CHINA STRANGE IMAGES

Report #212

November 23, 2011

Joseph P. Skipper

Long report, 15 large image files, slow loading

 

J. P. Skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

As many of you know, there have been some strange images coming out of China as presented in Google Earth that have gone a bit viral online and even in mainstream news agencies. Many viewers have asked me to weigh in on this, so here goes.

The truth is that I saw this collection of evidence back in early 2010 or late 2009 but decided not to report on it then as the explanation for it actually isn't all that unusual. Because of that I didn't realize it would catch on in people's imagination as much as it has done. My mistake. I also suspect the mainstream news picked it up because it really isn't a matter of stepping on anyone's secrecy toes except perhaps the Chinese and is therefore considered safe by the powers that be here in the western world.

When it comes to checking evidence behind me in Google Earth, use the coordinates given at the bottom of each image

The above 1st image demonstrates a wide-angle context view of the general evidence site and the physical location relationship the objects in question have to each other. The yellow arrows point out most of the primary evidence of interest that is big enough to see here in this view. It has been mistakenly reported that this strange looking evidence is in the desert in the middle of no where implying that it is super isolated. That's not exactly true. It is a bit isolated but not all that much. So to help understand this evidence, we will also need to understand how the terrain and its geology plays a role in this.

Note that North is straight up in the above image. Now if you were to draw a line from the upper left corner of the image roughly to the lower right corner, the lower right direction would of course roughly be southeast. You should know that only about 47 miles or 73 km straight southeast of this evidence site across the terrain as the crow flies (road distance would be more) is a fairly large area of civilization area made up of the combined communities of Dunhuang, Jiuquan, and Gansu that have over time merged together into a larger population area.

If one were to leave Dunhuang flying a helicopter just skimming over the terrain headed northwest toward this evidence site, one would dip down off of the civilization slightly higher elevation site into a broad but fairly level valley plain that begins to rise up a gradual slope into higher elevations at the evidence site. In other words, all of this evidence is located on the lower part of a long gradual slope upward from south to north. Beyond that much further to the north in the higher elevations is terrain almost certainly subject to seasonal snow accumulations that experiences seasonal Spring melt coming down that slope eroding it rather severely and ending up on the valley floor below via many drain systems.

Remember that China is very old experiencing many different climate changes over time and seasonal water flows down slopes can be relatively mild to quite severe depending on the seasonal weather conditions. This means that the slope this evidence is on has considerable long time evidence of severe water and mud flow erosion. In other words, this large and sometimes long evidence crossing many of these water drain erosion areas is a pretty unstable place to be trying to install anything that might obstruct water flow and especially in the more severe weather times.

That background information is basically what the story of this evidence is mostly all about. It is someone trying to attempt with more modern technology what really still isn't practically feasible in this particular location and being bull headed about it by insisting on doing it in spite of the problems. So let's look at the evidence sites a little closer in the following images.

In the above 2nd image, note the objects pointed out by yellow arrows #1, #2, #3, and #4. These are airstrips. The squared pad pointed out by the #1 blue arrow at one time no doubt had facilities there on it servicing the older #1 and #2 airstrips and that's why it is located between them. Note that these #1 and #2 airstrips are constructed using older technology making them especially vulnerable to strong water erosion.

For example, the actual #1 and #2 airstrip runways are likely the more standard darker color tarmac material. Since for pilots this would tend to blend in and visually disappear against the equally dark heavily water eroded terrain background, and especially in bad weather, it needs lighter color more reflective material at each side of the runway for contrast to enhance visibility of the runway for pilots. This necessarily results in a wider more bulky construction no doubt using mostly earth fill materials more vulnerable to water erosion.

Unfortunately, as you can see in the above 3rd closer view image of a section of the larger older #1 airstrip, the main runway has become extensively damaged by unusually heavy water and mud flows over time. This has obviously rendered it useless as to its original military aircraft traffic intended purpose. In fact, it is now almost certainly long abandoned as too impractical to maintain.

Now an airstrip with this particular shape is designed to direct ground based temporarily parked aircraft into non landing and take off areas. Note that there are no hangers or other support facilities on the terrain surface. Any pilots who use this strip, likely do so only temporally in emergencies and/or training. If there are support facilities present, they are not visible on the terrain surface and would have to be underground. If so, that would further confirm the covert nature of this site. This evidence strongly suggests that covert military staging and/or training is what this airstrip evidence is all about.

Likewise, as you can see in the above 4th and 5th images, the same has become true of the #2 airstrip with its two angles built with same older tarmac with a contrasting border technology. Almost certainly this #2 airstrip has also been abandoned and is no longer maintained. Further, what ever was located on the squared pad located between the #1 and #2 airstrips as pointed out by the #1 blue arrow in the 2nd image further above has likely been removed completely and used elsewhere.

