FOUND THIS ON SEARCH AND WALKER LAKE REFERENCE

by baconbits, Monday, September 10, 2007, 06:59 @ observatory2

For a moment, the change in strategy appeared to pay off as leaders of the operation quickly assembled reporters for a briefing at Minden-Tahoe Airport to announce a helicopter and ground crew were en route to a possible sighting.
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But a half-hour later, the ground crew arrived at the scene 30 to 40 miles east of the south end of Walker Lake and confirmed the wreckage was "not the target aircraft."

"Once again you had your hopes raised and dashed just as we have," Ryan told reporters.

The debris was from an old U.S. Navy crash, said Kim Toulouse, a spokesman for the Nevada Department of Wildlife. He had no other details.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/ap_on_re_us/steve_fossett;_ylt=Arqp8dw_H_9m31aaiS6Kx4tvzwcF

: Greetings, STA..

: Y'all can take it or leave it, but I'm pretty sure I saw
: "thePlane,the Plane" that is all the rage lately.

: Some of you may recall that I'm (lately)deep in the Sierra 30
: mi West/ 40 mile South of Tahoe, right along the NV
: Stateline

: Took me a few days to put it together,dates and all, but on
: Thursday mid-day (I'd say right around/after lunch)a mega
: roar of engines prompted me to run outside and look up,
: just in time to see a GIANT , fatbelly grey USAF (printed
: under the starboard wing)Bomber of some sort running RIGHT
: ON THE RIDGELINE..cudda hit it with a slingshot. To be
: completely fair,
: I'm not sure if it was a B52 or some modified Starlifter, but
: it was BIG..and LOUUUDDDD..and going so fast I barely had
: time to catch the lettering (SUNLIGHT WAS A
: FACTOR,too)..rattled the whole valley...very unusual to say
: the least..
: We see the occasional c-130 or Wop-Wop Copters maneuvering low
: now and then, usually over the National Forest or a couple
: ridges over where you can't really seee them...just hear
: them..
: usually Marines markings or army green...

: So...I been watching all the chatter, looking at the timelines
: and such here and at RMN..and I got to thinking about it
: all..
: I proffer a clue as to where that "missing" payload
: might be...

: WALKER LAKE, south of Hawthorne Nevada is also a hush-hush
: Navy NWR center, said NWR buildings tucked away wayyyy
: behind the "de-commisioned" Hawthorne ammo Depot
: ( many trains rolling outta there loaded with cars marked
: "reservemunitions", with armed sentry onboard the
: cars, and that was two/three years ago-I think I made a
: post about those trains longtime back..).

: WALKER LAKE is also where they test Intelligent Submersibles
: and AI Sea-Drones, so as they can't escape in the ocean...

: Anyhow...Plane I saw Thurs. + Trajectory + Altitude = Easy
: drop into WALKER LAKE....take it or leave it...it sure
: makes sense to Me....