seems insanely smart to me. you could have area 51 be nothing more than a storage area and just claim that it deals with aliens. this would do two
things.
1. Draw everyone's attention to area 51 - thus making it easier to deal with alien activity elsewhere
and
2. create the perception that secret planes and things of that sort are not only in area 51, but are still under development.
all the government has to do is direct the public's attention away from the real story, and then they can go about their buisness. if it's true that
area 51 is not dealing with aliens, then this is exactly what the government has done.


