Covering an area of 481 square miles in Southern California, Edward's Air Force base is the second largest base in the United States Air Force.

If you asked one of its enlisted residents to offer their thoughts about this particular duty

station, they might affectionately refer to the base as the Mogadishu of the United States,

or repeat a common mantra of middle of nowhere, one and a half to three hours from everywhere.

Sure enough, nestled in the vast expanse of the northwestern Mojave Desert, the base's own

webpage refers to its surrounding environment as a parched and forbidding wilderness to those who

first see it. Edwards is the home of the Air Force Test Center,

the Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center. In short,

it is a highly trafficked base whose primary purpose is playing host to the research and testing

of various aerospace systems and experimental aircraft.

And for those living near the base, the skies above the installation are always buzzing with the latest high-tech models.

Perhaps not so unexpectedly, Edwards Air Force Base also has a rather long history of unexplained UFO sightings, some of which I've

received even recently from your fellow viewers. But you didn't come here to hear those stories.

No, as a matter of fact, if our attention was directed at the sky above the base, we might miss

seeing what's happening on the ground, because it would

seem that the sparse landscape is home to more than just the usual desert fauna.

This is the smoke pit, and these are true stories from Air Force service members about large, hairy, human-like creatures

they have witnessed in the vicinity of Edwards Air Force Base.

The United States. I'm Luke Lamanah, and this is wartime stories. Let's go, let's go. Project site Lima, let's go.

I'm out of the logic site.

There's a patrol quick.

There's a huge bar coming on.

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