For many UFO conspiracy aficionados, the phrase "Area 51" conjures up images of a secret military facility in the Nevada desert that's home for captured flying saucers. But is this true?
对于众多UFO爱好者,“51区”这个词通常让人想到那个位于内华达沙漠,关押有来自飞碟的神秘外星人的军事重地。

"Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base," a new book by investigative reporter Annie Jacobsen, lifts the veil on this six-decade mystery and raises a more explosive possibility: Did former Soviet leader Josef Stalin recruit Josef Mengele, the Nazi "Angel of Death," to surgically alter children to look like aliens in 1947 to be part of the legendary Roswell, NM, UFO crash?
《51区:史料无考、高度机密的美国军事重地》,调查记者安妮•雅各布森的新书解开了这个长达六十年的未解之谜的神秘面纱,并且给出了一个更具爆炸性的解释:前苏联领导人约瑟夫•斯大林是否曾招募纳粹的“死亡天使”约瑟夫•门格勒对儿童实施外科手术,将他们改造成罗斯维尔飞碟坠毁事件中所谓的“外星人”?

If the story is correct, the "UFO" and its otherworldly occupants eventually found their way to Area 51 for examination.

如果她的推论是对的,那么关于51区、UFO以及其上的外星人这一连串问题都将得到合理解释。

The government has never officially confirmed that Area 51 exists. And yet, as Jacobsen learned while researching her Area 51 book, Cold War spy planes (including the U-2) were developed at the base. Through declassified documents and discussions with Area 51 personnel, Jacobsen pieced together the puzzle of what went on there. "In my reporting, I used 74 sources, 32 of whom lived and worked at Area 51 for extended periods of time," Jacobsen told AOL.
美国政府从未官方确认存在所谓第51区。然而正如安妮•雅各布森为撰写她的新书所作的调查所揭示的那样,冷战间谍机(包括U-2)正是在该基地研发的。通过阅读揭秘文件和采访51区人员,雅各布森最终使真相渐渐浮出水面。“在我的报道中,我采访了74名相关人员,其中32人曾长期居住或供职于第51区,”雅各布森说。

"In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out," Jacobsen said. "There's always a euphemism for it -- like 'the test facility' or 'the base' -- but never Area 51."
“在很多与该基地活动相关的、之前被列为机密的文件中,‘51区’一词悉数被涂黑,”雅各布森说。“总有一些模棱两可的暗指——比如‘测试设备’或者‘基地’——但就是没有‘第51区’。”

While conspiracy theorists and UFO devotees have long claimed -- and hoped-- that captured alien spacecraft are housed at the base, Jacobsen claims the secret craft were actually reverse-engineered from a captured Soviet MiG fighter jet. The A-12 Oxcart, a Mach 3 spy plane, was also reportedly developed at Area 51.
尽管阴谋论者和飞碟爱好者一直以来都宣称——并且希冀——截获的飞碟和俘获的外星人就被关押在该区域,雅各布森称,秘密飞行器实际上是对截获的前苏联的米格喷气式战斗机的反向工程研究。A-12复仇者战斗机, 一种速度能达到3马赫的侦查飞机也研发于该区。

Area 51 is an actual military base, located on the shore of a salt flat called Groom Lake, about 80 miles north of Las Vegas.
第51区的确是一个军事基地,位于拉斯维加斯以北的湖岸。