A MYSTERIOUS shape has been spotted in satellite images from Area 51 sparking speculation it could be a top secret US aircraft at the infamous base.
Photos taken by the satellite imagery firm Sentinel Hub appear to show a large unidentifiable object sitting at the end of a runway near a large white hanger.
Twitter sleuth Ruben Hofs shared the satellite images – which were taken on August 1- and said he believes the object cannot be just a shadow.
He wrote: "Could this be a blackproject? or is it just a wet spot or a shadow on the taxiway?"
Black project refers to highly classified military programmes which in the past have delivered the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter and the B-2 Spirit nuclear stealth bomber.
Some members of the public who report UFOs are believed to sometimes actually be seeing secretive weapons being tested by military forces.
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Hofs said: "I dare to rule out its a shadow since it doesn't seem to line up with any cloud in the vicinity."
Area 51 is the centre of many conspiracy theories about aliens and top secret aircraft – but the base in Nevada is known to be a highly classified testing ground used by the United States Air Force (USAF).
The base is located in the southern portion of Nevada, just 83 miles north-northwest of Las Vegas.
Its official existence was not acknowledged until June 2013 following a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2005.
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Conspiracy theorists believe the facility is used to store, examine and reverse engineer crashed alien spacecraft, including material supposedly recovered from the 1950s Roswell crash.
The base has been a testing ground for a host of top-secret aircraft, including the U-2 spy plane in the 1950s and later the B-2 stealth bomber.
Declassified documents say it was originally an area for the Army Air Corp pilots to practice their aerial gunnery.
During the Cold War, experimental aircraft, such as the high altitude U-2 spy plane, and weapons systems were tested there.
The current use of Area 51 is unknown and remains top-secret.
The patch of fenced-off land, measuring six by ten miles, is tucked between a US Air Force base and an abandoned nuclear testing ground.
It's thought the US military continue to develop new aircraft there.
The airbase is suspected to have around 1,500 staff who are rumoured to commute from nearby Las Vegas.
One Twitter user commented: "You would think the government would be smart and paint shadows all over the runway to prevent satellites from spying in."
Another Twitter user who did not agree with the latest conspiracy theory said: "Not sure if this is worth getting that excited about having practically lived at Nellis Air Force Base.
"It looks like a B-2 spirit or the new be 21.I guess if you’ve never seen one in person I can understand the excitement."
The B-21 Raider is an under development strategic bomber which is expected to enter service by 2026 and make its first flight by 2023.
No photos of the experimental aircraft are known to exist – and it was reported in 2017 that activity at the base could have been preparations for the bomber being tested at Area 51.
The Warzone, a US military-themed website, commented: "The blob’s color tone and even what appears to be its shadowed outline also lead one to believe it is indeed an aircraft, not a shadow, but that is far from definitive.
"While the testers and the support staff at Area 51/Air Force Flight Test Center Detachment 3 are known to be very careful when it comes to allowing their test articles to be seen from passing satellites, it was a cloudy day."
The new mystery object is located near the so-called "2014 hangar" at the southern end of the base.
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