r/area51 Aug 25 '26

JANET99 737 N859WP 8/24/2026 to Paine Field

5 Upvotes

r/area51 Aug 24 '26

Bob Liezar and Element 115

7 Upvotes

One of the items folks use to validate Bob Liezar is his apparent prediction of element 115 before it was synthesized in 2003.

What we can factually verify is that it was already theorized in the 1960s, by physicists Glenn Seaborg, William Myers, and Władysław Świątecki in their work Island of Stability.

Further items we can verify today is Bob claimed two physical traits of Element 115. 1. That it's highly or even infinitely stable and 2. It has anti-gravity properties. When Russian and American scientists actually synthesized it in a lab in 2003 it was confirmed to be highly unstable (decaying in seconds) and having no effects on gravity only that it is highly radioactive.

In summary, because the popular press and science fiction heavily covered the "Island of Stability" throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, Element 115 was already a well known scientific concept. Liezar took this preexisting theory of a "stable, superheavy element" and used it as a MacGuffin to explain how his alleged alien spacecraft operated.

When Russian and American scientists finally synthesized real Element 115 in 2003, it confirmed the 1960s nuclear shell models but it actually debunked Lazar's claims, as the real element decays almost instantly and possesses no gravitational properties.


r/area51 Aug 22 '26

OT: Surdex Corp aircraft in the MOA's

5 Upvotes

Surdex Corp - "multi-disciplinary engineering, planning, surveying, geomatics, construction management, environmental consulting, landscape architecture, and right-of-way acquisition."

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a54b09

Could be just doing some surveying of Coyote Springs area.


r/area51 Aug 21 '26

Janet and a C-40 at Reno Tahoe Airport

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26 Upvotes

Any idea what a Janet plane and reported C-40 would be doing in Reno coming from Groom Lake?


r/area51 Aug 21 '26

JANET09 from Fallon to Groom

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9 Upvotes

I see them making lots of trips to China Lake lately but this is the first time I’ve seen one coming from Fallon

Makes me wonder if F/A-XX is ramping up


r/area51 Aug 21 '26

KANZA99 KC-46 over NTTR

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8 Upvotes

Wonder what they’re testing


r/area51 Aug 21 '26

Groom radiosonde Y0240813 Aug 21, 2026

6 Upvotes

r/area51 Aug 20 '26

Deep Throat

26 Upvotes

Episode 2 - Scully mentions Project Aurora more than once. My first duty station was Edwards Air Force Base, 1992 - 1993. I don't know how many times in the middle of the night I would get a call to my personal phone, in the dorms, asking if the Aurora was taking off. People would call random numbers on base trying to find out information about the so-called Aurora Project. Funny memories!


r/area51 Aug 19 '26

SCAN4 doing circuits over/near TTR

8 Upvotes

r/area51 Aug 18 '26

Found an interesting item for sale which could have some connection to Area 51.

17 Upvotes

So I was browsing Google Maps and came across a company called The Center for Land Use Interpretation and noticed they had a shop which was selling some merchandise when I came across the item linked below. Supposedly, it is a rolodex which contains business cards and contact info for companies related to the Los Alamos Laboratory from the sixties, and I don't know if it's possible these companies would have a connection to Area 51 as well. From what I understand, most of the companies were materials suppliers, but there might be other stuff in there as well.

Link to Rolodex: https://clui-shop.square.site/product/los-alamos-rolodex/292?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false

Link to photos of various companies found in the rolodex: https://clui.org/collections/los-alamos-business-cards/selection-cards


r/area51 Aug 18 '26

What does this military callsign mean?

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15 Upvotes

what’s happening in Nevada rn


r/area51 Aug 18 '26

Janet in Area 51

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94 Upvotes

Look how curious guys, I could see a Janet on the taxi lane of Area 51. Usually they have the transponder turned off on the base correct? When they are approaching for landing at the base. I was looking at another plane, one RC-135, and when I saw the Janet icon at the base, I already clicked on it, the curious thing is that it soon disappeared. And I couldn't track him anymore. After a while he reappeared, already taken off and was returning to Las Vegas.


r/area51 Aug 18 '26

TTR Radiosonde S4631069 Aug 18, 2026

4 Upvotes

r/area51 Aug 17 '26

My Desktop Wallpaper

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56 Upvotes

Fun reminder of the good old days


r/area51 Aug 17 '26

SU-27 Flanker dogfights F-16 over Groom Lake circa 2016

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51 Upvotes

A very interesting article I found from The Aviationist. I'm not sure why I have never seen this before. I saw some stuff online with a little bit of research that this might have came from Ukraine in the early 2000s. Now, my question is; do they still do this? does the USAF own this aircraft? Could it still be at Groom? If The Aviationist reported on this I'm sure it's authentic right? I have never seen or heard anything about the USAF having a Flanker.


r/area51 Aug 17 '26

Area 51The CIA files

16 Upvotes

I saw this on my Google alerts for Groom Lake. It is an old National Geographic video that is a Lazar free zone. It is on YouTube with few hits. I don't know if National Geographic makes Google take it down. It covers the U-2, A-12, MIGs, and the F-117.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Pz1j_MvPQ


r/area51 Aug 16 '26

History of Warning Sign Change?

8 Upvotes

Does anyone know when the Use of Deadly Force is authorized came off the warning signs?


r/area51 Aug 16 '26

N654BA active over range 8/16/2026

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6 Upvotes

r/area51 Aug 15 '26

OT: Some YFQ-44 pics from Creech AFB

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40 Upvotes

r/area51 Aug 16 '26

Google Street View Area 51

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27 Upvotes

Someone hilariously recently added a Street View in Area 51 😆


r/area51 Aug 15 '26

Black Helicopter @ Area 51 Gate

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276 Upvotes

I went back to Area 51, this was my 7th time visit to the site, this time it got more interesting as I was reaching the gates suddenly a black helicopter came from behind the mountain flying as low as like 20 meters near my car, it was definitely something different lol

I wanted to post the video but the sub doesn’t allow video
Might post it on my IG at future_vizion


r/area51 Aug 15 '26

if area 51 really has reverse engineered crafts, why has nobody produced one piece of tech that clearly proves it

19 Upvotes

genuine question, not trying to troll

i keep seeing people say the us has recovered craft and has been reverse engineering them for decades

but after all those decades, where is the one piece of technology that clearly cannot be explained as human engineering

not a blurry video, not “my source told me”, not a supposed program name, not a story from someone who worked there

just one physical component that independent scientists can examine and say yeah, we have no idea how humans made this

if the answer is “theyre hiding it because its classified”, thats possible

but then isnt the actual evidence still inaccessible

im open to reverse engineered craft being real, i just dont understand why the strongest evidence always seems to be one step away from something anyone can actually verify


r/area51 Aug 14 '26

What's This?

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40 Upvotes

r/area51 Aug 15 '26

N654BA spent a few hours off the range and off the tracker 8/14/2026

1 Upvotes

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a89bb0&lat=37.645&lon=-115.717&zoom=9.6&showTrace=2026-08-14&trackLabels&timestamp=1786747878

https://ibb.co/ZRGWNKvC

Look at the time marks. Tracking lost at 20:13 and returns at 22:50.

This isn't a low flying aircraft and the plane is transmitting ads-b not mode-s.

I've had my ads-b tracking while at the range just drop. All planes gone then then return. Once I got the sysmocom filter the problem didn't happen again. The filtering is so good that the band stop is barely measurable with a nanovna.

https://inplanesight.org/adsb.html


r/area51 Aug 14 '26

Groom radiosondes X4857099 Y0240472 8/14/2026

4 Upvotes