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[male narrator] Area 51
is located in the southern
portion of Nevada,

in the western United States,

eighty-three miles north
northwest of Las Vegas.

It is a highly classified
United States Air Force facility

located within the Nevada
Test and Training Range.

It is an area roughly
twenty-five miles of restricted
airspace and is heavily guarded.

The perimeter of the base is
marked out by orange posts

and patrolled by guards
in white pickup trucks
and camouflage fatigues.

Technology is also
heavily used to maintain
the border of the base.

This includes surveillance
cameras and motion detectors.

It is one of the most secure
bases within the United States,

and if you go beyond the
perimeter, they will kill you.

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[electronic sounds]

[voices on radio]

[male narrator] The origin of
the name Area 51 is unclear.

It is believed to be from
an Atomic Energy
Commission numbering grid.

Although Area 51 is
not part of that system,
it is adjacent to area 15.

Another explanation
is that 51 was used

because it was unlikely
that the AEC would
use the number.

According to the Central
Intelligence Agency, the correct
names for the facility

are Homey Airport
and Groom Lake,

though the name Area 51
was used in a CIA document
from the Vietnam War.

The facility has also been
referred to as Dreamland

and Paradise Ranch
among other nicknames.

The United States Air
Force public relations
has referred to the facility

as "an operating location
near Groom Dry Lake."

The special use airspace around
the field is referred to as
restricted area 4808 North.

Area 51 has become a focus
of modern conspiracy theories

due to its secretive nature
and connection to classified
aircraft research.

Theories include:

The storage, examination,
and reverse engineering
of crashed alien spacecraft,

including material supposedly
recovered at Roswell,

the study of their occupants
and the manufacture of aircraft
based on alien technology.

Meetings or joint undertakings
with extraterrestrials.

The development of exotic
energy weapons for
the Strategic Defense Initiative

or other weapons programs.

The development
of weather control.

The development of time travel
and teleportation technology.

The development of exotic
propulsion systems related
to the Aurora Program.

Activities related to a shadowy
one-world government or the
Majestic 12 organization.

Many of the hypotheses
concern underground facilities
at Groom or Papoose Lake

and include claims
of a transcontinental
underground railroad system,

a disappearing airstrip named
the Cheshire Airstrip after
Lewis Carroll's Cheshire cat,

which briefly appears when
water is sprayed onto
its camouflaged asphalt,

and engineering
based on alien technology.

In the mid-1950s, civilian
aircraft flew under 20,000 feet

while military aircraft
flew over 40,000 feet.

The U-2 began flying
at about 60,000 feet

and there was an increased
number of UFO sighting reports.

Sightings occurred most often
during early evening hours,

when airline pilots flying
west saw the U-2's silver
wings reflect the sun,

giving the aircraft
a fiery appearance.

Many sighting reports came to
the Air Force Project Blue Book
which investigated UFO sightings

through air traffic controllers
and letters to the government.

The project checked U-2 and
later OXCART flight records

to eliminate the majority of
UFO reports that it received
during the late 50s and 60s,

although it could not reveal
to the letter writers the truth
behind what they saw.

They believed that the rumors
helped maintain secrecy over
Area 51's actual operations.

The veterans deny
the existence of a vast
underground railroad system,

although many of Area
51's operations did
occur underground.

The modern history of Area
51 is a place for UFOs

and extraterrestrial activity
began in the 1980s.

Bob Lazar claimed in 1989
that he had worked at
Area 51's sector 4,

said to be located
underground inside the Papoose
range near Papoose Lake.

He claimed that he was
contracted to work
with alien spacecraft

that the government
had in its possession.

Similarly, in 1996 a
documentary, Dreamland,
directed by Bruce Burgess

included an interview
with a seventy-one-year
old mechanical engineer,

who claimed to be a former
employee of Area 51
during the 50s.

His claims include
that he had worked
on a flying disc simulator

which had been based
on a disc originating from a
crashed extraterrestrial craft

and was used to train pilots.

He also claimed to have worked
with an extraterrestrial being

named Jarod and described
as a telepathic translator.

In 2004, Dan Crain claimed
to have worked on
cloning alien viruses

at Area 51, also alongside
the alien named Jarod.

Crain's scholarly credentials
are the subject of much debate,

as he was apparently
working as a Las Vegas
parole officer in 1989,

while also earning a PhD at
State University of New York.

In July 2019, two million people
responded to a joke proposal

to storm Area 51 which appeared
in an anonymous Facebook post.

