By Stanton friedman
www.stantonfriedman.com6-4-11
I frankly cannot remember the last time a "UFO" book was published that received as much attention as did the publication in May of Annie Jacobsen's "Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's TOP SECRET Military Base". The book is a big one at 523 pages and was published by Little, Brown and Company. The last 133 pages are notes. I am listed as one of 45 secondary interviews along with investigative Journalist George Knapp, Norio Hayakawa and Robert Lazar. Strangely, what has received the most attention, despite the title, is the claim of a totally new explanation for the Roswell Incident.
There have, of course, been several official Roswell explanations put forth by the government, including a "flying Saucer"; a weather balloon radar reflector combination; a Mogul balloon train and my favorite, to explain reports of alien bodies: Crash test dummies dropped all over New Mexico. Of course, none were dropped before 1953 and all were 6' tall and weighed 175 pounds and were in USAF pilot uniforms. Unfortunately, this ridiculous explanation was uncritically accepted by the New York Times which also carried a favorable review of the new book.In stark contrast the Washington Post of June 3 carried a scathing review.
As the original civilian investigator of the Roswell Incident, I have been convinced, based on my own very extensive research, and on that of other serious investigators such as Don Berliner (we co authored "Crash at Corona: The Definitive study of the Roswell Incident"), Don Schmitt and Tom Carey's "Witness to Roswell" and Don Schmitt's and Kevin Randle's Roswell books as well as research by Dennis Balthaser, Dr. David Rudiak and others, that the explanation best fit by the evidence is an alien spacecraft. Of course, the debunker explanation is always "ABA" or "Anything But Alien".
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