Author

Publication

1998 - Villard, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing176480
  • Goodreads2522411

Classifications

  • DDC001.942/09793/14
  • LCCUG634.5.A74 P38 1998

Description

Dreamland is an exploration of America's most secret place: the base for our experimental airplanes, the fount of UFO rumors, an offshoot of the Nevada Test Site. How this "black spot" came to exist - 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, and the aeronautic geniuses, creating a novelistic tour de force destined to make us all rethink our convictions about American know-how - and alien inventiveness.

First Sentence

Beyond the Jumbled Hills, in the wide Emigrant Valley of southern Nevada, bracketed by the Timpahute and Pahranagat ranges, lies Groom Lake, just one of many dry lakes that dot the desert reaches of Nevada and California, an expanse of white, hard alkaline soil-caliche soil.

Excerpt

Beyond the Jumbled Hills, in the wide Emigrant Valley of southern Nevada, bracketed by the Timpahute and Pahranagat ranges, lies Groom Lake, just one of many dry lakes that dot the desert reaches of Nevada and California, an expanse of white, hard alkaline soil-caliche soil.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Dreamland: travels inside the secret world of Roswell and Area 51Villard1998-01-01

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