Aliens, 10,000-year-old UFOs and gravity waves: What do we actually know about Area 51?

More than 1.5 million people have signed a Facebook page calling for a "storming" of Area 51, the secretive US military base in the Nevada desert on Friday.

If all goes according to plan those who turn up will run ninja-style into the facility, which has no fences around it, looking for signs of alien life being hidden by the US government.

If they don’t all get shot what they might find is anyone’s guess.

What is Area 51 really?

Area 51 is an assembly of buildings and an airstrip built around a salt flat called Groom Lake. It is part of the Nevada Test and Training Range, which is the biggest air and ground military testing area in the Western world, stretching over nearly three million acres….

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