The US government’s official name for Area 51 is the Nevada Test and Training Range, which is a unit of the Nellis Air Force Base. Today it is used as an open training range for the US Air Force.

There are places in the world that seem ordinary on a map but feel mysterious in the mind. Area 51 is one of those places. It sits in the Nevada desert, where the land is dry and empty, yet the ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Area 51, a top-secret U.S. military facility in the Nevada desert, has ...

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A viral Facebook event raised new questions about otherworldly occurrences in the Nevada desert — here's how a government base became ground zero for alien enthusiasts Ninety miles northwest of the ...