Prior to Michelson beginning construction of his Irvine Ranch evacuated tube late in 1929, he performed a test of the proposed Irvine Ranch apparatus on a railroad track in the town of Arcadia. There would be no tube in place for this work, merely the end mirrors contained in their housings, separated by 1,100 feet [ ]
June, 2019 Yeah, that name I know what you re thinking .but, it s not what you think, despite it being in California. It s something completely different. And suitably weird. Reefer City was a small community in the high desert of California, midway between Rosamond and Mojave. Its name came from the fact that the dwellings of Reefer City [ ]
May 2019 This turned out to be one of those serendipitous places I stumbled across while doing something else. I had been checking out a topo map app for my iPad called Gaia, and was looking at what their mapping product showed, comparing it against what I knew to be out there. Doing so I [ ]
February, 2019 Since I posted my look back at the Lazar story from 2018, I received a bit of skeptical feedback as to what was observed over Groom being the testing of a proton beam. Oh you doubters! However it s completely understandable, for the average person, who might not have the ability to crunch the [ ]
Date: November 7, 2018 Participants: Tom Mahood General Search Area: Areas of Serin tower cell phone coverage southeasterly of Quail Spring. Rationale for Search: This was a small area of Serin cell tower coverage that hadn t been searched before. And I wanted to go on a hike. Impressions of Area and Findings: A fairly rocky [ ]
Writeup and photos by Adam Marsland Date: October 13, 2018 Participants: Adam Marsland, Teresa Cowles General Search Area: Side washes and canyons east of northerly Quail Wash Rationale for Search: It is not far from a possible place Bill s phone might have pinged, and nobody has searched this area, so why not. Impressions of Area [ ]
(Why, oh why, is this still a thing?) Damn. Damn, damn, damn! I really don t want to be writing this as I have way better things to do. I thought I happily left all this crap in my rear view mirror 20 years ago, but apparently not. Recently, I ve noted an increasing number of visitors [ ]
During our move, I game upon a lot of old Area 51 related stuff I forgot I even had, and this map of the Tonopah Test Range is one such gem. I m not sure where I even got it, but the mailing tube it was in was dated from the late 1990s with a return [ ]
(Whereby I merely document the work done by others, my absolute favorite approach to any problem!) Well, first of all I guess I need to explain what the hell Bayesian means, as it s a big, weird word and is actually in the title of this post. It s a statistical approach, named after Thomas Bayes, a [ ]
If you re an (ir)regular reader of this steaming pile of a site, you may have noticed I haven t been updating for a while. Well, sorry, your good fortune is quickly coming to an end and things are returning to some semblance of normal. The reason for my radio silence is that over the past 6 [ ]
Writeup and photos by Bret Lamb Date: April 1, 2018 Participant: Bret Lamb General Search Area: Major drainage southerly of Eureka Peak and westerly of Upper Covington Flats Rationale for Search: Trying to think outside of the box on this one. The geometry of this canyon is close to being a radial line on the [ ]
OK, this is a slightly atypical thing to post on my site, but it was too cool not to. I know there s some who will find this really useful. Below I ll burn some electrons to provide a context of why it s a neat thing to me, but for those of you smarter folks who d prefer [ ]
Damn. I m getting too old for this shit. Or at the very least I should know better at this point in my life. Once I started getting into the GPS on Benchmarks program and discovered no surveyor had visited or checked the position of the Antonio benchmark since 1951, I knew I was doomed to [ ]
This trip came about solely because American Airlines screwed up (One should always expect the expected). In February of 2017 I saw a posting on a forum saying AA had opened up some saver level business class award tickets from many places in the US to Europe. Since up to that time there were few [ ]
(Look, let me warn you up front there is way too much text in this and few pics. If you value your time at all, leave now and do something more interesting like watching funny cats on the internet. If you have no life or your escape key doesn t work, than by all means read [ ]