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Now, it's up to chance
All-out technology has failed to find aviator Steve Fossett, lost in Northern Nevada's wilds
There are 314 named mountain ranges in Nevada, the most mountainous state in the nation. The land searchers combed for Fossett, an area twice the size of New Jersey, has caverns so deep that someone at the bottom couldn't get a line of sight to the sky. Scrub and brush are so thick that searchers hovered helicopters above them, using chopping rotors to beat the bushes apart.
I realize how some would think this is not current news, but Steve Fossett was an icon for our youth. And there's not many left nowdays.
Originally posted by Redge777
It also eliminates anyone from the day the pictures are taken forward from being able to create a fake wreck scene. Just on the off chance that he was cleaned.
Originally posted by TommyCrown
Originally posted by Redge777
It also eliminates anyone from the day the pictures are taken forward from being able to create a fake wreck scene. Just on the off chance that he was cleaned.
Geosat et al, now I wonder who owns all those little babies flying around up there?
Why, the good old Military!
You'll only see what we want you to see.
Another stumper is the business about frozen bodies at the bottom of that same lake in the Sierra. Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau was supposedly frightened right out of his wetsuit during a dive in a sub in the mid-1970s. "The world isn't ready for what was down there," he was quoted as saying.
Cousteau did not release photographs from the deep-water trip, adding to the mystery. Many divers have since requested to duplicate the dive
Fossett disappearance adds to list of mysteries in Nevada
JILL LUFRANO
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
Posted: 9/24/2007
Alien towns. Lost 19th-century cannons. Lake monsters. Frozen bodies swimming at the bottom of Lake Tahoe. Nevada is a vortex for the unexplained.
And it appears at this writing that we have another whopper of a puzzle to add to the list.
The case of missing aviator Steve Fossett, last seen Sept. 3 when he took off from the Flying M Ranch near Yerington, has techno-sleuths, psychics and concerned folks around the world focused on the region.
Fossett's tale inflates exponentially as the weeks pass without any signs of him or his blue and white plane.
"We like to think that anything is findable with enough resources. But it could turn into another Amelia Earhart situation," Ric Gillespie, who led efforts this summer to find Earhart, told the Associated Press last week.
Government aircraft have searched more than 20,000 square miles around Northern Nevada, followed every lead by air and foot and have found nothing. Family and friends of the famous adventurer have also used state-of-the-art technology and aircraft to scour the land and have come up empty-handed.
And for the first time, Internet users have joined the effort. Tips and satellite coordinates have poured in from all corners of the globe by well-intended people who want answers.
One reader sent in an unusual e-mail message this week. The reader's psychic friend had a vision of Fossett landing in Walker Lake (her best guess for the water she envisioned). The reader wrote: "She said his plane had a cracked block and he was trying to get back to the ranch when he crashed."
Like Earhart, Fossett has fans the world over. Many wonder how much the search has cost our government agencies as the constant drone continued overhead for two solid weeks until the Civil Air Patrol ceased air operations last week.
Final numbers aren't in, but it surely pales in comparison to Earhart's search.
In 1937, when Earhart disappeared, the U.S. government spent $4 million looking for her, making the search the most costly and intensive air and sea operation of its kind in history.
Coincidently, Fossett's plane could have landed close to the area of another mystery Nevadans have been trying to solve for more than a century, Union Gen. John C. Fremont's lost cannon.
Other enigma that might never be solved includes Tahoe Tessie, the lake-faring monster that believers say lurks in the icy waters of Lake Tahoe.
Another stumper is the business about frozen bodies at the bottom of that same lake in the Sierra. Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau was supposedly frightened right out of his wet suit during a dive in a sub in the mid-1970s. "The world isn't ready for what was down there," he was quoted as saying.
Cousteau did not release photographs from the deep-water trip, adding to the mystery. Many divers have since requested to duplicate the dive.
And, of course, the mother of all mysteries: Area 51. Scientist Bob Lazar who first spilled the beans about working with alien spacecraft at the site in 1989 is now living in New Mexico with his wife, Joy, their dogs and a rescue horse, and reportedly no longer talks about the little green fellows.
Fossett may sometime be found and this mystery can be put to rest. If not, Nevada will keep his memory alive in its treasure trove of unsolved mysteries.