Experts Reveal What Really Happened (Full Episode) | Area 51: The CIA's Secret
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- Using the most up-to-date information and expert interviews, Area 51: The CIA’s Secret approaches the history of the base’s development in a brand new way and answers the question of what really happened at Area 51.
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Experts Reveal What Really Happened (Full Episode) | Area 51: The CIA's Secret
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Higgins from Magnum PI! Great to see him again!
Did u see Irans helicopter in the first one ? The one with Raisin head in it ?
spying on the plane’s shadow was genius
Don't take any bait! Sun moves and shadow doesn't show outline of anything! If sun would be stationary than it may create something thermally comprehensive.
Cool but you can't get anything from that place. Nothing.
Really don't waste your time.if you get in the wrong place your had.
My grandfather was in the army for 38 years. He enlisted with his buddies near the end of World War Two served in Korea and Vietnam. He was stationed in Las Vegas during down time at one time. I asked him if he ever heard of Area 51 and he said no. He told me that he fixed typewriters when he was in Vegas and that was it . I don’t believe him because I don’t see a brigadier General fixing typewriter. Some people keep quiet about there time and never reveal anything . I believe he was working on the sr71 project but he never mentioned anything .
Confirmed: 👽🛸
I fixed warheads.. 🙌 [NOW I GLOW IN THE. ✨️... HEY 👋 WZL. GROCERY CHECX.
Thank you .
If he was in the Army then I promise you he was telling you the truth. Only Air Force and some Navy. Army and Marines have no relationship with the base.
If he tells u he gotta kill u
I feel like National Geographic is becoming the new ancient aliens history channel 👽
Sure seems like it!
I loved midnights, midweek, in the 1980's hearing the C5's approaching Burbank to pick up the F117's.
I lived under the flight path to Burbank. Late at night, I would get on my roof and watch the cargo and secret passenger flights go overhead.
@@djo9941 So Cool !! Seems like they approached from south of Van Nuys.
Area 51 causes everyone to lose focus, on area 52 in Utah..
You dont need thousands of feet of runway to launch a U.F.O. just a spot on the ground that it will fit upon lol
Area 52 in Utah holds the real secrets...
not as much as area53 and 54 lol
When I was a baby, my father was a CIA employee at Area 51, during the time the A12s were being transported there and tested. He was part of the security group. We lived in Las Vegas, and he flew out for the week, then he'd fly back to us for the weekends. My birth certificate lists his occupation as "Nuclear Energy", which was a common cover they used. Later in my life, I knew he had worked for the CIA but I didn't find out about the Area 51 thing until about 10 years ago. There are some interesting stories about the transporting of the planes in those trailers. They would stop sometimes and people would gather and ask what was in the trailers. My dad got tired of thinking up ways to evade the question, so finally he just started telling people, "Well I shouldn't tell you this, but it's a UFO we found". They would light up in amazement and run off to tell others. I like to think my dad was at least partly responsible for the fact that people believe there are UFOs there to this day. :)
That's a big UFO yah found!
Lol.. Good One.. And Yeah.. I'd Say So... Partly
In 1990, after reading about Bob Lazar in the LA Weekly, I went to Area 51 with my boyfriend. Bob Lazar said that they flew these things on Wednesday nights because that was when there was the least traffic on the highway. We stopped at the Little Ale’Inn, met Joe and Pat Travis and got directions to the black mailbox road. We parked there all night, and around 3 am we saw a giant glowing ball of light float up over the mountains. It floated around and did some horizontal movement, and then floated back down. I think we saw them testing one of the craft. 🛸
Cool as can be!! We flew around inside the area in the mid 90's during the day...never saw anything notable.
If it is true, then America has nothing to fear since Russia and China can easily be beaten with hidden new technology. As it is, yah you wish it were true. The fact is militarily, America now is no match for China.
It was a weather balloon. 😉
32:52 It obviously didn't fall off the pole. The radar signature of the pole was much larger than that of the Have Blue, which is why Lockheed Skunk Works had to design a stealth pole specifically for the prototype, so that they could actually measure its radar cross section.
"Our pole is stealthier than your plane!"
Great video folks much enjoyed thank you.
you are proof we are over populated....
Fascinating and I'm glad we are ahead !
What about the other security guards that worked with him didn’t get sick
Dr. Richard Feynman wrote in his auto biography, during the Manhattan Project the same compartmentalized super-secrecy was used but progress increased phenomenally when all people (security screened, of course) on a project knew they were building an atomic bomb. The quicker flow of ideas, improvements helped win WW2 against Japan.
