Conspiracy theories about Area 51 have been fueled by many people reporting unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the vicinity. Also, in the late 1980s, a man alleging to have worked at Area 51 claimed to Las Vegas media that the government was examining recovered alien spacecraft there, though he was later discredited.
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