A shocking picture of human doctors preparing to operate on an extraterrestrial provide vivid, undeniable evidence that top-secret Area 51 is a hospital for injured alien pilots and that American tax dollars are being freely spent to restore these space invaders to health.

For decades, the government has denied any connection between UFOs and Area 51, which is officially known as Groom Lake Air Force Base. But high fences surround the Nevada facility and anyone who ventures near it is turned away by heavily armed military personnel.

Even for-your-eyes-only documents unsealed several years ago by order of the Supreme Court have not been able to penetrate the dense cloud of sinister secrecy.

Now, however, a major rift has appeared in the cover-up. The revealing photograph was smuggled out of Area 51 by an Air Force medic and given to Weekly World News on condition that we preserve the source’s anonymity.

“This is an outrage,” declares Bill Collier, head of the watchdog group, Citizens’ Union for Truth. “Millions of red-blooded Americans can’t afford health care and we’re paying for state-of-the-art treatment for these green-blooded aliens!

“What’s next? Are we going to build golf courses for them — if they can even swing a club with those scrawny little arms of theirs?”