What are the most likely theories for what is inside Area 51. No crazy conspiracy theories, actual grounded theories that are probable or likely.
Some barely secret aircraft, a whole lot of accounting and clerical staff, and a tremendous amount of security to make it seem like there are major secrets being protected there. That is what I would put at the world’s most well known secret base, anyway.
Or. Do a double bluff. Since it’s so well known, put your actual top secret stuff there, since no one will really look at it, because it’s so well known.
This is the answer I got over drinks with a senior military leader. It’s too well known to hold anything interesting. He contrasted it with Mount Weather and the Cheyenne Complex. Those are still the sites for continuity of government because there is too much infrastructure to move. The sites just got additional hardening as the locations became known.
That’s where they keep the Stargate
One of them, the other is at Area 51 and came in really handy when the bastards stole the first one
Plus a bunch of old equipment and documents that are definitely secret and too valuable to just destroy, but no-one is entirely clear exactly how secret and valuable so it’s safer to leave it guarded in place than to try and move it
Apparently a bathroom in Mar-a-Lago is a very legal and very cool place to keep them.
Development and prototypes for new millitary aircraft and missiles.
Aliens? Lol, no.
Alien aircarft? Lol, no
It’s likely that at least one arm of Lockheed Martin’s “skunkworks” operates there. Area 51 was significantly more important during the cold war, when we were developing aircraft we wanted to keep secret from the Soviets. Nowadays, less so.
Military aircraft are tested there. We know for sure the U-2 spy plane was tested there, and the base was also involved with the development and testing of the plane that eventually became the SR-71 Blackbird. It’s likely the F117 (“stealth fighter”) and B2 (“stealth bomber”) were also tested there, and possibly partially developed there.
Unless you’re a military aviation nut, it’s actually not very exciting.
Alien Tiddies
A bunch of people Naruto running.
You can see Area 51 on Google Maps. The actual airspace/land is what constitutes “Area 51”, and if you search for Area 51 it will take you right to the runways on Google Maps. Have fun looking at it.
It’s honestly pretty boring unless you’re into military R&D as this place was the testing grounds for amazing secret tech like the SR-71 or the newer stealth designs. I would be surprised if the facility wasn’t still used for this purpose, it’s still highly restricted and not discussed.
As for anything more…exotic? Alien tech or stuff outside the known physical limitations of flight as we know it? No. No aliens (the physics of and life support needed for interstellar travel are an insurmountable barrier to aliens ever visiting us) or alien tech is there. And no crazy human UFO-like tech is there, either. (UFO like lights hovering and zipping off at stupid speeds kind of tech).
Wow, how do you know so much about what alien technology is capable of?
(GUYS I THINK WE’VE GOT ONE OVER HERE!)
My guess: Testing ground for new military aircraft.
Theres no “alien” lmfao
They just don’t want people to get too close and leak images of their newest and most advanced war machines. Because that’s gonna trigger a firestorm of news like “PENTAGON TESTING NEW KILLING MACHINES!”
Yea… I don’t think people want to be reminded how much of their tax dollars are going to the military, so the government want to hide it as much as possible to avoid bad PR.
Edit: Also, they might have even more advanced tech hidden in some other place like “Area 52”, and intentionally popularize “Area 51” to divert the attention. Okay this bit might be a bit too much “conspiracy”, but not impossible.
It’s a classified military installation. Those that know for sure don’t talk and those that are talking are probably talking out their ass.
It is known that it has historically been used as a test and research location for highly experimental stealth aircraft. They probably do EM sensitive research and testing there now, but I suspect that the really interesting stuff is happening elsewhere due to how well known and watched it has become. It’s probably more of a decoy than anything else at this point.
Long ago, I remember hearing rumors about a more secretive base a bit west of Groom Lake and south of the Cheyenne Mountain complex. If true, that’s probably where the really secret stuff is happening now. No clue what happens there.
If you want classified leaks out of area 51, just add it to War Thunder apparently.
