| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| jbottero | 2007-01-23 10:01:47 | Jets at Amberley | Indeed they are F111s. Astralia are the only people still flying them. |
| jbottero | 2007-01-22 13:09:56 | Ship stuck in the ice | Note the truck on the ice just north of the ship. |
| jbottero | 2007-01-15 15:57:42 | Penny Lane "roundabout" | What is the structure in the middle? |
| jbottero | 2007-01-14 21:07:21 | 'Corrosion Control Facility' | Paint. |
| jbottero | 2007-01-11 19:19:49 | Strange Sign | You've found the space ship landing base. The Men in Black will be by soon to deal with you. |
| jbottero | 2007-01-11 11:26:32 | Unusual location for a driver training track | The low lands are probably too valuble as farmland. |
| jbottero | 2007-01-10 21:32:58 | Million Dollar Trailers | Includes the other side of the road as well, I think:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/27931/ |
| jbottero | 2007-01-08 17:18:54 | Censored - Northport Power Plant | Sure, Ozzy, but what is it I can't see now that I could have seen without the "censoring"? |
| jbottero | 2007-01-07 18:04:59 | Navigation Beacon? | Weather radar? |
| jbottero | 2007-01-07 12:58:04 | Censored - Northport Power Plant | What I don't understand about "censoring" like this is what they hope to achieve? I can still tell where the roads are, where the guard shack is, how many cars are in the parking lot... What does the... |
| jbottero | 2007-01-07 12:03:29 | Censored - Northport Power Plant | It's a HUGE CO2 pollution source called the "Northport Power Plant". |
| jbottero | 2007-01-04 09:16:25 | Wayne Manor (Batman residence) | Which Batman was this from? I don't see it mentioned in the Wiki link... The TV series? |
| jbottero | 2006-12-31 20:39:57 | UFO (water tower) | I'm guessing water tower. Or spaceship port. One of the two... |
| jbottero | 2006-12-31 17:45:39 | Everglades Jetport | Back around 1985, this runway or its predecessor was known to be popular for late night landings from unscheduled South American flights. |
| jbottero | 2006-12-31 13:50:23 | Sing Sing Prison | The Google map image is now blurred, but the Yahoo image is still clear. I've added new thumbs for both. |
| jbottero | 2006-12-30 18:28:23 | Pope's window | Looks blocked off. |
| jbottero | 2006-12-30 17:49:01 | Tamoil Cremona Refiney (Censored in Local.Live) | That's damn good retouching, too! can't tell it's not the real thing! |
| jbottero | 2006-12-18 13:08:17 | First Assembly of God | Church of Golf... |
| jbottero | 2006-12-15 19:52:28 | Howard Stern's House | Parabellum, that link shows a picture of a runway.
And, the Local Live thumb above is *not* the right lot. The Google Map thumb is correct. |
| jbottero | 2006-12-15 19:48:21 | Central Pier | Take a look in Google, and note most of the pier is not there. Now, look at the edge of the pier: Are those *half* umbrellas? Photoshop? |
| jbottero | 2006-12-15 10:00:59 | Cool Crest Golf Course | Put-put golf... |
| jbottero | 2006-12-13 20:50:39 | Howard Stern's House | The link shows a different lot up the road as Stern's. |
| jbottero | 2006-12-13 20:33:28 | F-4 Phantom targets | Man, there are nasty little air strips all over Eglin. |
| jbottero | 2006-12-12 08:53:49 | WWF Oasis "Gli Astroni" | The World Wrestling Federation has sanctuaries in Italy? Who knew! |
| jbottero | 2006-12-10 18:57:43 | Pool in the Spree River | I only see one. Are there more? |
