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  • proper noun informal A military base in Nevada, rumored to be where the US government hides extra-planetary alien visitors.

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  • The opening two-parter, without giving too much away, is set in 1960s America and features the moon landings, Richard Nixon in the White House "Say hi to David Frost," the Doctor tells him, Area 51 and an alien race with a unique USP.Fans could be forgiven for assuming neither the Doctor nor his companion will die, however, with both Smith and Gillan signed up for the duration of the new series.

    Doctor Who: it's back – promising to be the scariest and darkest yet 2011

  • The Road to Area 51 - Los Angeles Times: "After decades of denying the facility's existence, five former insiders speak out."

    Archive 2009-04-05 Bill Crider 2009

  • This source said he was an engineer with the company EG&G at Area 51, the hush-hush military research site in Nevada.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • If Vitriolic can barely beat Area 51, they'll need to make some signficant changes if they want to take down Eximius.

    GotFrag eSports Stories 2009

  • With the amount of activity and opening up of development that has been going on in Area 51, the fact that it's now easier than ever for non-development users to provide bug fixes and code through github, and the fact that we've done everything we can so far to get the new bug tracker up to speed to be in line with all of that, I can't believe that anyone would say the development team doesn't listen to the community.

    phpBB.com 2010

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