THE GROOM LAKE DESERT RAT
A World Wide Web Newsletter
(Promo as of 1/6/96)

Available at http://www.cris.com/~psyspy/area51/desert_rat

THE GROOM LAKE DESERT RAT is a report on happenings along the 
border of top secret "Area 51" in central Nevada.  There are a lot 
of fast breaking news stories here, and this seems the best way to 
report on them.  The first issue of this on-line newsletter was 
published Jan. 18, 1994, and new issues have appeared about every 
2-6 weeks since then.  (32 issues as of Dec. 1995)

Ranked as one of the "Top 10 Email 'Zines" by Wired Magazine.

The Desert Rat is primarily a World Wide Web publication. 
The Desert Rat is "Guiltware."  WWW access is free, but if you 
obtain any information or entertainment from the Rat, you are 
expected to pay a $5 "users fee," which allows you to read all 
issues of the Rat for one year without guilt.

The Desert Rat is also offered in text form by email, but only to 
users who have already paid their $5 fee.  To subscribe to this 
service, send $5 to the address at bottom along with your email 
address.  We also offer a subscription service that just tells you 
when a new issue is  available, so you can look it up on the WWW.  
(Be sure to specify "full" or "abbreviated" in your subscription 
request.)

Groom Dry Lake is located about 90 miles north of Las Vegas.  It 
is the site of a "Black Budget" aircraft testing base that the 
government does not acknowledge.  Also in this vicinity is Papoose 
Dry Lake, the place where some claim the government has housed 
"borrowed" alien spacecraft.  The newsletter walks a careful line 
about what may be out there at Papoose and Groom Lakes, trying to 
avoid speculation, but we argue that the secrecy here is excessive 
given the end of the Cold War.

The newsletter is authored and published by Psychospy ("Psycho" to 
friends).  We are formerly of the software trade on the wicked 
East Coast.  We came to this area to investigate the many unusual 
claims here.  For almost three years, we have lived in the shadow 
of the secret base.  Among other things, the newsletter may record 
some of our personal misadventures here in the Nevada desert.

The newsletter will be issued at irregular intervals and for an 
indefinite period--for as long as there is news to report.  Our 
readership is in the tens of thousands, and they read us in the 
Pentagon, darn sure!

DESERT RAT BACK ISSUES

With tens of thousands of readers worldwide, it's too costly and 
time consuming for us to send out back issues of the Desert Rat by 
email.  At present, back issues are available only via WWW at 
the address above and by hard copy.

Back issues of the Desert Rat for 1994 (#1-20) are  available in 
hard copy, spiral bound, for $20 plus shipping.  

A similar volume is also available for 1995, for $15 plus 
shipping.

Shipping is $4 for one or two volumes by priority mail in the 
U.S. (For international shipping via airmail, contact us at 
Area51RC@aol.com)

MAIL ORDER CATALOG

A catalog of items relating to Area 51, UFOs and government 
secrecy is available on our Web server or upon request by US 
mail. For the hard-copy catalog, send your mailing address to us 
at Area51RC@aol.com .

THE DESERT RAT IS "GUILTWARE"

Distribution of the Desert Rat on the WWW is free.  However, if 
you derive any significant information or entertainment from the 
Rat, you are obligated by your own conscience to send us $5 for 
one year of guilt-free reading.  The $5 can be cash (in any 
currency) or check made to "Area 51 Research Center" at the 
address below.  Please include your email address if possible, and 
tell us if you would like to be on one of our distribution lists.

Area 51 Research Center
PO Box 448, Dept. DR
Rachel, NV 89001