Mystery Plane Outline
Monday, 10th September 2007 by Alex Turnbull
Here at the King Khaled Airport in Saudi Arabia, a little way away from the main terminal, there's a mysterious and unexplained outline of a plane marked out on the desert sand.
The shape is similar in size and dimensions to the four-engine Boeing 747; perhaps one was used as a fire training aircraft and since removed? If so, then where did it go, and how did they remove it without disturbing the outline?
Looking closer, is it possible that the plane shape is actually marked by some sort of plant life? Perhaps the brown dots that litter the landscape are shrubs and for some reason they have sprouted up where a plane used to stand.
This was found by diane9247 at the Keyhole forums - where despite extensive discussion and an actual email to King Khaled Airport - they're still no closer to proving what this really is!
Anybody got any other suggestions?
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
No, but get hunting Nevada – they’ve just updated the desert areas and need our help looking for the missing Fossett.
Could this be the result of an aircraft having been cleaned with water?
Yes, join the Steve Fosset hunt – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6987358.stm
@Ian K – quite possible I suppose, but why would they clean it on the sand? Wouldn’t it make more sense to clean it on the tarmac?
And for anyone that does wish to help scour satellite images to try to locate Steve Fosset’s plane, the project is taking place at Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
I think Ian K may be on the right track, but think longer term. It looks to me like vegitation. If you look carefully, the “lines” are thicker on the back ends of the wings, and the rounded areas of a jet frame – the engines and the nose.
This makes me think that a jet sat there and when it rained, the water dripped off in the outline of the jet. In those places, like an oasis, there was more water and therefore more vegitation.
Over enough time, you’d get an outline.
Looks too precise for me – would raid really make the engine shapes? Could it not be a training shape outline for emergency drills / baggage movements – don’t know. Probably wrong track too… Or even just failed decorative planting?
Is it a crime scene after an horrific plane murder?*
*and i know, before some Johnny Know-It-All chips in, that that whole chalk round a dead body thing is a myth.
My guess is that an aircraft sat there for at least one growing season. The aluminum shell would be a perfect surface for a dew collector.
After dark, the aluminum would quickly radiate out the heat that it had gathered during the day. The aluminum would be several degrees cooler than it’s environment and would make a condenser for any moisture in the air. As the moisture on the surface increased it would drip off the edges of wings and the engines.
This happens all year round on the tin roof of my carport in Kansas.
YES, PARTICIPATE IN THE SEARCH FOR MR. FOSSETT!!!
Alex, et al., I appreciate the extra help – thanks! I’m no closer to getting an answer for this puzzle. Trying to find another contact e-mail for the airport, because I got a MailerDaemon (return) on the first one. (I’m also a little squeemish about contacting any entity in SA. I do NOT want to be monitored!) Some of you have the same questions I do, and more. My problem with the “runoff” idea is the relative* exactness of the outline. With a cylindrical fuselage, wouldn’t water run downward a bit rather than drip off the “edge” so uniformly? Also, why is there no disturbance of the outline if the plane was taken away? Surely that would not be a tidy procedure even if dismantled on the spot instead of towed away. As for fire practice: don’t they use foam for airplane fires, not water? So…I’m afraid I have to go with Cookie Monster on this one…OR Felippo in GE Community, who thinks it’s an art installation. Yesss!!!
*considering this is out in the elements.
It looks to me like it is an “artwork”.
But instead of being planted there I think it has been created by clearing away the vegetation around it.
Look at the density of the vegetation 50m to the south-east, it is similar to the density of the vegetation that makes up the shape. Also zoom out a bit and it appears that the plane is in a small cleared patch.
So my best guess is that someone with a lawn mower and a bit of time on their hands has mown the vegetation around it to only leave the silhouette of the aircraft.
Just my 2c.
It’s obviously Wonder Woman’s Invisible Jet. Duh.
Well … there WAS a crash at Riyadh in 1980, which killed 301 people when the plane burned out … BUT it was a Tristar, which has a completely different outline from what we can see: http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/saudi163/photo.shtml And from that picture it also doesn’t look like it’s that part of the airport. But it might be some kind of memorial … I agree that dew dripping off a fuselage (and the engines for that matter) would likely follow the curved surface much farther and not leave such a clean outline. And what are those burnt out (?) shapes to the South?
Don’t know if this can help, but here’s the same location in Windows Live Search. The colours are less saturated then in Google Maps.
