On Fresh Air, today, an interview with journalist, Annie Jacobsen, on her new book, Area 51 Uncensored. Apparently, near the end of the book, she relates what she was told, by what she considers a solid source, about the USSR engineering humans into little aliens, the iconic type we see with big heads, etc. Purportedly, they were actual, young humans genetically altered as a hoax on the US, trying to push us into a panic similar to what was seen when War of the Worlds was broadcast. When the interviewer, Terry Gross, asked why the president, at the time, didn't just announce such, she was told because the US decided to do the same and thus a "rogue" program was carried out.

There's lots more about Area 51. One may listen HERE. Transcript will be available by tomorrow.

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