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Blackmoor 17-11-20 21:04

A mystery - can someone tell me what this is?
 
I saw a video about this and went to Google Earth to check myself. It's a location in New Mexico where there are all these visible markings on the ground which are in the desert, they're not part of the town.

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/bN5wXSnN/map1.png[/img]

They go on for miles and miles.

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/qRF5Brxn/map2.png[/img]

Over all sorts of terrain.

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/BQb2cDsq/map3.png[/img]

In the video I watched the person walked along one of these lines and at ground level they look like this:

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/hPmtBP1L/map4.png[/img]

Is there some simple explanation for what these are that not being a map type of person, I just don't know about?


:confused:

TombRager 17-11-20 21:10

Maybe it is some kind of road? Really don't know since I'm not from Mexico.

Blackmoor 17-11-20 21:14

This is some of the detail up closer.

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/rscny2nF/map13.png[/img]

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/FF6XvD0t/map14.png[/img]

Look how they curve and fit within the mountainous bits.

Rai 17-11-20 21:18

I mean, the photo above looks like a giant car park :p.

Otherwise I'd say it looks like a grid or such like. Quite odd.

TombRager 17-11-20 21:23

[QUOTE=Rai;8252922]I mean, the photo above looks like a giant car park :p.

Otherwise I'd say it looks like a grid or such like. Quite odd.[/QUOTE]

Maybe it was used to park dinosaurs back in the day if the stuff is there for a long long time?

PRJApocalypse 17-11-20 21:26

Ancient.
Aliens.

Blackmoor 17-11-20 21:30

@Rai, They do! But for giant cars.

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/bwJ6vhP3/map15.png[/img]

The yellow highlighted length is 294.5 metres

And the width is 97.5 metres

It's hard to see but the "roads" bits often end in circular nodes of some kind:

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/rm2hYczc/map15.png[/img]



Anyway, I'm very confused about what this could be. :confused:

Amunet 17-11-20 22:07

Maybe the area wasn't always desert and was inhabited at some point and these are remnants of roads that used to exist?

Cochrane 17-11-20 22:43

If I had to guess, I'd say it's a case where a property developer bought lots of desert to start developing a city. They marked out the lots and the roads, but the people never came, and so now only the roads remain. I know that this is the story behind [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_City,_California]California City, California[/url] (very creative name that), which is similarly mostly empty grids. I learned about that one from a random Youtube video as well.

Edit to add: Found the video again.
[youtube]gO3LUhFwx6k[/youtube]

He is not talking about the place you found, but I think it seems reasonable to think that it might be a similar thing.

DragonSlayer 17-11-20 23:17

Could be a landing site for aliens, maybe they intended to land there to take a select few people if 2012 had happened.

Or it could be a potential location for another Area 51.

Maybe they plan to build Stargate Command there, anyone know where the Stargate is?

It could also be a landing site for the lost city of Atlantis.


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