Area 51
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The best part of it is that if you switch back to “Map” mode there is absolutly nothing on the map.
Try Looking At Area 51 In Keyhole.
The Whole Area Is Blurred Out.
Then Look At The White House And Other D.C. Landmarks, Someone Is Hiding Something!
BTW Nice Site
A satellite site-seeing site is a cool idea… When I was busy looking for the Statue of Liberty yesterday I was thinking someone should do this–thanks for taking the initiative.
Someone might want to make use of http://mygmaps.com/ or at least the standalone viewer to plot all these places on one map.
–Phil.
Can anyone find the Great Wall of China in satellite view?
I’ve tried using the lat/long from the Nasa site, but didn’t have any success, is it still too high to see?
–Phil.
my firend foudn it before you ..
EXACT same place .. and posted it on this site .. why wasnt it posted?
After seeing the Area 51 blurred out I searched for the NASA site I worked at a couple of months ago. Dryden, which is located on Edwards Air Force Base about an hour and a half north of LA. It is blurred as well. The funny thing is that you can buy aerial photographs of the base at the base mall, and at the tourist shops just outside the base in Rosamond. Why would they blur it if it is public knowledge already?
Placemark: Edwards Air Force Base/NASA Dryden / Google Earth
After looking a little closer at the map I noticed I was looking at the dry lake bed, not the air force base or Dryden. If you scroll to the North East you’ll see the base and the airstrip where the shuttle lands. What looks blurred is the huge dry lake bed that is right before you get to the base. I’ve been there and there is absolutely nothing to hide on the dry lake bed. They used to do fighter test bombing out there using conventional ordinance, but I don’t think that is done there any longer. Nothing to hide at all as far as I can tell.
Does Area 51 have a dry lake bed? If so is it possible it shows up differently on the SAT maps because of the soil composition? Because the dry lake bed at EAFB is not white as it is in the sat map at the link above, it is a dark sandy brown.
Anybody know if this is Placemark: Half Dome / Google Earth in Yosemite?
panos,
As b3uk said we’ve had quite a few submissions for Area 51 and it just so happened Andy’s was the first. Sorry your friend didn’t get the props - maybe next time!
actually, the pock-marked area was not a nuclear testing site, it’s the live-fire area for the USAF’s Red Flag exercises they have at Nellis
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First off, those are NOT nuclear weapons created craters. They are way, way too small. They’re from artillery/weapons testing.
Secondly, the US has more than a few classified air bases. Yes, in the age of information its a quaint idea that you hide a huge military base, but that’s the policy. It doesnt make Groom Lake any special.
Lastly, all the cool aircraft testing that got the UFO crowd in an uproar way back when is done at Edwards now. They’re just planes, albiet cutting edge planes.
“First off, those are NOT nuclear weapons created craters. They are way, way too small.”
Actually, they are. I know this because I’ve been there and have seen them with my own eyes. The Department of Energy conducts tours to the Nevada Test Site. The craters may appear small on your computer screen, but I assure you they are massive in person. They are from underground tests conducted from the 50s to the 90s.
NTS tours
Placemark: “Sedan” crater / Google Earth — the largest crater at the NTS. 100 kilotons.
More crater pictures at the DOE website.
“sorry we don’t have imagery at this level” …
It’s not blured out they just don’t let non military organizations to have higher resolution satelites, and they don’t seel these kind of images in greater resolution either
If you look at the map linked to above of area 51, and scroll it due north a little ways, you will see a series of mysterious green dots. What are these?
Google’s new sattelite maps are pretty cool, but for a real feeling of megalomaniacal world control, check out NASA’s World Wind. Spin the globe and zoom in anywhere, with options for different sattelites; Landsat, Topo maps, and USGS Urban Ortho of select cities. It is the most awesomest video game I have ever played. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
Yes, those are atomic test craters. Here is the very first, Trinity: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth. It is the tiny little crater in the center. The much larger crater toward the LL must of have been an H-bomb.
Sorry, that link is a little off. Like I said, it is NOT the big crater but rather a tiny little crater to the NE of the big one. Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Is it just me, or is a whole square of the satellite picture the wrong color compared to the surrounding images? As if it were copy and pasted? Meh, I don’t care- I, for one, welcome our alien overlords. -MK
The Green dots are center pivot irrigation farm areas. This area must be irrigated to grow crops.
A circle happens to supply the most area available for the least amount of circumference, thus it’s the most efficient use of land/water resources.
Area 51, etc, is not blurred for security reasons - I think Google just didn’t buy the highest resolution images (Area 51 has been imaged at 1m resolution). Other “secret” bases are pretty clear, as are the bases that house B-2’s and F-117’s.
Google owns the entire company that owns the satellite images. It’s just that the whole Earth hasn’t been imaged at the highest resolutions yet.
Yes, but Area 51 most assuredly has been imaged at both 2m and 1m resolutions.
Hopefully Google are planning to extend the satellite imaging to everywhere.
it’s very interesting.
i ‘ll wait for better ones.
buddy…thats gloom lake…….not area 51, the white part is a lake area 51 is next to it
Buddy, it’s Groom lake, not Gloom lake.
Ok, the Area 51 and Edwards AFB sites are not blurred at all, but there is varying resolutions there. Here is a location which *is* blurred out, actually pixellated, for no apparent reason. This is the Washington DC “Owl”:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Any idea what that building in the center is? Is it the Capitol building?
According to the map, yes, its the capitol building.
Look at the different perspectives of the two towers of the Golden Gate Bridge. How come they are so different if the satellite is hundreds of km up and the bridge is only 1.28 km between the towers?
Area51 is mysterious.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
What’s are these two black-hole?
and I opened “Google Maps Scanline” for Japanese.
Google Maps is a huge business tool.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Zoom in on the lake, very wierd.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Another one here
@priss green spots are where irrigation is taking place, so i assume back spots will be something similar.
Hey, how do you guys record the web link to these things you find? I have found some stuff, but I do not know how to save the location on googlemaps
look at the pock rittled dessert bed at area 51 then look at each pock very close youll notice that some have hatches and there open. wow! what are they. there for sure not from nucliear testing. many have some kind of needle in the middle. slightly to the north of here there is an open hatch in the ground. something is getting ready to come out of here. wow! now look just before this hatch. there are two orb type shped things in the sky wow!!!!! this is amazing. how lucky we are to have google. thank you google. look close in right screen resalution try different ones till you get best view. hey did anyone see the plane sitting on the runway in front of the at least four entrances(or exits) that lead into the side of the mountain. wow wow tripple wow. !!!!!!!!!!!!!! i havent even mentioned what i found in Utah WOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! i want to thank my goverment for alowing us to view all of this. (even if they wont tell us what it is and does. ) the stuff in utah is nuts. Keep looking and look close and do it right. wow!!!!!
what did you find in utah please tell me.
please tell me how you get the stuff you find onto the website.