# What do you think is at Area 51? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2014, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438 "2014-08-25T04:55:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/41 "2014-08-26T12:15:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Or the secret Arctic base where the Nazis had theirs. [Antarctic.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2733203/Tunnels-tall-Eiffel-Tower-discovered-Antarctic-ice-sheets.html) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/42 "2014-08-26T15:10:17Z")
I would really really love it if all that was in there was a cardboard rectangle, three feet by seventeen feet. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/43 "2014-08-26T17:17:20Z")
I think whatever they have there, its dimensions have a ratio of 1x4x9. And it’s pink. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/44 "2014-08-26T22:48:05Z")
The stuff that dreams are made of… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/45 "2014-08-26T23:23:09Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > The stuff that dreams are made of… I believe those are kept in Malta. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/46 "2014-08-27T13:02:34Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I believe those are kept in Malta. That’s what they _want_ you to think. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/47 "2014-08-27T13:09:20Z")
Crate and crates of brightly-colored bathroom fixtures and machine tools. Nobody knows why. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/48 "2014-08-27T13:15:40Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > That’s what they _want_ you to think. 🆒 The Fat Man is clever! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/49 "2014-08-27T15:12:31Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > That’s EXACTLY what they want you to think. “We’ve implemented a double-negative cover story. We make sure only to leak out information that is 100% accurate.” ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/50 "2014-08-27T16:52:44Z")
Benders head. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/51 "2014-08-27T17:08:09Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Benders head. No, that’s at Roswell, NM. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/52 "2014-08-27T17:24:14Z")
Ha! That’s what _you_ think. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/53 "2014-08-27T17:32:31Z")
**Hypno-Toad** is right. All glory to **Hypno-Toad.** ---
**Author:** ![tonyfop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@tonyfop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonyfop)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438/54 "2014-08-27T17:52:09Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > And in all the years since then, no one has bothered to think about moving them somewhere less glaringly in the spotlight? > **[Has Area 51 Moved to Maine?](https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/50342-has-area-51-moved-to-maine/)** > > Has anyone else heard or seen anything about this? Sounds like a government ploy to keep people from snooping around the "goods". They already have a perfect location why would they move? Beside Maine doesn't make sense does it?... Worumbo Mill in Lisbon Falls, Maine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-at-area-51/696438.md?page=2)