New Pic Reveals Someone Ordered A Lot of Satellite Pics of Mysterious Chinese Structures, But Who?
- Posted on November 16, 2011 at 9:59am by
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Earlier this week, we showed you a handful of aerial images of strange structures in China’s desert, but another interesting facet to the story has since emerged.
(Related: Are the symbols used for spy satellite calibration?)
According to Wired’s Danger Room, former CIA analyst Allen Thomson said someone had several satellite images taken of the area well before the rest of the Internet world gained interest in it this week:
“Starting in 2004, somebody has ordered many, many satellite pictures of it,” Thomson tells Danger Room. “Can’t have been cheap.”
Thomson was able to discover this by enabling the DigitalGlobe coverage layer on the image, which notes the times when an images was requested of the area. Gizmodo explains further:
You can see the extreme density of these requests if you turn on the DigitalGlobe layer in Google Earth — the satellite has received commands to photograph this area many hundreds of times.
Gizmodo speculates that the requests most likely didn’t come from the U.S. military — because we have our own spy satellites — but from a nonmilitary agency or another country.
Since the original Reddit post on the mysterious structures, more and more accounts and images have been coming forward (including the images below).
Gizmodo does note that China has been building structure in the desert for a long time, so the fact that the country is doing this isn’t odd in itself. There is just speculation as to what these buildings could be: Gizmodo entertains the idea of use for Chinese spy satellites or perhaps code for aliens.























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BurntHills
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:51amthere’s our American tax dollars at work in China. obama said he wants to build.
Report Post »100 Million Patriots Standing
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 11:20amThe UN is watching…..over all of us from the sky….look up ……PROTEUS
Report Post »we are being prepared for observation from the sky – to be sure we are compliant with sustainability.
Eliasim
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 11:23amI think the one that looks like a target is a mathematical equation, and they change the equation from time to time, and the lighter shadows are depressions where objects were sitting before they were moved.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 11:31amThe target is also reminiscent of the Zodiac.
Report Post »Iron Kurtain
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 11:42amthe top photo looks like a solar panel array for a possible solar energy power plant.
Report Post »JAYBECONSERVATIVE
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:28pmOr they like to bale there hay in circles instead of rows like us Americans. . and with planes.
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:51pmthe circular array has bombers in the middle of it…and radial roads like runways…seems like someone took 3 or 4 large intercontinental bombers..parked them in the desert…and put up some K-rails to stop people from taking them..those planes can’t get out without the barriers being moved…no room to maneuver around them…those aren’t airliners..they are bombers…military definitely…
Report Post »maybe that is how China deals with all the planes they unlawfully force down and then seize to steal tech from….
or then again…
yeah..
could be aliens… LOL….i mean most of the Chinese and NK leaders look like those alien autopsy photos..right…i am not the only one that sees the resemblence???
smokeysmoke
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:02pmyou see those MASSIVE BLUE POOLS… next to what looks like a sewage treatment plant…. follow the CANALS…. they go to a big hydro dam…. but FOLLOW THE CANALS FURTHER UP STREAM…. WHY ARE THERE LEVEES THE WHOLE WAY UP…. BUT GO TO NOTHING….. this is so strange
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:09pmThe circular one with the 3 jets near the center looks like the dots and dashes used to write to a CD-ROM.
Report Post »Delta_River_Folk
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:49pmThis is very interesting, it would be helpful if we had a better understanding of the topography. They all are in close proximatety of each other and appear to be near the same road or railroad tracks. There is definately a reason they are so far away from civilazation. I also wonder how long they have exsisted. With China’s population and slave labor mentality it probaly does not take them long to build such huge facilities. Projects like this would take the US a lifetime, and may still never be completed. All of that being said I would assume the US government has some idea what is going on, oh wait that department has probably been cut so that the Occupiers all have tents to sleep in at night.
