Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

^{Operation Harass and the search for the Horten brothers netted this sketch of a possible advanced Horten aircraft design. (Department of Defense)}

^{Walter Horten holding a scale model of the Horten 10B in Baden Baden, Germany, in 1987. (Collection of David Myhra)}

^{Reimar Horten in Argentina, 1985. (Collection of David Myhra)}

^{The Operation Crossroads 1946 commemorative yearbook depicts the Ros-well Army Air Base as the military facility from which the opening shot in the Cold War was fired. (Collection of Richard S. Leghorn/Army Air Forces)}

About The Author

Annie Jacobsen is a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine and an investigative reporter whose work has also appeared in the National Review and the Dallas Morning News. Her two-part series “The Road to Area 51” in the Los Angeles Times Magazine was widely read. A graduate of Princeton University, Annie Jacobsen lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.