- Dugway Proving Ground is located 80 miles southwest of
Salt Lake City and covers an area of approximately 800,000 acres in the
Great Salt Lake Desert. It is by far the most secretive facility in Utah
as well as the most controversial. Many residents feel threatened and unsure
of its close location to Salt Lake City, especially because of the type
of testing that takes place there.
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- The primary mission of Dugway Proving Ground is to plan,
conduct, analyze, and report the results of technical tests and studies;
especially in the areas of chemical defense, biological defense, incendiary,
smoke and obscurant systems, and environmental technology testing. Dugway
also provides test expertise, services and support for all authorized customers,
including United States and foreign governments, as well as non-governmental
organizations. In addition, Dugway is a major range and test facility for
chemical and biological defense testing and a reliance center for the U.S.
Department of Defense.
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- With the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States
and its military forces suddenly realized a need for increased military
capability in many areas, which included expanded knowledge in chemical
and biological warfare.
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- Dugway Proving Ground was authorized to fill the need
for testing weapons and defenses against chemical and biological agents.
Over the years, the proving ground has undergone various name changes and
periods of deactivation and reactivation.
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- Dugway is now part of the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation
Command (TECOM), headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. TECOM
is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Material Command, headquartered
at Alexandria, Virginia. At present, Dugway Proving Ground encompasses
798,855 acres. In addition to chemical and biological defensive testing
and environment characterization and remediation technology testing, Dugway
is the Defense Department's leader in testing battlefield smokes and obscurants.
The installion currently consists of more than 600 buildings with a total
value of more than $240 million.
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- UFOs at Dugway?
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- Lately there has been an increase in activity at the
Utah facility, both on the ground and in the airspace above Dugway. Reported
last year, was the construction of a new 15,000 feet runway which is now
known to be for the testing of NASA's next generation space shuttles, including
the X-33. Also, unusual aerial objects emitting mysterious vapor contrails
lends support to Dugway being a secret test facility for new aircraft.
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- Security at the installation has also been increased
quite dramatically. Warning signs have been established along the perimeter
of the base and if someone happens to wander to close to the restricted
zones, expect to see unmarked "black" helicopters challenge your
presence in the area.
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- It has also been revealed that an unusual facility within
Dugway may house experimental craft, possibly of alien origin. During the
1950s and 1970s, the facility was constantly under armed guard. During
this time period, convoy trucks had been seen entering the hangar with
their cargo covered by tarpaulins. One truck was seen which was carrying
something oval or circular in shape and being about 30 feet wide. The truck
was accompanied by five men. Could this have been a flying disc-shaped
craft? Three concentric fences were later built around the hangar.
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- Rumors persist as to what is housed in the hangar, a
more common one being that it is a storage facility for a SLR-1 portable
nuclear reactor. However, there is unusual evidence which may suggest that
the flying disc was of a very secretive nature. The five men who were seen
with the truck all happened to mysteriously die within a year of delivering
the cargo to Dugway. Two of them died in a single plane crash from Chicago
to Denver. The third died in an auto wreck when his car fell off a cliff
in Northern California, presumably because of brake failure. The fourth
committed suicide by hanging himself with a necktie, for no apparent reason.
The fifth man simply was reported missing one day after leaving home for
work.
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- Of course, the above story could simply be disinformation,
to distract people from a different project at Dugway Proving Ground. But
whatever the truth, the base is alive with strange and unusual activity.
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