Many people said that they
were interested in the event

scheduled for the 20th
of September 2019,

and billed as "Storm Area 51,
They Can't Stop All of Us",
an attempt to see them aliens.

Air Force spokeswoman
Lauren McAndrews

said government officials
knew about the proposal.

In a statement to the
Washington Post, she said Area
51 is an open training range

for the US Air Force and we
would discourage anyone from
trying to come into the area

where we train
American armed forces.

The US Air Force always
stands ready to protect
America and its assets.

The media reported that
the proposal's creator

had said it was satirical
and meant as a joke.

Joke or no joke, it caught
the attention of UFO buffs
and even entertainers.

Many pledged to rush the base
in an attempt to get inside

and see what all the
secret fuss was about.

After memes and the Facebook
account had been posted

thousands of times
on the internet,

local businesses were
besieged with people showing up
well before the September event.

Some local businesses
saw the potential for cashing
in on all the tourist activity,

and began to arrange
outdoor events, concerts
and more for the occasion.

Matty Roberts created
the event on Facebook
On June 27th as a joke,

not imagining the viral spread
the event would receive.

The event planned for the
raid in Amargosa Valley

from 3 am. to 6 am.
on September 20th, 2019.

The Facebook event writes,
"If we run, we can move
faster than their bullets.

Let's see them aliens."

Robert said the event had
around forty signatures three
days into the event's list date

and then suddenly went viral.

The meme possibly spread first
on the app TikTok as well as
Reddit and Instagram later.

The Facebook page
for the event is filled with
thousands of satirical posts

discussing the best way
to break into Area 51.

After the viral spread
of the meme,

Roberts was worried
that he would receive
a visit from the FBI.

The event received
1.6 million going,

and another 1.2 million
interested signatures
as of July the 18th.

He had to take the event
offline as of July 20th.

Copycat events such as plans
to storm a genealogical vault

of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints,

Loch Ness and the Bermuda
Triangle have also been created.

Business owners
in Rachel, Nevada,

a town of just fifty-six people
just outside of the base

have made preparations
for visitors who want
to go to Area 51.

Connie West, co-owner
of the Little Ale'Inn
restaurant and inn,

has had all thirteen rooms
of the inn booked, and plans to
open up thirty acres for camping

and create merchandise
for the event.

Las Vegas businessman
George Harris has hired bands

to play at an annual
festival called The Swarm.

Matty Roberts has also expressed
interest in a music festival to
be made outside of Area 51.

Cosmic Kay, owner of the shop
Aliens R Us in Boulder City,

says that even though the
shop is one hundred seventy
miles away from Area 51,

business has increased due
to fascination regarding aliens.

Everyone involved believes this
will become an annual event

much like the famed
Burning Man event

in Black Rock Desert
of Northwest, Nevada.

Other businesses around the
nation have based products
and services on this event.

A collection of merchandise
related to the event from
online retailers was launched.

Bud Light plans
to release a promotional
alien-themed beer label

and promised a free beer
to any alien that makes it out

as long as a tweet with the
new design gets fifty-one
thousand retweets.

Fast food restaurant Arby's has
planned to deliver food with a
special menu to the event.

The UFO store has even released
an entire promotional DVD
package based upon the event.

Area 51 has been the subject
of conspiracy theories regarding
aliens since the 1950s,

when some individuals
reported seeing UFOs
at the location of the base

around the time the military
started flying CIA U-2
spy planes in the area.

The CIA declassified documents
related to Area 51

and recognized
its existence in 2013.

Up until then, the government
had denied even the
existence of the base,

though it could be clearly seen
from an area mountaintop.

Conspiracy theorists believe
aliens, UFOs, or secrets related
to them are stored at Area 51.

In June 2019, the Pentagon
provided a briefing on UFOs

encountered by Navy pilots
to members of Congress.

That same month, US President
Donald Trump said he had
also been briefed on UFOs.

Prior to these events in 2019,
the government had also
been forced to admit

they did indeed
have a UFO program
based out of the Pentagon.

The program
code-named A.A.T.I.P.

or the Advanced Aerial
Threat Identification Program.

The program began in 2007
with funding of 22 million
over the five years,

until available appropriations
were ended in 2012.

This program began in the US
Defense Intelligence Agency,

although the official A.A.T.I.P.
program has ended,

a related group of
interested professionals
have extended the effort,

funding a nonprofit
organization called

"To The Stars...
Academy of Arts and Science."

Many who worked at A.A.T.I.P.
say officially the
program has ended,

but it is still receiving
funding and is continuing.

