When When Bob Lazar told a television interviewer in 1989 that he’d been researching captured flying saucers at a base in the Nevada desert trying to figure out what made them fly so fast the name Area 51 suddenly became the key code word for government conspiracies Bright lights and fast-moving objects had been regular features in the night sky above the restricted military zone north of Las Vegas since the 1950s causing many people to wonder what was going on out there But those who worked there were forbidden to tell anyone even their spouses what they did or saw The United States government which controlled the
land refused to acknowledge the existence of any sort of base Lazar believed such secrecy was standing in the way of greater scientific progress and broke his silence Hearing stories from a scientist who claimed to have studied extraterrestrial technology confirmed many Americans suspicions suspicions that beings from outer space had already visited Earth People began to wonder about what the government government was concealing and feared whatever beings could have been responsible for creating technology that seemed so advanced Suddenly Area 51 was on the map in a big but still invisible way
