Location
Area 51 is located in the southern corner of
Nevada
On June 14, 1947, a rancher named William Brazel found a pile of strange items in the middle of an open field near
Roswell, New Mexico
Where is Area 51 located?
Near Groom Lake in the Nevada Desert.
During the period from 1947 through 1991, the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was called
The Cold War
What does U.F.O. stand for?
Unidentified Flying Object
In 1942, there were only two dirt runways on the property near____________. The area was used by the US Army for bombing teats —including tests of the hydrogen bomb and the atomic bomb.
Groom Lake
Right away, US government scientists arrived to investigate. They said that the found objects had been pieces of
A crashed weather balloon
There’s a large US government military airfield for testing ________________ at the center of Area 51 on the southern edge of Groom Lake.
Testing Stealth Aircrafts
This program, which was carried out from 1947 to 1949, was a top secret project by the US Army Air Forces involving microphones flown on high altitude balloons, whose purpose was long-distance detection of sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests.
Project Mogul
The sixtieth anniversary of the U-2 program was celebrated in 2015. Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works announced that they were developing the next generation of the U-2, called
TR-X
This type of land feature surrounded the desert where Area 51 is located
Mountains
Some witnesses of the Roswell crash said they saw small bodies with oversized heads, skinny arms, and large, oval _________.
eyes
What do some people believe the US government is hiding at Area 51?
Aliens and UFO's
______________is a US Army facility, established in 1942, is located in the Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah, to test chemical and biological weapons
Dugway Proving Ground
What does CIA stand for?
Central Intelligence Agency
The land around the Nevada Test Site belonged to …
The Atomic Energy Commission
As years passed, many people came to believe the “evidence” had been taken to a secret government site deep in the Nevada desert, called the __________________________ desert.
Mojave
How much money is spent developing new technologies at Area 51 every year?
$30- $36 billion
The United States had developed top secret spy planes called ______________ and ____________ by the early 1960s.
A-12 Oxcart and U-2
At Area 51, besides gathering intelligence, the US government was working to create …… as well as stealth aircrafts.
Metals, Plastics, and Rubbers
Area 51 was nicknamed …… in order to convince people to come to work there.
Paradise Ranch
On July 8, the local afternoon newspaper printed a startling headline stating “RAAF Captures __________________ on Ranch in Roswell.”
Flying Saucer
What is Area 51?
A high-security open training range for the U.S. Air Force
The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, ……, into space on October 4, 1957
Sputnik 1
In April 1974, photos of Area 51 appeared. Who took the photos?
Astronauts on the spaceship Skylab