nice catch. i looked and can't help but agree with your assessment of it being a prison of some sort, but it seems a little close to the housing to be holding high value prisoners.

or maybe it's just me who wants to keep the baddies as far away as possible

Ya know Ive been reading and posting on this site for years and this thread is typical. You actually found something interesting and facts to back it up but you didnt bother to make up a story about how the MIB's held you captive so no one cares about this thread.

Well I want to know what this place is.

I found that sometimes you could just try calling and asking.

That's not a detention facility. Everything security-wise is to keep intruders out, not in.

You don't park your cars, and have your building in the middle of a detention center.

You have your buildings and carpark outside, with the detainees on the inside.

Look at it again.

It's a facility that they want to keep people out of, not inside.

Hey all. I dont post here much but have been around this site awhile. This is so right in my backyard that its literally at the end of my back yard. My house backs directly up against Huntley Meadows itself. I grew up in those woods. My house is also about 100 yards from Woodlawn Village which is some of the military housing for Fort Belvoir.

This really is an interesting one! Having lived here all my life I know full well that the level of spookery on Belvoir is off the chart. Always has been. I may have to take a long walk through the woods again and check this out. Not till it gets warmer of course its pretty cold here right now.

Huntley Meadows is a state park and its legal to hike through as long as its daylight. Done it many many times. Discovered many many amazing things back there.

I will go no further than the US Military Installation Tresspassers will be shot/prosecuted signs that I know are nailed to trees prbly starting 3-500 yards away from this facility.

The facility itself could be anything. But one thing I highly doubt it is is a detention center of any kind. Most likely yet another command and control center of which there are many across Belvoir. Prbly tied into the same massive (and I mean MASSIVE!) communications array Belvoir has as all the other command and control centers are.

For those who dont know, Ft.Belvoir is gigantic. The main gate is down the street from my house here in southern Alexandria. Im going to have to look again to give an approximate size but the base does stretch 10 miles down the very edge of the Potomac.

The last BRAC realignment is going to quadruple the size of the base. So naturally construction on the base is booming. This building in question is easily part of the expansion. As to what it actually is...thats gonna have to wait. Ill get back to this thread in a couple months with what I find out from hiking through the woods. Ill also try the Belvoir web page but I seriously doubt theyll even admit it exists.

Originally posted by dooper
That's not a detention facility. Everything security-wise is to keep intruders out, not in.

Like I said, I'm just looking for input. The reason why I think it's a detention facility is the open air pertitions with cameras in each corner. Why the separate partitions and why cameras in an open area within the building?

If it is a detention facility then per haps it's for say 1-10 detainees. The unsual octogon shape also lends itself to the fact that it maybe a detention facility and also the double barbed wire fence. The only other place I've seen double barbed wire fencing with tracts between them like that are around the portals to the underground levels at Mount Weather.

Everything about this site says to me that they want people kept out, not in. And as far away from eyes as is possible.

The security in place is all defensive, including the cameras and things in the courtyards.

As for what they do there, there are no dishes that I can see, no domes; it's not communications.

Security is high, and it's hidden behind a front of civilian infrastructure.

No access other than by car/foot.

It's still visible on publicly accessible imagery.

I'd guess it's a non essential government or contractor installation. Probably providing non-essential backup, admin, data storage and processing of some kind.

Interesting, but not suspicious or covert in my opinion.

My vote is for detention facility. I can think of no other reason to design a building like that with open air courtyards in the middle. If it were anything else that would be wasted space.

After talking with some friends I received another interesting idea about this place. Additionally he heard through some channels of his about a place like this.

He mentioned that it probably is a jail but not what you think. Its prob used to do SEAR training for the elites in the spec-ops community. This would also make more sense for it being essentially on a USCG base. Basically you become a p.o.w to learn how to cope ect ect.

Very interesting..

I see no windows what-so-ever on the outside of the building.

Unless my eyes are wrong I think I see tables and chairs in the long open area within the building. My guess is that is some type of lunch / break area for staff maybe?

The open areas with the "grid" of walls. That is a puzzle. No entry that I can see to travel from one grid cell to the next. Cam's on the walls. Possibly those are either prisoner rec areas (if its a detention faclity) or some type of training area.