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The Groom Lake Desert Rat Issue #18 posted her with the permission of the 
author, Glenn Campbell.

Posted by Michael Curta, Colorado MUFON

Note: The Newsletter has been edited from 2 parts into one part for convince.


 THE GROOM LAKE DESERT RAT.   An On-Line Newsletter.
 Issue #18.  November 16, 1994.
 -----> "The Naked Truth from Open Sources." <-----
 AREA 51/NELLIS RANGE/TTR/NTS/S-4?/WEIRD STUFF/DESERT LORE
 Direct from the "UFO Capital," Rachel, Nevada.
 Written, published, copyrighted and totally disavowed by
 psychospy@aol.com. See bottom for subscription/copyright info.

 In this issue...
     INCUMBENT SHERIFF PREVAILS IN LOCAL ELECTION
     LARRY KING FEEDBACK
     DR. GREER ON "48 HOURS"
     OUR READERS RESPOND
     BLM ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT RELEASED
     CAMPBELL TRIAL INVITATION
     HAZARDOUS WASTE PRE-TRIAL HEARINGS
     ENEMY UPDATE
     INTEL BITTIES

 [Note: This issue has been sent in two parts.  The first ends with
 a "CONTINUED" notice and the second ends with "###".]

 ----- INCUMBENT SHERIFF PREVAILS IN LOCAL ELECTION -----

 On Nov. 8, incumbent Lincoln County Sheriff Dahl Bradfield handily
 defeated his challenger Don Brown.  That could mean four more
 years of secret Air Force "rent-a-cop" agreements, deputies
 harassing journalists and confiscating film without due process,
 and continued dismal confidence in law enforcement throughout the
 county.  But, hey, we're sanguine.  The people have spoken, 58 to
 42 percent.  An election is the purest expression of the public
 will, and there's no arguing with those numbers.

 We can't claim that the electorate was ill-informed.  During his
 six years in office, Bradfield seemed to have committed every
 lapse of professional judgment in the book, and his heavy-handed
 "God Squad" of unsupervised deputies had pissed off a large
 portion of the county.  We and some of allies took out an ad in
 the Lincoln County Record to remind voters of his biggest gaffs
 and their enormous cost to the county [may be available at the FTP
 or WWW sites], and we thought our logic was flawless.  All the
 Sheriff could offer in his ads were a few trumped-up endorsements
 from law enforcement organizations, one of which, the Las Vegas
 Sun reported, hardly knew he existed.  The challenger, who was
 formerly a Nevada State Police chief and well-regarded Sheriff in
 Washington State, seemed like a breath of fresh air who could
 restore faith in local law enforcement.  In the weeks approaching
 the election, we worked hard behind the scenes to support his
 campaign, and we were almost ready to count our chickens before
 they hatched until receiving a call late on election night
 shattering our faith in humanity.

 We considered this election an important one.  The big Groom Lake
 base is wholly within Lincoln County, yet returns only trivial
 economic benefits to the community.  A nonexistent base doesn't
 have to pay its taxes and doesn't have to engage in any form of
 community relations.  Being directly downwind of both the Groom
 Lake base and the adjoining Nevada Test Site, county residents
 have been dumped on for years by the federal government.  In the
 days of above ground atomic testing, this meant dangerous levels
 of fallout and a predictable rise in devastating cancers.  Given
 the raw treatment the county has received over the years, this
 place ought to be a hotbed of anti-government rhetoric, and it is,
 but that sentiment is rarely translated into action.

 For a piddling contract fee of $50,000 a year, the Sheriff's Dept.
 has essentially taken orders from the Cammo Dudes, seizing film,
 arresting naive trespassers and investigating law-biding tourists
 whenever the anonymous authorities call.  This public police
 department, nominally an open entity responsible to the people,
 has seen no conflict in representing a government agency that
 refuses to acknowledge its own existence.  The Sheriff pulled back
 from film seizures, perhaps temporarily, only when the election
 loomed and negative publicity began to build up in the Las Vegas press.

 Similarly, the county tax assessor, an ossified 26-year veteran,
 has shown no interest in pursuing the base for the value of
 contractor facilities.  Although the AF itself is not liable for
 local property taxes, the same does not hold for the private
 contractors that largely operate the base.  [See DR#5.]  If they
 occupy a government building, property taxes must be paid on it as
 if it were private land (NRS 361.157).  As it stands, the AF gives
 the county an imaginary assessment every year, most recently $3.2
 million, and the county blindly accepts it, billing the AF for the
insignificant taxes implied, recently $80,000.  Of course, $3.2
 million wouldn't buy a latrine at a place like Groom, but the
 current assessor's attitude is that if county pushes the AF too
 hard, they might sue or pack up the base and move it elsewhere.
 Legal guidance, which should be provided by the county District
 Attorney, is lackluster at best.  He seems more concerned with
 pursuing Campbell on the obstruction charge [See trial invitation
 below.] than in making the secret base pay its due.

