i believe its a practice range for the F-15's stationed at Seymour Johnson. I believe they just drop non-explosive bombs to hone their targeting skills

Hey ben94gt,

Would you please contact me concerning these reported silo's in Pilot Mountain. My e-mail is freedomrik@yahoo.com

Thanks

haha this thread is back from the dead, unfortunatley, my original source of info, washball, has seemed to dissapear from ATS. Honestly, I am more interested in the Wilkesboro area silo then pilot mtn, but it would be cool to find out about pilot mtn.

Harvey’s Point was originally a tugboat base used during WWII and Korea. It served as a base for tugs that towed targets into Albemarle Sound for the Navy pilots flying down from the Norfolk, Virginia.

In August of 1968, a friend of mine purchased a houseboat in Winton, NC, and asked me to help him bring it back to Richmond, VA, via the Intercoastal Waterway. There were four of us on the trip.

The second afternoon, we were sailing east in Albemarle Sound when a nasty squall line started making up in the west. Albemarle Sound is very shallow, and no place to be in a houseboat with the sea keeping characteristics of a shoebox. After a quick look at the chart and the Notice to Mariners we found this “abandoned” tugboat base very close on the port beam at Harvey’s Point. We got in just ahead of the storm, and found a covered slip with concrete pier. Very snug, almost a boathouse. We had a beer as the storm blew past us, sideways.

Suddenly, three men in civilian clothes, each with a different type weapon, ran into the boathouse, spread out and told us not to move. Then another civilian arrived (for some reason I remember he wore cowboy boots) and we were marched up a path thru the pines to a two-story brick building; told to empty our pockets and left in the small lobby. A half hour later our things were returned, we were told the boat would be confiscated until the next day. One of their people would drive us into Hertford, but we would have to find our own way back.

A guard, in some kind of generic uniform, drove us to the only motel in Hertford. On the way we were complaining about not being able to leave –the storm having blown itself out, and the guard told us we were lucky. He said two fishermen had their boat sink off Harvey’s Point, and when they swam ashore, they had been arrested. The next morning, the motel clerk called the local sheriff and he agreed to drive us back to the base. On the trip he admitted the whole thing sounded kind of funny, since the base had been abandoned for years. When we got back to the fence –there was a small plywood box with a phone, hanging next to the vine-covered gate. It really did look abandoned from that side. The phone worked and they sent a car for us. It was kind of funny to watch the sheriff trying to look thru the gate which they only opened wide enough for us to squeeze thru. Driving back to the boat slip I did notice a new runway running north to south between rows of those WWII “temporary” barracks. Probably about 3,000 feet long. Some new roads had been cut off the main road, but didn’t see any new construction.

When we got back to the boat it was pretty evident it had been searched without much effort to disguise the fact.

We didn’t find out what was going on there until years later when I read G.Gordon Liddy’s autobiography, “Will”, in which he tells about flying down to “the CIA’s secret weapon’s testing facility at Harvey’s Point, NC.”

So while trying to get out of the weather, we had come waltzing into a secret CIA operation.

If you go to Google maps and try to “zoom” in on “Harvey’s Point Defense Testing Activity” you will find that the images are blocked three clicks from full resolution, but you can make out the runway.

Originally posted by CAConrad0825
The actual location of the Farm is not disclosed, and Delta Force is not even acknowledged to exist.

The location of The Far may be classified, but it sure as hell isn't any secret. I've passed the entrance to that base many time...