be aliens or a moon landing movie set inside those fences, but something is going on and only a select few are privy to what's happening further down that closely monitored wind-swept Nevada road. The beginning of Area 51 is directly related to the development of the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.
After World War II, the Soviet Union lowered the Iron Curtain around themselves and the rest of the Eastern bloc, creating a near intelligence blackout to the rest of the world. When the Soviets backed North Korea's invasion of South Korea in June , it became increasingly clear that the Kremlin would aggressively expand its influence.
America worried about the USSR's technology, intentions, and ability to launch a surprise attack—only a decade removed from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
In the early s, the U. Navy and U. Air Force sent low-flying aircraft on reconnaissance missions over the USSR, but they were at constant risk of being shot down.
In November , President Eisenhower approved the secret development of a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft called the U-2 program.
Roberts urged people to go there instead. West refused to cancel the concert in the desert. Alienstock would happen, she said, whether anyone liked it or not. Now there were three rival events all happening on the same weekend — one in Las Vegas, another in Rachel and a third in Hiko. No one had any idea how many people were coming. I came equipped with a duffel bag of Hawaiian shirts and a case of vape cartridges, which I hoped to use as currency in the event of civilizational collapse in the desert.
But the desert would wait. When I arrived, shortly after 7pm, the outdoor venue — heavily bedecked with glowing neon alien signage — was mostly empty except for cops and local newscasters. A DJ blasted dubstep to a bare dancefloor. The venue even had a swimming pool, bathed in green light and watched by a bored-looking lifeguard. I feared it might be a long night. I ordered a whiskey-and-water; the bartender filled a plastic stadium cup to the brim.
Then people started trickling in. Everyone was wearing their best alien-themed rave attire: one woman wore a shiny, and discomfitingly rubbery, head-to-toe alien costume. Another had a Rick-and-Morty-patterned dress. Three men tore up the dancefloor in matching alien-motif onesies. One was wearing a Flat Earth Society T-shirt, though he said it was ironic.
I spied Matty Roberts in the center of a swirling mass of people, holding court. He was wearing a Slayer hat and black T-shirt; his long, dark hair flowed majestically down his back. He looked like a heavy metal-listening, Mountain Dew-drinking samurai lord, surrounded by courtiers and supplicants.
I fought my way over. He was in high spirits. I opened my mouth to ask a follow-up question but he was swallowed up again by the crowd. By around 9pm, there were a couple hundred people jerking spasmodically to dubstep. The crowd cheered.
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