UFO Hunter Who Helped Expose Area 51 & Set Up 'Research Center' in Bid to Capture Mystery Craft Dies

"Very sad to hear.  Give the man credit, he got mentioned by name in Groom Lake Tower communications: 'Glen Campbell up on the ridge...'
Glen, you've got the best view of Area 51 now."



The Groom Lake Desert Rat
Area 51/Nellis Range/TTR/NTS/S-4?/Weird Stuff/Desert Lore

The Groom Lake Desert Rat -- An on-line newsletter.

Written, published, copyrighted, and totally disavowed by Psychospy.

Direct from Rachel, Nevada, the "UFO Capital" and Las Vegas, the Center of Human Civilization.


The Groom Lake Desert Rat is an online newsletter by Glenn Campbell.  It was operational from Jan. 1994 through October 1996, when it collapsed under its own weight.  It was reincarnated in November 1997 as The Desert Rat.  It then died after only one new issue (not enough time).


  • Psychospy:  Glenn Campbell
  • Spy Two / The Great One:  Jim Goodall
  • Spy One:  John Andrews
  • Agent X:  Mark Farmer
  • Hand:  Tom Mahood
  • The Ayatollah:  Mike Dornheim
  • The Minister of Words:  Stuart Brown
  • Shadowhawk:  Peter Merlin
  • PDF Version

The Groom Lake Desert Rat is a report on happenings along the border of top secret "Area 51" in central Nevada.  There are a lot of fast breaking news stories here, and this seems the best way to report on them.  The first issue of this online newsletter was published January 18, 1994, and new issues have appeared about every 2-6 weeks since then.  (32 issues as of December 1995)

Ranked as one of the "Top 10 Email 'Zines" by Wired Magazine.

The Desert Rat is primarily a World Wide Web publication.  The Desert Rat is "Guiltware."  WWW access is free, but if you obtain any information or entertainment from the Rat, you are expected to pay a $5 "users fee," which allows you to read all issues of the Rat for one year without guilt.

The Desert Rat is also offered in text form by email, but only to users who have already paid their $5 fee.  To subscribe to this service, send $5 to the address at bottom along with your email address.  We also offer a subscription service that just tells you when a new issue is available, so you can look it up on the WWW.  (Be sure to specify "full" or "abbreviated" in your subscription request.)

Groom Dry Lake is located about 90 miles north of Las Vegas.  It is the site of a "Black Budget" aircraft testing base that the government does not acknowledge.  Also in this vicinity is Papoose Dry Lake, the place where some claim the government has housed "borrowed" alien spacecraft.  The newsletter walks a careful line about what may be out there at Papoose and Groom Lakes, trying to avoid speculation, but we argue that the secrecy here is excessive given the end of the Cold War.

The newsletter is authored and published by Psychospy ("Psycho" to friends).  We are formerly of the software trade on the wicked East Coast.  We came to this area to investigate the many unusual claims here.  For almost three years, we have lived in the shadow of the secret base.  Among other things, the newsletter may record some of our personal misadventures here in the Nevada desert.

The newsletter will be issued at irregular intervals and for an indefinite period - for as long as there is news to report.  Our readership is in the tens of thousands, and they read us in the Pentagon, darn sure!

Desert Rat Back Issues

With tens of thousands of readers worldwide, it's too costly and time consuming for us to send out back issues of The Desert Rat by email.  At present, back issues are available only via WWW at the address above and by hard copy.

Back issues of The Desert Rat for 1994 (#1-20) are available in hard-copy, spiral-bound, for $20 plus shipping.

A similar volume is also available for 1995, for $15 plus shipping.

Shipping is $4 for one or two volumes by priority mail in the U.S.  (For international shipping via airmail, contact us at Area51RC@aol.com)

Mail Order Catalog

A catalog of items relating to Area 51, UFOs and government secrecy is available on our Web server or upon request by U.S. mail.  For the hard-copy catalog, send your mailing address to us at Area51RC@aol.com.

The Desert Rat is "GuiltWare"

Distribution of The Desert Rat on the WWW is free.  However, if you derive any significant information or entertainment from the Rat, you are obligated by your own conscience to send us $5 for one year of guilt-free reading.  The $5 can be cash (in any currency) or check made to "Area 51 Research Center" at the address below.  Please include your email address if possible, and tell us if you would like to be on one of our distribution lists.

Area 51 Research Center
PO Box 448, Dept. DR
Rachel, NV 89001

Back issues: 1994-96


EG&G security dude flees

EG&G Non-Cammo Dude (EGG-NCD), armed with radio and loaded Gatorade,
flees site of his attempted Psychospy assault.  [DR #35]


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