i wouldn t be here if i didn t have that sense of curiosity. what i am going to start with. on and going to actually read you two paragraphs from bible but i am going to set the stage a little bit first and let you know where area 51 is other than people s imaginations because it really does exist and it is located in southern nevada about 70 miles north of las vegas. it is in a much bigger parcel of land that is the largest federal restricted piece of real estate in the united states. it is about the size of connecticut and is called the nevada test and trading range. inside the nevada test and trading range there s a 1,350 square-mile parcel called the nevada test site which is divided into quadrants. the quadrant numbers have changed and shifted and gone underground over the years but in essence they are 1 through 30 with some mysteriously missing. area 51 sits just outside the nevada test site but inside the greater land parcel that is the nevada test and trading range an
like the first drops of summer rain, and only a few months earlier, scientists at area 5 # 1 had been baffled by those black dots. they worried it was some kind of high atmosphere corrosion until the mystery was solved in the lab. it turned out they were dead bugs cycling around in the upper atmosphere blasted into the jet stream by the world s two superpowers rally of nuclear bodily harms. the bugs were killed in the blast and sent aloft to 90,000 feet in the mushroom clouds as they gained orbit. when i came across that detail, i found it incredible and thought to myself, what on earth, or that high up, are dead bugs doing circling around? i didn t understand being 43 years old, not living through the cold war to the extent that my sources did. well, i was 40 when i started the book. it doesn t make sense why the bugs were there. it s an analogy of what area 51 is. it was set up to conduct espionage on the soviet union. the cia began building its base there in 1955 with th
other than in people s imaginations it really does exist. located southern nevada 75 miles north of las vegas. it is in a much bigger parcel of land that is the largest federally restricted piece of real estate in the united states about the size of connecticut called nevada test and training range. inside they re there is 1,350 square mile parcel called the nevada test site. that is divided into quadrants. quadra members have changed and shifted and have gone underground over the years but in essence it is number one through 30 with some missing mysteriously. area $0.51 just outside of the nevada test site in sight inside the crater parcel of the test and training range. it is there that that the basis of my book centers and that is where many of the most secret and most alarming perhaps national security projects took place but also many of the most fantastic was that kept us a, arguably and kept us out of world war iii with the russians and helped our pilots in vietnam