Strange Structures in China's high Desert

[dnoblett]

Interesting article in Gizmodo.

 

Kind of like the Area 51 only more remote...

 

This is crazy. New photos have appeared in Google Maps showing unidentified titanic structures in the middle of the Chinese desert. The first one is an intricate network of what appears to be huge metallic stripes. Is this a military experiment? They seem to be wide lines drawn with some white material. Or maybe the dust have been dug by machinery.

 

It's located in Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, north of the Shule River, which crosses the Tibetan Plateau to the west into the Kumtag Desert. It covers an area approximately one mile long by more than 3,000 feet wide.

 

The tracks are perfectly executed, and they seem to be designed to be seen from orbit.

 

Perhaps it's some kind of targeting or calibrating grid for Chinese spy satellites? Maybe it's a QR code for aliens? Nobody really knows.

 

MORE: http://gizmodo.com/5...e-of-the-desert

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Misc%20Junk%20for%20posting/Mystery01.jpg

 

Here is a weird airport-like structure. Except it's bright cyan. Seems full of water or made of a weird material. And look at the other airport-like structure next to it. Perhaps a decoy?

 

http://g.co/maps/375xc

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Misc%20Junk%20for%20posting/Mystery05.jpg

 

This is a huge complex, ten by five miles at least. Are these huge precipitation pools of some kind? If you zoom in Google Maps (see the image below this one), you could see two cooling towers like those used in nuclear plants, as well as several water treatment plants.

 

http://g.co/maps/73s5d

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Misc%20Junk%20for%20posting/Mystery03.jpg

 

http://g.co/maps/aqdar

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Misc%20Junk%20for%20posting/Mystery04.jpg

 

This one seems like another target, this time arranged radially, with planes and obstacles.

 

http://g.co/maps/vgdf7

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Misc%20Junk%20for%20posting/Mystery06.jpg

 

The second structure seems to be some kind of giant targeting grid, also north of the Shule river.

 

If you zoom in, you can see vehicles destroyed. It's west of what seems to be a fairly big electrical station or a radio station similar to HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program located near Gakona, Alaska, and funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska, and DARPA.

 

http://g.co/maps/kc573

[dan1984]

Really, really strange. My first thought too was something similar to HAARP, but at most 2 of the structures seem to be similar to HAARP. It's weird though......in places like this you wouldn't expect there to be a lot of "activity," but it really seems like they're isolated with no human activity around.

 

I think we're all more curious than the actual use is devious, otherwise we probably wouldn't be discussing this right now, due to lack of satellite photo evidence, but, still interesting none-the-less.

 

Interesting note: the huge Sichuan earthquake a few years back was actually stronger than reported, or more strong than initially reported, I forget the exact circumstances. But if an earthquake is stronger than an 8.0, then without the consent of the country where the earthquake occurred international rescue forces can come in and administer aid. China made sure the earthquake didn't surpass 8.0, as Sichuan is where many Chinese military projects, bases, China's "NASA," and other "secrets," and they were afraid of "international aid" coming in and having ulterior motives.

Edited November 15, 2011 by dan1984 (see edit history)

[Randy W]

You'll see ground level pictures for some of the locations - someone went to these locations, and didn't even find the "crop circles" interesting enough to get pictures of those.

 

In some cases, "they" have obviously been there a long time as the terrain blends into them - they're simply coloration artifacts of the Google pictures. You'll see similar changes in coloration where neighboring pictures were taken at different times and under different conditions.

 

These are coloration changes due to atmospheric or photographic conditions, unless they were painted there a VERY long time ago

http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff367/walserrjw/Untitled-1-5.jpg

[Randy W]

Here someone taking ground level pictures came within a mile or so of the cyan-colored area, and apparently didn't see what all the fuss was about

 

http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff367/walserrjw/Untitled-1-6.jpg

[dan1984]

Interesting

[Yuanyang]

Clearly signs of ancient astronauts.

[Yuanyang]

Word today is that the images are used for calibrations of their spy sattelites.

[Mick]

Word today is that the images are used for calibrations of their spy sattelites.

Anybody have any idea where ours are? Is that, in fact, how we calibrate our spy sattelites?

[Randy W]

Word today is that the images are used for calibrations of their spy sattelites.

Anybody have any idea where ours are? Is that, in fact, how we calibrate our spy sattelites?

 

Yes - the guy showed a similar shot of an American calibration target - it was slightly larger than the width of one of the Chinese lines, and is basically four arrows pointing to a small (maybe a foot or two or three across)dot in the center.

 

A possible explanation, but my contention is that if you go to one of the Chinese sites, there won't be anything there - that the "lines" are false color artifacts from the photography.

 

http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/images/stories/arizona-target-02.jpg

 

http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/curious-china-pics-2185/4

 

The white cross, located in Casa Grande, Ariz., was created in the 1960s and used by the United States military to calibrate its Corona spy satellites. The calibration targets that have recently been found in China's Gobi Desert are used in the same way this one was, Hill told Life's Little Mysteries.

 

The United States provides China (and the rest of the world) with a free and much more precise system - GPS. Of course, China wouldn't want to rely on our GPS system during a crisis, so they are developing their own.

Edited November 18, 2011 by Randy W (see edit history)

[griz326]

I think these images are Google Easter eggs to poison the well.

 

I've read the "NASA scientist" comments and such where it's said that these "calibration" sites are nearly identical to the US calibration sites. Please show me the "nearly identical" US calibration sites...I'm waiting.