[CPEO-MEF] Dugway Proving Ground expansion

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Is Dugway's expansion an alien concept?

By Joe Bauman
Deseret Morning News (UT)
November 4, 2004

Alien hunters and nerve agent contamination may be prompting Dugway
Proving Ground to seek to expand its size.

Officials at the Army base are closed-mouthed about why they want to
acquire a huge swath of adjacent land, mostly under control of the
Bureau of Land Management. They have not even spelled out how much they want.

But they confirmed that the gigantic military reservation filed
documents seeking approval for expansion studies.

The amount of land under discussion ranges from 55 square miles to 145
square miles ? and if the nearby Dugway Mountains are included, that
increases by 25 square miles.

One motive for acquiring land may be to keep Dugway's expected
anti-terrorism training secret at a time when the base is coming under
telephoto scrutiny by alien hunters.

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For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595102911,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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