UFO's Filmed over Nellis Test Range (The S30 UFO)
 

s30_002.gifNellis 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.

s30_003.gifAs 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.jpgTolicha 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?

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UFO seen over Brazil in 1991 is similar to the Nellis craft

UFO videotaped over Brazil in 1991.

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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







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