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||UFO and conspiracy theories concerning Area ||

the storage, examination, and reverse-engineering of crashed alien spacecraft (including material supposedly recovered at Roswell), the study of their occupants (living and dead), and the manufacture of aircraft based on alien technology. Bob Lazar claimed to have been involved in such activities.meetings or joint undertakings with extra-terrestrials.the development of exotic energy weapons (for SDI applications or otherwise) or means of weather control.activities related to a supposed shadowy world government.Some claim an extensive underground facility has been constructed at Groom Lake (or nearby Papoose Lake) in which to conduct these activities.
meetings or joint undertakings with extra-terrestrials
the development of exotic energy weapons (for SDI applications or otherwise) or means of weather control
activities related to a supposed shadowy world government
Some claim an extensive underground facility has been constructed at Groom Lake (or nearby Papoose Lake) in which to conduct these activities.

~~~~VIDEO EVIDENCE LINKS~~~~

real video links!!!


1)http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm5ulFm2YhM
2)http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=u65_-lrXFIk:This video clip features the details of United States Military involvement with UFO Technology at a secret test base ...
3)http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Nt0jgGNek:Deadly Force Authorized. Photography Prohibited. See Area 51 like never before. The closest, most disturbing footage.
4)http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Uibqf0vtA:PEOPLE went on a trip to Yosemite Park in 2002. Yosemite Park is very close to the border between California and Nevada, and THIS IS WAD THEY SAW.

~|TOPICS|~

ORGANISATIONS- Military groups and civilian contractors.
1)Nellis AIR FORCE- Controls the land surrounding Area 51.
2)NEVADA TEST SITE - Borders base on the west. Initially "owned" Area 51.
3)SECURITY - Anonymous "Cammo Dudes" patrolling base perimeter.
4)"JANET AIRCRAFT" - Official EG&G "airline" ferrying workers to Groom Lake.
5)AIR FORCE FLIGHT TEST CENTRE - Agency that controls Area 51. Based at Edwards Air Force Base
6)EG & G special projects - General contractor at Area 51
7)Betchel- General contractor at Nevada Test Site, with some projects at Area 51.
8)Toonopah test range - "Semi-secret" aircraft testing base northwest of Area 51
9)Lockheed Martin - Aircraft manufacturer for whom the base was built.
10)Johnson controls - Contractor at Nevada Test Site, possibly also at Area 51.
11)Wackerhert security - Security contractor at Nevada Test SiteMilitary/Intellegence resources - For more information on other bases and military organizations.
PLACES:
a)Rachel.Nevada - Nevada's "UFO Capital", the closest town to Area 51
b)Basecamp Airfield - "Secret" airfield in plain sight - According to "Popular Mechanics" the site of the "new Area 51".
c)Papoose lake - Site of Lazar's "Area S-4" south of Groom Lake.
d)Tikaboo Peak - Last accessible viewpoint into Area 51.
e)Dreamland Airface - Restricted airspace around Area 51 and the Nevada Test SiteEVENTS AND ISSUES::Hazardous Waste Lawsuit - Alleged worker injuries from toxic fumes.Maps and GeographyPhotograpghxHistory PEOPLE:: - Partially superseded by ufologists file.Bob Lazar - His "S-4" claims in 1989 started UFO interestGroom Lake Desert Rat - Newsletter.

f117 stealth aircraft

Blackbird (OXCART / A-10 / A-11 / A-12 / SR-71) program :
Even before U-2 development was complete, Lockheed began work on its successor, the CIA's OXCART project, a Mach-3 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft later known as the SR-71 Blackbird. The blackbird's flight characteristics and maintenance requirements forced a massive expansion of facilities and runways at Groom Lake. By the time the first A-12 Blackbird prototype flew at Groom in 1962, the main runway had been lengthened to 8500 ft (2600 m) and the base boasted a complement of over 1000 personnel. It had fueling tanks, a control tower, and a baseball diamond. Security was also greatly enhanced, the small civilian mine in the Groom basin was closed, and the area surrounding the valley was made an exclusive military preserve (where interlopers were subject to "lethal force"). Groom saw the first flight of all major Blackbird variants: A-10, A-11, A-12, RS-71 (renamed SR-71 by USAF Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay and not by a presidential error as popularly believed), the abortive YF-12A strike-fighter variant, and the disastrous D-21 Blackbird-based drone project.

