Area 51 currently known as Air Force Flight Test Center, Detachment 3 and also known as Dreamland, Watertown Strip, Paradise Ranch, The Box, Groom Lake is a remote tract of land in southern Nevada, owned by the United States Air Force, containing an airfield whose primary purpose is believed to be the secret development and testing of new military aircraft.
It is famous as the subject of many UFO conspiracy theories.
Although officially declassified, the original film taken by U.S. Corona spy satellite in the 1960s has been altered by the government prior to declassification; in answer to freedom of information queries, the government responds that these exposures which map to Groom and the entire NAFR appear to have been destroyed.
Terra satellite images which were publicly available were removed from web-servers including Microsoft's Terraserver in 2004, and from the monochrome resolution USGS datadump made publicly available.
NASA Landsat 7 images are still available, these are used in the NASA World Wind.
Non-U.S. images, including high-resolution photographs from Russian satellites and the commercial IKONOS system, are also easily available and abound on the Internet. Perhaps the best, most detailed images widely available to the public exist on Google Earth, which shows in considerable detail the runway marking, base facilities, planes, and vehicles.
2006-12-24 01:41:35
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answered by Anonymous
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Area 51 is a top-secret government installation in the Nevada desert which doesn't officially exist. So, true & accurate information about it is hard to come by.
It is said that military aircraft like the U-2 & SR-71 spy planes, as well as the stealth bomber, were developed there.
Even more incredible, they supposedly have wrecked alien spacecraft which are studied & even the dead bodies of aliens.
Of course, I can't confirm any of this.
2006-12-24 01:54:32
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answered by WillyC 5
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A top secret military aircraft test facility in Nevada. Believed to have been used to test spy aircraft like the U2 and SR-71 spyplanes. In the earlier years they also reverse engineered former German military aircraft like the Horton HO-IX flying wing and many of the jet propulsion systems used by planes like the Me 163 Komet and the Me 262 Schwalb.
2006-12-24 02:43:09
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answered by Anonymous
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If I told you I would then have to dust your steering wheel with a magic powder
2006-12-24 01:45:41
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answered by Anonymous
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All I know is that it is said that an alien space ship is there with a dead alien No joke
2006-12-24 01:42:23
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answered by devora k 7
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51
2006-12-24 01:43:42
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answered by sushobhan 6
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