An examination of the D.U.M.B.s of northern Arizona. Proof and first account stories of clandestine military operations of Kingman and Wikieup Arizona
Deep Underground Military Bases of Arizona. .wpb_animate_when_almost_visible { opacity: 1; } Primary Menu ALL ARTICLES DE-OCCULTING OCCULT STUDIES SCIENCE & SPECULATION DEEP DESERT PHOENIX PEOPLE NUMBER STUDIES VIDEOS GUEST APPEARANCES WAR ROOM ABOUT CONTACT D.U.M.B.s Home All Articles D.U.M.B.s 9 By Cory Daniel All Articles Deep Desert January 23, 2016 There are two sorts of curiosity – the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things. Robert Wilson Lynd No fancy intro here, I’m just going to jump right into this one. I believe there to be solid evidence for undisclosed underground bases in the north and northwest regions of Arizona, otherwise known as a D.U.M.B.s or Deep Underground Military Bases. I don’t base this (pun intended) on reiterated conspiracy website material or Wikipedia searches but rather the culmination of decades of research and eyewitness accounts from locals – myself and others – and mounting circumstantial evidence. Underground bases are in fact a real thing NORAD entrance Underground military bases are an integral part of the U.S. military defense apparatus. They are not constructs of conspiracy theorists collective paranoia, however, at one point that approach was used as propaganda to explain them away and derail investigators who had discovered this, then secret. Aside from known underground bases, such as NORAD, Mt. Vernon, Raven Rock Mountain Complex, etc, there is a category of underground bases known as D.U.M.B.s. Or Deep Underground Military Bases. A quick internet search will generate hundreds of websites, most of which are simply copied lists of D.U.M.B locations from other sites by those interested in the subject and who are attempting to get the information out. But a few sites, like Richard Sauder’s Ph.D., are rather detailed and represent original work and real expertise. Mr. Sauder filed FOIA requests years ago and accessed data repositories which are no longer available to the public. Like much of the fleeting information that bounces around, dare I say “conspiracy” websites, much of it was acquired during the days following the FOIA act. The U.S. government didn’t realize the general public would be so interested in digging into government records and rushed to redact as much information as they could as fast as they could regarding all manner of topics. Still, much of the information got out and one can still find much of it bouncing around “conspiracy” websites today. Mr. Sauder got in before much of this information was sealed off and wrote the groundbreaking book on this subject titled Underground Bases and Tunnels. Tunnel Boring Machine Being Moved What’s amazing is that much of this information isn’t secret at all. For instance, Google (patent # 3,693,731). This patent was filed by multiple scientists from the Los Alamos military testing facility in 1971. As you can see, this is a very real subject involving quite real technology. I think it amazing that this technology has been around since the 1950’s yet still evaded the general public’s sphere of awareness. It provokes speculation as to what technologies have been invented and even implemented since then. Tunnel boring machine with workers. Reasons for D.U.M.B.s The reasons for D.U.M.B.s are multiple I would imagine. The most obvious being an emergency shelter systems/network in times of political or military crisis and a secure position with which to fight and survive a nuclear war. However many of the other reasons may and probably do include, command and control, weapons deployment, undersea submarine bases, scientific research, secret resource procurement (oil, gold, uranium etc), hidden power sources, nuclear/geothermal. I can also envision a need for secure supercomputer banks in this technological world of ours, espionage, and storage of sensitive documents. Bertha- The world’s largest Tunnel Boring Machine. How are these funded…? Your tax dollars of course. This answer is not very complicated yet has a nearly 0% success rate of being able to be tracked down. Money is allocated for projects which private consultants and contracting firms are hired to complete. The military apparatus itself forms these companies which are hired, profit is made during the construction process, secrecy is assured, and the installations are built. Private parties close to the projects profit from this and the whole machine lurches forward. BTW, this is known as the military-industrial complex. I hope you’ve heard of it by now. If instead, you are one of those people who actually still believe that our government is transparent and the only monies spent are those which are appropriated through legitimate means, you’d best just go turn your T.V. Back on and watch some more news. This speech was given one day before the 911 world trade center bombings. Alleged D.U.M.B. Locations By no means do I wish to type out everyone else’s list of professed underground bases, but for the purpose of this site and this article, the following seems to be a complete list of suspected D.U.M.B.s in Arizona according to many of the sites which I visited. Fort Huachuca. 