New Book On Area 51

[Jan Klimkowski]

I've read the book and lingered over Jacobsen's breathless tale of how Josef Mengele -- alive and well and working for Uncle Joe -- bred a race of big-headed midget children, stuffed a handful into one of Stalin's Nazi-developed flying saucers, and sent them and it to crash in Roswell. Stalin's motive: Something about scaring the Americans with alien boogymen, or ...

She's serious. She bought that Weekly World News tabloid bullshit.

But here's where she really falls apart: Jacobsen's ingenuousness (as in "lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness") in matters deep political manifests most hideously in her inability to ask the simple, obvious, all-important question:

Why would Stalin gift America with beyond-cutting-edge technology simply to scare Uncle Sam out of his red, white and blue-striped pants?

Charles - indeed.

Jacobsen is an ingenue, totally out of her depth.

Her book is most likely an officially sanctioned limited hangout. Indeed, it reminds me somewhat of the limited hangout around the "psychic spies".

Which begs the question: is Jacobsen witting or unwitting in her peddling of this limited hangout?

As a footnote, the story of Stealth's secret development is a crushing rebuttal of those who claim that "conspiracy theories" are rubbish because once secrets are know to hundreds or thousands of people, then they cannot remain secret.

The F-117 Nighthawk Stealth fighter was decades in development, and made its maiden flight in Groom Lake (aka Area 51).

The plane was operational from 1983.

The F-117 was not officially acknowledged by the US government until 1988.