Anyone who crosses the gate still has 10 miles to go before they get to the actual base. They'll be arrested or shot just to look at a dirt road.
They don't shoot and cremate intruders anymore, because there's too much scrutiny on missing persons now. Back in the day, people go missing and nobody bats an eye.
Thanks for interesting and valuable video as always
When the USA got that MIG-21 there was quite a bit of reverse engineering on the avionics. We figured out the USSR's transponders. Then we designed and built airborne interrogators that were installed on F-4 Phantoms. Good for finding those pesky MIGs that were not radar visible due to ground clutter.
It’s embarrassing that the US had to reverse engineer the enemy’s plane only to find that their own skill was to blame
@@ColocasiaCorm right.. noone has ever reverse engineered anything american lol
@@Arjay.M88 I’m sorry what did i do to you?
Didn't know that. I knew the MIG 21 Saphir radar had a distinct three ping tone that the F-4's and Crusader fighters in Vietnam learned to recognize.
🙄I don’t think anyone doubts area 51’s existence but what they were doing is in question, right?
😮
They where doing ... stealth
Nuclear test
What they were doing is not in question. Area 51 is a testing and proving ground for military projects, viz. the production of advanced aircraft and UAVs.
the whole video explains what they do lol top secret aircraft/nuclear tests.
the best documentary so far ....kudos more please
yeah i am sure the national geographic is really putting out hard nose journalism based in investigations. NOT. This is propaganda.
Exciting cheers can't wait to watch it 😊
There's nothing to watch, just some old photos and vids and some talking oval balls😊
@nnconfomiststoic7346 oh ok, thanks for the heads up matey
Funny how they can't secure the border but no one can even get close to area 51.
Two very different security threats.
Rough distance of total Area 51 border (23 mile x 25 mile rectangle) - 96 miles
Length of US southern border - 1,954 miles
It's not funny at all it's quite explainable.
@@willdenoble1898 Right, I'm talking about the physical and technological challenges not the threat level, although that"s debatable too.
They keep aliens in not out
It is spelled "border".
Your telling me that a plane built in the 1950’s warrants a vicious response in 2024? Ok sure just planes… lol
It is top secret technology worth billions of dollars and which took years, if not decades, in development. Do you think they would just let you walk on the base to take a few pictures of their state of the art jets, whose existence hasn't even been made public?
This the same narrator from "I shouldn't be alive"
This was a great educational video for area 51.😊
Great documentary i enjoyed it
Great video! Very interesting and informative. The technology used to build the YF-12/SR-71 was so advanced for its time. Incredible what was accomplished in relative secrecy.
For those unfamiliar with it, the U-2 was a fairly difficult aircraft to fly.
It doesn't like to fly at low altitudes (it wasn't designed for low altitudes), and during a mission, at high altitudes, it flew in what is known as the "coffin corner". The coffin corner is a narrow range of airspeed. If you go beyond it, the aircraft will get into transonic flight (compressibility) and it may not be able to withstand the loads associated with it.
If you let airspeed get bellow it, the aircraft will stall. It will not "fall out of the sky", like many documentaries, books and articles say, but it will pitch down and the pilot will have to recover from it, again, without getting into transonic flow in the process.
One of the problems is that, even at high altitudes, air is not uniform. If the aircraft get into a pocket air of different temperature and/or pressure and/or density, that will change the speed of sound, thus shifting the coffin corner relative to your airspeed at that particular moment.
As the U-2 received better engines, it became capable of cruising in an even narrower section of the coffin corner, thereby exacerbating the problem of keeping the aircraft within it.
So the guy told two kids on a bike that they were carrying flying saucers. 30 years later, those kids are on Joe Rogan. Edit: adding time stamp: 20:10 to 20:50
Ah yea, the peak of skunkworks development of the SR 71.. 1994.
@@PunkersPlays the sr71 was not developed in the 90s. it was 30 years old in the 90s. nothing about development happened 30 years later
😆😂😂🤣🤣🤣
FYI, this originally aired 10 years ago (2014).
Great show
Excellent video. God Bless America.
LOL, it's an airforce base and radar test range.
disavowed or not, if you wanted any indicator of what they did there, all you needed to do was take a look at the sandstone sign in from of the Tonopah fire station. it has a very accurate bas-relief of the F1117 stealth fighter and has been there since well before official photos were released to the public.