Here’s my theory… A plane crashed and sat there for some time, and a variety of elements helped make the shape. I believe that we all can agree that the outline of the plane is made of plants.
The reason for the heavier vegitation?…water, sun, and shade. The plane itself provided shade for the plants that were normally scorched by the sun (and died from a lack of water), but also allowed sun to get to the outside vegitation as the sun moved from East to West.
Therefore, rain would fall around (and drip down under) the plane. The shade from the plane would then stop it from completely drying up from the sun. Plants also need direct sunlight, so the area around the outline of the plane would get direct sun at various times of the day, while providing shade during the other times. The shade helped the soil/dirt in that area to retain water and feed the plants.
The reason that it is not heavily vegitated under the plane (inside the outline) is that no direct sun was able to get to the plants to help them grow. Depending on what direction the plane is facing, different areas would have more/less sun than others. I believe that accounts for the darker areas.
Have you seen this crazy place off to the west? Race track / hotel / etc…?
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=24.985299,46.784549&z=16
Ant these… stables?
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=24.985299,46.784549&z=16
Sorry – wrong link: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=24.998797,46.781051&z=17
Anybody still wondering about that hotel thing well I found the answer. to quote an authoritative ad. “Thumamah Park
Designed to take shape amidst the desert, mountains and valleys, Riyadh’s latest project – the Thumamah Park – aims to offer family entertainment and recreation alongside a natural reserve area.
Amajor plan to exploit the natural beauty of the Riyadh area and enhance it with exotic ingredients such as snow, wildlife and recreational, edutainment and adventure magnets is being offered up for development to private investors by the High Commission for Arriyadh Development, in a bid to unfold a world of family entertainment for Saudis as well as GCC residents.
Towards this end, a massive entertainment park is taking shape about 80 km from central Riyadh and about 35 km from King Khalid International Airport. The Thumamah Park as it is known will be set among the Armah mountains and Thumamahh valleys, which already boast a unique natural ecosystem – 195 plant species, four mammal classes, 148 bird species, and 21 reptile and insect species – that has been preserved for the past two decades. It will have as its neighbours the Janadriyah Equestrian Club and other parks spread along Thumamah Road, which are presently used as picnic and desert camping sports, due to its scenic surroundings and proximity to the city. Based on extensive studies that it has conducted, the High Commission for Arriyadh Development envisions the Thumamah Park to be one of the most important channels for tourist, recreational and cultural investment in the city. “The project is expected to attract an investment of up to SR2.5 billion ($667 million, and 2.4 million visitors annually, while providing more than 3,000 job opportunities,” says Tariq Al Faris, director of urban area management at the Higher Commission for Arriyadh Development. According to Al Faris, in line with the natural setting, the park has been carefully masterplanned, with the density of attractions graded from south to north (most vulnerable) to 14 elements that have been divided into eight investment packages, following a careful economic and financial analysis of the development (see Figure 1). Already, the project has attracted private sector participation with the first phase of the camps component – comprising 50 units of various sizes and associated facilities – up and running to kick-start the project. In addition, a contract has been signed with the Saudi Aviation Club while the King Khalid Centre for Wildlife Research is already operational. The Arriyadh Development Authority (ADA), the executive arm of the High Commission, has recently opened up the first package to investors. The site is currently accessible via a local road network, which comprises modern dual-carriageways. A main gate as well as the administration offices have been constructed and the entire site has been fenced. The site is also served by a number of deep water-wells, 20 MW power plant, major power transmission lines as well as a number of towers that ensure a mobile communication network. Among the various infrastructure requirements of the project are water purification and treatment stations, sewerage and public irrigation network, garbage disposal stations, in addition to a transformer station and power transmission lines as well as an extensive network within the park. The ADA is developing the Thumamah Park with the following objectives in mind: • Conservation of the natural assets of the park. • Education of visitors on the significance of the natural and cultural heritage resources in the park. • Provision of recreation opportunities for visitors. • Park development in partnership with the private sector and other interests. • Providing jobs, opportunities and the development of human resources in the kingdom.
