On May 11, 10:44 pm, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:

On May 11, 5:05 pm, Desert Shadow <rch49...@cox.net> wrote:

On May 11, 12:56 pm, Desert Shadow <rch49...@cox.net> wrote:

On May 11, 11:42 am, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:

On May 11, 4:29 am, "Lumpy" <lu...@digitalcartography.com> wrote:

m...@sushi.com wrote:

It is still there, just very few actual posts are on Area 51!

What's the current hot topic over there at that daycare site?

Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke

www.n0eq.com

Most of the dreamlandresort readers hang out there, so there is lots
of duplication. Janet watching was probably the most relevant post.
You still get the Dulce crowd, which is about as silly as the stealth
blimp.

I put that same "tall hangar" photo on ATS and got no replies, much
like here. The structure screams rocket to me. What else is tall and
skinny and found at an airbase?

Why would a rocket be at Groom Lake?  Why wouldn't the Af just us
Vandenberg or Edwards?  Why  would they go to the trouble of building
a hangar when everything they need is just up the road and Edwards and
especially Vandenberg?

I thought maybe at first glance they were tanks, but a closer look
rules that out.  That looks too small for a hanger, but it is really
tall.  Very strange.  I would like to put the photo on the forum at
DLR and see what the guesses are.

I would assume DLR has a similar image since I shot that last year, so
it is not new. I was so focused on the hangar that I missed the other
new building. My viewing conditions were crap raised to infinity. OK,
maybe crap cubed. Anyway, Peter M. posts on ATS, and he is probably
the best person to evaluate the building. I didn't specifically ask
his opinion, but I assume he shrugged his shoulders like the rest of
us since he didn't comment.

I should have said missile, not rocket, since rocket gives the image
of the thing leaving orbit. The TTR launches missiles once in a while,
but they usually terminate on the range.  But missile are usually not
stored vertically.

They have a tall crane at the base, but they make no attempt to hide
it.

Could there be some sort of instrumentation tower the base doesn't
want photographed, so they move it out of the tall hangar only for
tests? I would think it would have a track to roll the thing out of
the building.

I am seriously interested in what it could be.  No, I don't think DLR
has the photo.  You have the best photos and most complete inventory.
I would like to get some feedback from DLR, but I am not sure what you
think about the photo going on their discussion forum.