[male narrator] On
May 22nd 2019,

Pentagon spokesman
Christopher Sherwood confirmed
to the New York Post

that the program did pursue
research and investigation into
unidentified aerial phenomena,

dispelling rumors that the
program only focused
on theoretical physics.

The program manager,
Luis Elizondo, said on
December 19th, 2017

that he believed there was
very compelling evidence
we are not alone.

The Storm Area 51 Event
took a turn on the first
weekend in August of 2019.

Just as the hype seemed to
have calmed down, over two
million UFO enthusiasts

found their Area 51
meme filled page suddenly
blocked by Facebook,

under the pretext of
ever-elusive, community
standards violations.

Spooked by the high volume
of attendees, worried about
the Las Vegas strip clubs

pledge to bring its dancers
to entertain the masses,

or offended by one
of the thousand memes
posted by the community,

Facebook abruptly removed

the "Storm Area 51 -
They Can't Stop Us All" event
page over the weekend.

The backup page set up by the
organizers was also wiped out

as the social media giant
found the content posted

to this event to be in violation
of their community standards.

Frustrated would-be raiders
regrouped on reddit
to share their theories,

while others continue to flood
Twitter with Area 51 memes.

Many agreed that Facebook
CEO, Mark Zuckerberg

is secretly an alien
from Area 51 and he
doesn't want us to know.

Many questioned if the
government had threatened
Facebook or other online sites.

The hysteria over aliens
at Area 51 only grew.

It seemed several were not
willing to give up and were
determined to storm Area 51.

After starting the Facebook
event as a joke,

Matthew Roberts now
planned an actual Area 51
festival in Nevada

to take place September
20th, the day the raid
was going to go down.

He says he created
another Facebook event
this time for the real festival

that would take place
somewhere that's not a
highly classified military base,

but this too was taken down
by the social network.

Perhaps it was
for public safety,

or the government
instructed Facebook
to remove the site.

Either way this only encouraged
event promoters to push forward.

The intense secrecy
surrounding the base

has made it the frequent subject
of conspiracy theories,

and a central
component to unidentified
flying object folklore.

The base has never been
declared a secret base,

but all research and
occurrences in Area 51
are top-secret, sensitive,

compartmentalized information.

The CIA publicly acknowledged
the existence of the base
for the first time

on the 25th of June 2013,
following a Freedom of
Information Act request

filed in 2005,

and they declassified
documents detailing the history
and purpose of Area 51.

Of course, there were
no mentions of aliens.

The lakebed made an ideal
strip for testing aircraft

and the Emigrant Valley's
mountain ranges

and the NTS perimeter protected
this site from visitors,

about 100 miles
north of Las Vegas.

The CIA asked the AEC to
acquire the land designated
Area 51 on the map,

and to add it to the
Nevada Test Site.

[male narrator] President
Johnson named the
area Paradise Ranch

to encourage workers to move
to "the new facility in the
middle of nowhere",

as the CIA later
described it, and the name
became shortened to The Ranch.

On the 4th of May 1955,
a survey team arrived
at Groom Lake

and laid out a 5,000-foot
north-south runway on the
southwest corner of the lakebed

and designated a site
for a base support facility.

The Ranch initially
consisted of little more
than a few shelters,

workshops, and trailer
homes in which to house
its small team.

In a little over three months,
the base consisted of a single
paved runway, three hangars,

a control tower and
rudimentary accommodations
for test personnel.

The base's few amenities
included a movie theater
and a volleyball court.

There was also a mess
hall, several wells
and fuel storage tanks.

CIA, Air Force, and Lockheed
personnel began arriving
on July of 1955.

The Ranch received its first
U-2 delivery on the 24th of
July 1955 from Burbank.

Regular Military Air
Transport Service flights

were set up between Area 51
and Lockheed's offices
in Burbank, California.

To preserve secrecy,
personnel flew to Nevada
on Monday mornings

and returned to
California on Friday.

During the Cold War,
one of the missions carried
out by the United States

was the test and evaluation
of captured Soviet
fighter aircraft.

Beginning in the late 60s,
and for several decades,

Area 51 played host
to an assortment
of Soviet-built aircraft.

Under the HAVE DOUGHNUT, HAVE
DRILL and HAVE FERRY programs,

the first MiGs flown in the
United States were used
to evaluate the aircraft

in performance, technical,
and operational capabilities,

pitting the types
against U.S. fighters.

Area 51 also hosted another
foreign material evaluation
program called HAVE GLIB.

