- A YouTube channel has uploaded a video in which they show Google Earth images that appear to depict ‘secret’ entrances into Area 51.
- The entrances do not show up in images from 1998 but do show up in images from 2003, 2005, 2009-2011, 2013, and 2017 (as seen in the video).
- But there are other reasons for the "entrance" that seem a bit more plausible.
YouTube channel, FindingUFO, has uploaded an interesting video seemingly showing a hidden entrance to the notoriously secretive Area 51 facility, which is administrated by Edwards Air Force Base.
Area 51, officially named Homey Airport—but is also known as Groom Lake—has long been the focal point of fascination and conspiracy theories ranging from ones that speculate the site is used to house alien specimens and technology to more dramatic theories such as the one that posits that the U.S. government faked the moon landing in an Area 51 hangar.
In a video uploaded on February 21, 2020, FindingUFO lists the Google Earth coordinates for the Area 51 facility (37°14′0″N 115°48′30″W), and the supposed hidden entrances (37.1916478725, -116.17319725), (37°10'23.7"N 116°11'39.4"W), and (37°10'21.17"N 116°11'31.16"W). The video shows satellite images of the the same areas in 1998, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017; interestingly, neither of the two entrances is visible in the 1998 image capture.
More likely than not, these new entrances were designed to offer easier accessibility to the facility. Some video commenters believe that the entrances lead to nuclear waste disposal pits, not too far fetched considering the Nevada Test Site—where nuclear weapons underwent testing between the 1950s and 1990s—is nearby.
The idea that the construction of these secret entrances is part of a decades-long conspiracy to keep the existence of aliens and their futuristic technology hidden from the public is tantalizing for some.
We're not saying the truth isn't out there. It's just not at Area 51.
