Pine Gap

[BeTheGoddess]

As we pass on the right hand side, we totally did not see [redacted]

Pine Gap has a lot of stories about it, stated as  a joint US/Australian facility, the reality is that its a US base and we aussies are the janitors.

Pine Gap is a satellite surveillance base and Australian Earth station approximately 18 km (11 mi) south-west of the town of Alice Springs, Northern Territory. It is jointly operated by Australia and the United States, and since 1988 it has been officially called the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG); previously, it was known as Joint Defence Space Research Facility.[sup][1][/sup] 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap

Strategically placed in the middle of the continent, its not just safe from invasion, its safe from nosey neighbors.

So what does the base do?. Some have claimed its where teams of drone operators work, others say its connected to a mega underground cave system. Both could be true.

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/19/nsa-...australia/

[Maxmars]

As we pass on the right hand side, we totally did not see [redacted]

Pine Gap has a lot of stories about it, stated as  a joint US/Australian facility, the reality is that its a US base and we aussies are the janitors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap

Strategically placed in the middle of the continent, its not just safe from invasion, its safe from nosey neighbors.

So what does the base do?. Some have claimed its where teams of drone operators work, others say its connected to a mega underground cave system. Both could be true.

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/19/nsa-...australia/

The major advents of the digital age make it possible to do certain important things (such as surveillance, research, and operational controls) from anywhere.

I have no idea what they "do" there.  But it often seems more likely that it isn't anything more sinister than we see them doing anywhere else.  The enticing mystery is that we don't actually "know" what they do elsewhere.  It could be theater-specific, it could be global, either is possible.  And by the way, sometimes "janitors" know much more than you might think.

I'm keen on exploring the idea of a large underground facility... that idea seems to resonate with me.  I assume there must have been some kind of witnesses to that kind of thing.

[Kenzo]

Big cave there might be very true . Interesting place ..

[Maxmars]

I was browsing around and found this Youtube production about Pine Gap....




Mind you, this is YouTube... and some of the included clips and reporting are "journalistic" (which means hyperbolic and "entertaining") so the old saying "with a grain of salt" comes to mind.

[BalderAsir]

Accidently ended up flying directly over Pine Gap probably 10, 12 years ago. Took off from Alice at night on a freight run, stupidly bad weather, trying to dodge through storms and flew through the airspace over pine gap, the amount of RF that place was putting out broke through on both VHF radios, sent my ADF spinning and my compass spinning. Maybe 5 seconds worth of chaos before everything settled down again.

The please explain from CASA and then the DoD was, interesting.

[Blackfingers]

Its long range radar surveillance.Also a lot of Black Projects fly there for testing and evaluation.

[chr0naut]

As we pass on the right hand side, we totally did not see [redacted]

Pine Gap has a lot of stories about it, stated as  a joint US/Australian facility, the reality is that its a US base and we aussies are the janitors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap

Strategically placed in the middle of the continent, its not just safe from invasion, its safe from nosey neighbors.

So what does the base do?. Some have claimed its where teams of drone operators work, others say its connected to a mega underground cave system. Both could be true.

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/19/nsa-...australia/

I can remember when some guys cut down the radome cover on one of the dishes. It seems entirely scrubbed from the Internet now.

Look up Christopher Boyce and Edward Snowden if you want to get some idea of what happened there. As for what is there now, who knows?

I'm pretty sure that CIA, NSA, Aussie SIGINT and whoever else is running things there, are going to have issues with each other, and who has authority over whom, especially if they are all playing "need to know".

[Blackfingers]

Even though its Australian land its a US facility.