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  • Thanks for your comments. Last week had a dirth of aerial action. I don't know for sure, but I think a UAV orbited the valley for over an hour and then heading for Dogbone Lake. It was maybe 8-10,000ft up but no jet or prop moise and flying slow. Right after that the action started. My scanners came alive and I could see the sky glow when ordinace was dropped. I did notice that there were A-10s, and helos doing live ordinace in the Dogbone lake area which is close to S-4. That might have been the night of the 10th or 11th. Do a Google Earth of the area and you will see a lot of target areas there. I can only speculate what you saw at Groom. The important thing is that you enjoyed your stay, and that says it all. At times it can be an erie and smyterious place to be. That's why I love it so much. Thanks for taking time to view photos. It's the main reason I go there, to show people who might never get to the area what is happening there. Best to you and your son, ...Alan

  • said NeonskyLV

  • 2009.03.15 at 11:49:43 PDT

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  • Alan, your photos are great and I admire your passion and resolve as an aviation spotter, even in the bitter cold. My son and I were in the valley on the 10th and 11th, and passed your camper several times. We had quite a time on Groom Lake Road, the Back Gate, and especially, on the freezing night of the 10th, at the Black (white) Mailbox. What we saw we will not soon forget--flares are one thing, but jumping and zig-zagging flat lights quite another, one of which (not the best of the sightings actually but still quite good)-- we captured on video behind the mountains in the vicinity of S-4. As for Red Flag pics, which was what we thought we would be getting rather than anything strange at the Mailbox, I had heard from a very reliable source that the exercises were winding down early, and outside of some engines in the distance and a high few contrails,we captured nothing in that regard, unless you count the brief red and yellow afte-dark sightings that might have been flares (but not at all like the much different lights I allude to above) over the Jumbled Hills and all the way back toward Groom Lake Road. So Red Flag was not a big part of the trip for us, though as I said, we were only there from the afternoon of the 10th to the morning of the 11th. But we couldn't miss your camper and its American Flag. Somehow, in the eerie emptiness of mid-week, it was comforting to have that landmark of your camper there. Needless to say, my sixteen year-old has plenty of material for his school report, right down to witnessing several strange objects coming up and down and sideways from you-know-where, and right where they were supposed to be.

  • said alfromorlando

  • 2009.03.15 at 00:31:43 PDT

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  • Nice pics Alan. Good job. Hope you weren't too cold. Thats what kept me away. Hank

  • said hanks167

  • 2009.02.17 at 15:18:38 PST

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