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The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.

From Annie Jacobsen

In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.

From Annie Jacobsen

To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung.

From Annie Jacobsen

In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.

From Annie Jacobsen

One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area 51 is this drone called the 'Beast of Kandahar' which does not fire missiles, unlike the Predator and the Reaper, but just conducts surveillance.

From Annie Jacobsen

Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.

From Annie Jacobsen

Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'

From Annie Jacobsen

Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

From Annie Jacobsen

I examined a lot of CIA declassified UFO files, which are fascinating, because there was a huge UFO craze going on in America. There still is today, but it certainly started in '47. And by the '50s, it was in full force.

From Annie Jacobsen

I believe it is called 'Area 51' because of a project, the very first project that went on out there, in 1951.

From Annie Jacobsen

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