{"id":7272,"date":"2016-03-14T10:59:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7272"},"modified":"2016-03-22T11:02:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T18:02:11","slug":"area-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/14\/area-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Area 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/news\/nevada\/you-know-area-51-just-what-the-world-area-6\" target=\"_blank\">from The Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>You know Area 51, but just what in the world is Area 6?<\/h1>\n<p>By KEITH ROGERS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large\/public\/field\/media\/web1_Area-6-runway_2.jpg?itok=1dqMM5IU\" alt=\"web1_Area-6-runway.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>The Area 6 runway stretches for about 5,000 feet in a remote location of the Nevada National Security Site in this Google Maps image.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The asphalt runway stretches for a mile on Yucca Flat, deep in the Nevada National Security Site about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Built in 2005, the runway covers a dirt landing strip from the 1950s, when the wide, flat valley was used for atomic bomb test shots. A small complex of buildings dominated by a large hangar with unusual clamshell doors dominates the southern end of the asphalt strip.<\/p>\n<p>The complex has no official name. Not many people even know it\u2019s there.<\/p>\n<p>As secret airbases go, the single runway in the test site\u2019s Area 6 is easily overshadowed by the world\u2019s most famous secret military base, Area 51, a dozen miles northeast. Area 51\u2019s existence was only recently acknowledged, even after decades of speculation by UFO enthusiasts that the aircraft development and test facility also houses space aliens and extraterrestrial technology.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Area 51, which is protected by shoot-to-kill security and shielded from outside view by mountain ranges, Area 6 has only fences and visitor checkpoints. It can be seen at a distance from tour buses on the highway to historic bomb craters at the northern end of Yucca Flat.<\/p>\n<p>But exactly what goes on at the much smaller and much newer Area 6 is still top-secret defense research-and-development work. It\u2019s so hush-hush that the security site\u2019s spokesman can say little about it.<\/p>\n<p>Darwin Morgan, a spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration, said the low-key Area 6 facilities have been used by the Defense and Homeland Security departments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey come here to test their own sensors,\u201d he recently said after spending months fending off questions about the Area 6 runway from the Review-Journal.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/news\/nevada\/you-know-area-51-just-what-the-world-area-6\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue at LVRJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Las Vegas Review-Journal You know Area 51, but just what in the world is Area 6? By KEITH ROGERS The Area 6 runway stretches for about 5,000 feet in a remote location of the Nevada National Security Site in this Google Maps image. The asphalt runway stretches for a mile on Yucca Flat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}