Newly declassified documents with the dry title "Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 1954-1974" reveal that Area 51, long thought by conspiracy theorists to house debris from a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle, was merely a testing site for government spy planes. CIA officials had acknowledged the facility's existence before, but this marks the first time documents have referred to it by name and addressed its purpose. The report makes no mention of its status after 1974.
