Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a US Army facility located approximately 85 miles (140 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah in southern Tooele County. It encompasses 801,505 acres (3,243.576 km², or 1,252.352 sq mi) of the Great Salt Lake Desert and is surrounded on three sides by mountain ranges. It had a resident population of 2,016 persons as of the 2000 census, all of whom lived in the community of Dugway, Utah, at its extreme eastern end. The United States Army is one of the armed forces of the United States and has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. ... Tooele County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. ... The Great Salt Lake Desert is a large playa in northern Utah, located west of the Great Salt Lake. ... 2000 US Census logo The Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13. ... Dugway is a census-designated place located in Tooele County, Utah. ...

The transcontinental Lincoln Highway passed through the present site of the Dugway Proving Ground, the only significant section of the old highway closed to the public. At least one old wood bridge over a creek still stands.[2] Lincoln Highway bridge in Tama, Iowa The Lincoln Highway was the first transcontinental highway in the United States. ...

Mission

Dugway's mission is to test US and Allied biological and chemical weapon defense systems in a secure and isolated environment. DPG also serves as a facility for US Army Reserve and US National Guard maneuver training, and US Air Force flight tests. DPG is controlled by the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (TECOM). Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Look up ally in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of any organism (bacteria, virus or other disease_causing organism) or toxin found in nature, as a weapon of war. ... Chemical warfare is warfare (and associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill, injure or incapacitate an enemy. ... The United States Army Reserve is the federal reserve force of the United States Army. ... The United States National Guard is a component of the United States Army (the Army National Guard) and the United States Air Force (the Air National Guard). ... The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the United States armed forces and one of the seven uniformed services. ... U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command crest The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) is a major command of the U.S. Army responsible for developmental testing, independent operational testing, independent evaluations, assessments, and experiments of army equipment. ...

History

In 1941, the Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) determined it needed a testing facility more remote than the US Army's Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. The CWS surveyed the Western U.S. for a new location to conduct its tests, and, in the spring of 1942, construction of Dugway Proving Ground began. Aberdeen Proving Ground is a United States Army proving ground located in Harford County, Maryland. ... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²)  - Width 90 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37°53N to 39°43N  - Longitude 75°4W to 79°33... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Testing commenced in the summer of 1942. During World War II, DPG tested toxic agents, flamethrowers, chemical spray systems, biological warfare weapons, antidotes for chemical agents, and protective clothing. In October 1943, DPG established biological warfare facilities at an isolated area within DPG (Granite Peak). DPG was slowly phased out after World War II, until becoming inactive in August 1946. The base was reactivated during the Korean War and in 1954 was confirmed as a permanent Department of the Army installation. In October 1958, DPG became home to the U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, and Radiological (CBR) Weapons School, which moved from the U.S. Army Chemical Center, Maryland. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Riverboat of the U.S. Brownwater Navy shooting ignited napalm from its mounted flamethrower during the Vietnam war. ... According to the USGS GNIS, there are over 40 mountains in the United States named Granite Peak. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Combatants United Nations:  Republic of Korea,  Australia,  Belgium,  Luxembourg,  Canada,  Colombia,  Ethiopia,  France,  Greece,  Luxembourg,  Netherlands,  New Zealand,  Philippines,  South Africa,  Thailand,  Turkey,  United Kingdom,  United States Medical staff:  Denmark,  Australia,  Italy,  Norway,  Sweden Communist states:  Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,  Peoples Republic of China,  Soviet Union Commanders... Seal The Department of the Army is one of the three military departments in the United States Department of Defense. ...

