Is there an Area 51 in China,too?

Mysterious structures in the sands of the Gobi desert, let the Internet community puzzle. While its origin is already known for years. For days, mysterious geometric structures hold the bottom of the Gobi Desert, the Western media in an uproar. Various Internet sites presented satellite images from Google Earth, on which, among other things square kilometers, in the sand drawn grids, airports, and circular warping can be seen on earth. 

Mysterious patterns in northwest ChinaDisplay

In addition, geographers and watchers are reluctant to speculate: A spokesman of the German Center for Aerospace holds all conjecture for "poking around in the fog." What hides behind the creations leave, only to verify on the spot.

This, however, may be difficult: because apparently it is in the forms actually a part of the Chinese counterpart to the American "Area 51", a long military of the U.S. government's secret restricted area in the south of the State of Nevada. The approximately 100-square-mile area served as the U.S. test site for weapons and aircraft.

In November 2008, Chinese journalists were allowed to attend the news agency Xinhua, the first blocked area in the Badan Jaran Desert, bordering the provinces of Gansu and Xinjiang. In its report, entitled "Visit to the State test shot area: The secret" Area 51 "China" (here the article in Chinese) describe the journalists a vast network of test sites, airports and even small Chinese Städten.Der "Area 51" is developed in collaboration with Soviet experts in 1958 and renovated in 2003 to be.What weapons were carefully tested in the field is not written in the article. But that a total of about 2200 experiments with bombs and missiles were carried out.

Even the reporters noticed that the large structures easily from space, or about using Google Earth, are recognizable. What was seen, was the one, a present member of the military responded to the questions of journalists, what hides behind it, is something else.

For instance, experts puzzled over the world images. In the blog Life's Little Mysteries Jonathon Hill estimates of the School of Earth and Space Exploring the Arizona State University, the geometric lines that serve to Kallibrierung of satellites. Similar patterns were to be found in Casa Grande, Arizona. In a circular arrangement of land uplift, with two fighter jets in the center, possibly radar systems are being tested. Other experts, however, were the object of an exercise goal.

The information was from the Chinese side so far neither confirmed nor denied.