 Since the officials who were up for election had also offended the
 electorate in other ways, the prevailing sentiment ought to have
 been "Throw the Bums Out!"  Indeed, that is what we thought we
 heard on the street in the weeks prior to Nov. 8.  What happened,
 in fact, was the opposite:  Every incumbent in major county
 offices was reelected.  The District Attorney ran unopposed,
 apparently because there are not many lawyers willing to come to
 this area.  The Sheriff routed his opponent easily, as did the
 Assessor, Clerk, Treasurer, an incumbent Commissioner and the
 Justices of the Peace (including Nola Holton, who will be trying
 the Campbell case).

 Philosophically, we cannot argue with the results.  As an activist
 nipping at the heals of the monolithic Air Force, Psychospy is
 arguing in favor of democratic processes--that the secret base
 should be subject to the same public accountability as any other
 government agency.  We cannot suddenly change our tune when the
 democratic processes let us down.  We believe that every
 community, like every individual, has the right to self-
 determination.  The liberties American society holds dear include
 the right to totally screw yourself up if you so choose.  People
 and communities that make good decisions prosper, while those that
 make poor ones fail, and it is not the place of government or us
 aliens to intervene.  As it stands, Lincoln County is a dirt-poor
 backwater, chasing away industry with its high taxes and bloated
 local government and showing little interest in changing.  Like a
 person who drinks himself into a stupor, we can only conclude that
 this is the way the community wants to be.

 Still, after expending significant energy on this election, we are
disappointed in the results and annoyed that we misjudged them so
 badly.  Removing the Sheriff and Assessor from office would have
 been a major blow to the legal and tax immunity of the secret
 base.  The AF would suddenly find itself in a much less friendly
 environment and might have to start paying its due.  We hoped that
 Lincoln County would become a "mouse that roared," demanding
 proper compensation from the feds for hosting this huge and
 potentially dangerous facility.  Now, we expect no more than a
 squeak, and we have been trying our best to figure out what went wrong.

 The incumbents were of all political affiliations--Democrat,
 Republican and Independent--so the national pro-Republican sweep
 did not explain the results.  If local sentiments seemed
 overwhelmingly anti-incumbent before the election, why did the
 incumbents win?  In Rachel, the Bradfield was voted down almost
 two-to-one.  Why didn't the same happen in the rest of the county?
 To understand the results, we must understand the society here.

 ..... LINCOLN COUNTY DEMOGRAPHICS .....

 The remote town of Rachel, with 71 voters, is on the border of Nye
 County, to which it is closely related in culture and attitudes.
 Nye is a place of rugged individualism, where brothels are legal
 and the prevailing philosophy is libertarian--meaning that people
 should be free to conduct themselves however they choose without
interference from the government.  With Psychospy's liberal
 Eastern roots, we used to be annoyed by the blustering I'll-Take-
Out-Fifty-Federal-Agents-Before-They-Take-Away-My-Guns rhetoric
 found in Nye and Rachel, but now we find it refreshing and even a
 tad appealing.  Nye has been especially aggressive in pursuing its
 own secret base, the Tonopah Test Range, as well as other federal
 facilities within its borders, for taxes and law enforcement
 respect.  During the Cold War, when anti-nuclear protesters
 starting marching en masse across the cattle guard at the entrance
 to the Nevada Test Site, the Nye County Sheriff and D.A. refused
 to handle them, so the feds had to construct tennis court-sized
 cages at Mercury to temporarily house the trespassers.  Because
 the Nye county government actively asserts its rights and defends
 its independence, it doesn't get dumped on the way compliant
 Lincoln County does.

 Rachel, we have discovered, is not representative of the rest of
 Lincoln County.  Rachel is a relatively new town, existing for
 only about 30 years and thus composed mostly of "outsiders."  The
 rest of the county has been frozen in time for generations.  The
 main streets of the four major towns, Caliente, Panaca, Alamo and
 Pioche, have changed little in the past fifty years.  The absence
 of economic development has helped preserved the county's
 historical sites, but it has also meant no significant influx of
 new ideas or new blood.

 Culturally, Lincoln County is not part of Nevada but of Utah.
 Except for Rachel, the county is overwhelmingly Mormon.
 Mormonism, or Latter Day Saints, is a religion of great mystery to
 the outside world, known for its secret rites and a colorful
 history intertwined with the American West.  Although Psychospy is
 agnostic, we regard religion as one of the unalienable liberties
 that an outsider has no right to interfere in.  What concerns us
 about Mormonism is not its belief structure but how it interacts
 with rest of the world.  Even then, we are not seeking to
 criticize, only to explain and understand.

 LDS culture is very close-knit and upholds a firm respect for
 authority.  "Family values" are paramount, and to help preserve
 these ideals, the church does not shy away from active involvement
 in all aspects of society, including business, education and
 politics.  Perhaps because the group was persecuted in its early
 days, Mormons tend toward an "us-against-them" attitude similar to
 that of Judaism.  LDS is a society that pulls together against
 real and perceived threats.  In practical terms, this means that
 when the church's interests are seen as at risk in an election,
 Mormons tend to vote as a block under the guidance of church
authorities.

