My dad was with Kelly Johnson from about 1937 until Lockheed changed and got rid of all the old timers. His boss, Jack Real, went to Hughes Helicopters and Jack asked my dad to come with him and he did. My first job was on the SR-71. I trained on the hot section over the motor, very hot. Other youth came in but I never saw them again after the first day. What an experience. Super tight security outside the building and also inside the building. Security was everything along with total quality. If you made a mistake and told your boss nothing would ever happen to you as we are human. If you got caught trying to hide anything you were instantly gone and in trouble if you talked about it.
My father was stationed at Tinker AFB in the early 1960's, when an unknown aircraft developed a system issue and requested an emergency landing with top secret protocols to be put in place once on the ground. While the men could see the aircraft rolling into the hanger, it wouldn't be until its declassification in the late 1970's that my dad would learn that he was looking at an SR-71 Blackbird. The orders on the day that he saw it were that if anyone came within 100 yards of the aircraft, they would be shot on sight. My dad was always of the option that, by the time the general public learns of an aircraft platform, it has already been in use for a decade or two.
I grew up as a child around Tinker AFB. Could recognize all military vehicles by the time I got to school. Saw one F-100 on fire once overhead. Found out that pilot gave his life to ensure his craft didnt crash into all the residential homes near the base. I didn't see anything other than F4, F100s and the huge amount of C131s that came in there. Would have been super cool to see blackbird in action.
He didn't see an SR71 he saw an A12, the original version and is what's in the thumbnail of this video. The first SR71 didn't fly until Dec of 64 and it's earliest flights would have all been kept in the immediate vicinity of Groom Lake (Area 51) in the event of a problem and it needed to land. The A12 first flew in April of 62 and would have been flying past Tinker at the time of your dad's experience if indeed it was the early 60's. He might have seen a YF12 which was an interceptor variant of the A12 but that's not likely because only 3 were made and their program was canceled early on.
@nicholasmaude6906 Most people have no idea there was an AF-12, NF-12, and R-12, so don't slight the guy for remembering what his father told him, we're all on the same side.
When I was a baby, my father was a CIA employee at Area 51, during the time the A12s were being transported there and tested. He was part of the security group. We lived in Las Vegas, and he flew out for the week, then he'd fly back to us for the weekends. My birth certificate lists his occupation as "Nuclear Energy", which was a common cover they used. Later in my life, I knew he had worked for the CIA but I didn't find out about the Area 51 thing until about 10 years ago. There are some interesting stories about the transporting of the planes in those trailers. They would stop sometimes and people would gather and ask what was in the trailers. My dad got tired of thinking up ways to evade the question, so finally he just started telling people, "Well I shouldn't tell you this, but it's a UFO we found". They would light up in amazement and run off to tell others. I like to think my dad was at least partly responsible for the fact that people believe there are UFOs there to this day. :)
So you believe that in this vast universe, we're the only intelligent life forms? Oh, and we're also the most advanced too even though we can barely venture a tiny ways from our own planet? 😂🤡
For those unfamiliar with it, the U-2 was a fairly difficult aircraft to fly. It doesn't like to fly at low altitudes (it wasn't designed for low altitudes), and during a mission, at high altitudes, it flew in what is known as the "coffin corner". The coffin corner is a narrow range of airspeed. If you go beyond it, the aircraft will get into transonic flight (compressibility) and it may not be able to withstand the loads associated with it. If you let airspeed get bellow it, the aircraft will stall. It will not "fall out of the sky", like many documentaries, books and articles say, but it will pitch down and the pilot will have to recover from it, again, without getting into transonic flow in the process. One of the problems is that, even at high altitudes, air is not uniform. If the aircraft get into a pocket air of different temperature and/or pressure and/or density, that will change the speed of sound, thus shifting the coffin corner relative to your airspeed at that particular moment. As the U-2 received better engines, it became capable of cruising in an even narrower section of the coffin corner, thereby exacerbating the problem of keeping the aircraft within it.
My uncle stalled out over Tn and cruised into Nevada due to the issue you are referring to. He is now deceased. I have his flight bag, and i cherish it.
@@KristinaFerrarino Your uncle may have had some great stories, especially the ones that he could not share with everyone. May he rest in eternal peace. The flight bag is a great possession to own and to cherish. I hope that, at some point, you are able to pass it down the line within the family. I wish you nothing but the very best.
Surprisingly when this aircraft was Top Secret to the public years before it had been drawn to scale in a 3 view with a limited description in a hobbyist model airplane magazine
@@leoa4c thank you. He would not say too much, and we never pushed it . Always gave him respect. While he already has an exhibit in the national museum of the USAF , we intend to donate the bag and some other items found on the family farm after we inherited it and were cleaning it out. We feel it belongs to history, and the USAF, and not us. I always wonder what it must have felt like to be part of NACA, and fly on the edge of space. That must have been amazing!
Yes, I guessed that when they kept mentioning the “newly declassified” documents released in 2013. Since it is about history of Area 51, it is still a useful documentary for those who have not seen it.
My dad, a retired bird Colonel, was USAF Captain civil/environmental engineer working on rocket program, used to visit Groom Lake out of Edwards AFB regularly during the 1960s. It was only after he passed that i realized this was area 51.
Area 51 have this site in Nevada in the Sierra Nevada mountain range now Edwards AF base in on the California side. They have an Area 51 or it may be known as Area 52. It is said to be an exact copy of Area 51 in Nevada but its close to Edwards AFB but on the California side. A few years ago people were saying they were going to get in. A few turned up but they never got in. This was in California. Do you know of this one ?
@@cbhaessig the base is huge, 1/3 the size of the small state of Rhode Island with many areas off-limits. Massive dry lake beds providing safe landing areas for experimental aircraft with Groom Lake sharing many similarities. Beyond that, an identical mirror image takes you from reasonable discussion and speculation to whack-job dim bulb territory.
Vitamin D3 doesn't grow lung tissue, it helps build and repair bone. Vitamin D1 is synthesized in the body by exposure to ultraviolet light, D2 can be found in food, and the D3 form is synthetic.
Vitamin D is vitamin D, the numbers after just mark the different precursor chemicals you can use to get to the final product. D3 is an ingestible form and is converted to vit D in your body.
Vitamin D has many other functions in the body; a shortage of vitamin D increase risk of cancer, decrease the strength of the immune system, and probably many other things.
Area 51 isn't the only development area either. There are other super restricted areas in the United States that are just as locked down. Certain parts of Sandia Labs in New Mexico require above top-secret clearance to enter. Other areas, like the Skunk Works, operate the same way. There are other facilities that the American public are not aware of their function, but are still restricted to enter.
