I discovered a missile silo in my backyard - seriously.
 

This morning I was reading the news about that hijacked ship which lead me to Wikipedia looking up Russian warships, then US warships, then missile silos in Arizona, which lead me to missile silos in California. Imagine my surprise when I saw my home town of Lincoln, California, on that list.

Beale AFB is not too far from here, and in the 1960s they had three Titan missile launch sites. Some quick research showed me that the launch site in my hometown was within walking distance of my house.

According to Google maps, this is what it looks like from the air....

http://www.rochardsbunnyranch.com/rock/silo5.jpg

So, I went!

Not much to see really.....

http://www.rochardsbunnyranch.com/rock/silo1.jpg

http://www.rochardsbunnyranch.com/rock/silo2.jpg

http://www.rochardsbunnyranch.com/rock/silo3.jpg

http://www.rochardsbunnyranch.com/rock/silo4.jpg

Now... If I can just figure a way in!

That's some cool shit. Get a way in ASAP, you never know...

Having grown up in Clyde, Ca which is between Concord, Ca and Pittsburg, Ca. In essence a small town surrounded on all sides by the Concord Naval Weapons Station. Those silo's are a very common site. Though when I was growing up there "was no missles there" even though we would see them being transported on the trains as well as having tons of those silo's everywhere in the hills.

Here's the site under construction in late 1950s / early 1960s.

http://www.rochardsbunnyranch.com/rock/silo7.jpg

Compare it to the google mape above and tell me where the entrance is....

pretty fucking cool. bring a camera and some lights in there once you find an entrance.

you need to have QuantumX come visit he will find a way in for sure

I discovered a missile silo in my pants

You can easily slip into these places - and you wouldn't be the first to - but pay attention for the following gotchyas

1 - Some of the silos have buried motion detectors, feds will show.
2 - Most are semi / somewhat flooded
3 - Most are rusted / somewhat rusted
4 - Combinations of the above can lead to acute rusty pipe through leg syndrome :D

That aside, go nuts, take photos :D

pretty fuckin cool.

They sell those things once in a while.

And I've heard most of the abandoned ones are filled with water now. If you look around you can find pics of water filled silos.

BTW, for an idea of the scale of the missle projects, check out

http://www.ninjito.com/dump/silos.kml [google earth]

be careful you will wind being picking up by the fbi.

I discovered number 1 more than once as a kid. Parents got very sick of having to pick us (friends and I) up at the MP's office at the naval station.

The first thing I saw when I got there was this......

http://www.rochardsbunnyranch.com/rock/silo8.jpg

There was only one of them though.....

There in a bunker/silo combination in the Hollywood Hills just South of Mullholand Drive that was bought many years ago by some guy who converted it into a house.

Last I heard, Julian Lennon (John's son) owned it.

Wow,they let people walk around and probe the area?

nice pics!

Lol, is it deactivated?

dont get caught u might end up missing

:upsidedow

I want to go to that one in Florida. :mad:

take a metal detector with you, never know what you will find.

i saw a show where people buy these and convert them into homes

i thought you meant your actual backyard lol

thats pretty cool shit right there.

That is kinda cool

awesome...you might find some crazy shit in there.

i saw a while ago on tv that people were buying them up and building homes inside them, something to think about doing i guess

I didn't realize you lived in Lincoln, Rochard. I thought you lived in AZ somewhere.

My brother owns a home there off Ferrari Ranch.

You sound like John Locke - 4 8 15 16 23 42

I guess you wouldn't have to worry about neighbors.I wonder how far the liquor store is

damn, that's cool...
you have to find a way in and take pics...

cool and interesting, thanks for sharing

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

interesting

Here is what I did with photoshop.

I want to go there, and DIG!

http://i33.tinypic.com/vnnmte.jpg
http://i38.tinypic.com/29fukx4.jpg

Using the ratio of angles, here is what I think the 3 silos map to:
http://i33.tinypic.com/vnnmte.jpg

Using perspective to match them up, I think this is about the angle that the original photo was taken:
http://i38.tinypic.com/29fukx4.jpg

ImageShack.us sucks donkey balls.

In other words, you found a silo in your pants to INSERT A MISSILE INTO?

Ghey...

Was it abandoned? Do kids play and explore it? Do you have pictures of it on GFY.com?

Hard to tell from that picture, could be an active infrared beam. Assuming it is, the two distinct rectangles kinda make me think it is post with an IR transceiver on it... you know, the little bing-bongs some shops have across their doorway.

If there's a reflector somewhere parallel to the visible face of that post, you'd best not walk between.

Incidentally, if you have a nightvision scope or low quality digital video camera, there's a chance it'll pick up the emitter wavelength allowing visual determination. You won't see the beam, however one of the rectangles will probably be glowing.

cool now take pictures and send those to Russians :)