Nobody but me knows who that is. She wrote this chunk of dung which has somehow become the go-to reference on Area 51. She's trying to do that for Operation Paperclip, and the author of Werner Von Braun's most respected biography does his level best to deny her.
It seems like Jacobsen falls victim to the same problem many documentary film makers have (Michael Moore being a common example) - They become less interested in the truth and more interested in the "story". This unfortunately, as Neufeld mentions, eliminates any good that comes from uncovering new sources and information.you are now following #shitthatonlyinterestskleinbl00
Link related. thenewgreen - I used some other tag like "stuffonlykleinbl00caresabout" or something in the past and you and like seven other people followed it. Apparently I ought to be consistent in the interests of curation. What tag am I looking for?
You sure it wasn't just a title of a post? This is what I come up with just using Google. Again, search is in the works. Promise.
Got yer back dude - shitthatonlyinterestskleinbl00 [edit - nevermind, that's the new one!]
From your Amazon link:
Crikey!Unknown to us, the author, to whom we were telling our life histories, somewhere along the way became an Investigative Journalist credulously seeking to associate our time at Area 51 with the so-called Roswell flying saucer crash in 1947. Unknown to us, she located an elderly former employee of the Atomic Energy Commission whose mind now recalls seeing a Russian-made flying saucer constructed by Stalin that reportedly crashed at Roswell packed with medically and genetically altered children as pilots. According to Jacobsen writing in first person and stating as facts, Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele worked with Stalin to create these alien-looking children and this unidentified witness, a nuclear engineer, was given the job of caring for the comatose child pilots encased in vertical tubular tanks filled with Jell-O-like substance and life support systems. Why, if Russia having this technology in 1947, we arent all speaking the Russian language today, or why a nuclear engineer would be called upon to medically care for comatose children encased in Jell-O-like substance is totally lacking in Jacobsens book. However, on the basis of the sole-source stories of an elderly, unidentified witness, Jacobsen and her publisher completely changed the focus of her book from one of heroics to one of horror and fantasy. When presented with discrepancies in her book and on her website promoting the book, Jacobsen refused to correct them, stating she stands by what she was told or wrote.
Oh god, that book. Yea, fuck that book. As someone who was way into the mythos of Groom Lake, I laughed more than I should have reading this, geez, already three years ago now? Narrative is more important that facts or reality to some people.