Landing Site.

	The Lab

Groom Lake (Area 51), lies on the other side of this mountain range illustrated below.  

These illustrations were drawn on top of actual spy satellite photos of the Papoose dry lakebed in central Nevada. The coordinates of the hangar doors are N 37° 01' 40", W 115° 46' 35".

United States Geological Survey (USGS) altitude data, combined with a type of "stereo photography" which the satellite employs when exposing the negative we are able to create a three dimensional model of the area Lazar described as the hangar doors. 

Lazar simply provided the designers with the coordinates  and explanined the path traveled in the bus that drove him from Groom lake to the S4 facility.   With that, these recreations were created of  typical Wednesday night flight preparations.

The bus with the blacked out windows drove south in the early evening. The sun would usually be setting to Lazar's right side as he rode the 15 mile shuttle to S4. Once approaching S4, the bus would drive the length of the nine hangar doors and make a sharp left turn to park. The scientists were let out of the bus and directed to the entrance. This was simply a steel door in the side of the mountain. Refer to the Corridor Entrance.

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