Have Blue / F-117 program ::
The first Have Blue prototype stealth fighter (a smaller cousin of the F-117) first flew at Groom in late 1977. Testing of a series of ultra-secret prototypes continued there until mid-1981, when testing transitioned to the initial production of F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighters. In addition to flight testing, Groom performed radar profiling, F-117 weapons testing, and was the location for training of the first group of frontline USAF F-117 pilots. Subsequently active-service F-117 operations (still highly classified) moved to the nearby Tonopah Test Range, and finally to Holloman Air Force Base.

Operations at Groom Lake :
Groom Lake is not a conventional airbase, and front-line units are not normally deployed there. It appears, rather, to be used during the development, test and training phases for new aircraft. Once those aircraft have been accepted by the USAF, operation of that aircraft is generally shifted to a normal airforce base. Groom is reported, however, to be the permanent home for a small number of aircraft of Soviet design (obtained by various means). These are reportedly analysed and used for training purposes.
Soviet spy satellites obtained photographs of the Groom Lake area during the height of the Cold War, but these support only modest conclusions about the base. They depict a nondescript base, airstrip, hangars, etc., but nothing that supports some of the wilder claims about underground facilities. Later commercial satellite images show the base has grown, but remains superficially unexceptional.
Senior Trend / U-2 program :
Groom Lake was used for bombing and artillery practice during World War II, but was then abandoned until 1955, when it was selected by Lockheed's skunkworks team as the ideal location to test the forthcoming U-2 spyplane. The lakebed made for an ideal strip to operate the troublesome test aircraft from, and the Emigrant Valley's mountain ranges and the NTS perimeter protected the secret plane from curious eyes.
Lockheed constructed a makeshift base at Groom, little more than a few shelters and workshops and a small constellation of trailerhomes to billet its small team in. The first U-2 flew at Groom in August of 1955, and U-2s under the control of the CIA began overflights of Soviet territory by mid-1956.
During this period, the NTS continued to perform series of atmospheric nuclear explosions. U-2 operations throughout 1957 were frequently disrupted by the Plumbbob series of atomic test, which exploded two dozen devices at the NTS. The Plumbbob-Hood explosion scattered fallout across Groom and forced its (temporary) evacuation.
As U-2's primary mission was to overfly the Soviet Union, it operated largely from airbases near the Soviet border, including Incirlik in Turkey and Peshawar in Pakistan.

The Government's position on Area 51 ::
The U.S. Government does not explicitly acknowledge the existence of the Groom Lake facility, nor does it deny it. Unlike much of the Nellis range, the area surrounding the lake is permanently off-limits both to civilian and normal military air traffic. The area is protected by radar stations, buried movement sensors, and uninvited guests are met by helicopters and armed guards. Should they accidentally stray into the exclusionary "box" surrounding Groom's airspace, even military pilots training in the NAFR are reportedly grilled extensively by military intelligence agents.
The base does not appear on public US government maps; the USGS topological map for the area only shows the long-disused Groom Mine, and the civil aviation chart for Nevada shows a large restricted area, but defines it as part of the Nellis restricted airspace. Similarly the National Atlas page showing federal lands in Nevada doesn't distinguish between the Groom block and other parts of the Nellis range. Although officially declassified, the original film taken by US Corona spy satellite in the 1960s have been altered prior to declassification; in answer to freedom of information queries, the government responds that these exposures (which map to Groom and the entire NAFR) appear to have been destroyed (Corona image). Terra satellite images (which were publicly available) were removed from webservers (including Microsoft's "Terraserver") in 2004 ( Terraserver image), and from the monochrome 1m resolution USGS datadump made publically available. NASA Landsat 7 images are still available (these are used in the NASA World Wind program and are displayed by Google Maps). In Non-US images, including high-resolution photographs from Russian satellites and the commercial IKONOS system are also easily available (and abound on the Internet).
In response to environmental and employee lawsuits (including a class-action lawsuit brought by employees of the base for toxic waste exposure), a Presidential Determination is issued annually, exempting the Air Force's Operating Location Near Groom Lake, Nevada from environmental disclosure laws (2002 determination, 2003 determination). This (albeit tacitly) constitutes the only formal recognition the US Government has ever given that Groom Lake is more than simply another part of the Nellis complex.Nevada's state government, recognising the folklore surrounding the base might afford the otherwise neglected area some tourism potential, officially renamed the section of Nevada Highway 375 near Rachel "The Extraterrestrial Highway", and posted fancifully-illustrated signs along its length.Interlopers discovered on (or, some say, near) the restricted area are generally detained by armed private security guards (reportedly employees of defence contractor EG&G) and are then handed over to the Lincoln County sheriff.
