The Groom Lake Desert Rat Issue #24 is posted here with the permission of 
the author, Glenn Campbell.

Posted by Michael Curta


THE GROOM LAKE DESERT RAT.   An On-Line Newsletter.
Issue #24.  April 4, 1995.
-----> "The Naked Truth from Open Sources." <-----
AREA 51/NELLIS RANGE/TTR/NTS/S-4?/WEIRD STUFF/DESERT LORE
Direct from the "UFO Capital," Rachel, Nevada.
Written, published, copyrighted and totally disavowed by 
psychospy@aol.com. See bottom for subscription/copyright info.

In this issue...
     THE STORY OF "JAROD"
     ALL ABOUT BORON
     GROOM IN "OUTBREAK"
     CAMPBELL BANNED FROM A'LE'INN
     OUR READERS RESPOND
     LINCOLN COUNTY IN THE NEWS
     INTEL BITTIES

[Note: This issue has been sent in two parts.  The first ends with 
a "CONTINUED" notice and the second ends with "###".]

----- THE STORY OF "JAROD" -----

What first brought significant attention to Area 51 was the 
testimony of Bob Lazar, who went on Las Vegas TV in April and 
November of 1989 to claim that he had worked with alien spacecraft 
at Papoose Lake, south of Groom.  He saw nine saucer-shaped craft, 
he claimed, stored in camouflaged hangars built into a hillside.  
There was a minor blip in the media as "Current Affair" and a few 
other tabloid shows picked up the story, but for the most part 
Lazar remained unknown outside Las Vegas and the community of UFO 
believers.  Lazar lost credibility when his educational 
credentials could not be verified and when he pleaded guilty to a 
criminal charge relating to an illegal brothel.  The Lazar movie, 
once optioned by New Line Cinema, has not yet come to pass, and 
Lazar himself has shown little interest in speaking further about 
his experiences.  There's a well-paid niche awaiting him on the 
UFO lecture circuit--a trusting environment where veracity is 
rarely questioned--but Lazar has declined most offers with 
appropriate disdain.

The Lazar story was superior to most other UFO claims because he 
offered specific technical details about the operation of the 
craft but claimed to know little about the program as a whole.  
His experience was limited to a few days on the job, and when 
recounting it, he was careful to delineate what he did and did not 
know for sure.  Lazar's claims imply a longstanding relationship 
between the aliens and a secret division of the U.S. government.  
They suggest that the issue of "Unidentified Flying Objects" is 
moot, because the government has already identified both the craft 
and their owners, has been in direct contact with them and has 
assembled a substantial database of relevant information.

The problem with the Lazar story is that it has come from Lazar 
alone.  A program such as he described would seem to require a 
large number of employees at multiple sites, but none have come 
forward in a public forum to confirm any of Lazar's claims.

That is, until now...

..... INTRODUCING JAROD (1 AND 2) .....

Our source has chosen "Jarod" as his pseudonym.  That's pronounced 
"JAY-rod," which is the name of a certain individual for whom our 
source has great respect.  The original Jarod is an alien, working 
here on earth as a scientific translator for the secret government 
research program.  We have seen a sketch of "Jarod 1" drawn by our 
source, "Jarod 2."  Jarod 1 is a handsome looking Gray, like 
you've probably seen on UFO shows on TV.  He has a large, round, 
hairless head, with an expressionless slit for a mouth, two small 
holes for a nose and big, black wraparound eyes.  He has four long 
fingers on each hand, ending in very long, Howard Hughes-style 
nails.  Unlike on television, this Gray is dressed in human 
clothing.  He is wearing a button-down shirt and is shown in the 
sketch in a relaxed, human-like posture as though sitting behind a 
desk.  Our source explains that the street clothes are intended 
only to put at ease the humans who must interact with the alien.  
Our source says (with some ambiguity), that when Jarod 1 speaks to 
you, "you hear it in your own voice."

