This massive missile base protected the US against the Soviet Union | ABANDONED
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In this episode I'm exploring abandoned places in the United States with Edwin ( / edwins22 ) and we explore a massive missile base which had to protect the United States from nuclear bombers from the Soviet Union. It became useless and abandoned in the early 70s with the development of the intercontinental ballistic missile. In this episode we tell you more about its military history and show you many buildings on this massive site.
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I made a career in the USAF (1982-2002). I retired from Active Duty in March 2002. Of the many bases I was stationed at during this career two of the bases are now closed. They were Brooks AFB, Texas located in San Antonio Texas. The other was Eaker AFB, Arkansas. It was previously named Blytheville AFB. It was located just outside of the city of Blytheville Arkansas. It is hard to think I have been retired from the USAF for 21 Years! Loved your video.
I too lived at Eaker AFB but I was a kid then. My dad was stationed there. This would have been about 1985-1988/89 then we were sent to England. Once I was old enough, I joined the Air Force myself and served as a Security Forces form 1999-2011. After all my travels I moved back to Arkansas and live about 30 miles from Eaker AFB. I still go there on occasion to see my old house I lived in. Much of the housing area is used for low-income families and retirees. All of the houses form behind the street I lived on all the way back to what was the new base housing area has been left to the elements since the bases closure. It's sad what has happened to the base. There was a dormitory that was located next to the base pool that was finally torn down about a year ago. It had been cordoned off after one side of the entire building collapsed exposing all the rooms of all three floors. They are slowly in the process of tearing down other dormitories there now is well. But it is slow due to budgets.
I retired after 21 years of active and reserved duty. Norton AFB is closed but my other bases are still operational. I was stationed at McGuire from 95 to 98 and I never knew this BOMARC base was there. Had I known I might have been tempted to go take a look. I did some exploring around Lakehurst Naval Air Station where the Hindenburg crashed, but sadly they don't have a memorial there.
BOMAC was the Air Forces' answer to the Army's Nike Hercules. The system was a good one for the time but like any system it needs support and the Air Force was never too wopped up about static air defense sites. I am an old Nike Hercules vet.
I assume radar/radio guided. Easy to counter today. I am thinking Hawk is the same. Current inventory.
@@rogersmith7396 Hawks are infrared heat seeking missiles, Nike missiles are guided missiles.
@@independent5564 Homing all the way killers. I am thinking radar directed. I guess they are becoming obsolete.
BOMARC
When I was in high school, my friends and I used to throw parties at an old NIKE site on Washburn Maine… Washburn or mapleton I forget exact. Also loring AF base is up there which has been closed for awhile. pHISH used to have huge concerts on the runway. The runway was massive for b52’s I believe
Just a heads up if this is the bomarc base in NJ this is still technically a nuclear waste site. When the warhead was melted it was extinguished with fire trucks and were not able to recover all the nuclear material there is still a considerably large amount of material still missing. Its also actively patrolled as a part of the national guard armory and the local air force base
they are wearing alot of winter clothing so im guessing up near canada
@@Bluecolord Its located in New Jersey. I've been the these bomarc silos before and their previous video was also done on a different part of the base. No where near canada
@@Bluecolord it gets cold in the USA too yknow 🤣
@@ASMRJAMESY yes?
@@Bluecolord people wear that in kentucky too... and even sometimes georgia... so 🤷♂️
Way cooler than I thought it would be, considering how long it has laid abandoned!
Thanks again for a legendary experience, Bob!
1972ish.
this is without a doubt, your best video ever! Thank you for publishing it for all to see.
It's amazing how much humanity has spent over the years for the war machine. These vids are so interesting. I really enjoy your work.
how much is spent, then left to rot,. thats our money sitting out there.
To protect our nation from communists
Definitely we can see where Honeywell got a huge boost with the military contracts..probably what made them the money to be what they are today.
Bob! That was an amazing video! Thank you for all the hard work and the best abandoned place on You Tube!!
What a cool site and cool video!! Despite the fact that it's been abandoned for 50 years it's quite well preserved - those missile cradles particularly. Perhaps the size and remoteness of the site has helped it or maybe because there was radioactive contamination it kept people away. Hopefully Bambi made it out safely!!!