Report Post »Delta_River_Folk
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:05pmHere is another site at a near by town (39.751479, 98.213353). You have to zoom in some. I don’t know their symbols but it appears to be one. The more you look at this the more facinating it is.
Report Post »pacomj60
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:47pmAmazing! Obama did it again. How dumb can you be? Note the dates 2004 – if anything look to Bush. But then again he was only interested in stealing oil and paying for it with Chinese money.
Report Post »If you really want to see interesting pictures look at the ones from Chile – heck some people think aliens created them. Maybe it was the Chinese.
blue_sky
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:52pmI love when former CIA agents give us “analysis” – usually they have no clue and lie, but if they manage to disclose to us something, it is usually a package of half-baked affirmative-action quality speculation.
Report Post »Delta_River_Folk
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:56pmThe bottom pictures does appear to have cooling towers, but I don’t see power lines, which would indicate a power reactor. I do see see what may appear to be pats used for particale accelerators.
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:05amWow, Chinese Stonehenge, or is someone trying to break into the world of modern art?.
Report Post »ConservativeMajority
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:33amSee! Shovel ready jobs!
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:48amwhen obama is bending over in front of the Chinese as usual, why doesn’t he just ask them what the mystery structures are before he pulls his pants up.
Report Post »joei234
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:50amGee, that was classy.
Report Post »felix
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 11:09amclassy and the truth !
Report Post »Ming The Merciless
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:12pmI like your thinking burnthills!
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:12pmBefore he drops the drawers is when he needs to ask. In my opinion. Ain’t that classy also?
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:17pmNaw, I think he’s more of a kneeling person than a bending over person.
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:27pm@LORIANN12. You’re right, he probably owns a set of kneepads.
Report Post »I_am_a_53percenter
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:54pmHilarious!!!
Report Post »mexneck
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:32pmActually his handlers have advised him not to speak with his mouth full.
Report Post »Snerdley
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:47amSo, I find this picture very enlightening.
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2011/11/Snapshot-2011-11-14-16-35-171.jpg
Notice that there is only one 5-sided polygon on the pattern, and that if you zoom in, that polygon has impacts at its upper point…
http://g.co/maps/6u8ec
Now, I may be a kook to tie that to the fact that our defense department building has that shape, but it does seem a bit odd.
My personal guess is that this grid is for autonomous UAVs target practice.
Report Post »blazerbob
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 11:21amSnerdley – very astute! So just for grins (Using Google Earth) I drew a perimeter around the 5-sided pattern in China – length is .44 miles. Drawing a similar perimeter around the Pentagon: .88 miles — exactly 1:2 ratio. I suppose it *could* be a coincidence…
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 11:48amLooking just to the East I found a number of “airfields” with lots of craters from what could be bomb strikes.
Report Post »notsofast
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:12pmWhen I first saw that pic…I thought it looked like the Pentagon building too.
Report Post »veritas_unum
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:28pmi found 4, 5 sided shapes
Report Post »D. Dada Miller
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:34pm@Snerdly Could that pic link you posted possibly be a somewhat stylized, scale targeting practice map of DC? Has anyone tried to correlate any distances from the pentagon shape to other shapes like Capitol Hill or Whitehouse? Are there craters there too? (Or do any of the shapes with craters correlate in scale to anything on the DC Map?) Just an idea based on the pentagon comments and the slight similarities to roads in the desert pic. But I have a feeling that if it was that, it sure as heck wouldn’t still be on GoogleMaps. :)
Report Post »Snerdley
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:56pmVeritas: after further review, I do see these two
http://g.co/maps/7r9bs
I probably missed them because they were adjacent to each other (or I just missed them).
This one
http://g.co/maps/u3kt8
is technically 5 sided, but just barely.
That said, this is still exactly the type of field I’d use to train UAVs to target by shape. Remember, in a true war scenario, the US-run GPS will not be useful, and their own version would likely be jammed, so navigating by visuals would be very useful. The fact that the 5-sided figure was targeted is just worrying.