Jarod 2 (henceforth simply "Jarod") is a human.  He is a retired 
70-year-old mechanical engineer who grew up in Pennsylvania and 
who says he worked for the secret government program from the mid-
1950s until his retirement in the late 1980s.  We cannot attest to 
anything about Jarod's claims except that he has made them to us 
directly and we feel that, according our own private system of 
evaluation, he is genuine.  We have not attempted to verify 
anything about his background.  Our style is to take him at his 
word, collect the story as "folklore," then look for connections 
with the body of folklore we are assembling from other sources.  
What is true or false, we believe, will shake out on its own, 
because any fiction, carefully explored, will eventually prove 
inconsistent with itself.  In the meantime, a well-crafted story 
is rare enough that it deserves appreciation on its own merits, 
independent of how it pans out.

In this case, even more than others, we have used a pseudonym for 
our source not to hide him from the government, which seems 
perfectly aware of his activities, but to protect him from an 
onslaught of UFO believers, tabloid TV shows and, yes, alien 
ambassadors.  The Ambassador Merlyn Merlin II from the planet 
Draconis, a self-proclaimed alien in human form who preaches his 
own peculiar religion [DR#2, #23], is already aware of some of 
Jarod's claims and has camped out in his car in front of Jarod's 
house as though it were some sort of temple.  As is Merlin's 
style, he made enough of a pain of himself that he had to be 
chased away by some firm discourtesy.  There are a lot of 
Ambassador Merlins on earth, maybe not all of alien origin, but 
still capable of draining the life out of anyone they latch onto.  
They come to a witness like Jarod to preach to him their UFO 
gospel and seek confirmation for what they already believe.  

Jarod's story is a compelling one, with all the elements necessary 
to make it the obsession of many a UFO fanatic.  It could also 
become a tabloid extravaganza.  "Encounters" [DR#10] has been 
calling him, as have been organizers of UFO conventions in 
California who want to pay him big bucks to speak--no verification 
required.  Jarod has so far declined these offers.  Jarod has 
already spoken, in a low-key way and without pay, at some minor 
UFO gatherings.  He is not a flamboyant speaker, and he is easy to 
overlook among the extravagant claims and slick sales 
presentations at many UFO events.  Nonetheless, word is starting 
to get around among the reasonably intelligent that this witness 
is a cut above the rest.  We imagine that his name will be well-
known before long, but we do not want to do anything to hasten the 
process.  We are fond of Jarod, and do not want to jeopardize his 
privacy or the good will of his former employers.

..... JAROD'S CLAIMS .....

In summary, this is what Jarod claims....

-- For over 30 years, Jarod worked on the mechanical design for 
simulators for human reproductions of alien flying saucers.  These 
simulators are used to train pilots to fly the craft, but they are 
more than just a cockpit.  They reproduce the entire craft, inside 
and out.  Jarod says he knows of three of these simulators now in 
operation.

-- Although he worked only with the human built simulators, some 
of the technical details he is familiar with reflect on those of 
the original craft.  The simulators closely match the kind of 
craft Lazar describes, with a reactor in the middle and three 
gravity amplifiers below deck.

-- Jarod's working environment was highly compartmentalized and 
all information strictly controlled--so much so that routine 
communications with other groups was severely impeded. 
Nonetheless, Jarod and his group were briefed over the years on 
human contact with the aliens and the secret government program 
that works with them.  Jarod does not claim to know the whole 
story of what the aliens and secret program are up to but he 
offers some intriguing hints.  (E.g. "Boron")

-- On several occasions, Jarod 2 has seen Jarod 1, the Gray, but 
has never communicated with him.

-- Jarod has been speaking to us and to the small UFO groups with 
the permission of his former employers.  He is speaking at his own 
initiative, but he clears what he says with his former boss first.  
Some topics have been nixed and others approved, and what he has 
told us so far appears to be only a small part of what he knows.

We acknowledge that this is a lot to swallow at once. Many similar 
claims have been made in the UFO literature over the years, not 
many of them credible.  What makes Jarod different for us is that 
we know him personally.  We have talked with him many times over 
the past six months, and we see in his words and behavior all the 
nuances of reality.  We also know several members of his family, 
and they all regard him as truthful, although a bit of a mystery 
even to them.  Jarod's brother and son knew that he worked for 
classified defense-related projects throughout his career but they 
say he has never discussed his work until recently.  We can 
confirm, by visits to Jarod's workshop behind his house, that he 
has an exceptional talent with things mechanical.  Like Lazar, he 
can get totally wrapped up in technical projects and lose track of 
almost everything else.  

