NASA's Yuma UFO Spotted on Google Maps? (Video)

According to the map it is about 80ft in diameter. It's color is pretty crisp too.
What reason would there be to spend money on painting such an image that wide in the middle of a road/runway?

Looks like it could be one of these

Originally posted by predator0187

There are plenty of questions on what this could be but I thought I would bring it here to see if anyone had any extra information on it.

Yup. How about an oblique aerial photograph. Seems to be painted on the tarmac.
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Not. You guys crack me up.

Finally proof of UFOS

...um... Lens flare? No really, maybe something of the sort, can't this be the result of a powerful light shooting straight up?

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No. It's been there since 2003 (at least). Here's the 2011 image.

(click it)

Looks a VOR/DME transmitter. Navigation. (this one isn't that one)

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Interesting choice of non-occult like symbolism. I'm sure that was the only option they had to go with. Definitely painted on though (or not going by the picture above), I think case closed on this being anything alien. Hard to tell what anything is from such heights.

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Why must you always have to ruin our imagination?

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(edit) ...looked at the photo you linked in post, the overhead. Yeah, looks painted on. Or, I wonder if that is in the process of being installed, and those are the locations laid out and marked?

It does look a lot like a VOR, except for the brightness of the central portion. (But, the concrete ramp to the North, and the Taxiway Delta is abnormally "bright" looking too.....might just have to do with the satellite imaging factors).

And for someone who thought it was a marking on the Runway...it is not located on a Runway....it's on a Taxiway.

If it's a VORTAC it isn't on the Charts:

Link


But, as an AAF there could be a reason it was installed, just for their own purposes....and not civilian use.

Oh and here is the latest Airport Diagram for comparison to the Google Map image.

Whatever is there (or painted?) when the photo was taken is on Taxiway Echo ('E').

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What do you know about TACAN systems? Could that be it?
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And the OP just lied about "NASA" to make you look, eh?

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TACAN is military only. A VORTAC is a VOR and TACAN that are co-located. Civilian VOR receivers (on VHF) automatically tune the corresponding TACAN UHF freq....but only the DME portion of the TACAN signal is used.

The military can use TACAN for both distance and azimuth, though. They are tuned on designated "channels" (as opposed to a VOR or VORTAC on VHF). The "channel" corresponds to the appropriate UHF freq for the TACAN station.

And in your link, the NYL TACAN is listed.....about 16 miles SW of the Laguna AAF. This would put it on the field at the Yuma International Airport, a joint-use Civil/Military. IATA airport code is 'YUM'. ICAO is'KNYL'.

Airport identifier - KNYL


Looking at the published Airport Diagram for KNYL, since it's for civilian use, the TACAN location is not marked.

But its Lat/Long are listed:

32-38-48.490N (32.647) 114-36-48.388W (-114.613)

You can use the Lat/Long grid on the Diagram to determine where it is.


Also note that both Runway 3L/21R and 3R/21L have arresting gear, both directions.

Those are the arrows shown near the ends , pointing in both directions, either side. Labelled 'E-28'. That is a code for the military pilots denoting the type of arresting system. *

* FYI, found this....on last page (Pp. 31) of thie PDF are the codes. Published by Boeing, for civilian pilots' awareness.....

Hint-Hint

Did anyone notice there are 24 rectangular boxes?

What a surprise. The youtube posted deleted my post explaining that it is a navigational aid.

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