Nevada Test Site
The Nevada Test Site is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the City of Las Vegas, near 37°07'N 116°03'W. Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Ground, the site, established on January 11, 1951 for the testing of nuclear weapons, is composed of approximately 1,350 square miles (3,500 kmē) of desert and mountainous terrain. Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a one-kiloton of TNT (4 terajoule) bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats on January 27, 1951. Many of the iconic images of the nuclear era come from NTS.Top photos chosen by u all:
Night sky over Groom Lake. Highway 375
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Allegedly Groom Lake is underneath those glowing clouds (lit from below by the lights that don't exist, obviously). I guess it's a dry lake bed - but it's hard to say...the guys with machine guns won't let you look because it is NOT a top-secret air force installation called
Probably Not Back Gate to Secret Base
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No camo dudes with machine guns at the back gate to what must be some kind of cattle ranch or something other than a secret air force installation called
Craters
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Bomb test sites for the US military in the Nevada Desert near 'area 51' Click to view on GoogleMaps.
Flying objects
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Seen over an area in Nevada, that does not exist.
Nearest places of interest:
| Big Dune Shoshone, California Mercury, Nevada Creech AFB | Delamar Dry Lakebed Easy Chair Meteor Impact Tonopah Test Range Warm Springs, NV |