290 N 116ºW saucer base below, intelligence training above, mind-control incl. too. Gates Pass Base Gila Mountain Area, south of Interstate 8 and approx. 30 east of Yuma, AZ. 290 N 116ºW. DUMB base. Grand Wash Cliffs, on the western edge of the cliffs at the head of Grapevine Wash. Must be reached via highway 93 and then unpaved roads. DUMB. Green Valley Hualapai Mountains, east side of the mountain range, about 35 mi. SE of Kingman, AZ Rincon Mountains. North side of Rincon Mtn. Mt. Lemon Page, AZ (Perhaps in the Grand Canyon, or under lake Powell) Safford, near Safford, AZ Santa Catalina Mountains. Base Munds Park Wikieup. Believed to tunnel to area 51 Papago Park Military Reservation A widely circulated D.U.M.B. map on the inter-web. Note Wikieup, AZ. I didn’t bother to reprint the commentary that went with many of these alleged sites. There are copious assertions stating that many of these D.U.M.B.s tunnels to other sites across the country interconnecting and creating a subterranean honeycombed network spanning the entire country. This topic quickly gets into aliens, UFO’s, and withheld off-world technologies. There are whole documentaries on this topic if one so wishes to research it but for our purposes here I shall steer away from all of that and concentrate on locations of D.U.M.B.s in northern Arizona. First things first, I believe the locations of these D.U.M.B.s to be under or near Camp Navajo located in Bellemont, AZ, The Kingman/Wikieup area, and maybe Munds Park; Of these three I’m leaning heavily to Camp Navajo and something north of Wikieup near the HWY 93 / I-40 junction. Aside from the staggering number witnessed UFO’s and testimony of strange military operations in these areas, I believe the following reasons to be grounds for these locations. Aerial view of Bellemont. Note the extremely close proximity of rails, power lines, and interstate. This region is centrally located. It lays between the NSA building in Utah, the ICBM’s in southern AZ, NORAD in Colorado, Luke AFB in Phoenix and all the bases in California. This area is the first viable area south of the Grand Canyon. The next available locations would be north of the Canyon. It also runs along the main transportation routes. Any tunnels coming from the east would either have to veer to the north-through Utah- or south along the southern rim of the Grand Canyon. This remote high desert corridor is along a natural route. The Colorado Plateau These sites are on the Colorado Plateau. The Colorado Plateau is a rather stable platform and is comprised primarily of soft Limestone and Sandstone with a top layer of volcanic rock. This Limestone is naturally riddled with caves, and sandstone is easily carvable with today’s equipment. All three mediums, including the volcanic, provide great drainage, or percolation. The Grand Canyon Caverns lay 80 miles to the west and is a natural cavern once utilized by the U.S. military during WW2 to store munitions, and supplies. The water table on the Colorado Plateau is quite deep due to the makeup of the soil stratification, so groundwater entering the facility wouldn’t be an issue. Water doesn’t begin pooling and running laterally until it reaches a Dolomite layer extremely deep where it runs south emerging in the Verde Valley and further south still. A quick records search for the Bellemont area plan did show water being hit at a level of 200 feet, but the production was only 14 gallons a minute (rather slow). This is one of two wells in the town, not including three small springs, three reservoirs, and one well located on the Camp Navajo Base its self. No major geological activity in the area. There are a few minor tremors from time to time but never anything catastrophic or major. In fact, up until 2014, I can’t recall a single quake in the area. And as of the writing of this article Nov 2015 we just had a minor quake out of the Black Canyon area to the south, but once again no damage of any kind. Mild weather. Arizona, as every snowbird will tell you has great weather, this is no secret. I would imagine that mild weather, especially winters would allow for easier movement and facilitation of year-round work. No flooding. This area of the state sees very little flooding of any kind. Come to think of it there are no hurricanes, tornadoes, or catastrophes of any kind in this area of the state. Proximity to I-40, I-17, and Hwy 93. For the reason of supplying and logistics, both in times of emergency and day to day operations, I-40 is a main artery in the U.S. highway system. Camp Navajo sits right on this highway which connects with I-17 only 9 miles to the east and