I've noticed this on other maps but  " this "  aerial view shows this
nicely.

if you drive down the " infamous "  east entrance road to Groom Lake
, one thing you notice is that ( evidently ) nearly " all " the
traffic  on this road turns into the 1st or 2nd farm road turnoff.
and after you pass the 2nd farm turnoff , the tracks in the sand
show very little traffic on the  east entrance road ( as compared to
the farm road turnoffs.  )  

taking a look at the 2nd farm , the one nearer to the base boundary
..... nothing looks interesting using this areal view map ........ BUT
...... looking at the  1st  farm (  via the 1st farm turnoff ) , THAT 
so called farm has the   tell tale " ejecta strata pattern  " . these
patterns develop where a LOT of material is dug from under ground  
and a bull dozer is used to smooth it out and spread the material to
conceal it's  presence.  these " strata " always appear as weak,
barely visible lines that seem to radiate out from a common center
( the hole )  the first farm appears to have  some " underground " 
significance .   it might be a " automotive " entrance for the base ,
or some kind of ventilation shaft / escape entrance for the
underground  facilities that ( if you look around at these maps much )
has clearly expanded to a LARGE area east of the alien highway.
you could say this might have been a mine , but if it was mine
tailings, " they " wouldn't have taken so much care to make it
disappear.  unfortunately , bulldozer tracks in the desert are 
extremely hard to make disappear.  they last a LONG time .  


to see another example of what I'm talking about , go to the initial
groom lake picture ( the one this link brings up ) and go to the
east side of the dry lake and position the upward pointing  elbow
 (  right off the dry lake bed ) of the infamous east entrance road ,
in the upper left corner of your screen and in the lower , center , of
your screen ( just above the words  "aerial photographs  "  )  you
will see another " hole " like I describe. they always look like a
meteor crater with " ejecta "  lines radiating away from them in
straight lines.  these are holes , usually large ones. dug  with an
effort to conceal the dug material piles .   




On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:50:55 -0400, "NC" <nc@nocrap.com> wrote:

http://gmaps.tommangan.us/groom_lake.html