Quotes About Area 51

As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to.

The idea that Area 51 was this test facility working to move science and technology faster and further than any other nation is true and is one of the great hallmarks of Area 51. There are other areas of the base that are controversial - but they both exist simultaneously - out there in the desert.

For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.

Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.

I don't want to go to the government, the Schwa says. Yeah, I said. They'd dissect him and put him in a formaldehyde fish tank in Area 51. Howie shook his head. Area 51 is for aliens, he says. They'd probably put him in Area 52.

The most famous secret base, I guess, would be Area 51, which a lot of people have heard of as a kind of mythical place. Well, it's a real place.

The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.

One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area 51 is this drone called the 'Beast of Kandahar' which does not fire missiles, unlike the Predator and the Reaper, but just conducts surveillance.

Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.

Being present at the creation of a full-blown conspiracy theory. It's like watching a galaxy being born. Lots of random, unconnected bits and pieces of matter whiz past each other, exert a little gravitational pull and bingo, they start forming an organized system. The next thing you know you have a complete, wheels-within-wheels fantasy involving the CIA, Area 51, cosmic energy and a dead guy.

Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'