 In the Nov. 8 election, the incumbents had nothing in common
 except that they were mostly Mormon, while the challengers were
 mostly non-Mormon.  Had the nascent anti-incumbent sentiment been
 allowed to express itself, the church might have lost political
 power in the county, resulting, it might be perceived, in the
 degeneration of public morality.  Was the election in fact pre-
 ordained?  From secondhand sources we have heard of local Mormons
 quietly expressing their displeasure at being told by their
 bishops how to vote but who obeyed the orders anyway.  Evidently,
 God is omniscient and has many human spies.  We have not spoken to
 any of these Mormon's directly, so the claim is unproven.
 Generally, Mormons don't talk to non-Mormons about the affairs of
 their church any more than workers talk about Area 51.

 We were unimpressed, however, by a candidate's night we attended
 at a high school shortly before the election.  It was presided
 over by the bishop of the local LDS ward.  We knew he was a bishop
 even before being told because he had that air of moral rectitude.
 In his introduction, the bishop said, in effect, that there were
 no conflicts in Lincoln County, and as if to prove the point no
 debate between candidates or questions from the audience were
 permitted.  This meant, of course, that no embarrassing questions
 could be posed to the incumbents regarding their past performance
 and newcomers couldn't show their strengths in a direct exchange.
Candidates were reduced to bland three minute statements at the
 podium.  Given that the candidates had already visited most voters
door-to-door, we didn't see the purpose of a candidate's night if
 the candidates couldn't challenge each other.

 The Sheriff, an overweight, young-looking man, seemed to have
 nothing to offer in his three minutes except that he had taken
 some law enforcement courses and had instituted a 911 telephone
 system.  Like many of the other candidates, he had grown up in
 Lincoln County and attended Southern Utah College in nearby Cedar
 City.  In comparison, his opponent, tall, thin and in his 60s,
 seemed a paragon of worldliness and maturity.  He recounted his
 experience as a law enforcement administrator in a series of
 prestigious posts outside the county.  "Good show!" we thought to
 ourselves as he passed the two minute mark.  The challenger then
 went on to explain that recently he had dedicated himself to
 "Vampire 2000," an organization of law enforcement officers
 fighting the "new order" and the encroachment of federal control.
 We began sinking slowly into our seat as the challenger proclaimed
 that he would tolerate no restrictions on assault rifles in this
 county, but murmurs of approval from the audience picked us up again.

 The strangest appearance of the evening was that of the District
 Attorney, who although he was running unopposed was game enough to
 offer his three minute resume.  Given that a part of the DA's job
 is to argue cases in court, he seemed surprisingly weak as a
 public speaker.  He is apparently no intellectual slouch, however,
 having attended Stanford University followed by a law degree at
 the University of Florida and a stint in corporate law in Miami.
 A non-Mormon in his mid-30s who ought to have a better grasp of
 democratic principals than most natives, he seemed to us to be
 misplaced soul, and we wondered what made him tick.  The one-man
 DA's office both prosecutes criminal cases and serves as legal
 counsel to county government.  As an elected official, his office
 is independent and responsible only to the voters, but you
 wouldn't know it from his past performance, in which he has pretty
 much toed the line of the Sheriff's Dept.  Since his position is
 secure, he ought to be beholden to no one and free to do what is
 right for the county, but so far he has not lived up to that promise.

 As stated, we cannot prove that the incumbent landslide was the
 result of the Mormon majority voting as a block.  There were
 certainly other factors at work.  In a long-established county
 with little population turnover and only 2300 voters, it is
 possible for everyone to be related to everyone else.  Indeed, a
 glance at the tiny Lincoln County phone book (18 pages) reveals a
disproportionate number of repeated last names.  If you take the
 Sheriff and his extended family and personal allies, add those of
 the Undersheriff, whose position is also threatened, and the
 families and cliques of all the various deputies who fear a loss
 of their current freedom or job security....  Given that this is
 one of the largest per-capita police forces in the country in one
 of the poorest counties, you could have a majority right there.
 One fact is certain:  In the Sheriff's hometown of Panaca, where
 his family ties are deepest and, coincidentally, the Mormon Church
 is strongest, he was also reelected by the biggest margin, almost
three-to-one.

 Panaca was also the source, according to the postmark, of the only
 hate mail we received as result of the election.  (We've received
 more from UFO buffs who believe we work for the government.)  The
 anonymous scrawlings from Panaca said, "If you don't like the way
 Lincoln County is run--LEAVE!"  Indeed, that is exactly how
 democracy and free enterprise work.  Every community has the right
 to choose its own destiny, to uphold its own values and present
 its own chosen face to the world.  Individuals and businesses, in
 turn, have the right to move to wherever the opportunities are the
 best for them.  If, for example, the Mormon majority makes the
 environment uncomfortable for all non-Mormons, deprives them of
 political power and enforces upon them their own religious values,
 then indeed the others will move out and none will move in.  The
 only downside is that most industry beyond the walls of this tiny
 kingdom is not controlled by Mormons, and businesses would be
 foolish to invest where they have no power.  The moral purity of
 the community may be preserved, but not its jobs.

