Alien Silhouettes detected in China with Google Earth unleashed turmoil in the network

Strange shapes discovered in the Gobi Desert in China with Google Earth has sparked the imagination of Internet users who may see from military facilities to any signs of alien culture.

The U.S. media today echo the strange images that you can see clear targets grooves forming an irregular grid or a sharp discontinuity in the form of concentric circles in the middle of nowhere.

It all started, according to the Huffington Post newspaper, when earlier this week a surfer got a comment on Reddit technology page with a link to the first photo.

A strange grid to satellite view in the Gobi Desert in China.

Coordinates: 40.452107,93.742118.

"There seems to be a military experiment / scientific monumental in a desert of China, visible through Google Earth.

Can someone explain what exactly is going on there? "Called for the surfer who received more than a hundred responses.

But the photo did not stop there and in addition to the publicity has been given in the media, internet users have striven to find other structures "suspicious" in Chinese territory using the Google tool.

The conspiracy theories have begun to circulate, while the U.S. company has not acted.

Allen Thomson, a exanalista of the CIA, told Wired.com that since 2004, "someone" has been interested in the Google Earth satellite images taken hundreds of that part of the desert.

"Someone has ordered many, many satellite photos of that" something "could not have been cheap," he quipped.

The place where the marks have been detected, which were calculated as measure approximately 1 km wide by 1.85 miles long, is in Gansu Province, northwest China, a region that includes part of the Gobi Desert.

"Military experiments remains of a culture alien came to Earth?

Nobody is really sure, 'says the media, while sites like Gizmodo and Wired technology invite their users to take a look at the pictures to contribute their comments and to clarify to all of what it is.

The scientist Jonathon Hill, a research technician at the Mars Space Flight Facility at the University of Arizona, which has operated with different chambers of the missions that NASA sent to Mars, has found a simpler explanation.

As indicated by the television channel MSNBC, is "almost certain" that China will use these grids giants to calibrate their spy satellites.

The spy cameras focus on the grid and serve them for orientation in space, also believes that another of the areas where technology seems to be material, in fact, may be a military zone or evidence "which would explain the great amount of equipment and technology in a remote area. "

To which he added: "Sometimes the truth can be as interesting, if not more, than the plots with people leaving."