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Pine Gap is a joint US-Australian satellite-intelligence (SIGINT) ground station near Alice Springs in central Australia, much of it underground, formally the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap. Its…

Pine Gap is a joint US-Australian satellite-intelligence (SIGINT) ground station near Alice Springs in central Australia, much of it underground, formally the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap. Its secrecy and remoteness earned it the 'Australia's Area 51' nickname and attached alien-base rumors. It matters as a real, strategically critical intelligence facility onto which UFO lore is projected; the extraterrestrial claims are refuted while its actual signals-intelligence role is well established.

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Area 51 / Groom Lake.Harold E. Holt Naval Communication Station.Nurrungar (former Joint Defence Facility).Wycliffe Well.