Area 51 is a high-security military research facility well-known for housing some of the world’s biggest secrets and coverups. To many conspiracy theorists, it is also famous for hiding information on aliens and UFO sightings. We may never know the complete story of what occurs at Area 51 because the level of security is so high. The depth of what happens on the inside remains a mystery. Motion sensors and patrols of armed guards are a constant, always on the lookout for invasive forces.

The entire range of Area 51 covers more than 2.9 million acres of land. According to the U.S. military, it represents “a flexible, realistic and multidimensional battle-space to conduct testing, tactics development, and advanced training”.

The facility is next to two other restricted military areas: the Nevada Test Site, where U.S. nuclear weapons were tested from the 1950s to the 1990s, and the Nevada Test and Training Range.

Conspiracies Surrounding Area 51

The mystery surrounding Area 51 continues to fuel conspiracy theories. Most famous is the belief the site hosts an alien spacecraft and the bodies of its pilots after a 1947 collision in Roswell, New Mexico. The U.S. government maintains the crashed craft was a weather balloon.

Others claim to have seen UFOs above or near the site, while some say they have been kidnapped by aliens, and even experimented on, before being returned to Earth.

In 1989, a man named Robert Lazar asserted he worked on alien technology inside Area 51. He claimed he saw medical images of aliens and that the government used the facility to inspect UFOs.