LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT AREA 51.

A person named Patrick Sheahan constructed a humble homestead and Launched Groom Mine in 1889. The Sheahans' homestead was about as isolated because it will get; Las Vegas was not even Started as a city until 1905 and was inaccessible by railroad till 1906. Secrecy was baked into Area fifty one from the beginning, even though it became tough to wh