The real Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center

[JakeDeuxPointZero]

I did a simple search and didn't see anything turn up on this, so I hope I'm not repeating something that has already been addressed.

Anyways, I did a Google search for NORAD followed by one for Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center (found the full name on the NORAD site) and was surprised to find that all of it is real! NORAD really is housed there, and it looks exactly like in the show and everything! Anyways, here's a link to the website. Check out the Cool Pics section (yes, it does have a "cool pics" section... very cheesy for an Air Force site), where you can see various visiting groups posing in front of the entrance we all know:

Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center (https://www.cheyennemountain.af.mil/)

[Newbie]

i have info on that complex from a fast food book, i'll post it here on monday or tusday!!!

[JakeDeuxPointZero]

Fast food?

[Teal'c]

Yes, Cheyenne Mountain is a real place :P All the exterior shots of it are of the actual base.

[Orb]

I'm sorry, but I'm just curious. Are you from the US? Cheyenne Mountain was built to house NORAD during the Cold War period. It was the base of command for monitoring any unidentified incursions into US airspace and was built to house the staff and others, in case of nuclear war or other disaster. That's why it was blasted into a mountain.

[omnian]

Check out the Cool Pics section (yes, it does have a "cool pics" section... very cheesy for an Air Force site), where you can see various visiting groups posing in front of the entrance we all know:


I was quite surprised to see that there were no pictures of the Stargate crew taken there. I mean, that's where the show's based!

[Major Tyler]

I was quite surprised to see that there were no pictures of the Stargate crew taken there. I mean, that's where the show's based!The show is actually filmed in Vancouver, Canada. All the shots you see of the outside of the base are either USAF stock footage, or were recorded a long time ago and just reused when necessary.

[omnian]

The show is actually filmed in Vancouver, Canada. All the shots you see of the outside of the base are either USAF stock footage, or were recorded a long time ago and just reused when necessary.

Oh yeah, lol. I didn't think of that one. But still.....would've been nice to see them on there.

[Scruff]

They blasted out a huge cavern. It contains 14 or 15 buildings 1-3 stories high inside of it. The buildings are builts on large springs to absorb shock from eathquake or nuclear blast. It does have an infirmary and can be closed off and completely self contained for a limited period of time. It is jointly operated by the US and Canada. Officially, there are no shafts that go down to subterrainian levels that I know of.

[Anubis]

Hmmm...I wonder what is on level 28 of the real Cheyanne Mountain? lol

[Larry The Chevron Guy]

Hmmm...I wonder what is on level 28 of the real Cheyanne Mountain? lol
Big honkin' spacegun? :p

[Thoth]

Sorry, but...NORAD? What is NORAD?

[Crazedwraith]

Sorry, but...NORAD? What is NORAD?


Normal Operation Radius of Albino Dalamtions

[KokiriChild]

Normal Operation Radius of Albino DalamtionsSorry dude, you got it wrong, it's

Normally
O'Neill
Ranks
Above
Daniel

Nighttime
Often
Really
Arouses
Dr Fraisier

[Crazedwraith]

How about

Nude
Oriental
Rock-stars
And
Dates?

[KokiriChild]

How about

Nude
Oriental
Rock-stars
And
Dates?
and occaisonally

Naked
O'Neill
Randomly
Ate
Donuts

[Teal'c]

Not
Often,
Replicators
Actually
Die.

[KokiriChild]

Comtria!

In all seriousness, what does NORAD stand for?

[Liotius]

North American Aerospace Defense Command.
I have a teacher that used to work there some years ago... Maybe I can get some info from him on Level 28 LOL

[KokiriChild]

You'd better! See if they can sneak a zat-gun out, or maybe than funking huge staff-weapon/canon Teal'c stole in Season5-Episode04 "The Fifth man"... man that'd be so usefull!

[MadEyeTed]

North American Aerospace Defence Command

at: http://www.norad.mil

[KayMan2k]

The real Cheyenne Mountain is also featured in the classic film "War Games". I think it a more realistic view of what the base is truly like, but of course, is still fictional.

[Newbie]

The real Cheyenne Mountain is also featured in the classic film "War Games". I think it a more realistic view of what the base is truly like, but of course, is still fictional.
Actually YES!!! I dunno how I didn't think of that, because I remeber that I noted that to myself and forgat :( anyway it's a good movie, watch it...