@@thorenshammer oh yeah, area 51 is the one they ' leaked' the existence of to distract the public from looking more closely at other restricted areas, of which there are many
@@thorenshammerSandia Labs falls under the Department of Energy (DOE) and uses L & Q level clearances. The Department of Defense (DOD) uses Secret and Top Secret Clearances. Nobody working at Sandia Labs uses the clearance term Top Secret.
CIA is active at Aerospace Canada. Yes, there are American experimental aircrafts being programmed and worked on up here. I had a colleage who has a son that works with them. Area 51 is one out of many places around the world. It's bigger than you think!
@@sebastienbolduc5654 Most don't know that the coordinates for high value hits in the middle east come from a CIA base in the middle of no where in Australia.
I could make some good guesses. Swarms of stealth drones controlled either from a mother aircraft, or perhaps autonomously, some capable of flying slowly, or extremely fast when necessary. Working on ways to make them undetectable with any of our senses or with senses. If you don't know it's there, you can't kill it. Hunter-killer drones capable of staying aloft loitering a long time without being detected, but being able to suicide into another aircraft when detected would seem to match the ticket. If you see wrecked aircraft showing up around Aria 51, you'll know. I mean more than the wrecks that are already there, and in greater numbers, though it's possible that these tests might be done at sea. The more of the enemy's capabilities you can destroy without putting your men in peril, the better. The Ukraine war has shown us that we need to develop a defence against winged dumb bombs too. We also need defences against civilian structures and infrastructures since there are so many bad guys out there who will happily ignore the Geneva Conventions and intentionally target innocent civilians. Yup, we have no idea what they're doing there, and it's probably better that it stay that way. If the average American doesn't know, all the less likely it will be that the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and other global pariahs will know.
Don't take any bait! Sun moves and shadow doesn't show outline of anything! If sun would be stationary than it may create something thermally comprehensive.
@@danielmartinovic6471 I believe that is what gave it away is that the temperature of where the shadow was different to the surrounding area thus giving it an outline.
National geographic society is my friend.I am a traveller and and Explorer of my continent.thank you. For maintaining the spirit of America. And keeping the adventure alive.see you soon.Dannydanny
In 1990, after reading about Bob Lazar in the LA Weekly, I went to Area 51 with my boyfriend. Bob Lazar said that they flew these things on Wednesday nights because that was when there was the least traffic on the highway. We stopped at the Little Ale’Inn, met Joe and Pat Travis and got directions to the black mailbox road. We parked there all night, and around 3 am we saw a giant glowing ball of light float up over the mountains. It floated around and did some horizontal movement, and then floated back down. I think we saw them testing one of the craft. 🛸
You should stop talking about this. These projects are to protect us against enemy technology. People can't handle a blackout for a few hours and they they think they can handle these secrets?
32:52 It obviously didn't fall off the pole. The radar signature of the pole was much larger than that of the Have Blue, which is why Lockheed Skunk Works had to design a stealth pole specifically for the prototype, so that they could actually measure its radar cross section.
@@samaelluci202 Yes, it is called "Skunk Works" by ex-Lockheed CEO Ben Rich. I got it online as an audiobook and listened to it while driving long distances.
@@samaelluci202 You should read "Chickenhawk" by Robert Mason, that might interest you as well. Its about the experiences of a Huey pilot during the Vietnam War. Its one of my favourite books. Edit: And of course the classic "The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe, as well as "The Hunters" by James Salter.
Dr. Richard Feynman wrote in his auto biography, during the Manhattan Project the same compartmentalized super-secrecy was used but progress increased phenomenally when all people (security screened, of course) on a project knew they were building an atomic bomb. The quicker flow of ideas, improvements helped win WW2 against Japan.
Very true, but this also most likely contributes to Klaus Fuchs being able to pass along secrets to the soviets. This probably cut 5 years off the ussr getting the bomb. Not sure there is a right answer either way here.
Yes, secrecy harms the development of new tech. By the way, the nuclear bomb didn't help the US win WWII. the US government already knew that Japan had accepted that it had lost the war by the time the US started dropping nuclear bombs on it. The question was whether Japan would accept an unconditional surrender or not and how quickly. Many historians believe that the real purpose of dropping nuclear bombs on Japan was to make it surrender before the Soviet forces got to Japan, because the US was already planning for the post-war period and didn't want the USSR to control any of Japan. It also served as a way to intimidate the USSR so the US would have a freer hand in arranging the world after WWII.
@@amosbatto3051 I couldn't agree Less. The U.S .was anxious to test the effects of atomic weapons on human beings, but the then president felt that the Japanese would do. Exactly, the waste, who was president would NEVER have used the weapon on Europeans , but did so GLADLY on Asians. Whether this was to intimidate the USSR or not, is not material in my opinion. The US remains THE only country on the planet Earth to ever use Atomic weapons. That is hardly a distinction worth being proud of.
My grandfather was in the army for 38 years. He enlisted with his buddies near the end of World War Two served in Korea and Vietnam. He was stationed in Las Vegas during down time at one time. I asked him if he ever heard of Area 51 and he said no. He told me that he fixed typewriters when he was in Vegas and that was it . I don’t believe him because I don’t see a brigadier General fixing typewriter. Some people keep quiet about there time and never reveal anything . I believe he was working on the sr71 project but he never mentioned anything .
If he was in the Army then I promise you he was telling you the truth. Only Air Force and some Navy. Army and Marines have no relationship with the base.
When the USA got that MIG-21 there was quite a bit of reverse engineering on the avionics. We figured out the USSR's transponders. Then we designed and built airborne interrogators that were installed on F-4 Phantoms. Good for finding those pesky MIGs that were not radar visible due to ground clutter.
Heres a 51 story: I drove a shuttle for awhile, one of my customers lived in Huntsville, Alabama, she worked at area51, she told me on take off the shades had to be down hers was up slightly they saw the B2 bomber n the F117: 1982?
Great video! Very interesting and informative. The technology used to build the YF-12/SR-71 was so advanced for its time. Incredible what was accomplished in relative secrecy.
Nice production. Surprised the Aurora Hypersonic Project was not discussed considering a Caltech seismologist figured out the source of the pulsing sound that was heard around SoCal in the late 80's.
1. Neither Aurora nor AHP is a confirmed project/code name for the 'donuts-on-a-rope' plane you're referring to. IMO, you should refer to it as the alleged SR-75 or -91 or simply "Aurora" in the quotations marks I put it in. 2. Additionally, since the one-line name Aurora and funding request to Congress for it around 1985 became public knowledge, there's been NO confirmation of any "claims," i.e., rumors surrounding it. 3. And, please, people stop referring to any anticipated manned hypersonic as Darkstar, as that was and still is the official name given to the RQ-3 drone retired around 2000, which was very much subsonic. For reference, the RQ-4 Global Hawk(s) and MQ-4 Trident(s)--the one illegally shot down by Iran several yrs ago--are still flying.
