Newly declassified CIA documents have revealed some of the history behind Nevada's Area 51. The area was never home to aliens or UFOs, but it was a super secret site for testing spy planes such as the U-2.
The document, "The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: the U-2 and Oxcart Programs," was released recently in response to a Freedom of Information Act Request made by George Washington University in 2005.
Area 51, a desert tract near Groom Lake, about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, was first chosen by officials who were searching for a place to test planes and train U-2 pilots in 1955. The airstrip, located by a salt flat, was used for the U-2 plane, as well as its successors: the Lockheed A-12 Oxcart, the D-21 Tagboard and the F-117 Stealth Fighter. The document doesn't reveal what's been done at the base since 1974. Read more...
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