Ground-Based Midcourse Defense launch complex

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Launch complex for the Fort Greely Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. It is the second US ABM site to be operational. The first was in Nekoma, ND where the Safeguard system was briefly deployed in the mid-1970s. It is a current testing and basing facility for an anti-ballistic missile system and is operated by the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA). MDA can trace its roots back to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) of the 1980s and further back to the missile defense programs of the 1960s and 1970s, like Nike, Sentinel and Safeguard.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-Based_Midcourse_Defense
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Coordinates:   63°57'19"N   145°43'41"W

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  • In 2005 I observed a large UFO hovering over this place. The Missile Defense is not for other countries as much as it is for extraterrestrial threats. Of course no one will admit it.
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  • And of course no one will believe you either... because that's absurd.
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