Heard of Area 51? Well, here's Area 6

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada...rld-area-6

Less known than Area 51, Area 6 is located at Yucca Flat in the former Nevada Nuclear Test Site. It's hosted a dirt airstrip since the 1950's, once used for supporting nuclear tests. Now it's got a nice paved runway and several large hangers.

I believe that the "Area" numbers refer to rectangles on some old topographical map of the area (which may have been renamed the Nevada National Security Site) which combined together is as big as the entire country of Lebanon.

Apparently the Area 6 location is being used for testing UAVs (unmanned air vehicles, "drones" in other words). Word is that vehicle prototypes, sensors, computers and software are being tested there. Apparently a small number of manned planes are located there too, for use as chase-planes.

The runway seems to be too short for larger armed industrial-strength UAVs, which apparently are tested at the Tonopah Test Range (also part of the same huge complex where the former nuclear test site is) and probably at Area 51 too. Speculation is that Area 6 might specialize in reconaissance "drones", not the larger 'UCAVs' (unmanned combat air vehicles, robot fighter planes).

There's speculation that they might also be using the site to test sensors to detect hidden nuclear bombs, 'dirty bombs' and similar things that terrorists might try to use. Analysts have also noted the geographical similarity between this location and places like Libya and Afghanistan, where armed insurgents operate. So sensors capable of detecting small groups of armed insurgents might be tested here too. An analyst said that if he was in charge, he'd tell Special Forces soldiers to use all of their skills try to infiltrate the location, then set the sensors to work trying to detect their presence.

But who knows?

(No, MR. I don't think that it's where they keep the crashed flying saucers and the space-aliens on ice.)

[Yazata]

This:

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Leads to this:

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And everyone who watched old 1950's science-fiction movies knows that radiation means mutants. The Hills have Eyes.

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Which might be one of the motivations for the Nevada National Security Site's use of security robots to patrol its expansive territory:

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Here's the 'Areas' within the old Nevada Nuclear Test Site. The colored dots are nuclear detonation sites. (Most underground without any surface radiation releases.)

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Area 51 isn't inside the old Nevada Nuclear Test Site. It's off to the northeast of this map, at Groom Lake.

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Thank goodness there's still another "Area" that Chris Carter can fictionally hash about in that garbled-up, off-on conspiracy thread (if there are any further future episodes in addition to this year's). Fixations over Area 51 would be so nineties now.

[Magical Realist]

I used to live in Jackass Flats back in the day. That was before all the drone and ufo traffic started keeping me up at all hours of the night. The giant glow-in-the-dark scorpions too. Good times..sigh..

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[Yazata]

Here's a photo of the new facilities at Area 6:

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[Magical Realist]

An obvious ufo runway, similar to the Nazca lines. The lower case "b" shape says it all. A cipher for Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox.

[Yazata]

More news from the Nevada National Security Site: It seems that an entire fake town called 'Survival Town' was built in Area 1, which was then irradiated with fallout from a nearby nuclear test called Apple 2 in 1955. The fake town remains mildly radioactive to this day, though not radioactive enough to prevent short visits as long as people don't stay too long. So... the US renamed it T-1 and has put it to work, calling it the Center for Radiological/Nuclear Training and using it as a training ground for radiological 'dirty bomb' responders from US federal and local law enforcement after 9-11. Now T-1 is being opened to foreign police and security people. Reportedly a big batch of eastern Europeans are due this summer.

Give'em geiger counters and set'em loose. Lot'sa fun.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/milita...ing-nevada

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Here's some photos of the quintessentially 1950's population of Survival Town Nevada, on that fateful day. Check out their cool 'retro' outfits!

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Then all hell broke loose, when the US government exploded a nuclear bomb at the edge of town.

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The town was populated by mannequins (that the army got from J.C. Penny's!) But there were 6,000 real-life human observers six miles away and some extraordinarily courageous army troops were as close as two miles away, in trenches and in tanks.

Here's the sophisticated little group at the dinner table after the bomb went off. From the looks of the damage, they probably would have survived if they were flesh-and-blood.

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Between this and the underground worm-monsters in 'Tremors', and people wonder why rural Nevada has so many survivalists and why they don't trust the federal government a whole lot.

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. . . The town was populated by mannequins (that the army got from J.C. Penny's!) [...] Here's the sophisticated little group at the dinner table after the bomb went off. From the looks of the damage, they probably would have survived if they were flesh-and-blood.

This is an abandoned island and an aborted nuclear test away from the setting of 1969's The New People.

[Yazata]

More goings-on at the Nevada National Security Site. Temporary Flight Restrictions have been announced over an area above what's said to be the "Device Assembly Facility". (Hummm...what kind of "devices"? Where's Grusch when we need him??)

They aren't kidding either. They say that pilots that violate the TFR will be are subject to losing their pilots licenses, are subject to criminal prosecution... and this:

"The United States government may use deadly force against the airborne ACFT, if it is determined that the ACFT poses an imminent security threat, pursuant to 14 CFR 99.7, Special Security Instructions" (Translation - if a jet fighter appears off your wingtip and its pilot tells you to land where he directs, better do it.) 

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