Invoking national security, President Bush has renewed an exemption allowing the Air Force to keep mum about top-secret operations at a southern Nevada base. Bush's memorandum said it was of "paramount interest" to exempt the Groom Lake base about 90 miles north of Las Vegas from disclosing classified information. Also known as Area 51, the mysterious base sits on a dry lake bed and is heavily patrolled. The area is in a no-fly zone. The secrecy has fueled speculation about UFOs, aliens and other strange occurrences around Area 51. Residents of the nearby town of Rachel say the UFO talk began years ago when a Nevada Test Site worker claimed he saw alien ships there. President Clinton first issued the base's exemption in 1995 in response to two lawsuits filed by injured workers seeking information about the military's environmental practices at the site. It has been renewed yearly. In renewing the order Tuesday, Bush cited the suits brought by injured workers and the widows of two workers who alleged in 1994 that their husbands were exposed to hazardous and toxic materials at Groom Lake.

Attorney Jonathan Turley, who represents the families, said the presidential directive keeps secret documents and testimony that he believes would link Area 51 to the men's deaths.

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I truley think that Area 51 is nothing but a air base that the government set- up to distract us from other places. About 6 - 10 years ago there were reports of a Area 52 in the mountains of Utah or another state around there. But now any or all of that info is gone. I think that the govt. is pulling our legs with Area 51. Email me with you opinion.

I never knew anything about area 52?

I'v never heard of area's 1-50 either
It is frustrating when the Government tells us that it's all nonsence about aleins being hid or tested on there, but refuse to let us know anything about what really goes on there. It just fuels the fire for all the conspiresy theorists.