Re:Candy CORN: analyzing the CORONA concrete crosses myth (2...
by mig39 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:36PM
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The title of the link is: "Cold War spy satellites were calibrated with marks in the Arizona desert."
And it's technically true. They were calibrated with marks in the Arizona desert. Just not those big crosses.
> While a few sites are listed inside Arizona—near Fort Huachuca and Luke Air Force Base—they are comprised of the tri-bar optical test pattern used by the US government since the early 1950s, not 60-foot-wide concrete crosses.
And it's technically true. They were calibrated with marks in the Arizona desert. Just not those big crosses.
> While a few sites are listed inside Arizona—near Fort Huachuca and Luke Air Force Base—they are comprised of the tri-bar optical test pattern used by the US government since the early 1950s, not 60-foot-wide concrete crosses.