Oh, dude. Look up the montauk project and then a show called "Time Tunnel." Actually, look them up in the other order because you might find montauk to be a bit of a rabbit hole. I'm surprised I'm like pretty much like the only person to notice this and point it out.
On a first glance, lit looks like the Robert A. Wilson thing to mix fact with fiction and have the reader find out what of it is true. It's always good to train the brain.
The Time Tunnel first aired on Sept 1966.
Montauk project supposedly happened in the early 80s but is supposed to be related to the 1943 Project Rainbow experiment.
So The Time Tunnel was right smack in between the two...
Shortly after "flying saucers" appeared in movies the air force (or whatever office was responsible back then) was granted funds to build them. They built prototypes, but they failed aerodynamically (like the nazi round planes did as well). It's in some declassified US government data.
Area 51 isn't just a conspiracy theory, it's where they tested aircraft. When some strange flying objects were seen by the public nearby, they made it sound as crazy as possible to confuse the Soviets.