Masterplan
The masterplan for Thumamah Park – based on ideas and concepts evolved over the past two decades since the park was created – is divided into the following zones: • Zone 1: a low-use ‘nature reserve’ in the northern half, where only limited camping and nature interpretation will be permitted; • Zone 2: a more active recreation area in the southern half, including superstructure components for the main visitor centre, the adventure sports and recreation, maintenance, botanical and safari centres; • Zone 3: a ‘high energy’ activity area featuring the Recreation City in the extreme southern reaches of the park; • Zone 4: two sub-zones in which service and infrastructure facilities would be located, to support the operation and maintenance of the Park. Zone 4 (a) would be situated unobtrusively within the former Royal Farm area, and Zone 4 (b) within the recreation city; • Zone 5: Protected desert areas, serving as a land bank for yet-to-be allocated future recreation use.
Zone 1 – Nature Reserve Given the sensitive environment, high priority has been placed on achieving the education, conservation and preservation objectives. Hence this zone will have a limited number of campsites as well as road access. This zone includes the Nature Interpretation Centre (museum) which is located near the Urumah Escarpment, offering opportunities for interesting interpretive trails, while being within easy reach of a prehistoric village that was discovered nearby. The 2,100 sq m building has been designed in conformity with the mountain background nature. The display features geology, artefacts, and various natural formations, in addition to a hall, restaurant, and cafe. This area is also ideally suited as a terminus for the cable car that will connect it with the proposed botanical garden near the southern promontory of the Kushm Thumamah. The 145 sq km desert campsites will feature about 300 camps. A camping centre, to serve the visitors to campsites in terms of ticketing, provisions and other services, is centrally located along the main spine road of the nature reserve, in the already lush environment of the former dairy farm.
Zone 2: Recreation area A number of service and leisure facilities are proposed for this zone, including: • The main visitors’ centre located centrally and prominently on a hill within the park. This major 8,850 sq m service area will feature an information centre, an exhibition hall, a festival tent, a petting zoo, a restaurant, a mosque and various visitor services such as a library, shops, walkways and viewpoints.
• Safari park, a 20 million sq m enclosed but generally natural environment featuring a distinctive topography and containing approximately 1,000 Arabian and African species of fauna. There are special lanes for access and strolling, with a number of view decks on raised locations for better viewing.
• A Safari lodge, strategically and unobtrusively placed within an elevated geological feature overlooking the park. It will luxury accommodation within a natural environment with an “African theme”. It features 24 chalets spread over 3,000 sq m. The lodge would be arranged with African wooden ‘cottages’, around a central reception and restaurant, overlooking a waterhole in the plains;
• A botanical garden covering an area of 4 million sq m to the north of the visitors’ centre, near the base of the Urumah escarpment the foot of Armah mountains (Khashm Thumamahh). It will include a larger number of plants of the kingdom’s various ecological environments and similar plants from other countries of the world as well as a botanical centre, a central oasis, theme gardens, a research building, ethnobotanical and medicinal plant displays, a sound and light show and more. Various nodes and displays would be connected by a road-based tram system. It will also have a cable car station.
• The recreation centre, a building complex within an existing horticultural area on the Royal Farm, with a major swimming pool, a restaurant, several indoor recreation components such as a fitness centre, table games, management offices and associated service amenities. It will also include a mosque, a festival tent and ticketing counters, football fields, basketball, volleyball and tennis courts, and other components.
• A 2 sq km adventure centre featuring various motor sports facilities such as a motor race track, a rally race track, a go-kart track, a moto-cross track, a driver training centre, quad bike rentals and other vehicle-based amenities. It will also offer other adventure sports such as camel and horseback riding, a climbing and abseiling wall, perhaps a mountain bike trail.
• A daily family camping zone, with up to 450 camp and picnic sites divided into 25 groups, spreading over a total area of 15 million sq m to south west of the park. A ‘Camping Centre’, strategically placed at the entrance to the zone, would cater to campers’ needs, It is based on the model of Asir National Park, where this concept has been quite successful. This area will be provided with all necessary services for an occupancy density higher than the other land camps.
• The Saudi Aviation Centre, at Thumamah airport, will commence operations in the near future. It occupies an area of 300 hectares encompassing the entire airstrip, associated aprons, and the former Royal Palace and Royal Guard Housing. Airplane hangars, passenger station, maintenance centre and administrative building will soon be developed. It will also include staff accommodation, entertainment club, an aviation school, aviation training and aerial show fields over the 2.9 million sq m complex. Upon full development, the aviation centre will be the hub of private aviation in Saudi Arabia.
