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What do you think of when I say the words area 51? I think of aliens and government cover up.

I think aliens. I think military. and government test site for secret aircraft projects where there also might be UFOs being stashed after a

UFO crash in the United States. Secret place the government's height

things. There was this big thing.

I don't know if it was last year the year before but there was this whole thing about it in Area 51 raid.

The military has kind of confirmed that there's top secret stuff going on there just with how they've reacted to the people trying to storm Area 51 and stuff like that.

They've made it pretty clear that they don't want anybody there.

For at this point, decades, there's been various references to

UFOs and creatures that were found there.

Even if you have no interest in UFOs or government conspiracies, you know about Area 51.

It's the secret base where the government supposedly houses crashed

UFOs.

It's where advanced alien technology is used to create aircraft whose capabilities defy the laws of physics as we know them.

And it's evidence of a profound government conspiracy.

Chris Carter had these cultural understandings in mind when he

created the X-files. We took a lot of what people knew about aliens or believed about aliens and

UFOs, ex-acrestrials, and the government conspiracy.

And there was a certain fascination with Roswell,

with Area 51. They were part of the

extraterrestrial alien abduction UFO lore. So how do you know about Area 51? Do you remember when you first heard about it?

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