Area 51- An Uncensored
History of America's Top Secret Military Base is the biggest and most
detailed book ever written about this most enigmatic and fascinating of
locations. Its author, Annie Jacobsen, appeared a few years ago in a TV series
I was asked to be in too; the difference is, I declined... see:
https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/10/bbc-conspiracy-road-trip-ufos.html.
It includes some unique previously unpublished information and some exclusive
interviews with scientists and other personnel who served inside this
informational black hole. Some of them have become quite well-known in the UFO
community, like TD Barnes who is one of the most experienced Area 51 employees
and has worked on the most diverse projects, from captured aircraft... manmade,
he assured us!... to nuclear rockets. Richard Mingus is another. He is the
"(Pause)... No!" man in the BBC
Conspiracy
Road Trip programme. He was in charge of security for Project AQUATONE, the
highly secretive programme to build a high altitude spyplane, the U2. The book
gives a detailed history of Area 51, from its beginnings in 1942 as an auxiliary
airfield to its possible future. The CIA took over the
Groom
Lake area in 1955 which marks the
beginning of Area 51 as the location of true secrecy, as it remains today. Here
they developed the U2 and later an aeroplane that to this day holds speed and
altitude records, ironically named the "A12 Oxcart". There was a lot
of rivalry with the US Air Force and the latter built their own version of the
Oxcart, the SR71 "Blackbird". Drones were first developed there too,
including one of the fastest ever, the D21 which could reach supersonic speeds.
The pilots who flew these aircraft took enormous risks as they surveyed distant
lands during the Korean and
Vietnam
wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and of course the
Soviet Union
itself during the Cold War. The parallel development of the nuclear weapons
programme was close by so Area 51 played a big role in that. No test
detonations were carried out at Dreamland itself; they were done at the
Nevada
Proving Grounds next-door, but the base was the chosen location for much of the
science associated with the numerous nuclear explosions both in the open air
and underground. Some pilots even had to fly through the mushroom clouds to gather
data on radioactive fallout levels. Some were killed in this venture. In fact
there were numerous tragedies during the history of Area 51, mostly from
experimental aircraft crashing. One man's plane ran out of fuel and he crashed
into the sea just a hundred yards short of a runway in the
Marshall
Islands. Ordinarily he might have swum to
the safety, but he was wearing a lead lined suit to protect him from radiation
so he sank like a stone. Along with retrieving the pilots' bodies, the Area 51
team had to secure the wreckage of the planes and hide them before anybody else
saw it. According to Annie Jacobsen, this could be where the legend of ET crash
retrievals originates. She says that behind every conspiracy theory there is an
element of truth. Another example of that is when NASA trained the Apollo
astronauts in a desert valley not far from Area 51 called Area 20. It is the
truth behind the false idea, she asserts, that NASA faked the moon landings and
filmed them in a studio at Area 51. There also was an underground railway there
at the nuclear arsenal. It was used for transporting the bombs to the test
sites where they were lowered into the ground to be detonated. It did not, apparently,
run all the way across the country to other secret bases. Most interesting of
all, in 1966 the
US
acquired a Soviet fighter jet from
Israel,
a MIG 21. It was taken to Area 51 and back-engineered in complete secrecy under
the strange codename "Have Doughnut". One of the most astonishing
programmes carried out near Area 51 was NERVA, the Nuclear Engine for Rocket
Vehicle Application run partly by NASA. This was predicted to be able to send a
man to Mars with less than a year's voyage. In testing this machine they
poisoned the surrounding landscape for generations to come. They even
deliberately allowed one to meltdown to see how easily it could happen. A lot
of the details are still classified to this day, especially the radiation
effects the personnel suffered and the damage to the local area, which is still
part of the Nevada National Security Site, called Jackass Flats or Area 25. I saw
a part of one of these nuclear rocket engines myself at the
Las
Vegas Atomic Museum,
see:
https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/01/meadows-revisited.html.
