Mystery of Area 51 | Are there really UFOs and Aliens? | Dhruv Rathee
Dhruv Rathee・2 minutes read
UFO craze in 1947 sparked by pilot Kenneth Arnold's sighting led to widespread speculation and media coverage, with the Roswell Incident dismissed as a weather balloon but rumors of alien technology at Area 51 persisting. Area 51, a top-secret US military facility, has a history of testing spy planes like the U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird, with conspiracy theories fueled by Bob Lazar's claims of working on alien spacecraft, despite later doubts about his credibility.
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- Media coverage of UFO sightings in the 1940s, like Kenneth Arnold's encounter near Seattle, sparked a nationwide craze, linking these phenomena to atomic sites and leading to the infamous Roswell Incident, where the US Army initially claimed to have recovered a UFO but later attributed it to a weather balloon.
- Area 51, a secretive US military facility in Nevada, played a pivotal role during the Cold War as a testing ground for spy planes like the U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird, with the CIA fostering UFO conspiracy theories to conceal the true nature of military aircraft tests, exemplified by Bob Lazar's controversial claims of working on alien spacecraft in the area.
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