Did they broast the faux-alien midget? I LOVE broasted faux-alien midget with panko bread crumbs. I’d recommend a nice fruity white wine to go with that as well. Bon appetit!
-XT
Okay, I finished reading the book. After the initial bit about the Horten brothers, it becomes what appears to be a sober history of Area 51, with parts of it coincididing with what I’ve read elsewhere. She has sections that seem to be based on only one or two sources that claim to be The First REvelation Anywhere! that I can’t verify or debunk.
Twice at least she screws up on minor points that annoy me . One of these is the claim that the James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever depicts a faked moon-landing conspiracy. It doesn’t in 1971, when it came out, nobody believed the moon landings had been faked. It was clearly depicting a simulation or training exercise. As even She admits, the “No-Moon-Landing” craziness started three years later in 1974. The other part was where she refers to the “Caspian Sea Monster” as an “ekranopian”. It’s “EkranoPLAN”, as in “plane” (something the neo-James Bond novel Devil May Care got right. She needs to brush up on her James Bond. My point is that less than 60 seconds on the internet would have set both these errors right.It does make you wonder how accurate the rest of her book is.
It’s at the end of the booki, where she revisits the flying saucer business, that she gets hit by the galloping crazies again. Stalin got the Horton brothers to build an unprecedented flying saucer with unprecedented stealth technology (the WWII carbon-in-glue would not, I suspect, have worked all that well on a long-track flight with more up-to-date radar) and unprecedented remote-piloting and unprecedented hover capability and unprecedented high-speed flight with genetically- or surgically-altered people inside and crashed this in the New Mexico desert. Right. Several times over.
And in all the time since, nobody outside the US or Russia has duplicated this flying saucer or the hover technology and great flying capability. And no one, even in the US or Russia, has thought to use this hover capability for the many great technical and life-saving purposes it could be used for, it apparently being felt more important to Keep It Under Wraps.
And Stalin’s purpose in this was to create a “Man from Mars/War of the Worlds” scare to set off a panic in the US? Then why the hell did he put Cyrillic lettering on the craft?
This is literally a story out of science fiction. I’m not talking about the graphic novel verwsion of The Watchmen, and its many literary forbears. More explicitly, it’s in Quatermass and the Pit (and its US featureversion, Five Milliojn Years to Earth), where the (ironically, real in the film) alien spacecraft with its aliens and proto-humans are dismissed by the military officer as a panic-inducing propaganda trick by the Third Reich.
Sorry. There are so many holes in this story, you could fly a flying saucer through them.
Considering that we’re dealing with Russians, that actually makes the story more plausible. 
Sounds like a Clive Cussler novel. And probably is about as true.
That’s what they want you to think. Convince 'em that the crazy shit is crazy, then they’ll be distracted by ordinary technology and the Mengelian midgets can sneak right on by.
Has anyone else realized that the new Jacobsen revelations almost certainly explain the disappearance of Flight 19 over the Bermuda Triangle? The pilots were tracking a Horton-designed Soviet saucer but had to invent that cover-up about navigational problems to fool listeners. Then when they caught up with the saucer they were teleported to the Soviet Union and de-aged/miniaturized so they’d forget what they’d seen.
My source tells me this is on the level, and cannot be refuted.
Does SI does a special issue on this topic, like their swimsuit issue?
I’ve seen many SI contributors, and pictures of many others. I don’t think I’d want to see a Swimsuit Issue.
For those who are wondering: SI does not refer only to Sports Illustrated, it is also an acronym for the Skeptical Inquirer magazine.
Watch for the cover story of their next issue: “Debunking the Orlando ‘Magic’”!
I was joking, but you knew that, right?
Jeez, ya wanna drag telepathy into this now?!