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- Some Hanger 18, area 51 Information
- >A friend of mine who doesn't have access to the .net asks
- >
- >"...what can you find out about Area 51, Facility S4 in the
- > Mojave desert. I know SETI is, literally, right around the
- > corner from it but nobody's talking about what the other
- > is for."
- OK ... Camp Fire Story Time!
- Others have answered with the basic information about the Groom
- Lake Facility. Actually Groom is just one part of the Nevada Test Range,
- also known as the Nellis Test Range, or Nellis Complex.
- The site for the base was allegedly discovered by Lockheed legendary
- aircraft designer Kelly Johnson and one of the Lockheed Company test pilots
- who were out in a light plane looking for a secure facility to use in the
- testing and pilot training phases of the CIA U-2 program. The U-2 pilots
- called the place Watertown Strip. Lockheed employees have usually called the
- place The Ranch.
- The Lockheed Company pilot accompanying Kelly Johnson on this trip was
- supposedly the great Lockheed test pilot, Tony LeVier. I believe all this
- was circa 1955 or so.
- Recently the number of places called The Ranch by Lockheed employees, and
- other government and company employees, has grown to at least two. For
- example the Tonapah Test Range (TTR) is in the northwest corner of the Nellis
- Complex. TTR is also called The Ranch by some.
- There is a little information about this very early Groom history
- in Kelly Johnson's biography. Also some of it is in Francis Gary Power's
- book "Overflight" and also in Gann's novel about U-2 pilots, "Black Watch".
- Now for some interesting hints about some of the stuff they may have out
- there 'on the range'.
- I have excerpted some interesting quotes from several issues of
- a leading aerospace publication, Aviation Week and Space Technology (AW&ST)
- and a less well known publication, that imply some really interesting things.
- The less well known publication has nothing to do with aerospace, but
- the author of the second source article is an excellent researcher of
- BLACK (Top Secret Special Access Required) aircraft.
- This researcher used a pen-name at the time, but I will name him because
- his real name has since come out.
- The implications from these two different sources is that
- our country (the U.S.) is working on some VERY unusual aircraft.
- More unusual than you think!
- The implication is that the U.S. has not only JUST advanced the science
- of Aerospace, but that they're REALLY TRYING to advance it to an
- incredible level!
- The journalists/writer I'm excerpting have excellent contacts with
- leading Aerospace people. These articles have been mentioned in
- other contexts before, but there is more interesting information in
- them. The fact that these people are aerospace journalists and not
- UFO journalists or writers is significant.
- There are black aircraft flying in the Southwest as reported in the
- following AW&ST issues:
- Dec. 18, 1989 issue. Pages 42-43,
- Oct. 1, 1990 issue. Pages 20-23,
- Dec. 24, 1990 issue. Pages 41-44,
- Jan. 8, 1990 issue. Page 74 (A letter to the editor).
- SOME (not all) of these aircraft are VERY unusual. The term
- 'exotic aircraft' has started to be used in referring to them.
- Read each one of these carefully. I've capitalized certain words
- for effect, to make sure they're not missed.
- First, some of the AW&ST articles:
- "Although facilities in remote areas of the Southwest have been home to
- classified vehicles for decades, the NUMBER and SOPHISTICATION of new
- aircraft appear to have INCREASED SHARPLY over the last 10 years, when
- substantial funding was made available for "deep black" projects." (AW&ST
- 10/1/90 pg.20)
- "Do we now possess the "ULTIMATE" WEAPONS featured in comic books-
- the ones SO DEVASTATING any potential adversary would never think of
- disturbing the peace for fear of the good guys' retaliation?"
- (AW&ST 12/24/91 pg. 44).
- "SEVERAL VEHICLES, though, appear to INCORPORATE TECHNOLOGIES THAT OUTSTRIP
- THOSE now employed by engineers charged with developing MORE TRADITIONAL,
- CURRENT-GENERATION AIRCRAFT". (AW&ST 10/1/90 pg. 20)
- "In addition, there is substantial evidence that another family of
- craft exists that relies on EXOTIC PROPULSION AND AERODYNAMIC SCHEMES
- NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD AT THIS TIME" (AW&ST; 10/1/90; pg 20).
- "Hard as it may be to fathom, there is REASON TO WONDER WHETHER COMPLETE
- KNOWLEDGE OF THE MOST EXOTIC AIRCRAFT MAY REACH "The Top," all for
- super-security." (AW&ST 12/24/91 pg. 44).
- "Industry experts who have worked on "deep black" programs, believe that
- it would be HIGHLY UNUSUAL for all but a very few political officials to
- have access to or knowledge of these programs. History has shown, they
- maintain, that elected officials and their staffs are poor security risks."
- (AW&ST 10/1/90 pg 21)
- "Several of these people had hands-on experience with a number of the
- classified vehicles. Although prevented from discussing specific projects,
- these individuals said, "There are BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS OUT THERE,"
- referring to aircraft based at the Nevada test locations."
- (AW&ST 10/1/90 pg 20)
- Now for the second source article. This article was written under the
- pen-name of Al Frickey, and it's entitled: "A Look at Aurora and Some
- UnFunded Opportunities (UFOs)". This piece appeared in (of all places)
- the Feb. 1988 issue of "Gung Ho" magazine. The person using the pen-name
- of Al Frickey was James Goodall.
- Jim has written several books on the Stealth Fighter (F-117A) and is
- planning several other books. He is a member of the Minnesota Air National
- Guard. Currently he is trying to get Zenith Aviation Books to publish
- the 400 page SR-71A Pilots Manual!
- Note, the term UnFunded Opportunities (UFOs) is NOT new. One place
- where one can find it used, is in the Sweetman/Goodall "Lockheed
- F-117A" book; pg. 17.
- There is no need to capitalize any of these paragraphs. The implications
- are more clear.
- Allow me to quote several sections of it:
- As for UnFunded Opportunities (UFOs), these are programs dealing with
- technology so advanced that one Air Force officer involved in SR-71
- development said: "We are flight testing vehicles that defy description.
- To compare them conceptually to the SR-71 would be like comparing
- Leonardo da Vinci's parachute design to the space shuttle."
- Other officers are similarly emphatic about the nature of these new systems.
- "We have things that are so far beyond the comprehension of the average
- aviation authority as to be really alien to our way of thinking,"
- says one retired colonel.
- "Lets put it this way", explained one retired Lockheed engineer. "We
- have things flying in the Nevada desert that would make George Lucas drool.""
- Now remember, these are Aerospace people saying these things, NOT UFO
- researchers!
- >Also, my friend would be interested in any new data on
- >Hangar 21.
- I'm certain your friend is referring to the Wright Patterson AFB (WPAFB)
- Hangar 18 stories that surfaced in 1974 (?) or so. As someone mentioned,
- there was also a movie out by this name. Probably the most similar and
- reliable information about these stories is the Barry Goldwater WPAFB
- story.
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