U.S. Highway 93 or the (NAFTA) highway to the west. Munds Park sits right on top of I-17 with I-40 connecting 20 miles to the north. Phoenix is the 6th largest city in the U.S. and is located only 2 hours to the south. The Wikieup/Kingman base would be located near the I-40 HWY 93 junction. Hwy 93 was also recently upgraded to interstate 11 and is slated to be the newest cross-country highway route connecting Canada to Mexico. Proximity to the Santa Fe Railroad. We all know, or at least should know by now that almost every military base in the U.S. lays in extremely close proximity to a railroad. The rails are the most efficient means of moving mass amounts of supplies and construction equipment to any site, and these sites are located on or extremely near these rails. Low population density. This region of the state enjoys relatively low population. This is due in part to the lack or natural resources and available water, as well as the brutal winter storms. As of 2013 the population of Flagstaff 68,667, Bellemont 893, Williams 3,001, and Ash Fork 457. As you can see the immediate area enjoys an extremely low population with Flagstaff being the largest city around. What better place to construct a clandestine military installation than an already sparsely populated area. There is very little industry along the northern Arizona corridor. Forestry and Cattle pretty much make up the bulk of it. There is a high amount of tourism in the area due to the Grand Canyon, Flagstaff, Oak Creek Canyon/Sedona, and Humphrey’s Peak, but there are very few people who actually work in the area year round. Due to the makeup of the soil on the Colorado plateau, there is virtually no mining and limited water which greatly limits industry. In 1965 a new airport terminal was completed at Grand Canyon Airport. I was originally informed that this airport does not accommodate airbuses and was specifically designed to land Air Force One. I had some doubts about that so I arranged to speak with a long-term manager of one of the helicopter tour companies at the facility and he informed me quite the opposite. He stated that the Grand Canyon Airport has the 3rd longest runway in Arizona, after Sky Harbor Airport and Tucson International Airport. He stated, “it’s just over two miles long and is quite capable of landing any modern day aircraft.” He said that the runway was not specifically designed for Air Force one, but that the first family did land and visit there a couple years back. What I find interesting however is that the 3rd largest airport in the state is located in such a remote location. One would think that the airports at Prescott, Flagstaff, and Sedona would dwarf this remote outpost. While this doesn’t fit into the “mysterious” box, it does cause one to raise an eyebrow. The Grand Canyon Airport almost exclusively facilitates tourism; that is, small fixed wing aircraft, and helicopters. Why was this airport overbuilt to the extent to which it was? Logistically speaking it’s only a 45-minute drive or a 10-minute helicopter flight from Bellemont. There are also rumors of another D.U.M.B under the Grand Wash Cliffs in the north-west corner of Arizona just off Hwy 93, near the Grand Canyon West Sky Walk attraction. There are no high-value targets in the area, which means that in the case of a foreign attack this area would most likely be spared. This airport would surely make for an ideal, centrally located, and clandestine landing location for any covert government business due to its remoteness and extremely defensible terrain, the Grand Canyon, after all, is a natural fortress. Which brings me to another consideration. Power. Although these D.U.M.B.S. Most assuredly are capable of generating their own power, I’m equally sure they most likely don’t do so on a regular non-emergency time basis. Camp Navajo sits just north of a high voltage power line. In fact, it sits between the Santa Fe railroad and a high voltage power line. High voltage power lines also pass right through the town of Wikieup, AZ. As well as through the Hwy 93 / I-40 juncture where many believe a major D.U.M.B is also located. It would make sense that these installations would be located either along these lines or in very close proximity to a power plant of some kind, hydro-electric being the most ideal. That being said, all these locations are located in relatively close proximity to Hoover Dam, with the reputed Grand Wash Cliffs D.U.M.B. Being the closest at only 34 miles away. The Hoover Dam is also in close proximity to Groom Lake and Area 51, Aerial View of the Hoover Dam. Generating 4.2 billion KWh annually. Other Arizona Strangeness (Likely D.U.M.B. Locations) The Bradshaw Ranch The Bradshaw Ranch, although once a simple cattle ranch has become quite the location for UFO enthusiasts as well as paranormal scientists in general. Once a private 90-acre cattle ranch owned by Bob Bradshaw, the forest service cut allotments to the