 Is it legal to vote on behalf of your religion or your family.
 Certainly.  Is it right?  No.  The root of democracy is
 individuals making their own decisions, in private, without fear
 of retribution and through their own independent conscience.
 Otherwise, the system is as totalitarian as any Communist regime.
 We recall, with bittersweet amusement, the caption on the Review-
 Journal cartoon....

 "Entering Lincoln County....  Now Leaving America."

 ----- LARRY KING FEEDBACK -----

 The following postings on internet newsgroups were passed on to us
 by our network of cyberspace spies following the Oct. 1 Larry King
 Special on TNT, "UFO Cover-Up: Live from Area 51."  In addition to
 taped segments, there were four live panelists: Stanton Friedman
 and Kevin Randle, representing the Roswell Incident; Dr. Steven
 Greer, founder of the CSETI UFO group; and Rachel resident Glenn
 Campbell, subtitled as an "activist."  Only Campbell did not wear
 a suit and tie.

   "The show is off the air 10 minutes and I am left with the
 feeling that Glenn Campbell works for the government.  I have no
 evidence to that fact, I am new to this whole line of information,
 but Mr. Campbell in my opinion seemed to soft-peddle the entire
 affair in a much too uncomfortable way for me to give him any
 credibility.  Friedman on the other hand, pending further
 information, seems very credible and quite likable, if not eccentric."
   -- buddhatek@aol.com

   "Okay, the show is off the air 28 minutes now, and you've got
 an  interesting theory.  What better place to plant a
 disinformation artist  than as a crusader?  Campbell, you're
 correct, was very soft-shoe about the whole affair, even though he
 moved his entire lift from Boston to live in a trailer in the
 desert. Oops, I forgot... that trailer is actually The Area 51
 Research Center.

   "Whether or not he's actually a disinformant remains to be
 seen.  What was evident, however, is that Glenn Campbell couldn't
 hold his own against the scientists and researchers on the panel.
 Let's face it, Campbell is not a scientist, a physicist, even a
 serious author.  He's simply like one of us, an 'enthusiast' (I
 hate that term) who's taken it to an extreme.  He seems very
 uninformed on the UFO phenomenon, which strikes me as remarkable.
 How can you claim to be the Area 51 researcher extraordinaire and
 not give a hoot about UFO's?  The two subjects are so intimately linked.

   "I'm not sure he's a government agent.  He may just be a boob."
   -- sharvey@interaccess.com

   "The guests on Larry King had mixed  beliefs and ideas... much
 of what is a cross section of the people who are interested in UFO
 study.  Stanton was correct in pointing out that there has been no
 serious study of the phenomenon.  Glenn Campbell is a better
 writer than interview guest, he really doesn't have a UFO
 position, he just wants the military to stop acting like Area 51
 isn't sitting out there.  Greer is pushing the envelope with the
 CE5 stuff.  Hey, if he gets out in the fresh air and gets some
 exercise waving a spotlight around the sky, more power to him.
 Maybe they'll take him to their leader, who knows."
   --d.beaty2@genie.geis.com

   "Steven Greer spent some time in Gulf Breeze, FL.  I was there
 at the same time.  He was received warmly and with healthy open-
 mindedness.  Then, it became PAINFULLY obvious that his claims
 were completely exaggerated.  For instance, on March 14th, 1993 (I
 think it was '93.), three of the Gulf Breeze 'red light' UFOs
 appeared AND WERE VIDEOTAPED.  He immediately claimed that he was
'telepathically' in contact with them and invited them to 'land on
 the beach behind us.'  He asked all present to 'send out your
 awareness to them.'  He was heard to say (to the UFOs), 'We
 welcome you, we love you, we invite you to land,' etc.  When the
 UFOs disappeared, he claimed it was 'A MAJOR CE-5.'

   "Later that year (in June), he tried his tricks again (calling
 them in).  He was in a parking lot on Santa Rosa Island, about
 seven miles from the other watchers at Shoreline Park.  The UFO
 did appear that night--about a mile from Shoreline, and about
 eight from Greer.

   "Later, he claimed that the craft 'appeared overhead' at a very
 close range.  Other witnesses deny this, as do their videotapes.
 Perhaps he saw something all the others didn't?"
   -- dxr41@po.cwru.edu

 ----- DR. GREER ON "48 HOURS" -----

 Larry King panelist Dr. Steven Greer is an M.D. from North
 Carolina and the founder of CSETI (Center for the Study of
 Extraterrestrial Intelligence), a group that seeks direct
 communications with aliens.  We know little about him except for
 his prior appearance on "48 Hours" (4/20) in which he and his
 group journey to Mexico where they hope to be taken aboard a UFO.

 Greer: "I'm serious enough about this that I have transferred
 every asset I have into my wife's name."

