Comments on: Saharan Stone Circle Mystery

By: daniel

daniel — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:11:14 +0000

Weird, looking at lines of a similar nature, have you seen the markings a edwards air base, these have been there since the 1940’s, the were to give the pilots orientation when they left the runway i was talking with the guy at http://www.737throttle.com, he seemed to know all about it ,you can also see it on google earth.

By: kaleb krimmel

kaleb krimmel — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:24:15 +0000

look closer it says FACKI

By: Guillaume de Saint Marc

Guillaume de Saint Marc — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:00:11 +0000

As I wrote before, it is wrtiiten FACHI, which is the name of the nearest village and it indicates the air stip…

By: kaleb krimmel

kaleb krimmel — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:13:12 +0000

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By: kaleb krimmel

kaleb krimmel — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:12:56 +0000

it seems to say ‘facki’ we have no idea what it means but i could of been made by the nazis

By: Guillaume de Saint Marc

Guillaume de Saint Marc — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:45:27 +0000

These stones indicates only the Fachi airstrip … sorry for the Mystery …
This type of indication, with stones on the sand, visible for years, gave us the idea for the UT772 Memorial.
See on June 15th 2009 on this website or on http://www.dc10-uta.org for details …

By: Thrasher

Thrasher — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:03:55 +0000

okay, every single ime when i see the title in my rssreader, i think it’s something about Sharon Stone.
what a disappointment…

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:41:39 +0000

There is also precedent for permanent markers being set up in the deserts for orientation of aircraft, which often relied on visual markers to confirm direction and location. I’ve read of these being used all the way up to World War 2 to assist aircraft with navigation.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:21:12 +0000

Looks like this was an old airfield which the circle would be explained not as a helicopter landing area, but what pilots would look at from altitude to determine wind. Inside the circle would be a large windsock or other wind indicating device. Here is the modern day equivalent.
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1331042/2/istockphoto_1331042-airport-wind-sock.jpg