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# The Hunt for 928

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# The Hunt for 928

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## The Hunt for 928

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## Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane?

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928 on the runway at Groom Lake

This is the tale of a little endeavor that got out of hand. It chronicles the (mis)adventures in my 2+ year search for the crash site of a spy plane that went down in 1967 as it was returning to Groom Lake.

Why would someone want to hunt for something like that? Isn’t it a little strange? Certainly is, but it **seemed** like an easy, fun thing to do at the time. Of course, there’s also the Groom connection, which adds a little spice into things. But beyond that I had the idea that it was sort of a good “test”. Here was something that was documented to have existed and crashed, somewhere on public land. It was a **real **event. If I couldn’t find something with these sterling qualifications, then I would most assuredly be wasting my time hunting for things of questionable existence like “secret bases” and saucers. But probably the best reason was that it was a good excuse to hang in the desert.

“Ah ha”, some of you may be thinking. “I’ll just read this, find out where the A-12 is, and head out there and add to my titanium collection”. Now really, do ah seem that stooopid? I’m **NOT** going to tell you where the thing is. This insidious aircraft has eluded some of the best wreck hunters around. However, I will outline the process by which I found it, and if you want to be foolish enough to invest the time and money, you can find it too. I’ll also relate the numerous deadends I encountered, and you’ll get a good idea of where it’s not (which is **way **more info than I had when I started this foolishness!). I did find three other crash sites in the general area and have given approximate directions to those sites (nice guy, eh?). I **could** just give the precise GPS coordinates, but there seems to be a certain segment of the wreckchasing community that is prone to strip sites bare. I’d prefer to make things a little difficult for these folks. My apologies to the rest of you.

One note of warning: In a departure from my usual “separate photos” format, I’ve chose to imbed a number of images into the narrative, so loading could take a while. Tough.

_Note: After the long overdue arrival of 928’s crash report from the CIA in June of 1999, I rewote the Prologue to more accruately portray the events, and added an Epilogue to this epic tale which contains the crash report. _

* [What the Hell’s an A-12, Anyway, and Why Are They So Cool?][9]
* [Prologue][10], January 5, 1967
* [The Start of Stupidity][11], December 1994 to February 1995
* [Honey, I Sunk the Truck!][12], March 1995
* [Hey, Ray?][13], August 1995 to November 1995
* [The Invisible Crash][14], December 1995 to December 1996
* [All Bad Things Must Come to an End][15], January 1997 to April 5, 1997
* [Epilogue][16], June, 1999

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[1]: http://www.otherhand.org/about/
[2]: http://www.otherhand.org/about/about-this-site/
[3]: http://www.otherhand.org/about/about-me/
[4]: http://www.otherhand.org/about/seldom-asked-questions/
[5]: http://www.otherhand.org/sitemap-3/
[6]: http://www.otherhand.org
[7]: http://www.otherhand.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BLUEFIRE.gif "BLUEFIRE"
[8]: http://www.otherhand.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/A-12.jpg "A-12"
[9]: http://www.otherhand.org/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-hunt-for-928/what-the-hells-an-a-12/ "What the Hell's an A-12?"
[10]: http://www.otherhand.org/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-hunt-for-928/prologue/ "Prologue"
[11]: http://www.otherhand.org/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-hunt-for-928/the-start-of-stupidity/ "The Start of Stupidity"
[12]: http://www.otherhand.org/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-hunt-for-928/honey-i-sunk-the-truck/ "Honey, I Sunk the Truck!"
[13]: http://www.otherhand.org/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-hunt-for-928/hey-ray/ "Hey, Ray?"
[14]: http://www.otherhand.org/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-hunt-for-928/the-invisible-crash/ "The Invisible Crash"
[15]: http://www.otherhand.org/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-hunt-for-928/all-bad-things-must-come-to-an-end/ "All Bad Things Must Come to an End"
[16]: http://www.otherhand.org/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-hunt-for-928/epilogue/ "Epilogue"
[17]: http://www.otherhand.org/bluefire-main/bluefire/ "Bluefire"
[18]: http://www.otherhand.org/
[19]: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/
[20]: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/
[21]: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/physics/
[22]: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/archaeology/
[23]: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/miscellaneous-adventures/
[24]: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/drones/
[25]: http://www.otherhand.org/about/contact-info/
[26]: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/links/