Bambi's Dad probably fell in through those openings in the floor, and doubtful He ever got out. Maybe they should have called the Dept. Of Natural Resouces for help...anonymously even to either get Him help or be "harvested" so He just didn't die down there and rot away for nothing.
Thank you for another great video. I love watching your exploration. Before I had kids I would go out and explore things, and even started getting into abandoned mine shafts (yes, dangerous), but now I can't do that while my kids are young.
Appreciate you sharing this Bob💜😎
Awesome location Bob! Thanks for all the extra information and history. The large area with the yellow dolly is probably the missile workshop. Thanks for taking us with you on adventure! See you in the next video 🫡
Hi Bob and a happy new year!
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Fascinating location Bob. When I was a kid in the '60's we would drive past a Nike site in Connecticut when going to my cousin's house. Sometimes the missiles would be in the upright position. Who knows? Maybe they were preparing to launch and we were going for a picnic!
Which site?
@@brandonstafford4054 I don't know. It was 60 years ago. I'm still looking.
@@jepolch Manchester, CT?
@@downlowsyndrome3163 My cousins lived in Enfield, CT. I thought I saw the missiles somewhere between Springfield, MA and Enfield.
@@jepolch East Windsor, CT would be my bet.
I didn't know about these sites. I thought there was only the Nike/Hercules sites for the bombers. Another sweet video as usual and now I know something new!
Bruce Gordon on his channel talks about shooting down a BOMARC with his F106. Training.
Thanks for the video! A site I'm quite familiar with and was always curious to see. Surely though there were additional buildings that perhaps you didn't enter?
Anyone wondering where this is, it’s the old Nike Missile base for McGuire AFB. Known as the BOMARC accident.
Thanks, Bob and friend. It's always fun
Very cool explore and history, I did not know this type of system existed. Too bad that deer got stuck in the facility but I guess it can happen with such a large facility abandoned for so long. Thank you for the explore!
Always wanted to see that site from the ground, very cool. Thanks for sharing!
Wow!! a fantastic explore many thx for sharing your visit too a very interesting historical place 👏👏👏🇬🇧
Definitely the site near McGuire AFB.. can see the name on a few of the stickers. Cool site , stay away from the exclusion zone that's still contaminated with plutonium.
There's some good videos about the broken Arrow incident
I found myself in the zone one time at night. Creepy place at night.
I love what you did with the sound mix this time. Very effective.
Nice video! I explored there in 2018 and it was a pretty cool place.
Can you please tell me where this place is?
Great explore!
You guys explore the most epic places not just abandoned houses you guys go see the most amazing things!! Amazing video !
Those red missile caps looked like they were made of asbestos. Just casually tearing them up with no mask lol.
Excellent as usual. I appreciate the risks and expenditures you take on to capture these locations.
Also - ha! Yeah, we have random patches of cactus up north and across the midwest. They are fun to come across in forests or barrens.
Thanks Bob sharing great explore!
Goed filmpje mannen hartelijk dank! Alleen die voice over jongens, blijft vreemd klinken!
great stuff - keep on going
Hey Bob, great explore! Thanks for sharing. An anonymous tip to the wildlife services might get the deer out. Cheers!
That was an incredable site! Have you done any of the Njke sites! We had 4 but now just the remains of 2. Thanks for the great tour.
Visited here in the 90s, escorted by the SPs, when I was stationed nearby. The blown up hangar was still there, surrounded by strands of barbed wire. When it blew up they eventually poured concrete over top but by this time trees were growing up through the concrete. This is very cool. I figured by now the whole place would have been buried. From what I heard, when the warhead exploded the base was evacuated immediately and everything was left behind. Interesting that you were able to access. Maybe since the area was cleaned up there is no longer any surveillance.
It caught fire, it didn’t explode
Where is this place?
@@shanelewis617 It's in NJ near Lakehurst NAS and McGuire-Ft Dix. Right off 539.
@@claytondonnell1543 THANKS, THAT'S TO BAD! I'M from New York but I'm in Bakersfield California now! TO far away! I'm not going anywhere near there!