Zone 3: Recreation City The site is the most attractive and largest location covering an area of 22 million sq m which includes the following entertainment and accommodation facilities: • Theme Park: the main area of the recreation city, Located at the end of the road from the city main entrance, it includes children’s, adults’ and family playgrounds.
• Aqua Park: Designed to be the largest aqua playground in Riyadh, it is located at the western part of the recreation city and connected to the amusement city. It includes children and kids playgrounds consisting of: boat sailing, water tube skating as well as exciting aqua games such as artificial wave surfing, water surface skating.
• Snow World: Providing a world of snow, it includes a closed hall for ice games, and a 30-m-high skating slope and includes a hall exhibiting ice life, and the lifestyle in snowy areas including the buildings.
• Entertainment Street: Extending along a 1-km road, it includes a number of small entertainment activities, stores, competitions, cafes, and various restaurants. Ornate buildings and a variety of night activities characterise the area.
• Edutainment Theatre: Comprising a theatre and its outer annexes, this area concentrates on environmental, educational and entertainment shows
• Resorts: The eastern part of the city will feature modern resorts consisting of chalets, and motels, built to complement the beauty of the surrounding Armah Mountains.
• Escarpment activity centre: Located at the foot of Armah mountains where a hiking centre can be established, this area will include a tower with a restaurant overlooking the whole entertainment city.
• Access and roads: the entertainment city has been designed in a way to include all services and facilities as well as provide easy access to any facility or component. All facilities are linked with cable cars and the city also includes major car parks.
Zone 4: Maintenance Two maintenance centres will be established in the park: one in the Royal Farm area and the other in the Recreation City. They are designed to house the necessary storage, warehousing, industrial and servicing requirements. Such a centralised concept is considered most efficient and economical, says Al Faris The first, just north of the King Khalid Wildlife Research Complex, will be built over a 20-hectare area close to proposed plant nursery, is well hidden from view and is contiguous to an existing water well. The nursery will cater for the propagation of trees, shrubs and cacti, mainly for the Safari park, but also for the park as a whole. A greenhouse and an office/maintenance facility will be part of this compound, covering about 30 hectares. The second maintenance centre, while performing similar functions is specifically aimed at serving the intensive facilities within the Recreation City. A most complementary facility in this zone is the well-established King Khalid Wildlife Research Centre that has occupied parts of the Royal Farm for some 18 years. This facility will be further expanded to cover a total of 708 hectares, including enclosures, research laboratories, a visitor centre, and veterinary facilities.
Zone 5: Protected desert areas This zone consists of a land reserve, unallocated space, buffer zones and expansion areas to be assigned as the park is developed over the next 10 to 20 years. In addition, broad zones designated as “protected desert” have been reserved as nature regeneration and environmental protection areas, as well as buffer zones.
Phasing
In developing the project, the High Commission intends to keep construction cost as low as possible “at least for the start until profitability is proved,” says Al Faris. “Initially elements that require the construction of a minimum number of public facilities will be erected. As a general strategy, infrastructure that can be easily accessed will be built first. Thus, the development of Thumamah Park will progress from the perimeter towards the centre. However, those facilities that will possibly be more profitable and easier to develop and can be developed in stages, will be built first. The Recreation City is a major project with its own timetable. It could be developed in tune with the park, or entirely independently.
“It is designed as a system of leisure amenities appealing to the entire cross-section of the population and requires wide transportation arteries, large parking areas, and substantial logistics and maintenance support facilities,” explains Al Faris. “However, due to the high construction costs, and to hedge against risk on investment, private sector entrepreneur(s) will be called upon to invest and develop incrementally. Hence, it is likely that the Recreation City will be developed from the main entrance inward.” “Projects such as the Thumamah Park are increasingly being developed in the Gulf region through the participation of the public and private sectors, where the latter provides the basic infrastructure at the site and other incentives to private investors to make the investment opportunity attractive and less risky for the private sector,” Al Faris points out.
“Thumamah Park presents an attractive investment opportunity as it offers some unique features and incentives,” he concludes.”
The above ramblings come from a forum I found that talks about it.
Holy cow, Smon, that’s a lot of material. Hope you don’t have a cramp. I have only one thing to say – they’d better not mess with MY airplane outline! At least, not before we get a definitive answer on what it is.
Well, IMHO the site where the outline is has always been used as a fire training site. From the military, I can tell you they all looked like this in the early 80s when this place was created.