@@brianjob3018 We lived in Los Angeles at the time of the pulsing that could be personally felt/heard once a week. Also, vividly recall the trough wave map a caltech scientist produced from crunching all the seismic sensors scattered across SoCal. He drew a line through the trough lines, and its direction when right through Groom Lake. It was brilliant and revealing.
I can't be the only one that hears people say, "Here's what really happened...." on some old myth/conspiracy/legend and I immediately think, "Well, we can cross that of the list of how it happened."
Rough distance of total Area 51 border (23 mile x 25 mile rectangle) - 96 miles Length of US southern border - 1,954 miles It's not funny at all it's quite explainable.
So the guy told two kids on a bike that they were carrying flying saucers. 30 years later, those kids are on Joe Rogan. Edit: adding time stamp: 20:10 to 20:50
What they were doing is not in question. Area 51 is a testing and proving ground for military projects, viz. the production of advanced aircraft and UAVs.
Long after the U2 was "retired" I was working at an airport, midnight to 8am shift.....every few days we would hear an unbelievably loud aircraft outside of the hanger, we would go to see what it was, always took off and landed with no runway lights and no aircraft lights, never made any radio calls, just gone.....after a while of this strange behavior, we released that it was the U2, it was being operated out of an old abandon (so we thought) hanger at the far side of the airport....
On 27 March 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a Yugoslav Army unit (the 3rd Battalion of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade, which was under the leadership of Colonel Zoltán Dani) shot down an F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft of the United States Air Force by firing a S-125 Neva/Pechora surface-to-air missile. It was the first ever shootdown of a stealth technology airplane..... source wikipedia
This is true. However, in the case being cited, it is important to note that the 117 stealth was effective in preventing "radar lock". The SAM battery's radar could track the path the 117 had traveled, latent/shadow tracking. No actual "radar lock" occurred. To shoot down the 117 the SAM batteries fired multiple SAM's utilizing proximity detonation strategy to hopefully hit the 117. From that night onward, the 117 attack strategy was modified to prevent a repeat. In the case of the 117, invisiblity doesn't mean you're impervious.
You'd know of you worked in that sort of profession that informal slang is used all the time. It's alot more natural to say that than something like "dispatching the imminent threat"
When the F117 was shot down during the Yugoslav war, the Chinese acquired the wreckage. That night a bombing by cruise missiles destroyed their embassy . By mistake of course, old maps blamed. China still got the stealth technology , just smaller pieces.
That’s good give them that technology. So they can base their whole stealth technology on it. It’s perfect for us since we know the ins and outs on the design. It won’t be stealthy to us 😂
Ok buddy. I’m sure you know. Do you know the information the earth is not the center of the universe was suppressed for 250 years. You think they will acknowledge UFO activity with 80 years. lol
@@captainsalty9022-----😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 America has ALWAYS grown its own food. Including its own veggies. What are You talking about? AND We dont water our own crops with Sewer Water infecting our food supply with deadly ebola and other diseases!!!! Like Mexico does.
I just came back from Belgrade, Serbia. Inside their army museum located inside Belgrade fortress, I saw a human-sized piece of the F-117 they shot down in 1997 over Serbia. I am pretty sure rest of the pieces were sent to Russia and China for R&D.
They only call out the last three of five numbers/letters in the tail number which is standard practice after first identifying yourself to ATC. UA-cam's closed captioning is not correct. I looked up the tail number on the FAA registry for 862KJ and it does not exist. If you listen closely, you can make out 62J or 6KJ but need the first two letters for a full tail number (after the N which means it's registered in the USA). Unless they shot him down and deleted the registry ;)
Probably dubbed that in. Those transmissions were way to clear. Probably blurred out the number because around that time was when it became easy to look up tail numbers in the FAA database. Heard several stories of pilots flying their aircraft for TV and having random people they'd never met contacting them to ask about it. I forget the details, but one was talking about his plane was in a music video and he started getting calls from fans asking about the artist. Then they'd get mad that he never met them. People are weird. I'd have probably asked to have it blurred out myself. If I had a plane.
@@tooterooterville Which came first, the disability or the obesity, and who here is medically qualified to make such a determination from a couple minutes of video shot ? years ago?
@@raygunsforronnie847 That was quite a leap you made from my observation of an early weight problem to a "medically qualified determination of a disability"!
They don't shoot and cremate intruders anymore, because there's too much scrutiny on missing persons now. Back in the day, people go missing and nobody bats an eye.
kay, I’ve always scratched my head about the obsession around the kisluxbag book totes and their practicality, but this one is adorable!! Congratulations
Bob Lazar never claimed to have worked or mentioned anything about area 51 having UAPs. He claims to have worked at S-4 and that S-4 was the location where the UAPs were kept. That's false reporting (misinformation) from Nat Geo.
If anyone is curious about the blood boiling comment the ex-pilot mentions, it is call "The Armstrong Limit" and the truth is, blood does not boil at those atmospheres. Other bodily fluids - wetness on the eyes, saliva, urine, tears, and the dampness on the alveoli in the lungs boils away. Instant unconsciousness. A near vacuum.
LOL, it's an airforce base and radar test range. disavowed or not, if you wanted any indicator of what they did there, all you needed to do was take a look at the sandstone sign in from of the Tonopah fire station. it has a very accurate bas-relief of the F1117 stealth fighter and has been there since well before official photos were released to the public.
In the mid 70s I was stationed at Holloman AFB in New Mexico and I had a friend who worked with AF system command and he hold me about a program he was working on. He told me about something that would make aircraft invisible to radar. Turns out he was talking about the F117!
As and F-15 weapons specialist I almost got to deploy there with the 54th FS but my clearance upgrade came through too late and i never got another chance after that
Gordon Cooper wrote that round disk space craft has better lift ability and manueverability than rocket shaped craft, which is not such a difficult concept to understand. The concept that is hard for me to understand is that a highly vetted top secret cleared astronaut wrote about such things as bending spoons with his mind, the reality of alien space craft, etc. I don't know what to think about any of it, anymore. Was he just trying to sell a book? I regard astronauts and fighter pilots more highly than any celebrity ever. I just wish these programs wouldn't take such risks with our health. It is miserable to not be able to catch your breath. John Wayne openly spoke about it before he died and all the actors in the film stagecoach died.e@@tincupnickleboythe1st700
I love this, and if for some reason someone in the government sees this, I am over 50 year old would love to finish my career/ life working in a place like this.. i cook for living!
Dugway Proving Ground (Michael Army Airfield), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Tonopah Test Range, even Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia... are frivolity compared to the Semipalatinsk Test Site or Semipalatinsk-21 / Семипалатинск-21 "The Polygon".
