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UFO Headquarters: Investigations on Current Extraterrestrial Activity in Area 51
The government said it needed Area 51 to protect America. They said they needed it for research. Now some say it has all been a terrible lie...
In the annals of UFO controversies there has never been a place like this: sixty square miles of desert and scrub just north of Las Vegas, Nevada. Officially known as a U.S. Air Force testing ground, this area has accounted for more UFO sightings and more inexplicable activity than any other in the world. leading experts to dub Area 51 "Earth's unofficial UFO headquarters."
Now UFO writer Susan Wright seeks to answer the riddle once and for all, delving into previously secret government documents, drawing on eyewitness accounts, and ripping the veil of secrecy off Area 51 and the research that really goes on there. The result is the most shocking and thoroughly documented UFO book you have ever read, a book that demonstrates that for fifty years the U.S. government has had one overriding policy on Area 51: whenever confronted with suspicions, facts, or photographs-conceal, deny and lie...
In the annals of UFO controversies there has never been a place like this: sixty square miles of desert and scrub just north of Las Vegas, Nevada. Officially known as a U.S. Air Force testing ground, this area has accounted for more UFO sightings and more inexplicable activity than any other in the world. leading experts to dub Area 51 "Earth's unofficial UFO headquarters."
Now UFO writer Susan Wright seeks to answer the riddle once and for all, delving into previously secret government documents, drawing on eyewitness accounts, and ripping the veil of secrecy off Area 51 and the research that really goes on there. The result is the most shocking and thoroughly documented UFO book you have ever read, a book that demonstrates that for fifty years the U.S. government has had one overriding policy on Area 51: whenever confronted with suspicions, facts, or photographs-conceal, deny and lie...
320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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Susan Wright
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Susan Wright (aka S.L. Wright) is a USA Today Bestselling author of more than two dozen novels and nonfiction books. She writes New Adult Contemporary Romance novels, as well as Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Science Fiction and Star Trek novels, and has been published by Pocket Books, Penguin Group, St. Martin’s Press and Kensington.
Susan Wright (aka S.L. Wright) is a USA Today Bestselling author of more than two dozen novels and nonfiction books. She writes New Adult Contemporary Romance novels, as well as Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Science Fiction and Star Trek novels, and has been published by Pocket Books, Penguin Group, St. Martin’s Press and Kensington.
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May 20, 2015
Susan Wright (aka S.L. Wright) is the author of a number of how-to and art books as well as novels in the areas of sado-masochism and science fiction, most of them in various Star Trek series. This, then, is a popular book about UFOs and Area 51, entertaining but not representative of serious research.
May 13, 2024
THE AUTHOR LOOKS CRITICALLY AT MANY REPORTED UFO TOPICS
Author Susan Wright wrote in the first chapter of this 1998 book, “Like all of my research, the UFO phenomenon persistently tried to hide its secrets. But as my forays into Area 51 certainly proved, we may not know exactly what’s going on, but there’s far too much evidence that SOMETHING is happening to continue to ignore it. So let’s peel back the layers of secrecy and see that’s hidden within the UFO phenomenon, using the secret government base at Area 51 as the UFO Rosetta stone.” (Pg. 19)
She recounts, “Some investigators still believe that that MJ-12 documents are proof of the existence of a ‘covert analytical effort. Stanley [sic; ‘Stanton’] Friedman researched the MJ-12 document and even receive a research grant of $16,000 from the Fund for UFO Research… Friedman’s latest book, ‘Top Secret Majic,’ contains references to an alleged Majestic-12 operations manual … the ‘receiving facility’ listed for most of them is ‘Area 51 S-4.’ There’s one problem---the date on the Majestic-12 operations manual is April 1954. In researching the Department of Energy’s database, I learned that was over a year before construction was begun on the ‘Watertownajestic-12 documents are fake, who is responsible? William Moore at first claimed he had been chosen by MJ-12 to make disclosures to the public about alien beings. Then Moore publicly confessed in the 1989 MUFON… symposium in Las Vegas that he had lied about being a ‘controlled informant.’ Moore was certainly involved in the matter right from the beginning, including passing disinformation…” (Pg. 96)
She says of Lt. Col. Corso [author of ‘The Day After Roswell’] “Karl Pflock issued a rebuttal in ‘Saucer Smear'… ‘As for Corso’s alleged heroic exposure of sordid and secret Cold War activities concerning POWs and decades of U.S. incursions into Soviet airspace with significant losses of aircraft and aircrews---baloney! Most of what Corso had to say to Congress was OLD NEWS, and much of the rest was highly questionable. And Project Horizon, the Army’s moon-base plan? Anyone who has paid any serious attention to U.S. space programs since the 50s has known about it for decades.’” (Pg. 116-117)
She continues, “It doesn’t help Corso’s credibility that Senator Strom Thurmond, who wrote the foreword to Corso’s book, told the Associated Press that he had not been properly informed of the content of the book… When Thurmond learned about the UFO content, the senator insisted, ‘I did not, and would not, pen the foreword to a book about, or containing, a suggestion that the success of the United States in the Cold War is attributable to the technology found on a crashed UFO.’ [Corso’s] publisher… has agreed to remove Senator Thurmond’s foreword and cover blurb from all future editions of the book.” (Pg. 118)
She adds, “[Ufologist] Kevin Randle notes that Corso made references to his involvement in MJ-12 in his original book proposal: ‘In that proposal Corso claims to be a member of MJ-12… Now I’m told that all references to Corso being a member of MJ-12 have been eliminated from the book. To me, this suggests that Corso, credentials and all, is not a solid source. It seems to me that he is another of those who is jumping on the Roswell bandwagon at this late date.’” (Pg. 118-119)
She notes, “[Glenn] Campbell points out that even cameras aren’t 100 percent reliable. Saucerlike spots can appear on pictures because of a defect in the film emulsion or on the final print. If the saucer shape is bright, it could be a case of lens flare, a light leak in the camera, or a reflection from outside. Yet in the ‘Area 51 Viewer’s Guide,’ Campbell concedes, ‘Nonetheless, we should not entirely discount the possibility that the camera might see something that the eyes does not. For one thing, the camera might see something that the eye does not. For one thing, the camera has a wider field of view, at least for detailed objects, than the eye does at any one instance.’” (Pg. 143)
Of Bob Lazar, she records, “Tom Mahood… did extensive research on Bob Lazar’s claims … that he ‘identified’ [element] 115’. First off, he’s on the job for the equivalent of about a week and … he discovers just what the magic material is that does all this. If true, it would seem Lazar has one of the better first work weeks in the history of mankind!’” (Pg. 170) Glenn Campbell notes, “At a conference in May, Lazar willingly provided the names of two of his professors---one at MIT and one at Cal-Tech---with the same apparent sincerity as his description of anti-matter reactors. Didn’t check out. Prof. Hohsfield or his ghost never haunted MIT, while Prof. Duxler was never at Cal-Tech, only at the junior college where Lazar once took classes.” (Pg. 172)
This book will be of great interest to those studying UFOs, Roswell, and related topics.
