Travel along the Extraterrestrial Highway to the Area 51 Road. This is an unmarked road that goes to one place only, the Top secret location of Area 51.

After a 10-mile drive across the desert through unusually deformed Joshua trees we enter a low mountainous area where we drive right up to the security perimeter. Cameras and listening devices are numerous and the men in black in their 4x4 are parked on the desert hillside to insure that no one enters this facility. The signs read, "the use of deadly force authorized." It is believed that an alien spacecraft and aliens are being held in this area.

The famous black mailbox that is the only tell-tail sign that you are in the right location.

Travel to the little town of Rachel where many UFO sightings have occurred and to the famous Little Al'e Inn where we can secure documents written by Capt. Chuck Clark and others. Capt. Clark worked at area 51 and now lives in Rachel and tells the story of what he knows of this top-secret installation.

Another interesting stop in Rachel is the Area 51 Research Center. More valuable information and original documents is available at this stop. There is a mountaintop that allows a distant view of the air base but as it is a strenuous and dangerous 5-hour climb to the top it is recommended that this be considered carefully before attempting.

Travel to a remote dry lake where many UFO sightings have occurred; this is a very strange and unusual place that makes the hair stand up on your arms. Very unusual petroglyphs are visible at this location.

Aliens given own road State Route 375 renamed the Extraterrestrial Highway

RACHEL - If E.T. is ever looking for a place to phone home, or searching for a route back to his extraterrestrial kin, this blip of a town may be just the ticket.

Long a mecca for people who believe we are not alone, Rachel is now the anchor for Nevada's newest tourist attraction - the Extraterrestrial Highway. It's even going to get official state highway signs.

Folks in this Lincoln County town 150 miles north of Las Vegas are convinced there are alien visitors at the nearby top-secret government base known as Area 51 or Groom Lake.

Area 51 is veiled in mystery. The heavily guarded, isolated base is where the government has tested some of its most exotic aircraft, including the U-2, SR-71 Blackbird and F-117A stealth fighter, and is now believed to be flying Aurora, apparently a new reconnaissance plane.

Officially, the military won't even acknowledge the base exists. Uniformed Marines and Air Force personnel drive through, and some stop at the Little A'Le'Inn for breakfast.

While the federal government wishes everyone would go away, the Nevada Transportation Department recently named a 92-mile stretch of desolate State Route 375 the Extraterrestrial Highway. It plans to put up four signs at a cost of $3,300.

Gov. Bob Miller quipped that some of the signs should be placed flat on the ground "so aliens can land there."

The governor said the designation shows Nevada has a sense of humor, as was the case several years ago when a magazine named U.S. 50 across the state "the loneliest road in America."

"Instead of being insulted, we turned it around," Miller said.

The Extraterrestrial Highway runs between Hiko and Warm Springs, traversing mountain passes and deserts covered with scrub brush and juniper trees.

Highway officials say it draws only about 50 vehicles a day on average, though more show up twice annually when Rachel holds "UFO Friendship Campouts" for tourists looking for flying saucers.