Area 51

Science

Were Roswell’s Aliens Nazi-Powered Soviet Spies?

5:30AM June 3, 2011 | Annie Jacobsen

The Roswell crash is the Holy Grail of American conspiracy-theory folklore, but what if the little grey men were actually little grey Russians in Nazi-designed aircraft? Somehow, that still isn’t the craziest theory out there. Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen explains. More »


Geek Out

Area 51 Secrets: The US Military Used Fake Cardboard Cutouts Of Planes To Fool The Russians

8:00AM May 23, 2011 | Casey Chan

A lot of Cold War-era Area 51 documents have been declassified and National Geographic has discovered a rather low-tech method the US Military used to fool the Russians. It involved cardboard, the occasional heater and infrared satellites. More »


Computing

Alienware Area-51 ALX Gets Racing Fins, Core i7 Processors

12:20AM September 24, 2009 | Danny Allen

The updated Area-51 case design includes an eye-catching louvre cooling system (those wings at the top), internal lighting and a motorised front door. And Alienware says the top-end ALX version of the liquid-cooled rig is the “most powerful” it’s created. More »


Cars

Area 51′s Secrets Revealed: Existence of UFOs Still Being Denied

3:00PM April 10, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

With Area 51′s overdue military declassification, those who used to work there are finally free to speak about the projects they developed. All those UFO rumours, it turns out, have a pretty reasonable explanation.

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