I feel like I remember a story of a guy living near here who kept seeing weird stuff and to hide it the government basically made him think it was aliens to hide their military stuff here. If you can remember where this is from and share it with me I’d be so thankful!
Dad was USAF Air Traffic Controller. While he was stationed at Kadena AFB, Okinawa, (68-71), I spend many nights, in the tower with him, and watched the "space men/aka "Drivers" take off in what they referred to as The Habu ~ Blackbird, commonly known as the SR-71. We could NEVER share those experiences with our friends, nor would dad allow any pix. God Bless our military and the great people that have a hand in protecting our Freedom. Remember, America is the land of Freedom, because of the Brave!
My dad was with Kelly Johnson from about 1937 until Lockheed changed and got rid of all the old timers. His boss, Jack Real, went to Hughes Helicopters and Jack asked my dad to come with him and he did. My first job was on the SR-71. I trained on the hot section over the motor, very hot. Other youth came in but I never saw them again after the first day.
What an experience. Super tight security outside the building and also inside the building. Security was everything along with total quality. If you made a mistake and told your boss nothing would ever happen to you as we are human. If you got caught trying to hide anything you were instantly gone and in trouble if you talked about it.
My father was stationed at Tinker AFB in the early 1960's, when an unknown aircraft developed a system issue and requested an emergency landing with top secret protocols to be put in place once on the ground. While the men could see the aircraft rolling into the hanger, it wouldn't be until its declassification in the late 1970's that my dad would learn that he was looking at an SR-71 Blackbird. The orders on the day that he saw it were that if anyone came within 100 yards of the aircraft, they would be shot on sight. My dad was always of the option that, by the time the general public learns of an aircraft platform, it has already been in use for a decade or two.
I grew up as a child around Tinker AFB. Could recognize all military vehicles by the time I got to school. Saw one F-100 on fire once overhead. Found out that pilot gave his life to ensure his craft didnt crash into all the residential homes near the base. I didn't see anything other than F4, F100s and the huge amount of C131s that came in there. Would have been super cool to see blackbird in action.
He didn't see an SR71 he saw an A12, the original version and is what's in the thumbnail of this video.
The first SR71 didn't fly until Dec of 64 and it's earliest flights would have all been kept in the immediate vicinity of Groom Lake (Area 51) in the event of a problem and it needed to land.
The A12 first flew in April of 62 and would have been flying past Tinker at the time of your dad's experience if indeed it was the early 60's.
He might have seen a YF12 which was an interceptor variant of the A12 but that's not likely because only 3 were made and their program was canceled early on.
@@dukecraig2402 Even that would have been super cool regardless of model, variant.
As another commentator said that aircraft your father saw was clearly an A-12, IIRC the first SR-71A didn't fly till 1968.
@nicholasmaude6906 Most people have no idea there was an AF-12, NF-12, and R-12, so don't slight the guy for remembering what his father told him, we're all on the same side.
When I was a baby, my father was a CIA employee at Area 51, during the time the A12s were being transported there and tested. He was part of the security group. We lived in Las Vegas, and he flew out for the week, then he'd fly back to us for the weekends. My birth certificate lists his occupation as "Nuclear Energy", which was a common cover they used. Later in my life, I knew he had worked for the CIA but I didn't find out about the Area 51 thing until about 10 years ago. There are some interesting stories about the transporting of the planes in those trailers. They would stop sometimes and people would gather and ask what was in the trailers. My dad got tired of thinking up ways to evade the question, so finally he just started telling people, "Well I shouldn't tell you this, but it's a UFO we found". They would light up in amazement and run off to tell others. I like to think my dad was at least partly responsible for the fact that people believe there are UFOs there to this day. :)
That's a big UFO yah found!
Lol.. Good One.. And Yeah.. I'd Say So... Partly
Thanks for sharing!
So you believe that in this vast universe, we're the only intelligent life forms? Oh, and we're also the most advanced too even though we can barely venture a tiny ways from our own planet? 😂🤡
None of that happened
For those unfamiliar with it, the U-2 was a fairly difficult aircraft to fly.
It doesn't like to fly at low altitudes (it wasn't designed for low altitudes), and during a mission, at high altitudes, it flew in what is known as the "coffin corner". The coffin corner is a narrow range of airspeed. If you go beyond it, the aircraft will get into transonic flight (compressibility) and it may not be able to withstand the loads associated with it.
If you let airspeed get bellow it, the aircraft will stall. It will not "fall out of the sky", like many documentaries, books and articles say, but it will pitch down and the pilot will have to recover from it, again, without getting into transonic flow in the process.
One of the problems is that, even at high altitudes, air is not uniform. If the aircraft get into a pocket air of different temperature and/or pressure and/or density, that will change the speed of sound, thus shifting the coffin corner relative to your airspeed at that particular moment.
As the U-2 received better engines, it became capable of cruising in an even narrower section of the coffin corner, thereby exacerbating the problem of keeping the aircraft within it.
My uncle stalled out over Tn and cruised into Nevada due to the issue you are referring to. He is now deceased. I have his flight bag, and i cherish it.
@@KristinaFerrarino Your uncle may have had some great stories, especially the ones that he could not share with everyone.
May he rest in eternal peace.
The flight bag is a great possession to own and to cherish. I hope that, at some point, you are able to pass it down the line within the family.
I wish you nothing but the very best.
Surprisingly when this aircraft was Top Secret to the public years before it had been drawn to scale in a 3 view with a limited description in a hobbyist model airplane magazine
@@leoa4c thank you. He would not say too much, and we never pushed it . Always gave him respect. While he already has an exhibit in the national museum of the USAF , we intend to donate the bag and some other items found on the family farm after we inherited it and were cleaning it out. We feel it belongs to history, and the USAF, and not us. I always wonder what it must have felt like to be part of NACA, and fly on the edge of space. That must have been amazing!
Possibly the worst band ever
Higgins from Magnum PI! Great to see him again!
Did u see Irans helicopter in the first one ? The one with Raisin head in it ?
Higgie baby 👶
I thought it was UFC referee Big John McCarthy
Passed 2 yrs ago ..
I thought the exact same thing 😂
FYI, this originally aired 10 years ago (2014).
@@randomrahul5221 You're welcome.
Ok buddy
Thanks, that explains why the F-35 which entered service after that year isn't mentioned.
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Yes, I guessed that when they kept mentioning the “newly declassified” documents released in 2013. Since it is about history of Area 51, it is still a useful documentary for those who have not seen it.
My dad, a retired bird Colonel, was USAF Captain civil/environmental engineer working on rocket program, used to visit Groom Lake out of Edwards AFB regularly during the 1960s. It was only after he passed that i realized this was area 51.
