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Decades-Old Mystery Put To Rest: Why Are There X's In The Desert?
Pez Owen was flying over the desert in her single-engine Cessna airplane when she spotted a huge "X" etched in the desert below. She says it was the strangest thing. "It's not on the [flight] chart," Owen says. "There just wasn't any indication of this huge cross." Then she spotted another one. (www.npr.org) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
anyone else.imagine this story being read by Paul Harvey? and you know..the rest of the story...Im paul Harvey...good day?
The engineer corps I doubt would need these anymore and probably many have disappeared already, they should remove one of the brass plates and make a memorial piece for Pez as a keepsake in memory of her father.
Check out the Gambit and Hexagon satellites at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio. Gives a sense of scale of these things.
This are Corona Satellite Calibration Targets. The Corona satellites were used for photographic surveillance of the Soviet Union (USSR), the People's Republic of China, and other areas beginning in June 1959 and ending in May 1972. The name of this program is sometimes seen as "CORONA", but its actual name "Corona" was a codeword, not an acronym.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Satellite_Calibration_Targets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Satellite_Calibration_Targets
That is very interesting and informative story. Thanks for posting it.
That's where the treasure is buried