What are the most likely theories for what is inside Area 51. No crazy conspiracy theories, actual grounded theories that are probable or likely.

  • @Boddhisatva
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    914 days ago

    Some barely secret aircraft, a whole lot of accounting and clerical staff, and a tremendous amount of security to make it seem like there are major secrets being protected there. That is what I would put at the world’s most well known secret base, anyway.

    • Dr. Bob
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      484 days ago

      This is the answer I got over drinks with a senior military leader. It’s too well known to hold anything interesting. He contrasted it with Mount Weather and the Cheyenne Complex. Those are still the sites for continuity of government because there is too much infrastructure to move. The sites just got additional hardening as the locations became known.

        • @FordBeeblebrox
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          23 days ago

          One of them, the other is at Area 51 and came in really handy when the bastards stole the first one

      • @Boddhisatva
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        124 days ago

        It’s a great way to keep the UFO nuts contained. Let them scurry around the surrounding area as much as they want. Occasionally arrest one who gets too insistent and the others will take that as confirmation that something big is hidden there.

    • @RegalPotoo
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      224 days ago

      Plus a bunch of old equipment and documents that are definitely secret and too valuable to just destroy, but no-one is entirely clear exactly how secret and valuable so it’s safer to leave it guarded in place than to try and move it

      • @[email protected]
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        114 days ago

        That’s what I think is there now. A big pile of stuff that isn’t really useful anymore but they don’t want anyone else to see. Indiana Jones warehouse style.

        • @RegalPotoo
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          154 days ago

          I’m imagining a somewhat boring looking office/lab with a bunch of locked rooms.

          “What’s in there?”

          “Oh, it was Dr Simpsons lab in the 90s”

          “Well what were they working on?”

          “Don’t know, its classified”

          “Well can we get rid of it?”

          “I don’t know, it’s classified”

          “Well who does know?”

          “I don’t know, its classified

            • @RegalPotoo
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              84 days ago

              “Well is there anything dangerous in there?”

              “That’s classified, also, take a good look round at the building you are in and think about that question some more”

              “Shit.”

    • @T00l_shed
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      94 days ago

      Or. Do a double bluff. Since it’s so well known, put your actual top secret stuff there, since no one will really look at it, because it’s so well known.