Modest fines (of around $600) seem to be the norm, although some visitors and journalists report receiving follow-up visits from FBI agents.Although federal property within the base is exempt from state and local taxes, facilities owned by private contractors are not. One researcher has reported that the base only declares a taxable value of $2 million to the Lincoln County tax assessor, who is unable to enter the area to perform an assessment. Some Lincoln County residents have complained that the base is an unfair burden on the county, providing few local jobs (as most employees appear to live in or near Las Vegas) an iniquitous burden of land-sequestration and law-enforcement costs.

~|GEOGRAPHY|~

Geography
Area 51 is a section of land of approximately 60 sq. mi. / 155 km¾ in Lincoln County, Nevada, USA. It is part of the vast (4687 sq. mi. / 12139 km¾) Nellis Range Complex (NRC). The area consists largely of the wide Emigrant Valley, framed by the Groom and Papoose mountain ranges. Between the two ranges lies Groom Dry Lake (37ƒÝ16 2Ý05 3ÝN 115ƒÝ47 2Ý58 3ÝW1), a dry alkali lake bed roughly three miles (5 km) in diameter. A large air base exists on the southwest corner of the lake (37ƒ14 2ÝN 115ƒ49 2ÝW) with two concrete runways, at least one of which extends onto the lake bed, and two unprepared runways on the lake bed itself.
Area 51 shares a border with the Yucca Flats region of the Nevada Test Site (NTS), the location of many of the U.S. Department of Energy's nuclear weapons tests. The Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility is approximately 40 miles (64km) southwest of Groom Lake.
The designation "Area 51" is somewhat contentious, appearing on older maps of the NTS and not newer ones, but the same naming scheme is used for other parts of the Nevada Test Site.
The area is connected to the internal NTS road network, with paved roads leading both to Mercury to the Northwest and West to Yucca Flats. Leading northeast from the lake, Groom Lake Road (a wide, well-conditioned dirt road) runs through a pass in the Jumbled Hills. Groom Lake Road was formerly the track leading to mines in the Groom basin, but has been improved since their closure. Its winding course takes it past a security checkpoint, but the restricted area around the base extends further east than this (visitors foolhardy enough to travel west on Groom Lake Road are usually observed first by guards located on the hills surrounding the pass, still several miles from the checkpoint). After leaving the restricted area (marked by numerous warning signs stating that "photography is prohibited" and that "use of deadly force is authorized") Groom Lake Road descends eastward to the floor of the Tikaboo Valley, passing the dirt-road entrances to several small ranches, before joining with State Highway 375 south of Rachel.

~|Events & Issues|~

Nellis Range Renewal - The Air Force must complete a review of the environmental impacts of continued land use <#2>
Hazardous Waste Lawsuit (14 links) - Widows and former employees suing Groom base authorities for alleged injuries relating to illegal toxic waste disposal. <#3>
Rave Party in Rachel@ - Aug. 24, 1996 <#4>
"E.T. Highway" Designation for Highway 375@ (726 links) <#5>
Campbell Obstruction Charges@ - Activist convicted of obstructing a Sheriffs deputy during seizure of a news crew's videotape <#6>
Past Public Hikes & Outings (1 links) <#7>
Area 51 Moved to Utah?@ - Green River Launch Complex <#


Hazardous Waste Lawsuit ::

Groom Lake Hazardous Waste Lawsuit::

Former workers and widows of workers claim injuries resulting from illegal hazardous waste practices at Area 51 in the 1970s and 80s. Highly toxic resins were allegedly dumped into open pits and burned, and workers at the base were exposed to the fumes. The most prominant plaintiff is Helen Frost, window of Robert Frost, who died in 1988. An autopsy of Frost's body revealed high levels of dioxins and other carcinogens which the widow contends were caused by exposure to fumes at the base. In 1996, the lawsuit was dismissed by a Federal judge on the grounds of military's national security priviledge. That decision has since been appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, and the appeal is pending. [GC 8/96]

~|Dreamland Airspace|~

Concerning the airspace around Groom Lake, referred to on aviation frequencies as Dreamland. This airspace is much larger than the ground area of Area 51 itself, and it includes the Nevada Test Site.

~|Tikaboo Peak|~

An 8000 foot peak offering a very distant view of the base at Area 51.

