The Wildest Things You Never Knew About Area 51

Starting at the Beginning

In 1947, an unidentified alien object was reported crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, which was then promptly shipped to Area 51. Before any press was given the opportunity to cover the event, the area swarmed with military troops, preventing anyone to go near the crash site. The people who reported the object stated that it was “of strange, otherworldly origin.”

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