We do not expect our readers to trust our judgment or accept 
Jarod's claims as truth.  We know what the skeptics' position will 
be:  that Jarod is a distracted "Walter Mitty" merely recycling 
the standard folklore he read in the UFO literature.  Nonetheless, 
he is adding a few new twists we haven't heard before and presents 
us with a story of considerable depth.  We ask our readers to 
suspend judgment for now.  We should focus first on understanding 
the story itself and on trying to integrate it into our body of 
existing folklore.

..... HISTORY OF THE PROGRAM .....

Jarod spent most of his career at "Facility X," which he does not 
identify directly but that appears to be Los Alamos Laboratories 
in New Mexico.  Specific facilities are one of the things he is 
not supposed to talk about.  Curiously, there do not seem to be as 
many restrictions on his discussion of the aliens or of the early 
government program that first made contact with them.

Jarod's story, like Lazar's, is rich and complex enough that we 
cannot recount it all in one Rat issue.  We shall focus for now on 
the history of the secret government program, which has already 
been alluded to by Alfred [DR#23], Knapp's source "from a 
prominent Nevada family" [DR#22] and many other anonymous sources 
in the UFO literature.  The secret program, it is said, was begun 
in the late 1940's or early 1950's after a series of UFO crashes 
in the southwestern U.S. provided the government with undeniable 
proof of the alien presence.  Apart from the famous Roswell 
incident, there have supposedly been crashes at Aztec, New Mexico; 
in northwestern Arizona near Kingman and perhaps at other sites.  
Hardware, bodies and even some live ones were recovered, and 
government officials were pressed to decide what to do.

We will let Jarod explain the history in his own words.  The 
passage below is reprinted from a recent series of faxes from 
Jarod to us.  We have corrected the spelling and made some minor 
grammatical changes for clarity.  We have also edited the 
manuscript to limit it to the program history, saving other topics 
for the future.  Otherwise, this is Jarod's own report on the 
content of the briefings given to his design group.  Jarod himself 
has reviewed this issue of the Rat and finds it to be accurate as 
far as he knows, and presumably it is also acceptable to his 
bosses.

   "This is the way I recall what was explained to the group I was 
assigned to, and only after we were all cleared for the project 
that was to be our responsibility (mechanical design for the 
avionics on the flight deck for the disc simulators).

   "To protect what was found at the disc crash sites in New 
Mexico and Arizona, those in charge at the time scrambled for a 
position and a decision as to whom in the government would carry 
the responsibility.  This included security, material, personnel, 
documents and military and civilian intelligence.

   "It was not decided until the Eisenhower administration in the 
early part of 1953.  A group was formed by the President, and the 
chairman of the group was Vice President Richard M. Nixon.  Around 
June of 1953, the final decision was made to set up a "satellite 
government."  This separate government would interface with the 
U.S. Government for support only.  Personnel involved in any part 
of disc retrieval, including first hand knowledge, were reassigned 
as satellite government entities.  Additionally, new security 
requirements were established and new clearances assigned...  
Normally, clearances take 2 to 3 years for any responsible 
positions connected with disc design.  (Bob Lazar was an unusual 
case due to his recommendation by Teller.  This gave him an edge 
without going through a long clearance process.  Teller is high up 
in the satellite government organization.)  The rule for 
disclosure of information is 15 years after retirement in cases 
like mine...  Here is a list of what is classified under their 
rules: technical data, drawings, photos, sketches, illustrations, 
procedures, all documents relating to personnel, companies, 
related associate military groups, code names, types of 
classifications, names of people, etc.  Yes, I have dropped a few 
names, but only with permission.  During my tenure at Facility X, 
Nixon and another former president made visits.  We even got a 
handshake.  What was amusing to us in the group was that most 
other visitors to our facility did not shake our hands nor did we 
know their names; they were familiar to us by face only. 

