![]() ![]() It was remote, surrounded by mountain ranges and situated at the edge of the Nevada Proving Grounds in an area of the atomic test site known as Area 51. Groom Lake was an ideal spot for top-secret testing. ![]() It wasn’t until the mid-1950s that secret work began at Groom Lake on stealthy spy planes like the SR-71. There was no Area 51 when the Sheahan family began working the Groom Mine in the 1880s. Today, the dry lakebed is the site of the oxymoronically secret, yet world famous, Area 51. Since Ulysses Grant occupied the White House, the Sheahans owned and operated Groom Mine, a lead and silver mine in the hills overlooking Nevada’s Groom Lake. Now, the “Storm Area 51” social media sensation could provide ammunition in the Sheahans' court fight against the government - which has yet to pay the Sheahans for their property. That is, until the Air Force took their land in 2015 in the name of national security. They actually lived at Area 51 for generations. But not from Joe Sheahan and the Sheahan family. Veiled from view for most of the world, yes. It’s been hidden behind a black veil for many, many years.” ![]() But I fully understand the interest in the place. At debriefings I had, no one showed me one. “Whether there is (an ET or flying saucer at Area 51) or there isn’t, I don’t know. “In a way, the government helped perpetuate that,” Sheahan says. The idea is to “see them aliens” supposedly hidden at the secret base known as Area 51. Joe Sheahan neither condones nor condemns the Facebook page that (jokingly) suggests people gather near the Nevada Test and Training Range in Lincoln County and try to walk en masse into the restricted area. ![]()
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