Whatever happened with Steve Fossett?
John Lear says it might have to do with an Above Top Secret UNDERGROUND Submarine Base.
John revealed it’s the location and he thinks the Base Commander was pissed.
A short time later Steve Fossett turns up missing.
The Navy Sub Base in Nevada might have thought
John Lear was in the plane (photographing the location).
The aircraft was ordered to be shot down.
Then..the ONI removed the evidence of the crashed aircraft.
That is why the Mega Search turned up NOTHING.
So…We do NOT know how true the above is. But…
The City of Hawthorne continues to blossom to the south of Walker Lake with restaurants and motels offering provisions, diversions, and accommodations for travelers.
It’s a five-minute drive out of town to the north, but instead of continuing to Walker Lake Hawthorne’s fourth and grandest wonder turn west into “the Base.” This was once the headquarters for the US Navy Ammunition Depot and is now a minor paradise enjoyed by its residents and by visitors alike. Take ten-minute driving tour of this astonishing remnant from another age. Just drive in; if there is a security guard on duty, just say “Golf Course” and you’re in.
Your tour ends at the Walker Lake Country Club, where a beautiful 9-hole golf course (open to the public) was the best-kept military secret in America for 50 years. It was built by base employees, four holes at first, and then two at a time until the ninth hole was completed 30 years ago.
“Where is everybody?” we asked the manager.
“‘I don’t know,’ he said. “It’s always like this out here.’ I thought he was going to add, ‘in heaven.'” The club house is a favorite meeting place for local decision-makers.
Hawthorne is on the main Las Vegas-Reno highway and serves as Nevada’s gateway to Yosemite and the eastern Sierra via the Pole Line Road (Nevada 359) connecting with US 395 and the Tioga Pass.
Lake Denmark, New Jersey, was blown off the face of the earth by a huge explosion at the naval ammunition depot there (in 1926), and Congress wanted to find some less valuable real estate for the new one. After a nationwide search, Hawthorne was the choice, the Yucca Mountain of its time.
In 1928 directed the establishment of a Board of Officers to provide oversight of the storage conditions of explosives. A court of inquiry investigating the explosion recommended that a depot be established in a remote area within 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of the west coast to serve the Pacific area. Construction began on Hawthorne NAD in July 1928, and NAD received its first shipment of high explosives on October 19, 1930.
Security for the 3,000 bunkers at NAD was provided by the U.S. Marine Corps. Beginning in September 1930 and during World War II, 600 Marines were assigned to the facility. In 1977, that number had been reduced to 117; security is contracted to a private company.
The following progression illustrates the result through World War II:
1930 pop.: 680
1940 pop.: 1,009
1944 pop.: 13,000
1950 pop.: 1,861
With more than 7,000 armed forces and civilian workers at the arsenal during the war, Hawthorne was the busiest Nevada boomtown in a generation. By 1950 nearly 2,500 people still lived in government housing at nearby Babbitt, but even as the Korean War broke out, the boom was over. Growth since has been slow, and today the ammunition depot plays a diminishing role in Hawthorne’s economy, although its bunkers still pimple the desert as they have for more than 75 years. The Gulf War brought more good times to Hawthorne, and the base now under civilian management is bulging more than ever with munitions.
In 1984, after nearly 50 years without a major mishap, one of the storage bunkers exploded. The blast was contained as intended, blowing up instead of out, and the deeply feared chain-reaction causing immense damage and loss of life did not occur. In the early 1990s, a bunker detonated for no discernible cause unless it was provoked by a lightning storm the previous day.
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The depot began its existence as the Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot (NAD).
The Hawthorne Army Depot is a huge ammunition storage site located near the town of Hawthorne in western Nevada in the United States. It is directly south of Walker Lake. The depot covers 147,000 acres (595 km), and has 600,000 square feet (55,700 m) of floor space in 2,427 storage bunkers. It is said to be the largest such facility in the world.
The depot is run by an independent contractor under an agreement with the government. Security is contracted to a private company.
In May 2005, the facility was included on the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure list, with closure being recommended. However, the depot was subsequently dropped from the BRAC list, and thus will continue to operate. In 1998-1999, the facility was used to destroy the U.S. stockpile of M687 chemical artillery shells and separate from them their 505 tons (458 metric tons) of binary precursor chemicals.
History: In 1977, NAD was transferred to the Army, and renamed the Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant (HWAAP). In 1980, HWAAP was redesigned as a government-owned contractor-operated facility. Day & Zimmermann Hawthorne Corporation (DZHC) is the current operating contractor. In 1994, the facility received its current name of the Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD).
