10 Unbelievable Stories About Area 51

2. Next-Gen Spy Plane

One fact that has been reluctantly admitted by the US government, is that Area 51 is not only an Air Force instillation, but one that conducts test flights of experimental aircraft. That's where any official word on the base's projects ends.

What stories there are about their latest endeavours are little more than just that, stories. But by combining the rumours with things like filed patents and ariels shots of the base, one of them comes very sharply into focus.

In the wake of new satellite data revealing a large, hangar-like building being constructed at the end of one of the runways. Defence journalist Tyler Rogoway, extrapolates that US air force has a prototype of a long-range and unmanned surveillance aircraft. With approximately 170 feet wide doors on this hangar, many see this as proof that the government's Next Generation Bomber programme is high-altitude, long-range and, crucially because of the size, unmanned.

Area 51, it seems, is currently home to the world's deadliest drone.