After a U-2 was shot down by a Soviet anti-air missile in 1960, the CIA began developing the next generation of spy plane at Area 51: the titanium-bodied A-12. Nearly undetectable to radar, the A-12 could fly across the continental United States in 70 minutes at 2,200 miles an hour. The plane also was equipped with cameras that could, from an altitude of 90,000 feet, photograph objects just one-foot long on the ground. Aliens and UFOs become part of Area 51 lore Any issues with the book list you are seeing? Or is there an author or series we don’t have? Let me know! Cult: After aliens have been revealed to exist, along with their ships, overnight a religion arising worshiping them as saviors (under leadership of their brainwashed servants). Other sects also get mentioned, with some more like Heaven's Gate, which perform mass suicides like them believing they'll be taken to a better place by the aliens.

After the incident, Reid becomes fascinated with aliens and Area 51. Reid spends months planning to infiltrate Area 51 to uncover the base's secrets. However, Reid's obsessive extraterrestrial research leaves him detached from his family and he loses his job. Reid recruits Darrin and Ben to help him infiltrate Area 51. Together with Jelena, another conspiracy theorist whose father worked at Area 51, they contrive to sneak onto the military base using signal jammers, night vision goggles, Freon-laced jumpsuits, and pills to mask their ammonia levels. Artifact Domination: The Airlia computers mentally dominate the people who foolishly turned them on.Synthetic Plague: The Mission, an alien front organization, genetically alters the bubonic plague to unleash it and cull humanity when we're deemed as a threat. It's stated the original mass bubonic plague outbreak in the 1200s is their work too, with the same goal. The protagonists only barely manage to stop it. A life-long alien enthusiast and comedian, Brian Moreno, hires a film crew to follow him on his extra-terrestrial fact finding adventure to the viral "Storming Area 51" event.

The honest answer about what's really at Area 51 is "nobody knows for sure." Except for the people who do know, obviously, and they certainly aren't going to tell you about it. An alien-obsessed podcaster and his friends travel to AREA 51 and find themselves on the run and on the menu in the deadly no-man's land outside the base. When a former Area 51 insider alleges that the Roswell UFO incident was a nefarious Soviet conspiracy masterminded by Stalin, experts investigate if it was indeed an enemy plot against America or if the confession is just another cover-up. Hynek and Quinn investigate reports of a soldier who was allegedly taken inside a flying saucer at a remote military base in Nevada, and learn why the secrets contained in Area 51 should not be released.Jacobsen’s expansive, well-written narrative takes in the sweep of Cold War history, from the Bay of Pigs to Francis Gary Powers to Joe Stalin to Vietnam to the Nazi doctors pressed into service by U.S. and USSR alike—and none of it is pretty…Jacobsen provides an endlessly fascinating—and quite scary—book.” Ancient Astronauts: The series reveals there is an alien species that has interfered with humanity throughout our history, and has maintained a presence into the modern day. They were the creators of most famous edifices (the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, Stonehenge etc.). In fact two factions exist who have both battled each other for millennia, and their leaders took various guises (such as King Arthur) to win humans' support. Basically all myths of gods, ancient heroes and lost lands (like Atlantis) come from their past interference. This conflict boils over to the present in the novels. It's also revealed their species is combating another who's even worse. Humans, it turns out, were genetically engineered by them as soldiers to fight in this war. We're not even native to Earth. That's about all we know about Area 51. As for UFOs, there's a bit more: The government's investigation of unidentified phenomena did not end with Operation Blue Book. Gallery: Declassified US spy satellite photos & designs How did Area 51 come to be associated with UFOs? As You Know: In several cases necessary information is given to the reader by repeating things characters already know. Sometimes it's lampshaded, such as Mualama's nephew Lago (whom he does this with) feeling annoyed that he's getting another lecture on things he's aware of (his uncle is a professor). Mostly though it's given by other means, such as briefings or discoveries conveyed to characters that didn't know about it.