   "The background as told to my group had some very interesting 
twists regarding craft retrieval and the first visitor encounter. 
Little did the government know that retrieval operations were 
monitored by the visitors.  They, the visitors, were well aware of 
the mishap of one of their vessels; however, the military got to 
the crash site first.  No details were provided to us on how 
contact was made to set up the initial meeting.  The reason for 
contact almost 6 years after the Roswell incident was recalled as 
follows: The vessel that fell in Arizona in 1953 contained four 
entities; two were disabled and two were reasonably well but 
somewhat confused.  (The visitors monitoring the retrieval 
activities noted with much pleasure the humane treatment provided 
to those involved.)  All entities were later taken to Facility X 
for medical treatment and tests.  Additionally, before leaving the 
scene, the two that were standing upright were allowed to re-enter 
the vessel.  They entered the craft and disappeared from view.  
Some time had passed before exiting; it was later assumed that 
they were communicating with the monitoring craft.

   "A bizarre situation was encountered at the retrieval site.  
With the entities removed from the area, work proceeded: clean up 
and loading of the vessel on a trailer used to haul Sherman tanks.  
While preparations for this were being made, an entry crew was 
formed.  They were dressed in clean-room clothing with medical 
surgical masks.  The size of the crew was not mentioned to us.  
Communications was set up prior to entry.  What happened when the 
entry crew went inside the vessel was noted as follows:  
Communications failed.  After one hour inside, the crew emerged 
from the craft confused and with upset stomachs.  They removed 
their masks and threw up.  What was astonishing, they could not 
remember any of the inside details of the craft.  The craft was 
sealed, camouflaged, loaded and shipped to an undisclosed Nevada 
test facility.  The entry crew was sent to Facility X to undergo 
medical examinations.  Results of the tests were not explained to 
us.

   "The vessel was exactly 10 meters in diameter and loading it on 
the tank retriever was simple.  However, the overhang raised some 
concern due to road width.  Since the pneuma-grips were still in 
place, it was decided to raise one end of the vessel to reduce the 
width.  To the astonishment of retrieval crew, the crane located 
on the tank retriever was unable to raise the vessel.  
Horizontally raising or lowering was simple with no effort by the 
crane.  Finally, it was decided to use the house-moving method 
with road blocks secured by military vehicles.  Upon arrival in 
Nevada, two conditions annoyed our best intelligence support: (1) 
the problem with re-entry and (2) a strange low frequency humming 
sound still emitting from the lower part of the hull.  

   "A particular item came to light as an anecdote:  A member of 
the initial entry crew happened to be a fighter pilot.  When asked 
if he would like to be part of the crew on the second attempt at 
reentry, without much hesitation he said, 'I would rather take a 
rocket ship to Hell than to go back inside that craft.'  So it was 
a major item that had to be considered in the plan.  It became 
paramount what the first item was:  Establish a communications 
link with the boys.  The boys had their own agenda:  They were 
busily doing their own analysis of items provided in the 
quarantine area.  This included food, facilities and us.  It began 
to appear that we were the captees and they were the captors.

   "The entities, referred to now as the "boys," were secured in a 
medical facility that was manned by doctors, bioastronautic 
physicists, chemists and linguist.  Initially, communications were 
limited to basic sign language.  The first significant 
communication was between the bioastronautic engineer and the 
tallest entity of the four, who was dubbed 'Smiling Eyes.'  This 
happening pleased the people in charge, but what ensued created a 
dilemma:  The boys wanted to return to their vessel.  After much 
deliberation, it was agreed to take them to the Nevada Test Site 
where the vessel was now located.  They, the boys, were pleased 
upon inspection of the vessel's condition.  The hatch was reopened 
for their entry.  The four filed in.  After a few minutes, the hum 
was silenced.  'Smiling Eyes' came out and went directly to the 
bioastronautic engineer requesting his presence in the craft.  The 
team leader gave the okay and the two entered.  After some time 
passed, both made their exit.  The engineer looked well and 
smiling. The final outcome of this process was good news for the 
management.  A request was made by the leader of the boys that 
they be housed at the Test Site, and they made additional requests 
for material, equipment and literature.  So began a new era.

