Guys ,this is a Minuteman silo ,they have been abandoned sense the early 60s.
A map came out on their locations 8 years ago and they even admitted they only were able to pin point 20 % of them.
1963 ,it was an obsolete weapons system replaced by the Titan , and there were 1100 of them all across America.
Some were filled in ,others filled with water , still others locked up and walked away from in very remote areas and all info on them was destroyed so they didst come up ever again in some arms treaty.
The Area this one is in has 6 more , one was bought last week by a Couple from Long Island NY.
Him and Me think our tunnels intersect.
No they have not belonged to the Government sense 1972 , they were given to the Historical Society and they just sat on them and had no idea how many or where.
The ,,WE ,, is my family and the in laws , we all work on it.
To show you ,i found the thing ,above ground is only the entry door and silo roof which was covered over by dirt blowing in.
I asked the Rancher ,who owns the land it is on if he wanted to sell one of these ,he told me they bought the lands they are on from his grand father in 1946 , built them and manned them until 1962, then they just abandoned them in a mess and told me the land was once again his.
He said the silo was never really his ,it belonged to the HS and they have never been out or anything.
He has never been in one because of his asthma and doesn't want to go into one.
He then said he sold the land one was on to a company looking for places like that 4 years ago for Data storage.
After that they went and show the Historical Society the deed and they sent him to Bob Russel in Lubbock Texas.
We went through the same deal with Mr.Russel ,a very nice man. He said the thing was they dont know where or how many of these there even is.
Neither does the Government , of 2006 , they were thrown away as just a big chunk of Concrete worth nothing to them at all.
Anyone who would even remember anything now is dead or senile.
He did it like this ,with the deed we had for the land ,he takes that and files that we have the land and are going to restore an old structure sitting on it .
The buying price was the land , He files this and they give it a name and Number ans in the description all it says is and/ or any abandoned structures on said property.
TA DA ,full deed and ownership with the name 1001 Peggy Lane ,is born ,and no mention of anything other than a once abandoned structure.
Russel ran a check on it through the Millitary procurement and ownership dept. , showing ZERO knowledge of any such place existing ,guys to them it was trash gone and forgotten in some place in NM that they could care less about and what we did is 100% laegle and ours.
Some of them are going for 250K ,this depends on location ,size ,age , and usually that price is a Home built from one being very nice.
If you read about one being in the Tens of thousands, it is because an individual has bought it like we did only to jack up the price and make thousands off it on resale. And People do do that ,and if they had found these first you bet they would have snatched them up fast.
I am telling you this because NO ,the Government doesn't know or care to search for these things.
Ours was so covered in brush you could have walked right by it ,only a small wedge with a steel door in on the surface.
I only found this one because i was chasing an Elk and went through some thick brush to head him off and ran right into it.
I know where 4 more are also , and these have not been breached over the years by Ganges and Meth labs like the one around Roswell were.
We broke the seal , No it doesn't have a Missile ,yes we own it ,and if you can afford say a 2006 Ford F150 super cab you can afford one of these.
GETTING ,isnt the problem ,Repairing Lights .Power , water pipes ,Vent fans , opening 20 ton doors that haven't opened in 40 years .
Deed Search , Title search and generation of one , cleaning these things out , buying filters , pole and meter base all 3 phase VAC 208.
Thats where the money comes in ,but over time it isnt that much.
No i am not rich ,yes My Wife and i wanted it , she wanted to open the launch doors ,build levels in the tube , and make gardens on them.
Its true potential wasn't seen until later ,It opens by code ,this and a Master code ,
AND you are not getting into it ,and you are not going to Bomb a place made to withstand a NUKE , once inside when you hit the Dog Down Button it is a Hardened Silo big time.
It took us 5 days to get the main door open , with two winches on two 4x4s ,it is 7 feet thick solid Stainless plates 4in thick, and laminated Laminated with Lead and SSS steel , 22 Dog locks , and if that isnt enough you can drop a massive 10 ft thick 40 ton cement block down behind that door ,but you better hope the lift wench works.
On another gun site some guys from it came out for the grand opening party ,it was great.
