prompted by cha0tic, here’s the first item off my Post-It.
I was low-altitude cruising over the Nevada desert the other evening.
Was looking for Steve Fossett (yeah I know, bit of a strange thing to do but I’ll fill in the blanks later) when a peculiar design caught my eye.
At a little over 1,700 ASL at 37°40’2.58″N 116° 1’28.58″W is a thing.
I’m not naive enough to believe I’m the person who discovered it first. I also don’t believe it can be anything but man-made.
But what gives?
Huh?
What is it?
Who put it there?
And why?
OK, Steve Fossett.
You can volunteer to do satellite scans to look for Steve Fossett, and the other evening I did this thing too.
http://mturk.com if you’re interested.
But because I’ve got a mind that a true conspiracy theorist would be proud of I realised two things:
a. that the place where Steve Fossett set off from is close to a very dodgy area of Nevada secrecy and
b. that certain bits of the US (military and covert security services) have a history of flying all kinds of stuff over Nevada (amongst other places) and accidentally failing to file flight plans first.
So I began my search on a straight line drawn between Mr Fossett’s point of take off and some very heavy stuff in a certain part of the Nevada desert and found this thing:
Any views?
B.
Turn the Google Earth Community layer on, you’ll see a whole host of people have found it & posted about it. If you’re an avid GE user you might want to join the Keyhole Community. A BBS dedicated to GE (Look for a user called cha0tic 🙂
One of the more sensible posts below.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/278484
I’ve been Mooching around Mturk looking for Mr Fosset as well. Couldn’t get the KML to work in GE though.
The Triangle is 0.75 miles to a side by the way & laid out quite nicely, taking into account that the terrain looks quite hilly.
Hiya cha0tic, thanks for the info.
The community layer is an interesting thing but in this case it gives nothing close to a definitive answer; lots of guesses, suppositions but not much else.
I’ve also learned that a large number of people are posting cr*p – fire up GE and type in the locator ‘elmpt’ and look at the military installation ESE of the village. Someone has tagged it as ETUR – but the locator code for German is D not T (and I know because I was stationed at this installation for almost three years). No-one’s posted any of the really juicy stuff that went on at EDUR; I guess it’s still not out in the public domain. 🙂
Though the community thing is interesting because it gives other people’s views, I’m anal enough to want validated information.
Hmmm
Looks to me like an image that’s been superimposed on an aerial view of the Sierra Nevada. Almost like a water mark. The cap ‘E’ at the apex would suggest it’s compass related.
I agree with cha0tic; if it was actually on the terrain as opposed to being simply on the image the triangle’s shape would never be that true as its shape from above would severely distort over every hill and hummock let alone mountain.
Evidence, I suggest, that Ockham’s Razor can as alwasy slice swiftly through most conspiracy theories, be it Loch Ness, false landings on the moon or for that matter the ‘murder’ of Princess Diana.