Rachel, Nevada

Local Documents

• Rachel Description (4/11/95)
• Rachel History by Glenn Campbell, 2/96.
• Related Pages
  • Area 51
    • Desert Rat
    • E.T. Highway (Route 375)
  • Lincoln County
    • Lincoln County Justice
• Rachel Business
  • Area 51 Research Center
  • Little A'Le'Inn (Rachel Bar & Grill)
    • 9/5/96: "What's New" article, Ufomind, Little A'Le'Inn cited for Health Code Violation. Sewage problems get deeper.
    • 7/14/96: "What's New" article, Ufomind, Sanitation Problems at Little A'Le'Inn. As the sewage turns...
  • Quik Pick Convenience Store
  • Close Encounters*, T-Shirts and E.T. Highway souvenirs.
• Events
  • An independent film on Rachel, Nevada,* was shown at the Denver International Film Festival* on Oct. 18, 1996. (Produced by Jessica Landaw & David Dawes of Random Productions.)
    Rachel, Nevada takes us to a small town 110 miles from Las Vegas, site of a formerly secret US Air Force installation known as Area 51. The base develops new planes such as the stealth bomber. The secrecy shrouding Area 51 has given rise to suspicions over the years, earning the town of Rachel (primarily a collection of trailer homes) the title "UFO Capital of the World," and Nevada State Highway 375 "Alien Highway". The film focuses on the everyday people of Rachel, once left alone to service the military, now the center of tourism and a publicity boom. There are enough stories and photos to persuade even the most die-hard skeptics that something extraterrestrial may be going on.

  • E.T. Highway Unveiling, April 18, 1996
• Maps
  • Map of Rachel vicinity (60k), circa 1908, from an early Lincoln County map (44k)
• Articles, partial list starting 1996. See also Area 51 Articles and E.T. Highway
  • 11/14/96:Reuters Article on Rachel in CNN Travel News. Drivel.
  • 10/28/96: "What's New" article, Ufomind, British Tourist Injured near Rachel. Visitors injured in rollover vehicle accident.
  • 8/26/96: Rachel, Nevada, Capital of the Intergalactic Federation, an article in the Times of London reports on the recent "Abduction" party.
  • 5/9/96: Newspaper article, Lincoln County Record, "Rompin' With Rachel", page 6. Report on aftermath of Highway Dedication.
  • 4/28/96: Newspaper article, Orange County Register, "Tourism ploy breeds alienation in windswept town," by Gordon Dillow. The newly christened Extraterrestrial Highway is drawing otherworldly types, unsettling Rachel, Nev.
  • 4/19/96: Newspaper article, Las Vegas Review Journal, "Hollywood invades the E.T. Highway: State officials, movie stars and directors help dedicate a stretch of road with an alien-themed title", by Shaun McKinnon. Report on E.T. Highway Unveiling.
  • 4/19/96: Newspaper article, Las Vegas Sun, "Rural highway out of this world: Town of Rachel worries about latest attraction", by Mary Manning. Report on reservations over E.T. Highway.
  • 3/20/96: AP Wire, "Nevada's New "Extraterrestrial Highway" Gets Hollywood-Style Launch With 20th Century Fox's "Independence Day; Gov. Miller, Film's Stars To Attend Unveiling And Dedication Ceremony".
  • 3/09/96: New York Times, "Quiet Nevada Town On E.T. Road Banking On Ufo Lore".
  • 3/06/96: Campbell's Report on Alien Highway, describing dangers to tourists. (66k)
  • 2/20/96: Las Vegas Review Journal, "Aliens given own road: State Route 375 renamed the Extraterrestrial Highway".
• Photos
  • Inside the Quik Pick convenience store, Upper Rachel. (30k)
  • Rachel in the distance from the east. (30k)
  • Aerial Photos of Rachel, from Desert Rat #34

External Links

• Rachel Page in the Area 51 BBS, including photos.
• Environment
  • Current Readings on Rachel's EPA Radiation Monitoring Station | Other Stations
    This data may include temperature, humidity and wind information, but you'll need to decode it from the tables. Consult this starting document. (If you do figure it out email us.)
• Maps
  • Map of Radiation Monitoring Stations around Nevada Test Site, including Rachel

Reader Comments

You can get 5 acres in Rachel for about $5000-$6000, but that's just the start. You need to spend $3000-$5000 more on a well then about $1000 for power. Then the question is: What are you going to do once you're here?

The high elevation makes summer the best time to come. Winters are brutal and summer temps never break 100 (cool by Mojave standards). --GC

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Upkeep of this page is sponsored in part by the Research Center Catalog including the following....

* * A Random Selection From Our Catalog * * Groom Lake Patch: Participants in aircraft development projects like the Stealth fighter or military operations like Desert Storm always have a cloth patch to commemorate the event. The maligned workers at Groom Lake are denied this opportunity because their operation is supposed to be secret. As a service to them, we at the Area 51 Research Center have designed our own high-quality, 8-color cloth patch, the first of its kind to commemorate Area 51 and its crew. [gc 7/95] - #p {light} $8.00 (A 3" version of the patch is also available: #psm {light} $5.00) Related Topics: Area 51 Logo Items | Area 51 Documents | Military Aviation