US Government Confirms Area 51 Exists, Provides Map
Finally we get some answers! Well no, not really. Despite the document dump, there isn't any new or revealing information, except for a map that doesn't show an underground bunker where the aliens were kept. 
Just cold war top secret spy work.
Maybe some of the mystery surrounding Area 51 has been eroded by this govt info, but it won't hurt it's prestigious position in our American pop culture, or change the minds of those who believe.
The technology to design a plane that takes off vertically had to come from somewhere...... 
A newly declassified CIA history from 20 years ago spills the story about Nevada's Area 51 and its secret mission — which was not to study UFOs, but to test the U-2 and other spy planes.
The CIA's story about the legendary test site is contained in "The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: the U-2 and Oxcart Programs." The document was approved for release in June, with just a few remaining redactions, in response to a Freedom of Information request filed by George Washington University's National Security Archive back in 2005.
Much of the material was already known to Area 51 aficionados. "Nearly all of the newly released information is already in my books," British author Chris Pocock said in a commentary distributed by the National Security Archive. But the fact that Area 51 is explicitly mentioned in a publicly available document is nevertheless notable.
"It marks an end to official secrecy about the facts of Area 51," Jeffrey Richelson, a senior fellow with the National Security Archive, told the Las Vegas Sun. "It opens up the possibility that future accounts of this and other aerial projects will be less redacted, more fully explained in terms of their presence in Area 51."
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/area-51-its-purpose-declassified-no-ufos-lots-u-2-6C10931555
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At least now we know it officially exists. 