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Candy CORN: analyzing the CORONA concrete crosses myth (2020)

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Re: Candy CORN: analyzing the CORONA concrete crosses myth (2020)

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Post by tablespoon »

> The idea that the Casa Grande range was developed for the CORONA program is asinine when looking at the timelines of range construction...

People really need to pay more attention to timelines. It's a pretty frequent occurrence that someone posts some pet theory of theirs, with links to support it, but the support evaporates (or is greatly weakened) when you actually look at the dates of their sources (e.g. trying to claim a news source is not credible because they reported then-reasonable speculative estimates in a time of great uncertainty (and were clear about what they were) that were contradicted years later by a more careful scientific study).

Re: Candy CORN: analyzing the CORONA concrete crosses myth (2020)

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Post by mig39 »

wyrm wrote: post #2

The article says the exact opposite of that. Those marks weren't used for satellites.

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.

Re: Candy CORN: analyzing the CORONA concrete crosses myth (2020)

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Post by Otternonsenz »

As an Arizonan, it was only until 2 years ago in my Appraisal practice that I came across these crosses in Arizona City (south of Casa Grande). Really cool to see in person!

While the article does not really state anything, just positing more questions about its actual use, it seems like it is anyone’s guess due to the nature of the primary sources that knew the program being retirees or that the government gave this article writer all they felt comfortable with.

This makes me wonder: How many of these types of programs existed through the Cold War?

Re: Candy CORN: analyzing the CORONA concrete crosses myth (2020)

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Post by hcs »

mig39 wrote: post #6
wyrm wrote: post #2

The article says the exact opposite of that. Those marks weren't used for satellites.

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-wid…

The title of the article is "Candy CORN: analyzing the CORONA concrete crosses myth"

Re: Candy CORN: analyzing the CORONA concrete crosses myth (2020)

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Post by dylan604 »

wyrm wrote: post #2

The article says the exact opposite of that. Those marks weren't used for satellites.

The author says that, but he admits he's also not an expert and more of an arm-chair historian. So his analysis might not be correct either.

It could all be false flag stuff:

•They actually were used for this stuff, but don't want to admit it.

•They weren't acctually used for this stuff, but want to make people think they were.

•They were designed for one purpose, built and paid for by that purpose, but then ultimately piggybacked being used by other services with plausible deniability.

Calibration has to be done somehow...

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