| jbottero | 2006-12-10 18:21:43 | Censored Vessum | A very special stand of trees? |
| jbottero | 2006-12-10 18:21:06 | Censored Vessum | Same as http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/27312/ |
| jbottero | 2006-12-08 09:34:20 | Rural Cemetery | Doesn't look too rural to me... |
| jbottero | 2006-12-07 11:10:48 | Censored Yonkers | A secret sewage treatment plant, the terrorists know our weak spots... |
| jbottero | 2006-12-06 21:09:50 | Flying What | That's kind of neat. It really does look like part of some test aircraft... |
| jbottero | 2006-12-06 15:24:45 | Censored Yonkers | Sewage treeatment? Fish farm? Secret killer Navy dolfin ranch? |
| jbottero | 2006-12-04 19:58:23 | Censored near Sersheim | If you zoom out, there doesn't seem to be anything of interest there... |
| jbottero | 2006-12-03 17:56:54 | Hygiene, Colorado | Clean livin' in Colorado, where apple pie is THE menu... |
| jbottero | 2006-12-02 13:45:22 | F-4 Phantom at Mirimar | It's right next to the fire training pit. Must be for egress training. Maybe abandoned now. |
| jbottero | 2006-12-01 16:22:00 | Censored white spot | An antenna? Missile battery? |
| jbottero | 2006-11-30 17:14:05 | FEMA Trailers - Katrina | So the perpendicular ones at the ends are to keep 'em tipping over like dominos? |
| jbottero | 2006-11-28 22:43:38 | Unidentified Runway | Or more likely, likes to fish... |
| jbottero | 2006-11-28 22:40:49 | Unidentified Runway | That's a pretty nice runway. Someone likes to fly... |
| jbottero | 2006-11-27 21:51:36 | 'S&M Building Materials' | "Ouch" |
| jbottero | 2006-11-25 01:10:23 | Firefox Crop Circle | Is it a sat picture or an aerial picture spliced in? |
| jbottero | 2006-11-21 13:02:07 | Bernie Robbins Stadium | Er, I mean "Qwest Field", as in Qwest Communications, the phone company... |
| jbottero | 2006-11-21 13:01:19 | Bernie Robbins Stadium | Yup. We have "Quest Field" here in Seattle... Surprised it's not "Microsoft Field". Really makes ya think of baseball... |
| jbottero | 2006-11-21 11:25:37 | Bernie Robbins Stadium | I'm told that it's actually known by "locals" as The Sandcastle... |
| jbottero | 2006-11-20 21:36:14 | Interesting Groove in Algerian Desert | It looks like the "tip" is actually off the ground... |
| jbottero | 2006-11-17 23:02:42 | Odd Markings Near Djibouti | I'm not sure it's military, though it might be. There are lots of things next to the airport. I think it might be water / gas because there are pipes that lead from the circles to the building. |
| jbottero | 2006-11-05 20:32:49 | Movie Set at Downey Studios | Former NASA / Boeing facility:
http://www.downeystudios.com/downey/the_studio/ |
| jbottero | 2006-11-05 20:27:25 | Reider Ranch landing strip (private) | That's a runway, eh? |
| jbottero | 2006-10-31 13:24:50 | C-124C Globemaster and C-141B Starlifter | The description of the McChord Air Museum ( http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/6672/ ) says these birds are now located behind the museum. The... |
| jbottero | 2006-10-31 13:23:12 | McChord Air Museum - Old Location | The description is incorrect. The C-141B and a C-124C where NEVER parked anywhere near the museum. They are currently located overlooking the runwau at:
... |
| jbottero | 2006-10-27 23:21:13 | Lots of something | Bails of cotton? |
| jbottero | 2006-10-25 23:43:32 | Jet Near Palmdale | Is it an A-10? |