Each of the 3 features on the cement pad are different, with the ones to the east being vehicles that would normally carry fuel, the one in the middle being a cylindrical tank representative of a large, open volume of fuel, and the one on the west side being for burning anything that they chose. I would guess, based on the environment, vehicles that were old that were stripped of valuable parts first.
Anyway, as you can see from the burn sites on the cement, burning fuel and oil is messy-really messy. It leaves residue burned and stained on whatever it contacts, and in the west is considered pretty much “toxic waste”. Further proof of this is the site of 2 oil drums used to set/extinguish small first about 100′ east of the utility building at the west side of the concrete pad.
This is pretty important to the mystery, because as you can see, the plane’s outline has no such discoloration-none. This is a really flat place, with no drainage. There is no sign of oil from fire training being washed away. And before you say that rain (even here) would have done that, take a look at the parts of the existing burn drainage that have been washed over the edges of the concrete pad to the surrounding sand.
My next comment is that with no disrespect to the previous posters’ suggestions that the outline is from water over a fuselage, that isn’t possible. Modern aircraft (since the airport opened in 1983, at least) have rounded under undercarriages. This means that water over a shape does not “drip” down along the edges-but at the lowest point (for the most part). There is therefore zero such outline where there should be. And before you say that the sun would shade under the plane, consider that plants would definitely grow there in shade, perhaps hardier than out in the searing sun, especially considering that even at the low lattitude of Riyadh, the sun rises and sets at the horizons.
So back to what it is. The plants that were planted here had underground drip systems to keep them irrigated, and you can see those original plants/trees still in place in areas that matter. This area, though, was once open, with rough roads in the sand next to where the modern, paved ones are today. But the area is now fenced off, and looking at the concrete pad it would seem that probably when the airport was first being constructed (to be the then largest in the world) fire training would have scared the locals, so they surrounded the pad with rock. If you look carefully, you can see where bulldozers went up & down pushing rocks out of the way presumably to be more easily transported to the area surrounding the pad. Why? Because I’m sure that the locals feared that pouring burning jet fuel directly into the sand would be bad. At one time, these rocks would have been a complete cover, but over the years the sand has piled up in the low points and it looks like vegetation, but it isn’t. In fact, if the outline were vegetation, or even part vegetation, then it would have spread over the years. To prove this, take a look at any of the makeshift roads around the fencing and perimeter of the airport where security vehicles travel. There are no rocks, and more significantly there is no vegetation growing between the tire tracks. There would be if the “vegetation” (which is gravel) was present.
So the plane is made up of rocks and other non-sand debris, and not vegetation. Take a look about 2 “blocks” to the NW, or around 7,000′ and you’ll see an area where the rocks and gravel have clearly been.. cleared, making for small piles of the rubble found all over the area.
Take a look around the ouline, as well as within it. You see no gravel or rocks. IMHO, that is surely because there are none. They have been moved by rolling them around, or more likely just pushed out of the way by shuffling one’s boots. Think Nazca lines.
To me, the giveaway was the imperfections in the shape, incorrect proportions, and of course the fact that it looks as it would appear if it was a real plane viewed from above. It is just a prank created who knows how long ago (24 or fewer years ago) by firefighters waiting for exercises to begin, or in-between exercises. It is meant to be seen by aircraft flying over the airport.
We pulled pranks way worse than this in the U.S. military!
…just my $0.02
Pat – I have only one thing to say: YIPEEE! OK, more than that. I think you’ve solved the mystery. Those of us here and on GE Community who thought it was “art,” or at least put there on purpose, were in the minority. The thing that really bothered me about the dripping water idea was exactly what you brought up – a fuselage isn’t flat, so the water would not drip in a plane-shape. And, the mess of “putting out the fire” just didn’t show up at the site – except for the oil-slick stains you talk about. So, I can sleep tonight.
Yep, Pat is right in my opinion. It’s a fire training area. Seems very obvious to me. The shape is most likly there to give the vehicles, firetrucks and the like something to drive up to or around. Something to practice around. Drive up to engine number 2 and hit it with water!… Too close moron, your all dead.
Could even be used for mass casualty drills or something. Most crash responces will be off pavement, so it seems logical.
tell you what, I will give it a visit and clear all your questions 🙂
Not wanting to be a know all… but I did suggest a training area back in post n. 6….!
Ben,
You are completely correct. I am, however, of the opinion that the area was never used for training. There are no remnants of any such activity.
