The CIA lifted its veil on Area 51 in response to a public records request from George Washington University scholars in Washington, D.C., after decades of extreme secrecy surrounding the site, stoking conspiracy theories about UFOs and experiments on alien spacecraft. The 400-page CIA history contains the first deliberate official references to Area 51, also known as Groom Lake, as a site developed by the intelligence agency in the 1950s to test fly the high-altitude U-2 reconnaissance plane. The remote patch of desert surrounding Groom Lake was chosen because it was adjacent to a nuclear testing facility. It also explains the site’s lingering association with UFOs and aliens. The group agreed that Groom Lake would “make an ideal site for testing the U-2 and training its pilots. Other developments said to have occurred in Area 51 include: weather control, secret weapons, time travel and teleportation. Source:Qatar Chronicle

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