Thanks for telling me where it is though!
In the top ten! Great explore...
pretty impressive how little graffiti and looting being abandoned so long ago and being easily accessible.
It’s still on an active military base.
good work
Very interesting and informative. Thank you.
Another amazing place you found and Rare, what makes it even better no graffiti !!
Great vid. very enjoyable. thks from the UK
Really enjoyed the video thank you again guys! I hope you take along a Geiger counter with you just in case. I was shocked there were still some documentation still there in decent shape for you to read. Those diesel gen sets were quite large. The deterioration was pretty bad, but they had to be several hundred Kw combined. I was not sure if that was old flares in the floor in the room with the missle cone or not? Great video again !
strange how some of the missile lifts appear to be upside down compared to others, thought they would be the same.
also i would love to see a 'will it start' video where someone tries to fire up one of the diesel gens lol.
Just imagine all the history and people that worked there. A place lost for ever in the sands of time.
More Like this, please. Very cool...
Awesome bro 👏
Looks to be the BOMARC site at McGuire AFB(now JB DIX-MCGUIRE-LAKEHURST) where they had the accident back in the 1960s... Walking all through the woods, when it is literally 100 feet off a main county highway off the east end of the base...
pretty cool! Thanks.
Maybe could have left a long plank or something to let the deer out
Good video brother iv never seen stuff I'll never see
That's the site in New Egypt N.J. next to the New National guard complex. You can drive all over in colliars mills wild life management area and drive right on up on the runway at Lake Hurst Naval base. We used 4 wheel back there all the time in the mid 2000's. Haven't been back there in years. You should go and check out the catapolts for launching aircraft pretty cool stuff out there. Driving down the runway was pretty cool.
That thing you were looking at around the 10 min mark is a mill used for machining thungs
Thanks for the info Joe!
Very cool. Thanks for the explore.
The BOMARC missile was built in a production facility on East Marginal Way in Seattle. The building had once been a Ford Motor Company assembly plant for the Model A automobile. It is now the Federal Center South in Seattle.
Cool ! Most of these sites are completely demolished unfortunately....
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath There was an unfinished site at Paine Field, Everett, WA. It was demolished and an office park ("The BOMARC Center") was built on the site.
One was scheduled to be built at the Portland Airport in Portland, OR but was never funded.
Great video as always, although I was hoping for a rescue since it's a deer and not a lion, beware of the deteriorated asbestos that lines the pipes especially in thermal power plants and boiler rooms as you can see at the end
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You don't fuck about with a deer. Especially a male with a rack like that. It's not like in Disney.
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Really cool place !!!!!!
Looked familiar in Plumsted NJ. I explored this back in the mid 1980's while serving in the Army at Ft Dix.
O epic! Most have been demolished by now!😔
Seneca Army Depot in Romulus, NY which closed in 1995 is open for tours you just need to check in as to where you can and can not go among the countless bunkers, air strip and railroad yard there.
That site is part of Joint Base McGuire, Lake Hurst, Dix. Used to drive by it when i was stationed there.
When I was a kid, I’d wander around the abandoned Nike Missile sites in Alaska. I think they were all abandoned in the late 60’s. Lots of cool things to look at. By the 90’s most were cleaned up I think. Still some of the bunkers and the radar domes out there on some mountain tops.
Oooo still a dream to explore some locations in Alaska😍
I wish I was still there. I could host and adventure or two. I know where a pretty remote dredge is, some abandoned military stuff etc. but the family moved out 3 years ago so no more reason to go up there… sorry…
Ft Dix for two videos! I thought that the BOMARC facility was off limits.
Since when is that a deterrent for Bob et al?
Lived in the area my whole life and never knew this was what this facility was
There was a BOMARC site in Bangor, Maine, that you can easily drive to. It has been repurposed as an industrial park. The silos are rented out for storage, office space, mechanics' shops, and retail space.
Outside Bitburg City there is a Bomarc / Matadore site which was fully operational during the early Cold War. in the 80s When I was there we used to to what you are doing through the ghost town like MSA Area.
