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While a companion piece looks at Area 51’s original role in developing the CIA’s U-2 and A-12 spy planes, here we’ll look at the “black projects” known to have been flown there in the 1970s, to those speculated to be there in the present day. Other nearby bases include Nellis Air Force Base and Tonopah Test Range-the latter which also has hosted numerous “black project” programs. Now it lies within a twenty-three by twenty-five-mile perimeter of restricted airspace located within the larger 4,500-square mile Nevada Training and Test Range. The facility has considerably expanded from the small, remote landing field adjacent to a salt flat first used to test the Lockheed U-2 spy plane in 1955. It is believed that sightings of the secret U-2 flights in Nevada were the source of many 1950s and 1960s UFO stories.While fanciful stories of alien spaceships continue to captivate the public, as recent internet memes attest, there’s little doubt that Groom Lake’s actual activities are of considerable interest-sufficiently so that in April 2019 Russia even dispatched one of its treaty-authorized Tu-154M Open Skies surveillance planes to spy on the base. “Angel” was a code word for the plane, which could fly at over 70,000 feet, and “Paradise” was a nickname for Area 51, which was a harsh desert setting with hot summers and cold winters. The film tells the story of the design, manufacture, and testing of the top secret U-2 plane between 19. T22:24:38-04:00 According to the CIA, this film was made for family members of those working on the U-2 spy plane to inform them about the remote location and difficulty of working at Area 51, a U.S.
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