What is on top of that dune behind you, in N Truro

[Jimbo]

My father was a Ssgt there around 1952-3 involved in radar. He's retired in Yarmouth now. As of last summer his picture was still on the plaque by the ball field by the front gate, he played for the base team which was actually an adjunct from Otis. We go out there walking around once or twice a year, inside and outside the fence. He just tells anyone who asks, when he was stationed there and that he's showing me around the place and we always get the go-ahead, unescorted. He's attends many of the talks given by the Parks folks and a few times (nicely though) even corrected them about certain things. There's been things torn down and things built up since he was there, but he still remembers it all and enjoys talking about climbing the poles and the guys that he was stationed with and what you could do in what building. Lotta foxes, birds and squirrels around the woods, and that view off the dunes by the Audobon shed is one of my favorites. I find the place a littl eerie, rather than scary. It mostly looks in pretty good shape but weird absolutely no people around. I'm sure I could arrange a private tour for anyone interested.

[JohnR]

Wonder if they did any Palatwiesel research there - better call Mulder and Scully

[Backbeach Jake]

DEW Line radar dome. Dad helped put that up. So we could see the Russians coming.
Jimbo Dad was a StaffSeargent there, too.

[JohnR]

Always thought that might be a D.E.W. line site. Need negated with the PAVE PAWS radar in Sandwich.

[Jimbo]

Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake

DEW Line radar dome. Dad helped put that up. So we could see the Russians coming.
Jimbo Dad was a StaffSeargent there, too.

Don't know why it sticks in my head, and I think there may have been an internet site for them at one time. A note I have written on my blotter at work says my dad was with the 762nd Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron. Definitely watched the little blips, but he was there pre-radome and before those houses and the big helipad that until recently had an FAA antenna in the middle of it.

[saltfly]

I used to work inside the "golf ball" every once in a while.It was like a trip back in time to the Navy days and the movie Dr.Strangelove.The radar scopes were like the ones i used at sea.My job always took longer when working there.It drove my boss nuts.One day he came to check on me and He didn't want to leave.Walking around there knowing "What Could Have Been" gives a kind of chill down your spine.

[mekcotuit]

Originally Posted by JohnR

Wonder if they did any Palatwiesel research there - better call Mulder and Scully

Unsolved Mysteries

At 8:45 PM on October 1, 1966, a bus pulled up in front of Dutra’s Market, in the small Cape Cod village of North Truro. Only one man got off the bus, nineteen-year-old Airman First Class Robert Matthews. He was reporting for his first tour of duty at a nearby Air Force base and noticed that the area was deserted:

“I got off where the bus driver told me where I was supposed to get off. And he told me to phone the base and they would send a truck down to pick me up. I told him that I was in front of Dutra’s Market and he told me to stay there and that there would be a truck there to pick me up in a minute. While I was standing there, I saw these lights you know, moving from right to left across the sky. That’s when I felt this fear.”