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Google Maps Shows Strange, Grid-Like Images in China: ‘Nobody Really Knows’

Nov. 14, 2011 11:25am Liz Klimas

Google Maps has been known to capture some strange images. Some have been turned into art, while others are revealing, such as those showing North Korean concentration camps. The latest photos from Google Maps are taken from China and are just plain puzzling.

According to Gizmodo, this first image is taken from Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, north of the Shule River in the Kumtag Desert:

They seem to be wide lines drawn with some white material. Or maybe the dust have been dug by machinery.

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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.

Here’s the Google Map for the above image.

In a second image, Gizmodo describes seeing a grid similar to a radio or electrical station, and notes that if you zoom in you’ll see what appear to be destroyed vehicles.

The third is an 18 mile grid with thousands of lines (see below).

The Washington Post also points out an image of what could be a roadway crossing the Gobi desert:

Speculation as to what the buildings are ran from water purification plants to weapons testing sites to training facilities. In one Google Earth closeup there is debris scattered in a systematic way, possibly suggesting a weapons training facility. In another closeup, there appear to be large manmade bodies of water.

Any thoughts on what these could be? Share your theories below. To see more strange images, check out the full Gizmodo post.

This article has been updated since its original posting.

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freedomofspeech
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:06pm
I’m reading a book ‘Forbiden Science’, written by J. Douglas Kenyon. Very interesting read, it’s about the mainstream science “scoffing” at research into things like “energetics of water, “true functions of the gereat pyramid” “material that explores science and technology suppressed by the main stream scientific community”. Weird that I would be reading this book and then this Google image pops up.

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last frontier
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:05pm
It’s …….Awya fiffy1

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tjgje
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:05pm
There is another one to the left of the first image. Zoom out, scroll left a bit, until you see a faint square, then zoom in and you see another.

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sWampy
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:05pm
The first one looks like some screwed up fusing the tiles together from various images, and instead of adding the differences together they subtracted them, it’s not like that on our globes.

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Patriotic_Mercenary
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:04pm
There is a multitude of these sites within the region.

I saw three mock airfields lined up. One was painted white with a blue “tarmac”, one a composite of some sort (concrete, perhaps?) and the last a single line of tarmac of the same material as the former. Each one of them goes through a wash. The wash has what appears to be dirt piled up either from operations leveling the area and needing to dispose of it.

Additionally, there are vehicle tracks and areas where the vehicles have torn up the ground considerably. A square area where it appears to have been bulldozed flat. Another area adjacent to it that is similar to the first picture above.

Even more odd is a power substation out in the middle of nowhere, just south and west of the second picture. As well as another area almost exactly as the one pictured.

To me, these are training areas. What for exactly, I can’t quite figure out. I looked in the area some more and found what appears to be a town/military facility. The areas could have been for artillery or aircraft.

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TexasStu
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:02pm
The long parallel grid lines look to me like a run of vibrators used in oil exploration. We used this technique in Texas years ago say in the 70’and 80’s. We would lay out lines clear the area with what we call sundaros here in Texas (spelling is probably wrong). Then these large trucks with vibrators are sent down the lines shaking the ground to send seismic reading to probes pushed into the ground to ascertain the makeup of the geological formation underground. The one with the destroyed trucks looks like a bomb test and the top one with all the crazy lines I have not a clue. But then again I don’t read or write Chinese so it may say something….

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- madasblazes
  Posted on November 14, 2011 at 1:41pm
  Anyone with an iphone here?
  Take a picture of the squiggly lines and see if anything comes out. Ya know, like those apps you see on products…
  
  know what I mean? Jelly Bean?
  
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altops
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:01pm
they are conducting Tesla’s electrical generation technologies. Telsa’s discovered that with a big enough array you can actually pull electricity generated by the sun’s interaction with our atmosphere, right out of the atmosphere 27/7! ! !. Free Electricity for all. a 50 ft wire suspended 100 ft up hook to a transformer will produce around 1.5volts you can download this technology off the internet.

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Twinspeedr
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:00pm
This is fringe stuff, but China and Russia supposedly have programs just like this. Many scientists think that the researchers working on HAARP don’t fully understand how it works.

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/

http://beforeitsnews.com/…/Are_We_in_a_HAARP_Earthquake_War.html

http://www.bariumblues.com/haarp1.htm

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downthewell
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:58am
I wonder if it has anything to do with this?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55751455@N02/6334205305/

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downthewell
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:57am
The CIA has been all over this. You wouldn’t believe what they know about it.

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noleftturn
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:55am
We are crazy about traffic roundabouts in MN. Maybe this is the Chinese version.

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G man
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:55am
Photo number three is clearly a giant bar-code. I used the bar code reader on my Droid…$19.95

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Mirimichi
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:53am
I wonder what our spy satellites, with their cameras, are seeing.

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ALISSTER
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:53am
Just ask them. I’m sure they’ll give you an honest answer.

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Mikev5
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:53am
Most of these if you look at the tire tracks look kind of old not used in a number of years with the cars I think they were doing targeting experiments of some kind I think these were failures and they moved on just shows the Chinese are or were experimenting with new weapons or GPS out there at one time.

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lukerw
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:52am
Reminds me of the New… Invisibility Cloaking Technology!

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Captain Crunch
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:52am
It’s obviously meant for communication purposes. Maybe they have found Elvis.

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GetRealThinker
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:51am
The last image looks the reflection of the satellites solar panels maybe caught in the lens of the camera?

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thop1960
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:51am
The infamous Chinese “ghost cities”…

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One of the Quiet Ones
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:51am
I think it is a test area for machine vision or computer vision for weapons systems. The grids are reference points for adaptive self-learning.

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netmail
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:51am
I have always felt that the Chinese know everything about us and we know next to nothing about them. That’s what you call an EXTREME tactical advantage.

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BubbaCoop
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:50am
Even if it’s a pun, it doesn’t work since Google images are taken by satellite.

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:48am
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Ancient Aliens or Re-Education Camps………….

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smokeysmoke
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:48am
i think the chinese have found a way to manipulate the informaiton that our satallites are seeing…. it looks like they are able to put layers over spaces of land to try “cover up, or fog of war” would come to mind as a test for a military purpose….

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thegodfather
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:47am
Holy ****! It’s a landing pad…for extra terrestrials. They made first contact. We’re screwed.

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