Is The Mysterious Google Maps Anomaly China’s Area 51?
Posted by Justin on November 15th, 2011
Pictures of a strange plot of land in China’s western Gansu province could a secret weapons testing facility and if one weapons expert is to be believed, it’s very similar to American installations in Nevada. Including the famed Area 51.
Tim Ripley, a defence expert from Jane’s Defence Weekly, compared the structures to similar grids in Area 51, the secret United States military test base in Nevada. “The picture of the circle looks very like a missile test range, with target and instrumentation set out to record weapon effects. The Americans have lots of these in Nevada – Area 51!” he said.
This region is known to be used by the Chinese military for secret weapons test and this kind of grid could be used to simulate city streets, presumably to test the accuracy of missiles.
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November 16th, 2011 at 2:30 am
It’s things like this that make me wish China would care enough to, at least, condescend the rest of the world with a flimsy cover story. The area is just action packed the “wtf is that”. There doesn’t seem to be any structures that aren’t in disrepair, although there are tire tracks all over the place.
There’s defiantly evidence of bomb testing, but not really around the “grids”. I’d guess it’s one of three things:
A- Test pattern to calibrate satellite optics
B- Aftermath of an orbital laser test
C- Testing a Lunar/Martian mineral harvesting robot (see pic)
November 16th, 2011 at 2:30 am
It’s things like this that make me wish China would care enough to, at least, condescend the rest of the world with a flimsy cover story. The area is just action packed the “wtf is that”. There doesn’t seem to be any structures that aren’t in disrepair, although there are tire tracks all over the place.
There’s defiantly evidence of bomb testing, but not really around the “grids”. I’d guess it’s one of three things:
A- Test pattern to calibrate satellite optics
B- Aftermath of an orbital laser test
C- Testing a Lunar/Martian mineral harvesting robot (see pic)