Now as I promised, read it:

An Introduction from Fast Food Nation by ERIC SCHLOSSER

CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN SITS on the eastern slope of Colorado’s Front Range, rising steeply from the prairie and overlooking the city of Colorado Springs. From a distance, the mountain appears beautiful and serene, dotted with rocky outcroppings, scrub oak, and ponderosa pine. It looks like the backdrop of an old Hollywood western, just another gorgeous Rocky Mountain vista. And yet Cheyenne Mountain is hardly pristine. One of the nation’s most important military installations lies deep within it, housing units of the North American Aerospace Command, the Air Force Space Command, and the United States Space Command. During the mid-1950s, high-level officials at the Pentagon worried that America’s air defenses had become vulnerable to sabotage and attack. Cheyenne Mountain was chosen as the site for a top-secret, underground combat operations center. The mountain was hollowed out, and fifteen buildings, most of them three stories high, were erected amid a maze of tunnels and passageways extending for miles. The four-and-a-half-acre underground complex was designed to survive a direct hit by an atomic bomb. Now officially called the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, the facility is entered through steel blast doors that are three feet thick and weigh twenty-five tons each; they automatically swing shut in less than twenty seconds. The base is closed to the public, and a heavily armed quick response team guards against intruders. Pressurized air within the complex prevents contamination by radioactive fallout and biological weapons. The buildings are mounted on gigantic steel springs to ride out an earthquake or the blast wave of a thermonuclear strike. The hallways and staircases are painted slate gray, the ceilings are low, and there are combination locks on many of the doors. A narrow escape tunnel, entered through a metal hatch, twists and turns its way out of the mountain through solid rock. The place feels like the set of an early James Bond movie, with men in jumpsuits driving little electric vans from one brightly lit cavern to another.

Fifteen hundred people work inside the mountain, maintaining the facility and collecting information from a worldwide network of radars, spy satellites, ground-based sensors, airplanes, and blimps. The Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center tracks every manmade object that enters North American airspace or that orbits the earth. It is the heart of the nation’s early warning system. It can detect the firing of a long-range missile, anywhere in the world, before that missile has left the launch pad.

This futuristic military base inside a mountain has the capability to be self-sustaining for at least one month. Its generators can produce enough electricity to power a city the size of Tampa, Florida. Its underground reservoirs hold millions of gallons of water; workers sometimes traverse them in rowboats. The complex has its own underground fitness center, a medical clinic, a dentist’s office, a barbershop, a chapel, and a cafeteria. When the men and women stationed at Cheyenne Mountain get tired of the food in the cafeteria, they often send somebody over to the Burger King at Fort Carson, a nearby army base. Or they call Domino’s.

Almost every night, a Domino’s deliveryman winds his way up the lonely Cheyenne Mountain Road, past the ominous DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED signs, past the security checkpoint at the entrance of the base, driving toward the heavily guarded North Portal, tucked behind chain link and barbed wire. Near the spot where the road heads straight into the mountainside, the delivery man drops off his pizzas and collects his tip. And should Armageddon come, should a foreign enemy someday shower the United States with nuclear warheads, laying waste to the whole continent, entombed within Cheyenne Mountain, along with the high-tech marvels, the pale blue jumpsuits, comic books, and Bibles, future archeologists may find other clues to the nature of our civilization - Big King wrappers, hardened crusts of Cheesy Bread, Barbeque Wing bones, and the red, white, and blue of a Domino’s pizza box.

P.S. Now I'm going to be Court Marsheled, or may be not, I'm a civilian....Opps sry...I just saw "ENIGMA" :D

[Polyglot]

Wow, I'm surprised (pleasantly) that the entrance to NORAD is the same as the entrance on Stargate. I grew up in Colorado Springs, and have been to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo many many times, which happens to be not too far north of the base. I didn't know about NORAD until about the time of Operation Desert Storm, when I first started worrying about war, and I heard that since we were close to such a hugely important site for the US military that Colorado Springs would likely be a top-rate target. (And it didn't help my worrying that my dad works in aerospace, often at companies that deal directly with the military..)

Anyway, I'm quite excited that Stargate's got that link to something that hits home territory for me. I remember being thrilled the first time I heard them talk about Cheyenne Mountain, and then passing around that trivia to anyone who would listen (mostly my brother, who usually watches with me). It makes me feel connected. :) (Too bad it's all fictional, right?)

[KokiriChild]

Wow, I'm surprised (pleasantly) that the entrance to NORAD is the same as the entrance on Stargate. I grew up in Colorado Springs, and have been to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo many many times, which happens to be not too far north of the base. I didn't know about NORAD until about the time of Operation Desert Storm, when I first started worrying about war, and I heard that since we were close to such a hugely important site for the US military that Colorado Springs would likely be a top-rate target. (And it didn't help my worrying that my dad works in aerospace, often at companies that deal directly with the military..)

Anyway, I'm quite excited that Stargate's got that link to something that hits home territory for me. I remember being thrilled the first time I heard them talk about Cheyenne Mountain, and then passing around that trivia to anyone who would listen (mostly my brother, who usually watches with me). It makes me feel connected. :) (Too bad it's all fictional, right?)
... or is it fictional? Who know's what's on level28?

I do, but I'm on a "need-to-know" basis :P

I know there's another thread on this already, but wouldn't it be excellent if the Stargate (or similar program) actually existed? Maybe we're living in some kinda Wormhole X-Treme? It'd be a shame tho, what with me being English... Hey, maybe they could send me through the Stargate and I could have "tea, and a jolly goodl old chit-chat" with the Goa'uld? That'd get peace relations rolling, everyone loves tea!

[Lil Naitch]

I did a simple search and didn't see anything turn up on this, so I hope I'm not repeating something that has already been addressed.

