| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| 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. |
| jbottero | 2006-09-21 13:21:17 | Unusual secure Air Force facility | Notice that it's right next to a bomb dump. And, they deal with a lot of nukes at Lackland and Kelley Annex. Could be related.
Also, in the Live pics, note the parking lot full of... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-20 10:45:37 | Caterpillar Tractor Proving Grounds | I think it's been turned into a housing subdivision... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-20 09:04:17 | Military Issue Water Slides? | Come on! They may be emergency slides, but whatever they are, it's not related to rockets... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-20 08:51:37 | Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes' House | Could be both, he's got a palce in Colorado as well. He keeps moving around to through off the Xenu... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-19 18:07:45 | 'Argo' by Alexander Liberman | Or maybe it's a pile of dicarded scrap? |
| jbottero | 2006-09-19 18:06:37 | Centaur Upper Stage outside NASA wind tunnel | I'm a little amazed to see this on both Live and Google since it's not a static display... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-19 10:04:59 | A-26B Invader 44-34609 (N4819E) at Buckeye Municipal Airport | This is an interesting airport to me because the new single runway with parallel taxiway and apron, which is what we traditionally see today, though it is "superimposed over the old triangle shaped... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-18 09:38:05 | Hudson Bomber on Falcon Field | Opps, logged in... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-16 14:44:25 | F-4's at Miramar | Our guys train against them because there are still people flying them. The also use F-4s as drones (though these are not drones). |
| jbottero | 2006-09-16 00:03:20 | SR-71 | These are absolutely the most amazing aircraft I've ever seen take off, and are quite interesting up close. I was stationed at Beale AFB in the late 1980's, and spent a lot of hours watching these... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-14 16:46:44 | Huey Heaven | You're not kidding, 19 Huey bodies in the parking lot alone... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-13 18:58:26 | 3 persons | What is "truckspotting"? |
| jbottero | 2006-09-13 17:48:17 | U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program | Dolphins with laser beams on their heads? |
| jbottero | 2006-09-13 11:48:14 | Maze near Het Loo royal palace | The last royal occupant of Het Loo was Queen Wilhelmina, having given to castle to the State in 1962. Now, her daughter, Queen Juliana, took up residence at Soestdijk Palace, which I can't find on... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-11 16:57:09 | Tananarive - Lac Anosy monument to dead in World War 1 | Looks like it doesn't get much traffic, the enterence is surounded by what looks like a shanty town of some type... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-11 10:02:21 | F-16 armed to the hilt | The positioning of the hangers and the security parameter suggest that these are “alert birds”, fully armed fighters manned by crews 24/7 ready to launch in very short periods of time. Most... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-08 16:19:41 | Dwyer Hill Training Centre, Joint Task Force 2 | Wonder what the purpose of the long field with the many bridges (???) crossing it is... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-08 11:26:21 | Worst camouflage ever | Maybe it looks different in NVG gear. |
| jbottero | 2006-09-08 09:41:21 | ATG Javelin at Centenial Airport | On second thought, there are actually a number of small jet trainers that look a lot like the T-38... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-08 09:38:09 | ATG Javelin at Centenial Airport | T-38 Talon / F-5 is my bet. See the small intakes on the sides (F-16 has a single large intake under the belly)? Looks a lot like a 2 seat T-38 Air Force trainer. |
