The View From Above: 2015

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

NASA Confirms Massive Kazakhstan Geoglyphs

"In 2007, Dmitriy Dey, a Kazakh economist and archaeology enthusiast, was poking around on Google Earth when he found something strange: an enormous geometric pattern extending over 900 square feet across the ground in Kazakhstan. His interest piqued, Dey would spend the next year discovering 260 more of these mysterious formations, made up of squares, crosses, lines, and rings carved into the earth or constructed with mounds of dirt. But to this day, it's unclear exactly what the figures are and why they were constructed. Now, NASA has released satellite photographs of some of the figures open to the public, signaling the beginnings of their involvement into the investigation..." (More...)

Monday, November 9, 2015

This amazing nautical "View from Above" solves a mystery that is over 150 years old!

The HMS Erebus was lost and all of its crew members perished when the ship became entrapped in the polar ice in 1846. A recent expedition that melted a hole in the polar ice and sent remotely operated vehicles down to the suspected wreck not only returned amazing photographs, but brought artifacts back up to the surface, solving a 150+ year old mystery of what happened to the HMS Erebus, and where her final resting place could be found. Read more about this amazing discovery here: LiveScience.com

Why "View From Above"

I have an unquenchable thirst for exploration and mysteries. But that isn't the only reason for "View From Above." This blog exists primarily thanks to the despicable ignorance and laziness of the many, many people who will post a picture of some anomaly and simply make guesses about it, rather than do five minutes worth of research. I can't count the many times I've seen aerial pictures of "UFOs parked in a row on the beach" (They're beach umbrellas, you dork!) or questions like, "What's this aircraft doing sitting in the middle of the desert?" (It's a military firing range. They use junk aircraft as targets. Duh!) The unwillingness on the part of most people to do even a minimal amount of research just boggles the mind.

Another pet peeve of mine is the practice of posting an interesting site without a precise location. I don't know if it's laziness, oversight, or a desire to hoard information, but it's irritating as hell to me. That's why mosts of my posts will always include coordinates to the site.

I hope you'll enjoy perusing the sites I've listed. I can't take credit for being the first to "find" most of them, but I will do my best to let you know what I find out about them!

Michael Makai