BookskepticModern Uap2011
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Investigative journalist Jacobsen interviewed dozens of former Area 51 personnel to chronicle the base's real history — the U-2 and A-12 Oxcart programs, nuclear testing, and Cold War stealth development — and addresses the Roswell legend directly, attributing bodies-in-the-desert claims to a disputed Soviet-Nazi-hybrid child experiment source that drew heavy criticism from historians.
- Author
- Annie Jacobsen
- Published
- 2011
- Library rank
- #55
Why it matters
The most detailed mainstream-journalism history of Area 51's real (non-alien) secret programs, though its most sensational Roswell claim was widely disputed.