We see that javascript is disabled or not supported by your browser - javascript is needed for important actions on the site. Read more

What's New - Home - Login

Member $avings: $81,537,423.06 | Books Available: 800,937 | Members Online: 252

Swap Used Books - Buy New Books at Great Prices!

How To Swap Books Sign Up Search submenu

PBS Market (New Books)

Gift Buying Guide

Book Browser Advanced Search Books Posted Today Member Book Reviews Award Winning Books NYT Best Sellers Amazon Best Sellers Most Traveled Copies Club Wish List

Discussion Forums Book Lists

Club Lists My Book Lists My Watched Lists Create a List

Blog Donations

School Donation Program In Memory of... Military Donation Program Friends of PBS

Box-O-Books Maps The Eclectic Pen Fun Stuff

20 Questions Sudoku Bookmark Creator

Top 100

Requests Posts Swappers Referrers Reviewers

Pulse of PBS Spread The Word

Invite Friends Bookmarks Facebook Page Facebook App More Ways...

Photo Gallery Recipes Club Tag Cloud Member Testimonials

Help Center submenu

How To Swap Books Browse Help Docs Ask the Librarian PBS Member Icons Live Help

Kiosk

PBS Market (New Books) Go Shopping Buy Credits Buy PBS Money Upgrade Membership Gift Certificates Transfer Credits

Need Help?

Search - Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51

Dreamland Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51
Author: Phil Patton

There is a place in the Nevada desert the size of Belgium that doesn't officially exist.  It is the airbase where test flights of our top-secret experimental military aircraft are conducted and --not coincidentally--where the conspiracy theorists insist the Pentagon is hiding UFOs and aliens.  This is Dreamland--or Area 51.&#...  more »160; For Phil Patton, the idea of writing a travel account of a place he couldn't actually  visit was irresistible.  What he found was a world where Chick Yeager and the secret planes of the Cold War converged with the Nevada Test Site and alien landings at Roswell.

A think tank for aviation engineering, Dreamland can be seen from a summit outside the base's perimeter, a hundred miles north of Las Vegas.  On Freedom Ridge, groups of airplane buffs gather with their camouflage outfits and binoculars.  These are the Stealth chasers, the Skunkers, guys with code names like Agent X and Zero, hoping for a glimpse of the rumored raylike shapes of planes like Black Manta and "the mother ship."  The most mysterious craft is Aurora, the successor to the legendary U-2, said to run on methane and fly as fast as Mach 6.  Scanning the same horizon, the UFO buffs are looking for the hovering lights and doughnut-shaped contrails of alien aircraft.  Are they looking at something sinister and mysterious?  Imagined?  Or more terrestrial than they think?  Dreamland shows how much we need mystery in the information age, and how the cultures of nuclear power and airpower merge with the folklores of extraterrestrials and earthly conspiracies.

Patton found people who found themselves in the mysteries of the place.  John Lear, the son of aviation pioneer Bill Lear--who gave his name to the jet--served as a pilot for the CIA's Air America, but back home, he became fascinated by UFOs and eventually believed in it all: the underground bases, the alien-human hybrids, the secret treaties.  But was he a true believer, or part of a disinformation campaign?  Bob Lazar seems to know when the saucers will come, and has made three clear sightings at night along Dreamland's perimeter, but is his story real, or a vision of what's possible?

Dreamland is an exploration of America's most secret place: the base for our experimental airplanes, the fount of UFO rumors, an offshoot of the Nevada Test Site.  How this "blackspot" came to exist--its history, its creators, its spies and counterspies--is Phil Patton's tale.  He tunnels into the subcultures of the conspiracy buffs, the true believers, and the aeronautic geniuses, creating a novelistic tour de force destined to make us all rethink our convictions about American know-how--and alien inventiveness.

ISBN-13: 9780679456513
ISBN-10: 0679456511
Publication Date: 8/1/1998
Pages: 336
Rating:

0 stars, based on 0 rating

Publisher: Villard
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 2
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

Read All 1 Book Reviews of "Dreamland Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51"

Genres:

Religion & Spirituality >> Occult & Paranormal >> UFOs
Religion & Spirituality >> Occult & Paranormal >> Unexplained Mysteries
Religion & Spirituality >> Occult & Paranormal >> Ancient & Controversial Knowledge
Travel >> Specialty Travel >> Air Travel
Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> General
Science & Math >> Astronomy & Space Science >> UFOs

Back to the Top ↑

Search - Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51

Loading...