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Dreamland
Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51
By Phil Patton
Our Price: $12.95
Our Item Code: PattonDreamland
Postage Code: book1.5
349 Pages, Trade Paperback
Cover Size: 6 x 9.5 inches
Villard
Related listings: Area 51: Books and Videos
Date: Aug. 1998
Country of Origin: USA
Added to Catalog: 5/28/98
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Note: Reedited version of British release.
Features: Table of Contents, Index
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Publisher's Synopsis
"Legally, I can't even say 'Groom Lake,"" Ben Rich, former head of
the Lockheed Skunkworks told me shortly before his death. Groom Lake, Area
51, Paradise Ranch, Dreamland is the most secret place in America.
DREAMLAND, the book, tells its history and its many stories. It's a
cultural history of the most secret place in America, a travelogue of a
virtual space. It describes the bat like robot air craft flying above
Nevada that your taxes pay for--craft as strange as flying saucers. In a
series of portraits of strange characters on the perimeter of Area 51, we
learn how alienation produces aliens, and excessive secrecy produces
conspiracy theories. The Cold War taught that government secrecy is like
a drug---useful in small doses, but potentially addictive and poisonous in
large ones. It can cover incompetence, corruption and crime.
From the Book Cover
There is a place in the Nevada desert the size of Belgium that doesn't
officially exist. It is the airbase where the test flights of our
top-secret experimental military aircraft are conducted--and not
coincidentally--where the conspiracy theorists vow the Pentagon is hiding
UFOs and aliens. This is Dreamland or Area 51. For Phil Patton the idea of
writing a travel account of a place that he couldn't actually visit was
irresistible. What he found was a world where ChuckYeager and the secret
planes of the Cold War converged with the Nuclear Test Site and alien
landings at Roswell.
A think tank for cold war engineering, Dreamland can be seen from a
high ridge outside the base's perimeter 100 miles north of Las Vegas. On
Freedom Ridge groups gather with their camouflage outfits and binoculars.
The airplane buffs are the Stealth chasers, the Skunkers, guys with code
names like Agent X and Zero hoping for a glimpse of the rumored, ray-like
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 craft. 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, how the cultures of nuclear power
and air power merge with the folklores of extraterrestrials and earthly
conspiracies.
Patton found people who found themselves in the mysteries in 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 it all--in 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 saucer 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, fount of UFO rumors, an offshoot of the
Nuclear Test Site. How this "black spot" came to exists---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, the
aeronautic geniuses, creating a novelistic tour de force destined to make
us all rethink our convictions about American know-how, and alien
inventiveness.
Praise for DREAMLAND:
"A mind-opening tale of trespass and revelation, of road adventures,
technothriller hardware, saucer folks and aerospace outlaws--as well as
a daring account of the haunting of our history through the Cold War and
beyond by what we have seen, and often wish we had not seen, in the
hazardous dreamscape of the American sky."
--Thomas Pynchon
"Phil Patton's DREAMLAND illuminates the unconscious American id through an unexpected opening: the obessive passions of ufo believers, the builder of top-secret
military jets, and atomic bomb makers. Three tribes whose actions
remarkably converge at one ground zero on the map -- Area 51 in Nevada.
DREAMLAND is a physic probe into the inner nerd of America.
--Kevin Kelly, Wired, author of Out of Control and New Rules of the New Economy
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