Anyways, I did a Google search for NORAD followed by one for Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center (found the full name on the NORAD site) and was surprised to find that all of it is real! NORAD really is housed there, and it looks exactly like in the show and everything! Anyways, here's a link to the website. Check out the Cool Pics section (yes, it does have a "cool pics" section... very cheesy for an Air Force site), where you can see various visiting groups posing in front of the entrance we all know:

Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center (https://www.cheyennemountain.af.mil/)
I remember seeing footage of NORAD on the history channel, and was ammused when it was the same footage they use in Stargate. Love the attention to detail, though.

[KorbenDirewolf]

Officially, there are no sublevels in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.

[Greybro]

On the Season 4 DVD commentaries, Deluise says he's been in there and that it doesn't look anywhere near as cool as the sets do. :)

[Ice^^Heat]

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/norad.html

[KokiriChild]

Officially, there are no sublevels in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
mmmhmmm, "officially"

[KorbenDirewolf]

Then again, I am going by declassified Cold War material. ;)

[KokiriChild]

Then again, I am going by declassified Cold War material. ;)
And since the Goa'uld came along that cold war just got hot...

... I swear I've seen a mothership.... "Weather baloon" my ass!

[Scruff]

I believe that the entrance to the Cheyenne complex was also seen in "Deep Impact."

[KokiriChild]

yeah, I'm pretty sure it was - there can't be that many USAF bases with THAT magnificant an entrance

[thetron]

I'm sorry, but I'm just curious. Are you from the US? Cheyenne Mountain was built to house NORAD during the Cold War period. It was the base of command for monitoring any unidentified incursions into US airspace and was built to house the staff and others, in case of nuclear war or other disaster. That's why it was blasted into a mountain.
Stargate wasn't the first movie/show to use the base

You may remember a old movie called War games. Staring the guy whom was inspector gadget

[lord-anubis]

yeah i remember

[Jedted]

Here's a satalite photo of the entrance to the mountain if anyone's interested. :)

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7175/chyennemountainentrance6uq.jpg

[GodAtum]

Was the scene where the blast door closes in War Games real?

[Jedi_Master_Bra'tac]

On Stargate Sg-1 True Science one of the producers said that you go down the Cheyenne Mountain tunnel and it has a door which is always locked that says StarGate Command, and all that is behind the door is.......A Storage Cupboard...OR IS IT?

[The Signal]

On Stargate Sg-1 True Science one of the producers said that you go down the Cheyenne Mountain tunnel and it has a door which is always locked that says StarGate Command, and all that is behind the door is.......A Storage Cupboard...OR IS IT?
lol I can believe that is true:P Think of it, you wanna keep something secret, make a tv show about it, then anyone who says "Its real" is either a nut job or an OTT fan :D

[Jedi_Master_Bra'tac]

lol I can believe that is true:P Think of it, you wanna keep something secret, make a tv show about it, then anyone who says "Its real" is either a nut job or an OTT fan :D
It would eplain why it has lasted so long (didn't mean that in a offesive way to SG, but most TV shows don't last that long)

[GodAtum]

There is a great story based on The Terminator and SKYNET set in Cheyenne Mountain:

http://www.goingfaster.com/term2029/skynet.html


Recent breakthroughs in advanced microchip design and computer processing power were the impetus that led to America’s first military grade neural net based artificial intelligence, SKYNET. The SKYNET project was constructed in the mid 1990’s and would interface and coordinate all of America’s strategic arsenal into one cohesive command structure. The SKYNET project was located well below the surface of Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado; the original home of the North American Defense (NORAD) Command.


The blast door:

http://www.dismalworld.com/im/world_tour/cheyenne-mountain-operations-center.jpg

Tunnel entrance closeup:

http://www.paulshambroomart.com/art/nuclear%20weapons%20revA/images/2781_11NoradEntr.jpg

Wikipedia Picture of entrance (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Cheyenne_Mt_base.jpg)

:indeed: :

https://www.cheyennemountain.af.mil/Cool-Pics/nuggets-dancers/dancers-1.jpg

MMMMMMM.......cake: (https://www.cheyennemountain.af.mil/Cool-Pics/CCC%20Photos/Cake01.jpg)

[Otera]

.... *pokes thread* *get chased by SFs...*

[St@rbuck]

Cool thanks for the info :)

[Otera]

wow, I revived it.... akkk!!! SFs!!!

[IcyNeko]

Show us the stargate! We know it's down there. Level... 26, IIRC.

[Beatrice Otter]

NORAD was built during the Cold War to serve as a comand center in the case of nuclear attack; that's why it is in/under a mountain. However, with the threat of nuclear war lessened and the threat of terrorist activity greatly increased, they're thinking of closing down NORAD (http://www.denverpost.com/northcom/ci_3503161) because they have other, newer centers that can do the same job as well as or better.

Of course, we as Stargate fans know the real reason, don't we. It's so that the SGC can expand to accommodate new operations against the Oriii. :samanime20:

[Otera]

My teacher is going to colorado springs.... she might need some help to stay safe, no matter the case....