Something you need to know: I'm not big on X-files bullshit. Here's the reality about Area 51: the US needed a place they could test aircraft without anyone knowing about it. They set up a base in the middle of nowhere Nevada to do it. You have to be a special kind of weird to care more than that, and I am. I'm the kind of loser who drives twelve hours out of my way to see a speck on the horizon that happens to be Hangar 18, or who ventures four hours up the coast to be one of a couple dozen people watching a spy satellite get launched into orbit. The hope, the goal, the fervent dream is that I've managed to create something that's interesting to people who AREN'T that kind of loser, because there aren't nearly enough of us to make the book worthwhile. Don't study up. There aren't any good books. TD Barnes' is the closest to useful but it's in dire need of an edit.