As for overlays on DC, you’re welcome to check it, but I think that would be very stupid… and they probably are anything but that.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:13pm@ Snerdley
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:56pm
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Completely unnecessary to target by shape. Sat. position can be used over a period of days, months and years to get completely blind firing solutions for UAV’s that can be programmed by simply referencing date and time and logged by virtually any entry level personnel tasked.
If they’re doing anything, that‘s what they’re doing, and narrowing their mathematical solution errors by practical application.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:24pmScrew ups on goggle’s part, the lighter portions are simply older lower resolution images being displayed because they are missing from the higher resolution darker images, or simply failed to fuse together right for some reason and were discarded. The fusion software google uses is fairly buggy, we see this kind of thing all the time.
Report Post »Gomek
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:48pmThe whole notion of the Chinese plotting an attack on the Pentagon or any other American target is highly unlikely. I say that because, the powers that be in China know we along with Europe and other developed country’s around the world are the “The golden goose” It’s a simple parasite/host relationship we have with China, we buy all their crappy goods and in return they don’t squash up like a grape. Islam is much more a direct to us than China. Granted, none of us really like the situation we’re in with China controlling an obscene amount of our debt, etc. But in the end, China doesn’t care if we speak Chinese or adapt to their culture unlike Islam.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:57pm@ Gomek
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:48pm
The whole notion of the Chinese plotting an attack on the Pentagon or any other American target is highly unlikely.
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It’s not completely out of the question, but I tend to agree with you. I made a transparency at work of the initial grid pattern. It doesn’t fit any major area in the Continental US. But I found some interesting similarities in Iran, Iraq, and Israel. If the Chinese march, it will be into Asia Minor first. In order to sustain an assault on the United States (and the West in general) they will need more resources first.
I was pulling up some older test sites the US made and we have almost the same thing going on around Los Alamos and area’s over the Marshall Islands following our atom bomb testing. It became a fairly clear picture once we were able to get satellites doing what our spy planes once did. The Chinese are a long way behind if that‘s what they’re doing. We’ve been doing this since Satellite Alpha 1958. We didn’t really have high altitude recon until 1955, but the ones from the first Atomic test at Bikini Atoll began the pursuit (starting in 1946). Now our solutions are accurate to a 3 ft radius globally, which is literally microseconds of accuracy.
Report Post »Nyle
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 6:51pmAre we overlooking the obvious? Keynesian economic spending. They simply are spending money to build things because government spending stimulates the economy.
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 9:34pmuse the link, and go to the map of china… zoom out a bit and go WEST…. and you will see the MASSIVE BLUE POOLS…. scout this area…. WHY DIG CANALS, JUST TO HAVE THEM LEAD TO NOTHING….. the water moves down stream and goes to hydro dams and then is STORED in those massive pools…… FOLLOW THE CANALS TO THE NORTH…. are there levees on the canal… or is it WATER BEING PUMPED INTO THE CANAL… could they be melting glaciers…. i dont know, but this building IS HUGE…. and iTS ALL MAN MADE…. FROM THE DAMS TO THE CANALS TO THE PUMPS…. to the pools ar the end and its all in the desert…. AND TEHER IS NOTHING AROUND…
Report Post »TyrannyNoMore
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:43amThe planes at the center of the circle indicate some sort of military operation. Why would civilian transport be there?
Report Post »The circular pattern reminds me of the super collider in Cern. Could the Chinese be developing some sort of new technology ? More likely they are trying to reverse engineer technology they have stolen from us.
teamarcheson
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:58amThis Is China’s Manhattan Project
That bulls eye feature is used to measure the X-ray beam density, focus and distortion. The battle station cannot be manned due to the high level of neutrons generated during the firing of the X-ray Laser so targeting features must be resolved by on board optics and computers thus the strange grid features.
Lets give Democrat Congress a hand of applause for de-funding Edward Teller’s 4th and 5th generation nuclear weapon research project 20 years ago. I wonder if a CHICOM operated US Post Office will run $5 Billion a year deficits.
