U.F.O. & Nukes

 

Staying on BLM land always has my interest peaked, since nothing is exactly ever free! Looking around this amazing desert area and next to a Military base is pretty cool, getting to watch the training of new Air Borne soldiers to listening to artillery is pretty awesome and peaks my interest in history, with being a wife and descendent of military soldiers and a first generation of an American Citizen is something I hold very high with respect and honor to all of the soldiers who have served. So, back to my little exploration of the history of Yuma Proving Ground.

Official records from Google say the U.S. Air Force from the 1950s and 1960s have had many sightings. They say the objects were weather balloons or extremely high-altitude aircraft like the U2 plane also known as the Lady Dragon. 

A multitude of military observers in the early 1950s speculated that such sightings could be unarmed intercontinental missiles being test-fired from the Soviet Union, but in those days everything was blamed on the Soviet Union. 

The first flight of the U2 wasn't until mid-1955. So, I wonder what these 13 meteorologists were seeing.

The Atomic Cannons, built in the 1950s, were designed to fire nuclear shells up to 20 miles away. Google says that only 20 were built, with one of these cannons being used to launch a live nuclear round, which detonated about 500 feet in the air in May of 1953. This event was similar to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.