God I love DOQQ'S!!! Looks like somebody has planted some radarscope seeds. I take it the lines radiating from the center are those big irrigation sprayers on wheels?

I'm not sure what they are. The image the link cam from is a part of a larger tapastry that show at least a half dozen of these over the town of Rachel. I've zoomed between them and managed to see a farm house and roadway or two and I can make out SR 375 but as to how this mask was done, I'm not sure. The photos have a fly date of 1983. Vector data isn't available so there is no chance of editing the layers to remove whatever that is. I agree that it looks like a radar scope. But as I zoom, it really looks more like old records...but no labels.

Yup, those are irrigation fields.

This is circular irrigation for farming in arid climates - these things can be quite large and look pretty strange from the air..
It's a common thing to see them from commercial aircraft (and I would imagine satellite images) in the deserts of the southwest. That's what it is though....

Go to the coast to coast am web site and email Art Bell about it. He lives right down the road.

Foot in Mouth disease anyone?

astrocreep, it'd probably be smart to research a little deeper before using terms that can be interpreted as derogatory. especially someone as well educated as it seems intelgurl is.

looks like irrigation to me and a regular farm house in the middle. why dont we drive down there to make sure its not area 5,000.

I had not intended for my comments to be perceived as derogatory..just the opposite, I was trying to get further input from her while trying to lighten the way I said it. Just a misunderstood attempt at tact on my behalf. If she is sure thats what these are, then I can deal with that. I'm in the Eastern US and although I use DOQQS everyday and we have such irrigation systems in Western, KY, we do not see this sort of signature (so dark) in sat photos here. However, being this is a different are and one which is very questionable to the whole area 51 thing, I thought it quite odd and when I zzomed out to include the surrounding area, no others were present. This could just be a localized farm which had just happened to have been freshly irrigated at the time. Still, there is just something a little too pronounced about them.

So, intelgirl, I apologize if I unwittingly offended you. It was nothing but a remark of fondness for your presence on the board. Thanks for replying to my post and your theory. At this point, in my mind, it is the most logical answer for this.

No problem - i'm happy~