I've spent a lot of time on the nets, scouring bulletin boards for 
information about such "fringe" subjects as: UFO's, abductions, 
psychic phenomenom, the occult, conspiracy theories, strange animal 
sightings, fortean phenomenom, cattle mutilations, witchcraft, and a 
plethora of others.

	It ocurred to me that it was time to contribute some first hand 
information of my own.

	I worked for the Air Force on a Nevada test range for a period of 
about three years.  In that time I had the opportunity to talk to a 
lot of people who had a lot of strange stories to tell.  I had a few 
odd experiences myself.  This document will outline some of these 
tales.  Some of them are of the "friend-of-a-friend" variety and their 
accuracy is suspect at the very least.  Some of them are, to the best 
of my knowledge, totally true.  With that caveat, I serve forth this, 
my offering to the table of esoteric knowledge.

	

SECURITY AT DREAMLAND

	Dreamland is a highly classified, range complex somewhere in the 
Nevada desert where the military tests some of it's more outre 
projects.  We're talking about particle cannons, anti-gravity, anti-
matter, flying captured UFO's, and so forth.  According to various 
authorities on the subject it may, or may not, be part of Groom Lake 
and/or Area 51.  What I was told was that, wherever it was, it was 
HEAVILY guarded.  Multiple perimeters, motion-sensors, land mines, and 
armed guards under orders to use "deadly force" if necessary.  I hope 
this will discourage any adventurous investigator from attempting to 
infiltrate this installation.  Intruders will be shot.



THE ANTI-MATTER LAB

	Supposedly one of the many projects out at Dreamland was an attempt 
to generate and contain large quantities of antimatter.  Large being a  
pretty subjective term since a few grams of antimatter could make a 
bang like a tactical nuke  As the story goes the contaiment field 
failed.  The lab and everyone in it were vaporized in the resultant 
explosion.  Somewhere out in that desert is a large area where the 
tremendous heat of that failed experiment fused the desert sand to 
glass.



GUARDING CRATERS

	Some experimental weapons tests are so secret that they actually 
leave SPs (Security Police) to guard the craters until they can be 
filled in.  A friend of mine, we'll call him "Al", was guarding such a 
crater one night with his friend "Bill".  Al went behind some rocks to 
pee.  Suddenly, he heard Bill shouting, "You out there, freeze!"  A 
pause and then, "I said freeze!"  Then Al heard Bill open fire with 
his M-16 followed by his .45 Colt.  By the time Al managed to regain 
his composure and run around the rocks, Bill was standing there, 
looking terrified, his M-16 smoking on the ground, his empty .45 
pointed shakily into the night.  Al asked his friend what happened.  
Bill said, "I saw a vehicle coming and I told them to stop.  Their 
headlights rushed towards me so I opened fire.  I hit them with 
everything.  Then the headlights split apart and flew soundlessly past 
me on either side."  Bill was relieved of duty and subsequently 
discharged.



THE NEVADA TEST SITE

	As part of my job, I was given a tour of the Nevada Test Site, 
where our nuclear weapons are tested, researched, and built.  We were 
told that nothing larger that 100 kilotons was being tested 
underground anymore in accordance with various laws, regulations, and 
treaties.  Later, during a slide presentation, I saw a blueprint for 
one of the shafts wherein the underground nukes are detonated.  An 
attached equation showed how the engineers determined shaft depth 
based on expected bomb yield.  Earlier in the day we had been shown 
some shafts under construction.  The foreman had told us how deep they 
were.  I plugged this figure into the aforementioned equation and did 
a little quick mental math.  "Hey!" I said, "That would mean that on 
shaft such-and-such you're expecting a yield of 20 Meg..."  At which 
point the lecturer interrupted me and reminded me that they, "...did 
not discuss the yield figures of specific projects."  100 kilotons 
maximum - yeah, right.



INADVERTENT PHOTOGRAPHY

	One of the members of our photographic team had a similar brush 
with secrecy back in the early 80's.  He was running a maintenance 
test of a tracking camera.  As part of the test he had to shoot some 
film.  As he panned the camera across the hills, he caught the 
reflection of a distant aircraft, so he tracked it.  The aircraft 
began exhibiting "non-aerodynamic properties".  In other words, 
stopping in mid-air, making ninety degree turns, and so forth.  Not 
wanting to cause an incident, he filed a report and developed the 
film.  The next day a full-bird colonel came to visit.  The colonel 
took the film, all the associated paperwork, and gave my friend the 
old, "I wasn't here, this never happened" line.  A UFO?  Maybe.  Or 
maybe you should read the November 1993 Popular Science article on 
next generation jump jets.  And keep in mind, when the press gets wind 
of something, it's usually been flying for 5-10 years already.



THE "SOLAR POWER" PROJECT

	One of my instructors in tech school told me this story.  Perhaps 
you recall a series of tests early in the space program where 
metalized balloons were released in low earth orbit as "radar testing 
targets".  It's not much of a leap from that to put a huge mirror into 
orbit.  This was in fact actually done and under the auspices of the 
Department of Energy.  The idea was to focus a beam of sunlight on a 
mercury filled target on the ground and use this superheated mercury 
in a heat exchanger to drive a steam turbine and subsequently generate 
electricity.  During the initial tests the beam missed the target by a 
few feet and drilled a six-foot deep hole into the concrete support 
pad.  The military calmly shut down the project, fired all the 
civilians, and the project "went black".  No one has heard of it 
since.



	Those are my stories.  I'm sorry I can't be more specific with some 
of the details.  Some of this is deliberate and some is due to the 
apocryphal nature of some of the stories.  As for myself, I choose to 
remain anonymous.  There are those in the military who would not find 
the disclosures in this document amusing, regardless of their 
"authenticity"

	Hopefully you will be intrigued enough to want to find out more.  
There is a world of electronic information out there for those who 
seek it.  I cannot say that all of these stories represent the 
absolute and complete truth.  But, as one friend said, "If one-tenth 
of these stories are true, there's some wierd stuff going on in 
Nevada".  And that is true.