property limiting the number of cattle he could run on his land, slowly but surely cattle ranching became more difficult and less profitable. It was the mid-1990’s when Bob’s son John Bradshaw, took over the ranch and operated it as a tourist destination. John, a local businessman, politician, and photographer grew up on the ranch and obviously knows the area well. Using his home ranch to cater to the tourism industry, John offered backcountry jeep rides, horseback riding, and cookout dinners but for some reason soon ended up selling out to the U.S. Government. Today the ranch sits behind a triple-locked gate and is operated/managed/guarded by the U.S. Forest Service. Night vision view of the Bradshaw Ranch One would think the Federal Government’s purchase would mean that the land would be opened to the public as is most all other federal lands in the United States (with the exception of military, and sensitive sites) but no. This old ranch is locked off from all public admittance with a sign warning that “all trespassers will be prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law.” All inquiries and requests for passage onto the ranch are routinely denied. The reason circulating is that the area is a sensitive archaeological area and requires protection. Hummmmm. Strange that there is no mention of any archaeological sites on the Bradshaw ranch prior to the Federal Government seizing control of the site. And even if there were, this would be the first entire ranch seized that the Federal Government guards regularly. There thousands of archaeological sites in Arizona which the Government/Forest service doesn’t protect on a daily basis. It is this strange behavior on the part of the federal government which has spurred the multitudes of speculation and conspiracy theories. Theories which include, Big Foot habitat, UFO landing location, inter-dimensional portals, and the location of an entrance to the D.U.M.B. located just west of Sedona. Some speculate that this D.U.M.B. connects with the one located at Bellemont as it is only 35 miles to the north. I find it more than coincidental that UFO sightings around the Sedona area increased dramatically in the late 90’s immediately following the Bradshaw Ranch acquisition. It was at this time that the Sedona UFO craze merged with the new age movement as well. Please note I don’t use the word “alien.” Although there are those camps who believe that non-human entities do live and work in these D.U.M.B.S. The term UFO is an aviation term used by military and civilian personnel alike. It simply means objects flying around which can not be identified, and the Sedona area sees more then it’s fair share of UFOs. Arizona was 6th last year in total UFO sightings with Oregon being #1, according to the annual MUFON report. That’s not remarkable in its self until you take into account these sightings in relation to population. Per 100k people, the state Arizona jumps to #2 in the nation, with the highest concentration of those sightings occurring in Coconino County. That is, the Sedona area and north to the Grand Canyon. This means that the Sedona/Flagstaff area is responsible for more UFO sightings than everywhere in the country with the exception of Oregon. And the United States leads the world in reported UFO sightings, which puts this region as number two in the world. I find this extremely significant. A great site which lists UFO sighting reports by capita I used to think that the stories of the government guarding this property were bunk, more Sedona woo-woo if you will, but while interviewing a good friend of mine for this article she confirmed that they were very real indeed. She states that in 1997 she had been riding out in the Bradshaw Ranch area before she knew anything about Bradshaw Ranch when she was stopped by two uniformed men armed with automatic rifles. They told her she couldn’t go any further and to turn around. She didn’t see any fences at that time but wasn’t about to argue with two armed guys in the desert. She described them as “White males, mid 20’s, clean cut, black uniforms, no insignia, just a clear plastic pocket protector type thing where the arm patch would be. Sunglasses, monotone, I’ve seen guys wearing flight suits that are similar up at the airport.” That’s a pretty darn good description if you ask me. She went on to say that She’d seen a similar uniform on a pilot at the Sedona Airport. She talked to a man who landed a black helicopter there. She asked him about the craft and he told her that he was a test pilot for Boeing and that’s why there are no markings on either the chopper or his uniform. If John Bradshaw knows anything at all about whats going on at the ranch where he grew up, he hasn’t told anyone, and no one has come forward regarding the matter. Or maybe he has and it has just gotten lost in the “woo-woo” that is Sedona. It could also be that he isn’t aw… truncated (54,508 more characters in archive)