Mahood's Final Report on Lazar (1/2)

From: Ken MacGray 
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 07:59:05 -0800
Subject: Mahood's Final Report on Lazar (1/2)


The following is reprinted from www.serve.com/mahood/finis.htm

Ken

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Some Final Thoughts, Musings and Ruminations

Wherein our hero slinks off into the Nevada sunset, curiosity satiated
but longing for dragons...

Some of you have noticed that this site hasn't had much in the way of
updates recently, nor will you see any in the foreseeable future. There
are two reasons for this. The main reason is I no longer have much time
to deal much with adding to the site. Recently, I returned to school,
working towards a Masters degree in Physics (and yes, there are
 records!) This has proven to be about the hardest thing (and maybe
dumbest!) I've ever done, sucking up vast amounts of my formerly copious
spare time (Oh yeah, it's kinda fun, too, but in a sick way).

I've always had a strong interest in science, originally majoring in
physics before switching to engineering. I think the final push to go
back to school came from listening to all the pseudo-scientific crap
floating around Area 51 (more on that later) and UFOs in general. While
I was pretty sure most of all this great sounding stuff was bogus, I
didn't know for sure why. I do now.

However the other, and perhaps more important reason, I'm putting this
site on autopilot, is I'm pretty much finished with Area 51. I realized
I had most of my questions answered, and much of the mystery was gone.
Sigh.

My first trip out to the area was Thanksgiving, 1993. Since then, I've
probably been out there perhaps 40-50 times, at best evidence of too
much free time, and at worse, evidence of a very sick puppy. In those
early days, so much of the Nellis Range was a mystery. There aren't
exactly guidebooks explaining just what all these interesting facilities
do out there, facilities the government would just as soon you not know
about. In these regions there be dragons...

But over time, with a lot of research and connecting with various
people, these areas of mystery got smaller and smaller. Then one day I
finally realized that the mysterious areas (at least for me) were gone,
and so, sadly, was the possibility of dragons. (Well, almost)

I had made this site operational somewhat as a public service for those
interested in Area 51 and similar topics. It really came out of my
investigations into Lazar's background. I kept getting requests for
copies of this or that, so in an effort to save my lazy ass some work, I
just put it all on the web as a serve-your-self. Later, I added some of
the more solid things I was finding on the Nellis Range. I tried not to
duplicate what Glenn Campbell already had on his site, but that wasn't
much of a problem as our approaches and intents were different.

My intent in this weird business has been very specific. It was, to find
out for myself, if we are really operating alien based craft out of the
Groom area, or anywhere else in that neighborhood. I was never
interested in "blowing the lid off of Groom" (if there's a lid on
anything to begin with), or exposing anything. I wanted to know...for me
 (The rest of you are on your own!). I presume the government has plenty
of secret things out there, and as far as I'm concerned, they are
entitled to them. Stealth helicopters, black Mantas, UAVs, Aurora...who
cares?? But if we're talkin' aliens, then I want to know.

Going about things with that goal dictated what I did, and who/what I
got involved with. It also determined just what kind of info I would
publicly let loose. I had two concerns in this regard. First, I was
legitimately concerned that some of the info I might come across could
be "sensitive" (I have no idea if that's the case). I always erred on
the conservative side and never publicly put out anything that to me
suggested sensitivity. I tended to avoid the media (with a few
exceptions) as to my mind it really didn't serve any useful purpose and
move me toward where I wanted to go. I did hear from some pretty bizarre
folks after my few TV appearances, however. There are some weird people
out there...

Secondly, over time, I had some real interesting people provide me with
some rather valuable pieces of the puzzle. Maybe because I didn't seem
like a nut (Hah, fooled them!), or just kept my mouth shut. I held this
stuff close to my vest, as these sources could perhaps get into various
flavors of trouble if it got out they were telling me things, and also
publicly repeating some of these items would simply make my sources go
away. As a result, what you've seen on my web site has only been the
mainstream items, based upon public records, documents and statements.
The juicy stuff I kept to myself, and it most definitely affected my
conclusions.

What I'd like now to do is something a little different for me. This is
kind of a conclusion, one that I never thought I'd reach. I'm going to
summarize what I think is going on (and not going on) in the Nellis
Range, based upon almost 4 years of looking at it for many different
angles. I'm going to tell you what I think and why. I'm not trying to
convince you that I'm right, (but I'm satisfied I am), I just want
explain why I think what I do, in as much detail as confidences allow. I
still entertain the possibility I could be wrong.

As this is a summary, it certainly won't be comprehensive. Also, I will
be using the term "source" quite a bit. These are people who I've known
and have found to be reasonably reliable. I shall remain somewhat vague
about precisely what they've said, as it might compromise who they are.
As I'm not trying to convince you of anything or win any arguments, I
don't see it as a problem.

I will be interested to see what (if anything) the wackos have to say
about this, but I suspect they'll somehow find more nasty things to say
about me. But I have no obligations other than to myself. So, I might
suggest in a very rare departure from civility, they simply go fuck
themselves...

