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?
對于眾多UFO愛好者，“51區(qū)”這個詞通常讓人想到那個位于內華達沙漠，關押有來自飛碟的神秘外星人的軍事重地。

"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區(qū)：史料無考、高度機密的美國軍事重地》，調查記者安妮?雅各布森的新書解開了這個長達六十年的未解之謎的神秘面紗，并且給出了一個更具爆炸性的解釋：前蘇聯(lián)領導人約瑟夫?斯大林是否曾招募納粹的“死亡天使”約瑟夫?門格勒對兒童實施外科手術，將他們改造成羅斯維爾飛碟墜毀事件中所謂的“外星人”？

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

如果她的推論是對的，那么關于51區(qū)、UFO以及其上的外星人這一連串問題都將得到合理解釋。

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.
美國政府從未官方確認存在所謂第51區(qū)。然而正如安妮?雅各布森為撰寫她的新書所作的調查所揭示的那樣，冷戰(zhàn)間諜機（包括U-2）正是在該基地研發(fā)的。通過閱讀揭秘文件和采訪51區(qū)人員，雅各布森最終使真相漸漸浮出水面?！霸谖业膱蟮乐?，我采訪了74名相關人員，其中32人曾長期居住或供職于第51區(qū)，”雅各布森說。

"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."
“在很多與該基地活動相關的、之前被列為機密的文件中，‘51區(qū)’一詞悉數(shù)被涂黑，”雅各布森說?！翱傆幸恍┠＠鈨煽傻陌抵浮热纭疁y試設備’或者‘基地’——但就是沒有‘第51區(qū)’?！?/div>

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.
盡管陰謀論者和飛碟愛好者一直以來都宣稱——并且希冀——截獲的飛碟和俘獲的外星人就被關押在該區(qū)域，雅各布森稱，秘密飛行器實際上是對截獲的前蘇聯(lián)的米格噴氣式戰(zhàn)斗機的反向工程研究。A-12復仇者戰(zhàn)斗機, 一種速度能達到3馬赫的偵查飛機也研發(fā)于該區(qū)。

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區(qū)的確是一個軍事基地，位于拉斯維加斯以北的湖岸。