| jbottero | 2006-10-25 23:32:54 | U-2 Being Assembled in the Desert | I can't find the radar stuff, where's it at? |
| jbottero | 2006-10-24 23:58:04 | Car in trouble | It's between New York and Jersey... Looks like they dump more than cars there, my guess is it's just an easy way to get rid of dead cars. Jersey is an arm pit. |
| jbottero | 2006-10-20 09:42:23 | Planned community - roads but nothing else | These "communities" are generally land scams. People buy "ranchettes" sight unseen, and find out they are out in the middle of the desert with no water or power. Landauctions.com sells a lot of... |
| jbottero | 2006-10-19 11:45:48 | TU-134 converted into a home | It doesn't seem to be near an airport, wonder where they towed it from? |
| jbottero | 2006-10-17 12:11:35 | Odd censorship | What’s odd to me is that the level of pixilation is so minor that I’m not sure what they are hiding. You can see the layout of the base, what kind and how many aircraft, the general purpose of... |
| jbottero | 2006-10-16 21:33:36 | Western Air Defense Sector Command Center | WADS is actually just the part of the building on the left. The part on the right houses the Com Squadron, the library, the education center, and some civilian personnel functions. |
| jbottero | 2006-10-16 10:16:58 | Multi-purpose Logistics Module for the Space Shuttle | Maybe just a mock-up? The "real" one wouldn't be sitting out in a parking lot, I think. |
| jbottero | 2006-10-15 20:10:20 | Jug Shaped Building | This building is now a very sleazy stip club. |
| jbottero | 2006-10-15 01:07:09 | Odd Chinese aircraft facility | Some sort of launching device? |
| jbottero | 2006-10-14 21:52:58 | Heliport | Evergreen Air, the CIA air line, has operations here. |
| jbottero | 2006-10-14 21:49:24 | Howard Hughes H-4 Hercules (inside) | By the way, Evergreen Air used to be the CIA airline, mostly during Viet Nam... |
| jbottero | 2006-10-14 21:47:14 | Howard Hughes H-4 Hercules (inside) | Are you sure? Is it bigger than the C-5 or the Russian cargo jets? |
| jbottero | 2006-10-13 22:44:54 | Red and White C-130s #81 and #86 | Fire fighting planes? |
| jbottero | 2006-10-13 22:43:20 | High Society at Stellar City Airpark | Follow the road down to the end of the cul-de-sac. On the left in the picture, on the roof, are those solar cells? |
| jbottero | 2006-10-11 15:35:32 | Aircrew Disembarking From KC-135 Stratotanker | The 135's are no longer based at Portland. |
| jbottero | 2006-10-10 08:22:16 | 'Til The Cows Come Home | Oh, their goin' home, alright. It's a feed lot. Next stop, the slaughter house! |
| jbottero | 2006-10-07 20:01:07 | Cemetery in an Interstate Highway median | Very interesting. Any additional info on this? |
| jbottero | 2006-10-07 00:22:38 | Oops! Airplane in the side of a building | Theme restaurant? |
| jbottero | 2006-10-06 11:57:52 | C-5 and C-130 test beds | There's the tail end of a C-141 there, too... |
| jbottero | 2006-10-06 10:22:16 | Flying the Flag | Is that Cletus Spuckler's place?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cletus_Spuckler |
| jbottero | 2006-10-06 10:02:59 | Boeing 720-051B with five engines | Isn't that the specially modified 707 that they can mount a test engine on the side of? |
| jbottero | 2006-10-06 09:50:30 | Fort Lewis | http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/gray.htm |
| jbottero | 2006-10-05 12:11:23 | U2 Spy Plane | Same as http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/21755/ ?
