An Interesting Petroglyph

[Vulcan59]

While searching for articles on comets, I came across this blog where there was this interesting article reproduced below. The latitude and longitude point to a position just east of Roswell, New Mexico.

While cruising around New Mexico with Google Earth, and cataloging craters, and blast effected materials, I stumbled across something that begs a million questions. The arms of the cross are about a thousand feet across. And the crater closest to the petroglyph is about 650 feet wide. Let’s just forget the craters for a minute though. The questions that burn in my curiosity here are: Who do you think made the petro glyphs, when, and why.

lat 33.335423 lon –103.757661

 

[Nicholas]

Curious the circle with the cross has a swastika in it.

 

[Laurentien2]

Good observation Nicolas, in the rectangle above the circle, I see from right to left the different stage of a meteor impact depicted. First the circle with line trailing to the right to the nuclear mushroom at the left sitting under a humanoid torso. Here a link to nuclear explosion photos http://images.google.ca/images?q=nuclear+explosion+photo&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=nkqtS_WJPIL78Aa2ksDXDA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQsAQwAA

 

[anart]

While searching for articles on comets, I came across this blog where there was this interesting article reproduced below. The latitude and longitude point to a position just east of Roswell, New Mexico.

Did you get a chance to check google earth to see if the image is legit?

 

[Vulcan59]

While searching for articles on comets, I came across this blog where there was this interesting article reproduced below. The latitude and longitude point to a position just east of Roswell, New Mexico.

Did you get a chance to check google earth to see if the image is legit?

Unfortunately I un-installed Google Earth quite a while ago as it kept slowing my computer down (yeah, it's an antique!) and so I can't verify the image. Could anyone with Googel Earth plug in those coordinates and see if the image is as depicted? Thanks.

 

[Possibility of Being]

Did you get a chance to check google earth to see if the image is legit?

It seems so. You can see the craters and petro glyphs on google maps. Just zoom it in. And here is a b&w aerial photo.

Weird things, indeed...

 

[Endura]

Those are targets for bombing practice dating likely of WWII.
The "petroglyph" north of the cross is typically a battleship image.
There are many testing ranges in New Mexico.

 

[Laurentien2]

Those are targets for bombing practice dating likely of WWII.
The "petroglyph" north of the cross is typically a battleship image.
There are many testing ranges in New Mexico.

LOL you are right Endura, practice target they look to be.

 

[Vulcan59]

Did you get a chance to check google earth to see if the image is legit?

It seems so. You can see the craters and petro glyphs on google maps. Just zoom it in. And here is a b&w aerial photo.

Weird things, indeed...

Thanks POB, I'd forgotten that you could go to satellite image via Google maps.

Those are targets for bombing practice dating likely of WWII.
The "petroglyph" north of the cross is typically a battleship image.
There are many testing ranges in New Mexico.

Thanks Endura. That does make sense. Actually during my time in the Air Force, the targets were actual cut outs usually made with some kind of wood or a disused ship or tank for a bombing run and so it didn't occur to me that the targets could just as well be painted. Okay so the potholes around the target area make sense now, although I am not sure what that thingy with the swastika is. Perhaps it's another kind of aim point with sensors.

 

[Joe]

I can understand a bombing target and the ship outline, but why a swastika?

 

[combsbt]

I can understand a bombing target and the ship outline, but why a swastika?

Well if it's WWII era bombing practice...

 

[Vulcan59]

Digging a bit more on the topic, I found this website that explains the "swastikas or bull's-eye targets." :)

 

[Beau]

An interesting related sidenote - in Clube's Cosmic Winter he notes that swastikas were used as a symbol for comets, amongst other symbols.

 

[Possibility of Being]

FYI, that post has been removed from craterhunter blog. Maybe some one left him a comment or he found the info by himself.

 

[Laurentien2]

An interesting related sidenote - in Clube's Cosmic Winter he notes that swastikas were used as a symbol for comets, amongst other symbols.

Sagan to,

Another explanation is suggested by Carl Sagan in his book Comet. Sagan reproduces an ancient Chinese manuscript that shows comet tail varieties: most are variations on simple comet tails, but the last shows the comet nucleus with four bent arms extending from it, recalling a swastika. Sagan suggests that in antiquity a comet could have approached so close to Earth that the jets of gas streaming from it, bent by the comet's rotation, became visible, leading to the adoption of the swastika as a symbol across the world.

_http://www.crystalinks.com/swastika.html