Weird satellite images in China's deserts raise questions
November 17, 2011
A series of unexplainable satellite photos from the deserts of China have recently stirred up quite a bit of interest among conspiracy theorists and disbelievers alike. The Huffington Post reports that one image from the Kumtag desert depicts a grid of randomly zig-zagging white lines that is approximately a mile long and 3,000 feet wide.
People who are working outside of the country can use international phone cards to make calls to China to ask their friends and families if they've seen any of the massive creations or have any clue as to what they may be.
"As to what the figure-eight things and the weird glyphs on the northern chevron are, I have no real idea," former CIA analyst Allen Thomson said in an email to Wired. "Although it wouldn't surprise me if the glyphs were made by some people who were bored out of their minds by being stuck out in the middle of nowhere and decided to have some fun with the 'eyes in the sky.'"
Some believe these massive designs are part of military training and weapon testing, while others have surmised that the patterns could be signs left by or for aliens.