Mysterious triangular tower at Area 51 is discovered on Google Maps – as baffled viewers suggest it could be ‘alien technology’
Our world is full of many confusing oddities, from a ‘UFO-like disc’ in New Mexico to a secret ‘doorway’ in Antarctica.
Now, people are being left concerned by a mysterious triangular tower stationed at Area 51 in the Nevada desert.
The imposing sci-fi worthy structure, about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, is circulating online after being spotted on Google Maps.
On social media, people have compared it to a skyscraper, an exhaust vent and even a Dyson air purifier.
But its location at Area 51 is leading conspiracy theorists to speculate that it is somehow involved in alien contact.
Area 51, the highly classified United States Air Force base and active military installation, is frequently linked with UFO theories and folklore.
After a shot of the tower was posted to Reddit, one user said ‘it’s where the aliens test their various white powders’.
Someone else posted: ‘Obviously alien technology. It pops out when the Earth is done.’
‘It was built to specifically provoke theoretical conversation,’ another added.
Facebook users also joked about the identity of the tower, with one person calling it ‘a new version of Jenga’, the popular British board game.
Someone else remarked: ‘That’s my Samsung TV remote’, while another said: ‘That is the leaning tower of pizza’.
One simply offered the description: ‘Toblerone trade center.’
Yet another said: ‘The aliens are like we can help you out but we can’t work in those square things you humans work in we need our tall triangle shaped building.’
Others compared it to the tall revolving home air conditioners from the likes of Dyson, with one saying it is being used as ‘the cure to global warming’.
As noticed by other commentators, it has a similar aura to the mysterious monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.
On Google Maps, the unusual structure can be located simply by entering the coordinates in the search bar – ‘37.24624° N, 115.82334° W’.
As users can see, it’s stationed in the remote spot in Nevada, about 80 miles (130km) northwest of Las Vegas, the state’s largest city.
It’s adjacent to a vast network of buildings, cars and runways that form the highly classified region, officially called Homey Airport or Groom Lake.
The tower has what looks like a long, looping dirt pile going around it in the shape of a noose and an imposing shadow from the Nevada sunshine – leading one Facebooker to call it a ‘very accurate sundial’.
Curiously, Google Maps does not name the structure, and if users click on it they’re only presented with a pop-up of its coordinates.
However, there appears to be a rational explanation for the tower – and it’s not to do with aliens, global warming or the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The tower is used for radar cross-section (RCS) testing, where aircraft or mock-ups are mounted to measure how detectable they are to radar.
One Facebook user explained: ‘Its shadow and elevated position match the known appearance of this type of pylon structure used for mounting full-scale aircraft models or prototypes.’
Variously described as 150 feet and 190 feet in height, it was reportedly constructed 20 years ago but only acknowledged by the US government in 2013.
Largely due to US government secrecy surrounding its military efforts, the site will likely long continue to inspire such farfetched theories.
It comes shortly after a mysterious structure in a mountainous region of New Mexico took the internet by storm, sparking claims of UFOs.
Google Map users spotted the large, white disc poking out from the ground at an elevation of 7,400 feet, with the coordinates 34°24’21.6″N 107°05’44.5″W.
The structure was later identified as a rainwater catchment that has since been removed and replaced by a different structure.’
Meanwhile, a mysterious ‘doorway’ spotted in Antarctica, just southeast of the Japanese-run Showa Station, sparked a similar wave of theories across the internet, with one describing it as ‘bigfoot’s vacation home’.