| jbottero | 2006-09-05 17:11:49 | Satellite antennas beside palace of Sultan of Brunei | Wonder if he uses illegal premium channel decoders... |
| jbottero | 2006-09-05 10:21:09 | USAF C-130 with BLU-82 Daisy Cutter Bomb | The fire truck is called a P-19, it's built on the standard Oshkosh truck frame seen in a lot of Army rolling stock. It was state-of-the-art airport fire truck technology in 1985. |
| jbottero | 2006-09-05 10:16:24 | Stade Anjalay | Odd place for a stadium... But what are the raised platforms for? |
| jbottero | 2006-09-04 00:59:16 | Helicopter on a tower | It's for training. Wildland fire fighting troops train and deploy from this location. |
| jbottero | 2006-09-01 01:20:19 | Police Activity | Looks like training of some type. |
| jbottero | 2006-08-31 10:25:23 | Edwards Air Force Base | Is this a Space Shuttle landing strip? |
| jbottero | 2006-08-29 10:31:53 | Bigger painting in the world ? | Water reflecting off a field. |
| jbottero | 2006-08-28 18:14:07 | Airplane landing at Noi Bai Int'l Airport (HAN / VVNB) | Looks like a C-17 Globemaster. |
| jbottero | 2006-08-27 21:42:23 | Granary Burying Ground | What's the story on Mother Goose? |
| jbottero | 2006-08-27 21:37:04 | 2006-08-27 - Comair Flight 5191 crash | A picture from FoxNews.com:
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| jbottero | 2006-08-27 21:23:35 | Blue Grass Airport (LEX / KLEX) | There seems to be some question of if the aircraft took off on the correct runway. One is a lot shrter than the other... |
| jbottero | 2006-08-27 14:12:06 | 2006-08-27 - Comair Flight 5191 crash | You'll notice two runways, one is very much shorter than the other. There is some question as to if the pilot used the wrong, shorter runway by mistake. |
| jbottero | 2006-08-26 15:41:31 | Andoya Launch Complex | err, of course it is. What I meant was...
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/22923/
Note the... |
| jbottero | 2006-08-26 15:21:03 | Andoya Launch Complex | This is the same as http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/22924/ |
| jbottero | 2006-08-26 14:27:10 | Strange Markings | Near the city of "Hami". |
| jbottero | 2006-08-22 14:10:45 | Body Farm (University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Facility) | I wonder if most people know about this place prior to moving into the nearby condos... |
| jbottero | 2006-08-20 18:48:15 | Russian submarines in storage before dismantlement at Ara shipyard | Looks very well kepts compaired to other Soviet sub bone yards... |
| jbottero | 2006-08-18 17:30:42 | Remains of a Soviet Sperenberg Air Base | There seems to be a great absence of buildings, and even evidence that there ever where a larger number of buildings, like barracks and other support structures. Wonder why... |
| jbottero | 2006-08-11 17:16:02 | Censored area | Meh. I'm inclined to guess that it's just a bad match-up between images... |
| jbottero | 2006-08-07 20:42:36 | Crescent Lake | Here's an interesting site about Crecent Lake:
http://www.craigmagnuson.com/crescent.htm
Several... |
| jbottero | 2006-08-06 10:32:32 | Floating drydock in Cuba | On the other hand, look at its location. Not exactly where one would expect a drydock. So, maybe it *is* a wreck. |
| jbottero | 2006-08-04 22:10:02 | Dick Smothers' House | According to Zillow.com, it's worth just a little less than Steven King's place down to way (10.6 M.) at about 1.5 M. Still, I'd live there... |
| jbottero | 2006-08-04 22:06:15 | Stephen King's House | According to Zillow.com, it's worth about 10.6 M. |
| jbottero | 2006-08-03 22:05:04 | Rivolitionary On Rivoli | So basically, this is a random abandoned building that has a bunch of bums – excuse me, sorry – “artists” living in it? I see... |
| jbottero | 2006-08-02 14:44:01 | Censored | Are there other sources for info on what might be at those locations? Antennas of some kind for sure, but Spain? Or maybe that’s where the CIA is now keeping those terrorists that are undergoing... |
