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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".
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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.
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Tikaboo Peak is the unofficial name for a mountain in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States 26 miles (42 km) to the east of Area 51.It is the closest publicly accessible vantage point with a view of the area.
The Belize Tourism board is offering free vacations to residents of Rachel, Nevada, the tiny town that houses Area 51. ... but in 2018 the country welcomed roughly 1.6 million tourists last year.
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.
The main gate of the Nevada Test and Training Range, colloquially known as Area 51. Area 51 is a common name given to a United States Air Force (USAF) facility in the Nevada Test and Training Range. Opening in 1955, the facility functioned as an aircraft testing and development facility during the Cold War.