In August 2013, the CIA released declassified documents that officially acknowledged the existence of Area 51 — a facility they had denied for over four decades. The documents confirmed the base's location in Nevada and its use for testing the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.
What the documents did not address were the hundreds of eyewitness testimonies from former military personnel, scientists, and civilians describing craft and phenomena that defy conventional explanation.
Bob Lazar, a physicist who claims to have worked at a site called S-4 adjacent to Area 51, has maintained since 1989 that he worked on reverse-engineering extraterrestrial spacecraft. His claims about element 115 — which he described as the propulsion fuel — were dismissed as fiction until 2003, when moscovium (element 115) was officially synthesized and added to the periodic table.
The Majestic 12 documents, first leaked to UFO researcher Jaime Shandera in 1984, describe a secret committee of twelve scientists, military leaders, and government officials established by President Truman in 1947 to handle the recovery of two craft and five bodies near Roswell, New Mexico.
The US government's own UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) Task Force, established in 2020, has confirmed the existence of craft exhibiting flight characteristics that exceed known human technology.