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Posted: 2/12/2022 3:53:20 PM EDT
[#1]
I used to live 5 minutes from the Back Gate.
A51 is just over those hills..... 
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Posted: 2/12/2022 3:57:28 PM EDT
[#2]
I know of at least 3 members here that work there.
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Posted: 2/12/2022 4:07:50 PM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Fuck yeah and getting through it took a lot of goddamn quarters. Nice. |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 4:08:27 PM EDT
[#4]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No. And if someone says they have they are lying or have a serious desire to be in a place where Bubba reigns supreme. My old boss worked there for a bit. |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 4:10:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No, but I knew someone who was in the Air Force and happened to be in Roswell on that day. Then they weren’t in the Air Force… |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 4:12:37 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryNever been there but I've worked on all of their aircraft here in Atlanta. |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 4:19:25 PM EDT
[#7]
I have been to Area 51. Or at least until I got to the sign that says how to get with the program if I go any further I'll be arrested. And the camo dudes were on the hill watching.
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Posted: 2/12/2022 4:22:47 PM EDT
[#8]
Bunch of made up BS to increase the mystique of the government and military. If aliens were to visit I'm sure they would happily turn themselves in to military personnel at a remote base in the US. At most the military is hiding super secret space rocks they have found in the desert.
I'm happy to be wrong but just don't see the strategy behind the secrecy. |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 4:25:23 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone who is legit won’t post it here. They just neither confirm nor deny and give the "I've got a secret" smirk. |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 5:41:57 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Then they weren't in the Air Force 
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Posted: 2/12/2022 5:48:43 PM EDT
[#11]
I watched all the workers returning to Vegas from my room at the Mandalay Bay.
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Posted: 2/12/2022 5:55:03 PM EDT
[#12]
Maybe
 " /> " />Even went to the Lil Alien Inn  " />
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:07:05 PM EDT
[#13]
Father in law worked out there during tail end of VN conflict, worked on a then classified SAM countermeasures program.
Also we think there was some "other stuff" that he was very tight lipped about. He still had a lot of active NDAs when he passed last year. He was also a "Project Bluebook" Officer during previous assignments. I think it's every bit as "interesting" out there as people can imagine based on the look on his face during various after dinner conversations. |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:11:09 PM EDT
[#14]
Only got as far as Sudan crater.
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:11:51 PM EDT
[#15]
Ironically, I've been past it before... not inside or anything, but near...
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:14:15 PM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Maybe https://i.ibb.co/XLJYWCv/9m.jpg" target="_blank">https://i.ibb.co/XLJYWCv/9m.jpg https://i.ibb.co/wCZRt5C/9n.jpg" target="_blank">https://i.ibb.co/wCZRt5C/9n.jpg Even went to the Lil Alien Inn https://i.ibb.co/F3gxjH9/9a.jpg" target="_blank">https://i.ibb.co/F3gxjH9/9a.jpg That's pretty cool!!! |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:21:02 PM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Stories? As in how many stories subsurface did he work?
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:23:42 PM EDT
[#18]
For those who don't know........
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:24:55 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Stories? I Have a few. |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:26:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: For those who don't know........ https://media.wired.com/photos/5df187e0524c380008bedf9b/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/photo_koopman-wexell_area-51_1.jpg I was in Vegas right as the whole Area 51/ Bob Lazae thing was coming to light... |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:27:26 PM EDT
[#21]
Been to KXTA 2x in the 1990's.
Plenty of room. Nothing to see, |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:27:57 PM EDT
[#22]
I worked with a guy who did some technical work there. He was so compartmentalized that they never even told him where he was going when they brought him out there.
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:29:29 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't remember the line guys' names at that FBO, but spoke to woman named Janet who seemed to know her way around. She just flew and, boy, were her arms tired! |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:29:34 PM EDT
[#24]
Watched some trippy YouTube videos about it.
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:32:14 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Physically inside the borders? No. Can you believe they have no protection against astral projection? |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:33:48 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Can you believe they have no protection against astral projection? Are you sure about that? |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:40:02 PM EDT
[#27]
I can neither confirm, nor deny...
Hang on... someone's knocking at the door... BRB. |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 6:48:54 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: She just flew and, boy, were her arms tired! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I don't remember the line guys' names at that FBO, but spoke to woman named Janet who seemed to know her way around. She just flew and, boy, were her arms tired! Dammit, Janet! |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 7:03:39 PM EDT
[#29]
Pie!
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Posted: 2/12/2022 7:05:47 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryUser name checks out… |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 7:07:03 PM EDT
[#31]
My grandfather has been a few times. He was a higher up for Boeing Defense. He says it’s just a proving ground for experimental aircraft for the most part.