This involved testing Soviet
tracking and missile
control radar systems.

A complex of actual and replica
Soviet-type threat systems began
to grow around Slater Lake,

a mile northwest of the main
base, along with an acquired
Soviet Barlock search radar.

They were arranged
to simulate a Soviet-style
air defense complex.

All of this evaluation of
foreign technology made Area 51

the perfect place to study,
test, and evaluate
alien technology.

If you have a UFO or
flying saucer and wanted
to see what it could do

out of the prying eyes
of the nation,

Area 51 was the most logical
and perfect place to do it.

The base itself is restricted,
the airspace above
the base is restricted,

and even land surrounding
the base has been purchased

and declared restricted
for miles around.

The United States government
has provided minimal
information regarding Area 51.

The area surrounding the lake
is permanently off-limits

to both civilian and normal
military air traffic.

Security clearances are checked
regularly, cameras and
weaponry are not allowed.

Even military pilots
training in the NAFR
risk disciplinary action

if they stray into the
exclusive box surrounding
Grooms airspace.

Surveillance is supplemented
using buried motion sensors.

Area 51 is a common destination
for Janet airline, a small fleet
of passenger aircraft

operated on behalf
of the Air Force to
transport military personnel,

primarily from McCarran
International Airport.

The USGS topographic map
for the area only shows the
long-disused Groom Mine.

A civil aviation chart
published by the Nevada
Department of Transportation

shows a large restricted area
defined as part of the Nellis
restricted airspace.

The National Atlas shows
the area as lying within
the Nellis Air Base.

However, high resolution and
newer images available from
satellite imagery providers,

including Russian providers
prove the base is huge
and of course does exist.

These show the runway
markings, base facilities,
aircraft and vehicles.

[male narrator] We may have Tang
thanks to the space program,

but who gave us such
innovations as the stealth
fighter and Kevlar?

Aliens of course.

Conspiracy theorists
believe that the remains
of crashed UFO spacecraft

are stored at Area 51,

an air force base about
150 miles from Las Vegas.

Government scientists reverse
engineer the aliens' highly
advanced technology there.

Fodder for this has come from
a variety of supposed UFO
sightings in the area

and testimony from
a retired Army colonel,

who says he was given access
to extraterrestrial materials

gathered from an
alien spacecraft

that crashed in
Roswell, New Mexico.

Some believe that the
government studies
time travel at Area 51,

also known as Groom
Lake or Dreamland.

The government has developed
advanced aircraft
and weapon systems

at nearby Nellis Air Force Base,
including stealth bombers
and reconnaissance planes.

And the government's
official line that the details
of Area 51 are classified

for the purpose of national
security is only seen
as further proof

that the military is hiding
aliens or alien spacecraft.

In the summer of 1955,

sightings of unidentified
flying objects were
reported around Area 51.

That's because the
airbase had begun its
testing of the U-2 aircraft.

The U-2 can fly higher
than 60,000 feet.

At the time, normal airliners
were flying in the ten to twenty
thousand feet range,

while military aircraft topped
out at about 40,000 feet.

So, if a pilot spotted
the tiny speck that was
the U-2 high above it,

they would have
no idea what it was

and they would usually
let air traffic control know
that someone was out there.

This led to the increase
of UFO sightings in the area,

while Air Force
officials knew the UFO
sightings were U-2 tests,

they couldn't really
tell the public.

So, they explained the aircraft
sightings by saying they
were natural phenomenon

and high-altitude
weather research.

The testing of the U-2
ended in the late 1950s,

but Area 51 has continued to
serve as the testing ground

for many aircraft
including the F-117A,

the A-12 and the Tacit Blue.

No one knows for sure what
Area 51 is up to these days.

The government never even
publicly acknowledged the
existence of the base

until 2013,

with the release of
declassified CIA reports.

But if you're ever at
the Las Vegas Airport,

keep an eye out for some small
unmarked passenger planes

in a fenced-off area.

They're how Area 51
employees get to work
from their homes in Vegas.

So, how did Area 51 come
to be known as a place

where the government keeps
aliens and alien saucers?

Enter Bob Lazar.

Lazar is primarily known
for his time of being
hired in the late 1980s

to reverse-engineer purported
extraterrestrial technology
at a secret site called S-4,

located several miles south
of the Area 51 United
States Air Force facility.

Lazar claims he examined
an alien craft that ran
on an antimatter reactor

powered by the then
un-synthesized element 115.