Interesting.
Definately Secret!
Area 51 have this site in Nevada in the Sierra Nevada mountain range now Edwards AF base in on the California side. They have an Area 51 or it may be known as Area 52. It is said to be an exact copy of Area 51 in Nevada but its close to Edwards AFB but on the California side. A few years ago people were saying they were going to get in. A few turned up but they never got in. This was in California. Do you know of this one ?
@@cbhaessig the base is huge, 1/3 the size of the small state of Rhode Island with many areas off-limits. Massive dry lake beds providing safe landing areas for experimental aircraft with Groom Lake sharing many similarities. Beyond that, an identical mirror image takes you from reasonable discussion and speculation to whack-job dim bulb territory.
Nice.... and?
Vitamin D3 doesn't grow lung tissue, it helps build and repair bone. Vitamin D1 is synthesized in the body by exposure to ultraviolet light, D2 can be found in food, and the D3 form is synthetic.
Vitamin D is vitamin D, the numbers after just mark the different precursor chemicals you can use to get to the final product. D3 is an ingestible form and is converted to vit D in your body.
@@SkenonSLive Sunglasses prevent Vitamin D to be taken in direct from sun.
Vitamin D has many other functions in the body; a shortage of vitamin D increase risk of cancer, decrease the strength of the immune system, and probably many other things.
It's called biological photosynthesis . LOL
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We've known for a long time about the 'where' but we will never know the 'what' about this area, no matter how many documentaries are made.
Area 51 isn't the only development area either. There are other super restricted areas in the United States that are just as locked down. Certain parts of Sandia Labs in New Mexico require above top-secret clearance to enter. Other areas, like the Skunk Works, operate the same way. There are other facilities that the American public are not aware of their function, but are still restricted to enter.
@@thorenshammer oh yeah, area 51 is the one they ' leaked' the existence of to distract the public from looking more closely at other restricted areas, of which there are many
Approx 126 of them@@thorenshammer
@@thorenshammerSandia Labs falls under the Department of Energy (DOE) and uses L & Q level clearances. The Department of Defense (DOD) uses Secret and Top Secret Clearances. Nobody working at Sandia Labs uses the clearance term Top Secret.
We got some of our "foreign aircraft " for our Navy's Top Gun program out of there, so it seems. Something about a "Need ta know situation!"
The stealth bomber and fighters were developed in the 70's/80's. You probably couldn't even imagine what they have there 40 - 50 years later.
CIA is active at Aerospace Canada. Yes, there are American experimental aircrafts being programmed and worked on up here. I had a colleage who has a son that works with them. Area 51 is one out of many places around the world. It's bigger than you think!
@@sebastienbolduc5654 Most don't know that the coordinates for high value hits in the middle east come from a CIA base in the middle of no where in Australia.
There is no way they would declassify anything that wasn't completely obsolete and already replaced. I do wonder what is there.
No more secrets, no more CIA. We the people.
I could make some good guesses. Swarms of stealth drones controlled either from a mother aircraft, or perhaps autonomously, some capable of flying slowly, or extremely fast when necessary. Working on ways to make them undetectable with any of our senses or with senses. If you don't know it's there, you can't kill it. Hunter-killer drones capable of staying aloft loitering a long time without being detected, but being able to suicide into another aircraft when detected would seem to match the ticket. If you see wrecked aircraft showing up around Aria 51, you'll know. I mean more than the wrecks that are already there, and in greater numbers, though it's possible that these tests might be done at sea. The more of the enemy's capabilities you can destroy without putting your men in peril, the better. The Ukraine war has shown us that we need to develop a defence against winged dumb bombs too. We also need defences against civilian structures and infrastructures since there are so many bad guys out there who will happily ignore the Geneva Conventions and intentionally target innocent civilians.
Yup, we have no idea what they're doing there, and it's probably better that it stay that way. If the average American doesn't know, all the less likely it will be that the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and other global pariahs will know.
Area 51 is for the tourists, the cia owns 3 mountain ranges in South America that have even greater security.
Not anymore. That closed down March 2020.
@@jasonspades1265not according to my source's.
@@itt2055 get better resources 😂
I wanna go and find trying to get some money for my house and my car and my kids to pay for my bills and stuff so I could use you guys for that
@RS-Amsterdam I have contacts all over the world that have access to information the normal public doesn't, so I will stick with them.
spying on the plane’s shadow was genius
Don't take any bait! Sun moves and shadow doesn't show outline of anything! If sun would be stationary than it may create something thermally comprehensive.
Cool but you can't get anything from that place. Nothing.
Really don't waste your time.if you get in the wrong place your had.
luv the dorfus responces, they recorded temp. dif's
@@danielmartinovic6471 I believe that is what gave it away is that the temperature of where the shadow was different to the surrounding area thus giving it an outline.
National geographic society is my friend.I am a traveller and and Explorer of my continent.thank you. For maintaining the spirit of America. And keeping the adventure alive.see you soon.Dannydanny
In 1990, after reading about Bob Lazar in the LA Weekly, I went to Area 51 with my boyfriend. Bob Lazar said that they flew these things on Wednesday nights because that was when there was the least traffic on the highway. We stopped at the Little Ale’Inn, met Joe and Pat Travis and got directions to the black mailbox road. We parked there all night, and around 3 am we saw a giant glowing ball of light float up over the mountains. It floated around and did some horizontal movement, and then floated back down. I think we saw them testing one of the craft. 🛸
Cool as can be!! We flew around inside the area in the mid 90's during the day...never saw anything notable.
It was a weather balloon. 😉
@@bdickinson6751 Swamp gas, lots of marshes in that area.
@@dngrrus4129 Its deep, dry hostile desert ... what are you talking about?
You should stop talking about this. These projects are to protect us against enemy technology. People can't handle a blackout for a few hours and they they think they can handle these secrets?
32:52 It obviously didn't fall off the pole. The radar signature of the pole was much larger than that of the Have Blue, which is why Lockheed Skunk Works had to design a stealth pole specifically for the prototype, so that they could actually measure its radar cross section.
"Our pole is stealthier than your plane!"
I'm reading a book by the Skunk Works ex-boss now, where he describes building that stealthy pole. I guess it's where you got your info, too.
@@samaelluci202 Yes, it is called "Skunk Works" by ex-Lockheed CEO Ben Rich. I got it online as an audiobook and listened to it while driving long distances.
@@samaelluci202 You should read "Chickenhawk" by Robert Mason, that might interest you as well. Its about the experiences of a Huey pilot during the Vietnam War. Its one of my favourite books.
Edit: And of course the classic "The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe, as well as "The Hunters" by James Salter.
