Area 51 has secure base where secret aircraft are tested, expert says

• Joerg Arnu has been digging into the mystery surrounding Area 51 since 1999
• He believes the Air Force is testing spy planes and drone-jamming technology
• However, these tests are being conducted at a facility that is even more hidden

The owner of a website compiling information about Area 51 believes the military is testing new technology at a covert ‘base within a base’ in the Nevada desert.

Joerg Arnu has been running dreamlandresort.com since the early days of the Internet. The site was launched in 1999, complete with a forum for equally enthusiastic fans to trade theories about happenings at the Air Force facility.

Arnu, a self-branded ‘Area 51 research veteran,’ is one of roughly 50 people living in Rachel, Nevada, right on the outskirts of the military base.

And despite having 25 years of research under his belt, the webmaster can’t seem to crack the mystery.

‘They have years and years and decades of experience hiding things,’ Arnu told 8 News Now.

Joerg Arnu, the owner of dreamlandresort.com, believes the U.S. military is testing cutting-edge technology out in the Nevada desert

Joerg has been documenting the happenings around Area 51 since 1999  from his home in Rachel, located just on the outskirts of the base

The Air Force facility, located 120 miles outside Las Vegas, has been shrouded in a veil of mystery since its founding nearly seven decades ago

‘Look at some of the exotic planes, like the Tacit Blue that was developed in total secrecy, was flown in secrecy, then all of a sudden, they put it in a museum and said, “yeah, we had this for a while”.’

Area 51, located 120 miles outside Las Vegas, has been shrouded in a veil of secrecy since its founding in 1955, when it was established as part of the Nevada Test and Training Range complex.

Reports of ‘unidentified flying objects’ soon began to crop up. Those appeared to stem from testing of the U-2 aircraft, which could fly up to 50,000 feet higher than normal airliners at the time.

Since then, Area 51 has continued to serve as the testing ground for other stealth aircrafts like the F-117A, A-12 and Tacit Blue.

The military only acknowledged the base’s existence in 2013, when a formerly classified document about the U-2 was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

There were efforts to share more information about the facility before then. In the early 2000s, an Area 51 watchdog named Chuck Clark revealed that the military had placed sensors miles outside the base’s boundaries, leading to a raid on his home.

And he wasn’t the only one, as Arnu’s properties were swarmed by gun-toting counter-terrorism agents in November 2022.

He was in bed at his home in Rachel when around two dozen agents burst through the door, handcuffed him and led him outside for questioning.

But all the prying came at a price, as Arnu and his girlfriend, Linda Hellow, were targeted in an FBI raid in November 2022

According to a search warrant, Arnu was suspected to be in violation of Title 18 of the United States Code, accused of ‘conspiracy’ and ‘photographing defense installations’

The webmaster believes cutting-edge military technology like drones and unmanned warplanes are being tested at Area 51

‘The FBI wants to shut us down with unjustified raids and false accusations. Help us fight for our First Amendment Right!’ reads a banner on the website

Over 100 miles away in Las Vegas, girlfriend Linda Hellow was similarly awoken by FBI agents who ordered her to come downstairs at gunpoint.

The agents seized four of Arnu’s computers, several hard drives, phones, cameras and a drone. They also swiped photos of his late parents and records containing personal information.

Arnu was handed a search warrant reviewed by DailyMail.com, which starts on page 40. The document indicates that Arnu violated Title 18 of the United States Code, accusing him of ‘conspiracy’ and ‘photographing defense installations’.

He later learned that the raid was carried out by a joint team from the FBI and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, a counter intelligence wing that investigates terrorist groups targeting the Air Force.

Nearly two years later, Arnu is unsure whether he will face jail time. However, the government’s case against him – whatever it may be – hasn’t stopped him from continuing his mission.

The webmaster said he suspects military technology like drones and unmanned warplanes are being tested at Area 51.

‘They are flying drones, obviously,’ Arnu said. ‘The Russians and Chinese work on stuff to jam our drones, we work on stuff to jam their drones. The next step is how do we make drone communications more secure.’

However, the tests are being conducted under even greater secrecy, at a ‘base within a base’ that is only visible to those with their own satellite.

Arnu is unsure whether he will face jail time, but the raid did not deter him from continuing to dig into the mystery surrounding Area 51

The ‘Area 51 research veteran’ suspects drone-jamming technology is being tested out in the desert

He says the experiments are being conducted at a highly secure ‘base within in a base’ north of Groom Lake that is only visible to those with their own satellite

‘They have a whole empty valley just north of Groom Lake, and they have the mountain range where they can pretty much play with anything they want,’ Arnu explained.

All this information and more can be found at dreamlandresort.com, which has been running ad-free since March 2019.

A flashy banner on the site encourages people to donate to a GoFundMe, reading, ‘Freedom of Speech under attack: The FBI wants to shut us down with unjustified raids and false accusations. Help us fight for our First Amendment Right!’

Arnu doesn’t intend to abandon his mission soon, and doesn’t believe the shadowy agents testing military tech in the desert plan to stop either.

‘It’s booming out there,’ Arnu said. ‘Area 51 is not going anywhere.’

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