   "Before proceeding any further, one item has to be understood.  
All of the information presented here was provided to our group 
over a number of years, generally in technical briefings, design 
differences and discussions of classified requirements.  The fact 
that we were young nuts-and-bolts type engineers made us quite 
skeptical of most information.  After each session there was a lot 
of chuckles and further discussion within the group.  Little did 
we know at the time that we were being monitored.  Our comments 
were aired in following sessions in a very subtle manner; it did 
take some time to catch on.  This made a big difference as time 
went on as our joking diminished with only serious discussions by 
the group after meetings.

   "To provide an illustration on how the structure of the program 
was decided on, one only has to look at the existing government.  
Think about what you would do to maintain a level of secrecy of 
something inherently totally bizarre in nature.  Nixon did it 
right by establishing the satellite government.  This provided 
cover for the visitors plus a totally new concept for protecting 
all information relating to this subject.  The most complicated 
provisions of this pact was meeting the demands of the boys.  

   "Selection of personnel in the organization was directed by the 
visitors.  The leader was named to be the bioastronomical engineer 
who first made contact; his name cannot be told at this time.  You 
cannot imagine the situation this caused.  It was like putting a 
private in charge of the generals.  Nearly all appointments were 
selected from the science field.  All of the direction did not 
come from those boys picked up in the Arizona scenario:  There is 
a chain of command. What they asked for is not completely known 
but some of the items included materials.  One item was boron.  We 
use this material for many things such as metals and nuclear 
processes.  Some discord between the us and the boys was 
identified but it was not necessarily a problem that could not be 
dealt with.  

   "What is surprising to me after reading many of the UFO books 
and listening to various speakers on this subject is that they 
almost have it right. But the information they are looking for is 
not in the known governmental chain of agencies but only in the 
exacto facto organization described above.  It is believed that 
release of further information will come from the visitors 
themselves, but it will be accomplished a piece at a time.  If you 
have understood any of the above it should give one clue.  
Impatience is not a virtue of the visitors.  To shed some light on 
how it will proceed the example is a recent episode going on in 
New Mexico.  (Reference the recent Midway sightings by a family in 
New Mexico.)  Of course, this is where most all activity began.  
From what I know, the exacto facto government is again scrambling 
for a solution; the probable reason is distrust, not us of them, 
but them of us.  These displays are one way for them to show 
disfavor.  From my experience, the boys are very conservative with 
some emotions and occasionally show a sense of humor.  Hard to get 
used to but nonetheless amusing.  Whatever way they decide, I am 
sure it will be beneficial to mankind.  For me, the sooner the 
better, some weights will be removed.  No, I am not radical, just 
a practical engineer."

We will probably have more from Jarod in future issues.

----- ALL ABOUT BORON -----

"All I know is they sure take a lot of Boron," Jarod remarked 
cryptically at one of his talks before a small UFO group.  When 
pressed for possible reasons, Jarod then remarked that, among 
other things, Boron is useful for preserving human bodies--a 
suggestion that caused some consternation among the abductees in 
the audience.  When pressed, Jarod admitted that this was merely 
speculation on his part and that he didn't have any information 
that the aliens were using Boron to ship bodies.  He said he knew 
for a fact only that Boron was being taken, although he could not 
reveal how he knew.

In any case, Boron is a fascinating element, important to many 
chemical reactions and as an ingredient in some high-strength 
fiber composites.  As a water softener in laundry detergent, Boron 
helps get clothes "whiter than white"--which may be important if 
you are a Gray.  Boron is among the hardest substances on earth, 
second only to diamond, but its brittleness and high melting point 
make it difficult for us humans to work with; perhaps a more 
technologically advanced civilization could do more with it.  
Another interesting property of Boron, according a colleague who 
has done some research, is that it soaks up neutrons like a 
sponge, which may be useful in shielding or controlling nuclear 
reactions.

The vast majority of the world's Boron comes from the United 
States, and most of that is extracted from a big hole in the 
ground at--you guessed it--Boron, California, which happens to be 
adjacent to the most secret part of Edwards Air Force Base.  The 
second largest producer is Searles Dry Lake at Trona, California, 
which happens to be adjacent to the highly restricted China Lake 
Naval Weapons Center.  The other Boron mines in the U.S. are in 
those military/UFO hotbeds, Nevada and New Mexico.

Are we beginning to detect a BORON CONSPIRACY???  In any case, our 
recommendation to investors is BUY.

