About 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, between miles 29 and 30 of Nevada's “Alien Highway,” there is an unmarked dirt road. At the end of the trail is Area 51, a military base, known, among many other unofficial names, as Paradise Ranch or Groom Lake on civilian aviation maps.
The legend that revolves around it leads thousands of tourists from all over the world every year to visit it, or at least, to walk the path to the doors of the building, because what happens inside there is part of the secrets of the United States Government. .
However, there are many who have dared to theorize about the true function of this military base, and there are those who, even from within, have wanted to tell the world about the mysteries of the place.. The last one has been David Grusch, a former Air Force officer who assures that the authorities are in possession of both spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin and the biological remains of their occupants. In fact, his statements have prompted the request that has been made from a subcommittee of Congress to the Government of the United States to request that it reveal the data on these objects.
The Origin of the Area 51 Conspiracy
Richard Bissell and Kelly Johnson. With them begins the history of this place that was not recognized by the US Government until 2013 -in the Freedom of Information Act- but whose origin dates back to the 50s.
Bissell, then director of the United States spy agency, and Johnson, an aircraft designer, chose to build an operations headquarters at this remote Groom Lake location to ensure the privacy the CIA needed to develop spy planes that would use in the Cold War.
In less than three months, the base had a paved runway, a control tower and facilities to house the test personnel.
When a Soviet anti-aircraft missile shot down in 1960 the U-2 -the plane developed at Area 51- the CIA began to develop the following. This time it would be a spy plane undetectable by radar.
If to the peculiar characteristics of these extravagant machines, we add the secrecy about the functions of this place by the country's authorities, we have the perfect cocktail for a good conspiracy theory.. In fact, it is likely that the test flights that were carried out in the vicinity of Area 51 were the origin of these conspiracies, since the population claimed to see spacecraft flying over that place.