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Area 51 and the Nellis Range

So what's going on out there???
I am satisfied that people are (or were) seeing something out there
(although no one's been seeing much in recent times). But what exactly
was that something? Yeah, yeah, I know, there are a lot of odd aircraft
zipping around out there. But I'm after those things that stairstep and
make "instant" right angle turns. In my mind, the best fit answer as to
what's been spotted is indeed some sort of disc shaped craft. While some
may find this a farfetched conclusion, to avoid it means dismissing some
pretty high quality observations by reliable observers. Does this imply
there is some secret base out there where a squadron of these things are
kept? Not at all. The most simple, conservative explanation is simply we
somehow acquired or built one of these things, and kept it in a
nondescript hangar at the south end of the base. Then, when most of the
normal personnel went home for the day, it was brought out for tests. Is
it still there? I have no idea, but if you were running the program
would you want to regularly display it for black mailbox tourists?

Could it have been something else that was mistaken for a disc? Most
certainly, although it's hard to say just what it might be. I was told a
rather interesting story by someone who said there were no exotic craft
at Groom. What there was/is, is a particle beam device, and that its
operation was mistaken for disc shaped craft. This source said the
device was in a long, covered trench-like affair, who's cover slid away
for testing. Further, this source said he had seen the device, and that
nothing could be in the air for miles around when it operated.

While that was an interesting story, I could never figure out how a
particle beam could produce spherical balls of light, flitting across
the sky. Only recently was the technical mechanism explained to me as to
how this would occur. And it does check out, so I view this as a very
viable alternative explanation. Wouldn't it be ironic if all this
mythology of saucers at Groom and the influx of alien seeking tourists
compromising base operations, was simply the result of particle beam
experiments? That would be neat to find out some day.

What about these stories of underground transport systems, some that are
said to stretch as far as Edwards AFB to the west and the sinister Dulce
to the northeast? This was one of those urban legends...I mean rural
legends that I think I had some success tracking down. I am convinced
these stories arose from the substantial tunnel complexes used for
underground testing on the NTS. All the elements are there: Blacked out
busses taking workers to a train station are actually the KT Lines
busses with dark desert tint windows shuttling workers from Mercury to
the portals in Area 12. The train stations are indeed that, with workers
passing through turnstiles to board their open man trains. The man
trains in the tunnels become high speed maglev trains in the legend.
There are internal crossover points that serve as underground stations.
And the tunnels do go on for many miles, over a total 20 miles in one
instance, but never leaving the Rainier Mesa area. I suppose there could
be secret underground research complexes in Rainier Mesa, but it might
have nothing at all to do with aliens. But considering how often the
ground would be rattling, it would be a pretty lousy place to site
anything sensitive. Not a place I'd want to work, anyway.

What about other places out there? I don't think there's anything real
sneaky going on at TTR, but they likely have some new versions of
stealth aircraft (yawn..) hidden in those many hangars, waiting for
nightfall to come out and play. I think their spooky neighbor to the
east, Site-4, has the dubious distinction of lending its name to the
Lazar story, although this Site-4 has nothing to do with ETs. That is
unless the ETs might have radar or EM devices that could be used against
US aircraft. If that's the case, you can bet our government will do
whatever it takes to "acquire" that equipment, and bring it out to
Site-4 for testing against our aircraft, next to the Soviet, Chinese and
Iraqi equipment. The story of how the Site-4 name made the cross country
leap to Papoose Lake is interesting, and may be told some day.

The Tolicha Peak facility has proven to be a rather boring electronic
warfare training facility, mostly used during the various Nellis Flag
exercises. Other that these facilities, there seems to be nothing else
out there north of Groom and the NTS. The widespread dropping of bombs
tends to put a damper on the concept of underground bases hiding under
Gold Flat.

I think almost all the stories swirling around the area stem from
exaggerations of real events. I've always had a pretty high regard for
the word of others (I guess a reflection of my own strong desire to
relate stories accurately), and as a result I've been saddened at the
amount of bullshit I've come across. I don't understand the
psychological mechanism behind it, but some people just seem to delight
in telling tall tales. Unfortunately they seem to find a receptive
audience in some of the folks drawn to Area 51, and the stories take on
a life of their own. You have no idea the crap I've heard! Damn near
broke my bullshit filter.


Papoose Lake

I am satisfied that the only thing at Papoose Lake is a dry lake and
some junk. Moreover, that's all there's ever been.
I've studied several high resolution satellite photos of the area from
the era that Lazar claims to have been there. None show so much of a
hint of anything there, beyond normal range operations. Not the fenced
area Lazar described at the entrance, nor the "good dirt road" used by
the bus to get there. In science fiction stories, underground bases can
be hidden without a trace. Not so in real life. There have to be
entryways for vehicles and equipment, cooling, heating and ventilation
ports, utility feeds, at least some of which will show up on a satellite
photo. None do here.

Then there's the question of why it would be an underground base to
start with. The only underground facilities I know to exist are those
specifically designed to survive a nuclear attack, and there are more
than a few. To do so they must be far underground, such as Cheyenne
Mountain or Mount Weather. The construction of such facilities is a
tremendous engineering task requiring equally tremendous dollars.
Lazar's S-4 obviously couldn't survive a nuclear attack as it was right
beneath the surface. Also, underground facilities are not very amenable
to expansion or modification like a surface facility. Then there's the
problem of what to do with the material you excavate. You have to put it
somewhere, and the bigger the underground base, the bigger the dirt
pile.

So maybe it was built underground to hide it. Hide it from who? Lazar
has said the Soviets were in the program at one time, so it couldn't be
from them. The American people? There are far less costly ways to hide
things, usually in plain sight. The concept just doesn't make sense.

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