Author Susan Wright wrote in the first chapter of this 1998 book, “Like all of my research, the UFO phenomenon persistently tried to hide its secrets. But as my forays into Area 51 certainly proved, we may not know exactly what’s going on, but there’s far too much evidence that SOMETHING is happening to continue to ignore it. So let’s peel back the layers of secrecy and see that’s hidden within the UFO phenomenon, using the secret government base at Area 51 as the UFO Rosetta stone.” (Pg. 19)
She recounts, “Some investigators still believe that that MJ-12 documents are proof of the existence of a ‘covert analytical effort. Stanley [sic; ‘Stanton’] Friedman researched the MJ-12 document and even receive a research grant of $16,000 from the Fund for UFO Research… Friedman’s latest book, ‘Top Secret Majic,’ contains references to an alleged Majestic-12 operations manual … the ‘receiving facility’ listed for most of them is ‘Area 51 S-4.’ There’s one problem---the date on the Majestic-12 operations manual is April 1954. In researching the Department of Energy’s database, I learned that was over a year before construction was begun on the ‘Watertownajestic-12 documents are fake, who is responsible? William Moore at first claimed he had been chosen by MJ-12 to make disclosures to the public about alien beings. Then Moore publicly confessed in the 1989 MUFON… symposium in Las Vegas that he had lied about being a ‘controlled informant.’ Moore was certainly involved in the matter right from the beginning, including passing disinformation…” (Pg. 96)
She says of Lt. Col. Corso [author of ‘The Day After Roswell’] “Karl Pflock issued a rebuttal in ‘Saucer Smear'… ‘As for Corso’s alleged heroic exposure of sordid and secret Cold War activities concerning POWs and decades of U.S. incursions into Soviet airspace with significant losses of aircraft and aircrews---baloney! Most of what Corso had to say to Congress was OLD NEWS, and much of the rest was highly questionable. And Project Horizon, the Army’s moon-base plan? Anyone who has paid any serious attention to U.S. space programs since the 50s has known about it for decades.’” (Pg. 116-117)
She continues, “It doesn’t help Corso’s credibility that Senator Strom Thurmond, who wrote the foreword to Corso’s book, told the Associated Press that he had not been properly informed of the content of the book… When Thurmond learned about the UFO content, the senator insisted, ‘I did not, and would not, pen the foreword to a book about, or containing, a suggestion that the success of the United States in the Cold War is attributable to the technology found on a crashed UFO.’ [Corso’s] publisher… has agreed to remove Senator Thurmond’s foreword and cover blurb from all future editions of the book.” (Pg. 118)
She adds, “[Ufologist] Kevin Randle notes that Corso made references to his involvement in MJ-12 in his original book proposal: ‘In that proposal Corso claims to be a member of MJ-12… Now I’m told that all references to Corso being a member of MJ-12 have been eliminated from the book. To me, this suggests that Corso, credentials and all, is not a solid source. It seems to me that he is another of those who is jumping on the Roswell bandwagon at this late date.’” (Pg. 118-119)
She notes, “[Glenn] Campbell points out that even cameras aren’t 100 percent reliable. Saucerlike spots can appear on pictures because of a defect in the film emulsion or on the final print. If the saucer shape is bright, it could be a case of lens flare, a light leak in the camera, or a reflection from outside. Yet in the ‘Area 51 Viewer’s Guide,’ Campbell concedes, ‘Nonetheless, we should not entirely discount the possibility that the camera might see something that the eyes does not. For one thing, the camera might see something that the eye does not. For one thing, the camera has a wider field of view, at least for detailed objects, than the eye does at any one instance.’” (Pg. 143)
Of Bob Lazar, she records, “Tom Mahood… did extensive research on Bob Lazar’s claims … that he ‘identified’ [element] 115’. First off, he’s on the job for the equivalent of about a week and … he discovers just what the magic material is that does all this. If true, it would seem Lazar has one of the better first work weeks in the history of mankind!’” (Pg. 170) Glenn Campbell notes, “At a conference in May, Lazar willingly provided the names of two of his professors---one at MIT and one at Cal-Tech---with the same apparent sincerity as his description of anti-matter reactors. Didn’t check out. Prof. Hohsfield or his ghost never haunted MIT, while Prof. Duxler was never at Cal-Tech, only at the junior college where Lazar once took classes.” (Pg. 172)
This book will be of great interest to those studying UFOs, Roswell, and related topics.
June 18, 2016
Well-researched
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