Rumors Of The 'Hicks Road Colony' Have Kept Drivers Away From The Area For Years
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Decades-long persistent rumors of an "albino cannibal cult" in rural San Jose. This man takes you on a scenic drive to check out the rumors for himself. He suggests the possibility that perhaps the military started the rumors to prevent people from coming too close to their facility. I would tend to agree with that theory except for an experience that my second husband told myself and others about, an extremely similar experience in the Berkeley hills (near the national laboratory) about 70 miles north.
He told me that he was hiking in the hills one day and an albino man came up to him and said that he lived underground and asked my husband if he wanted to come and check it out (in addition to the lab with known underground facilities, there are also caves in the area) and my husband said, hell no and ran away.
I know he wasn't influenced by these urban legends because he wasn't born and raised in the Bay Area like myself and I had never heard about this urban legend until a couple of years ago because I am from the East Bay and not the South Bay.
SAGE Defense System The 84.5 foot tall concrete tower that remains here was the foundation of what was one of the largest rotating military radar ever built. It was part of a system of similar stations in California and among hundreds of others across the country that provided radar surveillance data into the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) defense system. SAGE coordinated the incoming signals and processed the data with its powerful computers and networking equipment, assessed potential threats, and directed response through the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
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For decades, employees of United Technologies Corp., an early Silicon Valley aerospace company, built rocket motors in a secretive, sprawling property in the hills east of Highway 101, about 5 miles south of San Jose...
The massive engines powered Tomahawk and Minuteman missiles for the military, as well as NASA spacecraft that explored Mars, Venus, Jupiter and the sun. There were explosions, fires and occasional deaths.
Before Google, Apple, Intel, Cisco and others dominated Silicon Valley, defense giants like Lockheed, FMC, Westinghouse and UTC were kings, providing thousands of jobs from the 1950s to the 1980s, and bringing in billions in federal contracts.
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