Common nickname for a particular maximum-security [[United States Air Force|USAF]] research facility, situated within a large training range near [[Las Vegas]]. While it's known to have been previously used for high-tech aircraft development and Cold War espionage, the facility's [i]current[/i] purpose is a closely-guarded secret, which ironically makes it a very famous aspect of various conspiracy theories and general folklore around alien visitors to Earth.

In June 2019, a joke event known as ""Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All Of Us":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Area_51 " ostensibly scheduled a raid of the facility for September of that year, notoriously encouraging people to try and dodge bullets by using the [[Naruto Run]]. It became such a viral phenomenon that local law enforcement had to explicitly warn people to stay away for their own safety.
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