~|Basecamp Airfield |~

Basecamp Airfield is an auxiliary airstrip and support facilities adjacent to Route US-6 about 10 miles northeast of Warm Springs. This is a "secret" facility in plain sight: Signs on the fence say only the "U.S. Government" owns the facility, and personnel there will not divulge any further information. Circumstantial evidence indicates this facility is operated by a government contractor on behalf the Air Force Flight Test Center, probably in support of testing programs at Area 51. Basecamp is in line with the runway at Groom Lake, making it a possible emergency field for aborted take-offs of test aircraft from there.

Base Camp and Halligan Mesa
Base Camp and Halligan Mesa are withdrawn by the Air Force and occupy approximately 600 acres in Hot Creek Valley in north central Nye County. Base Camp is located 60 miles east of Tonopah on U.S. 6. A county road passes through Base Camp land. Halligan Mesa is located approximately 15 miles northeast of Base Camp along U.S. Highway 6 and then 3 rniles northwest along a dirt road. There are no proposed changes in ownership, mission, boundaries, or use of Base Camp and Halligan Mesa through the year 2000.
An electronics and communications facility on Halligan Mesa, and an associated support area at Base Camp, are used for collecting data for Air Force testing programs conducted in the vicinity of the Tonopah Test Range (TTR) and the Nellis North Range. Base Camp is used as a staging and support area for field personnel and as a recreation area for military and contractor personnel. Base Camp has a recently extended and improved airstrip, several buildings for sleeping quarters, shop and maintenance buildings, and a recreation building. Base Camp is manned by three to six people. Halligan Mesa is unmanned and a helicopter pad is located near the facility (Source: E. Tilzey, personal communication, 1988).

|~Rachel, Nevada|~

Rachel Description

RACHEL Rachel has been dubbed the nation's "UFO capital" for the many sightings reported on Highway 375 near here. Most residents profess no experience with UFOs, but many visitors are convinced that the U.S. government is testing alien spacecraft just beyond the mountains that overlook this tiny desert town.Rachel is the closest settlement to "Area 51," the super-secret government facility where many high-tech aircraft have been tested. The U-2 spy plane, SR-71 Blackbird and F-117A stealth fighter were flown from this secret base, which is located on restricted military land at Groom dry lake about 25 miles south of Rachel. "You can't get there from here," the locals say when visitors ask about Area 51, and no one seems to know for sure what is being tested there now.Some say flying saucers are the reason for all the secrecy. In 1988, a scientist named Bob Lazar came forward on Las Vegas TV to say that he had worked with extraterrestrial spacecraft at a secret underground facility near Area 51. He also claimed that he and his friends had watched the saucers perform from Highway 375 near Rachel. Soon, scores of city folk were parked along this remote highway trying to glimpse the alleged alien craft. Since Area 51 itself was off-limits, visitors came to Rachel for supplies and advice, and residents were surprised to find their town become the center of worldwide attention.Visitors in search of dramatic lights in the sky are almost never disappointed because Highway 375 is also the scene of many air combat exercises. Military jets often engage in mock dogfights overhead, and Rachel gets enough sonic booms to make any weekday seem like the Fourth of July. Flares dropped by jets can make convincing "UFOs," as do satellites and meteors in the crystal clear desert skies. Rachel residents themselves are divided about the UFO claims, but all agree that the many visiting journalists and TV crews have certainly put this town on the map.Rachel was founded not for UFOs but for mining, which is all but gone now. Farming and ranching employ some of the 100 residents, and others work for the local bar or gas station. The town is composed mostly of mobile homes surrounded by a huge desert valley. It is place that some visitors would regard as "the middle of nowhere," but Rachel residents call it the center of the universe.

