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reply posted on 25-7-2006 @ 05:04 AM by gfad
Originally posted by DarkStar86
For one. Although its finally admitted by the government and is studied by hundreds of thousands of people there are still no substancial evidence on what exactly goes on there from the late 70's to present day.

As the base was being studied more and more the government was getting nervous and snagged more land so we couldn't see it as well.

Since then to my knowledge their external aircraft test have either stopped or have been decreased severly. But, everything else seems to be operating as normal.


We do actually know some information after 1980 which indicates that the base is still used for aircraft testing.

In 1981, Senior Trend (YF-117a) was delivered to Groom Lake and made its first flight. In 1982 the first F-117a arrives at Groom Lake, Tacit Blue made its first flight and project Have Glass was initiated to reduce the RCS of the F-16.

Between '83 and '85, the HALSOL UAV flew at Groom Lake and Tacit Blue made its final flight. Evaluative test flights of the Russian MiG-23 took place. The F-117a flew out of Groom Lake until 1992. Around '95 the still classified YF-113G flew at Area 51 and in 1996 the Boeing tech demonstrator Bird of Prey also flew there.

In 1999 a fire broke out on Groom Mountains and is widely believed to have been caused by a crashed test plane. In 2001 the F-22s was flown at Groom Lake for airborne RCS evaluation and in 1993 additional fuel tanks were contructed.

All this points towards active flight testing at Groom Lake and the lack of recent information can be attributed to the obvious reason that more old information is declassified on unclassified than recent info.


reply posted on 26-8-2009 @ 07:54 PM by 11b1p
reply to post by bzap



my dad used to work at the test site during the 90s. sometimes he would be gone for several weeks at a time. i always asked him what he worked on. he would always tell me he worked in a tunnel several miles down, that wasnt really part of the test site, but still was. all he ever said about the machinery that he worked on was they were massive, 30-40 stories tall. he was very cryptic about all the work he did there. even up to his death, he never really said what he did at the test site.....kinda weird....



reply posted on 28-8-2009 @ 03:49 AM by BlasteR
I did know a guy that worked there.

He was a supervisor of mine when I worked in the Air Force. I worked in munitions systems for over 6 years (2w0x1 career field) 1997-2003.

They flew him out To the groom lake facility from Nellis AFB in 1998. He was actually stationed at Nellis and got a temporary duty assignment to Area51.

He told me how he had to sign a bunch of documents before even going out there.. I think he said they flew him out on a helicopter right out of Nellis.

His duties at Nellis were very specific and involved hands-on work with all kinds of munitions systems. But when he worked out at Area 51 he occasionally did things an ammo troop wouldn't normally do. One time he said he even guided in a taxiing A-10 into a hangar (unheard of for an ammo troop, LOL)!

Talk between civilians and uniformed personnel was strictly forbidden. He said he would spend a whole day not saying anything to anybody. Everyone just walks about minding their own business, doing their own thing. Lots of people there just noone really talking to each other. Apparently it was a pretty awkward environment. He even described it as creepy.

The particular project my supervisor was working on involved an experimental type of munitions system that was (and may still be) classified. He did tell me what it was but I'm not about to disclose it. I actually like my privacy. But I will say that it wasn't some kind of buck rogers or UFO craziness. However, he did say that he had one discussion with a contractor while he was there. What he was told was basically.. If it's been in a SciFi TV show or movie, if it's been thought of before in any way it's been considered and/or tinkered with in one form or another at the base..

The kind of stuff you see on Star Trek, we've tried it.

And when you consider the fact that technology like the F-117 is about 40 years old... Well, you get the idea. (Tacet Blue, predecessor of the F117, was being worked on in mid sixties I think).

-ChriS

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