Area 51. It's a research center, but for what?

[JEBWrench]

Area 51 stopped being cool when it went all mainstream!

Now the real deal is in Area 34!! That shizz is REAL, muthafecka!

I was in Area 51 before it was cool.

 

[Quantupus]

From what I've heard, you can actually walk onto the base now. They abandoned area 51 and moved to a different, more secret location. At least that's what I saw on the history channel, or discovery or one of those types of channels.

 

[Break]

No one talks about area 53.

Google tells me you're referring to the Central and Southeastern Ohio General Service Assembly of Alcoholics Anonymous

Which is probably the reason why nobody talks about it, then.

 

[GrinningManiac]

Area 51 stopped being cool when it went all mainstream!

Now the real deal is in Area 34!! That shizz is REAL, muthafecka!

I was in Area 51 before it was cool.

Yeah, before they stopped being indie when they sold themselves out with Roswell. Now they're just corporate lapdogs for any Johnny-cum-Lately conspiracy theorist

I remember the good old days, when they used to just be a small facility made up of two shacks, a dog kennel and a vending machine.

I brought the T-shirt and everything!

 

[Sephiroth_deus]

It's a test facility for experminental aircraft... nothing more, no aliens, no UFOs, no "death-rays", no yoghurt, they've tested both the F-117 and the SR-71 Blackbird there.

I just wonder, where is Area 1-50 located?

Areas 1-50 are all around Area 51. It's just how they initially named the government land when they subdivided it. The name "Area 51" is just the location where the base happens to be and probably isn't it's real name if it has one.

 

[johnman]

It was the Us military that spread the rumours of UFO's in the first place to distract people from the experimental equipment they were using.

 

[blindthrall]

At the end of Tesla's life, he claimed to be working on a "death ray", which could burn enemy planes out of the sky. The government seized all his work when he died, and tried implementing the "death ray" at Area 51. It worked by using a wave which excited ozone molecules in the air to the point where they combusted. The problem was it only worked reliably in the stratosphere, where ozone is most concentrated, so it was only effective against high-altitude targets. Also, while it did produce an impressive fireball about 10 feet across, tests on dummy aircraft reported a temperature increase of a few degrees, only enough to make a pilot sweat. So the air force had a fancy searchlight. Why all the secrecy then?

Because those plasma globes showed up on radar. They could overwhelm radar-aimed ground defenses with hundreds of false signatures. Ever wonder why the US has always enjoyed air supremacy? Or why the air war in the Gulf War was over so quick? But it only works if nobody knows about it. The supposed prototype was housed in a 400 foot trench that's covered by a tarp during the day. This would also explain how UFOs in the area pull off maneuvers that are impossible for aircraft; they're just projections, basically.

While this is a nice theory/explanation, I'm taking it with a pinch of salt knowing that the difference of results between what Tesla thought would happen(Tunguska event coming to mind) and what you just wrote.

While I take this story with a grain of salt too(out of all the explanations for area 51 I favor this one, but I wouldn't lay money on it) keep in mind Tesla thought it would be a full-blown death ray, scorching planes out of the sky like a Martian tripod.

You see Tunguska in a whole new light once you find out Tesla was trying to beam an 'energy pulse' to the artic explorers at about the same time. I for one want to see the next STALKER be STALKER: Aftershocks of Tunguska.

 

[JEBWrench]

Yeah, before they stopped being indie when they sold themselves out with Roswell. Now they're just corporate lapdogs for any Johnny-cum-Lately conspiracy theorist

I remember the good old days, when they used to just be a small facility made up of two shacks, a dog kennel and a vending machine.

I brought the T-shirt and everything!

I blame videogames.

 

[blindthrall]

alien lockup for their tech and bodies from the crash

The infamous 'crash' was the US military dropping a few millions of dollars worth of tax payers money into a hillside in the form of an early ICBM based on the V2 (which was ellipsoid). The 'weather balloon' story was the official attempt at a cover-up, until some local nutter started spouting about aliens - then the counter-intel guys couldn't believe their luck and let the story run, and run, and run.

Everybody who reports a UFO is someone _not_ reporting a test flight, or asking why all that tax money keeps ending up in pork-barrel states.

I believe a smokescreen explanation for Roswell too, but I think the 'weather balloon' was a crude russian spying device. They went with the alien cover story so there wouldn't be mass hysteria(Roswell was before the McCarthy Red scares, when an event like this would be highly publicized. In '48 we were still trying to stay on Stalin's good side). The first person to mention anything about a UFO was an Air Force officer, not some local nutter. That's the only reason the story is a s popular as it is. But I think your version is just as plausible. The thing is, why bother still denying it if it's either of our explanations? Can they just not admit to that big a lie, even if it was during the Cold War?

 

[Vie]

Practical cold Fusion reactors.

Fixed that for you

Cold fusion is impossible, so no it was right the first time.

 

[Daniel Cygnus]

It's probably just a room with a small box inside containing 30 bags of black tea. I honestly wouldn't be surprised.

 

[Parallel Streaks]

You have to give conspiracy theorists SOMETHING to talk about.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

No one talks about area 53.

Google tells me you're referring to the Central and Southeastern Ohio General Service Assembly of Alcoholics Anonymous

Which is probably the reason why nobody talks about it, then.

Precisely.

 

[Pyro Paul]

it is where they test experimental and hazardious aircraft

nuclear powered jets
flying wings
jets made of diffrent materials (wood and canvas jet- would make it invisable to radar)
experimental propulsion, experimental take off methods.

basically anything you wanna test out but are afraid of doing so over populated areas.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

why there are so many underground bases in the US only ? also why in MUFON there are so many sightings? you guys should think about that.

what i think of it, is that the government made a deal that allow abductions on US terrain in exchange for technology and stuff...

 

[Twad]

area 51 is for research on "people having time to waste trying to figure out some place's purpose"

Area 03 is for research on the mind-control properties of asphalt

 

[blindthrall]

"Grey" space aliens like this one.

He recently went back home apparently, hence the cover story.

Here's a more recent photo.

Come to think of it, the notion that Aliens should have visited us is nothing short of absurd, do you have any idea of how big the universe is?

are you sure it is kind of subtle but the big white area is covered with google 2007. thats might just before maps though

I believe that big white area is a dried up lake.

Gotta agree with this. Just because they're out there, doesn't mean they have the capability or inclination to pay us a visit.

It's name is Groom Lake.

It's possible that it's aliens; I mean we can't be the only living beings in the galaxy. But what I think is more likely is that it's research for things which are morally questionable, like viral warfare.

That's what Fort Detrick is for. If you want a good conspiracy, look into whatever happened to the FBI's investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

To cover up the Philadelphia project?

That one is up there with the hollow earth hypothesis, in terms of sheer bullshit factor.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

If it's an actual place, then I bet it's a "decoy" to another facility that is doing less then legal tests, but I highly doubt it.

That reminds me of the Dean Koontz novel Strangers, I think I'll have to give that another read some time.

 

[lolcatize]

hey who knows maybe its new planes and shit maybe its an prartcile accelerator maybe there is an alien reaserch

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

No one talks about area 53.

Google tells me you're referring to the Central and Southeastern Ohio General Service Assembly of Alcoholics Anonymous

Yeah, all those Alcoholics? Its code for Alien!!! DUN DUN DUN!!!