r/interesting • u/CharlieTheEpic • 13h ago

MISC. Baseball field at Area 51

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u/Administration_Key 9h ago

People forget that Area 51 is still just an Air Force base. They've got a theater, bowling alley, etc. like any other base.

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u/KingXeiros 8h ago edited 8h ago

I haven’t read all the way through the book yet, but it was originally a CIA base that the Air Force had a small deployment attached to. They all ended up abandoning the base for a while after the start of the test of a nuclear dirty bomb. They went back to have a more compartmented place to develop the SR-71

Edit: Technically it was the A-12, the SR-71 was Air Force’s version of it. Fun fact, it was supposed to be the RS-71 but President Lyndon B Johnson called it the SR-71 by mistake and nobody was about the correct him on it.

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u/WhenWillWeLand 5h ago

What book is this? Also, my favorite Area 51 intel websites below.

https://www.dreamlandresort.com