It's been a perennial American obsession for more than 50 years. It's provided a shadowy backdrop for shows like "The X-Files" and movies like the 1996 summer blockbuster "Independence Day." And in ...

Area 51 is one of the most enduring mysteries and sources of speculation in American history. Located inside the Nevada Test and Training Range, the flat-dry lake bed known as Groom Lake has been the ...

For decades, Nevada’s Area 51 Air Force facility has represented the eye of a conspiratorial hurricane that swirls around “evidence” that aliens (and their technology) exist and are hiding behind its ...

The small US towns of Rachel and Hiko, near the highly secret Area 51 facility in Nevada, are bracing themselves for a possible influx of visitors. The viral Facebook event "Storm Area 51, They Can't ...

Seventy-five miles north of Las Vegas sits a land parcel in the middle of the desert. Called Area 51, the parcel is just outside of the abandoned Nevada Test and Training Range, where more than 100 ...

Whether you’re enthralled by all the recent talk about UFOs, or you’re halfway through an X-Files binge, you might be wondering where Area 51 is. Who can blame you? Like the Bermuda Triangle and ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

A back gate to the top-secret US military installation in Lincoln County, Nevada known as Area 51 In Nevada's remote southern county of Lincoln lie two unassuming towns, their combined population, 173 ...