'I went UFO hunting at Area 51 and what I found was definitely strange' Christopher Bucktin from Hull visits Area 51 in Nevada as the US Government releases files ahead of UFO Day 00:42, 3 JUL 2021 Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now It is the week the Pentagon finally released a top-secret report admitting it can only explain one of 144 UFO sightings in 17-years. And the real-life X files have failed to rule out the existence of aliens. But those who believe in extraterrestrials still claim the report is a “whitewash” and insist aliens live among us. As US Editor of the Mirror, I visited Area 51– the highly classified American air force facility at the centre of alien conspiracy theories – and found locals refuse to accept the findings of last week's official dispatch.