"The Warzone" Covers My Last Video About The Tonopah Test Range

The article is here:
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My video is here:


I would love to hear theories on what I captured. Anyone adept at photo enhancement, stacking, etc. please contact me and I will make the RAW images available for analysis.

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a reply to: Anathros

me as well.

a reply to: FosterVS

I’m a full time photogrammetrist and drone pilot at work.
I have licenses to Pix4d and drone deploy - 3d modelling software.
If you want to email me the images, I can model them.

All I need is 2 or 3 photos of the same scene at produce a model.
It’s better with nadir imagery.
Even better with a combo of both.
But we can see what I can do if you want.

Here’s an example.
I created this model of our water management pond.
This was created with close to 2000 geolocated drone images.

a reply to: FosterVS

Actually, I have a better idea.
What is the date this was taken?
I have access to consistently updated satellite imagery.
Granted, most sensitive government facilities get lower quality imagery taken of them.
I remember when I first got the subscription the very first place I checked was Area 51.
I had down to 1 meter quality for everywhere surrounding the base, but the base itself was 20-30 meter quality.

originally posted by: Anathros
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Argghh... sorry about that. Fixed now.

originally posted by: Macenroe82
a reply to: FosterVS
Actually, I have a better idea.
What is the date this was taken?
I have access to consistently updated satellite imagery.
Granted, most sensitive government facilities get lower quality imagery taken of them.
I remember when I first got the subscription the very first place I checked was Area 51.
I had down to 1 meter quality for everywhere surrounding the base, but the base itself was 20-30 meter quality.

The EXIF data shows June 6, 2019. The time is off, shows 5:39AM, no way in hell was I up that early.
I will send you a link to the 39 Canon RAW images in a PM.
ETA: I guess you can't PM here anymore? Please email me: [email protected]

This guy was able to catch a hell of a lot more than I was able to, same hangars open, F-117's in flight, radio chatter:

a reply to: FosterVS

Nice video! and always nice to meet another person willing to roam the desert. I have not gotten through the entire video, but to answer your question on the front image. It looks like a C-130

originally posted by: FredT
a reply to: FosterVS
Nice video! and always nice to meet another person willing to roam the desert. I have not gotten through the entire video, but to answer your question on the front image. It looks like a C-130

I've been "roaming" there once a year, every year, since 2003. I hope to retire in that area.
I should have had that arrow pointing to the open hangar, rather than the clearly obvious C-130 Herc.

C-17!






But I see I was looking at the wrong object as well.

a reply to: Macenroe82

No, it's a C-130. The wing is straight, and the C-130 is the only one that fits that description.

This must be the Hanger.

a reply to: FosterVS

The hangar is most likely the F-117 for the Reagan Library, or one going for demil and either a museum or destruction.

a reply to: Zaphod58

The Herc has a large tail like that also?

I'm asking because I have no idea.

I used to take a Hercules to work - when I was working exploration in the arctic.
Buffalo air's cargo plane was a herc and would fly us in and out ever 2 weeks.
It had a lot lower tail fin.

I'm just going off what I have seen.
Your the aviation expert here, so if you say its a herc, that B is a herc!

a reply to: Macenroe82

Those are the hangars where the F-117s are kept, so it's most likely an F-117 leaving the base.

a reply to: Macenroe82

The C-130 has a large vertical fin, with the elevators at the base of the fin, like a conventional aircraft tail.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Ya, I see it now.
When I was zooming in, I was seeing a flat wing on the top of the tail like the C-17.
So I searched out large tail with flat wing and that image I posted of the C-17 came up.
But what I was seeing is pixelation from me zooming in so far.

a reply to: Macenroe82

That's the fun of TTR. You're so far away, and there's so much heat haze, that even with a 6" telescope you can only zoom in so far before the pictures goes to hell.

a reply to: Zaphod58
Zaphod knows. FYI, I used a Canon T5i with a Canon 400mm zoom lens with a 2x converter = 800mm. I believe I had a UV filter on it, more to protect the glass than anything else. I do own a decent refractor telescope and adapters, as wll as a Celestron MAK90, I had neither with me that day. I am told the telescope would have been a better lens.

One thing of note is the craft appears either white or grey. Haven’t seen an operational F-117 in that color. The coloring could be sun reflection perhaps.

This is probably way out of whack, and assumes the craft is viewed lengthwise and is either within or near the hangar doors, which is hard to determine from the pictures.

Using Google Earth I put those hangar doors at maybe 90 ft. full open. Perhaps this is documented somewhere. Using simple ratio math, I put the “craft” at about 40 ft. long, assuming it is close and parallel to those doors.
According to Wikipedia an F-117 is 66 ft. long. An RQ-170 is 15 ft. long.
Speculation on the RQ-180 puts it at 33 ft. long.

I’m going with an RQ-180 or similar. Or I am way out to lunch. One of the two.