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Posted: 2/12/2022 7:11:24 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That's pretty cool!!! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Maybe https://i.ibb.co/XLJYWCv/9m.jpg" target="_blank">https://i.ibb.co/XLJYWCv/9m.jpg https://i.ibb.co/wCZRt5C/9n.jpg" target="_blank">https://i.ibb.co/wCZRt5C/9n.jpg Even went to the Lil Alien Inn https://i.ibb.co/F3gxjH9/9a.jpg" target="_blank">https://i.ibb.co/F3gxjH9/9a.jpg That's pretty cool!!! If you cross over from the dirt road onto the hard road past the signs, you will be swarmed by trucks and helos in hot minute. |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 7:11:53 PM EDT
[#33]
Coming down Nevada State Route 375 (ET hwy) you'll see tons of strange stuff.
Alien-Bovine hybrid cows that stare at you, otherworldly road kills and lots of tornadic circular dust swirls far out in the desert. Like what you would see if a cloaked alien saucer was practicing touch and go's. Make that drive if you ever get a chance. You won't be disappointed. 
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Posted: 2/12/2022 7:47:56 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I used to live 5 minutes from the Back Gate. A51 is just over those hills..... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/15404/20150704_203817-2276861.jpg @Wolfpack Ever see anything cool? |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 7:53:15 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Fuck yeah and getting through it took a lot of goddamn quarters. And people think aliens are the ones that probe you... |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 8:06:26 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: @Wolfpack Ever see anything cool? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I used to live 5 minutes from the Back Gate. A51 is just over those hills..... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/15404/20150704_203817-2276861.jpg @Wolfpack Ever see anything cool?  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 8:09:51 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Then they weren’t in the Air Force… depends on whether they were there when the Army Air Corps became the Air Force or not... |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 8:31:38 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I used to live 5 minutes from the Back Gate. A51 is just over those hills..... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/15404/20150704_203817-2276861.jpg @Wolfpack Ever see anything cool? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/82612/2AFC38BF-2514-48AC-A642-F2D6F27A3006_jpe-2277158.JPG Was expecting this... 
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Posted: 2/12/2022 11:10:47 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Ever see anything cool? @Master_Shake_TX Not really. Back in the early 2000s we camped on the border with some Californians and heard what sounded like a mini-gun or that BRRRRAPPPPP from an A10 inside the restricted area on a Friday night. I was the guy that found bear tracks that same camp trip after a rain. The tracks were verified bear by a Fresno S&R guy who was with us and also shown to a a game warden who confirmed. There are water troughs to water the cattle in that area....a damn bear...in Southern Nevada. |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 11:27:20 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: @Master_Shake_TX Not really. Back in the early 2000s we camped on the border with some Californians and heard what sounded like a mini-gun or that BRRRRAPPPPP from an A10 inside the restricted area on a Friday night. I was the guy that found bear tracks that same camp trip after a rain. The tracks were verified bear by a Fresno S&R guy who was with us and also shown to a a game warden who confirmed. There are water troughs to water the cattle in that area....a damn bear...in Southern Nevada. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Ever see anything cool? @Master_Shake_TX Not really. Back in the early 2000s we camped on the border with some Californians and heard what sounded like a mini-gun or that BRRRRAPPPPP from an A10 inside the restricted area on a Friday night. I was the guy that found bear tracks that same camp trip after a rain. The tracks were verified bear by a Fresno S&R guy who was with us and also shown to a a game warden who confirmed. There are water troughs to water the cattle in that area....a damn bear...in Southern Nevada. There’s bears on Mt Charleston and all through the Spring Mountains. I know NDOW says there isn’t. |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 11:32:49 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: There’s bears on Mt Charleston and all through the Spring Mountains. I havent heard of one being spotted near Rachel ever and i was there for 20+ years. |
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Posted: 2/12/2022 11:59:20 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: There’s bears on Mt Charleston and all through the Spring Mountains. I know NDOW says there isn’t. Have you seen one? Nobody else seems to have? https://www.gomtcharleston.com/funfactfriday-bears/ |
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Posted: 2/13/2022 12:14:16 AM EDT
[#43]
Flew over it years back in a little number I built myself. Tried to call in to Coast to Coast and finally had to have my girlfriend get through to Art by fax to accept my call. Art tried to caution me against it but I was pretty determined.
