A YOUTUBER who vanished without a trace after "finding a vibrating secret cave" near the top secret Area 51 base has still never been found.
Hiker and adventurer Kenny Veach mysteriously went missing after he stumbled upon the hidden cave nearly ten years ago.
The 47-year-old first discovered the cave near Area 51 in 2014, after publicly documenting his findings on his YouTube channel.
Kenny was then urged by his dedicated fans to retrace his steps and find the cave again so he could investigate further.
After Kenny made the bizarre discovery, he took to the comment section of a video posted by an extra-terrestrial interest group named Sirius Disclosure.
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Posted to a video titled "Son of an Area 51 Technician", Kenny wrote: "One time during one of my hikes out by Nellis Air Force Base, I found a hidden cave.
"The entrance to the cave was shaped like a perfect capital M - I always enter every cave I find, but as I began to enter this particular cave, my whole body began to vibrate.
"The closer I got to the cave entrance, the worse the vibrating became. Suddenly I became very scared and high-tailed it out of there."
But despite the explorers reservations towards the suspicious cave, he returned for his followers.
According to Nevada Magazine, Kenny was armed with a nine-millimetre handgun and a video camera that he was recording his expedition on.
He began the ten-hour hike on "very dangerous terrain" as he hunted for the hidden cave located in a mountain "right next to a bombing range".
But Kenny hit a dead end and couldn't manage to locate the secret cave.
"I found a tarantula, a tortoise and a ram, but I could not find the cave," we wrote in a social media post.
On November 10, 2014, Kenny decided to venture back out after his followers were disappointed that he had failed the task at hand.
But no one could have guessed that this would be the last of the explorer's adventures.
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After he didn't return from the "short, overnight trip" he told his family he was going on, the search for the 47-year-old began.
On November 22, search and rescue volunteers found Kenny’s mobile phone near an abandoned mine shaft - but then the trail grew cold.
To this day the explorer has never been found, leading to much speculation on what happened to him.
The mysterious circumstances of his disappearance fuelled the internet with conspiracy theories, and internet users are still taking their guesses.
Some include Kenny unveiling government secrets, alien forces, seeing a drug deal, being attacked by an animal and even faking his death.
But Kenny's alleged girlfriend - Sheryon Pilgrim - revealed at the time that she believed he died by suicide after "battling depression for many years".
Pilgrim said: "He quit his job a little more than a year before he disappeared… one helicopter fly over was done and there was no trace of Kenny or any of his camping things.
"They found his car in the area I told them it would be. They did find his cell phone by the mine shaft in the video. The mine shaft was only about a four-hour hike from his car.
"It is my feeling he left it behind so that he could not be tracked from the GPS in it. He also did not take his video camera with him on this solo hike. It was left in his home. So, he had no intention of filming anything".
Cameras were reportedly lowered into the mine shaft near where Kenny's phone was discovered, but no sign of the hiker was found.
His body has still never been recovered and so the mystery remains unsolved.
Area 51 is an infamous spot for alien hunters as the airbase is commonly believed to be the home of the development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems.
The base has never been declared a secret base, but all research and occurrences in Area 51 are Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information.
Conspiracy theorists believe the facility is used to store, examine and reverse engineer crashed alien spacecraft.
The current use of Area 51 is unknown and remains top-secret.
This comes after a mysterious shape was spotted in satellite images from Area 51 which sparked speculation that it could be a top secret US aircraft.
And in 2019, a US general stated that Area 51 had "secrets that deserve to be protected" after millions vowed to storm the highly classified base.
