I spotted this unusual image today. It was published along with some other declassified photos from Area 51 (which doesn’t exist btw) and published on National Geographic’s website. I wished I had a close up of the jeep. I’m glad there’s a guy standing in front of the jeep or I would have thought it was a toy jeep.
One time I drove north on the extra-terrestrial highway (Nevada State Route 375). I’ve driven all over the west and that was one of the strangest highways I’ve ever driven. There were several different events that left me certain there was some strange things going on out there.
That’s a head scratcher, but incredibly cool!
Found the following in a book about area 51:
Almost everything visible on approach to Area 51 from the air is restricted government
land. There are no public highways, no shopping malls, no twentieth-century urban sprawl.
Where the land is hilly, Joshua trees and yucca plants grow, their long spiky leaves
extended skyward like swords. Where the land is flat, it is barren and bald. Except for
creosote bushes and tumbleweed, very little grows out here on the desert floor. The
physical base—its hangars, runways, dormitories, and towers—begins at the
southernmost tip of Groom’s dry lake. The structures spread out in rows, heading south
down the Emigrant Valley floor. The hangars’ metal rooftops catch the sunlight and reflect
up as the Janet airplane enters the Box. A huge antenna tower rises up from the desert
floor. The power plant’s cooling tower comes into view, as do the antennas on the radioshop
roof, located at the end of one of the two, perpendicular taxiways. Radar antennas
spin. One dish is sixty feet in diameter and always faces the sky; its beams are so
powerful they would instantly cook the internal organs of any living thing. The Quick Kill
system, designed by Raytheon to detect incoming missile signals, sits at the edge of the
dry lake bed not far from the famous pylon featured in Lockheed publicity photos but never
officially identified as located at Area 51. Insiders call the pylon “the pole”—it’s where the
radar cross section on prototype stealth aircraft is measured. State-of-the-art, milliondollar
black aircraft are turned upside down and hoisted aloft on this pole, making each
one look tiny and insignificant in the massive Groom Lake expanse, like a bug on a pin in
a viewing case.