Area 51 is one of the most fascinating places on the planet, so the story of a man who made it out alive is certainly a compelling read.

Located in southern Nevada, Area 51 is often rumored to know a great deal about unidentified flying objects, with many more conspiracy theorists even claiming it’s where the US government harbor alien life.

When Jerry Freeman visited Area 51 back in 1996, he wasn’t exactly looking for UFOs, or projects the US government was hoping to keep under wraps.

Freeman was embarking on the wild adventure in the hope of finding gold, with the Californian anthropologist deciding to travel at night to steer clear of security patrols.

And it was during one night on this week-long expedition that Freeman witnessed something truly shocking.

Freeman told journalist and UFO researcher George Knapp that a doorway opened up in the middle of the sky, letting out a blue light before closing and disappearing into thin are.

Located near Papoose Lake, a dry lake bed in Lincoln County, some theorists out there have suggested that the US conceals a secret alien spacecraft hangar called S-4 within the region.

A satellite shot of Area 51 (Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2024)

Thankfully, Freeman has seen what’s there first hand, and he recalled what he witnessed in conversation with Knapp.

He said: “It looked like a dry lake bed to me, nothing else, but at night it was a different story.

“I could clearly see what were security lights on the perimeters and I could see lights that opened and closed near the centre of the lake.”

Freeman went on to say he felt similar vibrations to that of an earthquake, with the adventurer suggesting that something might have been tested underground.

He added: “It’s something they’re testing either directly underground or I was feeling vibrations completely from Groom Lake, I don’t know.

“I think if they’d have caught me in there that they’d have lit me up like a Roman candle.”

Freeman ventured into Area 51 back in 1996 (otherhand.org)

Around the same time Freeman made that incredible discovery, S-4 become a popular talking point due to claims made by Bob Lazar.

Claiming to be a former government physicist, Lazar said he worked on what was said to be reverse-engineering alien spacecraft and extraterrestrial technology.

The former physicist said the government recovered UFOs and made their own modified alien hardware in the late 1980s, and even went on national TV to speak about Area 51.

Nearly 40 years later, a lot of mystery surrounding Area 51 remains.

A Pentagon whistleblower has revealed his identity and expressed fears of being executed after exposing an apparently top-secret UFO program.

Discussion surrounding UFOs has been going on for decades, and it’s one that doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon.

Of course, video footage does provide somewhat more evidence, though it’s hard to argue with the fact there’s no real hard evidence that UFOs actually exist.

What many UFO believers really want is government proof of the existence of alien life, and a recent leak could indicate that it’s reached Earth already.

Former Pentagon officials have already debated and hinted at the existence of UFOs and UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena), but one whistleblower decided to spill the beans about it.

The whistleblower has revealed his identity (YouTube/Jeremy Corbell)

Former US national security official Matthew Brown, as reported by the Daily Mail, has been speaking about a supposed secret program inside the Pentagon that was allegedly tracking UAPs and other ‘alien-like’ objects.

The whistleblower claims in the ‘Immaculate Constellation’ document that the Pentagon has been operating and managing such UFO programs for several decades now, apparently without the oversight of Congress, too.

Brown said he came across the information revealed in the doc by accident through ‘clearly misfield’ documents.

Immaculate Constellation, being the name of the program, reportedly kept a database of all the different types of alleged alien sightings – adding fuel to the UFO fire.

The report also suggested an encounter with an alien that altered the perception of time, while it adds the program ‘reveals the capacity of the US armed services and military intelligence community to detect, track and identify’.

While some of that information was previously out there, Brown decided to publicly identify himself as the whistleblower on the Jeremy Corbell’s WEAPONIZED podcast.

“This is absolutely what I did not want to do,” he said. “I am, on a personal level, giving up the future that I made for myself and was going to try to make for a family.

“My hope is that the stakes are not paid out, but they are life imprisonment and the possibility of execution.”

The Pentagon has previously denied reports of UAP programs.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Corbell added: “When you’re in the classified world, you sign your life away.

“There are serious consequences for leaking national security information – and yes, on paper, that includes life imprisonment or even capital punishment in rare cases tied to espionage.”

He went on to say whistleblowers’ lives can be wreaked havoc on by ‘weaponized bureaucracy, targeted investigations, character assassination’.

“It happened to a number of friends of mine. It’s very concerning,” Corbell claimed. “We’ve seen it before. The system can grind you to dust.”

Speaking of Brown in particular, Corbell added: “He did everything lawfully. He pushed his material through pre-publication review at the State Department. They didn’t push back. He did everything by the book.”

The wife of a late NASA astronaut has opened up on the stories he used to tell her about UFOs.