Report Post »liberalescheisskopf
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:40pmWhy would they reverse-engineer when Willy gave them the information?
Report Post »sheilabsabol
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:41amPlease watch your spelling. It sends the wrong message. I know you are writing the stories quickly and I would like to suggest your site to others, but the typos and spelling errors are very annoying, keeping me from doing so………………….
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:48amThe CHICOMs ordered those pictures. They want to know what can be learned about their work from the photos. China does not have precise photo-recon satellites in orbit yet. They cannot do everything.
Report Post »TheMarine
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:40amThe top white plane looks like an old JianZhen-6 Chinese Reconnaissance Aircraft.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:40amHas anyone ASKED China what they’re building in the desert?
Report Post »Go Glenn
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:25pmWell that someone would most likely be Hillary……………are you kidding me?
You think she or anyone else in the Corrupt Regime would dare ask our Banker what they are doing?
Report Post »RejectFalseIcons
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:38amLooking at the circular image, it almost looks like either a demarcation for safe distance from an epicenter, or perhaps a range for testing EMP based weapons. The small objects look like maybe cars or trucks, and the jets look like old migs.
The plant shown in the bottom picture is definitely some sort of desalinization, water recycling or another type of plant. We are most likely seeing a research facility.
Report Post »The_Midas_Curse
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:42amYup, hand held EMP device test
Report Post »GumRock
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:36amI Offer my highly unqualified and uninformed assessment of the above said
Report Post »photo as I haven’t even read the article that follows the photo
while Applying some highly complicated Mathematical formula
that borderlines on quantum Physics , to which I have no understanding of
I have solved this Question of what it is
It’s a Global Climate changing Machine.
The Debate is over !
Now Lets apply this Information to Tax Americans so that I may become Rich beyond belief.
Move over Al Gore,
Two can play at this
TyrannyNoMore
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:46amDude, that was funny !
Report Post »1proud_Texan
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 11:05amThat was a great analysis! Are you a politician or Hollywood actor?
Report Post »andrews042
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 11:58amI am not a physicist, or a mathemetician, or a political or millitary analyst. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express Last night and I totally agree with Gumrock.
Report Post »Clearly China has a weather machine and all the secrets that “leaked out” under the Clinton administration were a payoff to the Chinese to keep a Katrina from happening to us.
Arktiger
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:35amJust an observation that when large scale explosions are done underground they sometimes nake those same concentric circles in their blast pattern.. just trhowing that out there.
Report Post »grudgywoof
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:35amUsed to calibrate GPS based missle guidence systems.
Report Post »threedoor
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:35amA few of these, like the plant in the bottom picture are obviously plants for extracting mineral salts from the desert, much like we do in Salt Lake City, noting suspicious there. The grids on the other hand are most likely military in nature.
Report Post »The Sergeant Major
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:42pmWind power generation fields.
Report Post »mertmag
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:33amI’m glad it is so amusing to everyone. China would not spend that kind of money to build massive structures in the desert unless it was for weapons programs. When your sitting in your own rubble looking at the bodies of you family and friends just crack a smile because I bet you’ll finally get it, the jokes on you. Wake up America China and Russia are working to undermine country. If we had any brains we would be spending a fortune on strategic weapons and not blowing our money on wars that drain us.
Report Post »gofigureinternational
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 11:07amExactly, and perhaps find sources for domestic oil so when the Middle East melts down, we are not trying to fuel battleships with Ethanol! It is going to be a little rough buying oil with borrowed money from our potential enemies! However, at this point everyone seems to be blissfully ignorant paying attention to whose posterior looks better in this or that particular dress on the red carpet…amazing!
Report Post »notsofast
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:20pmSounds like a job creator to me! Lets go for it.
Report Post »krispy01
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:32amSo Myserious !!!! LOL, use your spell checker !
Report Post »Harry Assenback
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:31amNo doubt the circular picture is a DEATH RAY. Well maybe not………..