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HWAD claims to be the “Worlds Largest Depot” and is the largest industrial activity in the state of Nevada.
Hawthorne Army Depot is located in the west central part of Nevada close to the California state line. It is approximately two hours southeast of Reno on US Highway 95. The facility’s area 147,000 Acres (Leased/Owned) and .6M Sq. Ft. Floor Space. Facilities include 178 Buildings and 2,427 Igloos.
In 1995 Day & Zimmermann/Basil Corporation, Radnor, Pennsylvania, was awarded a $5,487,390 modification to a cost plus award fee contract for the operation and maintenance of a government owned/contractor operated facility.
*************** Why would we want a submarine base in Nevada ?
This map might help: http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/1479/flyingmranchatsauy1.png
A big enough lake and possible under water entrance into a lab area. NUWC stands for Naval Under Water Command on the map.
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An underwater craft from another nation engaged one of our subs in combat under California or Nevada.
Babbitt was a government housing facility in Mineral County, Nevada, United States. It was established in 1941.
Babbitt was named for the 2nd Commander of NAD Hawthorne, H.S. Babbitt.
During its existence, Babbitt was assigned the ZIP code of 89416.
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Per John Lear: the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Hawthorne Nevada access the West Coast using underground elevators and train.
John also spoke of a vast underground train and tunnel system used by the Military.
Do these tunnels connect to the NIDS Ranch in the Uinta Basin in NE Utah and to Dulce New Mexico?
The Ranch and Hawthorne can be connected by a direct line heading NNE from Hawthorne to the Ranch.
Dulce forms a lower point of a Triangle SSE from Uinta Basin and SE from Hawthorne.
Is it possible that these three areas are part of the underground tunnel/train/waterway Network ?
I believe the Navy and possible Naval activity was mentioned in info about the unexplained phenom at the NIDS Ranch. Certainly similar unexplained activities have occurred near Dulce and the Uinta Basin. (Also prob in the whole SW region) Have similar unexplained phenomena occurred near Hawthorne?
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Navy Submarine Base Under the Nevada Desert ?
Topic started on 1-9-2007 @ 01:29 AM by JOHN LEAR : http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread300230/pg1
Over the past 20 years I have heard stories of a huge U.S. Navy submarine base under the desert in Hawthorne Nevada.
During that time I have driven from Las Vegas to Reno many times and was always intrigued at the guard gate and sign just before entering the town of Hawthorne. (Hawthorne is about 5 hours drive from Las Vegas and about two and a half hours drive from Reno.)
It used to read “Naval Undersea Warfare Training Center”. Today it reads “Naval Undersea Warfare Center”. They must have made the change in the past year or so. Maybe longer.
Hawthorne Nevada is a U.S. ArmyDepot where ammunition is made, tested and stored. Endless rows of ammunition bunkers dot both sides of the road.
Just to the north of Hawthorne is Walker Lake. The East Walker river drains into it and over the past 20 years has become shallower and shallower. The lake is about 18 miles long and about 8 miles wide the longer axis running north and south.
It can’t be very deep. I am not good at judging lake depths, maybe 100 feet? 150 feet? Certainly wouldn’t seem deep enough for a Ohio, Virginia, Seawolf,Los Angeles. Maybe that little nuclear powered Fast Attack Sub. But I know nothing about submarines.
And the lake itself certainly wouldn’t be big enough or deep enough to train for Undersea Warfare. Or so it would seem.
There are stories that California and Nevada sit on a shelf underneath which lies on an eastern portion of the Pacific Ocean. Maybe the Pacific Ocean extends under that shelf to Hawthorne Nevada (and even further?).
Maybe there is some kind of access from the surface of the desert within the area occupied by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. And maybe if you go deep enough there is a huge part of the Pacific Ocean in which the Navy conducts Undersea Warfare training.
Impossible? Improbable? So it would seem.
But let’s assume that it might be true. There would have to be a route from the Pacific Ocean to Hawthorne. If we take a set of dividers and place one end at Hawthorne Nevada and place the other end at the closest portion of the Pacific Ocean we would find that it is in Monterey Bay, just south of San Francisco. Just north of Fort Ord.
The distance is roughly about 212 statute miles.
Now let’s also assume that there is traffic both to and from Monterey Bay and Hawthorne Nevada. We would probably have to have to separate channels, one for each direction of travel. If it’s a sea how can we separate these channels? I don’t know.
Below is a chart on which I have drawn two lines representing these channels between Monterey Bay and Hawthorne. If a submarine where to make 33 knots the trip would take about five and a half hours.
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