Mack Maloney - Beyond Area 51

A COLD WAR AND A HOTBED OF SECRETS

On April 16, 1996, the New York Times reported that a mysterious underground complex was being built by the Russians in the Ural Mountains. The project was so big, tens of thousands of workers were involved and an entire highway and new railroad extension had to be built in order to service it.

U.S. intelligence sources believe the Russian government pumped more than $6 billion into the Yamatau mountain complex, a cavern that spans some four hundred square miles. One theory suggests that in the event of a nuclear war the Russian leadership would head for Yamatau, a place where they could survive until the aftereffects of such an apocalyptic conflict settled down.

But there might be more to it than that, especially considering, as we will see, other unusual UFO-related events going on inside Russia.

Could Yamatau be another Area 51 located deep inside a mountain? Literally a Russian S4?

No one really knows.

BEYOND

AREA 51

Mack Maloney

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This book is dedicated to the following UFO authors and
researchers who provided me with their time and their
knowledge during the research and writing process:

Nick Redfern, Jerome Clark, Christopher OBrien,
Norio Hayakawa, Bill Birnes, Nick Pope, Andrew
Hennessey, Nikolay Subbotin and Michael Kinsella

Thanks to Tom Colgan and Amanda Ng at The Berkley Publishing Group; Dominick Abel, Jacob Boucher, Larry Stone, Bob Messia and BP for the laughs; Charles Ketchum for his spiritual guidance and Chase for letting me on her radio show. Special thanks to my Spook friend and his Spook friends, without whose help this would have been an entirely different book, and thanks to Sky Club for doing the sound track.

Special thanks to the Mutual UFO Network (www.mufon.com) and the National UFO Reporting Center (www.nuforc.org).

A very special thanks to my best friend ever. She knows who she is.

One of the biggest puzzles concerning secret military-, government- and intelligence-based facilities is this: Why do so many of these classified installations seemingly attract far more than their fair share of UFOs?

There are, I believe, two prime possibilities.

The first is that if the stories of crashed UFOs in the hands of officialdom are valid, then it may be the case that what we are seeing in the skies above these bases are (a) attempts by military project personnel to test-fly captured UFOs, (b) attempts to test-fly their own versions of alien technology or (c) a combination of both.

There is another more ominous possibility, however.

Again, if UFOs really have crashed to earth, perhaps the nonhuman intelligences behind the phenomena are aware that their craft and dead (and possibly even living) comrades are held at these fortified bases, and they are testing the defenses of such places for the day when they plan to claim back what is theirs.

If that is the case, then how might we best go about trying to vindicate such theories and scenarios?

Well, a very profitable approach would be to do exactly what Mack Maloney has donenamely, to use investigative journalistic skills to chase down just about every piece of available data and evidence on unusual and classified installations around the world and then present it to one and all for consideration.

Indeed, in the pages that follow, as you will quickly come to learn, Mack has expertly negotiated the globe in search of the truth behind such off-limits facilities and the amazing secrets they so jealously guard.

Nick Redfern

It took three weeks to arrange the meeting.

My friend who works with the two most prominent U.S. intelligence agencies agreed to have a few beers and talk about a subject that makes him very uncomfortable: UFOs.

Our conversation took place in a waterfront bar north of Boston. It was scheduled for a weekday afternoon when we hoped customers would be few, and the place was nearly empty when we arrived.

The weather was oddly appropriate for such a meeting. Sunny and warm over most of the area, it was damp and gloomy where we were, the fog hugging the water like a stratus cloud. Not really typical for a mid-spring day.

Id previously given copies of UFOs in Wartime to my friend and several of his colleagues. Their response had been positive but mutednot that I was expecting anything more from people in their business. At an earlier meeting Id asked my Spook friend if hed ever seen any evidence that the U.S. government knows what UFOs are. His answer was no. But when I asked if hed be able to tell me if hed seen such evidence, his answer was a slightly less emphatic: No.

Thats how it is in the U.S. intelligence community when it comes to UFOs. No, weve never seen anything like thatbut no, we couldnt tell you if we had.

I explained the idea behind my new project: a book examining unusual places around the world, many of them secret military bases like Nevadas Area 51, that seem to have an inextricable connection to UFOs. Some of these connections are truly puzzling, and some so outlandish they border on ridiculous. But the most interesting ones fall somewhere in between. As my Spook friend was well aware, just about every secret base that we know about has some kind of link to UFOs. The book would try to find out why.