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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

There is a funny story in AOPA that a guy flying in the area, had to declare an emergency and landed dead stick at Area 51 with no fuel. He was met with lots of security, and they held him over night. They gave him enough fuel to get out of there, and told him do not ever come back.

24 hours later he landed there again. They came out to arrest him with force, and he had a passenger, his wife. All the pilot said is now you guys tell my wife where I was last night!

There are some pretty good and true military stories about emergency landings at Groom Lake. Like even though you are active duty USAF you end up spread eagle on the tarmac with armed security, then several days of debrief before you are allowed to leave. I was on a flight test program where we did testing out of Nellis AFB in Vegas, the entire area was blocked out with a big red no fly square on our area maps. Their advice to our pilots was that if you have an emergency......land somewhere else.

I’d love to see this tried just for sheer amusement. There are lots of documented cases of people trying to sneak on, they don’t make it very far.