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If any of you are ever in the Las Vegas vicinity, you can actually visit the "Area 51" border and its neighboring small cities (such as Rachel - home of the many UFO nuts and high-priced, low octane gasoline). The drive is about 2 hours away from Vegas (one-way) through extremely rural areas of Nevada, including Highway 395.
I went in the spring of 2000... I thought it was pretty exciting.
Now only if I can fly there... ehhh nevermind.
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Rumor has it, and granted, this is a rumor that I heard from an air traffic controller riding the jumpseat from KSLC to KBIL.
But according to him, a TWA MD-80 experiencing a cargo fire indication supposedly did a emergency landing at the facility, interrogated the crew and passengers then subsequentially bused them out and did whatever with the airplane.
I'm not saying it happened and really have no opinion on the validity of the story, just being a conduit for gossip!
If any of you are ever in the Las Vegas vicinity, you can actually visit the "Area 51" border and its neighboring small cities (such as Rachel - home of the many UFO nuts and high-priced, low octane gasoline). The drive is about 2 hours away from Vegas (one-way) through extremely rural areas of Nevada, including Highway 395.
I went in the spring of 2000... I thought it was pretty exciting.
Now only if I can fly there... ehhh nevermind.
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Rumor has it, and granted, this is a rumor that I heard from an air traffic controller riding the jumpseat from KSLC to KBIL.
But according to him, a TWA MD-80 experiencing a cargo fire indication supposedly did a emergency landing at the facility, interrogated the crew and passengers then subsequentially bused them out and did whatever with the airplane.
I'm not saying it happened and really have no opinion on the validity of the story, just being a conduit for gossip!
