Tag: National Security Archive

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1998: Nellis, UFO Buffs, War Games And Deadly Crashes

Source: The Las Vegas Sun [NV] Date: Sept 5 1998 Tim Dahlberg [AP] LAS VEGAS – The F-117 stealth fighter flew secret nighttime tests there. So did the U-2 and other spy planes. UFO buffs believe the government studies aliens in a top-security area on its northern fringe. Military mysteries aside, it’s no secret Nellis Air Force Base range can be a deadly place. The crash of two helicopters about 25 miles south of the top-secret Area 51 section of the range in the early morning darkness Friday was the latest deadly mishap in an area where pilots and crew practice dangerous war games nearly every day high above the desert floor. Though Area 51 and its secret programs are steeped in mystery, the war […] Read More

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1994: The Middle of the F***ing Desert (A Trip to Groom Lake)

Please feel free to photocopy the text or send or post this document electronically to anyone who you think might be interested. My only requests are; (1) You do it without charge. (2) You copy or send this document in unaltered form and in its entirety, not as partial excerpts. (3) This notice appears on all copies. 06/26/94 The Middle of the Fucking Desert (A Trip to Groom Lake) Ok, here’s my story… After a fun-filled weekend of gambling, smoking cigars, and drinking many icy cold, alcoholic beverages, I dropped my friend off at McCarran airport. He was leaving on Sunday and had to be at work the next morning. I couldn’t get a flight out on Sunday and thus had to spend one […] Read More

Transcript of V.L.'s Custer Posted on

1995: Transcript of V.L.’s Custer

Transcript of V.L.’s Custer, South Dakota Meeting in August 1995. This is a transcript from a tape of a talk that he gave regarding his 12 years at Area 51. V.L. is an upstanding citizen, a gentleman, and speaks the truth, this we assure you. I spent from June of 1965 to August of 1977 directly on the Nevada Test Site, worked there full time. I was Radiation – Health and Safety. Most of the time I worked there, I either worked for Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory out of Livermore, Berkeley rather, California or Sandia Corporation out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. All those testing laboratories have since changed their names. Lawrence Radiation Laboratory is now the Lawrence National Laboratory, they don’t […] Read More