Area 51

Area 51 is the US Air Force's test range at Groom Lake, Nevada — real, secret, and the gravitational centre of crash-retrieval folklore since Bob Lazar's 1989 claims of back-engineered saucers. The base's genuine history (U-2, A-12, stealth prototypes) explains decades of odd lights honestly. The folklore layer explains the tourism. Accounts filed here are perimeter stories: the white pickups on the ridge, sensors under the dirt road, and the extraterrestrial highway at 2 a.m. doing what desert highways at 2 a.m. do to witnesses.

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