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TITANIC:THE REAL STORY
MOONLANDING:THE BIGGEST HOAX <BGSOUND SRC="terminator.mid" LOOP="INFINITE"> Area 51...The best kept secret Area 51, also known as Groom Lake, is a secret military facility about 90 miles north of Las Vegas. The number refers to a 6-by-10-mile block of land, at the center of which is a large air base the government will not discuss. The site was selected in the mid-1950s for testing of the U-2 spyplane, due to its remoteness, proximity to existing facilities and presence of a dry lake bed for landings. Groom Lake is America's traditional testing ground for "black budget" aircraft before they are publicly acknowledged. The facility and surrounding areas are also associated -- with varying levels of credibility -- with UFO and conspiracy stories. In 1989, Bob Lazar claimed on a Las Vegas television station that he had worked with alien spacecraft at Papoose Lake, south of Area 51. Since then, "Area 51" has become a popular symbol for the alleged U.S. Government UFO cover-up. [GC 8/96]
The Nevada Test Site
It is a Rhode Island-sized testing ground northwest of Las Vegas where the U.S. conducted the majority of its nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War. From its founding in 1951 until the final Divider test in 1992, over 900 atomic explosions were detonated in this barren desert. In the 1950s, atomic tests were conducted above ground and resulted in devastating health effects to the "Downwinders" northeast of the site in Nevada and Utah. Since then, tests were conducted only underground, resulting in a pockmarked "lunar" landscape. The NTS is operated by the Department of Energy, which has become increasingly open about the site's history and its environmental problems. The NTS is bounded on three side by the Nellis Air Force Range and adjoins "Area 51" a secret military base at its northeast corner. Today, the Test Site is under consideration for various storage and processing projects for dangerous materials, and some non-nuclear and sub-critical explosions are still conducted there.The Nevada Proving Ground was created by Pres. Harry Truman on Jan. 11, 1951, and the first atomic test, Operation Ranger, was conducted on Jan. 27, 1951. The final nuclear test, Divider, was conducted on Sept. 23, 1992. In between, there were 99 above ground tests and over 800 below ground tests. The NTS is broken up into numbered areas of varying sizes, from 1 to 30, with the omission of Areas 13, 21, 24 and 28. (Area 13 is an off-site location in the Nellis Range north of Groom Lake.)
The Lockheed Skunkworks has produced most of the secret aircraft tested at Area 51, and Lockheed-Martin is now a major service provider on the Nellis Range.

Facts about The Alien Highway
In early 1995, State Assemblyman Roy Neighbors introduced a bill to designate State Route 375 "The Extraterrestrial Alien Highway." A hearing was held but no official notice of it was given to local residents. The State Assembly passed the measure but it was killed in the Senate as "frivolous" and a waste of the Legislature's resources.
In February, Governor Bob Miller resurrected the measure without notice to local residents and it was passed in a meeting of the State Transportation Board, which he chairs. Testimony was heard only from Pat Travis of the Little A'Le'Inn and "Ambassador Merlyn Merlin II" a Northern Nevada man who claims to be an alien. Shortly after passing the measure, the Governor flew to Los Angeles at taxpayer expense to negotiate an agreement with the 20th Century Fox movie studio to jointly market the "E.T. Highway" and Fox's upcoming movie "Independence Day." There is no evidence, however, that the Governor ever visited the highway itself, and he never consulted with any official of Lincoln County regarding this measure.
Independence Day is a big-budget Sci-Fi drama about an alien invasion of earth. According to the producers, Devlin and Emmerich, they wrote the script in four weeks and sold it to the studio in one day. The movie is a thinly veiled remake of War of the Worlds. Billions of people are killed and most of the world's major cities wiped out until the alien mothership is destroyed with a computer virus. The film takes place partly at "Area 51," although this facility in no way resembles the real thing. All of the parts of the film supposedly taking place in Nevada were filmed in Utah and California.
The Area 51 Research Center in Rachel believes the "E.T. Highway" should not be unveiled until issues of visitor safety and civil rights are addressed and county officials are consulted. The "E.T. Highway" is adjacent to the tense and poorly marked border of "Area 51," where many tourists have been arrested and harassed and lost film and other personal property without accounting. The highway renaming also changes the character of the area, and local residents and elected officials should be consulted, not locked out of the process as they have been.
The Research Center also believes that the State of Nevada should not be seen to endorse a commercial product. The join agreement between the governor and the Fox studio is a grave breach of government ethics. The governor is promoting a movie that was not even filmed in Nevada. He consulted with a out-of-state movie company, but never solicited the concerns of his own constituents.
Notice the black tinted windows and the security camera on the top of the roof
The Warning Board