03989cam a2200361 4500 231479992 TxAuBib 20150531120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781549118081 1549118080 fc88eb46-e167-4402-8619-1225af47f526 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 566517 OverDrive (Product ID) 566517 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Jacobsen, Annie. Area 51 [Libby] : An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base. Hachette Audiobooks, 2011. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 445MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 445MB. Science. Nonfiction. This exhaustive history of Area 51 describes the secret military base that sits on a thousand square miles in the Nevada desert. Jacobsen reveals much about its nuclear testing site, black-ops training ground, test flights, and rumored encounters with aliens. The author's reading is straightforward as she recites detail after detail, pulling stories from recently declassified materials and personal interviews. Her delivery has little emotion or differentiation between narrative and dialogue. Listeners expecting a tell-all about UFOs and aliens will be disappointed, yet secrets are revealed. Sixteen hours are more than enough to convince listeners that there's more in this desert country than sand and scorpions. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. HTML:<p>Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now. Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to twenty men who served on the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged seventy-five to ninety-two; she also had unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of whom lived and worked there for extended periods. In Area 51, Jacobsen shows us what has really gone on in the Nevada desert, from testing nuclear weapons to building supersecret supersonic jets to pursuing the War on Terror. This is the first book based on interviews with eyewitnesses to Area 51 history, which makes it the seminal work on the subject. Filled with formerly classified information that has never been accurately decoded for the public, Area 51 weaves the mysterious activities of the top secret base into a gripping narrative, showing that fact is often more fantastic than fiction, especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-01 20:00:02. http://sandoval.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=fc88eb46-e167-4402-8619-1225af47f526 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0017-1/566517-Area51.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0017-1/566517-Area51.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FC88EB46-E167-4402-8619-1225AF47F526&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0017-1/566517-Area51.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0017-1/566517-Area51.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FC88EB46-E167-4402-8619-1225AF47F526&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)