I was intrigued to see a new book out on Area 51 and so I got it. The book is written by Annie Jacobsen who is a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. The book is mainly focused on recently released information concerning projects in the 1950's and 1960's, so if you're expecting a lot of updated info...forget it. Her work talking with the main players and the politics involved mainly between the CIA and Air Force over projects such as the U-2 spy plane, the A-12 Oxcart, the nuclear testing and the short-lived NERVA project to send man to Mars is interesting to read. However, at the end of the book we get new information about what really happened at Roswell. Are you ready for it?
On page 368: In July of 1947, Army intelligence spearheaded the efforts to retrieve the remains of the flying disc that crashed at Roswell. And as with other stories that have become the legends of Area 51, part of the conspiracy theory about Roswell has its origins in truth. The crash did reveal a disc, not a weather balloon, as has subsequently been alleged by the Air Force. And responders from the Roswell Army Air Field found not only a crashed craft, but also two crash sites, and they found bodies alongside the crashed craft. These were not aliens. Nor were they consenting airmen. They were human guinea pigs. Unusually petite for pilots, they appeared to be children. Each was under five feet tall. Physically, the bodies of the aviators revealed anatomical conundrums. They were grotesquely deformed, but each in the same manner as the others. They had unusually large heads and abnormally shaped oversize eyes. One fact was clear: these children, if that's what they were, were not healthy humans. A second fact was shocking. Two of the child-size aviators were comatose but still alive.
Page 370: There was the crashed craft that had been sent by Stalin--with its Russian writing stamped, or embossed, in a ring around the inside of the craft.
Page 371: The EG and G engineers were told that part of Joseph Stalin's offer to Josef Mengele stated that if he could create a crew of grotesque, child size aviators for Stalin, he would be given a laboratory in which to continue his work.
Page 372: One day I asked again. "Why didn't President Truman reveal the truth in 1947?" This time he answered.
"Because we were doing the same thing," he said. "They wanted to push science. They wanted to see how far they could go.
Then he said, "We did things I wish I had not done."
Then, "We performed medical experiments on handicapped children and prisoners."
"But you are not a doctor," I said.
"They wanted engineers."
"On whose authority did you act?"
"The Atomic Energy Commission was in charge. And Vannevar Bush," he said. "People were killed. In this great United States."
Get the picture? Her source wasn't named. I saw a recent clip from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and she told him it wasn't aliens. So we see yet another source of disinformation. I will say that the reading on the nuclear bomb testing is very good. You definitely get a picture of bomb testing that should have never gone off.
Page 116: Just two weeks before Project 57 contaminated 895 acres adjacent to Groom Lake with plutonium, Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling made a statement that spooked the public and threatened the tests. Pauling said that as a result of the nuclear tests, 1 percent of children born the following year would have serious birth defects.
Page 170: Two thermonuclear devices called Teak and Orange, each an astonishingly powerful 3.8 megatons, were exploded in the Earth's upper atmosphere at Johnston Atoll, 750 miles west of Hawaii. Teak went off at 252,000 feet, or 50 miles, and Orange went off at 141,000 feet, 28 miles, which is exactly where the ozone layer lies. In hindsight it was a ludicrous idea. "The impetus for these tests was derived from the uncertainty in U.S. capability to discern Soviet high-altitude nuclear detonation," read one classified report.
Page 172: On August 27, August 30, and September 6, 1958, three nuclear warheads were launched from X-17 rockets from the deck of the USS Norton Sound as the warship floated off the coast of South Africa in the South Atlantic Ocean. Up went the missles and warheads until they exploded approximately three hundred miles into space. This "scientific experiment" was the brainchild of a Greek elevator operator turned physicist, Nicholas Christofilos. Christofilos convinced Killian that a nuclear explosion occuring above the Earth's atmosphere--but within the Earth's magnetic field--might produce an electronic pulse that could hypothetically damage the arming devices on Soviet ICBM warheads trying to make their way into the United States....The tests failed.
Page 175: On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar Bomba, the hydrogen bomb had an unbelievable yield of fifty megatons, roughly ten times the amount of all the explosives used in seven years of war during World War II, including both nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Page 224: The majority of the records regarding how much radiation pilots were exposed to in these early years and who died of radiation-related diseases have allegedly been destroyed or lost.
Page 312: In January of 2002, as part of the Nevada Environmental Restoration Project, the National Nuclear Security Administration conducted a study regarding the proposed cleanup of the contaminated land at Area 25. The report revealed that the following radioactive elements were still present at the time: "cobalt-60 (Co-60); strontium-90 (Sr-90); yttrium-90 (Y-90); niobium-94 (Nb-94); cesium-137 (Cs-137); barium-137m (Ba-137m); europium-152, -154, and -155 (Eu-152, Eu-154, Eu-155); uranium-234, -235, -238 (U-234, U-235, U-238); plutonium -239/240 (Pu-239/240); and americium-241 (Am-241)," and that these radioactive contaminates "may have percolated into the underlying soil."
