According to an increasing number of witnesses, the United States Government has been test-flying some very unusual aircraft for many years in the remote Nellis Air Force Range and Nuclear Test Site in Nevada, and particularly at the top-secret Groom Dry Lake area and its environs, usually known as "Area 51" or "Dreamland," located about eighty miles north-northwest of Las Vegas (see Chapter 8, Fig. 8.1).
"Dreamland" is the radio call sign for the Nellis air traffic controllers who maintain the highly restricted airspace in this vicinity. Although it is known that extremely advanced and unconventional secret aircraft are test-flown in the area, more advanced than the remarkable Lockheed F-117A stealth plane, based (until 1992) with the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing at the top-secret Tonopah Test Range Airfield (TTR), which abuts the northwest corner of the vast Nellis complex, one hundred and forty miles north-northwest of Las Vegas, little is known about other more secret "black" projects.
"We are test-flying vehicles that defy description," aviation writer James Goodall was told by an Air Force officer....
[Excerpt from Alien Contact by Timothy Good, page 138.]
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