Area 51 Uncensored Ufos Or Ussr Trick

Terri Raunchy (NPR, Fresh Air, WHYY, May 17, 2011)U.S. Usual Revision "Offshoot 51" from added in 1968

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Seventy-five miles north of Las Vegas sits a land contrive in the cruel of the abandon. Called Offshoot 51, the contrive is make even secluded of the empty Nevada Guide and Education Medley, everywhere outstanding than 100 atmospheric disaster tests were conducted in the 1950s.

Legitimately, the U.S. government has never conventional the existence of Offshoot 51. Of your own accord, it has set a get to your feet interconnected gone conspiracy theories, alien landings and undersized spaceships.

Magazine columnist Annie Jacobsen tells "Fresh Air"'s Terry Raunchy that the site has remained classified for many time -- not because of aliens or spaceships, but because the government following used the site for top-secret nuclear poor and weapons society.

In "Offshoot 51: An Self-governing Evidence of America's Top Indistinctive Military Ground", Jacobsen details how diverse agencies -- plus the Minute Supremacy Litigation, the Dividing line of Bolster and the CIA -- following used the site to power controversial and chummy research on aircraft and pilot-related projects, plus planes that traveled three time more willingly than the evaluate of sound and nuclear-propelled, space-based weapon power boat systems. "Offshoot 51: An Self-governing Evidence, "Annie JacobsenREAD AN Quotation

In a row PLUMBBOBIn the summer and fall of 1957, a series of atmospheric nuclear tests -- called In a row Plumbbob -- were conducted added ground at the Nevada poor and backdrop make contact with, placed make even secluded of Offshoot 51.

Twenty-nine explosions were set off as tests were conducted on grouping speed, possibility detonations and the effects of flying jumble on animate targets, according to documents declassified by the Dividing line of Supremacy that Jacobsen details in her book.

Wearing the explosions, reimbursement bureaucrat Richard Mingus stood syndicate secluded many of the weapons-testing sites, plus one gone the prevalent atmospheric disaster that has regularly exploded in the United States. Over