Sedalia Dave Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 Decades-Old Mystery Put To Rest: Why Are There X's In The Desert? Pez Owen was flying over the desert in her single-engine Cessna airplane when she spotted a huge "X" etched in the desert below. She says it was the strangest thing. "It's not on the [flight] chart," Owen says. "There just wasn't any indication of this huge cross." Then she spotted another one. "There had to be some reason," she says. "So, of course, I immediately thought I had to get Chuck in on this." Chuck Penson is her former colleague from the University of Arizona. Penson worked in facilities, and Owen worked in the planetarium. Now, they're adventure-seeking friends. That's how Scott Craven from The Arizona Republic described them in a recent article. Their version of hanging out is exploring abandoned mineral mines and military radar bases. Mysterious X's plotted in the desert was too good to pass up. "I was not going to rest until I knew what was going on with these," Penson says. "It's conspiracy theory stuff, you know?" Owen says. "It's right out of the movies." Read the rest of the story here
Subdeacon Joe Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 WOW! An even better story than the huge arrows used for early air mail guides.
Sedalia Dave Posted October 12, 2016 Author Posted October 12, 2016 The video linked to in article was interesting as well even though it doesn't mention the X's https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.1678526
Black Angus McPherson Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 I thought they were there to mark "The spot". Angus
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