Government Admits Existence of Area 51

Clearly, “the smoking man” has been on vacation.

For reasons unknown (though we’d like to imagine Mulder and Skully had at least something to do with it), previously classified information in CIA documents has been made part of the public record. These reports, which were posted online last Thursday by the National Security Archive at George Washington University, not only refer to the legendary Area 51 by name, but actually locate it on a map —  in the Mojave Desert about 100 miles north of Las Vegas, along the dry Groom Lake bed.

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