| jbottero | 2006-07-23 16:55:00 | External Fuel Tanks in the Forest | This looks like a former Air Force / Army Air Force base, but I can't seem to find any history on it. |
| jbottero | 2006-07-14 15:48:15 | Wind-blown sands over a lonely road | Oil wells? |
| jbottero | 2006-07-14 09:36:52 | Grounded ship | You'll be an old man before you run out of ship wrecks off the coast of Africa... |
| jbottero | 2006-07-12 09:33:06 | Flagship Hotel | They did that in Biloxi... |
| jbottero | 2006-07-10 12:02:39 | Mangyongdae Revolutionary School | Interesting island just below. Wonder what its function is? Ceremonial? Military |
| jbottero | 2006-07-10 09:31:50 | Bukchang Missile Base (underground) | How can you tell? What are we looking for? |
| jbottero | 2006-07-09 21:01:13 | Grounded ship | The coast of Africa seems to have an endless supply of these things... I assume that they strip these things down before leaving the hulk to rust... |
| jbottero | 2006-07-09 14:35:49 | G-Hapii 广州爱机 | Maybe it *is* Guangzhou Love Machines Factory. All that stuff is made in China, after all. |
| jbottero | 2006-07-08 14:10:14 | Abondoned ships near Chernobyl | Bottom of this page:
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter6.html
is a land-based picture of these... |
| jbottero | 2006-07-06 18:14:05 | DC-3 crash in the Bahamas | DC-3 in the Bahamas... Drugs? |
| jbottero | 2006-07-02 22:22:32 | Grid Markings outside Grozny | No kidding! That's odd. Wonder why they grow that way. Water canals? I don't see roads... |
| jbottero | 2006-07-02 15:33:26 | Algerian Luxury | The whole neighborhood looks pretty nice by Algerian standards... |
| jbottero | 2006-06-30 09:06:48 | Fish Pool | There is a whole sting of what looks like attempts to build fun parks or hotels all along there right up to the water... |
| jbottero | 2006-06-29 17:44:00 | Wierd shape in Mojave Desert | I think it’s an empty reservoir. The oval shape is the embankments. |
| jbottero | 2006-06-27 22:39:35 | Orbs With Shadows Over North Korea | The thumb nail doesn't seem to look much like the linked picture...
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| jbottero | 2006-06-27 19:50:57 | Roofless Structures in North Korea | Looks like a shadow to me.
As to the buildings, there appear to be three burial mounds in front of them (the traditional way Koreans are buried, you'll find them all over the... |
| jbottero | 2006-06-27 16:43:17 | Strange Mini-planes in North Korea | Actually, it's too far from the boarder for spy planes or drones? |
| jbottero | 2006-06-27 16:38:57 | Strange Mini-planes in North Korea | Could be drones, on the other hand, the North Koreans are famous for infiltrating operatives into the South. Perhaps they are cude single passenger spy planes? |
| jbottero | 2006-06-26 19:35:44 | Possible impact crater? | Huh. Interesting web site. I don't know. Maybe the glaciers cut left and right, leaving a high spot.
I do know this: Much of the North American landscape was formed by glacial action... |
| jbottero | 2006-06-26 09:51:00 | KC-135 refueling a C-5 | That's way cool. Looks like they are not quite hooked up. |
| jbottero | 2006-06-23 10:40:02 | Statue of Dear Leader | Expect a visit from the authorities, comards... |
| jbottero | 2006-06-23 10:18:12 | Strange Aircraft Symbols at Sunchon | Ritual messages to the airplane gods? |
| jbottero | 2006-06-22 15:54:25 | Strange lines on a mountain | I grew up at China Lake. I wish the imaging was better... |
| jbottero | 2006-06-21 18:23:58 | Strange lines on a mountain | Actually, after looking at Kjfitz last comment, I take it back; it's got to be painted on the ground. Must be for the benefit of space imaging, maybe satellite imaging tests… |
| jbottero | 2006-06-21 18:19:36 | Strange lines on a mountain | I still think it's an overlay. Why? The lines, if painted are about 80 feet wide. But look at some of the jogs, the edges are exactly parallel without exception. So what did they do, use an 80 foot... |
