“Over the next five years, DARPA’s biohybrid programs advanced at an astonishing pace. Microprocessor technology was doubling in capacity every eighteen months.… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51. — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The idea that Area 51 was this test facility working to move science and technology faster and further than any other nation… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Brown believed that technological superiority was imperative to military dominance, and he also believed that advancing science was the key to economic… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Licklider believed that computers could one day change the world for the better. He envisioned “home computer consoles,” with people sitting in… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught. — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Von Neumann saw great promise in a redesign of the ENIAC computer’s memory. He believed there was a way to turn the… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Over the next five years, DARPA’s biohybrid programs advanced at an astonishing pace. Microprocessor technology was doubling in capacity every eighteen months. By June… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Eisenhower’s test ban had failed, and the United States and the Soviet Union had both returned… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“By contrast, Dresher and Flood found that the minority of game players who refused to testify against their criminal partner were almost always of… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“To address strength and endurance issues, Goldblatt initiated a program called the Mechanically Dominant Soldier. What if soldiers could have ten times the muscle… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The area out at Area 51 that was part of the Operation Plumbbob test continues to be contaminated. It was not cleaned up until… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs. — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords. — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I examined a lot of CIA declassified UFO files, which are fascinating, because there was a huge UFO craze going on in America. There… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
You can absolutely drive through an atmospheric bomb test and not be affected. — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“The war in Europe was over. Germans called it die Stunde Null, zero hour. Cities lay in ruins. Allied bombing had destroyed more than… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Poindexter’s background was in submarines, and there was an analogy here, he told Tether. Submarines emit sound signals as they move through the sea.… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there. — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
