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In the middle of the barren Nevada desert, there’s a dusty unmarked road that leads to the front gate of Area 51. It’s protected by little more than a chain-link fence, a boom gate, and intimidating trespassing signs. One would think that America’s much mythicized top-secret military base would be under closer guard but make no mistake. They are watching.

Beyond the gate, cameras see every angle. On the distant hilltop, there’s a white pickup truck with a tinted windshield peering down on everything below. Locals say the base knows every desert tortoise and jackrabbit that hops the fence. Others claim there are embedded sensors in the approaching road.

What exactly goes on inside Area 51 has led to decades of wild speculation. There are, of course, the alien conspiracies that galactic visitors are tucked away somewhere inside. One of the more colorful rumors insists the infamous 1947 Roswell crash was actually a Soviet aircraft piloted by mutated midgets and the wreckage remains on the grounds of Area 51. Some even believe that the U.S. government filmed the 1969 moon landing in one of the base’s hangars.

For all the myths and legends, what’s true is that Area 51 is very real—and still very active. There may not be aliens or a moon landing movie set inside those fences, but something is going on and only a select few are privy to what’s happening further down that closely-monitored wind-swept Nevada road.

“The forbidden aspect of Area 51 is what makes people want to know what’s there,” says aerospace historian and author Peter Merlin who’s been researching Area 51 for more than three decades.

“And there sure is still a lot going on there.”

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In November 2019, Popular Mechanics revealed previously unheard eyewitness accounts of the U.S. Navy’s encounters with UFOs while conducting training off the coast of San Diego in the fall of 2004. These are now known as the Nimitz encounters, so named for the fighter pilots of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group who spotted the strange flying objects.

Some of the Nimitz witnesses told Popular Mechanics that the brief “Flir1” video—released for public viewing by the UFO research group To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science and included below—is merely a small piece of a much longer video that the government is keeping a secret. According to these Navy veterans, the video they saw showed many more details of an unknown aircraft seeming to defy the known laws of physics as it effortlessly evaded some of the world’s best fighter jets. In December 2019, Chad Underwood, the former F/A-18 pilot who originally filmed the UFO encounter, told New York magazine that Flir1 is indeed a “little video cut” of his original recording.

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In recent years, weight loss through unsustainable means has become wildly popular, but it really shouldn’t be.

If you want to lose weight to improve your overall well-being or achieve your fitness goals, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, so long as you take a healthy approach.

The problem is, when you focus only on aesthetic goals, you often miss out on the bigger picture. Restrictive diets, fancy weight loss products, and using exercise as punishment are common traps that people fall into when trying to lose weight, and they are not healthy or sustainable methods.

When I made changes to get healthier and fitter five years ago, I had no intention of losing weight. I simply wanted to feel more energized, nourish my body with natural foods, and exercise in a way that I enjoyed each and every day. I chose to develop healthy and sustainable habits which have stuck with me ever since.

Research shows that the following five habits can help you burn fat efficiently. Most importantly, they are healthy and sustainable, and they just so happen to be some of the habits I adopted five years ago. So go ahead and ditch the weight loss shakes, detox teas, and restrictive diets, and focus on achieving balance through the following practices instead.

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I’ve always been physically active; I enjoy going to the gym, but also rock climbing, biking, and skiing. However, my ability to train really declined during COVID, as I didn’t have access to a gym during the first six months of quarantine and many of my outdoor activities were also off-limits. This was the longest I’d ever gone without training, and I was shocked by how quickly my body deteriorated.

Prior to the pandemic, my diet was generally quite healthy, but without a normal routine, it worsened significantly. I found it much harder to avoid pizza, pasta, and unhealthy snacking, all of which contributed to feeling worse.

After six months of quarantine in the Hamptons, I needed a change and moved to LA, where I met Eddie Baruta, a senior trainer at Ultimate Performance Fitness. We started working out (socially distanced and outdoors) three times a week in the UP gym, focusing mainly on strength training and full-body workouts. I supplemented this with up to 60 minutes of cardio on other days. Being back in the gym was motivating in and of itself. Then, on non-gym days, Eddie would frequently check-in and hold me accountable when it came to my cardio and diet plan.

I began tracking every meal and snack to ensure I was hitting my daily calories and macro goals. I more-than-doubled my protein consumption, kept high-carb meals to a minimum, and drank 120 ounces of water every day. I also reduced my alcohol intake but didn’t eliminate drinking entirely until the final two weeks of the program.

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Peter, a 36-year-old portfolio manager from Bridgehampton, New York, shares how training three times a week and changing his diet helped him lose weight and build muscle.

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