Could it all have been washed away by all the rain they get out there? Maybe… but probably not! 😉
Just an opinion. Anyway, bring on more of these challenges! I find it much more engaging to figure these out than to look at “known anomalies”!
Thanks to diane9247 for bringing it to my attention!
Now if I could just get an email notification each time an unknown/anomaly was posted (instead of RSS)…
Thanks!
pat 🙂
Pat, you can indeed get email updates! Just click the “Email Alerts” link in the “Feeds” section of our sidebar 😀
Or, clicky this linky!
If you look closely at the left wing (our left looking down on it) I think it’s slightly shorter than the right. Also the cabin area and markings “inside” the outline, how could vegetation grow in this way as the plane would have been in the way of the sun and water. Also the cabin area doesnt quite line up with the cockpit area (use a ruler) which leads me to believe its manmade. Perhaps done by the gardener as an ornamnet or a joke. I might be wrong who knows.
Paul Sith,
I highly doubt there is any vegetation anywhere near that area (see previous post #20 as to why). In fact, the only vegetation out in the open are the plants and trees that are intentionally irrigated as part of a well publicized “drip” system installed specifically for the purpose. You can see evidence of this along the main roads, and (strategically placed) around the buildings of the airport.
You’re right about the proportions, etc. (see previous post as well), as they were never really a concern. As unlikely as it is that the actual outline of rocks would be used for training, even if it was/is, the engines, for example, would not be partial. They would be an outline of the whole engine (that would be what you’d apply foam/water to) so as to give the participants something to spray.
Again, you’d be out there re-arranging the rocks all the time, but of course there is no evidence of any kind of firefighting in that area. If you want to see what such eveidence looks like, just look at the pad. They even put an air data probe on the starboard side of the nose-something you’d never do for a plane outline for training. Again, nothing I see supports this idea at all.
I really find the area around the pad interesting, though. You can see the remnants of a crappy paving job that being too thin has given way to sand. You can see an outline of a “road” hat went around the pad, as well as a garage/building off the approach to the NE.
Just a prank at a poorly maintained area of an airport. Nice that it has lasted, though!
pat 🙂
Hello again, everyone!
Delta102, a pilot (and master guide at GE)asked a pilot friend who works in the area: it’s made with tires, presumably by the fire crew during periods of boredom, or just to be funny. Would still like to hear what Fares (#23)comes back with, if indeed he is going to go look. Better yet, I’d love to hear from the guys who built it!
Thanks to all for your informative and/or funny comments – I’ll be visiting here regularly (OH NO!), but will probably not comment on much. I’m in no way associated with Airplane World. But, I do work in a psychiatric clinic, so I’m always available for consultation on deeply profound symbolism and subconscious motivations. (Haha!) Diane
Well thanks for finding it in the first place Diane! We hope you enjoy hanging out here at Google Sightseeing 😀
Rob,
When was this google taken,I am sure the military has more of them and they just don’t let you know about it.After all we are pumping hundreds of billions into those same family and friends business’s in Iraq,…
Putting using this forum as a political soapbox aside for a second, a little common sense is probably applicable. A lot of the military work I did was aerial and photographic reconnaissance, and I can tell you for sure that if our military/government is indeed pouring the amount of money into training that you posit, then it is unlikely that the best place to conduct such operations is at one end of a public airport, out in the open, with tire and rock outlines of airplanes.
After all, how many rocks and tires can you buy for $1M?
pat 🙂
Congrats to diane9247 for her submission being the Best Mystery of 2007!
This was a fun one!!!
pat 🙂
No more a mystery, it is confirmed that a plane was dumbped over there, and deserty weeds grew around it… No wonder this became mystery of 2007, wasn’t a mystery at all…
just notifying myself of upcoming comments…
campolar,
I sincerely and respectfully doubt it.
🙂
Pat, i am a local there. I am in a different country right now but i live in Saudi Arabia, and this mystery was solved long ago…
I WAS AT RHIYAD IN 1980/82 THER WAS A PLANE THAT CAUGHT FIRE JUST AFTER TAKING OFF,I THINK THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO RETURN TO THE AIRPORT,APPARENTLY THEREWERE NO SUVIVORS BUT THE PLANE WAS PUSHED INTO THE DESERT AND COVERED IN SAND,PERHAPS THIS IS THE SHAPE YOU ARE SEEING
Cargo cult…