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The CIA asked the AEC to acquire the land, designated "Area 51" on the map, and to add it to the Nevada Test Site. [9]: 56–57 Johnson named the area "Paradise Ranch" to encourage workers to move to "the new facility in the middle of nowhere", as the CIA later described it, and the name became shortened to "the Ranch".
Cactus Springs is a ghost town in Nye County, Nevada. It is currently within the boundaries of the Nellis Air Force Range. Callville: Clark: 1864: 1869: Submerged under Callville Bay of Lake Mead: Steamboat landing, County seat of Pah-Ute County, Arizona Territory (1865–67), post office (1867-69) Candelaria: Mineral: 1864: 1939: Neglected site
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Connie West, co-owner of an alien-themed motel in the tiny U.S. desert outpost of Rachel, Nevada, believes they are coming no matter what. Tiny Nevada town near secretive Area 51 braces for alien ...
In the Warner Bros. movie Looney Tunes Back in Action, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck visit a secret military base in the Nevada Desert, used mainly as a storage for extraterrestrial lifeforms and technology and government secrets, called Area 52. In the movie, this base is the "real" Area 51, and the name "Area 51" is only a cover for Area 52.
Emigrant Valley is a valley in the U.S. state of Nevada. [1] Emigrant Valley was named for a party of emigrants who traveled through it. [2] The valley is home to the Groom Lake Facility of the Nevada Test Range, popularly known as Area 51.
RELATED: Take a tour of the small town that houses Area 51 "Unlike UFOs and aliens, this offer is 100% verifiably real and not a hoax," the tourism board said in a press release.
Rachel is over 100 miles (160 km) north of Las Vegas in the Great Basin Desert, along Nevada Highway 375 (the "Extraterrestrial Highway") in Nevada. The tiny town receives a substantial number of visitors and tourists, catered to by a small tourist shop, a 12-room motel, and an alien-themed restaurant and bar, the Little A'Le'Inn.