@@stevenhe3462👍
Dr. Richard Feynman wrote in his auto biography, during the Manhattan Project the same compartmentalized super-secrecy was used but progress increased phenomenally when all people (security screened, of course) on a project knew they were building an atomic bomb. The quicker flow of ideas, improvements helped win WW2 against Japan.
The trade-off for that is that it also helped classified info leak to the Soviets, which greatly jumpstarted their nuclear program
Very true, but this also most likely contributes to Klaus Fuchs being able to pass along secrets to the soviets. This probably cut 5 years off the ussr getting the bomb. Not sure there is a right answer either way here.
Yes, secrecy harms the development of new tech. By the way, the nuclear bomb didn't help the US win WWII. the US government already knew that Japan had accepted that it had lost the war by the time the US started dropping nuclear bombs on it. The question was whether Japan would accept an unconditional surrender or not and how quickly. Many historians believe that the real purpose of dropping nuclear bombs on Japan was to make it surrender before the Soviet forces got to Japan, because the US was already planning for the post-war period and didn't want the USSR to control any of Japan. It also served as a way to intimidate the USSR so the US would have a freer hand in arranging the world after WWII.
@@amosbatto3051 I couldn't agree Less. The U.S .was anxious to test the effects of atomic weapons on human beings, but the then president felt that the Japanese would do. Exactly, the waste, who was president would NEVER have used the weapon on Europeans , but did so GLADLY on Asians. Whether this was to intimidate the USSR or not, is not material in my opinion. The US remains THE only country on the planet Earth to ever use Atomic weapons. That is hardly a distinction worth being proud of.
My grandfather was in the army for 38 years. He enlisted with his buddies near the end of World War Two served in Korea and Vietnam. He was stationed in Las Vegas during down time at one time. I asked him if he ever heard of Area 51 and he said no. He told me that he fixed typewriters when he was in Vegas and that was it . I don’t believe him because I don’t see a brigadier General fixing typewriter. Some people keep quiet about there time and never reveal anything . I believe he was working on the sr71 project but he never mentioned anything .
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Thank you .
If he was in the Army then I promise you he was telling you the truth. Only Air Force and some Navy. Army and Marines have no relationship with the base.
If he tells u he gotta kill u
When the USA got that MIG-21 there was quite a bit of reverse engineering on the avionics. We figured out the USSR's transponders. Then we designed and built airborne interrogators that were installed on F-4 Phantoms. Good for finding those pesky MIGs that were not radar visible due to ground clutter.
It’s embarrassing that the US had to reverse engineer the enemy’s plane only to find that their own skill was to blame
@@ColocasiaCorm right.. noone has ever reverse engineered anything american lol
@@Arjay.M88 I’m sorry what did i do to you?
Didn't know that. I knew the MIG 21 Saphir radar had a distinct three ping tone that the F-4's and Crusader fighters in Vietnam learned to recognize.
God bless the our military hackers!
The U2 was not a flyer that was undetected in the USSR... it was just so high there was nothing they could do about it. Until Gary Powers anyway
Heres a 51 story: I drove a shuttle for awhile, one of my customers lived in Huntsville, Alabama, she worked at area51, she told me on take off the shades had to be down hers was up slightly they saw the B2 bomber n the F117: 1982?
Have Blue first flew in 1977, F-117 in 1981, and B-2 in 1989.
Manhattan Project Was Not Very Top Secret, As Embedded USSR Soviet Spies Knew All About It.
Stalin Knew More Than Truman
Until After FDR Died.
@@FirstDagger
B-52 is from 1952
@@VoltamatronSr And? B-52 != B-2.
@@VoltamatronSr he said b2 though, which is the stealth bomber lol, not the b-52 which is an old bomber
_"According to a report by the CIA"_
The ultimate source of truth.
Wink, Wink
That security guard's medical condition has NOTHING to do with his obesity though. 🙄
Yep. He’s been morbidly obese his entire adult life, but it is only the RAM particles that are killing him.
You don’t know that. Maybe he’s unable to exercise because of diminished lung capacity.
@@billhampton8004 you saw the earlier picture of him? Same guy, same obesity
Did he eat the soot into his lungs?
@@michaelrudolph7003 he might have.
Great video! Very interesting and informative. The technology used to build the YF-12/SR-71 was so advanced for its time. Incredible what was accomplished in relative secrecy.
SR71 Blackbird
SR-71 is sexiest aircraft imho
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Nice production. Surprised the Aurora Hypersonic Project was not discussed considering a Caltech seismologist figured out the source of the pulsing sound that was heard around SoCal in the late 80's.
1. Neither Aurora nor AHP is a confirmed project/code name for the 'donuts-on-a-rope' plane you're referring to. IMO, you should refer to it as the alleged SR-75 or -91 or simply "Aurora" in the quotations marks I put it in. 2. Additionally, since the one-line name Aurora and funding request to Congress for it around 1985 became public knowledge, there's been NO confirmation of any "claims," i.e., rumors surrounding it. 3. And, please, people stop referring to any anticipated manned hypersonic as Darkstar, as that was and still is the official name given to the RQ-3 drone retired around 2000, which was very much subsonic. For reference, the RQ-4 Global Hawk(s) and MQ-4 Trident(s)--the one illegally shot down by Iran several yrs ago--are still flying.
@@brianjob3018 We lived in Los Angeles at the time of the pulsing that could be personally felt/heard once a week. Also, vividly recall the trough wave map a caltech scientist produced from crunching all the seismic sensors scattered across SoCal. He drew a line through the trough lines, and its direction when right through Groom Lake. It was brilliant and revealing.
Go figure if such a craft is going to be cool to send on any recon when you can hear and detect its flight path..
I can't be the only one that hears people say, "Here's what really happened...." on some old myth/conspiracy/legend and I immediately think, "Well, we can cross that of the list of how it happened."
Yep. I feel same.
Ahhhh.... For all the things we'll never know. This is what's meant when you hear the saying, "this is bigger than all of us"... Wow...
Funny how they can't secure the border but no one can even get close to area 51.
Two very different security threats.
Rough distance of total Area 51 border (23 mile x 25 mile rectangle) - 96 miles
Length of US southern border - 1,954 miles
It's not funny at all it's quite explainable.
They keep aliens in not out
It is spelled "border".
@@Melior_Traiano the algos don't know that
So the guy told two kids on a bike that they were carrying flying saucers. 30 years later, those kids are on Joe Rogan. Edit: adding time stamp: 20:10 to 20:50
Ah yea, the peak of skunkworks development of the SR 71.. 1994.
@@PunkersPlays the sr71 was not developed in the 90s. it was 30 years old in the 90s. nothing about development happened 30 years later
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The most secretive fed installation in the country located at Groom Lake. The irony.
🙄I don’t think anyone doubts area 51’s existence but what they were doing is in question, right?
