Area 51 appears on google maps

[emad]

So tonight I spied on Area 51. Actually, maybe I should explain a little more, before I lead with such a tempting sentence. If you go to CNN’s website tonight, you will see a story about google’s new map search service. Basically, the company has integrated satellite technology into their map-searching site, and now you can get ACTUAL photographs beamed directly from somewhere in space. This section of the page just launched a day or two ago, and already many people are upset because they feel, for some reason, having satellite mapping software on the web that gives basic users the ability to stare at the roof of someone else’s house is an invasions of privacy (Sheesh, what prudes.)

Anyway, with my interest peaked, I decided to check out the controversial technology. Upon going to http://maps.google.com, I immediately COULD NOT find the link to this so-called satellite mapping. Little did I know, however, that google had cleverly hid it in plain view on the upper right hand side of the page. It had been disguised under the link name “satellite,” which I understand is actually a German word meaning “I want to look into your house now.”


By Clicking on the clever “satellite” link, the normal Google U.S. graphic map that usually decorates the main searching page suddenly disappeared, only to be replaced seconds later by a REAL LIFE image of the U.S. For a few minutes I think I sat in awe, and probably drooled a little bit. Then, as boredom was about to set in, I decided to fiddle with the program. I searched for silly things at first: my home town, pizza places, Bush’s integrity…you know, things that you’d think should be easy to find via satellite, but sometimes turn out to be next to impossible to locate. And then I got the bright idea to bring up an image of Las Vegas.



After a few seconds of searching aimlessly through imaged suburbs on the outskirts of Vegas, the realization finally dawned on me…maybe Area 51 could be located with this thing…At first I didn’t really know how to go about searching. I tried to scroll up the map a bit, hoping to accidentally stumble upon the military’s worst best kept secret, but it was too no avail…who knew Nevada was full of deserts and mountains???

http://www.livejournal.com/community/the_unexplained/37956.html#cutid1

[Zenlitened]

1. What riot! You can get arrested for aiming a camera at Area 51...

... but you want to Google a satellite view? No problem!

:rofl:

[tavalon]

51. So why all the secrecy

Sure, they've got the aliens stashed there, but surely you can't get pictures of them from the ground or from the satellites. ;)

[jim3775]

2. He like there are no photos of the Groom lake base on the internet...

Here is a photo of a U2 taking off from Beale AFB (zoom in).

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=yuba+city+ca&ll=39.126585,-121.433591&spn=0.007660,0.010353&t=k&hl=en

If the DOD didn't want this to be seen it wouldn't be on the net, they track these satellites and know what they are taking photos of, they can classify an image if they want to.

This forum of legitimate military aviation enthusiasts has tons of links to good sat-photos


http://www.dreamlandresort.com/forum/index.html

[Frederik]

46. They still use those U2s?

they're like from the 50s.

[derby378]

3. I think a Russian satellite photo of Area 51 has already made the scene

The US government wasn't too happy about it, but it's out there now. Shows runways, hangars, barracks, etc.

[Berserker]

4. There have been sites

for years with this technology. Area 51 photos have been on the net for years. http://www.terraserver.com/

[jim3775]

5. There are people...

...who hike to the top of a mountain nearby called Tikaboo Peak and take panoramas with homemade telepohoto cameras.

http://www.dreamlandresort.com/area51/index.html

Again, these photos have been up for years, the DOD doesnt care about photos like this. I just saw a discovery channel report a few weeks ago where they filemd inside Cheyenne Mountain and that is just as secret as Nellis AFB.

[doublethink]

19. Yea back in 2000 .......

here's a link to that story ..... same air force base from the air.

http://www.canoe.ca/TechNews0004/18_area51.html

[FreedomAngel82]

26. Yep

I remember one weekend last month on the Sci-Fi channel possibly or something like that they were talking about Area 51 and if it was real etc. This guy and three/four others were trying to just figure out about Area 51 and the main guy who's been working on this for a few years and either the CIA or FBI (can't remember who) came into the guy's home and took all his computer discs and the computer all together, photos etc. So they're really trying to hide something. Oh and trying to find Bush's
integrity you might have to look a little bit out in space. It's not here on Earth that's for sure.

[tavalon]

52. Actually

you won't find Bush's integrity anywhere. It doesn't exist.

[bobthedrummer]

6. What do you think of Bob Lazar's story? He claimed to work there.

I think there is some truth in it and that he's been fucked with/discredited for some reason as a result.

I do remain cautious, yet I believe he worked at Area 51.

[emad]

8. Bob lazar made one big mistake in assuming it was retro-engineering

of an "alien" or futuristic craft those guys were working on.

I also think he was deliberately used by the Pentagon in a counter-intelligence smear op.