 The group sets up an observation post and their array of cameras,
communicators and signaling equipment near the small town of
 Metepec, which happens to be about 50 miles from the busy Mexico
 City airport.  Sure enough, the group has seven sightings in six
nights--bright lights hovering above the distant horizon that are
 captured on video tape.  (Later, two film analysis experts say
 there is nothing to distinguish these lights from ordinary
 aircraft.)  The group even claims communications with one of the
 UFOs through light signals.

 Greer:  "It interacted beautifully, though, in terms of the off
 and on.  I mean, that was incredibly good CE-5.  In no way could a
conventional craft move in a way where it could signal back and
 forth like that with the lights on and off."


 ----- OUR READERS RESPOND TO PREVIOUS RATS -----

 NUKING VEGAS [DR#11]

   "I thought your views on Las Vegas were disgusting.  Yes I
 agree there is little cultural worth there, but there are still
 humans that live there.  I hope someone wants to destroy you and
 where you live.  No I do not live in LV, but feel destruction of
 life through terrorist action is absolutely stupid.  I hope there
 are no further commentaries like this one in your newsletter."
   -- 74541.1743@compuserve.com

   "It's obvious that the only reason that you've ever been to LV
 is to shop and immediately head out of town.  I've lived here for
 24 years, my family has been here since 1943, and I find that it
 is a very reasonable place.  There are actual neighborhoods with
 children, schools, parks, and other "normal" activities.... Most
 of our problems are caused by people that have come to town in the
 last 10 years or so which has caused a lot of growth which has
 pretty much ruined any chance of a pleasant life.  East Coast
 people (and I use the term "people" loosely) are usually morons
 who are going to rough it out West and end up destroying or over-
 regulating things and generally making a mess....  One can only
 hope that the exhaust from a UFO completely fries the top of
 Freedom Ridge the next time you clowns are up there."
   --john@cephas.isri.unlv.edu

 Ed.:  We admitted were wrong about Vegas, and we still feel guilty
 and ashamed.  We repented in DR#16, suggesting a different target....

 NUKING NEW YORK [DR#16]

   "...But really, how closed minded can you be to condemn an
 entire city based on your limited experience.  Maybe everyone
 doesn't want to live in the woods or the desert.  Being a NYC
 resident myself, I find your comments very ignorant and scary.  I
 enjoy the culture here and the sensory overload experience of
 working and living in this metropolis.  When I want to get away
 from the crowded spaces I get in my car and drive to the
 Adirondack State Park which has over 5 million acres of some of
 the most beautiful high peak woodlands in the country.  During the
 summer months we NYC people who appreciate natural beauty get in
 our cars or buses and spend weekends out in the Hamptons where we
 have clean and uncrowded beaches surrounded by sandy dunes and
 farmlands.  Perhaps you should limit your coverage to topics that
 you know something about.  Your reckless comments certainly don't
 help your credibility on matters that you are trying to shed light on."
   -- macinwi@ffhsj.com

 Ed.:  Nuke it!

 CALIFORNIA FALLING INTO OCEAN [DR#16]

   "Kindly inform the person wanting the map of the western US
 after the coast falls into the ocean, that he's got it all wrong.
 After the big one hits, we on the Left Coast expect to watch the
 entire eastern portion of the US slide into the Atlantic."
   -- dhomuth@ednet1.osl.or.gov

 Ed.:  Please note that on NO OCCASION has Psychospy advocated the
 nuking of California.  (But now that we think about it....)

 CLONING UPDATE

 The letter by the cloning activist G.S. in [DR#16] prompted one of
 our readers, Andy S., to do some research and confirm that indeed
 his claims were true.  According to contemporary news accounts, a
 live KNBC-TV news broadcast was interrupted on Aug. 9, 1987, when
 a station visitor placed a toy gun to the head of consumer
 reporter David Horowitz and demanded that he read a statement on
 the air.  The visitor, Gary Stollman, the son of the KNBC
 pharmaceutical reporter Max Stollman, had gained entry to the
 studio by mentioning his father.  Only a few seconds of the
 statement were actually broadcast before being cut off, but the
 Desert Rat has obtained the full text.  It begins...

   "The man who has appeared on KNBC for the last 3 years is not
 my biological father.  He is a clone, a double created by the
 Central Intelligence Agency and alien forces.  It is only a small
 part of a greater plot, to over throw the United States
 Government, and possibly the human race itself.  The CIA has
 replaced and tried to destroy my family, and those of my friends.

  "Although I have known about this since 1981, I have not taken
 any action about it for fear of the lives of my family.  I have
 been forced into CIA-run mental hospitals, such as Cedars-Sinai
 Thalians, where I am shown being interviewed by many different
 doctors, although I spoke to nobody there for two weeks.  At UCLA-
 NPI, I attempted to have myself released by a court several times,
 but was asked by a Dr. Martin Zsuba to keep removing my requests
 for a writ-hearing.  I have been unable to obtain records from
 several other hospitals, including Ben Taub Hospital in
 Cincinnati, where all the phones were turned off for 48 hours
 after I arrived.

   "I do not know where my real family or others are being held,
 but I believe it is somewhere in California."

