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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AJC
May 13, 2011 2:20 am

An invaluable resource and my first port of call …
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm

Joe Lalonde
May 13, 2011 2:28 am

Anthony,
The triangle looks imposed over the picture. The terrain is still visible through the triangle and the center of the triangle is still pretty rough terrain like the rest of the area.
Maybe a new secret government base in the works??? You think?

May 13, 2011 2:28 am

Looks to me like one of the many WW2 training airfields dotted all over the western US.

NikFromNYC
May 13, 2011 2:31 am
John Gorter
May 13, 2011 2:31 am

This way up!

May 13, 2011 2:33 am

Yup. Flying between LA and Houston, I used to count them, close to 20 as I recall. A number of them were right triangles.

Brian D Finch
May 13, 2011 3:38 am

Roman roads?

Stu
May 13, 2011 3:41 am

A racetrack from the future?

Alistair Ahs
May 13, 2011 3:57 am

Is it big enough to prove the curvature of the Earth?

jmrSudbury
May 13, 2011 4:43 am

That link has a second example. The second one has a housing development that was recently build over top of the old air field. Using Google Maps, I zoomed out from the first one to find the second 17 miles south east in a town called Surprise. I could see the entire triangle. As I zoomed in, the pictures suddenly got newer and showed the housing development. — John M Reynolds

2Hotel9
May 13, 2011 4:52 am

I see that TerryS hit the thread here and enlightened y’all!
I was not certain, many of the training and auxiliary airfields of that era were triangular in design so that runways could be used in varying wind conditions, at least when the terrain would allow it.
I had also thought that perhaps they were US Cavalry positions from the late 1800s Indian campaigns. Regimental size units often setup in triangular positions, each battalion occupying a leg. The precise compass lay would be rather typical of Westpointer type thinking.

PJB
May 13, 2011 5:03 am

Gaia, using the universal symbol, “YIELD”

May 13, 2011 5:14 am

“TinyCO2 says:
May 13, 2011 at 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
Could be airfields, in which case- are there any poorly cited weather stations there? 😉

wws
May 13, 2011 5:20 am

There are pyramids in my head
There’s one underneath my bead
And my lady’s getting cranky
Every possible location
Has a simple explanation
And it isn’t hanky-panky
I had read
Somewhere in a book, they improve all your food and your wine
It said, that everything you grow in your garden would taste pretty fine
Instead, all I ever get is a pain in the neck and a
Yap yap yap yap yap yap yap
I’ve consulted all the sages
I could find in the yellow pages
But there aren’t many of them
And the myan panoramas
On my pyramid pajamas
Haven’t helped my little problem
I’ve been told
Someone in the know can be sure that his luck is as
Good as gold, money in the bank and you don’t even pay for it
If you fold, a dollar bill in the shape of the pyramid that’s printed on the back
It’s no lie, You can keep the edge of a razor as sharp as an
Eagle’s eye, you can grow a hedge that is vertically straight over
Ten feet high, all you really need is a pyramid and just a little luck
I had read, somewhere in a book, they improve all your food and wine
I’d been told, someone in the know can be sure of his good luck
It’s no lie, all you need is a little bit of pyramidic help
(Alan Parsons Project, “Pyramania”)

Lonnie E. Schubert
May 13, 2011 5:20 am

Abandoned air field as detailed above. Also, the huge oval is cool.
http://wikimapia.org/6874053/Toyota-Arizona-Proving-Ground-TAPG
Thanks for making me think.

John Silver
May 13, 2011 5:25 am

Here’s another one: 46°21’11.48″N 84°48’49.70″W
and this one is connected to a UFO story.
I will say no more.

Terry W
May 13, 2011 5:39 am

Baseball with only 3 bases.

DonS
May 13, 2011 5:46 am

The Ghost Of Big Jim Cooley says: Big Jim, I don’t know if kids today could afford the fuel, but in my boyhood it would be covered with burnout marks from all the drag races we’d be running. And the infield would be full of blown-up jalopys.
Come to think of it, I couldn’t afford the fuel to run that hemi now, either.

Geoff Sherrington
May 13, 2011 6:07 am

Airfields. There is another one in town, integrated with Wittmann airstrip. 33.718548, -112.528532.

Robert Hooper
May 13, 2011 6:18 am

You can see the outline of a plane just to the west and slightly north of the triangle base. Basically straight up from the southwest corner.
Two things are proven by the photo:
Greeks beat the Vikings to the continent.
Greeks had airplanes.

Geoff Sherrington
May 13, 2011 6:18 am

For Nature as Artist, fly to 32.4117, 93.4696, eye altitude 25 km. It is in Tibet, with the most beautifully artistic patterns of gorges and snow. Fly around and zoom up and down, it’s stunning. (Turn off roads, places, boundaries etc to get the rawest image).

Stacey
May 13, 2011 6:41 am

Watt is it?
My view would be that it is a three sided figure with equal angles of 60 degrees and is called an equilateral triangle;-)

Latitude
May 13, 2011 6:42 am
Crito
May 13, 2011 6:48 am

Clearly Aux Airfields

Jeff Carlson
May 13, 2011 6:54 am