The Nellis Range Complex is the largest restricted area in the USA. Within this Connecticut-sized hole in the otherwise open range of Nevada, are military landforms and activities that are only vaguely understood by outsiders. Among them are physical full-scale models of the anticipated battlescapes of other nations, which are linked to electronic warfare infrastructures that extend though thousands of square miles of restricted airspace, and into space. New and unknown weapons systems are tested at ranges dedicated to secret research. It also, most notoriously, is home to a range popularly known as Area 51. To the public, and the world, the Nellis Range Complex is a global site of uncertainty and possibility, engendering speculation, and fear. It is a virtual terrain, inhabited with the projections of whoever chooses to gaze upon it, a modern terra techno-incognita. And a space, due to its opacity, that reflects back the extremes of culture that project upon it.
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