In March 1968, 6,249 sheep had fallen sick in Skull Valley, an area nearly thirty miles from Dugway's testing sites. When examined, the sheep were found to have been poisoned by an organophosphate chemical, possibly a pesticide. Because of local open air tests of the nerve agent VX, local attention focused on the Army, who did not admit to liability but paid the ranchers for their losses (the sheep herds were uninsured). On the official record, the claim was for 4,372 disabled sheep, of which about half were put down by the ranchers, plus costs for another 1,877 sheep permanently injured or that were potentially exposed (not sick) but not marketable. The incident, coinciding with the birth of the environmental movement and anti-Vietnam War protests, created an uproar in Utah and the international community. Species See text. ... Skull Valley is the Goshute Indian Reservation located approximately 45 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah. ... An organophosphate (sometimes abbreviated OP) is the general name for esters of phosphoric acid and is one of the organophosphorus compounds. ... Nerve agents (also known as nerve gases, though these chemicals are liquid at room temperature) are a class of phosphorus-containing organic chemicals (organophosphates) that disrupt the mechanism by which nerves transfer messages to organs. ... The VX nerve agent is the most well-known of the V-series of nerve agents. ... The environmental movement (a term that sometimes includes the conservation and green movements) is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...

Because of the secretive nature of the work conducted at DPG, many rumors have circulated about activities going on inside. These rumors include things related to UFOs and unauthorized testing of weapons of mass destruction. An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is any real or apparent flying object which cannot be identified by the observer and which remains unidentified after investigation. ... For the album, see Weapons of Mass Destruction (album). ...

On September 8, 2004 the Genesis spacecraft crashed into the desert floor of the Dugway Proving Ground^{[citation needed]}. In its collecting configuration, the Genesis spacecraft exposed collecting wafers to the solar wind. ...

U.S. General Accounting Office report

The U.S. General Accounting Office issued a report on September 28, 1994, which stated that between 1940 and 1974, DOD and other national security agencies studied "hundreds, perhaps thousands" of human subjects in tests and experiments involving hazardous substances. GAO headquarters The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the non-partisan audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of Congress, and an agency in the Legislative Branch of the United States Government. ... September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... The United States Department of Defense, abbreviated DoD or DOD and sometimes called the Defense Department, is a civilian Cabinet organization of the United States government. ...

The quote from the study:

Alien speculation

• Biased* *Weasel Words* *Speculative* *Non-factual*

Following the public attention drawn to Area 51 in the early 1990s, UFOlogists and conspiracy theorists have suggested that whatever covert operations, if any, may have been underway at that location were subsequently transferred to DPG.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]} Landsat pseudocolor satellite photo of Groom Lake, taken around 2000 Area 51 (officially known as Air Force Flight Test Center, Detachment 3 and also known as Dreamland, Watertown Strip, Paradise Ranch, The Box, Groom Lake, Neverland, and other names) is a remote tract of land in the southwestern portion of...

The Deseret News reported that Dave Rosenfeld, president of Utah UFO Hunters, stated: The Deseret Morning News is a newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Utahs oldest continually published daily newspaper. ...

References

1. ^ "Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans Health? Lessons Spanning Half A Century" 103rd Congress, 2nd Session-S. Prt. 103-97; Staff Report prepared for the committee on veterans' affairs, December 8, 1994, John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia, Chairman.[1]
2. ^ ^{a b} Bauman, Joe (November 4 2004). "Is Dugway's expansion an alien concept?". Deseret Morning News. 
3. ^ Davidson, Lee (2005 August 1). "Dugway's size unclear". Deseret Morning News. 
4. ^ Rothstein, Linda (1998 May 15). "Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles; book reviews". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 54 (3): 64. ISSN 0096-3402. 
5. ^ Wilson, Jim (June 1997). "The new 'Area 51.'U.S. Air Force moves its top-secret test site". Popular Mechanics 174 (6): 54. ISSN 0032-4558. 
6. ^ Smith, Christopher (May 23 1997). "Report: Utah Town, Air Force Headed for Close Encounter; Secret Base: Is It Headed For Utah?". Salt Lake Tribune: A1. 
7. ^ Manning, Mary (May 20 1997). "Magazine: Area 51 gear moving to Utah". Los Vegas Sun. 

• Dugway Proving Ground: Blocks 3000, 3001, 3004, and 3005, Census Tract 1306, Tooele County, Utah United States Census Bureau

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External links

• Dugway Proving Ground
• West Desert Test Center
• Article: Is Dugway's Expansion an Alien Concept?
• Article: Does Utah Have an 'Area 51'?
• Article: Dugway Expansion a Mystery
• High Resolution Fly's Eye Experiment