Annie Jacobsen Quotes

The most famous secret base, I guess, would be Area 51, which a lot of people have heard of as a kind of mythical place. Well, it's a real place.

The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?

For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.

I do believe I did see UFOs, in Leicester.

It is true that I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, because I never got in. I can't tell you what was inside. We both know about the rumors concerning a captured UFO and crew members. I have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have intelligent friends who have.

So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government.

The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.

As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to.

I don't know if we even mentioned UFOs. It was to find out why Barney was emotionally upset.

I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had.

People thought the storyline and characters for 'X-Files' made it a 'dark' show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.

I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters.

They came out over the highway and they stopped and that's when Barney got out, with the binoculars to try and identify the craft. I mean, he'd been in the military in World War Two, he's puzzled.

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

I examined a lot of CIA declassified UFO files, which are fascinating, because there was a huge UFO craze going on in America. There still is today, but it certainly started in '47. And by the '50s, it was in full force.

Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

And there was huge numbers of UFOs around my parents home in Kingston.

From 1961 to 1965 Barney and I had not seen another UFO.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'

I've always been interested in UFOs.

Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.

Even after doing that TV thing, 'Roswell,' I'm still waiting to see my first UFO.

All I'll say is... I'm at a point in life when nothing feels shocking to me. I need something to shock me! I'm almost ready to see a U.F.O.

The spread of international AIDS was an attempt by the U.S. government to decimate the population of central Africa.