 A NEW TYPE OF SENSOR? [DR#17]

   "I was in the Air Force during Vietnam. We used "dog do-do"
 sensors to monitor an area. It looked just like a piece of you-
 know-what with a little wire antenna on one side. It was activated
 by a small pin you removed. It had a life of two or three days and
 if anyone walked near it a signal was sent out.  They came
 packaged in shrink wrap packages 6 to a pack.

   "Keep an eye out for devices like that."
   -- Jcarter@orl.mmc.com

 ----- BLM ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT RELEASED -----

 People who made comments to BLM on the proposed White
 Sides/Freedom Ridge withdrawal should have received by now their
 copy of the proposed Withdrawal Amendment and Environmental
 Assessment for the Freedom Ridge/White Sides land withdrawal--an
intermediate step toward eventual AF control of the nearest Groom
 viewpoints.  A 30-day protest period on the document is now in
 effect (ending Dec. 9), but it is open only to those who made
 comments during the previous planning process.  (Apparently you
 qualify if BLM sent you a copy of the document.)

 To file an effective protest, you must show that the environmental
 and land use issues raised during the previous comment period were
 not adequately addressed in the current document.  There is no
 sense in ragging about the UFO cover-up, black budget
 accountability or defense priorities.  Your protest must directly
 relate to the document at hand.

 We note with interest that the stated purpose of the withdrawal
 has changed since the public comment period.  The only initial
 official Air Force explanation in the Federal Register and at the
 hearings was: "The purpose of the withdrawal is to ensure the
 public safety and the safe and secure operation of activities in
 the Nellis Air Force Range Complex."

 The new document says: "The purpose of the withdrawal is to
 provide a security and safety buffer to prevent a compromise of
 national security interests and to protect assets of the adjacent
 withdrawn Nellis Air Force Range."

 The document also provides the following significant admission:
 "In 1988 the U.S. Congress withdraw the Groom Range Addition to
 the Nellis Air Force Range as a security and safety buffer zone
 between public lands administered by the BLM and the NAFR complex.
 The USAF subsequently discovered that two areas adjacent to this
 buffer zone provide viewing of military activities on this portion
 of the NAFR.  Public viewing of military activities (which has
 often included illegal photography of range activities) has
 increased during the past few years, necessitating the diversion,
postponement, or cancellation of missions to prevent a compromise
 of national security."

 There is nothing surprising in the content of these statements,
 and the purpose may even be justified (if they can also neutralize
 the OTHER viewpoints like Tikaboo Peak that haven't been touched).
 What is disturbing about these statements is that this is the
 first time we have ever heard them from the Air Force (if, indeed,
 this document conveys the Air Force position).  For example, we
 have never heard the Air Force admit that it erred in 1988.

 Here's the scenario we see:  The AF applies for a land withdrawal,
 but gives only vague reasons--"public safety," "secure operation
 of activities," etc.  The public is allowed to comment on the
 action based only on this vague explanation--which makes
 meaningful comment very difficult.  After the comment period is
 over, the AF starts fleshing out its reasons for the withdrawal,
 providing more specifics and admitting its mistake in 1988.  By
 the time the application reaches the Secretary of the Interior,
 maybe the AF even admits that there IS a base at Groom Lake and
 that they want the land specifically to keep people from looking
 down on it.  Although this admission appears to be what we were
 seeking from the beginning, the problem is that it was presented
 only AFTER the public comment period was over, so obviously the
 public had no access to it.  In essence, the withdrawal becomes a
 closed process with only the theatrical appearance of public input.

 ----- CAMPBELL TRIAL INVITATION -----

 All members of the press and public are hereby invited to attend
 the trial of political activist GLENN CAMPBELL of Rachel, Nevada,
 on the charge of Obstructing a Public Officer (NRS 197.190) for
 pushing down the car door locks during the seizure, without a
 warrant, of the news video tapes of KNBC-TV of Los Angeles near
 Freedom Ridge, July 19, 1994.  (Four of the five tapes have still
 not been returned, although the crew insists that they did not
 photograph the secret base.)

 The trial will begin with jury selection on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER
 21, 1994, at 10:00 a.m. and may take one or two days.

 Charges will be presented by Lincoln County District Attorney
 Thomas A. Dill before Justice Nola Holton of the Pahranagat Valley
 Justice Court in the County Annex Building, Alamo, Nevada (on US-
 93, 90 miles north of Las Vegas and 50 miles east of Rachel).
 Campbell will defend himself, with the possible co-counsel of a
 Nevada lawyer.

 It is advised that those who wish to attend confirm the date and
 time just before the trial.  Local lodging is available at the
 Meadow Lane Motel and Alamo Motel, both at (702)725-3371.

 COMMENTS.  This will be a jury trial, so the judgment on Campbell
 will be rendered by the same pool of local voters that re-elected
 Bradfield.  (Keep this in mind when placing your bets.)  In any
 case, we regard the process as more important than the outcome.
 If found guilty, Campbell will be subject to a fine but no jail
 time.  At one point, the DA offered to seek only a $50 fine if
 Campbell pleaded "no contest," but the defendant declined.

