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Satellite photos reveal new hangars being built at Area 51, the United States top-secret testing facility
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WHAT’S going on in Area 51? The mysterious US government air base in the middle of nowhere is undergoing an expansion. But nobody knows why.
Aircraft enthusiasts have been watching this patch of Nevada desert for decades. It’s where the United States air force tests its most ultra-advanced, and ultra-secret, flying machines.
Many also believe it’s the home to a captured fleet of alien flying saucers.
Dreamland. Watertown. The Ranch. Whatever its name, the facility has entered common culture as Area 51 through a string of novels, movies, and far-fetched alien conspiracy theories.
Which may be why many people eagerly watch for every clue as to what may be going on in the dried-up lake bed.
Now, new satellite photos reveal ongoing construction work.
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Area 51 ... New satellite photos reveal construction work at the US Air Force’s most secret air base. Source: Foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com Source: Supplied
At the very end of the complex weave of runways, taxiways, barracks and buildings is a new, massive structure.
Aviation website foxtrotalpha has turned the eye of its experts on the new facility in an effort to guess what it’s all about.
There are three main theories.
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The first clue appeared in 2007: An enormous hangar was built at a time of extensive defence cutbacks. Rumours abounded — not least among them that a new super bomber was being tested as a replacement for the dark and ominous B-2 Stealth Bomber.
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