He also claims to have read US
government briefing documents

that described alien involvement
in human affairs over
the past 10,000 years.

Lazar's claims resulted
in bringing added public
attention to Area 51.

His story gained renewed
attention due to a June the 20th
2019 interview with Joe Rogan

as well as a 2018
documentary about his life

entitled "Bob Lazar,
Area 51 and Flying Saucers."

[male narrator] In May of 1989,

Lazar appeared in an
interview with investigative
reporter George Knapp

on Las Vegas
TV station KLAS,

under the pseudo
name Dennis

and with his face hidden
to discuss his purported
employment at S-4,

a subsidiary facility he claims
exists near Area 51.

He said the facility was
adjacent to Papoose Lake

which is located south
of the main Area 51
facility at Groom Lake.

He claimed the site consisted
of concealed aircraft hangars
built into a mountainside.

Lazar said that his job
was to help with the
reverse engineering

of one of nine flying saucers.

Bob claims one of the
flying saucers, the one
he coined the Sport Model

was manufactured
out of a metallic substance

similar in appearance
and touch to stainless steel.

In a subsequent interview
that November, Lazar appeared
unmasked and under his own name.

Lazar claims that the propulsion
of the studied vehicle

was fueled by atomic
element 115, or e 115.

Lazar explained that e 115
generates a gravity wave.

In addition, Lazar claims
that during his onboarding
to the program,

he read briefing
documents describing
the historical involvement

with earth for the past
10,000 years by extraterrestrial
beings; grey aliens.

These aliens are from a planet
orbiting the twin binary star
system Zeta Reticuli.

Lazar's story garnered media
attention and controversy
as well as supporters.

The scientific community
however is skeptical
of Lazar's claims

as he makes them without
any hard evidence or proof
of what he is claiming.

According to scientific
skeptic Benjamin Radford,

Lazar's lies propelled
Area 51 into the
public consciousness.

Lazar claims he earned
a Master's degree
in physics from MIT

and a Master's degree
in electronic technology
from Caltech.

However, there are no
records of Lazar attending
either MIT or Caltech.

Furthermore, Lazar was not a
member of a professional body.

Lazar claims that his academic
records were erased

in an effort by authorities
to discredit him.

However, in Lazar's defense,
people have come forward
and said they knew him

from his days at MIT
and Caltech and affirmed
he did attend there.

The subject of UFOs, Area 51
and aliens has entered the
political spectrum as well.

US Senator and Presidential
Candidate Bernie Sanders

has pledged to share
any details about UFOs
if he wins the 2020 election.

He says he's prepared
to disclose any
government information

about unidentified
flying objects,

but only if he wins,
and mainly because his
wife Jane asked him to;

even promising he would
announce the findings
on the Joe Rogan podcast.

Rogan asked if Jane was a
UFO nut, which Sanders denied.

Jane, however, has been
pressing the candidate
about what information

he might have right
now as a senator.

It's unclear however, if the
Republicans will push this
issue into election headlines.

[male narrator] In June, US
President Donald Trump told ABC
News's George Stephanopoulos

that he also received
a briefing about recent
sightings by military pilots.

Trump claims not to believe
in UFOs or has no
particular interest.

Although this debate
sounds like a rehash

of conversations surrounding
the 1950s and 60s'
era Project Blue Book,

it does have more
recent origins.

Earlier in the year, the New
York Times reported that
pilots with the US Navy

saw swiftly flying
UFOs several times off
the coast in 2014 and 2015,

but the reports of these
vehicles don't necessarily point
to something extraterrestrial.

But there's been
so much attention on
the issue that in June,

the Defense Department
briefed Mark Warner,
a Democrat from Virginia,

the Senate's Intelligence
Committee Vice-Chairman

about these encounters
along with two other senators.

While we wait on party
positions on space
aliens for 2020,

remember that this isn't the
first time the issue popped up

in talks with a Democrat
presidential candidate.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton
promised New Hampshire's
Conway Daily news, Sun

that she would get
to the bottom of the
UFO phenomenon.

She added that Earth may have
been visited already by aliens,
but we don't know for sure.

However, it is unclear
how seriously Clinton was
speaking to the newspaper,

which is located in a key state
for the election primaries.

Previous Presidents
have alluded, sometimes
tongue-in-cheek

that aliens may exist and the
government may have top-secret
departments that study them,

even with direct
contact with aliens.

So far there has not been
any confirmation by
any leader in the world

that aliens are among us.

UFO enthusiasts believe
that Area 51 may be the home
of the famous Majestic 12.