| jbottero | 2006-06-19 23:34:35 | Indian Island Depot | There has been a lot of speculation about specialized torpedoe testing at this location, and there is a level of security there which exceeds that of other local installations. Spend too much time... |
| jbottero | 2006-06-18 17:01:03 | Indian Air Force Base of Chandigarh (VICG) | What type are the 4 engine jets? |
| jbottero | 2006-06-16 17:44:46 | Runway disappears underground | There are so many parts of this little patch that match up, I'm wondering if the partial runway is new? |
| jbottero | 2006-06-16 16:35:27 | One mile wide antenna | There is a Navy personnel recreation center there, as well. Camp sites and cabins. |
| jbottero | 2006-06-13 15:46:34 | Brest / Guipavas Aeroport (BES/LFLB) | Notice the giant hand crank at 48.443999, -4.417689. |
| jbottero | 2006-06-13 15:44:12 | Possible impact crater? | I think it’s more likely a glacial cirque, the bowl shaped indentation formed at the head of a huge glacier... |
| jbottero | 2006-06-07 12:51:30 | Korean Folk Village | Been there, it's a neat experience for a Westerner. Interestingly, there are still actually many Korean villages almost just like this. Time marches slowly in rural Asia when it comes to tradition. |
| jbottero | 2006-06-07 11:31:03 | Culp air strip (abandoned?) | Doesn't look like what is left of the surounding farm land has been used for that in some time, and there is no evidence of any aircraft support / maint. equip / hangar either. |
| jbottero | 2006-06-01 17:52:25 | Residential Wasteland | There are several near by. I'm thinking tents. |
| jbottero | 2006-05-31 17:56:01 | Tennis/Karting | Wonder what the property use is? Is this some abandoned estate? |
| jbottero | 2006-05-31 13:38:00 | Round field | Silly, it's an alien landing zone. Don't you see the arrival center just to the north and east? |
| jbottero | 2006-05-26 10:49:16 | Kabul's Salt Pit (CIA interrogation facility) | http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/afghanistan/saltpit.htm |
| jbottero | 2006-05-12 10:24:15 | Nigerian oil field? | I don't think the clouds are related, I think they are natural. But it is oil wells. |
| jbottero | 2006-05-09 18:03:29 | Closerie Falbala - Jean Dubuffet | For those wondering "what is this", it's not a creature from the Original Star Trek, it's a huge sculpture / maze by Jean Dubuffet.
Jean Dubuffet remains one of the paragons of modern... |
| jbottero | 2006-05-06 23:26:10 | British Panavia Tornado GR. 1's at Nellis AFB | That's the oddest looking jogging track just off the flight line next to the ball field... |
| jbottero | 2006-05-05 13:29:58 | Trace Adkins' House | Pretty low profile for a music star! |
| jbottero | 2006-05-02 10:15:22 | Bela Fleck's House | Apperently, Mr. Fleck is doing quite well! Brovo! |
| jbottero | 2006-04-28 09:41:32 | Symmetrical forest | Strange things going on at the Onera... |
| jbottero | 2006-04-25 09:53:55 | Chuck Berry's House | Chuck isn't that far from Nelly's place... |
| jbottero | 2006-04-24 19:01:42 | Bottero Group Glass Engineering Division | Opps, that was me above... |
| jbottero | 2006-04-17 17:45:08 | Gyeongbokgung Palace | Great place to spend the afternoon. I've been there many times and it's always a beautiful place to take a sack lunch. |
| jbottero | 2006-04-15 19:11:56 | Dead Hippo | Well, it's in Africa, not some zoo... Stands to reason such things happen in wildlife. The pics in question are not sats, really, they are part of National Geographic's areophotography superimposed... |
| jbottero | 2006-04-11 17:57:29 | Not-So-Smooth Sailing through the mussle racks | Aquaculture. Large cages. |
| jbottero | 2006-04-10 10:35:16 | Half Of An F-16 In A Box On A Roof | Development testing of some type, pretty typical. But is that whole box virtically adjustible? |
| jbottero | 2006-04-07 14:54:16 | Cary Grant's Convair CV240 | Well, warnings or not, it wouldn't be my first choice of locations... |
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