----- GROOM IN "OUTBREAK" -----

Groom Lake has a cameo appearance in the current film "Outbreak," 
which is basically a helicopter movie with a few deadly viruses 
thrown in for plot.  You'll miss the appearance if you are not 
looking for it, but the establishing shot for "Dugway Proving 
Grounds" is actually a nighttime photograph of Groom Lake like the 
one printed in the March 94 Popular Science.  The photo has been 
severely manipulated to turn it into a moving 3-D shot, but the 
snow-capped mountains in the background can still be recognized.  
The producers could not get a photo of Dugway itself because the 
military was not cooperating with this very anti-military movie, 
which captures some of the "X-Files"-style paranoia of our age.  
We were disappointed only in the formula bad guy (Donald 
Sutherland) and unrealistically happy ending in which--wouldn't 
you know it--the world population in NOT exterminated by a nasty 
germ.  The Sutherland character does not ring true because in 
real-life military horror stories, there isn't just one bad guy, 
there are hundreds, each one a church-going man who is "just 
following orders."

We have reason to believe that Area 51 will soon graduate from a 
walk-on part to full Hollywood stardom, which is the next natural 
step in the evolution of its media identity.  Psychospy is sworn 
to secrecy on most of these projects, but we can print one 
unconfirmed rumor:  Twentieth Century Fox may be working on a 
movie (market unknown) called "Independence Day," which ends with 
the President at Area 51.  The plot is said to concern the alien 
presence, which the President has not been told about.

----- CAMPBELL BANNED FROM A'LE'INN -----

Glenn Campbell has been officially banned from the Little A'Le'Inn 
for what he wrote about the proprietors in the latest version of 
his "Area 51 Viewer's Guide" [DR#23].  He had been invited to 
dinner at the inn by some Hollywood types who are thinking of 
making a movie here, but Pat Travis ordered him out of the 
premises as soon as he entered.  Campbell wonders now whether 
there would be a desert location closer to L.A. that would be 
better for filming.  (You could reconstruct Rachel anywhere with a 
couple of mobile homes and a few sheets of plywood.)

Campbell says he values his life, so he has every intention of 
obeying the ban.  Campbell said: "I'd rather take a rocket ship to 
Hell than go back inside that bar."

----- OUR READERS RESPOND -----

..... "AREA 51 REFERENCE GUIDE" COMING SOON .....

   "After perusing DR23 I just couldn't resist placing a call to 
the Little A'Le'Inn in order to discreetly inquire into the 
availability of the 'Area 51 Viewer's Guide.'

   "A female answered, and after I voiced my interest in obtaining 
a copy of 'the highly regarded Area 51 Viewers Guide' she rather 
enthusiastically explained that they don't stock it.  Nor could 
she refer me to any source where I could obtain a copy.  She did 
volunteer that in about 3 weeks they would have available the 
'Area 51 Reference Guide.'  She described this publication as a 
very exciting project that would be a comprehensive review of all 
known data concerning Area 51 including a number of color photos.  
She described it is a very professional product quite unlike 
anything available to date.

   "Sounds like 'Ma and Pa' are a couple of real ingrates!"

   --Derbyguy@aol.com

.....  RESPONSE TO ALFRED .....

   "'Alfred' was new to me, so of course I read Rat 23 with eyes 
wide, and (so to speak) my hand on my wallet. What IS one to 
think... especially when the story disinters the old tale of a UFO 
crash at Aztec, dismissed up to now as a 1950 hoax?

   "But I don't mean to argue the truth or falsehood of the Aztec 
report, any more than you want to argue the truth or falsehood of 
saucers at Area 51.  (And in fact it's easy to reconcile 
everything with a scenario like this:  Krause knew there was more 
than one crash.  He had good info about Roswell, but didn't know 
details of the others.  He knew of Frank Scully's 1950 book about 
the Aztec crash.  But he wasn't bothered either by its evident 
silliness or subsequent unmasking as a hoax played, allegedly, on 
Scully.  Scully, after all, was over his head writing about 
anything but Hollywood, and talk of a hoax, Krause might think, 
could easily have been disinformation. Crashes HAD occured, after 
all; Aztec evidently was one of them.)

