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== Area 51 commuters ==
[[Image:Wfm tc janet at mccarran.jpg|thumb|right|300px|EG&G JANET 737s at McCarran.]]
Defense contractor [[EG&G]] maintains a private terminal at [[McCarran International Airport]] in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]].  A number of unmarked aircraft operate daily shuttle services from McCarran to sites operated by EG&G in the extensive federally controlled lands in southern Nevada.   These aircraft reportedly use JANET radio call signs (e.g., "JANET 6"), said to be an acronym for "Joint Air Network for Employee Transportation" or (perhaps as a joke) "Just Another Non-Existent Terminal".  EG&G advertises in the Las Vegas press for experienced airline pilots, saying applicants must be eligible for government security clearance and that successful applicants can expect to always overnight at Las Vegas.  These aircraft, painted white with red trim (the livery of now defunct [[Western Airlines]]), include [[Boeing 737]]s and several smaller executive jets.  Their tail numbers are registered to several unexceptional civil aircraft leasing corporations.  They are reported to shuttle to Groom, [[Tonopah Test Range]], to other locations in the NAFR and NTS, and reportedly to [[Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake]].  Observers counting departures and cars in the private EG&G parking lot at McCarran estimate several thousand people commute on JANET each day.

A bus runs a commuter service along Groom Lake Road, catering to a small number of employees living in several small desert communities beyond the NTS boundary (although it is not clear whether these workers are employed at Groom or at other facilities in the NTS).  The bus drives down Groom Lake Road and stops at [[Crystal Springs, Nevada|Crystal Springs]], [[Ash Springs, Nevada|Ash Springs]], and [[Alamo, Nevada|Alamo]].