||Tonopah Test Range||

Tonopah Test Range is a military range and air base in the Nellis AFB Range about 30 miles southeast of the town of Tonopah, NV. TTR was the principal secret testing ground for the F-117A stealth fighter during its development. It was also used by Sandia Laboratories under DOE contract for the development of delivery systems for atomic weapons. The "Red Flag" ranges in the northern part of the Nellis Range are administered out of TTR by Detachment 2 of the 99th Range Squadron. Although many secret projects have gone on there, the main base at TTR is easily visible from public land, and you can glimpse it from Highway US-6. Unlike the "nonexistant" facility at Groom Lake 65 miles to the south east, this secret base has a sign on the highway. [GC 9/96]

|~Detachment 3, Air Force Flight Test Center~|

The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC), headquartered at Edwards Air Force Base, is the presumed operator of the secret air base at Groom Lake (Area 51). This assumption is drawn because "AFFTC" appears on many documents regarding base security and land use, and known Groom Lake alumni claim AFFTC credentials. AFFTC is a logical master because the Groom Lake base was founded for the testing of secret aircraft -- initially the U-2 -- and Edwards is responsible for that function. Groom Lake is Detachment 3 (DET 3) of AFFTC. Det. 3 Personnel often claim to have worked at Nellis Air Force base or "Pittman Station," a now-defunct post office in Henderson, Nevada. [GC 8/96]

~|"Janet Airways"|~

Workers at the top secret Groom Lake (Area 51) and Tonopah Test Range (TTR) air bases commute to work aboard 737 jets from a not-so-remote terminal at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas. It is only two blocks from the Las Vegas Strip! On aviation frequencies, the jets are known by the company name "Janet," a name whose meaning is unknown [See glossary]. Each jet is a 737-200 (or CT-43, the military equivalent) with a single red stripe along the side and no company name or insignia. Smaller Beechcraft Kingair prop-driven planes make special trips to Edwards AFB and other destinations.
...So bring your security clearance and your visa card, because Janet will take you to Dreamland but they won't take American Express!

News and Sightings:::

6/20/96: Helicopter sighting. For the first time, I saw a helicopter land at the Janet terminal. It had the same paint scheme as the Janet 737s, with one horizonal red stripe and no obvious company name. I could not see any tail number, but I was quite distant and might have missed it. I took a distant photo with which the model might be identified.
6/30/96: T-Tails spotted in Augusta, GA. A reader [RO] writes:
Your birds seen at Augusta,GA. approx. six times in past six months. N654BA with some kind of mechanical problems and diverted to Bush Field, Augusta,GA. N20RA landed in support. Rude pilots! Savannah River Project is just north of Augusta. It is a nuclear weapons and fuel processing facility of the DOE and run by Bechtel!
5/9/96: "Official: Lack of black boxes in military planes a national scandal," Las Vegas Review-Journal, page.18A
`lt's just a national scandal that they would be flying a high U.S. delegation around in a war zone without the basic tools to determine the cause of an accident.
James Burnett Former NTSB chairman
4/27/96: "Military Ordered To Put New Navigational Aids In Passenger Jets," Las Vegas Review-Journal, page 8A.
WASHINGTON - In response to the plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, Defense Secretary William Perry ordered the military services Friday to install new navigation aids on all their passenger planes.

~|Photo #1: ABC News (Chubby Dude)|~

This photo is a frame grab from a news story aired by ABC World News Tonight on 4/19/94. The video was shot on 4/8/94 on an unmaintained road near Freedom Ridge, on public land about 2 miles from the military border. These videos were taken during the encounter in which all of ABC's video equipment and tapes were seized. Reported in DR#7 update in DR#8 Transcript of Report. The arm in lower left corner is that of Sargeant Douglas Lamoreaux of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department.
The subject of the first picture we call "Chubby Dude" for his obvious paunch. (So much for the "elite forces" myth.)

Photo #2: ABC News (Dude #2)From ABC video taken at same time as Chubby Dude. On the right is Lincoln County Deputy Kelly Bryant. Like Bryant, this Dude was playing second fiddle, while Lamoreaux and Chubby did most of the talking.

||Cammo Dudes/\Groom Lake Security Force/\Investigated by Glenn Campbell

The "Cammo Dudes" are members of the anonymous, camouflage-clad security force that patrols the outer boundary of the Groom Lake complex and adjoining public lands. They are a mixture of Air Force personnel and employees of a private contractor, probably EG&G. They are protected by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department, the only local police force in the U.S. that acts in proxy for a secret Federal entity. Cammo Dudes detain tourists who wander across the poorly marked military border near the "E.T. Highway," State Route 375. Regardless of the circumstances, these tourists are turned over to the Sheriff's Department for the typical $600 local fine. By dealing only with the local authorities instead of federal ones, the Cammo Dudes avoid having to identify themselves or appear in court.

