Here at the King Khaled Airport in Saudi Arabia, a little way
away from the main terminal, there’s a mysterious and unexplained
outline of a plane marked out on the desert sand.
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The shape is similar in size and dimensions to the four-engine
Boeing 747; perhaps one was used as a fire
training aircraft and since removed? If so, then where did it
go, and how did they remove it without disturbing the outline?
Looking closer, is it possible that the plane shape is actually
marked by some sort of plant life? Perhaps the brown dots that
litter the landscape are shrubs and for some reason they have
sprouted up where a plane used to stand.
This was found by http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/994386/page/0/fpart/1/vc/1
diane9247 at the Keyhole forums - where despite extensive
discussion and an actual email to King Khaled Airport - they’re
still no closer to proving what this really is!
Anybody got any other suggestions?
Tags: , Mystery, Outline, Plane
There’s a neat question mark, about 11m tall, drawn on the
ground of a construction site in the city of Rennes, France.
Of course, the question about this question is: why is it
there?
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The “?” appears to be made out of grass, perhaps by removing the
turf around it. However, in http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2119407 this photo of the
construction site there is curved paving to the bottom left which
could correspond to the area of the question mark.
I also found http://assoalphonseguerin.free.fr/article.php3?id_article=107
these pictures which might be of the same area, but they don’t
provide many additional clues.
So, I’m turning it over to you, our sleuthing readers, to solve
this mystery! Any ideas?
Thanks to Julien Balas
Tags: , IT, Mystery
Update: Thanks to cowens and others who
informed us that this is actually an absolutely massive piece of
land art called http://www.archipedia.org/landscape/desertbreath desert
breath. Click through for some images and a way better
description than I gave it!
What on earth is the purpose of
this massive spiral in the Egyptian desert?
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It appears to be made from near-perfect circles scooped from the
sand, which decrease in size toward the centre of the spiral -
where there is a much larger circular trench.
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Whatever the spiral’s purpose actually is, it must have taken a
serious amount of effort to put here.
Thanks to http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Number=547078&page=0
BZoltan
Tags: , Desert, Egyptian, Mystery, Spiral
Deep in the Mojave desert, there’s
some sort of aircraft which looks as if it crashed and was left
to rot. So how did it come to be here?
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There’s a military airfield to the east,
Camp Wilson, so it’s possible the aircraft came from there -
but why would they just leave it in the middle of the desert?
Of interest is that this location is very close to (that famed
magnet of extra-terrestrial activity) Giant
Rock. There’s even more airstrips just south east of the crash
site at
Outlying Field Seagle, where two of the strips are abandoned
but http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanBernardino_SE.htm#seagle
apparently the third is still in operation. Most interestingly,
the Xs at each end of the runway indicates that no-one should try
to land here, as it’s used exclusively by unmanned
aircraft…
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Thanks to Shane McGillacutty.
Tags: , Crash, Mystery, Plane