The organization is claimed to
be the codename of an alleged
secret committee of scientists,

military leaders, and government
officials formed in 1947

by an executive order by US
President Harry S. Truman

to facilitate recovery
and investigation
of alien spacecraft.

The concept originated
in a series of supposedly
leaked secret documents

first circulated by
ufologists in 1984.

Upon examination, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation

declared the documents
to be completely bogus

and many ufologists
considered them to
be an elaborate hoax.

Majestic 12 remains
popular among some
UFO conspiracy theorists

and the concept has
appeared in popular culture

including, television,
film and literature.

The concept of Majestic
12 emerged during
a period in the 1980s

when ufologists believed
there had been a cover-up
of the Roswell UFO incident

and speculated some secretive
upper tier of the United States
government was responsible.

Their suppositions appeared
to be confirmed in 1984,

when ufologist Jaime
Shandera received an
envelope containing film

which when developed
showed images of eight pages

of documents that appeared
to be briefing papers describing
Operation Majestic 12.

The documents purported to
reveal a secret committee of 12,

supposedly authorized by
United States President
Harry S. Truman in 1952,

and explained how
the crash of an alien
spacecraft at Roswell

in July of 1947
had been concealed,

how the recovered alien
technology could be exploited

and how the United
States should engage

with extraterrestrial
life in the future.

Shandera and his ufologist
colleagues Stanton T.
Friedman and Bill Moore

say they later received a series
of anonymous messages

that led them to find
what has been called
the Cutler/Twining memo

in 1985 while
searching declassified
files in the National Archives.

Purported to be written
by President Eisenhower's
assistant Robert Cutler

to General Nathan F.
Twining and containing a
reference to Majestic 12,

the memo is widely held
to be a forgery, likely
planted as part of a hoax.

[male narrator] However,
claiming to be connected to the
United States Air Force Office

of Special Investigations, a
man named Richard Doty told
filmmaker Linda Moulton Howe

that the MJ-12 story was
true, and showed Howe
unspecified documents

purporting to prove
the existence of small,
grey humanoid aliens

originating from the Zeta
Reticuli star system.

Doty reportedly promised
to supply Howe with
film footage of UFOs

and an interview with an
alien being, although no
footage ever materialized.

Soon, distrust and suspicion
led to disagreements
within the ufology community

over the authenticity
of the MJ-12 documents,

and Moore was accused
of taking part in
an elaborate hoax,

while other ufologists
and debunkers such
as Philip J. Klass

were accused of being
disinformation agents.

Both Bob Lazar and
the MJ-12 documents
say that aliens at Area 51

come from the Zeta
Reticuli star system.

So, where is this system?

The system is a wide binary
star system in the southern
constellation of reticulum.

From the southern hemisphere,

the pair can be seen as
a naked-eye double star
in very dark skies.

Based upon parallax
measurements,

this system is located
at a distance

of about thirty-nine point
three light-years from Earth.

Both stars are solar analogs
that have characteristics
similar to those of our Sun.

They belong to the Zeta
Herculis Moving Group of stars
that share a common origin.

Scientists agree that any system
within fifty light years could
be reached with a spacecraft

traveling just under the speed
of light within one lifetime.

So, as stars go, Zeta is
rather close at thirty-nine
light years away.

Betty and Barney Hill
were an American couple

who claimed they were
abducted by extraterrestrials

in a rural portion of the
state of New Hampshire

from September 19th
to September 20th 1961.

It was the first widely
publicized report of an alien
abduction in the United States.

The incident came to be called
the Hill Abduction and
the Zeta Reticuli Incident

because the couple
stated they had been
kidnapped by aliens

who claimed to be from
the Zeta Reticuli system.

Their story was adapted
into a best-selling 1966 book,
The Interrupted Journey

and the 1975 television movie
The UFO Incident.

In September 2016,
plans were announced
to make a film

based on the event with
an unknown release date.

The interesting thing
though is that the Hills
claim came in 1961,

but it was in 1969 that Marjorie
Fish discovered the system

and the Hill map
actually did exist.

Marjorie Fish of Oak
Harbor, Ohio read Fuller's
Interrupted Journey.

She was an elementary school
teacher and amateur astronomer.

Interested by the star map
mentioned in the book,

Fish wondered if it
might be deciphered

to determine which star
system the UFO came from.

Assuming that one of the
fifteen stars on the map
must represent Earth's Sun,

Fish constructed
a three-dimensional model
of nearby sun-like stars

using thread and beads,

basing stellar distances
on those published

in the 1969 Gliese
Star Catalogue.

