From 1965 to 1967 he was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
Well, I was a weather observer in the U.S. Air Force, and I was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base from March of 1965 until May of 1967.
And Nellis is in charge of the gunnery ranges at Indian Springs, and I was a duty weather observer at Indian Springs.
It's part of a vast test range anchored by Nellis, swallowing up thousands of square miles of desert.
Before there was an Area 51, before there was a Nellis Gunnery Range, before there was a Camp Mercury or anything, there was the Desert Southwest Game Range.
and I would meet them there if I felt like meeting them, or if I didn't, then they would just…and before they went out, they would have to check in with the base commander at Nellis,
I go back, and the sergeant comes out and says, You're going to Nellis.
And I said, No, you're going to Nellis.
How soon after you're stationed at Nellis do you encounter this abandoned weather station and meet your first tall white?
Well, the first time that I heard tell of the tall whites at Nellis was at my very first duty session at Nellis with another airman, which I describe in my book.
He was the airman that had been on leave for several weeks because he claimed the Nellis weather station was haunted.
only to discover that the Nellis Base commander said, no, the air police cannot come beyond the road junction a mile away.
to Nellis