Area 51

This week, The UFO Hunters tackled the enigma that is Nevada's legendary Area 51. The show broke little new ground, though through the use of aerial and satellite photographs it seemed to establish the major buildup of the base at Groom Lake (Area 51) didn't begin until around 1980. UFOlogists, of course, often argue the U. S. Government possessed alien technology well before that, so the roughly 1980 building boom in the desert may suggest otherwise.

The show also tried to link recent sightings of huge trianguler craft with a huge new hangar on the base. That was, perhaps, the most interesting idea in the episode. Those triangular craft are sometimes estimated to be a mile wide, however. The new hangar did seem substantially wider than the other hangars, but it's not a mile wide. If the mile estimate is cut to several hundred feet-- still a huge craft-- then the show might be on to something.