Fake or real, the plate that is? Area 51 refers to a map location for a United States Air Force Base. It's at Groom Lake, a dry lake bed in the Nevada Desert, 85 miles north of Las Vegas. It was created during the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union as a testing and development facility. Today, it is believed that the US military continues to use the area to develop cutting-edge aircraft. About 1,500 people are believed to work there. Although it opened in 1955, its existence was only officially acknowledged in August 2013. The entire range covers 2.9 million acres of land. According to the US military, it represents "a flexible, realistic and multidimensional battle-space to conduct testing tactics development and advanced training." And the license plate, it can be had online for about fifteen dollars. This one was seen in Ken's Ohio, not long ago.