   "I was curious about one detail in Alfred's account:  'Also 
about this time, there were reports of a UFO crash at nearby 
Aztec, New Mexico.  The Farmington Daily News reported the event 
in one of its issues.  There had been a pinhole leak in the craft, 
the story said, and three small bodies had been recovered, three-
to-four feet in stature, charred to a crisp.  The craft itself was 
reported in good condition.  The next day, the News recanted its 
report and called the crash a hoax.'

   "Were these Farmington Daily News reports about the crash 
itself, or about Scully's book?  If they were about the book, then 
Alfred may have compressed events in his memory.  The book was 
published in 1950; the magazine article that debunked it came out 
in 1952.  Or did the paper catch up to the story two years late, 
only to discover the refutation just the next day?  But if the 
reports were about the crash itself, then that's a detail I don't 
think the world knows about."

   -- gsandow@pipeline.com

..... RANGE WORKER FINDS NO EVIDENCE .....

A former Nellis Range employee who apparently worked at either 
Tonopah or Groom in the late 1980s writes that he saw no evidence 
of UFOs in his three years there.

   "There are some areas where some weird stuff is going on, but I 
believe it has more to do with research, i.e.: biological.  I 
truly feel that the UFO stories are just distractions from the 
real activities and probably started by gov't agents.  Every time 
I read information that seems to be getting close to the real 
programs, I see lots of UFO stories start flying.

   "Me being a UFO buff since I was in junior high, I was excited 
about getting a job on the range and made every effort to discover 
any information or physical evidence that may be UFO related.  No 
luck."

----- LINCOLN COUNTY IN THE NEWS -----

Lincoln County has been in the news lately because of a nuclear 
waste plan adopted last month by the county commissioners.  The 
number one political hot potato in Nevada is the Yucca Mountain 
Project, a proposed underground storage site adjoining the Nevada 
Test Site where the Department of Energy (DOE) wants to 
permanently stash high-level waste from nuclear power plants.  
Naturally, the emotional reaction by Nevada residents is Not in My 
Backyard... never mind that backyards are pretty big out here.  
Yucca proponents point out that the Nevada Test Site is already 
profoundly irradiated by years of nuclear testing, so what more 
damage could a carefully managed storage site do?  Opponents, of 
course, hear the word "nuclear" and go ballistic without further 
ado.  Psychospy, with political allies on both sides of the 
question, has walked a very careful line on this one, and so have 
Nevada's politicians.  It is considered political suicide for any 
state official to come out in support of the project, but the rest 
of the country seems to think Nevada the ideal site and Congress 
appears close to making it so.

Politicians are in a bind because they can't open negotiations 
with the DOE or power companies without appearing to support the 
project and break the state's unity, thus Nevada may not be 
appropriately compensated if the project goes through.  What the 
Lincoln County Commission has done is, in essence, open their own 
negotiations with the nuclear industry.  The commissioners have 
passed a resolution allowing a transfer facility to be built in a 
remote part of the county where waste casks would be moved from 
rail to truck and be temporarily stored enroute to Yucca.  For 
this, the county would receive enormous monetary compensation and 
all the safeguards money can buy.  

The Commission's resolution brought the TV crews up from Vegas and 
resulted in immediate and violent reactions statewide.  The state 
Attorney General filed suit against the two offending 
commissioners to have them removed from office.  This, in turn, 
allowed members of the State Assembly and Senate to jump into the 
fray in support of Lincoln County, on the grounds that the 
commissioners' "free speech" was being violated.  Thereby, these 
politicians can ease into the Yucca negotiations without being 
seen to support the project itself.

We have no respect for some of our Lincoln County officials, but a 
several others have some political smarts and seem to have pulled 
off a significant coup.  Naturally, this means that the hysterics 
of the county, hearing the word "nuclear," have amassed to lynch 
these officials by means of a recall drive, in addition to the 
state's suit.  Although we are never optimistic about the future 
of Lincoln County, the Desert Rat wants to voice its support for 
Commissioners Eve "Don't Mess with Me" Culverwell and Ed "Has a 
Spine After All" Wright.  At least Campbell isn't alone in 
fighting the morons.

