Papoose Lake

Dry lake bed in Nevada, U.S.

Papoose Lake is a dry lake bed in Lincoln County, Nevada, approximately 15 miles south of Groom Lake (Area 51) on the Nevada Test and Training Range, adjacent to the Papoose Range. The lakebed sits within the most restricted airspace and land area associated with the Groom Lake complex, at the base of Papoose Mountain, whose southern slope is identified by Bob Lazar and Dan Burisch as the location of the classified S-4 facility.

Terrain and access

The lakebed is a flat, dry playa surrounded by mountain ranges that provide natural topographic concealment from all directions. Satellite imagery of the area shows terrain features on Papoose Mountain's southern edge consistent with construction, though Tom Mahood and other researchers who have examined the site from accessible vantage points have reported no visible surface structures matching hangar bay descriptions.

According to Bob Lazar, personnel traveling to the S-4 facility at Papoose Lake were transported by bus from Groom Lake, a ride of approximately 15–20 minutes on a road transitioning from paved to dirt, with blacked-out windows preventing passengers from observing the route. Only a small number of personnel rode the bus on any given trip — Lazar described typically riding with a colleague named Dennis and occasionally one other person. After Lazar's story became public in 1989, the United States government executed a land withdrawal that pushed civilian observers further from the area — the mountaintop vantage point from which the lakebed had been observable was enclosed within the expanded restricted zone.

Independent accounts

Investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe has described Papoose Mountain as a "multi-level installation hidden by the mountain," citing multiple independent sources who reportedly worked there — including a CIA officer whose superior from Langley allegedly visited the installation and was present during an encounter with a non-human being visible through a one-way mirror. Howe's sources describe the interior as containing what one witness characterized as "a museum" of recovered non-human craft.

Historian Richard Dolan, in a 2021 interview, assessed Lazar's description of the Papoose Lake facility as credible, noting that questions about Lazar's educational background do not necessarily indicate fabrication of the facility claim itself. Dolan observed that physicist Eric Davis had publicly denied Lazar's testimony, while other figures in the same connected research community held the opposite view.

See also

• Element 115

References

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