[demx]

Jacobsen tells sources who revealed that not only did one of these flying craft crash in the U.S. in '47, but the Hortens were involved, the flying "saucer" had hover-and-fly capabilities unheard of in any aircraft of the day, and contained two surprise pilots: children believed to be about 13.

And from where did these young pilots come? Not from space.

"The child-sized aviators in this craft were the result of a Soviet human experimentation program," Jacobsen said, making a point that this was information from an eye-witness source and one she trusts completely, "and they had been made to look like aliens à la Orson Welles' War of the Worlds" using "genetic and surgical" procedures.

Boom.

In the scenario Jacobsen presents, the Soviets were hoping to recreate the mass hysteria caused by the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, which had Americans on the East Coast actually believing that extra terrestrials had landed in New Jersey. This was an international news story at the time, and was supposedly even remarked on by the likes of Hitler and Stalin.

Jacobsen, on NPR:

"The plan, according to my source, was to create panic in the United States with this belief that a UFO had landed with aliens inside of it. And one of the most interesting documents is the second CIA director, Walter Bedell Smith, memos back and forth to the National Security Council talking about how the fear is that the Soviets could make a hoax against America involving a UFO and overload our early air-defense warning system, making America vulnerable to an attack."

What's worse: that's not even why Area 51 is classified. As in, Soviet-modified children-turned-alien-pilots who crash landed in a saucer isn't atrocious enough. It's secret because apparently American officials saw these tests and decided to conduct human experiments of their own.

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Just as crazy as any other story of the incident that happened in 1947. Jacobsen also goes into details about other nuclear projects on [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

[PickledOnion]

Modified children? o.o
Never heard that one before. That's creepy.

I saw a show that said the UFO sightings in the past were actually the military conducting experiments and suchlike.

[Slush]

You don't worry about what the military does lol... it is for the betterment of the world!

[sozen]

WsE i a Modified child. Loli for life.

[demx]

Kappa just remember: "Save the cheerleader, save the world!"

[digritz]

Those of us who consider the possibility of alien life would surely jump on the first UFO that stopped to offer us a ride off this rock. So if the indigenous population prefer to leave just why the hell would any alien race want to come?

I'm betting military. Mostly for the purpose of misdirection.

Most theories of alien life skip over one important detail. Age of the alien race. Granted for the most part it would need to be considerably more advanced then our culture for the simple fact that it would need tech beyond our understanding for travel. The truth is an alien culture would most likely be Millions of years instead of thousands of years ahead of us. So it begs the question why bother visit us. I don't buy the "curiosity" argument. Plus if there is one alien race there are ten of thousands. Surely hundreds (not just one), would look at our planet with envious eyes. I don't but the "benevolent" bullshit either.