Studying thousands of vantage
points over several years,

the only one that seemed
to match the Hill map

was from the viewpoint
of the double star
system of Zeta Reticuli.

Fish sent her analysis to Webb.

Agreeing with her conclusions,
Webb sent the map
to Terence Dickinson,

editor of the popular
magazine Astronomy.

Dickinson did not endorse Fish
and Webb's conclusions,

but for the first time
in the journal's history,

Astronomy invited comments
and debate on a UFO report,

starting with an opening
article in the December
1974 issue.

For about a year afterward,
the opinions page of Astronomy

carried arguments for
and against Fish's star map.

Notable was an argument made
by Carl Sagan and Steven Soter,

arguing that the
seeming star map

was little more than a random
alignment of chance points.

In an episode of Cosmos
in 1980, Sagan demonstrated
that without the lines

drawn in the maps, the Hill
map bore no resemblance
to the real-life map.

In contrast, those more
favorable to the map,
such as David Saunders,

a statistician who had been
on the Condon UFO study,

argued that unusual
alignment of key sun-like stars

in a plane centered
around Zeta Reticuli

was statistically
improbable to have
happened by chance

from a random group of stars
in our immediate neighborhood.

[male narrator] The hill case

is one of the most
heavily researched
UFO cases on record

and many points
made by the Hills

have been corroborated
right after and
since the abduction.

Most of Betty Hills' notes,
tapes, and other items

have been placed in
the permanent collection

at the University of New
Hampshire, her alma mater.

In July 2011, the state
Division of Historical Resources

marked the site of the alleged
craft's first approach
with a historical marker.

♪♪♪

[male narrator] So, you
want to storm Area 51?

Where will you stay?

How do you get to camp?

There is not much
in Rachel, Nevada

by way of stores, hotels
and frankly anything.

The Little A'le' Inn, previously
the Rachel Bar and Grill,

is a small bar, restaurant,
and motel located in Rachel

along the Extra-Terrestrial
Highway.

The business has been
running for over twenty years

and is frequented by visitors
to the local Area 51.

The business has a variety
of Area 51 and UFO-related
merchandise for sale

such as maps of the area,
posters, postcards, and toys,
and offers an alien burger.

There isn't much
else in Rachel.

In 1991, Joe and Pat
wanted something unique
for the Bar & Grill

because they felt
that Joe and Pat's
was not exciting enough.

They held a contest won
by Bruce Hooker with
"A 'le' Inn" a play on alien.

The current owners of the
Little A'le' Inn are Pat
and her daughter Connie.

It has been featured
in documentaries
and even feature films.

If you're wondering,
it is usually booked

with alien hunters for
the Storm Area 51 event.

You can get there by
taking highway 375.

The top-secret
Area 51 government
base is near SR 375

and many travelers have
reported UFO observations

and other strange alien
activity along this road.

Such stories prompted
the state to officially
designate the route

as the Extra-Terrestrial
Highway in 1996.

The small town of Rachel
located near the midpoint of
the highway caters to tourists,

geocachers, and UFO seekers
with alien-themed businesses.

Although the area receives
some tourism due to the alleged
extraterrestrial activity,

SR 375 remains a
lightly traveled route.

Descending the summit,
SR 375 nears the border of
the Nellis Air Force Range.

As the highway heads
northwest through Tikaboo
Valley, it meets Mail Box Road.

It used to be marked by
a single postal drop known
as the Black Mailbox.

The dirt access road
leads to the restricted lands
surrounding Area 51.

The original mailbox
was a normal black mailbox.

However, due to people
constantly sifting through it,

it was replaced with
a white one that was
much more secure.

The name Black
Mailbox still stuck.

It was commonly used as a
gathering place for UFO seekers,

and two to three UFO
sightings per week
allegedly occur in the area.

The mailbox was removed
by its owner, Steve Medlin,
due to continued vandalism.

SR 375 continues heading
northwest from the mailbox,

climbing in elevation again
to reach the top of Coyote
Summit at 5,591 feet.

To promote the Extraterrestrial
Highway after its renaming,

the tourism commission
launched "The ET
Experience" in July 1996.

Tourists could contact the
Nevada Commission on Tourism
to receive a traveler's kit

containing information about
the highway, nearby cultural
attractions and area services.

Visitors that patronized
businesses in Rachel
and Central Nevada

and submitted an
account of their journey

received Extraterrestrial
Highway memorabilia.