The above 6th image demonstrates the left or west end of the #3 airstrip. This #3 airstrip is almost certainly the newer replacement for the damaged #1 airstrip and why they look so similar in general shape but now with some modifications. Note that there is no center dark tarmac runway present here. Why? Because here the whole of the airstrip surface is now highly visible to pilots with its very strong reflectivity.

This newer replacement airstrip is made of some kind of new semi-transparent material most often seen in covert military applications to strengthen and harden surfaces as well as enable long spans requiring fewer or no vertical supports. First examples of this are seen here in the USA in my 2010 Report #178 and 2009 Report #164. Note that this type of hardened surface for the #3 airstrip is laid down in many narrow joining strips to form the wider runway application. This new main #3 airstrip as a replacement for the defunct #1 strip is in good shape and is without a doubt a covert military installation rather than serving a civilian function. Its design, lack of above ground support facilities, and more remote location in this more difficult terrain to exist in literally defines that to be the case.

However, the airstrip still being in good useable shape doesn't necessarily mean that it is now fully serving its original intended covert function. Note that obvious artificial construction to the right of the #3 strip just below mid image level pointed out with the yellow arrow. It was likely some facility serving this strip but now seems stripped down to its base foundation components and abandoned. It may be that this site was associated with the airship construction and abandoned when that was completed but it may also indicate the the whole area has been abandoned as too problematic to maintain.

Note in the above #6 image that the new replacement airstrip #3 has a squared pad attached to the left/west end of it. Note that, although most of this pad appears to be made of the same hardened bluish material as the strip, one quarter of it is covered in a darker material that may be some older tarmac coating to cut down the reflectivity. That may be for ground personnel eyes or it may just indicate a special useage area. The whole squared end pad may be a aircraft parking and/or vertical take off area.

Here in the above 7th image I've rotated the image slightly to get as close as possible look at this whole darker surface on the end of the #3 airstrip. A few spots on the surface show what appear to be evidence of surface explosions disintegrated something solid there (aircraft?) but yet not harming the surface too badly. This suggests that any darker tarmac material here is laid down over the newer hardened bluish material.

Note the many white round spots of uniform size on the darker end surface. This could be light reflective objects (disc shaped craft?) upper surfaces but more than likely they are graphic applications visibly hiding the objects below. If so, note that they are apparently uniform in size and shape. If they are something parked there, note that they do not appear to be in organized patterns as would be typical of hunan organization nor do they appear to be debris flung or scattered into their positions. Of course one thinks of disk shaped aircraft (UFOs?) but who knows?

The above 8th image provides a closer view of the site with all the blue in it as seen in the upper right portion of the 6th image. The dark grids appear to be metal roof framing platforms on top of vertical dark metal support systems. Note that the vertical supports are throwing shadows very close to the vertical supports indicating that these grids are raised off the ground structures. Note that there are three grids without roofs and three with blue roofs. Note that the three blue roofs appear to be either damaged or of not quite completed construction.

I'm going to suggest that this is a case of uncompleted and abandoned construction rather than damage from external forces. Note the white highly reflective material beside the structures and how similar this material is to that seen in the blue roof damaged or uncompleted areas. I suspect that construction materials for this site have been crammed under the structures intended to be for protection and future use but all of it wouldn't fit and so it is just piled up on the ground under and just outside the structures and I suspect much of it is roof and wall panels that are a very light color on one side.

Of course I could be wrong on this. A strong wind could have hit this site while it was under construction tearing at roofs and scattering construction materials that were later collected and piled up here in a careless unorganized fashion. Either way, in my opinion, it is a story of carelessness and this site is probably abandoned, at least at the time the image of it was made on 6/13/2010.

The above 9th image is of the left/west end portion of the smaller #4 airstrip seen to the right/east in the 2nd image further above. In this image you can better see the narrow strip applications that make up this airstrip out of the newer hardened surface material technology.

As you can also see, the large water drain coming down from the north likely carrying a lot of debris and mud has coursed along the west side of the drain probably rising in elevation as it did so and impacted the side of the hardened airstrip rather than passing under it as the engineers likely thought it was suppose to do. The result is that it has deposited part of its debris/mud load on the otherwise clean runway.

Since the image was taken in June, 2010 and May–June may have been Spring melt periods in this northern China region, it may be that this is just a temporary situation and the airstrip was not so much damaged as it has had debris/mud deposited on it and it may have been too soon to clean it off. Little use of this small airstrip or even abandonment may also play a role in its maintenance delay as well. It would be interesting to see what subsequent imaging of this site will reveal.

In any case, there you have some insights into the airstrip evidence at this location. However, there is more evidence here than just these covert airstrips. Now lets move on to the strange looking maze patterns evidence in the images below.

