Annie Jacobsen's 2011 investigative history of Area 51 — the classified US Air Force installation in Nevada — based on interviews with former employees, revealing the real programs (U-2 spy plane, SR-71, nuclear tests) that generated the UFO folklore.
Provides the most detailed journalistic account of Area 51's actual classified programs — showing that the UFO stories were real government operations (U-2, SR-71, nuclear testing) misidentified by civilians, while adding a controversial final claim about a crashed Soviet craft.
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