Sin City has many secrets, but many visitors completely miss Las Vegas’ secret airline on display right in front of them! These government aircraft hide in plain sight, flying in and out of Vegas several times every day. However, you can’t book a ticket or even visit the terminal. So what is “Janet Airlines”? Who flies on their planes? And where are they going?
I am standing in front of the Janet terminal, which is just about half a mile from the Vegas Strip, across from Mandalay Bay. If you don’t know what the Janet terminal is, I highly recommend that you Google it, or just Google Janet Airlines. If you’ve ever been in Las Vegas at the airport and seen those very nondescript, white Boeing 737s with the red stripe down them… and no other marking… those are Janet aircraft. They take off and land here several times a day. No one seems to pay any attention to them.
However, if you come to the Janet terminal you will quickly realize something about these planes is special. The 12 foot fence with barbed wire across the top surrounds the facility, and a post manned by an armed guard blocks the entrance. If you step up and try to talk to the person at that post you will be met by force. He told me I had permission to film out here as long as I didn’t film anything too ‘delicate’ or ‘sensitive’… like the cars parking lot.
However, ever since I got permission to film the terminal of Las Vegas’ secret airline, I have been being visited by black SUVs that continue to circle me… and they’re completely blacked out. Six of these SUV have come by in the last 10 minutes. The first one pulled up, rolled down his window, saluted me, and then kept going. So yes, I am being watched. What is so special about this place? This Airline? Why the high security? Well, let’s take a moment to discuss Janet Airlines.
Janet Airlines takes off and lands several flights a day in open view of the public at Harry Reid airport in Las Vegas. They even use the same taxi and runways as commercial aircraft. You can follow their movements on popular flight tracking apps, watching as they take off and immediately turn toward any number of undisclosed locations. And if you continue to track their progress, it won’t be long before you see these flights suddenly stop moving and disappear from radar and all other forms of tracking.
This highly classified fleet of planes is operated by the US Air Force as a shuttle service for military personnel, contractors, and Department of Defense workers… transporting them from Las Vegas to so-called Special Access Program Facilities that include the legendary Area 51, located 100 miles north of Sin City in the desert, which the American government opened in 1955, while denying that it even existed until 2013.
In addition to the airport and Area 51, Janet aircraft fly from Las Vegas’ secret airline into Groom Lake and the Tenopah test range in Nevada, along with several locations in California, including Edwards Air Force Base. Of course, some of you may also be wondering about the connection between Janet Airlines, Area 51, and the conspiracies involving UFOs and aliens. When it comes to secrets that hide at Area 51, which these employees on the Janet flights are helping to build, we can only speculate based on the history of the program.
Amazing aircraft like the U2 spy plane, the SR71 Blackbird, and America’s stealth aircraft all have ties to development and / or testing at this secret military facility. And there’s no telling what amazing projects those crazy kids are currently up to these days. While many people are becoming more accepting of the idea that we may not be alone in the universe, the US government has not admitted to having any otherworldly technology or extraterrestrial visitors hidden in the desert. But why would they? Even if it were true!
As for the Janet Fleet, no one is certain why these aircraft and their terminal are referred to by that name.One idea is that it’s an acronym for Joint Air Network for Employee Transportation. Still, another theory proposes that it could stand for Just Another Non-Existent Terminal…even if you can see it sitting right there, in plain view, as you fly into and out of Las Vegas.
