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Military?, or Ancient?, or Commercial? (site in N. Mexico)

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Posted Nov 14, 2009, 12:52:35 pm

I just noticed a strange mound and pit in NW Mexico.

Is it possible - the earth used to make the mound on the right, was taken from the pit on the left?

Attached are two kml files, mound.kml, and pit.kml use Google Earth to view these files.

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To the east of the mound looks like what could be an entrance to the mound. (obviously modern then) If it's modern, what in the heck is it?

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* mound.kml (1.4 KB - downloaded 77 times.)
* Pit.kml (1.39 KB - downloaded 56 times.)
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Reply To This Topic #1 Posted Nov 14, 2009, 07:57:00 pm

HI Marc:  Since I didn't have the coordinates,  I downloaded it to my laptop then simply rotated the screen to the proper orientation, approx. 180* The  yellow line is at the bottom.

It  appears that there is a mesa with an outcroping on the Eastern end  (top right).  In the orig picture, it appears as a depression.   There is a road that drops dwn to the flat land below where you do have another long out croping or a long roundish Mound. It is quite large.

There has been quite a bit of vehicle traffic in the area

On the second picture, the long object that is black in the center, could be a cattle watering trough.    The black prob is water.  There has been quite a bit of vehicular traffic to just this spot, which  also tends to confirm the Trough idea.

The mound appearing (outcrop ) in the lower flatland, is interesting. Roads run to it.

Best that I can do for the moment Marc. The coordinates would help with Google

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Reply To This Topic #2 Posted Nov 15, 2009, 06:44:46 am

If you have Google Earth you can view the two "kml" files attached to the first post - however, here are the coordinates of the mound.

32 degrees 33'47.90" N  116 degrees 45'54.15" W

Elevation 627
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Reply To This Topic #3 Posted Mar 18, 2010, 06:33:14 pm

Those KLM files point to a location in California not NM.
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Reply To This Topic #4 Posted Mar 21, 2010, 06:34:23 am

Those KLM files point to a location in California not NM.

I just doubled checked the attached kml files, on a totally different computer - and they took me to the site as described.
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Reply To This Topic #5 Posted Mar 22, 2010, 07:42:58 pm

Marc, thats one of the drug smuggling tunnels.

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Reply To This Topic #6 Posted Jul 01, 2011, 08:02:45 am

Those KLM files point to a location in California not NM.
Actually the OP said N.Mexico not N.M. and it is not Calif the yellow line is the border.
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Reply To This Topic #7 Posted Jul 28, 2011, 06:32:50 am

I think that if you look at the terrain around the mound, and look at the field where the mound is, it appears, that maybe the farmer had graded the land level to plant crops, whatever, and just piled the dirt into a mound. Also the patterns on the field indicates grade marks for farming.

A long time ago I knew a farmer that did that. He had a pretty good size chunk of land and really had no where to put the rocks, dirt, etc after he started grading it and just piled everything into a mound and smoothed it over to make a little hill.

Now the mound could have been dirt dug out of a tunnel for smuggling and they had used the plain for planting crops to disguise any activity going on there. Could be, but who knows unless someone is actually on the ground looking at it.

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