UFO Cover-up About Nevada’s Area 51 Exposed … But It’s Not What You Think

Posted on: June 10, 2025, 11:16h. 

Last updated on: June 10, 2025, 11:30h.

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A congressionally ordered 2023 investigation revealed shocking new evidence of a government cover-up about Area 51, the secret US Air Force Base operating 81 miles northwest of Las Vegas since 1955. Only what was covered up, according to investigators, is that the reports of UFOs stored at the base stemmed from a hoax created by the government itself.

The top-secret US Air Force base known as Area 51 was created in 1955 when the Atomic Energy Commission turned over 60 square miles of the former Nevada Test Site to the CIA. (Image: Wikipedia)

In 2023, Casino.org reported on claims made by a former US intelligence officer that the US is hiding multiple spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin inside Area 51.

According to David Grusch — a former member of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force, a group established by the Department of Defense in 2020 to investigate UAPs, the official new acronym for UFOs — federal agents have been recovering extra-terrestrial vehicles, and alien bodies, from crash sites for decades and covering up their findings from the American public.

“There is a sophisticated disinformation campaign targeting the US populace, which is extremely unethical and immoral,” Grusch told NewsNation.

However, that theory has been dealt a gut punch by new evidence suggesting that Grusch, as well as other top US officials, were lied to as part of a misinformation campaign to cover up what was really happening at Area 51 — the testing of top-secret US military stealth fighters of very terrestrial origin.

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All satellite photos of Area 51, like this one, were blocked from Google Earth prior to 2018. The US didn’t even admit to the base’s existence until it was forced to in 2013. (Image: Google Earth)

According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) , which last week reported for the first time on the findings of the feds’ 2023 investigation, many of the government’s own employees were intentionally misled about UFOs dating back to the 1950s.

“Military officers spread false documents to create a smokescreen for real secret weapons programs,” the newspaper reported. “In other cases, officials allowed UFO myths to take root in the interest of national security — for instance, to prevent the Soviet Union from detecting vulnerabilities in the systems protecting nuclear installations.”

The WSJ conducted its own investigation, interviewing two dozen current and former US officials, scientists, and military contractors named in the congressional investigation, as well as reviewing thousands of additional documents, recordings, and text messages.

Sean Kirkpatrick formerly served as chief scientist at the Missile and Space Intelligence Center at the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Ala., one of whose missions was to verify claims made by dozens of former military officers that Washington operated a secret program to harvest alien technology at Area 51.

What Kirkpatrick found, according to the WSJ, was that “hundreds and hundreds” of government officials had been misinformed about the secret program as part of “a bizarre hazing ritual.”

Every day for decades, civilians who work at Area 51 — as many as 1,500 with the highest possible security clearance — have boarded one of a fleet of unmarked 737 passenger jets that fly out of Las Vegas Airport under the call sign “Janet.” (Image: thepointsguy.com)

For decades, new commanders of the Air Force’s most classified programs had been handed, as part of their induction briefings, a photo of what appeared to be a flying saucer that was described as an antigravity vehicle in the US government’s possession.

“The officers were told that the program they were joining, dubbed Yankee Blue, was part of an effort to reverse-engineer the technology on the craft,” the WSJ reported. “They were told never to mention it again. Many never learned it was fake.”

All were forced to sign nondisclosure agreements. One former officer was warned that if he ever repeated the secret, he would be jailed or executed.

“Investigators are still trying to determine whether the spread of disinformation was the act of local commanders and officers or a more centralized, institutional program,” the WSJ reported.

The WSJ’s report fell shy of suggesting the campaign’s purpose, though it can reasonably be assumed to either have been a test of the new commanders’ loyalty or an attempt to leak misinformation about Area 51’s operations to the Soviet Union and other enemies of the US, through channels that the Air Force realized it couldn’t prevent.

Whatever its purpose, in the spring of 2023, the US defense secretary sent out an all-staff memo ordering the practice to stop.

“But the damage was done,” the WSJ investigation concluded.