[Daphne08]

37. That is my opinion as well. His story is too wild to be believed.

[bobthedrummer]

38. It is convenient to hide the development of exotic propulsion and energy

systems like anti-gravity, I think Bob Lazar was involved in some kind of research there and got targeted for something. I don't buy the alien hypothesis, that's a black op cover for something radical.

[Johonny]

48. Hmm...

I don't by the anti-gravity part.

[emad]

56. There was a story way back 20 years ago that Area 51 was the

scene of a major bio-weapons disaster, some man-made smallpox hybrid mutated onto a flu virus carrier .....

And that Ronnie Raygun ordered the gagging after the place was sealed off and a whitewash black op put in place.

Can't remember the exact details but believe it was several hundred military fatalities, whose deaths had to be explained away to relatives who then had to sign secrecy agreements....

[Frederik]

47. Don't you think

those people always say the fancy aircraft are "reverse engineered alien aircraft" because that's the only way they can talk about secret aircraft programmes without getting in trouble? Noone's going to take them seriously anyway unless they "read between the lines" (...and of course the aircraft was retro-engineered from aliens wink wink).

[megatherium]

23. I don't buy his story.

If memory serves, he was talking about how the UFOs were powered by Element 115, which is expected to be a relatively stable element (the neighboring elements in the periodic table are all artificial and have extremely short half-lives). I knew immediately he was a con artist.

[FreedomAngel82]

28. What's his story?

I'm not sure if I've heard it. I might have but I'm curious. I do get weird feelings with the place for some reason.

[Mr Rabble]

33. he is a full blown con-man

Lazar's story, while interesting, has been completely discredited.

[seemslikeadream]

7. Thanks emad

http://eclectech.co.uk/b3ta/index.php

[emad]

9. Love the moving graphics.....though nothing yet compares to your

pic on the raunchy altar-cloth g-string rhinocerous, illustrating that JP2 story about how Polish sewers, I mean tailors, were banned from unprofitable ecclesiastical garment production into more lucrative pursuits......

Nearly caused a riot with my fundie neighbors when I showed them the pic.....

[tinrobot]

10. Try Nasa's World Wind and see it in 3D

It uses satellite images like Google, but also allows you to interactively fly over any spot on the planet in 3D. You can even see the height of the mountains. Probably the coolest application I've seen in years.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

Just type Groom Lake into the place finder and you're there. Not only can you see Area 51, you can see exactly how it fits into the terrrain by moving the camera to whatever height and angle you want.

[doublethink]

11. The mounds and ruins ......

are actually where they used to do underground testing of nuclear bombs back in from 1947 or so till 1973, if you google something like 'Nevada Underground Nuclear Tests, add Mounds or something like that you will come up with the history and other pics of these 'mounds' and pockmarks from the air etc... here's a quick link of the pock mark craters these things look like (they are actually mounds)go to the bottom of the page ..... I'll see if I can find some close up ones for you too ..... Peace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site

[Salviati]

12. For those who think this sort of thing is neat...

you also need to check out NASAs worldwind software at http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ It's lots of fun!

[sabra]

14. kewl, thanks for the link

[jeanarrett]

15. Can we see pictures of the Bohemian Grove? n/t

[seemslikeadream]

16. Great question

Waiting for an answer

[bobthedrummer]

18. How about the huge hangar doors and the 12 mile long runway at Area

51? Put up a shot of them. They've got the world's largest hangar there, as far as I know.
Most of it is underground of course.

[seemslikeadream]

21. I got this from a friend - Bohemian Grove

http://www.google.com/maps?q=monte+rio,ca&ll=38.470173,-122.993317&spn=0.056133,0.086346&t=k&hl=en

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/bohemian_grove_maps.html

:hi:

[sellitman]

13. Check out this map of the same area.

What in heck is that?

http://babyurl.com/3Rs55Q

[doublethink]

20. Now that's interesting .......

looks new, or maintained for some purpose ..... not like the ruins in the other images of a nuclear test site. hmmmmmmmm :)

[hvn_nbr_2]

44. It's on Beale Air Force Base outside Yuba City, CA

I can't find any identification of what it is. If you zoom in a little closer (you can only go one more level), you can see that some of the little spots are vehicles.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. The Google Sat Pics are already censored

Zoom in on the White house, for example, and the roof of the White House, the Treasury Building, and the OEOB are masked with a brown screen (kinda like having been Photoshopped). And that's perfectly fine with me. In fact, I see it as a good thing. I **want** our government and government buildings kept safe (no flames regarding the current *state* of our government ... I agree with all of you!).

Also, the Google sat pix, as I understand it, are not live. They're stored photos, and having looked at some areas I know intimately well (like my own house) are not all that recent. I looked at a nearby street where there's a relatively long term road job going on (bridge replacement) and it shows the old bridge, untouched.

