10 Unbelievable Stories About Area 51

4. The Sheahan Family Court Case

Way back in 1880, the Sheahan family invested in the mining rights for an otherwise unremarkable plot of New Mexican desert. Some years later, the United States government decided to open a base some 3 miles away. Over the coming years the family were first asked to move, then offered money for their land, before finally being intimidated into leaving and, inexplicably, sued.

USAF planes would "accidentally" fire rounds at their property, and they were once even held at gun point during a "miscommunication" in a training exercise. To top it all off, an other slight mishap led to their mill being firebombed, without a single dollar offered in compensation.

Finally in 2015, after turning down an offer in the millions to pack up and leave the land they'd resided on for 130 years, the government simply seized property and sued the family for opposing.