In July 1947,there was a wide spread of UFOs in America. All across the country, people reported seeing flying Saucers.
The craze began a month ago on 24th June, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold claim that he saw 9 shining UFOs near a hill around Seattle. He also said that they were flying very fast with speeds of 2000 km per hour.
Within two weeks from this, people reported seeing flying UFOs from all across America. This was heavily discussed in the media.
This map shows the sites of UFO sightings in America.
Media started linking it to atomic sites, they focused on the three areas with most UFO sightings.
And these were the sites of nuclear tests. Meanwhile a man from New Mexico, Mac Brazel recalled finding weird waste on his field 3 week ago, a tin foil, rubber and a thin wooden beam. He couldn't figure out what they were, he wondered if they were related to the UFO craze. So he took the debris to Roswell's Sherif on 7th July.
This drew the attention of an army officer Colonel William Blanchard, he was the commanding officer of the Roswell Army Airfield (RAAF). The next day , RAAF released a statement saying that the rumours of the flying disks have come true.
The US Army claimed to have received proof of UFOs.
But on the next day, the US Army officials went back on their words. They said that the debris they were presented was from a weather balloon.
As proof , photos of major marcel were released where he can be seen with the pieces of the weather balloon .
After this, the news died down. The media assumed there was never a UFO, but merely a weather balloon. And the public lose interest as well.
But years later in the late 1970s, once again rumours were spreading of an alien craft being spotted flying over the New Mexico desert. The rumours held that lightning struck the UFO leading it to crash, killing the aliens inside it.
New theories have come up, people claim that in the UFO crash a living alien was discovered. And they also claim that the US Army has kept the alien at a secret base.
Some people believe that till nownow, the alien is imprisoned at a top secret base.And the US Army is trying to reverse-engineer alien technology.
But this is happening at a top secret location, Area 51.
Area 51 is actually a US Military facility found in the middle of a desert, miles away from the closest cities. Going there, trespassing and going inside the facility is absolutely not allowed for people. Outside, you'd spot sign boards.
Area 51 is on the largest government controlled land in america, the Nevada Test and Training Range and this area is spread over more than 12,000 kmsquare.
Beside this facility, is another restricted military facility called as Nevada Test Sites, where america had carried out testing of nuclear weaponsweapons during the 1950s to the 1990s.
Obviously, if Nuclear weapons are being tested at some place, so it is crucial to make this a restricted site.
What are the facts?
In Area 51,spy aircraft were being made, 2 spy aircraft stood out extraordinarily.
Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane
In 1953, President Eisenhower launched a CIA program named as Project Aquatone. An aeroplane was to be built on a 22 million dollars budget, that could fly 4,800 km without refuelling,carrying 320kg of cameras with it and flying at an altitude of 21000 metres. An aircraft that would go undetected on radar as well as by an anti-aircraft missiles. This is how their U-2 spy plane was made.
Over the next few years, America was largely successful on spying over the Soviet Union, using this plane.
But on 1st may 1960,a U-2 aircraft was taken down by a missile. America was forced to admit that they were spying.
But the military was pressured by the government to develop a plane that could not be shot downdown, that could fly faster and be more secretive.
This was the birth of a new Aircraft.
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
It is still the fastest flying aircraft, it's max speed is 3400kmph and can fly at an altitude of 24000 metres. So fast and so highhigh, that there's no chance of it being shot down.
It was very important to keep this crucial plane a secret. Especially during the ongoing Cold War between America and the Soviet Union.
So the CIA used UFOs, the conspiracy theory of UFOs flying around. CIA gave wind to these conspiracy theories that the UFOs being spotted around the sky. Neither do they deny the claims, nor do they reveal the truth.
The weird-looking, fast flying, unidentified objects are what, were they aliens flying saucers?
This proved to be a good way for the CIA to keep this program a secret. They let people believe that they were alien flying saucers. No one would thus find out that they were US's top secret military aircraft.
This is said to be the reason why the flying saucer theory from the Roswell Incident was allowed to run on the media and in newspapers for a day.
But at the same time CIA knew that if the government admitted the existence of aliens, and that they were running experiments on aliens.
That would create an outcry in the country. It could lead to widespread fear and paranoia among people. That's why a day later they released a statement saying that it was a weather ballon. And how in the 1970s , the rumours of the UFO Reemerged, because
the Blackbird SR-71 aircraft were being tested during the 1970s.
Area 51 being associated with aliens, the reason for that is said to be conspiracy theorists like Bob Lazar.
In 1989 he claimed that, he worked in Area 51's sector-4 and he claimed to have work on alien spacecraft as contracted by the government.
But today several credible, neutral experts believe that bob lazar making up things.
In most UFOs sightings , military drones, military decoy flares or any unknown air infrastructure developed by the military are mistaken by people to be UFOs.
The term UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. Since these spy planes were tested in and around Area 51 , it's obvious why Area 51 came to be associated with aliens.
And these were the sites of nuclear tests. 
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