Once the interceptors started firing at me I dropped her to the deck and skedaddled. Cell lost signal as I was taking her in and it was pretty hairy for a spell. Won’t do that again. |
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Posted: 2/13/2022 12:29:09 AM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A waitress at the Little"A'le Inn gave us directions to the area 51 gate a few years ago when we came down the extraterrestrial Highway on the way back from glacier national park. Its like 20 miles of bumpy and rutted gravel and dirt road. Then right when you are ready to give up it becomes paved and totally smooths out for a few miles right up to the gate. At that point the guards lock on to you. My wife lost her nerve and made me turn around. The ET Hwy has these cows that just stare at you driving down the road. They are suppose to be alien-bovine hybrids for experimentation. They just look at you like they are screaming for help on the inside. And we saw roadkill that was bizarre and other worldly. Escaped creatures? And we visited J-Rods mailbox, where secret instructions were left for him. https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/L2kQJsewLJ6P6dSNnLQmwn.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Talked to a guy while we were staying at the Little"A'le Inn last summer who told me he has however he added there wasn't much to see, some hangers an admin building. If there really is anything there it's completly out of sight to an satellites or public view. Didn't know whether to believe him or not, seemed honest enough. A waitress at the Little"A'le Inn gave us directions to the area 51 gate a few years ago when we came down the extraterrestrial Highway on the way back from glacier national park. Its like 20 miles of bumpy and rutted gravel and dirt road. Then right when you are ready to give up it becomes paved and totally smooths out for a few miles right up to the gate. At that point the guards lock on to you. My wife lost her nerve and made me turn around. The ET Hwy has these cows that just stare at you driving down the road. They are suppose to be alien-bovine hybrids for experimentation. They just look at you like they are screaming for help on the inside. And we saw roadkill that was bizarre and other worldly. Escaped creatures? And we visited J-Rods mailbox, where secret instructions were left for him. https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/L2kQJsewLJ6P6dSNnLQmwn.jpg On that dirt road, leading to the north gate, I hit a massive cow shit at about 75mph. The truck stunk for days. 
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Posted: 2/13/2022 12:35:30 AM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: For those who don't know........ https://media.wired.com/photos/5df187e0524c380008bedf9b/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/photo_koopman-wexell_area-51_1.jpg That area has a “the hills have eyes” vibe. |
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Posted: 2/13/2022 12:38:43 AM EDT
[#46]
I know people who have been there. They won’t even talk about what state they were in.
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Posted: 2/13/2022 12:39:40 AM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: There’s bears on Mt Charleston and all through the Spring Mountains. I know NDOW says there isn’t. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Ever see anything cool? @Master_Shake_TX Not really. Back in the early 2000s we camped on the border with some Californians and heard what sounded like a mini-gun or that BRRRRAPPPPP from an A10 inside the restricted area on a Friday night. I was the guy that found bear tracks that same camp trip after a rain. The tracks were verified bear by a Fresno S&R guy who was with us and also shown to a a game warden who confirmed. There are water troughs to water the cattle in that area....a damn bear...in Southern Nevada. There’s bears on Mt Charleston and all through the Spring Mountains. I know NDOW says there isn’t. Bear? You sure? I spend a lot of time at Lee canyon running loops on upper/lower Bristlecone. |
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Posted: 2/13/2022 12:46:07 AM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: When did Area 51 become widely known? According to my mother and grandmother, they remember my grandfather sometime in the mid 1970s casually saying how he used to work at Groom Lake. He did work for Lockheed in LA in the 50s and 60s, but I don't know if he took any trips out to Vegas. Mom told me that in the late 1990s and I'm like, "Groom Lake is Area 51 and Bob Lazar stuff!" I have no idea on the veracity of it. IDK why Lockheed would need a heliarc welder (TIG nowadays) at Area 51. Then again, I can't see him BSing with my grandmother about something she'd have no idea about. The F-117 crash that happened in 1987 really put some eyes on the area, and then it started getting pretty heavily exposed in the early 90's. There was a local resident (Glen Campbell, and not that Glen Campbell) that built a respectable online following in the early days of the internet, the Freedom Ridge land grab really pissed him off so he made it his mission to shine a spotlight on the place. published a newsletter in the mid '90s that's still available online. The ball was already rolling before he showed up but it definitely got kicked faster with the spotlight. X-files originally aired in 1993 and made it more mainstream as well. |
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Posted: 2/13/2022 12:48:47 AM EDT
[#49]
No. But I have been to Tonopah for work for a couple of weeks. When I drove into town after dark, the "S" on the Shell station sign was burned out, so it said "hell" in bright red letters.
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Posted: 2/13/2022 12:51:11 AM EDT
[#50]
I bet it would be fun... for like 10 mins until the novelty wore off and you were just working in some shitty old buildings out in the desert.
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