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🗓️ 4 August 2024
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0:00.0 | You're listening to a Glassbox Media Podcast. |
0:07.0 | Welcome back or welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast, where I read random articles from across the web to bore you to sleep with my soothing voice. |
0:20.0 | I'm your host Benjamin Boster. |
0:28.8 | Today's episode is from a Wikipedia article titled Area 51. |
0:36.6 | Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force USAF facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. |
0:48.0 | A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force Base, the facility is officially called Homey Airport, or Groom Lake after the salt flat next to its airfield. |
0:57.0 | Details of its operations are not made public, but the USAF says that it is an open training range, and it is commonly |
1:06.8 | thought to support the development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapon systems. |
1:14.3 | The USAF and CIA acquired the site in 1955, |
1:19.4 | primarily for flight testing the Lockheed U2 aircraft. |
1:25.6 | The intense secrecy surrounding the base has made it the frequent subjective conspiracy |
1:30.4 | series and a central component of unidentified flying object |
1:35.1 | UFO folklore. It has never been declared a secret base but all research and occurrences in Area 51 are top-secret sensitive |
1:46.8 | compartmented information, T.S. SCI. |
1:52.4 | The CIA publicly SCI. |
1:53.8 | The CIA publicly acknowledged the base's existence on the 25th of June 2013, following a Freedom |
2:00.2 | following a Freedom of Information act, FOIA, request filed in 2005, and declassified documents |
2:09.5 | detailing its history and purpose. Area 51 is located on the southern portion of Nevada, 83 miles |
2:17.8 | northwest of Las Vegas. The surrounding area is a popular tourist destination, including the small town of Rachel on the extraterrestrial highway. |
2:29.0 | The original rectangular base of 6 by 10 miles is now part of the so-called |
2:37.1 | Groom box, a rectangular area measuring 23 by 25 miles of restricted airspace. |
2:45.0 | The area is connected to the internal Nevada test side NTS road network |
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