UFO's Filmed over Nellis Test Range (The S30 UFO)
Nellis Air Force Base in southern Nevada is located 8 miles from Las
Vegas. Nellis is the home of the 57th and 99th Wing of the United States
Air Force, housing such components as the 11th Reconnaissance Squadron, the
414th and 547th Combat Training Squadrons, the 57th Operations Support
Squadron, and others. "Tenants" on the Nellis AFB site include, among
others, the 206th Detachment of the Air Force Office of Special
Investigations (AFOSI), and a federal prison camp.
As most of our readers already know, the Nellis Test Range complex has
been home of some of our country's most highly classified TOP SECRET and
BLACK PROJECTS. Secret projects such as the U2, SR71, the B2A bomber, and
the F117A Nighthawk Stealth fighter have all been based or tested there at
one time or another. It only makes sense that this is where we would expect
to find some our latest technological developments.
This UFO was caught on film by a government controlled state-of-the-art
radar tracking system at a remote tracking location known as Area S30 on
the Nellis Test Range in 1994. The radar-controlled cameras monitor the
7700 square miles above the range.
The purpose of the cameras are to record jet-fighter training and tactical
exercises; after all, Nellis is known as "The Home of the Fighter Pilot,"
as most of America's ace fighter pilots have done residence at Nellis.
The most logical explanation for this UFO would be that it is some sort of
secret project, but typically the contractor personnel at the tracking
stations are not exposed to these highly classified projects and the
cameras are normally deactivated when those types of projects are flying.
Tolicha Peak, Quartz Mountain or Black Mountain?
The exact location on the test-range where this "Area S30" is located has not
been determined, but a few frames of the video reveal a mountain range with
what appears to be a couple of radar domes. It was reported that it might be either Tolicha Peak, Quartz or Black Mountain.
The Tolicha Peak area is one of interest because this is where the
Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range is located.
Even though the object was photographed by a very good remote controlled
fixed mounted camera, it still has that fuzzy gassy cloud cotton-ball look
about it which seems to be common among some UFOs. One would think that the
clarity and resolution would have been much better, but that seems to be
typical of these objects.
The object is anomalous for a couple of reasons. It does not resemble any
known aircraft and has no apparent wings or means of propulsion that are
visible. The flight characteristics of the craft are totally unconventional
compared to known aircraft. When viewing the video, the object appears to
make abrupt right-hand turns and horizontal climbs. The physical shape of
the object is hard to ascertain and appears to change shape from frame to
frame; at times it appears to be 4 spheres with a darker appendage in the
middle.
As an added bonus to serious investigators, included on the videotape are
the camera tracking information indicators which include the azimuth,
elevation and range-to-target indicators. With this information, the
anomalous nature of the object's movements can be studied in greater
detail.
In the original "Sightings" TV episode, where the video was made available,
it was reported that the videotape was smuggled out by base employees and
this may be true. But we find it hard to understand how that could happen
without the personnel involved being found out. Could there be a more
clandestine motive behind the release of this video? If so, what would
be the purpose?
The exact quote escapes us at the moment, but Jacques Vallee once stated
something to the effect that if the government could make us believe that
UFOs were real that they could manipulate public opinion. Could that be the
scenario behind the release of Nellis UFO footage?
UFO seen over Brazil in 1991 is similar to the Nellis craft
UFO videotaped over Brazil in 1991.

photo courtesy John Velez
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Excerpt from UFO UpDate List
Posted to UFO World
courtesy of John Velez
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 02:08:21 -0500
To: UFO UpDates - Toronto
From: jvif@spacelab.net (John Velez)
Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Nellis Video?
NOTE: Edited for brevity
Thought you'd get a kick out of seeing this. It's a single
frame video capture of a UFO that is identical to the one
in the Nellis video. It was taken in 1991 by a Brazilian
newsteam.
The Brazil video was obtained from a local television news
broadcast. (A Brazilian researcher sent it to Budd 5 years
ago, and I blew the dust bunnies off of it and reviewed it)
I guess the Brazilian media aren't as 'paranoid as our
homegrown version. The Brazilian 'sky show'lasted over an
hour (as per the anchorman reporting,) and according
to him, the event was witnessed by (thousands.)
John Velez (Forever tryin')
Graphical Analysis of the Nellis UFO radar data
Excerpt from UFO UpDate List
Posted to UFO World
courtesy of David Rudiak
From: DRudiak@aol.com
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:08:41 -0400 (EDT)
To: updates@globalserve.net
Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Nellis Video?
NOTE: Edited for brevity
The Nellis UFO's seemingly erratic movements, however, could easily be due to
imperfect camera tracking. In the beginning of the video, the camera is
zoomed out and the object is seen to be moving slowly and smoothly over two
radar domes on a ridge. Beyond that point, there is no fixed reference point
to judge whether the object is erratically flitting about or not. Also the
camera operator begins to zoom in on the object. At the end, the camera is
zoomed in about eight times from the beginning. Any relative movement within
the camera frame due to either the camera or the object is likewise going to
be exaggerated by the zooming. The object also continues to speed up
throughout the video, and the radar data shows it making several speed
spurts. You can hear the camera tracking gears grinding on the video trying
to follow the thing. That's why I think that a lot the apparent jumping
around could be due to camera motion, and not the UFO.
Graph and analysis information
courtesy of David Rudiak
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I am enclosing a graph of the net and vertical velocities that I made from
the radar data. The object exhibits the following behavior. It cruises
around in a restricted speed range for a while. Then it makes a brief
acceleration on the order of 3 g's (nothing exceptional), approximately
doubling in speed, then drops back a bit to a new speed range. There are
four distinct speed ranges, and two very clear speed bursts where it doubles
its velocities. You'll also notice a lot of "jitter" in the velocities.
With the data at hand, I have to way of knowing how much of this is actually
short-term velocity variation by the object, radar tracking error, or the
limitations in my being able to determine end points in the radar data from
my video copies many generations removed from the original.
One more thing, I was able to determine the approximate size of the Nellis
UFO by using the radar data and the ground reference points at the beginning
of the video (ridge and radar domes). The object is about 15-16 feet across
and 9-10 feet thick.
David Rudiak