Reminds me of my favorite Indianna Jones movie !
Now fly close to diago garcia for us !!
Those Prada shields go pretty hard
Found my happy place!
found the rere
Specifically Unidentified for national security, Ariel Phenomena.., logical enough.
The real secret base is Area 52.
Why would National Geo "disclose" any info that has not already been heard....
It would be headlines world wide on breaking live TV and podcasts etc...
Bob Lazar never claimed to have worked or mentioned anything about area 51 having UAPs. He claims to have worked at S-4 and that S-4 was the location where the UAPs were kept. That's false reporting (misinformation) from Nat Geo.
S-4 is within the area 51 boundaries which is always expanding latest was to keep you off tickaboo peak where you could film the base.😊
S-4 is now Lockheed Martin's Drone testing sight
Hey! Be careful with Area 51! The last time people tried to break in, we ended up with Covid-19 six months later. 😜
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Jrod knows everything about Area 51💯✅
When they first show the f117. Nighthawk.. isn’t that the later b2?
lol shouldn't u like chicken
@@kushking949 I do like chicken 🤷🏻♂️
"See? We have no alien spaceships here in Area 51!" ... (Looks at all those mothballed Blackbirds) "Oh really, now?"
It's hilarious that they blur that Cessna's tail number but play the radio calls with the call sign lmao.
They only call out the last three of five numbers/letters in the tail number which is standard practice after first identifying yourself to ATC. CZcams's closed captioning is not correct. I looked up the tail number on the FAA registry for 862KJ and it does not exist. If you listen closely, you can make out 62J or 6KJ but need the first two letters for a full tail number (after the N which means it's registered in the USA). Unless they shot him down and deleted the registry ;)
Dugway Proving Ground (Michael Army Airfield), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Tonopah Test Range, even Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia... are frivolity compared to the Semipalatinsk Test Site or Semipalatinsk-21 / Семипалатинск-21 "The Polygon".
any one knows the music name in 22:10 min?
How about Edwards AFB, CA isn't it the flight test center?
Ahhhh.... For all the things we'll never know. This is what's meant when you hear the saying, "this is bigger than all of us"... Wow...
When the F117 was shot down during the Yugoslav war, the Chinese acquired the wreckage. That night a bombing by cruise missiles destroyed their embassy . By mistake of course, old maps blamed. China still got the stealth technology , just smaller pieces.
That dude seriously wearing a floght suit???😂😂😂
So, Area 51 was the CIA's secret playground? Got it!
Imagine if they put half as much security in to the southern border
I will save you 44 mins. National Geographic got in trouble for getting WAY TOO CLOSE, So the military made them air this and gave them all this footage of what they want us to see.
If you think the secret stuff is still at area 51 you fell for the oldest trick in the book.
@@kevinnix5495that is not true, Area 51 has the secret underground locations security is just as strick and tight today as it was 30 40 and 50 years ago
thank you sir
@@kevinnix5495 Then where is it ? On the Moon ?
The rulers of earth are immortal mutants. Ultimately human prosperity/wellness/health means nothing to them, objectively. "Countries" dont even exist like we think they do.
so reeses pieces are his favorite right?
That’s some craaazy stuff…
Funny how we used their titanium.
Lots of nuke tests out there. Not a place you want to visit.
Thank you and God bless you for your service.
@@leeriterii2128 Thanks for supporting our service men and women.
Heres a 51 story: I drove a shuttle for awhile, one of my customers lived in Huntsville, Alabama, she worked at area51, she told me on take off the shades had to be down hers was up slightly they saw the B2 bomber n the F117: 1982?
I often wonder Y
Coincidentally enough, that dude Pete Merlin SOUNDS like Merlin Olsen
Bob Lazar would astounded
That security guard's medical condition has NOTHING to do with his obesity though. 🙄
Yep. He’s been morbidly obese his entire adult life, but it is only the RAM particles that are killing him.
That’s where they built the Aurora… 🫣
I wanna see all plains in area 51 every one of them.
Eureka!!
This is where they tested all the drones and military technology that you’re seeing today duh.
When you see the magnetic sensor cables crossing the road, you are supposed to give your park brake a good hard pull and release lol 😂
Pretty sure the f117 is also still operational in a limited capacity
Video is old
What makes them the experts?
The truth is outhere folks 😎👽
Its national security, we dont need enemies knowing our secrets...