😮
They where doing ... stealth
Nuclear test
What they were doing is not in question. Area 51 is a testing and proving ground for military projects, viz. the production of advanced aircraft and UAVs.
the whole video explains what they do lol top secret aircraft/nuclear tests.
I loved midnights, midweek, in the 1980's hearing the C5's approaching Burbank to pick up the F117's.
I lived under the flight path to Burbank. Late at night, I would get on my roof and watch the cargo and secret passenger flights go overhead.
@@djo9941 So Cool !! Seems like they approached from south of Van Nuys.
What about all the underground facilities and test sites? Or yucca mountain thats hollow?
This the same narrator from "I shouldn't be alive"
Great job at providing plausible reasons for the existence of Area 51. No mention of spacecraft, aliens or government subterfuge. Clever.😊
My dad learned how to fly the U2 spy plane there. He said they bedded down in California and flew over to Area51 every day to avoid suspicion
No way that is sick I want to be in the Air Force
Btw pls respond and like
Well done explanation and video. Good Job .Thanks.
Long after the U2 was "retired" I was working at an airport, midnight to 8am shift.....every few days we would hear an unbelievably loud aircraft outside of the hanger, we would go to see what it was, always took off and landed with no runway lights and no aircraft lights, never made any radio calls, just gone.....after a while of this strange behavior, we released that it was the U2, it was being operated out of an old abandon (so we thought) hanger at the far side of the airport....
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Wow, great content. Please keep covering the story!! ❤
Aliens technology
Jrod knows everything about Area 51💯✅
On 27 March 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a Yugoslav Army unit (the 3rd Battalion of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade, which was under the leadership of Colonel Zoltán Dani) shot down an F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft of the United States Air Force by firing a S-125 Neva/Pechora surface-to-air missile. It was the first ever shootdown of a stealth technology airplane..... source wikipedia
This is true. However, in the case being cited, it is important to note that the 117 stealth was effective in preventing "radar lock". The SAM battery's radar could track the path the 117 had traveled, latent/shadow tracking. No actual "radar lock" occurred. To shoot down the 117 the SAM batteries fired multiple SAM's utilizing proximity detonation strategy to hopefully hit the 117. From that night onward, the 117 attack strategy was modified to prevent a repeat. In the case of the 117, invisiblity doesn't mean you're impervious.
You mean Serbia? it was Serbia who shot down F-117 not Yugoslavia
@@saidibrahim5931 Give 'em a break. You needed a do-over for your own comment
Fascinating and I'm glad we are ahead !
F-22 Raptor is not a "strike" aircraft. It's an air superiority fighter. The F-35 is a strike aircraft.
Yes it's a Multi purpose combat aircraft.
I was depressed for a long time, and I looked so useless and bad. This music helps me relieve fatigue and stress
Thanks for sharing. Whoever is reading this comment, I wish you success, health, love and happiness!
Thank you area 51 for letting national geographic air this show made by the video editor inside area 51 😂😂
Was that a Sr-71 in the upper left hand corner At 8:18 or something else?
Exciting cheers can't wait to watch it 😊
There's nothing to watch, just some old photos and vids and some talking oval balls😊
@nnconfomiststoic7346 oh ok, thanks for the heads up matey
the sharing of the past experiences and memories are always present to videos like this
I drove car 51.
The AF security guy was full of it. Professionals don't say "waste them" hollywood does.
How do you know? Are you a professional AF security guide?
People use lots of unprofessional language all the time, on or off duty.
I'm sure he might have just been dumbing it down from what terms they might have professionally used for us civilians.
You'd know of you worked in that sort of profession that informal slang is used all the time. It's alot more natural to say that than something like "dispatching the imminent threat"
Pretty sure he was paraphrasing...
Great video. I've been following it
This was a great educational video for area 51.😊
Brilliant documentary! I loved it. It was very, very informative!
Keep it up, National Geographics! 👏 ❤🎉
When the F117 was shot down during the Yugoslav war, the Chinese acquired the wreckage. That night a bombing by cruise missiles destroyed their embassy . By mistake of course, old maps blamed. China still got the stealth technology , just smaller pieces.
Hi tech chop sticks made?
I remember this. Clinton was president
Not in small pieces, most of the whole air frame...
It was seen on Google Earth in China.
It wasn’t the next night - it was six weeks later, but still … hmm. Makes you wonder …
That’s good give them that technology. So they can base their whole stealth technology on it. It’s perfect for us since we know the ins and outs on the design. It won’t be stealthy to us 😂
The 117 was still in use just a few years ago. Haven’t heard of them retiring then. There’s an entire base dedicated to them in my state
Thanks for interesting and valuable video as always
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Tom Stanks may be the coolest name in the biz I've heard so far 🎉
I feel like National Geographic is becoming the new ancient aliens history channel 👽
Sure seems like it!
Ok buddy. I’m sure you know. Do you know the information the earth is not the center of the universe was suppressed for 250 years. You think they will acknowledge UFO activity with 80 years. lol
Imagine if they put half as much security in to the southern border
If they did, the price of vegetables would skyrocket.
@@captainsalty9022 News flash - they already have!
Good grief
@@captainsalty9022-----😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 America has ALWAYS grown its own food. Including its own veggies.
What are You talking about?
AND We dont water our own crops with Sewer Water infecting our food supply with deadly ebola and other diseases!!!!
Like Mexico does.
Do you know.... how size works?
I just came back from Belgrade, Serbia. Inside their army museum located inside Belgrade fortress, I saw a human-sized piece of the F-117 they shot down in 1997 over Serbia. I am pretty sure rest of the pieces were sent to Russia and China for R&D.
very informative, well explained episode timeline. Loved it
This video deserves way more views!
I was in grade school when Sputnik went up. Very quickly a working model is paraded through the classroom beeping
It's hilarious that they blur that Cessna's tail number but play the radio calls with the call sign lmao.
They only call out the last three of five numbers/letters in the tail number which is standard practice after first identifying yourself to ATC. UA-cam's closed captioning is not correct. I looked up the tail number on the FAA registry for 862KJ and it does not exist. If you listen closely, you can make out 62J or 6KJ but need the first two letters for a full tail number (after the N which means it's registered in the USA). Unless they shot him down and deleted the registry ;)
when I filed some planes, we did the callouts needed for the plot in-studio after the fact. They probably did that too
Perhaps the Cessna in the video is not the Cessna in the audio radio calls.
Probably dubbed that in. Those transmissions were way to clear. Probably blurred out the number because around that time was when it became easy to look up tail numbers in the FAA database. Heard several stories of pilots flying their aircraft for TV and having random people they'd never met contacting them to ask about it. I forget the details, but one was talking about his plane was in a music video and he started getting calls from fans asking about the artist. Then they'd get mad that he never met them. People are weird.
