From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V4 #99 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Friday, 24 December 1993 Volume 04 : Number 099 In this issue: Groom Lake Land Withdrawal. Help! NDN:Skunk Works Digest V4 #98 Early U-2 sighting See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: psychospy@aol.com Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 11:02:52 EST Subject: Groom Lake Land Withdrawal. Help! Pirates, patriots, countrymen, we need your help! As you may know, the Air Force is trying to seize the viewpoints into the secret Groom Lake testing base in Nevada (home of who-knows-what Black aircraft). At present, you can hike about an hour from the road to hilltops on public land to see for yourself th e base that doesn't exist. The AF is not happy about this, and has applied to take this land. The withdrawal process is marching along, and the time for public hearings is approaching. The BLM officer processing the application has chosen to hold a hearing in Caliente (middle-of-nowhere), Nevada, on Jan. 31 at 7pm in the VFW hall (town's finest accommodations). This is bad for opponents, since Caliente is hours from anywhere and very hard from most people--press and public--to get to. Therefore, we want him to hold an additional public hearing in Las Vegas, closer to more interested parties. In Las Vegas, opponents can do a better job of marshaling their forces and drawing in the media. Some readers may say, Bravo for the Air Force--there should be more secrecy at Groom. If you are of the opposite opinion, that now is the time for more openness at Area 51, then this is the time to act. To get a hearing in Las Vegas, the BLM officer needs to see a groundswell of support for this. That means he needs to receive letters, lots of them, asking for a hearing in Las Vegas. These letters need to be received ASAP, definitely before the public comment period ends on Jan. 17. Please write to him. His address is Curtis Tucker Caliente Area Manager Bureau of Land Management P.O. Box 237 Calient e, NV 89008 All you need to say is: "I am a U.S. citizen [or "world citizen"] concerned about the proposed Air Force land withdrawal near Groom Lake. I request a hearing on this matter and ask that it be held in Las Vegas, where more interested parties can have access to it." If you have an impressive looking letterhead, use it. Email me (psychospy@aol.com) for a more elaborate form letter and more info on the withdrawal, returned by email. You can also email me your postal address to receive some newspaper articles on the withdrawal. (The withdrawal coincided with some hazardous waste and wrongful death charges at Area 51, which doesn't hurt our case any.) My addr: Glenn Campbell, HCR Box 38, Rachel, NV 89001. 702-729-2648. Of course, we would also be pleased if you came to the hearing itself. If held in Las Vegas, it would probably be in late Feb. Come see the new Luxor, MGM and Treasure Island pleasure palaces--and, by the way, come to the hearing, too. Pyrotechnics guaranteed at all locations! The Groom viewpoints remain open, 2 hours north of Vegas, and this could also be your last opportunity to see the base yourself. Please copy this msg and send (or post it) anywhere you think appropriate. ------------------------------ From: SMTP2_ADMIN@CL_63SMTP_GW2.chinalake.navy.mil Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1993 11:13:44 PST Subject: NDN:Skunk Works Digest V4 #98 PostalUnion-QM(tm) 'Non-Delivery Notice'! Your mail through the QuickMail 'CL_63SMTP_GW2' Gateway could not be delivered! *** Unresolved To: Hal CorneliusERA Some addressees appeared valid and the message has been sent to those. ------------------------------ From: urf@ki.icl.se (Urban Fredriksson) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 93 7:00:04 MET Subject: Early U-2 sighting "The testimony of a _Flight_ reader that he has seen a strange aircraft over the Lakenheath, Suffolk, district should not be ignored. 'In the sky,' he says, 'it looks like the wartime Horsa glider'. He believes it to have one jet engine and reports a high tailplane and unswept wings of high-aspect ratio." From Flight International 1 June 1956 - -- Urban Fredriksson urf@icl.se ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V4 #99 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "listserv@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu". 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