From 1965 to 1967 he was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
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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.
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And Nellis is in charge of the gunnery ranges at Indian Springs, and I was a duty weather observer at Indian Springs.
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It's part of a vast test range anchored by Nellis, swallowing up thousands of square miles of desert.
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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.
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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,
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I go back, and the sergeant comes out and says, You're going to Nellis.
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And I said, No, you're going to Nellis.
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How soon after you're stationed at Nellis do you encounter this abandoned weather station and meet your first tall white?
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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.
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He was the airman that had been on leave for several weeks because he claimed the Nellis weather station was haunted.
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only to discover that the Nellis Base commander said, no, the air police cannot come beyond the road junction a mile away.
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