Stories from travelers were
also published in a newsletter

available to those that had
completed the experience.

Despite tourism generated
by people searching
for signs of alien life,

only an average
of about two hundred
cars drive some portion

of the Extraterrestrial Highway
every day, making it one of the
state's least traveled routes.

[male narrator] You can't talk
about Area 51 without at least
a mention of Roswell.

After all, the Roswell
UFO is said to be
hidden away in Area 51.

In 1978, nuclear physicist
and author Stanton Friedman
interviewed Jesse Marcel,

the only person known to have
accompanied the Roswell debris

from where it was
recovered to Fort Worth

where reporters saw
material which was claimed to
be part of the recovered object.

The accounts given by
Friedman and others
in the following years

elevated Roswell
from a forgotten incident

to perhaps the most famous
UFO case of all time.

The story of Roswell
has evolved since the first
book published in 1980,

and an appearance by
Jesse Marcel on the
TV program "In Search Of."

Today, Roswell is a UFO fixture
with an annual festival in July

where UFO researchers give
talks, and there is a parade

which brings in much-needed
income to a small desert town.

Rachel, Nevada must be
looking on with envious eyes

at the stature this little
town has garnered since
the UFO stories broke.

Perhaps the Storm Area51 event
will bring in as much tourism.

Storming Area51 looks to become
something like the Burning
Man event in Nevada.

Organizers are hoping it will
grow and become part festival

with bands and attractions
and part liberal event for art.

Burning Man is an event held
annually in the western United
States at Black Rock City,

a temporary city erected
in the Black Rock Desert
of Northwest Nevada,

approximately one hundred
miles north-northeast
of Reno.

The late summer event
is an experiment in
community and art,

influenced by ten
main principles:

radical inclusion,
radical self-reliance,

radical self-expression,

communal effort,
civic responsibility,

gifting, participation,
immediacy, and Leave No Trace.

The event takes its name
from its culmination,

the symbolic ritual
burning of a large
wooden effigy;

the man that
traditionally occurs on the
Saturday evening of the event.

First held thirty-three years
ago in 1986 on Baker's
Beach in San Francisco

as a small function organized
by Larry Harvey and Jerry
James who built the first man.

It has since been annually
spanning from the
last Sunday in August

to the first Monday in
September, or Labor Day.

At Burning Man, the community
explores various forms
of artistic self-expression,

which are created to be
enjoyed by all participants.

Once considered an underground
gathering for Bohemians and
free spirits of all stripes,

Burning Man has since
evolved into a destination
for social media influencers,

celebrities, and the
Silicon Valley elite.

Examples of creativity
include experimental
and interactive sculptures,

buildings, performances and art
cars, among other media.

These contributions are inspired
by a theme that is chosen
annually by the organizers.

Burning Man boasts 70,000
attendees and has spawned
other similar events worldwide.

Storming Area51 from the
perspective of the military

has always been a stern report:
don't try to storm our base.

Area 51 and the government
is well aware of the
event that is unfolding

and will be diligent
against anyone who tries to
cross the border into Area 51.

On July 10th 2019,
speaking with the
Washington Post,

Air Force spokeswoman
Laura McAndrews said

officials were aware
of the event and issued
a warning saying,

"Area 51 is an open training
range for the US Air Force

and we would discourage
anyone from trying to come
into the area

where we train
American armed forces."

She added, "The US Air Force

always stands ready to
protect America and its assets."

This is of course, the "We
will shoot you statement."

Anonymous Nevadan law
enforcement officials have
said government agencies

are closely monitoring
the reaction to the post saying,

"Anyone found trespassing
would be arrested

and prosecuted to
the fullest extent of
local and military law."

A public information officer
at Nellis Air Force
Base told KNPR

that any attempt to
illegally access the area
is highly discouraged.

Signs at the border
of the base clearly say

that lethal force is authorized,
meaning, they can shoot you.

Most likely you would
be arrested and detained,
perhaps for days.

You will have no legal recourse.

If they truly believe you are a
threat, you can be incarcerated.

But if a wave of people truly
tried to storm the base, you
can bet there will be gunfire.

The camo dudes that protect
the base are armed and
authorized to shoot you.

However, if you want to
have a good time and get
in some desert camping,

enjoy some music
and talk about UFOs with
fellow event participants.

This grassroots festival
may just be the perfect
place to have some fun.

Just remember,

don't storm Area 51.

♪♪♪

[man] Ten, nine,

ignition sequence start.

Six, five, four,

three, two, one, zero.

[explosion]