The claims are intellectually stimulating both scientifically and politically. Most of the area 51 material is easily defrocked, and debunked, and compartmentalized as scientific fantasy and ufo disinformation, and conspiracy theory.
Similar to the early days of atomic energy, before the notion of nuclear war was a reality, there was a lot of speculation, and disinformation. The Manhattan project was done secretely but scientists everywhere were asking questions about nuclear power fission and fusion. We live in a similar time.
NASA is a public administrative body. They make rules and red tape, and give public demonstrations of scientific. They normally don't offer comentary to public inquiry regarding the science experiments at Los Alamos, or Sandia Laboratories. Those projects are highly advanced and for the most part done secretly.
If a NASA spoksperson were to confirm the success of anti-matter experiments it would mark a New Age in scientific administration, and would open the field to Universities throughout the world.
Until then people will draw their own conclusions based on what the hear and read on the internet. The internet has liberated much of scientific information from the elite, and put it into the hands of the common fellow.
If you are willing to spend the time on the internet and you know where to look you are sure to get your quetions answered, and will likely raise more questions in the process.
Don't wait for public administrators to give legitimacy to your inquiry. We live in the information age and we are protected by the FOIA (freedom of information act). If you really want to know, you can find out anything you want.
I don't think we can find anything we want.
We might get clues to some things few people imagined.
But some things are successfully kept extremely secret.
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Having said that, I once read a convincing report of the author's visit to a highly secret site in the deserts of Texas to a NASA installation wherein there was a training building. I forget the dimensions. But within--I think a large circular--maybe enlarged silo sort of space . . . there was no gravity.
I don't recall if it could be turned on and off at will, for sure, or not. But I think it could as well as some gradients.