Area 51, Fake or Real?
Nolan Benson
Area 51, the most secretive military base in the country, has a dreadful reputation for housing
aliens and alien technology. This base currently sits on Groom Lake, a dried up lake bed in the vast
desert of Nevada. This is away from any type of civilization, with miles of barren desert surrounding
the base on all sides. From
the outside looking in, this base
appears to be a large complex
area consisting of many hangers,
storage buildings, runways,
and other military facilities. This
is exactly what the base is!
Area 51 serves as a testing ground
for technology, a storage unit
for standard military weapons,
and a research facility
studying the means of efficient
warfare. Most of these
buildings are isolated from others
because they serve different
purposes or house a separate
category of technology. The purposes of these buildings range from experimenting firearms and new
weaponry, designing efficient aircraft, and even proposing military tactics and strategies. On any given
day, one can witness trucks driving across the base delivering testing supplies and materials to different
sections of the camp. The base has been in operation since World War Two. The main reason for this is
because the world war caused a military boom for America. The exact date is not certain because Area
51 has been kept top secret for so long. Maybe the base has been there longer than we thought. It is
certain that aliens are not kept in Area 51;
it is kept top secret for understandable
reasons.