But neither seem to be there anymore. |
| jbottero | 2006-10-05 11:02:38 | Thunderchief Row | I get the impression that this whole set-up is part of the dog training facility. Makes sense that they want the dogs to be familure with air field operations. |
| jbottero | 2006-10-05 11:00:59 | Plane Wreckage near Nellis | I agree. The "bomb dump" next to it is a training facility. |
| jbottero | 2006-10-05 00:24:42 | Ambulance and Gurny near helicopter mishap | There's no real activity around the helo, or even near-by. Also note the ladder at the rear, there is maintenance going on. Speculation: training set-up. |
| jbottero | 2006-10-05 00:09:05 | Fuselages | Up the road, across from the parade ground and large barracks building are a complex of diagonal buildings on the west side of Carswell and Selfridge, that at least when I drove by in 2004 indicated... |
| jbottero | 2006-10-04 19:50:06 | American police car in Germany | The "stong arm" of The Law has a long reach! |
| jbottero | 2006-10-04 19:48:59 | White F-117 Nighthawk | Well, it's definatly not Have Blue, but it looks vaery much like an F-117 to me. And it is at the Skunk Works, so maybe it's an F-117 with experimental body mods... |
| jbottero | 2006-10-04 00:23:34 | Resting Place of the Man in Black | You would think Johnny Cash would want to be burried someplace nice, instead of this "lawn cemetary" located between a shopping mall and a tacky housing develoment. Sad. |
| jbottero | 2006-10-03 17:20:07 | First Nuclear Powered Town in World | I'm wondering how this "jives" with the Fort Belvoir SM-1 Nuclear Reactor being the first nuclear power reactor in the U.S. to provide electricity to a commercial power grid? Seems to me both can't... |
| jbottero | 2006-10-02 20:33:44 | Burned store | Much of Detroit is like this. When people think of American "ghetto", The Bronx in NY often comes to mind, but that's history. Today, Detroit and East St. Louis both eclipse The Bronx by miles... |
| jbottero | 2006-10-02 09:01:29 | Mtwara Airport (HTMT) | What's that off to the side at the 19 end? Are these gun emplacements? |
| jbottero | 2006-10-02 00:46:15 | Bradshaw Air Force Base (BSF / PHSF) | http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/bradshaw.htm |
| jbottero | 2006-10-01 17:46:40 | Lee Plaza | Lot's of inerior pics here:
http://www.forgottendetroit.com/leeplaza/index.html |
| jbottero | 2006-10-01 17:45:13 | Fort-Shelby Hotel | More pictures (lots of ineriors) of this ruin here:
http://www.forgottendetroit.com/fsh/index.html |
| jbottero | 2006-10-01 17:43:51 | Detroit Castle | Once the meeting hall of the Grand Army of the Republic, here's more info on this great building:
... |
| jbottero | 2006-10-01 17:42:25 | United Artists Theater | More on this building here:
http://www.forgottendetroit.com/uat/index.html |
| jbottero | 2006-10-01 17:41:29 | Statler-Hilton Hotel | More on the Statler:
http://www.forgottendetroit.com/statler/history-postem.html
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| jbottero | 2006-10-01 13:16:12 | Abandoned and decaying factory | Looks like the administrative buildings are occupied. Just to the right (east?) and across the rail tracks you will see a hazardous waste clean-up project. It looks like a field, but is more likely a... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-27 13:55:55 | KC-135 Stratotanker Landing at Nellis AFB | Position on the runway and attitude of the nose, I think it's taking off. |
| jbottero | 2006-09-27 00:22:39 | Louisiana Superdome after Katrina | Reverted to pre-Katrena pic. |
| jbottero | 2006-09-26 23:54:35 | Hawker Hunter N58MX at Van Nuys | Same as the one seen at Chino?
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/23262/ |
| jbottero | 2006-09-26 07:50:32 | Insanely long freight train near Vegas | It's hard to tell, but I think it may be leaving LV, not appapproaching... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-24 15:05:45 | Taliesin West | Great find! |
| jbottero | 2006-09-22 18:01:44 | Predator Drone Taking Off From Remote Airstrip | It's a UAV. Some have been modified for missiles. No reason to believe that they will can not be modified for other missions as well. UAV seems like a good all-around class. |
| jbottero | 2006-09-21 16:56:10 | Love Canal Site | Wow, I'm surprised this wasn't already in... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-21 13:23:28 | Unusual secure Air Force facility | Also, note the "fake" street scean / village. |
| jbottero | 2006-09-21 13:22:06 | Unusual secure Air Force facility | I think whatever is going on there, it has to do with training, Lackland is an ATC base. |
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