Irwin, in California's Mojave desert was used for secret purposes. There were several reasons for this, such as its remote location, the lack of media coverage of the facility, and a former Air Force intelligence officer who told me fanciful stories about the place. I've since done enough research to know the true nature of the facility. Like any form of serious research, you will use previous bits of knowledge to understand new information. To understand what is going on, you will often need to correlate related pieces of information.
Truth is a slippery thing, when dealing with the U.S. government.
You should be prepared to change what you believe, when faced with compelling new evidence that contradicts what you believe. There's no reason to get paranoid if you are trying to discover secrets. There are too many people who think that they will be visited by large gentlemen in dark suits if they do the slightest thing to find out what their government is hiding. A recent survey on the Internet came up with an interesting result. A survey was taken to see if people believed in the New World Order conspiracy.