AREA 51 Aircraft Encounters While Exploring Remote Entrances

Hey everybody, welcome back to the

channel. So today I'm going to be

heading up to the Area 51 perimeter to

do some exploring and of course some

night sky watching to see if we can

catch any interesting aircraft. I also

have not spent the night yet at the land

that I just bought in Rachel, so I'm

going to spend the first night up there.

First things first, I'm going to stop in

Alamo to fill up my water tank and then

probably make a stop by Groom Lake Road

and the black mailbox as well.

Traveling down the ET Highway, I decided

to stop off at the black mailbox or at

least the spray painted cooler that

represents the current iteration of the

black mailbox.

I'm surprised this one hasn't gotten

stolen yet. Seems to be a common theme

with this thing.

I left a few stickers, stuck one on top,

and then continued on my merry way

for an uneventful and peaceful drive to

my land in Rachel.

Or at least that's what I wish I could

say happened. In reality, I got this.

Oh,

Diesel everywhere.

Damn it.

All right. Well, this is not exactly

ideal.

So, I was driving away from the black

mailbox. I got uh maybe a mile or two

down uh the ET Highway and uh I just

started smelling diesel like insanely

strong. And uh I looked down and there's

just like this river of diesel flowing

out of the engine compartment into the

cab and I'm like, "Oh, shit." So, then I

pulled over and then I see diesel all

over the bottom of the bus. And then I

open up the uh compartment and I have a

ruptured uh fuel line. So,

yeah, that's always fun to deal with

when you're out in the middle of the

desert like 2 and 1/2 hours from Vegas.

So, I got to explore some options here

and uh it looks like I might be staying

uh

at this little turnout here instead of

my land. So,

let's see what happens.

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All right, we got an A-10 and an F-16

coming in. Likely from Nellis given that

the weapons school integration event is

still going on and we got all kinds of

fighters coming through.

I was actually out there last night

filming some of the night launches so

I'll roll that clip at the end of this

video today.

Oh man, that was a nuts flyover. Hell

yeah.

That was so low I could see the pilots

in the cockpit.

Well, here's the new Honda Trail 125 to

replace my old one that got stolen.

I put a collapsible crate on the back

here.

As you can see, it's a little more of a

stealthy color, which probably will work

to my advantage. Threw some off-road

tires on here, too, before I came out.

I'll be heading off into the hills here

today near Bald Mountain to check out

some of the remote border sections.

First destination is going to be this

very old, overgrown access road to a

former comm site. I visited this road in

an old video, but I'm going to take a

second look at it today for two reasons.

Number one being I like to see if

there's any updates since my last video.

As oftentimes whenever I do a video on a

remote entrance, they'll end up putting

fresh signs or security measures in

place. As was the case with the road to

Stonewall Mountain, for example.

Last time I was up there, there was only

the orange posts and no signage or

anything, and the orange posts were all

knocked over and in a pile.

I also want to spend some time hiking

the perimeter up there and see if I can

get to a place where I can see the

former comm site and see if there's any

infrastructure still there. Cuz it kind

of looks like there might be, at least

judging from Google Earth.

Directly ahead of me are the orange

posts that designate the Area 51

perimeter, marking the legal end of the

line for this trail.

Still no warning signs here, just the

orange posts, most of which seem to have

washed down the mountain

due to years of

storms and neglect.

I don't know if this tree was across the

road last time I was up here.

I'm going to make my way up this hill on

kind of a sketchy hike. You can see one

of the orange posts here, so I'm going

to try and stay on the legal side of

this perimeter,

which is a bit tricky in the brush.

There's one of the silver balls on a

pole that uh also marks the perimeter.

These ones are used for um

visibility from helicopters, I believe.

There's no kind of advanced uh sensors

or anything, and I'm just a ball on a

pole.

Take a closer look at it here.

I've seen these by some of the other

Bald Mountain gates. I didn't know there

was one up here.

All right, continuing onward, I've uh

realized that I've lost sight of any

orange posts now for a while, which

makes me a little nervous.

I suspect they were down in this wash,

and uh like the other pole posts we saw

down there, they probably all washed

down the mountain.

So, I'm going to be relying strictly on

my offline GPS, which is always a little

bit sketchy.

>> Finally, after ascending that crest, we

can see into the restricted zone.

Just through the trees there, I can make

out something silver and reflective

where the old comms site used to be.

Looks like all we have here is the stub

of a tower, and there doesn't seem to be

any current communication or

surveillance infrastructure on this

mountain.

And there is just barely a direct line

of sight to Bald Mountain over there,

right over that ridge.

So, I won't be doing anything unwise

like crossing the perimeter.

I'll be heading to some more remote

gates, but first I'm going to swing by

my campsite to grab a jacket and some

gloves. It's getting pretty cold and

windy out here.