 REFERENCES.  The incident for which Campbell was arrested was
 recorded in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 21 (with an
 editorial July 22 and an editorial cartoon July 26); Las Vegas
 Sun, July 21, and Publisher's Auxiliary (organ of the Reporter's
 Committee on Freedom of the Press), Aug. 1.  [Also DR#12.]  For
 general information on Campbell and his goals, consult feature
 articles in the New York Times Magazine, June 26, 1994; Omni
 Magazine, Sept. 1994; Popular Science, March 1994; Reno Gazette-
 Journal, July 24, 1994; and Dayton Daily News, March 20, 1994.

 ----- HAZARDOUS WASTE PRE-TRIAL HEARING -----

 On Nov. 10, we attended a brief pre-trial heading on the lawsuit
 filed by a widow and several "John Doe" plaintiffs charging
 injuries at Groom Lake stemming from illegal hazardous waste
 disposal.  When we walked into the courtroom, there were children
everywhere.  Twelve kids in the jury box, a girl in the judge's
 chair, a boy on the witness stand and a sniffling wimp at the
 defense table represented, evidently, by two young gentlemen
 making rude sounds into their microphone.  Across the aisle was a
 gangly, blond-haired DA who clearly hadn't had an opportunity to
 go to Stanford yet.

 It was a field day to Las Vegas Federal Court by a local grade
 school.  We guessed that the youths were about 12 years of age.
 Earlier in the day, they had witnessed the sentencing of a real
 drug dealer, a pregnant woman condemned to a couple of years in a
non-fictional slammer.  From their places in the courtroom, the
 students fired questions at the real judge, who towered above the
 melee in his judicial robes.  Would the woman have the baby before
 going to jail?  Would she be able to keep the baby?  Why was she crying?

 Someone in the jury box asked U.S. District Judge Philip Pro what
 his salary was.  He said he made $135,000 a year.

 Then the children filed out and grownups filed in.  Three
 gentlemen in dark business suits represented the government: Two
 from the Justice Dept. and one from the EPA.  The lead lawyer was
 Richard Sarver, who we understand is a former Air Force officer.
 Lawyer Jonathan Turley, representing the workers, sat alone at the
 other table.  In the pews were the widow and her family and a
 handful of reporters scribbling notes on steno pads.

 The hearing was conducted in legalese, much of which was beyond
 the grasp of our own tiny brain.  We did pick out a few tidbits,
 though.  The judge asked if there were any ongoing negotiations to
 reach a settlement, and Sarver said they were "almost DOA"--dead
 on arrival.  The judge also asked Sarver repeatedly whether the
 government would "stipulate that the base exists."  The government
 lawyer declined the opportunity--meaning that the government still
 does not acknowledge any base at Groom.  However, Sarver did
 repeat the official line that there are indeed "facilities at
 Groom Dry Lake."  It's a subtle distinction lost to meager minds.

 We noted that six months would be allowed for the discovery
 process, during which each side of the case will be seeking
 information from the other.  The content of the rest of the
 hearing was over our head.  At one point, some angry-sounding
 words were exchanged between Turley and Sarver, but the subtext
 was not apparent to us.  The hearing ended after 45 minutes, and
 the lawyers dispersed.

 Whatever happened, Turley walked out of the courtroom looking like
 the cat that ate the bird.  Apparently, the government had
 overplayed its hand.  It had attempted to suppress the entire case
 on national security grounds, and that gambit had failed.  All we
 know for sure is that Turley was bubbling.  He was heard to use
 "sex" and "law" in the same sentence, with law being rated as superior.

 ----- ENEMY UPDATE -----

 -- In DR#16, we reported that our intimate enemy list included
 Lazar's gatekeeper GENE HUFF.  We are now as surprised as anyone
 to report a change in status:  Huff and Psycho have kissed and
 made up, and all those harsh words of the past have been forgotten.

 Huff has even sold us a shipment of the handsome Lazar saucer
 posters, which are now available from us for $15 (plus $3.50
 postage in the US).  This 22" x 34" poster features three
 schematic views of the "Sport Model" flying saucer that Lazar says
 he worked on at "Area S4."  In the  background is a Russian
 satellite image of the Papoose Lake area.  It happens that in the
 mountains north of the lake bed a tiny saucer shape appears, but
 we suspect that it is a photo artifact.  (Huff says that the
 "saucer" did not appear on other frames taken at the same time by
 other cameras on the satellite.)  The poster was produced by Lazar
 and Huff to coincide with the release of the Testor's S4 saucer model.

