I just finished Area 51: The Uncensored History of America’s Top-Secret Military Base, Annie Jacobsen’s book about the military base in Nevada which officially doesn’t exist. It is a page-turner of a book for those of us who’ve often wondered what goes on at the base, with former workers discussing what life is like there.

Jacobsen says she got the idea for the book after meeting a retired Area 51 worker at a party, who shared some tales with her because the project he had worked on, the A-12 Oxcart, had recently been declassified.
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