I'd have probably asked to have it blurred out myself. If I had a plane.
the best documentary so far ....kudos more please
yeah i am sure the national geographic is really putting out hard nose journalism based in investigations. NOT. This is propaganda.
What about the other security guards that worked with him didn’t get sick
nat geo has limited resources
Good point. Plus, the guy wasn't exactly the paragon of good health even at an early age.
@@tooterooterville Which came first, the disability or the obesity, and who here is medically qualified to make such a determination from a couple minutes of video shot ? years ago?
@@raygunsforronnie847 That was quite a leap you made from my observation of an early weight problem to a "medically qualified determination of a disability"!
Anyone who crosses the gate still has 10 miles to go before they get to the actual base. They'll be arrested or shot just to look at a dirt road.
They don't shoot and cremate intruders anymore, because there's too much scrutiny on missing persons now. Back in the day, people go missing and nobody bats an eye.
Always interesting watching this
Great video folks much enjoyed thank you.
you are proof we are over populated....
@@kushking949 that is a good one !! do you mind if I use it in just such moments as this ??? please ?
kay, I’ve always scratched my head about the obsession around the kisluxbag book totes and their practicality, but this one is adorable!! Congratulations
Back then DARPA was working on organic materials. Imagine the tech now.
Bob Lazar never claimed to have worked or mentioned anything about area 51 having UAPs. He claims to have worked at S-4 and that S-4 was the location where the UAPs were kept. That's false reporting (misinformation) from Nat Geo.
S-4 is within the area 51 boundaries which is always expanding latest was to keep you off tickaboo peak where you could film the base.😊
S-4 is now Lockheed Martin's Drone testing sight
The good stuff is over the mountain at S2 Papoose, inside of S4,
Good job, NG. You went deep and exposed the fact that the military bases in the US are very secure. Truth is out there brah
buying titanium from your cold war enemy to use against them is such a g move..😂
If anyone is curious about the blood boiling comment the ex-pilot mentions, it is call "The Armstrong Limit" and the truth is, blood does not boil at those atmospheres. Other bodily fluids - wetness on the eyes, saliva, urine, tears, and the dampness on the alveoli in the lungs boils away. Instant unconsciousness. A near vacuum.
I Think Bugs Bunny was right. The real purpose of Area 51 was to hide , Area 52.😅
A very basic cold war aerospace highlights reel.
I wish you great success in your health, love and happiness!
So, Area 51 was the CIA's secret playground? Got it!
Without the so called laying ground you and I would more than likely be dead or under the full control of your worst nightmare
The one we know about, some 40+ years after they gave it to the USAF.
My grandmother worked there. She made Chili for the pilots. They loved it.
Lots of nuke tests out there. Not a place you want to visit.
Thank you and God bless you for your service.
@@leeriterii2128 Thanks for supporting our service men and women.
Until now, Area 51 is still a gray area with no explanation for UFO
LOL, it's an airforce base and radar test range.
disavowed or not, if you wanted any indicator of what they did there, all you needed to do was take a look at the sandstone sign in from of the Tonopah fire station. it has a very accurate bas-relief of the F1117 stealth fighter and has been there since well before official photos were released to the public.
In the mid 70s I was stationed at Holloman AFB in New Mexico and I had a friend who worked with AF system command and he hold me about a program he was working on. He told me about something that would make aircraft invisible to radar. Turns out he was talking about the F117!
Pretty sure the f117 is also still operational in a limited capacity
As and F-15 weapons specialist I almost got to deploy there with the 54th FS but my clearance upgrade came through too late and i never got another chance after that
Three days fromBurbank? That dude must have stopped every 15 min to relieve himself
The SR-71 Blackbird! My MOST Favorite Plane Of All Time!!! Try And Catch That Sucker Even With Today's Technology!!!
It’s my fav too. On take off the fuel tanks are leaking until a certain altitude is achieved where they change shape & leakage stops.
@@njjeff201 And Those Twin Engines!!! Still Can't Touch That Bird Today;-)
Russia shot over 5000 missiles at it. Every mission it ever flew they tried to shoot it down. And never could.
@@seeekerman1342Merlin engines?😂
@@jpjp3873 Yep. You're Right. You didn't have to laugh at me. Good day...
The content is very good
Area 51 causes everyone to lose focus, on area 52 in Utah..
You dont need thousands of feet of runway to launch a U.F.O. just a spot on the ground that it will fit upon lol
@@tincupnickleboythe1st700 they just don't get it....
Gordon Cooper wrote that round disk space craft has better lift ability and manueverability than rocket shaped craft, which is not such a difficult concept to understand. The concept that is hard for me to understand is that a highly vetted top secret cleared astronaut wrote about such things as bending spoons with his mind, the reality of alien space craft, etc. I don't know what to think about any of it, anymore. Was he just trying to sell a book? I regard astronauts and fighter pilots more highly than any celebrity ever. I just wish these programs wouldn't take such risks with our health. It is miserable to not be able to catch your breath. John Wayne openly spoke about it before he died and all the actors in the film stagecoach died.e@@tincupnickleboythe1st700
Area 52 is the NSA's data archive and brute force decryption site. Move along, nothing to see here...
I love this, and if for some reason someone in the government sees this, I am over 50 year old would love to finish my career/ life working in a place like this.. i cook for living!
The clip of the shed, anyone wonder how there was no camera shake?
They were using aerogel spacers on the mounting systems next to idk im lying
@@Theole6.6 The shock wave would eradicate anything in close proximity.
Dugway Proving Ground (Michael Army Airfield), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Tonopah Test Range, even Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia... are frivolity compared to the Semipalatinsk Test Site or Semipalatinsk-21 / Семипалатинск-21 "The Polygon".
I feel like I remember a story of a guy living near here who kept seeing weird stuff and to hide it the government basically made him think it was aliens to hide their military stuff here. If you can remember where this is from and share it with me I’d be so thankful!
Might be thinking of Richard Doty? There was a doc I watched awhile ago on Amazon Prime about that called Mirage Men
sheahan family? The one that owned the mining company on grooms lake?
Dad was USAF Air Traffic Controller. While he was stationed at Kadena AFB, Okinawa, (68-71), I spend many nights, in the tower with him, and watched the "space men/aka "Drivers" take off in what they referred to as The Habu ~ Blackbird, commonly known as the SR-71. We could NEVER share those experiences with our friends, nor would dad allow any pix. God Bless our military and the great people that have a hand in protecting our Freedom. Remember, America is the land of Freedom, because of the Brave!
Remember cartoon Hugo
Remember, trump tried to overthrow it. He also attacked McCains war record. And called our war dead suckers and losers.