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What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert?

Posted by Unknown on from the secret-alien-base dept.

New submitter snooz_crash writes "An Ex-CIA analyst requests your assistance in IDing a base that he has been observing for quite a while. The base has been in existence for several years, but its shape and location do not lead to an immediate answer to the riddle of 'what the heck is it?'"

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  1. Re:Tall 'U' Shaped Structure? by mindcandy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just southwest of that structure is what's obviously a pretty big electrical substation (you can see the transmission tower shadows leading to it) .. also, look further west and you see another U shaped building with no roof and what are obviously little rooms/cells .. so be it dormitories or whatever, I think you're on the right track.

    That's a big substation though .. something need a lot of juice.

  2. Re:Agricultural rather... by icebike · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nothing here is old or defunct.

    Use Google Earth. Click the clock button, and drift back in time.
    Nothing was here in 2009.

    Its just a mining operation of some sort.

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    Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.