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Competition Time!

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:00 GMT

No prize. Just a bit of fun for regular readers who subscribe to this RSS feed. Take a good look at this Bird's Eye aerial photo from Bing (MS Virtual Earth). Are the "crop circles" really the most sinister aspect to the location (near Manchester)? No - one of the building complexes you see held a very controversial secret for almost ten years in the 20th Century. What was it? Drop me a line if you reckon you know.

Project Pegasus, Project Hydrus, Project Circinus, Project Gemini [UPDATE]

Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:30:00 GMT

New planning applications at Atomic Weapons Establishment AWE Aldermaston.

Project Pegasus – Enriched Uranium Storage and Handling Facility;
Project Hydrus – Flash Radiographic X-ray Source Diagnostics Hydrodynamics Facility;
Project Circinus – High Explosives Fabrication Facility (HEFF);
Project Gemini – Office Accommodation and computer support services for ORION laser test facility.

Updated 7th March 2010 with new information.

Project Lennox – New US Embassy Design Announced

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:10:00 GMT

Plans for the new US Embassy in London. US Government announces winning design.

Secret Bases "MI6 Chief on Facebook" story nominated for press award

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:50:00 GMT

The Secret Bases exclusive for Jason Lewis at the Mail on Sunday – revealing new MI6 boss Sir John Sawers on Facebook – is nominated for the British Press Awards 2010 "Scoop of the Year".

"28 Days Later" fears over UKCMRI biohazard lab next to London Eurostar Terminal

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:30:00 GMT

Residents in Camden, London oppose plans for the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI) biomedical research facility and animal testing laboratory, containing potentially deadly viruses – to be built right next to St. Pancras International Eurostar Terminal.

New counter-terrorism training compound revealed at SAS base [NEW imagery]

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:30:00 GMT

New aerial imagery reveals a new compound at an SAS counter-terrorism training facility hidden in a forest clearing.

BBC Radio 4 documentary series [NEW INFO]

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:30:00 GMT

Author of Secret Bases features in one episode of a new BBC Radio 4 documentary series "On the Map" about suspicious deletions from Ordnance Survey maps. Recorded at a secret nuclear bunker in January 2010. Series of ten 15-minute programmes starts Monday 22nd March 2010 3.45pm and runs every weekday at the same time until Friday 2nd April 2010.

Secret Motorway Junctions [UPDATED]

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:50:00 GMT

Section on secret motorway junctions – not for public use. Updated with a new example 23rd January 2010. This one's on Google Street View too!

New feature – search on each page with a special menu

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:30:00 GMT

Use the new feature to search for keywords and phrases of interest on the current page you are viewing. Look out for the scrolling menu on the right of the browser window.

Son of Star Wars UK Missile Tracking Base finally makes it on to OS maps

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:55:00 GMT

Consider an extremely secure enclave within a USAF base somewhere in the English countryside. It has always been one of those sensitive sites routinely "airbrushed" from both 1:50000 and 1:25000 scale Ordnance Survey (OS) maps. But now, in a new revision of the data, after Google Earth has been revealing what is really beneath that suspicious blank space, the OS map of the base has been updated to show the full reality.

Secret Bases on Google Earth and Street View [UPDATED]

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:15:00 GMT

An official companion to Secret Bases. A Google Earth KML/KMZ placemark file detailing all locations on Parts 1 through 5. Plus Street View where available. Updated 18th January 2010. New locations on Secret Bases Part 5.

Cameras never lie [UPDATE]

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:50:00 GMT

MoD announces official closure of RAF signals unit ...
... but new aerial photos reveal massive computer upgrade to hardened bunker. Story updated with new information, 15th January 2010.

Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) and PRIDE

Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:50:00 GMT

Building 0101 and PRIDE – Programme to Rationalise and Integrate the DIS Estate at an RAF base in Cambridgeshire.

Real Spooks Spooked! [UPDATE]

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:30:00 GMT

Hacking attempt on official MI5 website. Story updated with new information, 15th December 2009.

