Area 51 isn't full of aliens?

Annie Jacobsen's new audiobook Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base will definitely disappoint UFOlogists.  Although she does address the alien issue, the audiobook is more focused on the military history of Area 51, and the story of the the book's genesis is the stuff writers dream of.  From the New York Times review:

"Ms. Jacobsen, a national security reporter and contributing editor to The Los Angeles Times Magazine, happened to be at a 2007 family dinner with her husband’s uncle’s wife’s sister’s 88-year-old husband, the physicist Edward Lovick, when Mr. Lovick leaned over and said, 'Have I got a good story for you.'. . .He plugged Ms. Jacobsen into a network of elderly scientists, pilots, engineers and other witnesses who had firsthand accounts of Area 51 and its surroundings, a test range located in southern Nevada."

Sounds like the perfect summer listen for those who enjoy a good debunking (and those who enjoy real military history and investigative journalism, of course).

Click here for the rest of the review.

Or click here for the audiobook.