![]() Don’t be under any illusion - there are multiple guards watching us right now.” There are motion sensors and cameras everywhere, and they follow your every move. “The US government didn’t even officially admit this place existed until 2013, after all. “People get very excited about coming out to Area 51, but once we arrive at the gates, they realise how serious the whole thing is,” says Nate as we march along the perimeter, looking for a better vantage point. Nate’s own tour, which also takes in the nearby Extraterrestrial Highway and the tiny town of Rachel - a hub of purported paranormal activity - recently became one of Airbnb’s ‘experiences’, and bookings are landing faster than the Martian invasion force in HG Wells’ classic sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds. But another trend has been growing out here too: that of UFO tourism. The ‘Storm Area 51’ Facebook joke, which went viral earlier this summer (with two million people signing up for the mass invasion of the facility in order to ‘see them aliens’) put this highly classified military base firmly back in the public eye. Whichever way you cut it, an awful lot of people believe that if the truth is out there, it’s probably in here. Others speculate that the facility is dedicated to the reverse engineering of recovered alien technology, or even time travel. Many believe UFO wreckage from the infamous Roswell Incident of 1947 is hidden inside this perimeter - along with the remains of its intergalactic pilots. The secret air force base in Nevada has been at the centre of extra-terrestrial speculation since the 1940s. “You’d be face first in the dirt with a gun to the back of your head before you knew what was happening.”įor alien enthusiasts, this is ground zero. “Don’t even think about it,” warns my previously jovial guide, brow furrowing under his neon-coloured bandana. It would be so easy to simply step over the dotted line in the road here, to enter America’s most mysterious military installation.
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