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fisherman100

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Rachel, Nevada and the Lil'A'Le Inn
« on: September 13, 2009, 08:42:54 PM »
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A couple of years ago I drove to Rachel NV for something to do except gamble and chase the ladies and made a day out of it. It is the closest town, if you call it a town, to Area 51 or Dreamland. Wickepedia says they have a population of 80(I doubt it). The Lil A le Inn is the only thing around besides a few trailers. But we had a couple of drinks at the bar, an Alien burger, and the S.O. hit the video poker machine for a few bucks. Took pictures next to the ET Highway sign designating state route 375 as the official NV ET highway. I talked to Glenn Cambell(not the singer) who is the resident authority on UFOs and and bought his book--they sell them @ the Lil A le Inn. Nice man and definitely not a wacko.

No, we didn't see any UFOs but as they say on X Files "they're out there". An interesting side trip to take and make a day of. I am sure Bobbi at the Shady Lady Ranch has a story of two of weird things in the sky. Her house is the closest to Area 51.

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Re: Rachel, Nevada and the Lil'A'Le Inn
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2009, 01:28:00 PM »
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Good report fisherman100 always interested to hear of new places to visit and things to see. Have heard of the location and wondered did the press and such make up some of the material. How was the book?

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Re: Rachel, Nevada and the Lil'A'Le Inn
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2009, 08:29:30 PM »
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The press, tv, and movies have made Area 51 and Dreamland famous and the government denials have added to the mystique. George Knapp, a reporter for a local Las Vegas tv station has done several specials on the place. Art Bell and George Norrey of Coast to Coast AM still occassionally have things to say about it. It is entertaining stuff at a minimum and attracts the night time audience across the world.

The best book I have found for facts is Area 51 & S-4 handbook by Chuck Clark. The Lil-A Le Inn has quite a few books they sell plus every type of "alien" souvenir that you can imagine. The proprietors and employees have a few stories that they are happy to pass along to the customers. There is no gas stations in Rachel so be sure to fill up @ Alamo, NV. The closest thing to ET's I saw were cattle crossing the ET Highway. It is open range.

For the movie fans you can see where Independence Day filmed some of it's scenes at. Also there is a flying saucer in front of the Inn. Oh yeah--there is 3 motel rooms in town.

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Re: Rachel, Nevada and the Lil'A'Le Inn
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2009, 08:49:35 AM »
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I was curoius about the book you mentioned of buying by Glenn. Seen some of those media circus stories. Some things I've heard really make you wonder and curious if at all possible.

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Area 51 Air Shuttles
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2009, 10:38:59 AM »
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A few years back, I got a great deal on a suite at Mandalay Bay, which just happened to be located on the side that faces McCarran International Airport. This provided me a great overview of the airport's Janet Air Complex on the SE corner of Haven & Hacianda (dubbed by some wag "Just Another Non-Existent Terminal). This is where Area 51 employees living in metro Las Vegas catch their "plain white with a red stripe" 737s to commute back and forth between work and home. Had that particular hotel/casino been in existence during the Cold War, not doubt such east facing rooms would've been highly popular with Soviet spies. Just like clockwork, the planes pulled up every 20-30 minutes that afternoon and disgorged their nondescript human cargo, then filled up with second-shift workers presumably bound for their highly-classified jobs at the "base that doesn't exist".

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Re: Rachel, Nevada and the Lil'A'Le Inn
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2009, 11:45:59 AM »
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What I don't understand is why they don't just teleport them back and forth to Area 51 using all that alien technology??

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PS:  I know it exists; I have seen it in the movies!




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Re: Rachel, Nevada and the Lil'A'Le Inn
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2009, 11:50:43 AM »
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A friend of mine who passed away worked for Hughes and Northrup Grumman as a scientist and had top secret clearance spent some time at Dreamland. Very closed mouth about his work but he did say that what you've seen on Star Trak we were doing 50 years ago. It is a perfect hiding spot in a very desolate location for sure. Black projects, mountains that open up, and underground tunnels and railroad tales are just a few of the things that people think goes on there. My friend used to fly into Las Vegas and then on to Dreamland on the Janet flights. His secrets died with him.