 -- Replacing Mr. Huff on our mortal enemies list is German UFO
 filmmaker MICHAEL HESEMANN.  (Big round of applause, ladies and
 gentlemen.)  We met him on only one occasion, when he came to
 Rachel to videotape part of a UFO documentary.  He struck us as
 narcissistic and highly unprofessional.  He was abusive of his
 crew (or so we gathered from his tone of voice, as we do not speak
 German), and he insisted in appearing in every shot of his
 interview with us.  When a German journalist later asked us what
 we thought of Hesemann, we summed up succinctly:  "He's an
 asshole."  That translates into German as "Arschloch," a sentiment
apparently shared by many in the German UFO field.  Eventually,
 our analysis made it back to Hesemann himself, who called us from
 Dusseldorf to leave a long and unhappy message on our answering
 machine.  Listening to it, we were reminded of Col. Klink
 threatening Col. Hogan.  Hesemann said he was going to cut us out
 of his documentary, but he was kind enough to give us one last
 chance to regain favor:  If we wrote him a letter of unconditional
 apology, which he would publish all over Europe, then he would not
 sue us.  We were trembling, of course, especially in light of
 Hesemann's written comments to the journalist, the ominous tone of
 which is best experienced without translation....

   "Wie Herr Campbell, den ich in der Tat WIE JEDEN interviewte,
 der in der Area 51 forschte, mein Video beurteilen kann, das
 derzeit uberhaupt erst im Schnitt ist ist vielleicht das grosste
 Ratsel der Wuste von Nevada.  Ist er ein Medium?  Oder hat er
 selbst so einen Scheiss gesagt, dass der Film schon wegen seines
 Interviews (von den anderen Interviews weiss er ja nichts)
 schlecht sein MUSS?  Was, bitteschon, soll er uber mich gasagt
 haben?  Nun, Campbell hat ein Manko.  Als er in Rachel eintraf,
 sind die 9 Scheiben--zumindest laut John Lear--langst nach White
 Sands verfrachtet worder.  Darum hat er nie selbst was gesehen.
 Ich war das achte Mal in Rachel, als ich ihn interviewte.  Ich
 hatter bereits, zusammen mit einem ABC-TV-Team, eine sehr
 beeindruckende Sichtung.  Er nicht.  Pech.  So what?  Neid???"

 -- Conspiracy nutcase GARY SCHULTZ is still our treasured enemy.
 He showed up in Rachel during the Larry King show and afterwards
 had the gall to visit our Research Center and try to strike up a
conversation.  Since this is the twerp who once phoned our
 neighbor to spread vague rumors of child molestation against us
 (false, we must emphasize), we regard our differences as
 irreconcilable.  No kissing and making up here.  We ordered the
 little dip from the premises and told him never to come back.

 -- The enemy status of SEAN DAVID MORTON remains unchanged.  At a
 Nov. 5-6 UFO conference in the Bay Area, Sean described his
 relationship to us as being like Michael Jackson to Weird Al
 Yankovich.  (This is fine by us, as we have already proclaimed
 that we are not a child molester.)  In our continuing campaign to
 "data him to death," we are thinking of setting up a World Wide
 Web page devoted entirely to the bigger-than-life exploits of this
 modern Munchhausen.  Another neat idea would be to establish an
 internet newsgroup, alt.fan.sean.morton, where Sean's growing
 legion of "fans" can exchange information and insights about their
 hero.  We don't currently have newsgroup host capabilities,
 however.  Is there a sysop out there interested in sponsoring this?

 ----- INTEL BITTIES -----

 BILBRAY DEFEATED.  One bright spot in the Nov. 8 election was the
 surprising defeat of Democratic Representative James Bilbray,
 Congress's most vocal defender of the secret base and Air Force
 interests in Nevada.  In interviews, Bilbray came closer than any
 other government official to admitting that the base was there,
 but he seemed 100 percent in support of its continued official
 nonexistence.  In an interview on the Fox "Encounters" segment on
 Area 51 [7/22, DR#10,15], Bilbray said that he had been all over
 the Nellis complex but had seen no evidence of alien craft.
 (Critics counter that Bilbray would have only gone where the
 military wanted him to and didn't have the clearance necessary to
 see anything really secret.)

 THE CAMPING SEASON IS NOW OVER in the Rachel area, as nighttime
 temperatures drop through the 20s enroute to a winter low
 approaching minus 10 F around the first of the year.  Daytime
 weather can still be pleasant (or horrible), but you'll need a
 warm jacket.  Light snow is common here in December and January,
 and snow on the ground brings impenetrable fog to the valleys.
 The normally clear desert skies are often heavily overcast in the
 winter.  Spring is the windstorm season, where fierce gales from
 the southwest often prohibit outdoor activities.

 Identical weather is found at the Groom base, which was once
 cynically referred to by Lockheed workers as "Paradise Ranch."
 According to Skunk Works chairman Kelly Johnson, the name was
 "kind of a dirty trick since Paradise Ranch was a dry lake where
quarter-inch rocks blew around every afternoon."  [Source:
 "Lockheed U-2," by Bill Yenne via C.H.]

 GROOM LAKE VOR.  The frequency for the Groom Lake VOR (navigation
 beacon) is 117.5 MHz.

 WWW UFO PAGE.  A new World Wide Web page on UFOs, pointing to back
 issues of the Desert Rat as well as a variety of UFO files, is
 available at "http://www.bgsu.edu/~jzawodn/ufo/".

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