The Truth About Area 51

No one who knows and cares will read this and no one who does not will believe it, so what does it matter?

This is the true nature of Area 51:
Area 51 is a base for nuclear-powered aircraft. These aircraft are to jets what nuclear cruisers are to oil-powered ships. They can stay aloft for months on end - the crews would need to be rotated, and more food brought aboard, before the aircraft would need to be refueled. Because these aircraft house a nuclear reactor (and many tons of dense lead shielding) and do not utilize combustion, they are very large and relatively quiet.

The claim that Area 51 is home to captured ships of alien origin powered by an exotic element is actually a red herring originated by the NSA. The purpose of this red herring is both as a smokescreen for the truth and to weed out potential liabilities amongst those under examination to work at the base. This myth is conveniently partially congruent with the truth in that the aircraft in question use radioactive isotopes, that they are more like ships than aircraft, and that the operations there began concurrently with when the alien hoax supposedly occurred.

Nuclear-powered aircraft were first developed in the late 50s and early 60s. They are mentioned in Khrushchev Remembers, and also parenthetically in this declassified video at 7:38. In a secret agreement reached after the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, both NATO and the Soviets agreed to not research nuclear jet technology because it was feared that nuclear aircraft would prove too dangerous, too environmentally destructive, and too destabilizing to the global politic. A nuclear-armed aircraft that could operate autonomously for months would be too powerful a force for any crew to be trusted with - like the rogue bomber in Dr. Strangelove to the Nth degree.

It is not known to the West whether or not the Soviets honored the secret agreement. But the United States did not. This is what they are actually doing at Area 51 - researching and building these incredible machines.