Introduction to Area 51

“The Box” is a term used by military and commercial pilots to refer to the square dimensions of a region in the sky above Area 51 that pilots must go around, no matter what the circumstances. The U-2 spyplane, SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-117 Stealth fighterbomber were all put through their final test flights at Area 51. It is the location of the world’s longest runway-27,000 feet.

Until the early 1980s, it was possible to drive up to the Groom dry lake bed, look across, and view the Air Force base in the distance. In the mid-1980s, the Air Force took jurisdiction over the Groom Mountains to keep Soviet spies from looking down on the base. At that point the base became officially nonexistent. It disappeared from U.S. Geological Survey maps, and the government has refused to refer to the base in any way. The rumors about this area have developed far beyond what is usual even for UFO phenomena. There have been many claims that the technology that powers some of the test craft has been derived from investigations of crashed UFOs, and Area 51 is alleged to be the location of the flying saucer that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, on July 2, 1947. This bit of UFO folklore was incorporated into the film Independence Day. One person claiming knowledge of Area 51 secrets is Robert Scott Lazar. Lazar says that there is an even more highly secured facility located about 15 miles south of Area 51 called S-4. It is situated at the base of the Papoose Mountains next to the Papoose dry lake bed. According to Lazar, the installation is built into the mountain, and the nine hangar doors are angled at about 60 degrees. The doors are covered with a sand-textured coating to blend in with the side of the mountain and the desert floor.

Lazar claims to have worked at S-4 in the 1980s on disk-shaped flying craft that were based on a technology received from extraterrestrial beings, either voluntarily or involuntarily. Lazar says he personally worked on one of several fully operational flying disks at the facility. Lazar’s disk was 16 feet tall and 40 feet in diameter.The center level of the disk housed control consoles and seats, both of which were too small and too low to the floor to be functional for adult human beings. Lazar claims to have been shown official briefing documents stating that the beings from whom the flying-saucer secrets came were from the Zeta Reticuli system. The beings were described as three to four feet tall,with grayish skin, large heads, and almond-shaped, wrap-around eyes. Lazar claims that these beings had been visiting earth for a long time, evidently around 10,000 years. According to Lazar, security at Area 51 was tight.