Nevada

With the summer coming soon, Matt found himself in the southern regions of Nevada looking for a place for Dominique’s team to set up, not that Dominique was free yet or who his team would be.

Part of the thinking was near Area 51; Skunk Works and several other disinformation units could work to their advantage. If something weird hit the radar, got noticed or was photographed, the mass denial machine was already in operation to confuse the public. Those agencies competed with each other and did not share information was helpful as well. Therefore, setting up in Nevada might be a place where they could make prototypes, do flights and act with a degree of immunity, and stay hidden at the same time.

Matt’s job was to find a secluded location they could set up as a base.

Area 51 was about 100 km northwest of Las Vegas. Going further north, Matt drove through Duckwater Hot Springs; then, things existed without names. The next name was Eureka. Between Leader Mountain and Mt Hamilton were several abandoned mines. One, in particular, stood out. It was isolated and somewhat hard to get to, with several buildings and a lot of sand.

Getting the parcel ID from the White Pine County database, Matt had the name and address of the current owners of the public-use land.

Matt drove out to the site and had a look around. There had been some significant mining going on here at one time. Had it dried up, or was there still something viable here? What if they brought the Melons in and did some scanning? Wouldn’t that be something if they found gold? That was doubtful as the site was an open-pit, heap-leach operation; it was all about microscopic amounts of gold, not nuggets.

The bigger town of Ely, Nevada, was where Matt went next.