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Dugway Proving Ground is located about 85 mi (137 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in southern Tooele County and just north of Juab County. It encompasses 801,505 acres (1,252.352 sq mi; 3,243.58 km 2) of the Great Salt Lake Desert, an area the size of the state of Rhode Island, and is
Skinwalker Ranch, previously known as Sherman Ranch, is a property of approximately 512 acres (207 ha), [ a] located southeast of Ballard, Utah, that is reputed to be the site of paranormal and UFO -related activities. [ 1] Its name is taken from the skin-walker of Navajo legend concerning vengeful shamans .
The CIA asked the AEC to acquire the land, designated "Area 51" on the map, and to add it to the Nevada Test Site. [9]: 56–57 Johnson named the area "Paradise Ranch" to encourage workers to move to "the new facility in the middle of nowhere", as the CIA later described it, and the name became shortened to "the Ranch".
The Tonopah Test Range (TTR, also designated as Area 52) is a highly classified, restricted military installation of the United States Department of Defense, and United States Department of Energy ( nuclear stockpile stewardship) located about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Tonopah, Nevada. It is part of the northern fringe of the Nellis Range ...
One of the more colorful rumors insists the infamous 1947 Roswell crash was actually a Soviet aircraft piloted by mutated midgets and the wreckage remains on the grounds of Area 51. Some even ...
Robbers Roost, Utah. Hideout. Coordinates: 38°19′14″N 110°32′08″W. / 38.32056°N 110.53556°W / 38.32056; -110.53556. Upper Robbers Roost Canyon, aerial photo. The Robbers Roost was an outlaw hideout in southeastern Utah used mostly by Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch gang in the closing years of the Old West. [1]
The Fielding Garr Ranch is a ranch located on the southeastern portion of Antelope Island State Park in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, United States and is part of the Utah State Parks system. A 6.2 acres (2.5 ha) portion of the original ranch is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The Fielding Garr Ranch is located at Garr Springs ...
1st. Website. www .co .uintah .ut .us. Uintah County ( / juːˈɪntə / yoo-IN-tə) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States Census the population was 35,620. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Vernal. [2] The county was named for the portion of the Ute Indian tribe that lived in the basin.