Driving into Area 51

Why don't you call and ask what you will need to get in? Let us know what they say!

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The base guards aren't going to beat you up unless you act like an idiot. They don't have to. They typically intercept vehicles before they reach any place sensitive. They stop the car and ask you to turn around. If they're playful they may shoot out your tires and leave you to walk out. If they are annoyed they can arrest you and confiscate your vehicle. You get to pay the county a nice fine and then pay them again to get your vehicle back. Point being you aren't going to get anywhere near the sensitive part of the base unless you do something really stupid. Act dumb and you might get roughed up.

Back in the day the easiest way to get a US military ID card would be for example go to the Strip Club in El Paso, TX and buy it from the strip club.

They had a pile of military ID cards from people that stiffed them money, held their id cards waiting for cash. Pretty much were all Army out of Fort Bliss.


But for someplace like Area 51, now called the Nevada National Security Site, I imagine you need to be on a list as well.
The easiest way to get into Area 51 would be to build a solar powered RC "rover". Drive it a few hundred feet a day in and have wireless video to stream out to "watch" when you get to certain areas. A conventional RC radio wouldn't work for you since the range is pretty small, but there are CB radios with ~36 mile ranges you could adapt to feed commands to the rover. There are amplifiers you could use to increase that range to feed commands from hundreds of miles...over CB frequencies. Not sure if they'd even figure out what a bunch of random tones on say CB channel 18 would even be.

I'm sure it's already been done by foreign countries. Would be a neat project to construct...who knows what you'd see in there. Maybe OSama Bin Forgotten sipping martini's and getting a tan?