Talk:Indian Springs, Nevada

Writing style and tone of article
GOODNESS the criticizer has more experience than I do! ''(Do something constructive instead!) The information you criticize was contributed from early childhood memories--by a professional writer and published author who knows the value of family history. Readers are interested in stories about how life used to be in Indian Springs, Nevada. Yes, this is a story being told by someone who used to live in Indian Springs. The evaluator got that right. The writer has a background in science and writing. The "little stories" are precious gems. DON'T CRITICIZE--encourage! Capture the history before those who lived it are gone...and let other readers determine what their own impressions are, please. (After all, what has the criticizing person contributed?)''173.10.24.50 (talk) 22:49, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

The writing style of this article seems like it's a story being told by someone who used to live there. In fact, in reading the History section you get the impression that the town doesn't actually exist any more. Little anecdotes like these should not be in there:

"The road was paved (most roads were not). In the summer heat, the tar would soften, and if you walked on the road, your feet would sink down a little. Many people in Indian Springs lived in trailers. Desert tortoises (which were called "turtles") would wander through the residents' yards. Sometimes, a snake or iguana would visit!"

"Indian Springs had one school. "Mr. Boam" was a principal there."

"In the vernacular of I.S. residents, Las Vegas was called "town." If you were driving to Las Vegas, say, for a twice-a-month grocery trip, you were "going to town." (People liked to shop at Vegas Village or Wonder World in "town.")" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stmoore1 (talk • contribs) 20:49, 21 July 2011 (UTC) The content criticized was written by a professional writer who lived in Indian Springs in the 1960's! ENCOURAGE contributions. Or, would you rather write it all? Your well-intended critique doesn't come off as such. Question: Is Stmoore related to Gay Moore, who attended school (my age) in Indian Springs?173.10.24.50 (talk) 22:49, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

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Alien infestation
I used to live on the air base, back when it was an emergency air field. High school students at the time would walk out on to the bombing range and cut in to the 500 pound sand bombs that were dropped on moving vehicles and did not expend, collecting the flash powder and trigger assemblies, and on occasion they would explode when students cut in to them.

It's a shame some "color" history of the township can't be added to the extant article.

Once I was called out with the field security people who sent out their emergency vehicles for an airman who had landed his trainer on the desert floor, except that he had dropped out of communication prior to doing so and it was assumed that he had crashed. After all, we had a day when all five Thunderbirds formed up on their point man and followed each other in to the dirt, so we had a recent history.

When we arrived, we found the man with much of his PPE off sitting under a wing in the shade, he informed us that he had tracked a flying saucer and had followed it down to the desert floor after it had landed. He landed and damaged his single jet engine beyond repair, then talked with the alien and, when the alien saw us approaching, the alien took off leaving him behind.

Later we found that he contrived the story because he had suffered a medical incident while in flight and landed to avoid blacking out and crashing, so he ensured that he would be relieved of air duties out on a psycho release.

We used to have flying saucer lunatics come to Indian Springs and get on to the base, attempting to get out to Groom Lake to "prove" for themselves that aliens from outer space were being housed there. They would be escorted off of the base unless they were troublesome, then the air MPs would beat the living crap out of anyone who got mouthy or came back a second time.

Eventually the base got closed, then during the Bush #2 wars it got revitalized, rebuilt, restored, made in to an actual base, and the base took on a greater role, implemented actual base security. Kids used to just walk on to the base and use the recreation facilities which included a swimming pool with diving board.

Outside of Point B, the radar facility to the South by a quarter mile, in the hills I found an old case of Gentimite half-buried in the hardpan next to a seep that had been blasted open some 100 years prior. The remaining explosives were just left behind. The Air Force sent out a crew to burn that pile.

The police in town sold drugs to the High School students. Of course they arrested anyone else who sold narcotics.

Further to the North and the East there was a constant radar reflection off of a towed target that had come detached from the tow aircraft, it lodged in the mountains there and kept showing up on Point B's radar screens, to the point where a group of High School students who were Boy Scouts for the local Mormon cult were asked to hike cross desert, climb up the mountains, and remove the target. They went with the medical officer, a man named Jeff LaRock, and though they got the target broken up and shoved in to cracks in the volcanic rock, on the way back down the medic started urinating blood, though he informed the kids that it was normal for him.

A small town like that has a history that everyone knows. Justine Miller shot himself in the head in his bedroom of the mobile that he lived in with his mother. When his mother came home, she called the police and -- on recording -- the first thing she said was that he son had made the worse mess he has ever made, blowing his brain out on to the walls.

That is what Indian Springs used to be like, and it's kind of a shame that anecdotal stories aren't encyclopedic enough to reach a wider Wikipedia audience. SoftwareThing (talk) 01:09, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Big Bust nuclear test
Oh: I was also there when the underground nuclear test out at Mercury breached, the incident they internally called "Big Bust." Everyone at Indian Springs got something like 70 rads on average, and the "Buddy Buddy" nuclear fall-out shelter at the air base was no where near large enough to house everyone in the air base at the time leave alone the population of the town.

Billions of dollars of farm and ranch animals and soil were scraped up after that incident, quietly, none of the Indian Springs civilians were informed and only few of the military were informed. Of course it all came out later after ranch and farm owners were forced to sue the United States because of the fact that many lost their property because of contamination which the United States condemned as unfit for food production.

We would also get the short-wave ground waves during underground tests though most of the waves went right under us and could only be felt at Las Vegas. Many of the underground tests were un-announced, they were a surprise. SoftwareThing (talk) 01:15, 30 January 2020 (UTC)