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Janet Flight 211 leaves McCarran International Airport, in Las Vegas, most mornings at about 3:38 a.m. It operates in an unlabeled Boeing 737-600 aircraft with no markings on its tail and no logos on its chest. Instead, it bears only a long, unbroken red stripe on either side of its body.

Janet 211’s destination, like all Janet flights, is officially listed as the Tonopah Test Range, a military instillation in the Nevada desert. But according to flight trackers and obsessives, its real destination is Groom Lake, home to the mysterious military site known as Area 51.

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Janet is the call sign for what is essentially Area 51’s employee shuttle. Employees and contractors are flown in and out of the gigantic, conspiracy-laden complex multiple times a day from a private terminal at the Las Vegas airport.

Janet operates six Boeing 737s and a handful of smaller prop planes. As of October, it was running between 13 and 16 round-trip flights a day to Groom Lake alone, according to the Dreamland Resort, a website that obsessively chronicles all things Area 51. The service does also fly to the Tonopah Test Range, as well as an archipelago of other highly classified military sites in the Southwest. But it became famous as the Area 51 shuttle.