Now the above 10th image is of the maze pattern with a bordered edge and of a separate large pad on the left or west side. However, first I want you to pay special attention to the large pad on the left. Note that there appears to be nothing on it. Further, there are insufficient vehicle tracks leading up to it or around it of a more recent origin, only sparse older vehicle tracks. Note also that this pad is in the same heavily water eroded area as the maze pattern located next to it and yet there is no damage to the pad while next to it the maze pattern is heavily damaged all over by water erosion.

When it comes to this large pad, I think that we may be looking at sanitizing graphics treatments hiding something there on it and essentially making it look blank and empty. If the pad had been physically repaired/resurfaced due to water erosion or some other damage in recent years, we would expect to be seeing a lot of fresher vehicle tracks in the surrounding terrain as well as on the pad. Likewise, a close look at the pad reveals edges that look very much like graphics work applications stopping just short of the older original edges.

So this pad's blank empty surface is highly suspect. I have to even question whether the pad as we see it here is something real in the terrain? It's large size suggests to me that it may be hiding some considerable activity here that someone does not want us to see and that may include even the entrance to an underground facility. If we could see this adequately, it might very well provide us with some insight as to why the Chinese have been so committed to making this problematic general site work for them. To bad but I just don't have the time or imaging room here in this report to examine this particular evidence further.

As for the bordered edge maze pattern as demonstrated in the above 11th image closer view, you can see it shows a lot of water erosion damage all over it. Even though it has many straight lines and is located in heavily water eroded terrain and demonstrates considerable water erosion damage on its surfaces, what it too does not show is vehicle tracks or for that matter any evidence of having been bulldozed or graded into this pattern. It looks as though, if this is actually something real in the terrain and not a graphics program creation, this pattern is strictly a cosmetic terrain surface treatment. In other words, someone painted it there taking extraordinary care to produce many different straight lines and edges over some very rough terrain background.

What must also be remembered is that, if this pattern is essentially painted onto the terrain surface and not something carved, graded, or leveled into the surface, in its section it is on a shallow slope formed by the terrain rising up from south to north. That means that this pattern is not that level or focused straight up but exists at a slight tilted angle focusing just a little to the south.

That could suggest that this is merely some kind of visual target matrix for satellites (or aircraft) to observe circling the Earth in orbit to register and calibrate instruments on and tell them exactly where they are at in orbit. In fact, this is likely just one of a series of unique matrix patterns. The choice of matrix patterns makes sense because each one is easily made unique and perhaps electronically recognizable to different individual satellites or aircraft. In other words, this particular location may have been chosen for a number of covert reasons including its dark contrasting background and the slope angle.

The above 12th and 13th images are of the open matrix pattern without a border further to the right or east as pointed out by the yellow arrows in the 1st context report image all the way back at the top. Now this particular slope is quite a bit steeper than the one the bordered pattern is on meaning that it is focusing at an angle even further to the south and also may also be a registration target for satellites but those nearer the Earth's equator or lower flying approaching aircraft.

Again, the use of complex matrix patterns like this likely are tuned in to only by certain satellites. In other words, nothing specially anomalous here about this except of course that this is on and part of Chinese covert facilities likely used for a number of different covert purposes. For example, these bright contrasting matrix patterns are probably also used by aircraft as electronic targets in fighter and bombing training scenarios.

Now before I leave this area, the above 14th and 15th image evidence may offer us some additional insight as to just how important this area is or at least has been to the Chinese military covert purposes. These two images are just two samples of the very extensive effort someone has made to control water flow in the drain systems up slope above these installations with varying degrees of success and failures. The above two examples are successes in that the water in these drains is being controlled.

Why do I mention this? It's because of the degree of commitment they've made trying to make this site work for them in spite of it being so problematic. Thousands upon thousands of loads of what appear to be fairly hard fill has been dumped in many of these drains to retard and/or control water flow. Although it does do it in some places, there is a clear tendency for these loads not to deform in the presence of water flow and that's why I identify them as hardened and likely made up of ground rock.

That and their uniformity, as you can see by some individual loads in the 14th image, tends to suggest TBM (tunnel boring machines) byproduct as fill material. Further, so many thousands of loads suggests some very intense mining activity that should also produce considerable signs of ground transport to these drains. Yet, in a quick look, I could find no real evidence of surface mining within a reasonable distance of this general site.

That is yet another reason to suspect ground up rock in the fill. Further, also suggesting likely military covert thinking, the water drains that have this fill material in them has mostly been filled from south up slope to north and the access tracks try to stay within the confines of the drains. In other words, the result is that the deposited fill covers the great many vehicle tracks by intent.

So there you have a collection of very suggestive evidence. Yes there is something covert going on here in China not too far northwest of the Dunhuang, Jiuquan and Gansu settlements but the most obvious visible signs like the unusual airstrips and the matrix patterns aren't really that anomalous once one understands their purpose. However, the large empty pad is another matter entirely and something sensitive and telling is likely being hidden from us there.

Joseph P. Skipper, Investigator

 

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