Secrets secrets are no fun....well...now they're for everyone.

 I must admit, I've always had a little interest in UFOs and Area 51 since the first time I heard of its existence. This book snapped my full attention towards it the moment my peripherals picked it up. I must say, I wasn't dissatisfied with my purchase one bit. I get a fun sense of excitement learning about topics that were so secret at least in the past and gaining clues to what still might be going on with the government and what they're trying to hide.  

Annie Jacobsen....blew my mind away every time I turned the page. Classified black project after covert operation and covered up event all seemingly to connect to one another in the conclusion. About 100 miles north west from Las Vegas lies the largest land mass restricted to authorized government officials. Named the Nevada Test Site entirely, Area 51 is only a small part of the property in the north east corner. What goes on there is never really revealed until on average of thirty years after it happens and some things...are still black or classified.

Jacobsen's style of writing, was challenging but made up for it with it's unique and enjoyable nature. Annie takes a few pages to explain a series of events that occur in a grouping of years, then proceeds to spend the next hundred pages or so sending you on a wild goose chase in detailed reports and pieced together stories of members, technology, and degree of secrecy involved that were included in those events. Really she just about covers the whole time line in each section, but spices it up by telling you the whole story first, then going into detail about new Air Force officers, pilots, or CIA officials and their experiences either gathered by interviews or taken from past news and government stories. Throw in some of the funniest but also terrifying encounters with the Soviets in the Cold War's Arms Race and this text is gonna keep you drooling for more classified info.

The creation of so many different technologies and organizations are covered in the book as well. Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, Space Commands, MIT, and who was really behind the famed Project Manhattan. 

But, the thing your really dying to know....are Aliens real??? All I will say is in the beginning,  most UFOs were indeed US government and Russian spy planes. But, that's not the whole story. You'll have to read the book to find out yourself. And the best part, they're are still files kept black to this day since Area 51 opened up with one hangar and a few tents.

To conclude, give this book a shot whether your curious or not about government conspiracies. I will warn you though, be prepared to read the word clandestine once a freakin paragraph in some chapters.