From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@brunnet.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:00:16 -0400
Fwd Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 19:18:04 -0500
Subject: Re: Secret USAF 'SETI' Projects?


>From: Bob Huff <bobhuff@tidalwave.net>
>To: <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: Secret USAF 'SETI' Projects?
>Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:34:04 -0500

>A friend of mine who sold computers and other sophisticated
>equipment to his clients in the Southwest Range - Los Alamos,
>Sandia, Tonopah, Area 51...- has expressed that the selection of
>the location of Socorro NM for the large antenna arrays had a
>connection with the Roswell event. He implies they were/are used
>for:

>- two way communications
>- and not with objects of terrestrial origin
>- part of larger tracking/triangulation network

>Best, Bob

If one checks a topographic map one finds that the VLA is a good
ways West of Socorro in a relatively unique area The Plains of
San Augustine or San Agustin. It is flatter than a pacncake at
an altitude over 6500 feet, is surrounded by mountains up to
10,000 feet and was a lake bed until about 5000 years ago.

It is a very sparsely inhabited area.

The land was cheap, flat, and, of great importance, out of reach
of most radio noise background. Even though I am convinced that
indeed an alien sapcecraft crashed in the area in July 1947, the
people I talked to felt it was cheap land in an ideal location
for listening. There is a Y shaped track with each leg about 12
miles long.. Catron County was the least populated of all NM
counties.

The Farr Ranch is 120,000 acres.The Plains is about 60miles by
20 miles with the Continental Divide alongs its Western Edge and
Magdalena at its NE corner. We saw herds of antelope while
flying over it in a helicopter.

Stan Friedman