Coming up in 2010!

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:15:00 GMT

At last – the truth behind an infamous UK conspiracy theory surrounding a legendary underground storage base finally revealed in a new television documentary. The astonishing facts are even stranger than the wild stories!

GOSCC

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:55:00 GMT

Council publishes MoD architect's hi-res blueprints for new GOSCC – Global Operations and Security Control Centre.

Trigger Happy

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:43:00 GMT

Comparing versions of aerial photography to reveal new £5 million Indoor Weapons Firing Range at Thames Valley Police Training HQ.

NATO's Felix Centre

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:42:00 GMT

NATO's Felix Centre – International Training School for IEDD Improvised Explosive Device Disposal in the English countryside.

Secret Bunker

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:30:00 GMT

Secret bunker hidden in hillside is store for official supplier of weapons and ammo to UK Police Forces and MoD.

What on earth is this?

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:25:00 GMT

What on earth is this and where is it? There's something suspiciously familiar about it!

TEMPEST

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:10:00 GMT

TEMPEST – electronic eavesdropping counter-measures. As originally featured in Eye Spy Magazine.

Giant Voice at CIA transmitter site

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:00:00 GMT

"Giant Voice" – the terrorism early warning system at a CIA transmitter site in the Oxfordshire countryside.

Oh mercy! Max Mosley's nemesis is back!

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:50:00 GMT

Mistress Abi, the dominatrix who filmed Max Mosley's "Nazi" S&M orgy is back under a new name!

Secret B-2 Stealth Mission

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:35:00 GMT

High quality ground picture of the Spirit of Nebraska B-2 stealth bomber on a secret training mission to a UK RAF base.

Pilot's Eye Views

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:31:00 GMT

Pilot's Eye aerial photos of Secret Bases, provided by my specialist contributor with a private pilot's licence.

GCHQ Bude

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Exclusive high quality Pilot's Eye aerial photo of NSA Echelon signals intercept facility on the Cornish coast.

SOCA and Project HYDRA

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:23:00 GMT

Project HYDRA: the many heads of SOCA, the Serious Organised Crime Agency – "the British FBI".

NSA Echelon upgrade

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:20:00 GMT

Major upgrade to the RAF Menwith Hill NSA Echelon spy facility – extension to Steeplebush II hardened mission building for Global War on Terror (GWOT).

New MI5 HQ in Belfast

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:15:00 GMT

Aerial photos of the new back-up headquarters for MI5 in Holywood, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It even appears on Google Street View!

CIA Rendition and Spy Planes at a UK RAF base

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:05:00 GMT

Google Earth captures rendition flights landing at a UK RAF base, which is also the home of spy planes used by MI5.

Secret Bases in a Secret Bunker

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:55:00 GMT

Secret Bases website is hosted in a data centre within a hardened bunker, at one of the UK's most famous Cold War era military sites.

Gotcha! Google Street View camera cars caught breaking the law

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:55:00 GMT

Google's own Street View imagery shows their camera cars have broken the law by using police-only "secret junctions" on motorways.

NBTC: National Border Targeting Centre

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:25:00 GMT

Secret Raytheon document reveals operations at the UK Border Agency's National Border Targeting Centre (NBTC), the new version of JBOC – Joint Borders Operations Centre.

MI5: Watching the Watchers

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:10:00 GMT

Where does MI5 get its cars serviced? As originally featured in Eye Spy Magazine.

GCHQ test facility hidden in a forest

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:06:00 GMT

Plans and maps of new secret GCHQ test facility.

A funny thing happened on the way to the GCHQ Doughnut

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:04:00 GMT

An astonishing, comical but true personal story and a serious warning about the perils of outsourcing spy recruitment.

Search Engine

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:03:00 GMT

A dedicated Google-powered search facility for my "Secret Bases" website revealing the UK's "hidden" MoD facilities and military sites. Featuring covert spy bases, underground bunkers and more!

Secret Bases RSS feed

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:00:00 GMT

A new RSS feed for Secret Bases – launched December 2009.