The myth and rumors of flying UFO's was perpetrated by the CIA to throw off attention to what they were doing at area 51. It got a life of it's own and took off quickly when the press learned that UFO's sells papers and the media realized it garnered eyeballs.
These guys are the cream of the crop when it comes to building flying craft, they were light years ahead of anyone else in their technology and in their results. They were flat out the finest and most motivated of men in comparison to the men who build flying machines today. They did not park themselves on a project to milk the government and garner cost over runs. They got results!
They came up with the P-38, the U-2, the C-130, and the SR-71; F-117, B-2, remote sensing gear for arms control/inspection, The Predator and global hawk drones, NERVA Rockets and probably those fancy stealth modified Black Hawks from Neptune Spear and comms and radar gear.to name only a few achievements.
But now this...
I am half way through Annie Jacobsen's book, "Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base." If you are interested in Area 51 then this book is for you.
Some of Annie's critics put down Annie's research but now we have this to validate her investigative journalism...
"The first-ever declassified story of Area 51's origin is now available, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act filed years ago by George Washington University's National Security Archive. The (only lightly redacted) document is actually primarily a history of the U-2 and A-12 ("Oxcart") spy plane programs from the Cold War, but is remarkable for being the first-ever official unclassified acknowledgment of Area 51's purpose and its role in the program. Interesting tidbits include that the U-2 program was kicked off with a CIA check mailed personally to Lockheed Skunk Works chief Kelly Johnson for $1.25M; a U-2 was launched off an aircraft carrier to spy on French nuclear tests; and the U-2 delivery program itself was actually done under budget, a rarity for secret government programs then or now."
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