intelligence agencies, though, provided Area 51 workers with a decisive advantage in this international "game of cat and mouse," according to T.D. It was discovered that Soviet spy satellites, dubbed ash cans by Area 51 staff, were making regular rounds over Nevada. But Area 51 personnel soon found it necessary to conceal the craft from the Soviets eyes even when it was still being tested on the ground. The OXCART plane was expected to be undetectable in the air as it flew surveillance and information-gathering missions over the Soviet Union. In the 1950s and '60s, Area 51 was the epicenter of the OXCART project, intended to create the successor for the U-2 spy plane. More than 50 years later, the base still doesn't officially exist and appears on no public U.S. military projects in the remote Nevada desert. The CIA created Area 51 in 1955 to test and develop top secret U.S. (Also see "Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed.") base are revealing some of the clever-and surprisingly low-tech-ways they hid futuristic prototypes from prying eyes. No word yet on alien starships, but now that many Cold War-era Area 51 documents have been declassified, veterans of the secret U.S. ON TV: Area 51 Declassified premieres on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday at 10:00 p.m.
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