[Blue Diadem]

31. I noticed though that a refinery and a power plant were pretty clear,

in my area. I think they should be masked for safety reasons as well.

[Salviati]

49. definitely not live photos...

Through one of the photo links (I can't rememeber which one) it let you know when the photo was taken. The recent ones of seattle were about 3 years old. The ones of my parents place are even older. When they're able to do this with live imagery, that will fall into the both cool and scary file...

[malmapus]

55. Yeah I tried looking up Ft. Bragg to see my old barracks and its shaded

slightly, looked like whole freaking base was...even the range areas lol

[The Gigmeister]

22. Went to your site...I know what those round green things are...

...Only because when I flew into New Mexico I saw them. They just fields of whatever. They don't have much water out there so they set up these HUGE (Look to be a mile square/round) watering things. They just spin around and water the entire field.

At least that's what I assume they are.

[hvn_nbr_2]

43. Those green circles appear all over the west

Wherever there is agriculture in the west, you're likely to see them. When you fly cross country you see lots of them from the airplane. They're kind of like a chain of pipes connected together, and with a wheel periodically along the chain. There's an anchor point at the center (and a water source too) and the whole pipe-wheel chain rotates around the center anchor to water the round area.

[DistressedAmerican]

24. That Is Hysterical. I Was Just Wondering About Crawford Ranch Myself...

Gotta look!

[hunter]

29. Find Bush, win a prize!

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=crawford+texas&spn=0.525284,0.682526&t=k&hl=en

[DistressedAmerican]

34. I Can Offer This Little Tidbit Of Info For Anyone Else That Wants To Look.

An Old Sat Photo of the "Govenor's Ranch". Has some roads and other land marks.

OK GO!

[DistressedAmerican]

35. Did You Notice It Won't Let You Zoom In On Crawford!

Left Area 51 open for all to see but you can't find the ranch. Now that is what I call homeland security!

Maybe this is why:

[DS1]

25. hahah! That's great!

.

[jburton]

27. Some Google maps are very outdated

These are hardly "live" photos.

The Dallas image is at least 20 years old. Specifically, old east Dallas, where my nextdoor neighbor installed his pool in 1985. The pictures from google are pre-pool.

[girl gone mad]

45. I was able to find my home in Denton..

Which was built in 97. But the map was at least 5 years old.

[GarySeven]

30. If you zoom in on the White House ...

you can clearly see that someone has "doctored" the photos, obviously to block out security systems on the White House roof, as well as atop the Executive Office building and other facilities.

[DistressedAmerican]

36. Sure Does! Funny! You Can't Even Zoom In On Crawford.

It just goes grey and says that resolution image is not available for the area!

[thedevilinthedetails]

32. Funny story from an AF friend of mine

A friend of mine is in the Air Force and he was TDY at Groom AFB (I assume). He was telling me that he was assigned to Area 51 (not sure that's what they officially call it in the AF, but that's what he called it when he told me the story becuase he knew I knew about the rumors etc.)

He said everyone in the AF talks about the rumors too, it's a big joke in many ways since nobody (or very few people) really know what goes on deep inside the bunkers or caves or whatever is super super top secret.

Anwyay, so he arrives at Area 51 for his TDY and at while introducing himself to the officers and others there at his briefing, the first question he asks is:

"so, where the aliens? Got any UFOs to show me?"

Nobody laughed he said...which was kind of strange. I think it's hilarious.

[Baclava]

39. Of course it's funny...

We've moved all the good stuff to Utah.
Earthlings are so gullible....

[Redstone]

40. I think they killed the closeups

at least I couldn't get them.

Redstone

[Chico Man]

41. The satellite photos are recent..

I had a tree chopped down late last fall and it is missing from the satellite photo..

Interesting stuff.

[methinks2]

42. thanks for the fun

I'm sending the link to friends.

[Donailin]

50. holy crap

this is totally intense. What are the green circles? Putting greens?

[chalky]

53. "I have no idea what these buildings are,

...but I have the horrible feeling that one of them is a Baby Gap."

Hee.

[Turn CO Blue]

54. OMG! I LOVE this quote!

"I have no idea what these buildings are, but I have the horrible feeling that one of them is a Baby Gap."

Effing hilarious!

[QuettaKid]

57. dates of photos

It appears they are more up to date in some areas than others. It would be nice to be able to find out exactly when they were taken and if they are constantly being updated.

[ucmike]

58. area 51 on simpsons rerun

lisa gets lost in springfield and ends up at area 51. there is a guide map outside the front gate that says "you are here, but we are not" or something to that effect.

pretty funny.