I'm going to go ahead and check out some

of the Bald Mountain gates that are out

here and the surveillance infrastructure

that they have. I know there's some FLIR

cameras set up on some of those remote

roads.

Oh, check it out. We got two Blackhawks

coming in super low.

Coming right through the valley, just

like skimming the ground.

Those aren't the perimeter security

helicopters cuz I can see refueling

probes.

There's Bald Mountain for reference.

They're heading right up into that

canyon that I just came from.

All right, so there's a total of six

entry points around Bald Mountain called

Bald Mountain gates 1 through 6.

I'll likely only hit a couple of them in

today's video cuz they all kind of look

the same and they tend to get a little

bit repetitive. Of course, if we see

something really unusual or interesting,

I'll be sure and document it here.

I mainly want to see if there's anything

new out there, any new surveillance

infrastructure, see if we get any

interesting camo dude activity.

A lot of these trails back here are

pretty rough.

If you're taking a car, I would

definitely recommend good tires, decent

clearance.

Probably don't need 4x4, but it always

helps.

One thing to keep in mind out here, too,

is that it's very easy to accidentally

cross the border because of where the uh

perimeter markers

intersect. Often times, they'll

intersect diagonally, and the signs can

actually sometimes be well inside the

border. So, if you get to the signs, you

may already be trespassing.

And we don't want to give the camo dudes

any excuse to detain us, that is for

sure.

Yeah.

Checking the map here just to make sure

cuz I see some of the orange posts

approaching the road, and it looks like

there was one close to the road that may

have fallen over.

No sign of any camo dude activity yet.

There's one orange post down in the

ravine.

And I see a FLIR camera

close to one of the other roads way off

in the distance.

I can hear some more jets starting up

again as I'm heading back down this

trail.

And there's the first camo dude sighting

of the day off on that hill over there.

There's like a little stub there that I

think was going to be uh another FLIR

site, but they never built it.

Coming up on this crossing, we can see

that the perimeter does intersect

diagonally through the road. This one we

can see the orange post

and one of the silver balls in the

ravine that marks the perimeter. And

again, that's so it's visible from the

air.

So, yeah, that sign you can see is

inside the perimeter.

There it is. I've been looking for the

B-52. I know there's been a couple of

them flying out of Nellis for the

weapons school integration.

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>> Back at Janet, I was able to get a

mechanic out to fix the broken fuel

injector tube. Shout out to Las Vegas

Mobile Semi Repair.

Once I was in a drivable state and could

proceed down the highway without

spilling diesel everywhere, I headed on

down to the west end of Rachel.

Ooh, okay, got that nightmare dealt with

and uh made it back to my land west of

Rachel. So, I'm going to spend the night

up here for uh the next couple of nights

and uh hopefully the the weather stays

okay. It's getting super cold and windy.

It's crazy what a temperature difference

it is up here compared to Vegas with the

elevation. Getting a lot of wind

[clears throat] and clouds coming in.

So, I don't know how good the night sky

viewing will be tonight, but we'll see.

Uh for now, there's uh some aircraft

activity coming in and out of the hills

directly to my north. Looks like some

heavy aircraft, like some C-17s and

maybe some C-130s.

So, I'm going to pull out the telephoto

lens and see if I can get a closer look

at what might be going on up here.

Definitely some C-130 action going on

over there. Looks like they're heading

into Railroad Valley.

I don't know if they're heading to

Tonopah or they might be landing at that

dirt airstrip that's over in Railroad

Valley.

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>> In addition to the C-130s, C-17s also

make an appearance.

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>> I presume this one is heading back

towards Nellis.

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>> As the sun is almost all the way set, I

can actually see Stewart Well Road from

my property.

And the headlights of a white Ford

operated by a camo dude heading down the

road.

As nightfall covered Sand Spring Valley,

I went inside to make dinner and get out

of the cold for a while.

A while later, I heard what sounded like

either a prop plane or a drone directly

overhead. I was barely able to make it

out at the time given the limited light,

but I couldn't tell if I was looking at

a Reaper or what.

Looking closer, it was definitely a prop

plane, but I knew it wasn't a civilian

plane as it had just come out of the

restricted airspace near Tonopah, and it

was hugging the border of Area 51.

After researching it, it seems this is

likely a U-28A Draco, which is a

military version of a PC-12

single-engine aircraft. It's operated by

the Air Force Special Operations Command

for use in special operations, tactical

intelligence, surveillance and

reconnaissance, and other roles.

>> So, as I mentioned briefly earlier in

the video, I got some night vision

footage of some of the Nellis takeoffs a

few nights ago. So, I'm going to go

ahead and roll that footage to uh wrap

up today's video.

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>> Mhm.