THE UFO CHRONICLES

Monday, May 23, 2011

AUDIO INTERVIEW with Annie Jacobsen | Area 51 'Uncensored': Was It UFOs Or The USSR?

By Terry Gross
Fresh Air (NPR)
www.npr.org
5-17-11

Seventy-five miles north of Las Vegas sits a land parcel in the middle of the desert. Called Area 51, the parcel is just outside of the abandoned Nevada Test and Training Range, where more than 100 atmospheric bomb tests were conducted in the 1950s. Officially, the U.S. government has never acknowledged the existence of Area 51. Unofficially, it has become a place associated with conspiracy theories, alien landings and tiny spaceships.

Journalist Annie Jacobsen tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that the site has remained classified for many years — not because of aliens or spaceships, but because the government once used the site for top-secret nuclear testing and weapons development.