Curiosity in the desert

It is not often we see perfect triangles in the desert from space. Anybody know what this is?

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Keith Minto
May 13, 2011 12:12 am

To help migratory birds, or lost pilots ?

Lawrie Ayres
May 13, 2011 12:14 am

Chariots of the Gods. Landing areas for alien craft. The folk in Surprise are in for a surprise. Where’s your imagination?

Sera
May 13, 2011 12:17 am

Nazca lines?

Kev-in-Uk
May 13, 2011 12:19 am
Keith Minto
May 13, 2011 12:22 am

A marital aid ?

FergalR
May 13, 2011 12:23 am

My first thought was that it was a watermark on the image, but you can zoom in real close see that it’s really there.
Seems to be one kilometre on each side – so probably Napoleon finally taking over the New World. Expect 10-day weeks with only day 10 off soon.

May 13, 2011 12:25 am

There is also an axial marking down the center of each clearing that comprises a side of the triangle….somewhat enhanced, it apears, by vehicular traffic.

TinyCO2
May 13, 2011 12:31 am

This site explains the weird triangles very nicely. Not so much UFO as IFO.
http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/AZ/Airfields_AZ_Phoenix_NW.htm

May 13, 2011 12:32 am

…Not to mention what looks to be an immense three-lane oval race track about seven miles due west.

The Ghost Of Big Jim Cooley
May 13, 2011 12:35 am

Obviously used though. If you look on Google Earth you can zoom in and see tracks, especially to the top left. There appears to be an area there where vehicles evidently leave at different points. Obviously it’s in continual use for something or other, though I just know some will readily lean toward something sinister or alien when it will just turn out to be something boringly earthly!

May 13, 2011 12:43 am

If it was Egypt it would be simple.

May 13, 2011 12:51 am

Mike – that would be the Toyota proving grounds

Palmnut
May 13, 2011 12:51 am

Warning! Global warming ahead! ??

Andy
May 13, 2011 12:55 am

Apparently it is one of several auxiliary airstrips built for Luke Air Force Base during World War 2.
The link below has the details and more photos of them.
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/AZ/Airfields_AZ_Phoenix_NW.htm#lukeaux4

EternalOptimist
May 13, 2011 12:57 am

At first I thought it was an airfield.
But there is no surface station

Duster
May 13, 2011 1:00 am

The former Tactical Air Command, which IIRC was rolled into the Strategic Air Command, used equilateral, triangular airfields, usually with a bisecting runway as training and navigation waypoints. Similar fields used to located around the Sacrmento region in California including one at Lincoln and another at Franklin. There were others as well.

TerryS
May 13, 2011 1:09 am

Another couple of partial triangles can be seen at +33.71°, -112.42° and +33.72°, -112.53°.

Dodgy Geezer
May 13, 2011 1:18 am

Bromley says:
“…Not to mention what looks to be an immense three-lane oval race track about seven miles due west…”
That is actually a clue. This was going to be a NASCAR center some years ago, but about that time the Europeans started commenting about American racing cars not being able to turn corners. So the developers took note of this, and told their builders to build another racetrack a few miles to the East, with at least three tight corners…..

David Mellon
May 13, 2011 1:18 am

I found four more triangles all in the area west of Phoenix. The coordiantes are:
33.440251,-112.510815
33.42084,-112.684364
33.703778,-112.417946 (demagnify for kicks and giggles)
33.717736,-112.529697
Three of the six are associated with old or abandoned airports.

May 13, 2011 1:29 am

You can zoom in and see details of this abandoned military training airfield.
Luke AFB Auxiliary Airfield #4
West Patton Road & Ogden Road
This field was also known as “Wickenburg Field” (which could lead to some confusion with Echeverria Field, which was actually located in Wickenburg).
Wickenburg Field (#4) had three 4,000′ x 300′ runways, and was “built during the period July – August 1942.
Luke Aux #4 airfield was apparently closed at some point between 1956-66, and the property of this field was apparently transferred to the City of Phoenix.

Scarface
May 13, 2011 1:37 am

It’s a warning triangle for extraterrestrial traffic:
Watch out, CAGW-planet. Only solar-powered spacecrafts allowed to enter atmosphere.

Anoneumouse
May 13, 2011 1:59 am

Triangles in Native American symbolism usually referred to the Tipi, or temporary homes. Is it pointing towards Pensilvania

May 13, 2011 2:01 am

There are at least 4 of them; the one shown plus three in an orientation 90-degrees from the other. I’m inclined to go with “Duster” here. A leg of one of the triangles serves as the runway for a small airport, so it seems reasonable that would be the original intent.

Steve C
May 13, 2011 2:14 am

Wait ’til they add the All-Seeing Eye to it, then you’ll know it’s the NWO!

H.R.
May 13, 2011 2:15 am

Those triangles were made by an early secret cult which fought against the (then) consensus that the square wheel was the only proper wheel. This determined cult of skeptics was out to prove the superiority of their design – the triangular wheel – which eliminated one bump.
Sadly, that society was wiped out when invaders using round wheeled chariots swooped in and massacred the culture in one great, tragic battle.

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