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Area 51: America’s Most Secret Base

Area 51: America's Most Secret BaseFor America’s "most secret base," we sure do hear an awful lot about Area 51 and its other nicknames such as Dreamland, Groom Lake and The Ranch.

According to this mighty lean documentary, it turns out the RUSSIANS have the best aerial photo of the non-existent base. While stateside UFO enthusiasts and the just plain curious also like to video tape mysterious glowing objects often visible over the base from the nearest vantage point miles away. There’s also a lot of second-hand talk about Bob Lazar’s experiences.

However, this piece DOES get into the pop culture aspect of Area 51, via a visit with the owners of the Little A’Le’Inn who’ve filled the niche market for T-shirts and nicknacks for those who bother to brake along Nevada’s "Extraterrestrial Highway."

Though billed as an extra, the value of about an hour of "unedited footage" of alleged UFOs (meaning scraps of increasingly poor quality video cobbled together with NO AUDIO) will be dubious to all but the most ravenous devotees of the field.