Can Area 51 be seen using Google Earth?
In general, the U.S. government has had images of military installations and other sensitive locations like the White House blurred out or in some manner restricted from view on not only Google Earth but similar applications. The logic behind this is obvious – why broadcast to the world regularly updated photos of what is going on at locations that could in some manner compromise national security? As sad as it is, not all people in the world are good and some of those bad people may want to harm others. In a similar vein it makes no sense from a military standpoint to allow the world access to runway activity, missile silos, and what is going on at SRF (Ship Repair Facility) locations and major USN ports. With that in mind and steering back to the original question of whether Area 51 can be seen using Google Earth, it absolutely can be done. The catch is that you will not be able to get enhanced resolution so most of what you see will be a blur. There have been claims of new photos of
