Conspiracy fans go wild after ‘double sonic boom’ is heard over mysterious Area 51

Conspiracy fans are convinced that something mysterious is happening inside the (real) military base at Area 51 – possibly involving repurposed alien technology.

So naturally, the tin foil hat brigade has seized on a video showing a ‘double sonic boom’ over the site as evidence that there’s unknown technology at work.

There’s a 25-mile no-fly zone for civilian aircraft around the site in Nevada, but military aircraft fly over the site regularly, with two F-22s visible in the video.

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Naturally, UFO fans are convinced that the sonic booms are evidence for other, hi-tech craft – and that the F-22s are just a cover-up.

Nigel Watson author of the UFO Investigations Manual, says, ‘It is only in the past few years that the US Government has admitted the existence of Area 51.

‘Area 51 has always been a magnet for those who believe the US Government knows a lot more about UFOs than they are prepared to reveal to the public.

‘People like the late Boyd Bushman, a senior scientist who worked for Lockheed Martin, have declared that Area 51 is a base where extraterrestrial spacecraft and technology is stored and examined.

There are no aliens at America’s most famous top-secret military base, but what is there is just as interesting.

‘Bushman believed in what he was saying. As long ago as 2008 he passed a polygraph test, during which he claimed he had worked on antigravity projects, alien technologies and had even met and photographed an alien, and examined at least 8 different types of alien spacecraft. Bushman also revealed that he had received death threats and that security personnel had attempted to discredit him and tried to keep him from talking to the public.

‘He said the aliens fly their spacecraft on a special flightpath that takes them through a shaft drilled on the side of a mountain near Area 51. He went on to say 230-year-old humanoid aliens from the planet Quintumnia lived at Area 51.

‘This backs-up other claims of people who say they have worked on ET spacecraft at the base, but there is no solid evidence for their stories. Indeed, the extreme nature of these claims makes serious investigators shy away from this subject, and talk of UFOs and aliens is an effective way of hiding the real human technological activities at the site.