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Re: Rachel, Nevada and the Lil'A'Le Inn
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2009, 09:59:55 PM »
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Was area 51 the same location where they did the nuclear testing in the 50's? I remember seeing video of vegas and people saying they could see the mushroom clouds from the strip and felt the earth shake like an earthquake. Funny thing is, nobody at the time in Vegas seemed concerned with it and accptted it as part of living in Nevada.

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Re: Rachel, Nevada and the Lil'A'Le Inn
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2009, 08:10:24 AM »
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Was area 51 the same location where they did the nuclear testing in the 50's? I remember seeing video of vegas and people saying they could see the mushroom clouds from the strip and felt the earth shake like an earthquake. Funny thing is, nobody at the time in Vegas seemed concerned with it and accptted it as part of living in Nevada.

It's close and debatable if one considers it a part or not.  Below is a URL showing the locations relative to each other.

Federal Lands in Southern Nevada

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Re: Rachel, Nevada and the Lil'A'Le Inn
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2009, 09:07:12 AM »
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The areas are different the Atom tests were at Yucca Mountain (sp?) and area 51 is where things like the stealth planes were tested.


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Re: Rachel, Nevada and the Lil'A'Le Inn
« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2009, 09:35:58 AM »
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Area 51 is an airbase near Rachel NV. It was the home base of the U-2 spy planes, the SR-71"s and many other aircraft the the US Goverment does not admit to having.  You can get a good satellite  view of the base on Google Earth, if you know where to look.

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Re: Rachel, Nevada and the Lil'A'Le Inn
« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2009, 12:20:23 PM »
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Was area 51 the same location where they did the nuclear testing in the 50's? I remember seeing video of vegas and people saying they could see the mushroom clouds from the strip and felt the earth shake like an earthquake. Funny thing is, nobody at the time in Vegas seemed concerned with it and accptted it as part of living in Nevada.

The areas are different the Atom tests were at Yucca Mountain (sp?) and area 51 is where things like the stealth planes were tested.

Area 51 is located on and just south of the dry lake bed of Groom Lake in Lincoln County, in the Emigrant Valley, bounded by the Papoose and Groom Mountain Ranges. The surrounding land is all part of Nellis Air Force Base and its bombing and test range. The small settlement known as Rachel is located in the Sand Spring Valley, on S.R. 375 (officially named the Extraterrestrial Highway), and is about 25 miles north of the "secret" airfield and base.

Nuclear bomb tests were conducted in many areas of the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and in the surrounding Nellis Air Force Range (NAFR) in Nye County (which ironically, is shaped similar to a mushroom cloud). Yucca Mountain, on the western edge of the NAFR (east of Beatty) is where the government proposes to build a repository for the radioactive waste generated by the nation's nuclear power plants (clean energy? yeah, RIGHT!). Yucca Flat (a/k/a Plutonium Valley), further east near the center of the NTS, is where many of the early, above-ground bomb tests took place. I believe others took place in nearby Frenchman Flat and Jackass Flats (soon to be renamed "Kanye West Flats").

If you've even been up in the Spring Mountains (NW of Vegas), and taken the road that crosses the ridge line (S.R. 158) and connects Kyle Canyon (where the town of Mt. Charleston is sited on S.R. 157) and Lee Canyon (where S.R. 156 leads up to the small ski/snowboard area), there's an overlook along it that provides a broad vista across the southern sections of the NTS. I believe many of the adventurous residents of southern Nevada back in the late 1940s and 1950s gathered at that particular spot to watch the atomic tests. I wonder how much radiation exposure they received in doing that? But the bright flashes of the bomb detonations were very visible down in Las Vegas itself, especially since many of the tests occurred in the pre-dawn hours.

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