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:31amAND.. we’re cutting our defense budget. YES lets make ourselves easier targets =(
Report Post »urrybr
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:28amLooks like a strategic targeting map to me. The first photo, of the round structure sure looks like a target to me. ‘ Obama gettin’ an itchy trigger finger????
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:45amChina Is Deploying A Space Based Reloadable X-Ray Laser Battle Station
Edward Teller, the US atomic physicist, developed a 4th Generation nuclear weapon X-ray laser for knocking out Soviet ICBMs. He also developed and tested a 5th Generation clean thermonuclear device. This was over 20 years ago and when Democrats in Congress found out about Teller’s work, the stopped the funding.
It appears the the CHICOMs obtained the engineering plans for these two weapons and have combined them into a re-loadable orbiting X-ray battle station. Those features are being used to test and target this weapon system. An X-ray laser from space can be used to destroy any target on earth without collateral damage. X-rays can be used to destroy explosive warheads and munitions.
The US military knows what these things are and so does Obama.
Drum Man
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:27amVery interesting stuff! You can see Jets in the circular pic…
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:33amMIG’s no less.
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:34amStangest runway I have ever seen. Looks like a way to launch lots of planes at once.
Report Post »Dude Doug
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:37amWhy are there bomber jets there ??? I do not see any runways for take-offs/landings ??
Report Post »Thomas Payne
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:44amOld Migs. Those look like 17′s, maybe 19′s?
Report Post »jado1981
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:25amDoes anyone else see the circular pattern is winding, much like the pits in a cd/dvd or even a record. I don’t know morse code, but some of those things look like dots and dashes.
Report Post »Okay, now I’ll put my tin-foil hat back on the hat-rack.
JoshTheRadioDude
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:35amHmm… now that you mention it, that thought hadn’t crossed my mind. I‘ve been looking at these for about a week now and I didn’t see it. Good catch.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:20pmI think they could be buildings that house measuring equipment needed to determine X-ray Laser focusing. Since X-rays cannot be focused with physical lenses, the sequence of the thermonuclear energy pump detonation is what focuses the beam. Some of this information was in Teller’s biography and may still be on the internet.
Our military is helpless because Congress passed a law stopping funding of this system and preventing any kind of such work ever being done. The CHICOMs do not have Democrats in their government, we do.
Report Post »arty6164
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 1:33pmI know morse code and it is too erratic to make sense. Besides, how could you convert 2000 Chinese characters into 36 code characters? It is a puzzlement, no?
Report Post »marre
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:25amThe bottom image looks like a waste treatment plant.
Report Post »urrybr
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:32amI would say an oil refinery. Those look like petroleum tanks. I’m looking for railroads into this plant.
Report Post »ThomasUSA
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:33amMaybe a refinery.. also looks like two nuclear cooling towers on the lower right too..
Report Post »robmerrill88
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:23amI honestly think that some of these structures could be code for aliens. I probably sound like a nut but I wouldn’t be surprised if China was in constant contact with some form of intelligent E.T.
Report Post »utbw42
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:31amThat would come in handy if the aliens like to eat….then eat again an hour later.
Report Post »groundzero
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:10amI’m telling u its General Electric new factory.
Report Post »Looks like a fall out shelter.
motonutt
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:31amWhat’s going on is the chinese are getting their infrastructure ready for war.
I would guess that Taiwan will be taken without the U.S. being able to say a peep.
The chinese are exactly in the same position as the Japanese were in the 30′s, and it is going to be the same result. The movie “Red Dawn” that seemed like fiction that could never happen to our great country could now become our lot.
ace772
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:38amI bet you are right, GrounZero
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:09amInteresting. They can build a lot of things with their work force of political prisoners. Some of this could be “make work” for prisoners but I believe these constructions have a military purpose.
Report Post »bum
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:23amnot to mention the $20 billion per month we pay in interest to them and, oh yeah, the foreign aid we give them.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:05amReminds me of… Circuit Boards!
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:04amI pick code for aliens!
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