The Atlantic Wire: Newly declassified documents acknowledge the existence of Area 51.
The Atlantic Wire: Newly declassified documents acknowledge the existence of Area 51.
Hundreds of pages describe the genesis of the Nevada site that was home to the government’s spy plane program for decades. The documents do not, however, mention aliens.
The project started humbly. In the pre-drone era about a decade after the end of World War II, President Eisenhower signed off on a project aimed at building a high-altitude, long-range, manned aircraft that could photograph remote targets.
