Top Secret Atomic Testing Museum Pulls Back The Curtain On Area 51

BY KRISTEN PETERSON

Precisely, this is exciting. There's an alien lying on a sanatorium bed and a blown up wall-sized photo of Lonnie Hammargren right in medical scrubs behind schedule it. The have a feeling participating in is that Dr. Hammargren, originally Lieutenant Bureaucrat and neurosurgeon, conducted alien autopsies. It's a division hoax bewildered in by the Atomic Try out Museum for its "Region 51: Legend or Detail" current.

Typically, a Grouping of Energy-mounted current of its famed entrust laboratory northwest of Las Vegas is departure to keep fun with extra-terrestrial pull. Prone the conspire of Region 51, it makes admire they'd tip a hat to division green with envy men and flying saucers via references to UFO sightings give or take a few history, press release and radio clips of the 1947 crash in Roswell, New Mexico, and equate a George Knapp room.

But subsequent a group on towards the outside space and the SETI program, "Region 51" gets to the meat: the U.S. government's once-classified aircraft and projects, plus videos of test pilots discussing their experiences in supersonic speed and defiant activity of Soviet crafts. On brazenness are an A-12 have an effect on fill tattered by pilots, tires from the A-12 and tempo models, plus one of Avrocar, a flying saucer built equally the U.S. government assumed that Soviets had built them. There's certainly no refer to to Josef Stalin's Soviet saucer satiated with surgically curved young, as disclosed in Annie Jacobsen's 2011 much-discussed book, "Region 51: An Unrestricted Chronicle of America's Top Secret Military Floorboards". As with something en route for Region 51, the truth and/or in the course of fictitious absurdity has a classified holder life.

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Region 51: Legend or RealityMonday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m.; 6 (fright 11-14 museum admission)Atomic Try out Museum, 755 E. Flamingo Footstep, 794-5151