Area 51 Employees
While there is no way to know for sure how many employees it takes to run the world’s most top-secret military base, observers have estimated that over a 1,000 people make a daily commute to the base.
Most of these people live around Las Vegas, and take a half-hour flight in each morning. The Defense contractor EG&G operates a private terminal in Las Vegas, with flights leaving every half hour to an undisclosed location around Groom Lake. On paper, these flights are for employees traveling to the Tonopah Test Range, but observers have witnessed both landings and radio chatter–as the red-striped EG&G planes use the “JANET” call sign–around the Area 51 airstrip.
While the majority of the JANET fleet is comprised of six different Boeing 737s, there are also several different types of aircraft used–with all “N” numbers registered to the United States Air Force.
Not all employees arrive on JANET flights. Others take a daily commute via a mysterious white bus, which makes stops at Ash Spring, Crystal Springs, and Alamo—where it parks at the courthouse every night. The bus arrives at the base every morning around 8:30, and passes through the warning signs at Area 51’s front gates. The bus then makes its first security check at the guard shack, only a mile from the warning signs, and then continues to Groom Lake, almost seven miles past the Guard Shack.
All Area 51 employees are given extensive background checks, and are specifically chosen, and known, for being patriots. It is unlikely that an Area 51 employee would ever reveal what happens at the base, as they are hand picked, from a nation of hundreds of millions, to be just the right people who will keep this quiet.
While much of the Groom Lake base operations, such as border security (known as cammo dudes), are handled outside the Air Force, and outside the US government–mostly by a security company called Wakenhut, owned and operated by the defense contractor EG&G–you can be sure that these private companies are even more strict in their hiring process.
If you want to be work at Area 51, your best bet would be to contact Wackenhut–though beware, long days of hassling tourists might be your future.