Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
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| Author | Annie Jacobsen |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Published | 2011 (Little Brown) |
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base is a book by American journalist Annie Jacobsen about the secret United States military base Area 51.
The book, based on interviews with scientists and engineers who worked in Area 51, addresses the Roswell UFO incident and dismisses the alien story. Instead, it suggests that Josef Mengele was recruited by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to produce "grotesque, child-size aviators" to be remotely piloted and landed in America to cause hysteria in the likeness of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama War of the Worlds, but that the aircraft crashed and the incident was hushed up by the Americans. Jacobsen writes that the bodies found at the crash site were children. Grotesquely but similarly deformed, aged around 12, each under five feet tall, with large heads and abnormally shaped oversize eyes. "They were neither aliens nor consenting airmen, but human guinea pigs", she claims. Jacobson also interviews Richard Mingus who outlines an incident whereby Area 6 was attacked at gunpoint during the preparation of a nuclear test detonation.
"[They] were not aliens. Nor were they consenting
airmen. They were human guinea pigs."
— Annie Jacobsen, author of Area 51
The book received mixed reviews. The Los Angeles Times called it "highly readable" and "deeply researched...a dream for aviation and military buffs."TIME.com wrote that "Area 51 suffers one flaw," referring to the Roswell craft that Jacobsen reports was a Soviet hoax.The Daily Beast called it an "explosive new book."The New York Times wrote: "Although this connect-the-dots U.F.O. thesis is only a hasty-sounding addendum to an otherwise straightforward investigative book about aviation and military history, it makes an indelible impression. Area 51 is liable to become best known for sci-fi provocation." The Times noted that "the book is noteworthy for its author’s dogged devotion to her research."
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