Being in space is a huge thing, and only a select group of people will ever get to do it in their lifetimes.

So, of course they’ve seen things that us mere mortals will never get to set our eyes on.

But UFOs? Apparently so.

According to the wife of an Apollo astronaut, her husband used to tell her secrets about what he really saw in space.

Anita Mitchell was married to the late NASA pilot Edgar Mitchell, who was the sixth man to walk on the moon in 1971.

The Apollo 14 astronauts were at a prelaunch news conference at the Kennedy Space Center, including Edgar Mitchell on the left (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

She told the Daily Mail that he had encounters with strange things, and that it wasn’t unusual to see something out of the ordinary.

She said: “He always felt that there were UFOs out there, because so many of the pilots and astronauts had seen something.”

She claims that some of his crewmates, including Apollo astronaut James McDivitt, reported seeing mysterious objects, such as a strange craft.

Mitchell shared: “I remember Gordy [Project Mercury astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr.] telling us at a dinner party in our house that he had seen something.

“He said, ‘Listen, we have nothing that goes that fast and goes that high’.”

Cooper took part in the Mercury and Gemini projects, and was part of the early missions.

She has now got so many stories from ex NASA astronauts that she decided to tell it all in a new book, titled ‘You Don’t Look Like An Astronaut’s Wife’.

She was married to her husband from 1973 to 1984, and the astronaut died in 2016.

However, he has always been open about what he believed to be in space, and even pushed the US government reveal all to the public about the potential alien life.

In 2009, he asked for the release of information which he alleged the US government was hiding about UFOs.

Mitchell on the moon in 1971 (Photo by Space Frontiers/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

At the time he said, as per The Guardian: “We are being visited. It is now time to put away this embargo of truth about the alien presence. I call upon our government to open up … and become a part of this planetary community that is now trying to take our proper role as a spacefaring civilisation.”

The former NASA pilot warned: “The sun will burn out in due course, and we have to be off this planet if our species is to survive. At this point in human history on this planet, we’re now starting, and should be, to reach out beyond our planet and then beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.”

Mitchell said that she also believes what her late husband did, stating: “Do you really think we are the only intelligence in the universe? Because if we are, the universe is in trouble.”

After her husband left NASA, he went on to found the Institute of Noetic Sciences to investigate paranormal issues, and that he conducted experiments around extrasensory perception and to see if it was possible to bend metal telepathically.

During President Donald Trump’s first term, he told Americans that he was ‘releasing ALL JFK files’. Eight years later, they’re still questions to be answered.

Former 35th President John F. Kennedy was assassinated just over 61 years ago, on November 22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.

The Democrat was sat in the back of an armoured Lincoln convertible limousine, alongside his wife Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, Nellie Connally.

Conspiracy theorists have long believed the Soviet Union, Cuba, or even the US government could have been involved in it, and after the release of around 2,000 new documents to the public on Tuesday (March 18), we’re still way off closure.

Many believe FK’s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald – who sniped the 43-year-old from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, at around 12.30pm – was working for the Cuban authorities, while others suggested he was an operative of the Soviet Union.

US President John F Kennedy pictured alongside First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy on the day of his death (Getty/Bettmann)

Documents reveal how the CIA was following an American man who they described as a Communist living in Mexico – this filing in particular has been of interest to researchers due to Oswald’s visits to both the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City in the months prior to JFK’s death.

Their release came after President Trump signed an executive order to release classified files on his assassination when he was just five days into office (January 25), and although he insisted they wouldn’t be redacted… but many of the pages were, heavily, much to the public’s dismay.

Some memos include the CIA describing how a KGB official – the Soviet Union’s main security agency, which was pretty much the CIA’s Eastern European counterpart – had scanned through dozens of files on Oswald and determined that he was not an asset for the intelligence agency.

Another claimed that the murderer had spoken with a KGB official just months before JFK’s death.

Lee Harvey Oswald in a mug shot after he was arrested for assassinating President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, 23rd November 1963 (Kypros/Getty Images)

But instead of these documents sending clarity to US citizens, more specifically conspiracy theorists, they really just opened up a can of worms – with more questions now being asked than those answered.

This latest volume of files to be released will more likely lead to accusations that the deep state was involved in the assassination, which has become one of the biggest events in modern history, rather than provide definitive answers to the mystery surrounding the killing of JFK.

Their release is also likely to have left conspiracy theorists angered above anything else, as on top of this, much of the papers were poorly scanned or faded, making it impossible to read, while some contained illegible handwriting.

Many also commented on how the Biden administration had released the majority of the pages two years prior.