An resident of Rachel, Nevada – the closest town to Area 51 – set up a motion sensor camera in their garden and was shocked to see the results. After the person reviewed the footage, they noticed a strange metallic looking object zoom past in the distance. The object is long and thin and moves at a rapid pace.

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The video was quickly uploaded to the YouTube channel FilmGuy, along with the caption: “Here in Rachel, Nevada. Got this footage on my motion sensor camera.

“Unbelievable, not sure if it’s a jet or some aircraft I haven’t seen before. Pretty cool nonetheless.”

As Rachel is situated so close to Area 51, conspiracy theorists obviously linked the two together, claiming it must have come from the top secret military base.

Prominent alien hunter Scott C Waring wrote on his blog UFO Sightings Daily: “The sound is just like that of a jet, but clearly the object is a metallic disk.