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headquarters, who informed them that there were no military or civilian aircraft in the area at the time. The incident was never resolved and is known today as the Carson Sink UFO incident.
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and the Stillwater Wildlife Management Area. This area serves as an important stopover for migrating waterfowl. The Sehoo Formation is south of the Carson Sink.
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from flooding due to unusually heavy snowfall in the preceding three years. The sinks remained connected by water for three years, until 1987.
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fly within 800 yards of their aircraft before speeding out of sight seconds later. Upon landing, the two colonels reported the incident to the
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Lone Rock is in the middle of a Bravo-20 live bombing area. It is a solitary pinnacle of rock through the playa and it is held sacred by the
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The Carson Sink and Lone Rock working areas are the northwest portion of both the Carson Sink and the US Naval
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Norther Paiute and Western Shoshone Land Use in Northern Nevada: A Class I Ethnographic/Ethnohistoric overview
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form the central portion of the lake bed of the prehistoric
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In 1984, the natural dike between the Carson Sink and the
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across the Lahontan Basin, included a section through the
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Playa
View southeast across the Carson Sink from Topog Peak in the West Humboldt Range
Topog Peak
West Humboldt Range
The Carson Sink and the Lahontan Valley form the central portion of the lake bed of the prehistoric Lake Lahontan.
Lahontan Valley
Lake Lahontan
39°52′40″N 118°20′50″W / 39.87778°N 118.34722°W / 39.87778; -118.34722
Lahontan Basin
Nevada
playa
Carson Desert
Nevada
Carson River
canals
Truckee-Carson Irrigation District
Central Basin and Range ecoregion
Fallon National Wildlife Refuge
post-war
Lovelock Aerial Gunnery Range
Fallon Range Training Complex
Northern Paiute
Pleistocene
Lake Lahontan
Lahontan Basin
Carson Trail
California Gold Rush
Forty Mile Desert
Carson River
Pony Express

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