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GROOM LAKE VOR. As mentioned in DR#18, the frequency of the Groom 
Lake VOR (navigation beacon) is apparently 117.5 MHz.  The 
identifier is "dash-dash dash-dot-dash-dot dash-dot-dash-dash."  
Alas, we do not speak that language, but we are told it translates 
into "MCY."  That would seem to imply that Groom is masquerading 
as Mercury, which has no VOR.

JOHN ANDREWS of the Testers Corp., who is known for designing 
plastic airplane models before the planes themselves officially 
exist, points out that the stealth helicopter discussed in the 
March 5 Aviation Week article [DR#23], greatly resembles his 
"Stingbat LHX" stealth helicopter model with scimitar shaped 
blades and no tail rotor.  Alas, Andrews may have been too far 
ahead of the game, since this 1989 model is no longer available.

BOOKS ON AZTEC CRASH.  Two books cover the alleged Aztec UFO crash 
mentioned by Alfred [DR#23].  "Behind the Flying Saucers" by Frank 
Scully was a best seller around 1950, so you will probably find it 
at your public library.  It's a pulp potboiler written in 72 days.  
More interesting is "UFO Crash at Aztec," by William Steinman, a 
fat 1986 book with lots of interesting tidbits, including mention 
of Area 51 as the repository for alien material (pre-dating Lazar) 
and the text of the True Magazine article that debunked Scully.  
The book is not widely distributed, but you may be able to get a 
new copy for $18.95 from Arcturus Books, (407) 398-0796.  Arcturus 
also sells used copies of the Scully book.  (We wonder if Scully 
is the source for the agent's name in the "X-Files.")

UFO CRASH DATES.  According to the UFO literature (not necessarily 
reliable), these are the dates of the three alleged UFO crashes we 
have mentioned:  Roswell: July 2, 1947 (Source: Randle and 
Schmitt).  Aztec: May 25, 1948 (Source: Steinman).  Kingman: 
Around May 20, 1953 (Source: Fowler via Good in "Above Top 
Secret," page 399, recommended reading).

CORRECTION.  Miss Edith reports that she is NOT the only active 
member of the Rachel Senior Center, as reported in DR#23.  There's 
also Rita, Fay and Lois.  Rita was especially pissed to have been 
overlooked; we'll probably never hear the end of it.

LEGAL FUND THANKS.  We wish to thank PK, PM, CH, CP, RK, RH and 
DY79FF for recent contributions to the legal fund.  Legal pursuits 
are continuing, but for strategic reasons we will not discuss them 
in the Rat unless they become a matter of public record.

AN ARTICLE BY GLENN CAMPBELL on Groom Appears in the current issue 
of Covert Action Quarterly, Spring 1995.

THE MOUNT STERLING HIKE, scheduled for the Saturday, April 8, 
starting at 11am, is proceeding as planned.  See DR#23 for 
details.  Snow and mud are likely on at least part of the trial, 
so dress accordingly.  (No tennis shoes!)  The meeting point is 
milepost CL 131.1 on US-95, about 50 miles NW of Vegas.  This is 
planned as a day trip, but for those who are interested in staying 
another day, we may camp out in the desert (could be cold) and 
mount a different expedition on Sunday.  The destination will be 
discussed at the first hike.

THE CNN REPORT ON GROOM [DR#21] aired on TBS on 4/2, but there is 
still a chance to see it on CNN's "Earth Matters" this Sunday, 
April 9, at 2:30 pm ET (11:30 am PT).

OUR SOURCES INSIDE THE AIR FORCE say the Desert Rat is widely read 
and much appreciated by our men in blue.  The Rat lets the AF know 
which issues are important.  If Psychospy introduces a scandal, 
and it falls flat on the media marketplace, the AF knows it can 
safely be ignored.  If the issue takes off, maybe they should 
worry.  The Desert Rat is said to give the AF their best overall 
gauge of what is going on in the public sector regarding Area 51, 
an informative role we are happy to play.  

It is Psychospy's sincerest hope that we and the Air Force can be 
friends again someday.  After all, we kissed and made up with Gene 
Huff after many harsh words were exchanged.  Makes you think 
anything is possible.

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