From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin) Subject: _Wired_ Magazine Article Date: 4 Mar 94 22:22:01 GMT Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/428.0 - From scicom!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!skunk-works-owner From: joeh@towel.wpd.sgi.com (Joe Heinrich) To: skunk-works@gaia.ucs.orst.edu Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 10:59:58 -0800 Cc: joeh@towel.wpd.sgi.com : _Wired_ magazine recently had an article on Steve Douglass, Glenn Campbell, and Groom Lake. It's been disseminated on the Web (WWW) with minimal redistribution restrictions, but it's also 24K ASCII, so I hesitate to broadcast it too, unannounced. Perhaps whomever is keeping this list could send me their address, and I'll forward it to them, leaving it to their discretion...? Here's a sampling from the article: ---------cut here--- WIRED 2.02 Stealth Watchers **************** Armed with Radio Shack scanners and PCs, Steve Douglass and a small group of private citizens are unmasking the US Defense Department's black-budget aircraft. Phil Patton reports from Dreamland. First Steve Douglass heard and saw familiar shapes - F-117s he had seen many times since they emerged from the black-budget world; Stealth fighters he had tracked and monitored when they were still secret. Then came one that was slower, with a different sound, a different shape. Douglass's radio scanner crackled, the numbers churned on its readout. He was at White Sands Missile Range, and the sky was filled with B-1Bs and F-15s. He raised his video camera - and the battery warning light flashed. He grabbed seven seconds of video before the machine snapped off. Douglass had gone that May weekend with his father-in-law, Elwood Johnston, packing his Radio Shack Pro-2006 and other scanners, to cover an exercise near Holleman Air Force Base in New Mexico. He received a tip that something interesting would happen. Now, in the living room of his ranch-style home in Amarillo, Texas, the country's top military monitor shows his tape. Beavis and Butt-head disappear from the screen, and from a powdery mix of colors emerges a dot, a dot growing larger, a dot becoming a winged bat, a ray-shaped airplane swooping overhead - then the image dissolves to gray grit. He flicks the machine off. "Seven seconds," he says. "You live for those moments. You listen all those hours for that kind of gold nugget." The "bat" is a still-secret TR3A Black Manta, captured on video for the first time by Douglass - the dean of a new culture of digital scanner buffs who monitor military channels to find secret planes. The image is published here (see page 83) for the first time (the 5,000 or so subscribers to Douglass's Intercepts newsletter got a sneak preview last fall). The Black Manta operates in tandem with the F-117A Stealth fighter, and although evidence suggests it was used in the Gulf War, the Air Force has yet to admit its existence. With the help of a frame grabber, Douglass printed an enhanced view of the bat plane after he returned from White Sands. Then, consulting with his wide network of experts in the industry, the aviation press, and the military, Douglass tweaked the details to create a speculative image of the airplane the government says does not exist. ... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=WIRED Online Copyright Notice=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Copyright 1993,4 Ventures USA Ltd. All rights reserved. This article may be redistributed provided that the article and this notice remain intact. This article may not under any circumstances be resold or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission from Wired Ventures, Ltd. If you have any questions about these terms, or would like information about licensing materials from WIRED Online, please contact us via telephone (+1 (415) 904 0660) or email (info@wired.com). WIRED and WIRED Online are trademarks of Wired Ventures, Ltd. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- Joe Heinrich Flatland: joeh@wpd.sgi.com Rotary dial: 415.390.3437 Bureau of Land Management ID#:B8L uucp:!meIIplease SnailMail:MS/535, 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mt. View, CA 94043 -- Michael Corbin - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG ====================================================================== Inquiries regarding ParaNet, or mail directed to Michael Corbin, should be sent to: mcorbin@paranet.org. Or you can phone voice at 303-429-2654/ Michael Corbin Director ParaNet Information Services