Okay, let’s get right to it: What is Area 51, really? Annie JacobsenĪrea 51 was the birthplace of overhead espionage for the CIA. Our conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, follows. But she also left me with new mysteries I hadn’t even known to ask about. If anyone had answers for me, it was her. The result is basically the most comprehensive account of the history of Area 51 you can get without a super-high-level security clearance. To write the book, Jacobsen interviewed over 70 people who had first-hand knowledge of the secret facility, including 32 who lived and worked at Area 51. To get some answers without risking getting shot at by the US military, I called up Annie Jacobsen, author of the book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base.
Is it a place where the US government is hiding UFOs and aliens? Or is it just a boring military base? And if it’s just a boring military base, why is the US government so obsessed with keeping everything about it a secret? For decades, the American imagination has run wild conjuring up all sorts of conspiracy theories about what is really going on at the site. It’s an absurd (and incredibly dangerous) idea - the Air Force has warned that it will defend the facility vigorously - but the impulse behind it is perhaps understandable. You may have heard about the viral meme that could lead to people to storming Nevada’s famed Area 51 later this week in order to uncover the secrets of the mysterious US Air Force base.
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