Nevada Test Site

The Nevada Test Site is a Rhode Island-sized testing ground northwest of Las Vegas where the U.S. conducted the majority of its nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War. From its founding in 1951 until the final Divider test in 1992, over 900 atomic explosions were detonated in this barren desert. In the 1950s, atomic tests were conducted above ground and resulted in devastating health effects to the "Downwinders" northeast of the site in Nevada and Utah. Since then, tests were conducted only underground, resulting in a pockmarked "lunar" landscape. The NTS is operated by the Department of Energy, which has become increasingly open about the site's history and its environmental problems. The NTS is bounded on three side by the Nellis Air Force Range and adjoins "Area 51" a secret military base at its northeast corner. Today, the Test Site is under consideration for various storage and processing projects for dangerous materials, and some non-nuclear and sub-critical explosions are still conducted there. [gc 12/5/96]

General InformationThe Nevada Proving Ground was created by Pres. Harry Truman on Jan. 11, 1951, and the first atomic test, Operation Ranger, was conducted on Jan. 27, 1951. The final nuclear test, Divider, was conducted on Sept. 23, 1992. In between, there were 99 above ground tests and over 800 below ground tests. The NTS is broken up into numbered areas of varying sizes, from 1 to 30, with the omission of Areas 13, 21, 24 and 28. (Area 13 is an off-site location in the Nellis Range north of Groom Lake.)

~~GETTIN U GUYS THE BASIC PISCTURE::||

Military Facility, Social Phenomenon and State of Mind ::

Area 51, also known as Groom Lake, is a secret military facility about 90 miles north of Las Vegas. The number refers to a 6-by-10-mile block of land, at the center of which is a large air base the government will not discuss. The site was selected in the mid-1950s for testing of the U-2 spyplane, due to its remoteness, proximity to existing facilities and presence of a dry lake bed for landings. Groom Lake is America's traditional testing ground for "black budget" aircraft before they are publicly acknowledged. The facility and surrounding areas are also associated -- with varying levels of credibility -- with UFO and conspiracy stories. In 1989, Bob Lazar claimed on a Las Vegas television station that he had worked with alien spacecraft at Papoose Lake, south of Area 51. Since then, "Area 51" has become a popular symbol for the alleged U.S. Government UFO cover-up. [GC 8/96]

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE

Nellis Air Force Base's primary mission is the training of pilots and support crews in realistic air combat exercises, the best known of which is Red Flag. The vast, Connecticut-size Nellis Range, northwest of Las Vegas, is managed by the base for support of these combat exercises. Also making use of the range are numerous aircraft and weapons testing programs, many of them secret. The Nellis-administered range surrounds, but apparently does not include, the block of land known as "Area 51" and the secret Groom Lake air base within it. (Area 51 appears to be under control of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB.) Nellis controls Indian Springs Auxiliary Air Field adjacent to the southern part of the range, and also administers, in conjunction with DOE, the Tonopah Test Range in northwest part of the range. Nellis Area II, a separate compound about a mile northeast of the main Nellis base, includes a high-security bunker complex that is a major national repository for nuclear weapons.

EXTERNAL LINKS::

All stored on other servers
Official Nellis AFB Home Page
Nellis History and Description
99th Range Group. Manages the Nellis Range.
Nellis Organizations
Nellis Range Renewal. Good overview.
Personnel, arranged by chain of command.
Maj. Gen. Marvin Esmond, Commander, Air Warfare Center
Col. Jerry Carpenter, Commander, 99th Range Group
Lt. Col. Jack Schofield, Commander, 99th Range Squadron
Lt. Col. Arthur Jean, Commander, 99th Range Support Squadron
News Articles
Search Las Vegas Sun for recent stories on: "Nellis"
Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) in Nevada, a database from the Army Corps of Engineers, includes many maps and interesting documents on Nellis-controlled areas. All maps and documents are in a crude Tiff format. Translate them to jpg for more attractive display.

Las Vegas Air Force Station: Radar complex on Angel Peak. (Decommissioned.)
Site location map (265k Tiff). Shows location at Angel Peak and access roads.
General layout map (93k Tiff). Close-up of facilities.
See Area II for other FUDS links.
General Information
Brochure describing Nellis Range Complex from MRTFB (Air Force) site. Recommended!
Overview from Las Vegas On-Line
A list of planes on static display at Nellis AFB
Maps & Photos
Aerial Photo of Las Vegas (296k) shows Nellis and Nellis Area II in upper right corner.
Site Characterization Project on the Nellis Range from Center for Land Use Interpretation. Many interesting map samples.
Nellis Terrain Data. Technical. If you can figure this out, please let us know.
Contractors
Lockheed-Martin, the primary contractor for range operations. Purchased the former contractor, Loral.
Commercial
Thunder Mark Thunderbird insignia products
Web Searches
Searching for "Nellis Air Force Base": Altavista
Searching for "Nellis Range": Altavista