Outstanding explore with all the artifacts left behind!
But the trapped deer is a downer...
Yeah I always try to rescue animals on explores but this time it was not possible. Only way was to put it into sleep and lift it out with ropes.
We have deer like NYC has rats. The deer population is far bigger now than in the early 19th century. Deer adapt well to humans. We killed off all their predators and leave food for them everywhere. Really a nuisance here. There is something like 150,000 kills in a 3 day season in MO. and KS. It does'nt even make a dent in the population. They are carrying new diseases as well as Lyme. Sort of like mad cow disease I think.
Nice!
Curious what gimbal you are using? Your footage is so smooth!
this abandoned place is so cool
always healthy bob 🔥🔥🔥
Great explore. I would like to walk around there with a Geiger counter
Did you just leave the deer to die?
uhh bad news broski is dead in a hole i have a picture
That deer broke its leg and died in a hole 😭😭
beautiful place
The original BOMARCS were liquid fueled. The fuel was toxic, corrosive and very unstable, this resulted in a sever accident at one of the sites. They were later converted to a solid fuel that didn't pose the issues of the liquid fuel. Due to the nature of the liquid fuel the BOMARCS could not be fueled until it was needed for a launch or a scheduled training target launch.
I’m very sad for that deer. It will likely die in there, unless you left a means for it to climb out. Boeing and the US government should have at least filled all cavities so animals won’t get trapped like that poor deer. 😢
No joke. Leave a board or something for it can climb out.
Yes, they very easily could have made an anonymous call to the New Jersey department of wildlife, Fish & Wildlife Service, etc. & Provided location info on that trapped deer. Failure to do a simple step like that ruins this video for me.
Hey They should have cleaned up , recycle the metals and rebuild the area into another base or shelter. Excellent video
With all that STUFF above ground the entire site seems fairly useless if the bad guy attacks first...
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What about the deer? Need update. Any possibility that he just walked out?
He went to live on a farm upstate.
This rockets storages looks awsome and still have pretty good shape.
Good images on google earth, You can see what they did on the first clean up as well as the last clean up. The explosion. It looks like the dug up a lot of contaminated dirt and hauled it away, About a half mile long section where the rain water over the years washed it offsite.
Many people never knew that 24 of these missiles sat underneath Camp Edwards on Cape Cod in Massachusetts
When was video shot? has the site recently been cleared?
*Pretty sad, kind of discouraging to think of all the money and effort and energy that went into all that... just abandoned and forgotten now.*
Check out Loring AF base LimeStone Maine!!!! It’s an old nuclear air base that is now closed.
Although boring and very Uneventful, you should visit both Upper and Lower "Fort Warden" in Port Towsend, Washington.
Great community, and the housing on upper base was filmed in the movie "An Officer and a Gentelman" back in the mid-1980s!
A very interesting explore, sadly that deer will die if it cant get out.
The deer gives an "I'm Legend" vibe to the whole video :)
Very nice one guys! Thanks for sharing!
Just a chair chilling @24:26 💺
I explored a nikeajax several times. Did you ever pause and be still and feel like time travel back?
This looks a lot like the one that was in the Michigan UP in the 70's at KincheloeAFB. Pretty sure they leveled those facilities though by the late 1980's sadly.
That is crazzy the roof opens up would make a great machean shop for moving in and out with hamers breaks and press all they need is open the roof fly heavy equipment in with a crane
Hey Bob if you ever make it up to Alaska hit me up, can show you some cool WW II and Cold War sites
It's a dream to go there one day! Send me an email at info@bobthissen.com
Was the warhead just the explosives or did it have the fissile core in it as well?
super!!!! depuis la France...
The nose cone is to protect the radar antenna
At 9:26 you said "we should be mindful of that thing there" ..... what was the thing??
I appears to have metal items that could be scraped out by a person or company, if in so the military and Federal agencies turned it back and abandoned
Bob. You may want to check the history on this location. 1960 there was an issue with a missile it is highly off limits
A hydrogen tank blew out and a missile was destroyed spreading plutonium around. The contaminated silo should still have had warning signs, also it might not have happened at the base they explored.