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Reports of Area 51's demise are highly exaggerated, according to Glenn "the Desert Rat" Campbell.
The "New" Area 51: Don't Believe the Hype

by Glenn Campbell
Area 51 Research Center
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I finally got a copy of the June Popular Mechanics article on "the new Area 51."

I have never seen such garbage in a national magazine! In nearly every paragraph there is a major glaring factual error. Doesn't Popular Mechanics have editors?

Nearly everything mentioned about "Area 51" is false. There is no obvious change of activity here. The same number of workers park at the Janet terminal. There are no locked gates anywhere, except for remote dirt roads that no one uses and that have always been locked.

The rest of the article sounds mighty weak, too.

The "Area 6413" mentioned is an AIRSPACE not a ground area. I looked up R-6413 on a recent air chart. It isn't even restricted except by 48-hour NOTAM (advanced notice to pilots). In other words, before you could launch or land a secret craft there, you would have to tell the world, HEY, WE'RE GOING TO USE THIS AIRSPACE IN TWO DAYS. Is that any way to run a secret base?

On the land use maps I have, the land under the airspace looks open -- mostly BLM and state land. You could go there to look around if you wanted, but it seems to me it isn't worth the effort. What's the best way to find out what R-6413 is used for? CALL UP WHITE SANDS AND ASK THEM -- something the author apparently never tried. (My guess is that it is a rarely used missile launching area.)

I wish I had time to list all the errors in the article -- but the list would be as long as the article itself, It is a follow-on to the previous article on Area 51 in Popular Mechanics. I "helped" on that one, but it was clear from the beginning that it would be a cheap rip-off of articles by Popular Science. This latest article can't even aspire that high.

As the name implies, Popular Mechanics aims for the downscale lawnmower market, so who cares about facts?

NOAA SATELLITE PICKS UP GIANT UFO IN EARTH ORBIT
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has several Geosynchronous Orbiting Environmental Satellites (GOES) in orbit watching the Earth's weather and environment. On November 21, 1999, at 14:45Z hours our satellites caught an amazing photo of a UFO at an estimated hundred miles above the Earth off the coast of the state of Washington.
The University of Colorado also keeps these photos on file for reference. One of the satellites is designed to pick up water vapor or clouds from space. When Russel Kirchner caught sight of the UFO in the display he zoomed in and could see the steam coming off a UFO. It was of the type identified as a large Mother Ship. The possibility of the object image being caused by a computer error was discussed and ruled out. Similar photos taken on June 8, 1995, over South America have also been widely distributed. Philip Imbrogno studied this case and NOAA explained the image was a "moon shadow UFO."
This UFO was present for only a few minutes and is not seen in images taken prior or afterwards. The UFO has structure, windows, and radiates heat in the infrared spectrum. Thanks to Russel Kirchner. http://www.goes.noaa.gov/

This equation expresses the number of technological civilizations that might exist among the stars. R * FP * NE * FL * FI * FC * LN = N = number of advanced technical civilizations emitting detectable radio signals. R = mean rate of star formation averaged over the lifetime of the galaxy. FP = fraction of stars with planetary systems. NE = mean number of planets per system with environments suitable for the origin of life. FL = fraction of such planets on which life does develop. FI = fraction of such planets on which intelligent life rises during the lifetime of the local sun. FC = fraction of planets on which advanced technical civilizations rises. L = lifetime of this technical civilization. When explaining this equation, Carl Sagan once said the formula means that at least 1 million of the 100 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy have planets which have developed advanced intelligent civilizations. Now, if we consider the astronomical fact that there are over 10 billion galaxies in the universe, each holding at least another million solar systems, one may start to think that we may not be the only life in the universe.

UTAH'S GREEN RIVER COMPLEX CALLED "NEW AREA 51"
ACTUAL PROSPECTS OF THIS BEING SO SEEM SLIM

THE MAIN GATE LEADING TO MOTHBALLED COMPLEX - PHOTO BY DOUG DENK
A remote Army facility in eastern Utah was called "the New Area 51" in Popular Mechanics Magazine's June cover story. According to the magazine, the Green River Complex, along with Michael Air Field at Dugway Proving Ground , may become an aviation test complex, replacing the overpublicised Groom Lake base known as "Dreamland" and "Area 51." Though based on limited evidence, the claim has increased interest in the Green River Complex, sufficient to warrant a characterization of the facility in these pages.
Officially called the Utah Launch Complex, the 3,650 acre site in the bare hills north of Moab, was established in 1961 as a launch point for test missiles bound for the Army's 4,000 square-mile White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico. The site has been in "caretaker status" since the last launch in 1974, and has fallen into disrepair. It seems to be an unlikely candidate for a new classified defense project site, as was discovered by field researcher Doug Denk, reporting to the Area 51 Research Center:
It didn't take a whole lot of searching to find the place, which is located next to Interstate 70, about six miles east of the town of Green River, Utah. To get there, simply get off I-70 at exit 162, and head south (away from town). You will immediately come to a "T" intersection. Turn left and you're on the main drag of the Green River Launch Complex.

THE BIG BUNKER AT THE GREEN RIVER COMPLEX - PHOTO BY DOUG DENK
The facility itself, officially referred to on signs here as the Utah Launch Complex, sits in a shallow valley roughly four miles long east-west and one mile wide north-south. It consists of a total of ten significant buildings and structures scattered throughout the valley, with a few other old foundations and poles here and there. Overall, the complex is in a terrible state of disrepair. Signs are unreadable, windows are boarded up, and most buildings are visibly damaged in some way. The power lines to all the buildings I inspected had been smashed to bits.
Starting on the west side of the complex, at the "T" intersection mentioned above, and heading east up the main drag, the complex is laid out like this: After about 0.5 miles, there are three large, grey metal buildings on the right. These are completely fenced off, and are labeled as the Magazine Area. These buildings sit only about 200 yards south of I-70, and are plainly visible from the freeway.
At 2.2 miles is the intersection of Crystal Geyser Road with the Meteorological Building (as indicated by a sign out front) just to the south. The building is completely empty and in sad shape. Continuing on the dirt road to the south leads through some low hills and then south west to the geyser and the east bank of the Green River. North on Crystal Geyser Road heads past a communications tower, on a hill to the east, then under the interstate.
At the end of the main drag, at mile 3.3, is the launch part of the complex, with five major structures. It is encircled by a chain-link and barbed-wire topped perimeter fence, and is hidden from immediate view from I-70 by some hills to the north. The gate into the main complex is usually wide open, and there are no legible "No Trespassing" signs anywhere in the area.
At the center is a bunker-type, concrete and earth structure. Immediately behind the bunker is what appears to be one of the launch sites, now only a concrete slab with metal rails along its length. A couple hundred yards south of the bunker is the largest building in the complex, known to be the former device assembly building. Also in this main complex area is a large shed or garage, and a collapsed tower.
I could find no signs of any recent activity, anywhere on the site, in fact, the place looks utterly abandoned. In the four or five hours I spent examining the site, I never saw another person.

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