Junction Ranch Mystery - Why Does Google Maps need to Airbrush These Two Areas?

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Update 5/19 – Community Member Danika has solved the mystery. Checkout the link posted below for more details. Here is the last paragraph of the post:

“There are four of these thingamabobs in the Mojave, in relatively close proximity. There is Northrop’s facility in the western part of Antelope Valley. Moving east, there is the McDonnell Douglas facility at Gray Butte. Moving further east and north, there is Lockheed’s supremo-high tech installation just north of Helendale. Finally there is a little known RCS facility run by the Navy at China Lake called the Junction Ranch RCS facility. ”

thx Danika!

On Google Maps, I happen to discover what appeared to be an airport in the middle of nowhere. A closer look revealed some interesting images and in two of the images, it clearly shows that they have been altered. See it for yourself by going to google maps and search for Darwin, Calf.

Northeast of Los Angeles is the Coso Range Wilderness Area and the little sleepy town of Darwin has a dirt road leading south to Junction Ranch. No sign of a ‘ranch’ at the junction, but they sure have a nice looking private airport.

Here is a closer look at the ‘airport’.

At the north end of the longest ‘runway’ you can see what appears to be what looks like microwave transmitters (3) on towers:

At the north end of the other ‘runway’, it appears to have a bunch of tractor trailers grouped to form a horseshoe.

And just to the south of this appears to have a mobile crane maybe?

At the south end where the two runways meet, have several buildings.

When you zoom in, it appears that there are eight military Humvees among the others.

Now here is the kicker..…….on the concrete pad just to the west of the ‘runways’ you can clearly see the truck and 3-4 buildings and the blatant airbrush job on whatever was sitting to the east of the 3rd structure. And it appears that the path leading from the truck to the buildings has been touched up as well.

Just about 6 miles south of here (2 miles south of Junction Ranch) is another interesting facility at Carricut Lake.

A close up at the south end and you can clearly see the dish antena pointing to the north down the path.

Not sure what the square concrete platforms are for in the next few images.

This last image is rather trippy

Found another interesting site just to the northwest that appears to be a military post of some sort. The last image has even more evidence of bad airbrush skills.

More military vehicles:

It is obvious that this image has been hacked!

Must be underground storage here…

Another interesting area. I believe the Honda Test track area is between this compound and the image below.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread4156/pg1