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Where Is Area 51? (Where Is?) Kindle Edition

by Paula K. Manzanero (Author), Who HQ (Author), Tim Foley (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
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You'll find it on a map--but you'll never get anywhere near this top secret military base. What exactly is going on there?

Is Area 51 a top secret military base that lies in the middle of the barren Nevada desert? Or could it actually be a facility for examining aliens and their spaceships? People can't drive anywhere close to it; the US government rarely acknowledges its existence; and until recently, the airspace overhead was restricted! Conspiracy theories abound about what goes on at Area 51, especially since 1947 when strange objects were found in the middle of a field in Roswell, New Mexico. Author Paula K. Manzanero explains why Area 51 was established and reveals the mystery behind those unidentified flying objects in the sky. Check out this book and decide what you believe.
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    8 - 12 years
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    112 pages
  4. Language
    English
  5. Grade level
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    Penguin Workshop
  8. Publication date
    September 18, 2018
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Where Is Area 51?

 
On June 14, 1947, a ranch worker named William Brazel found a pile of strange items smack in the middle of an open field near Roswell, New Mexico. It included some wood, foil, and rubber. Where had these things come from? They weren’t things that belonged out on the ranch. When Brazel went to town on July 7, he told the local sheriff about what he’d found, who immediately reported the findings to the US Army Air Force base nearby in Alamogordo. The sheriff thought all of these things probably had come from the army airfield, which was just down the road. 
 
Right away, US government scientists arrived to investigate. They said that the found objects had been pieces of a crashed weather balloon. The Army Air Force had been testing large weather balloons in the area during a powerful storm earlier in the week.
 
This made sense, but some people were suspicious. Men from the base had arrived so quickly and cleaned the site so well. Were they trying to hide something? If so, what could it be? 
 
On July 8, the Roswell Daily Record printed a startling headline that said “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.” (The RAAF was the Roswell Army Air Field.) And the headline, although later corrected, fueled one of the greatest mysteries in US history.
 
Why would the newspaper print a story that wasn’t true? The residents of Roswell began to wonder. Some people—including many who lived nowhere near the town—began telling stories of metal beams and strange objects that had been recovered at Roswell. They believed the first newspaper story was true. They said that the army had removed all evidence of a flying saucer and its alien passengers.
 
As years passed, many of these people came to believe the “evidence” had been taken to a secret government site deep in the Nevada desert. The site was two states and nearly nine hundred miles away, on the edge of Groom Lake. It was referred to simply by its location on the map: Area 51, one of the most secretive, off-limits places on the planet.
 
 
Chapter 1: Just a Space on the Map
  
 
Area 51 is located in the southern corner of Nevada, in the harsh Mojave Desert of the western United States. There were originally iron and silver mines and small mining communities dotting the flat, dry landscape that includes mesas, salt flats, and dry lake beds of hardened clay. 
 
In 1942, there were only two dirt runways on the property near Groom Lake. The area was used by the US Army for bomb practice. The number fifty-one in Area 51 is believed to refer to the parcel of land as named on the surveyor’s map created in the early 1950s.
 
It was in these types of lonely desert areas of the American southwest that bombing tests could be conducted—including tests of the nuclear weapons used in World War II. The types of nuclear weapons that were being tested were explosive devices that released huge amounts of destructive energy. These included the hydrogen bomb and the atomic bomb. 
 
The US bases that developed these weapons included Los Alamos and Alamogordo, both in the state of New Mexico. 
 
Because even a small nuclear bomb can devastate an entire city, wide-open and unpopulated spaces were the safest places to test them. The US government also felt that the desert provided enough privacy for these top secret projects.
 
Area 51 sits just outside America’s only atomic bomb range, which was called the Nevada Test Site. From 1951 to 1992, nuclear weapons were exploded aboveground and underground in tunnels and specially drilled shafts.
 
At first, the site was called “Paradise Ranch” to attract employees. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted background checks on anyone wanting to work there. 
 
CIA agents asked each job applicant’s friends and neighbors if they thought the person might be a foreign spy. The CIA wanted to be absolutely certain that everyone working at the site could be trusted.
 
The land around the Nevada Test Site belonged to the Atomic Energy Commission. The US government has always referred to it simply—and mysteriously—as an “operating site,” never acknowledging the existence of Area 51 until as late as 1998!
 
Originally only six miles wide and ten miles long, Area 51 came to encompass over four hundred square miles of restricted land and airspace. (Restricted means that the area is very tightly controlled.) A large military airfield sits at its center, on the southern edge of Groom Lake. This dry lake bed, about three miles across, has become a US government landing strip for experimental aircraft. These are new types of planes that are developed with the very latest technologies.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B078LJY16T
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Workshop; Dgs edition (September 18, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 18, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 58518 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
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    Tim Foley is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist from Grand Rapids, Michigan. His web comic "Mose Goes Walkies" appears every day on Instagram, and his most recent graphic novel is the adaption of "What Unites Us" with Dan Rather. His illustrations have appeared in numerous publications and books for over thirty years, and have included clients like MacMillan, Penguin Young Readers, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The American Bar Association, the Wall Street Journal, and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

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Scofieldman
5.0 out of 5 stars NO Aliens!
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2018
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This is a book for kids, but it is very good for adults who just need to be introduced to the topic of "Area 51," a top-secret military base. It goes into the background of the military's experiments with top secret planes and weapons, gives a little background about the cold war immediately after World War II, and explains the historical and geographical background of the military bases. Interesting, it tells that the U.S. military tested a Russian MIG fighter plane that the Israelis captured during the 1967 6-day war. The book mentions all the bizarre claims of aliens and UFO's prominent in conspiracy circles, but does nothing to debunk them. nor entertain them. However, after reading the book it is pretty clear that the U.S. government has no problem with entertaining such ridiculous theories in order to cover up such top secret military experiments or chemical weapons experiments that are being conducted there. Obviously, the great majority of UFO's are most likely these experimental craft and planes. Great little book for a primer, and if you know nothing about the subject.
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Hilary
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2023
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My kids love these books
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Lania H
5.0 out of 5 stars A fun read & great info
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2022
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My nearly 10 year old was so excited about the true & the possibilities in the book that it was read through on Christmas evening then the next morning. Even Indiana Jones is in there 😊. Reading age is 8-11…depending on help.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2022
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My son loves these books. They talk about real events or places.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Educational.
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2021
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Excellent for my grandson.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great information in What was books
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2021
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My son loved this book. After he had a million more question about area 51. I love these books because they give him information on many different topics. I may not have all the answers to his question. He love to read. So it keeps him busy for a while
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Veronica
5.0 out of 5 stars My 8yr old loved it!
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2022
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Got this book for my son! He loved it! Interesting and easy to read.
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Sibele
5.0 out of 5 stars The book was good
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2020
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The book talks about how the U.S made a place called Area 51 and people say and speed big rumors about how whenever a weird aircraft crashed or pops up some where they bring it to area 51 and they acknowledge it and study it to see what it is so the people won't freak out
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Laura
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in Canada on May 2, 2020
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Interesting book for a 9 year old
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Elsa Da Costa
4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome but too early.
Reviewed in Canada on August 10, 2021
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This book was good and informational though if it were made a bit later it would have included the epic area 51 raid with millions of people naruto running.
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