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Jacobsen begins by discussing the origins of Area 51, emphasizing its role as a secret testing ground for spy aircraft during the Cold War, primarily designed to outpace Soviet technology. She reveals her source's claim that the base was initially a cover for experiments involving genetically altered humans made to resemble aliens, serving as propaganda tools to intimidate rival nations like Stalin's USSR. The story suggests that fabricated extraterrestrial lifeforms were part of covert psychological operations, with craft and bodies possibly concocted from surgically modified humans rather than actual alien visitors.