Meanwhile in other places in the country ...
The SR-71 Blackbird! My MOST Favorite Plane Of All Time!!! Try And Catch That Sucker Even With Today's Technology!!!
Vote for Pedro and all your wildest dreams will come true.
nice.....
*Bob Lazar already told us what was going on out there nice try to cover it up!🛸👽*
I do believe Lazar worked for the government, not at area 51, but nearby (this is his claim, not mine) But his story is full of holes...it's a profitable story though.
@@hermitonthelake You're right. My father worked as an engineer at Groom Lake in the 50s and 60s. It was the proving ground for top secret aircraft. Keeping the Lazar conspiracy alive detracts from the truth and storing aliens and spaceships makes for much more compelling storying telling for those producing the content. Just like ancient astronaut theory.
@@hermitonthelake Unlikely he ever worked there.
I too, believe Bob Lazar, especially when they denied it, & he showed his proof of working there with the phone book or phone message. Plus the way he explains element 115 & how UFO's travel, it make sense.
@@hermitonthelake Lazar's story isn't profitable, he has made Zero money from it. And , yes, he worked at Area-51 , he's stated specifically where, S-4. Area-51 is broken up into parts. Also, people have gone over his story thousands of time, his story has never changed , and has only been proven more and more accurate over the years as documents are declassified.
What about area S4??
NatGeo, in the first couple of minutes, why didn't you show the pilot responding to Area 51 ATC? You made it seem like the pilot couldn't hear or was ignoring ATC. Very unprofessional of you to do that.
The U2 was not a flyer that was undetected in the USSR... it was just so high there was nothing they could do about it. Until Gary Powers anyway
Most of the base is underground. Yes, they built jet engine spy planes but their primary purpose was to develop electrogravitic air/spacecraft and weapons like the ones they used to zap Maui,.
God bless the Skunk Works
so there you go... no aliens, just Allan
Yes, they tested all kinds of secret craft there and it’s part of the Nevada test site, but they do have extraterrestrial craft at S4
Kept is secret and Denied it for 60 years. Remind you of anything?
Covid?
Yes it does! Politicians!
Trump
Dealey Plaza
Plenty. Hitler's fake death, JFK's assassination.
My bet is that since everyone knows about Area 51 now, whatever they didn't want us to know about it, is now moved. Ain't no way there still is something there that even google maps have accessible.
You're right!
I highly doubt it. Area 51 is still located in the desert with hardly any people around. The stealth black hawk helicopters used in Operation Neptune were also located at Area 51. Its still an ideal location for anything classified.
@@Melior_Traiano US uses compartmentalization... Wouldn't be surprised if this applied to certain bases as well.
@@Melior_Traianowhat sources do you got for stealth blackhawks at A51?
@@thejoker1178 "Relentless Strike" by Sean Naylor.
rules about Fight club/ CIA. : (1). You do not talk about Fight Club . : (2). YOU do not TALK about FIGHT FIGHT.
Salt flats outside of the Mojave also they have places all over the West that special around the salt flats it's more than one, that whole area during World war II was nothing but airfields in secret bases
I miss something in this documentary .. but what .. ?!
If was protecting the largest mineral deposit in the world, Id block off 400 square miles of land myself
Area 51 is not a “CIA base” it’s Air Force Systems Command
5:06 Some things never change, for everything else, there's Master Card. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 🤦🏼♂️
Area 51 is long gone, they moved the real stuff else (mountains up north is said) It now is the perfect decoy. Ask this, someone spot a hyper plane nowadays around area 51 ? where 's the hotspots today ?
Area 51, the secret the whole world knows about and talks about even a tourist site of sorts! I wouldn't be shocked if there were eventually bus charters going there. Yes that 51 must be the most well known US base in the world. It's soooo secretive...LOL.
Nice documentary NG! CZcams adding Wikipedia definitions to videos is annoying; please stop.
waste ‘em? I think he ate them!!!
Who is having the moon sample now after all? 😎😎😎
35:50.... Interesting....Back around 1978, I was "Playing" around with both Tuned & Broad band radar Absorb er for my police Traffic radar "Steath Shield" project.... Always wondered 'bout National security issues but just took a phone call to Acquire....The absorber Engineer requested I keep it "Confidential" and so on .... Amazing what some diy projects can get you into !!
Anthony didn't watch this.....I'm using his phone 😊
Right???