Re: Corona calibration targets

From: William Blair (wbblair3@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Nov 19 2011 - 15:23:07 UTC

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    Confirmed as Corona targets in interesting, short article:
    
    http://web.archive.org/web/20070823232758/http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/pubs/apr05/STORY23.HTM
    
    Excerpt:
    
    The February online edition of “Engineer Update” published an article by Mike Tharp of Los Angeles District about a huge grid of mysterious Maltese crosses in the Arizona desert. Research discovered that the project was built to calibrate the cameras of the then-top-secret CORONA spy satellites during the Cold War.
    
    “They briefed us on a project involving the placement of concrete aerial camera markers at approximately one-mile intervals throughout a 16x16-mile area in and mostly south of Casa Grande, Calif,”
    
    
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