Hangar 51

Hangar 51 was a U.S. military installation in Nevada, where thousands of secret items, including the Ark of the Covenant and Alien remains after the events in Roswell in 1947 were kept in crates.

It was the latter that Irina Spalko and her band of Soviet soldiers forced Indiana Jones to find for them. During the battle in the warehouse, many crates, including the one containing the Ark, were damaged.

The basement of the facility also contained a rocket testbed which Indiana Jones and Antonin Dovchenko accidentally activated while fighting each other.

The facility had an external perimeter which was guarded by military police.

Personnel of the Hangar 51 facility

 * Main Guard station
 * Sergeant Wycroft
 * Corporal Higgins
 * Private Mitchell
 * M.P. in Guard Hut

Behind the scenes
The warehouse first appeared briefly at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The final scene of Raiders has been parodied multiple times; both the South Park episode "Free Hat" and the Family Guy episodes "Peter's Got Woods" and "Back to the Woods" end with something and someone respectively being stored in the warehouse. Another close Parody is in "Monster Ark" where the monster is stored in the Warehouse.

The place is given a name and seen much more elaborately in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where it is recursively connected with more recent pop culture: "Hangar 51" is an obvious reference to both Area 51 and Hangar 18, places traditionally connected with US national secrets and UFO remains in recent conspiracy theories and urban legends. Like Hangar 51, real-life Area 51 is also located in Nevada.

However a direct connection is difficult to be made since Area 51 is believed to have been established during the '50s (two decades after the supposed appearance in Raiders, unless we suppose it was a different place altogether)

Appearances

 * Raiders of the Lost Ark
 * Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
 * Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull novel