Good read except for the nonsense on Roswell.
On page 368: In July of 1947, Army intelligence spearheaded the efforts to retrieve the remains of the flying disc that crashed at Roswell. And as with other stories that have become the legends of Area 51, part of the conspiracy theory about Roswell has its origins in truth. The crash did reveal a disc, not a weather balloon, as has subsequently been alleged by the Air Force. And responders from the Roswell Army Air Field found not only a crashed craft, but also two crash sites, and they found bodies alongside the crashed craft. These were not aliens. Nor were they consenting airmen. They were human guinea pigs. Unusually petite for pilots, they appeared to be children. Each was under five feet tall. Physically, the bodies of the aviators revealed anatomical conundrums. They were grotesquely deformed, but each in the same manner as the others. They had unusually large heads and abnormally shaped oversize eyes. One fact was clear: these children, if that's what they were, were not healthy humans. A second fact was shocking. Two of the child-size aviators were comatose but still alive.
Page 370: There was the crashed craft that had been sent by Stalin--with its Russian writing stamped, or embossed, in a ring around the inside of the craft.
Page 371: The EG and G engineers were told that part of Joseph Stalin's offer to Josef Mengele stated that if he could create a crew of grotesque, child size aviators for Stalin, he would be given a laboratory in which to continue his work.
Page 372: One day I asked again. "Why didn't President Truman reveal the truth in 1947?" This time he answered.
"Because we were doing the same thing," he said. "They wanted to push science. They wanted to see how far they could go.
Then he said, "We did things I wish I had not done."
Then, "We performed medical experiments on handicapped children and prisoners."
"But you are not a doctor," I said.
"They wanted engineers."
"On whose authority did you act?"
"The Atomic Energy Commission was in charge. And Vannevar Bush," he said. "People were killed. In this great United States."
Get the picture? Her source wasn't named. I saw a recent clip from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and she told him it wasn't aliens. So we see yet another source of disinformation. I will say that the reading on the nuclear bomb testing is very good. You definitely get a picture of bomb testing that should have never gone off.
Page 116: Just two weeks before Project 57 contaminated 895 acres adjacent to Groom Lake with plutonium, Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling made a statement that spooked the public and threatened the tests. Pauling said that as a result of the nuclear tests, 1 percent of children born the following year would have serious birth defects.
Page 170: Two thermonuclear devices called Teak and Orange, each an astonishingly powerful 3.8 megatons, were exploded in the Earth's upper atmosphere at Johnston Atoll, 750 miles west of Hawaii. Teak went off at 252,000 feet, or 50 miles, and Orange went off at 141,000 feet, 28 miles, which is exactly where the ozone layer lies. In hindsight it was a ludicrous idea. "The impetus for these tests was derived from the uncertainty in U.S. capability to discern Soviet high-altitude nuclear detonation," read one classified report.
Page 172: On August 27, August 30, and September 6, 1958, three nuclear warheads were launched from X-17 rockets from the deck of the USS Norton Sound as the warship floated off the coast of South Africa in the South Atlantic Ocean. Up went the missles and warheads until they exploded approximately three hundred miles into space. This "scientific experiment" was the brainchild of a Greek elevator operator turned physicist, Nicholas Christofilos. Christofilos convinced Killian that a nuclear explosion occuring above the Earth's atmosphere--but within the Earth's magnetic field--might produce an electronic pulse that could hypothetically damage the arming devices on Soviet ICBM warheads trying to make their way into the United States....The tests failed.
Page 175: On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar Bomba, the hydrogen bomb had an unbelievable yield of fifty megatons, roughly ten times the amount of all the explosives used in seven years of war during World War II, including both nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Page 224: The majority of the records regarding how much radiation pilots were exposed to in these early years and who died of radiation-related diseases have allegedly been destroyed or lost.
Page 312: In January of 2002, as part of the Nevada Environmental Restoration Project, the National Nuclear Security Administration conducted a study regarding the proposed cleanup of the contaminated land at Area 25. The report revealed that the following radioactive elements were still present at the time: "cobalt-60 (Co-60); strontium-90 (Sr-90); yttrium-90 (Y-90); niobium-94 (Nb-94); cesium-137 (Cs-137); barium-137m (Ba-137m); europium-152, -154, and -155 (Eu-152, Eu-154, Eu-155); uranium-234, -235, -238 (U-234, U-235, U-238); plutonium -239/240 (Pu-239/240); and americium-241 (Am-241)," and that these radioactive contaminates "may have percolated into the underlying soil."
Good read except for the nonsense on Roswell.
I mean... comeon... 
