posted on Jan, 18 2014 @ 01:00 AM
Hello,
This has been an interesting thread, I've got nothing to add about those facilities, but for the locals I've got something.
Around twenty years ago I had family that lived in south san Jose, When I'd go visit I'd always go for a mountain bike or road ride. One time, a
buddy and I
went on what we called an adventure ride, we would pick a prominent land mark, usually a mtn top. 30-40miles away and ride there by dead reckoning,
not using a map, and in the days before civillian GPS. So this day we picked mt uhmunum,? and the antenna array at the top . When we neared the
top, but still a couple miles away, there was a large "STOP" painted in the road and a sign that said something about gov. property no trespassing
and such, so we decided to take a break before heading down.
We weren't there more than 5 min. when a white suv came down from the top. It pulled up to us and a classic example of an armed "private
contractor" got out and we were essentially detained.
We were searched and he told us he had called the sherrif mad that we were going to be arrested for trespassing? But we were on public land. So while
we were waiting, a ranger from the open space preserve came up the road, as he had heard the radio call for the sherrif a came up to see what was
up.
He talked to the mercenary and came back and talked to us and we told him we didn't cross the line and the like. He convinced the guy to lets us go
and we headed down the hill. When we got to the bottom and we passed the sherrif.
Now the conspiracy part, I asked a relative about what was at the top. He told me that it was radar facility that had been closed for years, and
that he had actually worked there while in the airforce in the late sixties.
The place was hardly closed, at one turn on the road up you could get a little peek at the peak, and you could see people patroling the fence.
Over the next couple of years I rode in the area frequently, on network of small trails.
We could get reasonably close to the peak and at times it was quite busy up there.
Once a grey huey landed ans only stayed for a few minutes .
I always figured it had been converted to sigint facility or some thing.
Haven't been that way in 15 years or more,
Does anyone know of any goings on up there ?