Area 51
United States (Nevada)
For decades the government would not even admit it existed, so people filled the silence with flying saucers, alien bodies and a man who said he flew them.
The ancient-alien case
Ancient-astronaut theorists see Area 51 as the modern end of a very old story. If visitors from space shaped human history, they argue, a modern government that found their craft would hide it in exactly this kind of place. Ancient Aliens has returned to the base again and again, treating it as the link between ancient sky gods and today's UFO reports.
Read the full dossier on Area 51 (Groom Lake, Nevada) →
Episodes and the skeptics
Where the show covers it
- S11E13 Beyond Roswell
- S13E06 Area 52
- S14E03 Element 115
The skeptics say
Historians say Area 51's secrets are real but earthly. A 2013 CIA history confirms the base was built to test spy planes. A 1997 CIA study by historian Gerald Haines says agency officials believed more than half of UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were really U-2 and other spy flights. Air Force investigators could trace the sightings but could not explain them to the public without revealing the planes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · ancientaliens.fandom.com
