The Arcadia “Dry Run”, (June 1929)
Prior to Michelson beginning construction of his Irvine Ranch evacuated tube late in 1929, he performed a test of the proposed Irvine Ranch apparatus on a railroad track in the town of Arcadia. There...
View ArticleReefer City, California
June, 2019 Yeah, that name…I know what you’re thinking….but, it’s not what you think, despite it being in California. It’s something completely different. And suitably weird. Reefer City was a small...
View ArticleLybrook Badlands, New Mexico
May 2019 This turned out to be one of those serendipitous places I stumbled across while doing something else. I had been checking out a topo map app for my iPad called Gaia, and was looking at what...
View ArticleSo ya don’t believe it was a proton beam, eh?
February, 2019 Since I posted my look back at the Lazar story from 2018, I received a bit of skeptical feedback as to what was observed over Groom being the testing of a proton beam. Oh you doubters!...
View ArticleJT91, November 7, 2018
Date: November 7, 2018 Participants: Tom Mahood General Search Area: Areas of Serin tower cell phone coverage southeasterly of Quail Spring. Rationale for Search: This was a small area of Serin cell...
View ArticleJT90, October 13, 2018
Writeup and photos by Adam Marsland Date: October 13, 2018 Participants: Adam Marsland, Teresa Cowles General Search Area: Side washes and canyons east of northerly Quail Wash Rationale for Search: It...
View ArticleLooking at the Bob Lazar story from the perspective of 2018
(Why, oh why, is this still a thing?) Damn. Damn, damn, damn! I really don’t want to be writing this as I have way better things to do. I thought I happily left all this crap in my rear view mirror 20...
View ArticleMap of the Tonopah Test Range
During our move, I game upon a lot of old Area 51 related stuff I forgot I even had, and this map of the Tonopah Test Range is one such gem. I’m not sure where I even got it, but the mailing tube it...
View ArticleA Bayesian Approach to Looking for Bill Ewasko, August 2018
(Whereby I merely document the work done by others, my absolute favorite approach to any problem!) Well, first of all I guess I need to explain what the hell “Bayesian” means, as it’s a big, weird word...
View ArticleOff to New Mexico!
If you’re an (ir)regular reader of this steaming pile of a site, you may have noticed I haven’t been updating for a while. Well, sorry, your good fortune is quickly coming to an end and things are...
View ArticleJT89, April 1, 2018
Writeup and photos by Bret Lamb Date: April 1, 2018 Participant: Bret Lamb General Search Area: Major drainage southerly of Eureka Peak and westerly of Upper Covington Flats Rationale for Search:...
View Article1928 Aerial photo of the Stanley-Miller Mine, San Gabriel Mountains, California
OK, this is a slightly atypical thing to post on my site, but it was too cool not to. I know there’s some who will find this really useful. Below I’ll burn some electrons to provide a context of why...
View ArticleReturn to Lookout Mountain, October 2017
Damn. I’m getting too old for this shit. Or at the very least I should know better at this point in my life. Once I started getting into the GPS on Benchmarks program and discovered no surveyor had...
View ArticleEurope in Training, October, 2017
This trip came about solely because American Airlines screwed up (One should always expect the expected). In February of 2017 I saw a posting on a forum saying AA had opened up some saver level...
View ArticleGPS on Benchmarks Program
(Look, let me warn you up front there is way too much text in this and few pics. If you value your time at all, leave now and do something more interesting like watching funny cats on the internet. If...
View ArticleAlaska, September 2017
As a kid, I was insanely interested in Alaska, reading everything I could find on it. I even had the idea I wanted to be bush pilot, it was that strong an attraction. A couple of things prevented me...
View ArticleAustralia, May 2017
Jeri and I had wanted to get our butts to Australia for some time but it never worked out. Back when we were young and stupid (and might have flown coach) we thought we’d need to stay there a few weeks...
View ArticleHong Kong, March 2017
As part of our ongoing effort to disentangle ourselves from the American Airlines frequent flyer program (which has gone from excellent to sucktastic in the past couple of years) Jeri and I had a few...
View ArticleJT-Something-or-other, October 2016 through April 2017
Dates: October 2016 through April 2017 Participant: Bret Lamb General Search Area: Multiple areas northwesterly of Smith Water Canyon and the canyon between Upper and Lower Covington Flats. Comments:...
View ArticleJT88, April 18, 2017
Date: April 18, 2017 Participants: Tom Mahood General Search Area: The mouth of Smith Water Canyon along both the 10.5 and 10.6 mile Serin cell tower radius (Outbound on the 10.5 line and return on the...
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