Some readers may be disappointed that Annie Jacobsen's
Area 51 book makes almost no reference at
all to Bob Lazar beyond what is commonly known anyway, at least in the UFOlogy
world. She does interview him for the book, but most of her opinions seem to be
connected to her central thesis regarding UFO lore, which is almost identical
to Mark Pilkington's, see:
https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2012/12/mirage-men-by-mark-pilkington.html.
She has found out that this supposed deception trick dates back much further
than Mark imagined, to 1942 in fact. This was when the
US
tested its first jet-propelled military aircraft. At first it had a wooden propeller
mounted on its nose. This had no function, it was added simply to make people
think the plane had a standard piston engine. After a while somebody had the
bright idea of getting the pilot to wear a mask to make his head look like that
of a gorilla. This was spotted by another pilot one day, but he never told
anybody for years because he didn't want to be ridiculed. This, says Annie, was
the original source for all of modern UFO culture; because they got the idea of
playing that same ruse again, but with aliens instead of gorillas. This point
is my biggest criticism of the book. The notion that UFO's and aliens are some
kind of engineered neo-mythology created as psychological warfare to launder
more down-to-earth covert projects is not very original and it is in fact
somewhat fashionable at the moment. However, I find it totally implausible when
you consider how easily and badly it could backfire. Drawing somebody's
attention towards something with the ultimate objective of deflecting it away
is a very risky gambit, so much so that I think we can reject it on theoretical
grounds, except perhaps in very specific circumstances. It's like a bank robber
jumping up and down on top of his buried stash in a striped jersey and face
mask, and every time a policeman walks past he waves a placard stating:
THERE IS NO STOLEN CASH HIDDEN HERE, JUST
THE BONES OF A UNICORN! How long would it take for somebody to realize what
was really going on? It would be far better just to bury the stash somewhere in
the woods and not tell anybody. No, I think what Annie has discovered, although
she doesn't realize it, is an elaborate double-bluff. I've addressed this
elsewhere in more detail, for example see:
https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/05/mark-pilkington-at-bases-2023.html.
If aliens exist and were recovered during the
Roswell
incident then Area 51 is likely to be the place the bodies and debris were sent;
either there or the Technical Data Section at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Operation Have Doughnut shows that Area 51 is the favoured spot for foreign
materiel research, and you can't get more foreign that off this planet. Annie
even postulates that Area 51 got its name because it took over the project to
examine the
Roswell crash wreckage from
Wright-Pat in 1951; it's not an area, it's a year. You may think Annie is being
contradictory here; how can she believe in the
Roswell
incident and yet be a UFO skeptic? The answer comes at the end of the book and
it is one of the most sickening and disturbing theories that I have ever come
across. For over eighteen months she spent a lot of time interviewing an
anonymous man she calls simply "the EG&G engineer". He told her
that during World War II the "
Auschwitz angel of
death", Dr Joseph Mengele, was taken to the
USSR
in their own equivalent of Project Paperclip and forced to work for Stalin
under an assumed identity. There he continued his human experimentation project
that he had begun for Nazi Germany. He took children from orphanages and homes
for the mentally handicapped, and subjected them to surgery and other medical
treatments which mutilated their bodies beyond all recognition. They had
enlarged heads and eyes and were hairless. These children were then put into a
saucer shaped aircraft based on the Horten brothers' design and flown by remote
control to the
USA.
It crashed in the desert near
Roswell
and you can guess the rest. The purpose of this obscenity was revenge by Stalin
against the Truman administration for not sharing the secret of the atomic bomb
with him at the
Potsdam conference.
(The success of Soviet spies eventually made that a bit superfluous though,
see:
https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/01/spies-of-london-part-1.html.)
He wanted to create a real
War of the
Worlds style civil unrest. People accuse conspiratorial UFOlogists like me
of wishful thinking. We just want
Roswell
to be aliens so badly! Well, yeah. If this story in Annie's book is the only
alternative, I would indeed prefer it if the crashed craft was ET. Since the
Cold War Area 51 continues to be busy and Annie speculates on what it might be
used for in the future; such as developing new aircraft, especially drones. She
also believes it will play a major role in the increasing weaponization of
space. Details of
Area 51 by Annie
Jacobsen can be found here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11305364-area-51.
See here for
background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/area-51-portal.html.
