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SECRET/NOFORN
PROJECT SUN STREAK
WARNING NOTICE:
INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
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PROJECT NUMBER:
S1
TNG
SESSION NUMBER: 1
DATE OF SESSION:
880727
DATE OF REPORT:
880727
START:
0819
END:
0835
METHODOLOGY:
CRV
VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 32
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1.
(S/NF/SK)
MISSION:
Access and describe in a stage one sense
training target #192, Great White Sands.
2.
(S/NF/SK)
VIEWER TASKING:
Encrypted coordinates 8259/1062.
3.
(S/NF/SK)
COMMENTS:
Good job on a difficult stage one site.
Excellent representative ideograms.
032 had an physical
inclemency of tiredness.
4.
(S/NF/SK)
EVALUATION:
3.
HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY
SPECIAL ACCESS REQUIRED
SECRET/NOFORN
CLASSIFIED BY:
DIA (DT)
DECLASSIFY ON:
DADR
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PI - TIRED
032
26 JUL 88
08/94
8259
1062
A, RISING up., PenkiNU
SLOPING DOWN
HARD
B. MOUNTAIN
8259
1002
A. RISING UP
1
ANGLIE ACROSS
SHOPING DOWN.
HARD.
B.
AOL BREAK
CITY
8259
1062
MISSED BREAK
A. RISING UP; ANGLE
ACROSS, SLOPING AZON.
SeMI SOFT
B. NO B.
CONFUSION BREAK
1
NATURAL OR NANMAI
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8257
1062
A. RISING up,
ANGLE ACROSS
SLOPING DOWN.
MANMADE, HARD.
. B. STRUCTURE
8259
1062
A. RISING up, ACROSS
SLOPING DOWN.
semiSOFT, NATURAL
AOL BREAK
GRASSY FIELD
ROLLING HILLS.
8259
1062
A. ACROSS, fuiD
B. WATER.
82,59
1062
A. RISING UP, ACROSS
SLOPING Down
NATURAL - SEMI SOFT
VeGITATION
AOL BREAK
VeGITATION
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BAGE 3
8259
1062
A. RISING UP ACROSS
SCOPING DOWN.
Semi SOFT, NATURAL
B. Hills, LAND.
AOL BREAK
Hills
CONFUSION BREAK
Hills US. LAND
8259
1062
A. RISING UP, ACROSS
SLOPING
DOWN.
1
Semi SOFT, NATURAL
1
B. LAND.
SITE 08356.
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CPYRGHT
New Mexico's Great White Sands
113
Feathery Dunes of Snow-white Gypsum in a 140,000-acre "Sandbox"
Make This Area Unique Among National Monuments
BY WILLIAM BELKNAP, JR.
With Illustrations from Photographs by the Author
B
Y the time you reach White Sands Na-
tional Monument, near Alamogordo,
New Mexico, you're used to mirages.
So the porcelain streak you see among the
heat waves simply can't be real.
You still don't believe it when you start up
the eight-mile White Sands Drive.
You stop where the road touches the first
dune and run your hands through the in-
credibly soft stuff, cool and delightful. Off
come your shoes; the next impulse is to lie
down and roll.
It looks and feels like fine sand, but there
the similarity ends. For these hills of stun-
ning white are wind-crumbled gypsum .*
Dunes Cast a Strange Spell
Enchantment, disbelief, puzzlement -- these
are typical reactions among startled visitors
to White Sands. Many, like my own family,
come with little more than an inkling of the
scenic surprises in store.
When we turned off U. S. Highway 70 at
the Monument Visitor Center, the country
looked flat and unpromising. I began to
wonder what there would be to photograph.
Fran, my wife, rolled down her window and
accepted our car permit from a ranger.
"Stay on the roads, folks, and watch our
speed limits," he said cheerfully. "Have fun!"
As we drove along White Sands Drive, my
disappointment quickly faded. Shimmering
dunes, fresh as a wilderness snowfall, loomed
ahead. Our son Buzz, 12, and daughter Loie,
10, called a halt when we reached the first
drifts and shot from the car as if spring-
ejected. They scampered up a near-by slope,
dropped to their knees, and scooped up great
handfuls.
Then the magic hit Fran and me. Match-
ing our children's abandon, we slipped off our
shoes and raced up a snowy mound.
"I had no idea it could be this beautiful,"
Fran said. "It's like fairyland!"
* See "The White Sands of Alamogordo," by Carl
P. Russell, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE, August,
1935.
We strolled along the roadside dunes, fasci-
nated by the way desert plants-yuccas,
sumacs, and even cottonwoods-managed to
keep their heads above the sugary tide. Here
and there we found grotesque mounds held to-
gether by close-knit root systems (pages 126
and 127).
"Don't look back," I said to Fran as we
headed for the car. "Remember the Bible
story about Lot's wife? I'd hate to leave
you here as a pillar of gypsum!"
Like three million visitors before us, we
began to appreciate White Sands' uniqueness.
Later, at the museum, we learned it is the
world's largest known surface deposit of
gypsum sand. Utah and Australia have
some, but neither deposit rivals New Mexico's
275-square-mile display. Dunes at White
Sands are not only the largest in area; they
move faster, pile steeper, look whiter, and are
just plain more fun than any others.
Dizzy statistics?
There is enough white
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Mescalero,
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3 2° 59' N
106 ° 24'W
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Cake Monument
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CPYRGHT
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@ National Geographic Society
114
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Rain and melting snow carry tons of gypsum from strata near the range skyline into New Mexico's Tularosa Basin.
The solution mixes with gypsum-bearing ground water from beds beneath the valley floor.