The Area 51 book was a decent read. It talks about the large swath of area in Nevada used for military tests of various kinds. As a secret, not-acknowledged base, it is a perfect location to feed whatever conspiracy theory one might have - including having it messes up with the Roswell New Mexico "UFO Crash" in the 1950's - apparently the aliens were brought to Area 51.
The parts of the book that are believable are the reports of various atomic bomb and radiation testing taking place after WWII as part of the nuclear arms buildup of the Cold War. Similarly, the Oxcart, U2, SR-71 development and testing of hypersonic spy planes is similarly believable.
What is odd to figure, it is the story relayed regarding the Roswell NM UFO Crash. The classic story is that a UFO crashed and alien bodies were taken by the military and both the technology and the bodies were moved to a secret base (Area 51). Stories vary as to whether the aliens were alive, or even if there were any captured, but the basic government cover-up of alien artifacts remains consistent.
The story presented in this book is that the Soviet Union, in order to overload (or test an overload) to the U.S. military response system, launched a saucer-like flying craft, which crashed in NM, forming the basis of the mystery. To add to the confusion, Josef Mengele (yes, the Nazi doctor from Auschwitz) surgically altered children or midgets (stories vary) to look like aliens, and these were the pilots of the craft. Thus, the U.S. military found the saucer and aliens, but were astounded to find Russian writing on the components. Some of the "aliens" were comatose, not dead, at the time of the crash. Various reports since that time that purport to have eyewitness sitings of aliens, alive or dead, at Area 51 are attributed to this incident.
Why Stalin went to this much trouble, or why Eisenhower didn't see the magnitude of the PR opportunity provided if Stalin operated and "launched' children at the U.S. is not very easy to understand. If the technology of the saucer was somehow advanced (the Nazis in WWII had the Horton brothers working for them and they were working on non-traditional aircraft like saucers) - why would the, in effect, give it to the U.S.? If it wasn't a good flying craft, how did it penetrate into New Mexico? All in all, and even more unbelievable story than the "standard" one.
Otherwise, the history and transfer of Area 51 between the Manhatten Project, the CIA, Atomic Energy Commission and the Military, and some of the projects makes for good reading.
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