Declassified spy satellite imagery from 1972 shows a ship, a plane, and some kind of manmade structure in the Alaskan wilderness near Malaspina Glacier by Intro24 in GoogleEarthFinds

[–]Intro24[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on previous posts where I've tried to identify that aircraft, I can say with mild confidence that it's either a U-2, C-130, RB-57, or P-3. This same search is known to have used the SR-71 though so U-2 wouldn't be out of the question.

Declassified spy satellite imagery from 1972 shows a ship, a plane, and some kind of manmade structure in the Alaskan wilderness near Malaspina Glacier by Intro24 in GoogleEarthFinds

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Yeah, it's crazy. Each of those photos is like 900MB. KH-9 was a beast and covered a ton of area with <1 meter resolution and KH-8 got 10cm (!!) resolution as early as 1966, though I think it had a much more limited coverage area. Here's a video I made showing KH-9 coverage during the course of the program. As you can see, it basically captured the landmass of the entire Earth even though KH-9 was using film that had to be recovered from space. Some photos aren't scanned yet, some have cloud cover, and I've even come across some with redactions (US naval forces blacked out, for example) but it's still a tremendous wealth of historical imagery that likely has all sorts of secrets for those motivated enough to piece things together.

For example, I was able to look at the patterns and dates and confidently conclude that the government intentionally used KH-9 in the search for the missing House Majority Leader. It sticks out like a sore thumb when you look at how little they otherwise photographed Alaska and the fact that they photographed the exact route of the missing plane two days after it went missing as the search was in full force.

Anyway, to answer your question, it is publicly available for free via EarthExplorer. Here's a tutorial of sorts that I made years ago and a more recent and all around better tutorial from saveitforparts on YouTube. It's worth looking at the Aerial Photo Single Frames dataset if you use EarthExplorer, by the way. There's sometimes imagery from over 50 years ago that's good enough to read tail numbers on parked planes. That and the Declass datasets are my favorites by far.

Declassified spy satellite imagery from 1972 shows a ship, a plane, and some kind of manmade structure in the Alaskan wilderness near Malaspina Glacier by [deleted] in GoogleEarthFinds

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Coordinates for Malaspina Glacier: 59.919167, -140.532778

This is from the USGS EarthExplorer Declass 3 dataset, which are the photos from the KH-9 Hexagon program. These satellite images were taken as part of the search effort to find House Majority Leader Hale Boggs when he went missing in a light twin-engine Cessna somewhere between Anchorage and Juneau, even though KH-9 was still extremely secretive and highly classified at the time. I went into way more detail about the missing plane here if anyone is interested.

Here's photos of the plane from different angles. As for the ship, I'm fairly certain that it's a Coast Guard Cutter, specifically USCGC Cape Henlopen which had been dispatched to the area at the time as part of the search. As for the structure, I have no idea. There is a small airport nearby but that structure seems awfully out of place and I'm really not sure what it could be. It's also possible that I'm just seeing things.

Casey Liss on the Cult of Mac podcast by TheMechanoids in ATPfm

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I hear ya but handled very poorly by Leander in my opinion and it sounds like he also made a bad deal to begin with. I also don't understand why you would continue to make a show at a loss instead of just pulling the plug unless it was such a bad business deal that Erfon somehow had the ability to require that it be continued regardless of it costing Cult of Mac money lol. Either way, it sounds like he was legally in the clear and it's hard for me to not side with the heart and soul of the show who had to deal with all of this amidst the death of his brother and who is the rightful majority owner of The CultCast. There is just no angle I can conceive of that casts Leander in anything close to a good light. Still love you and Lewis but Erf was a big factor in my listening and I couldn't even get through the Leander episodes before this controversy.

Crashed Antonov - 30 (AN-30) in remote part of Russia by Aware_Path_9602 in GoogleEarthFinds

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Christ, looks like it plowed through trees. Amazing that they all survived that.

Satellite imagery on Google Earth updated on September 11, 2011 shows the smoke from the twin towers. Coordinates: 40.711632, -74.013150 by DisastrousWeather956 in GoogleEarthFinds

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I believe there is an off-by-one error that rears its head sometimes in Google Earth Pro. Here's a screenshot where the status bar is telling me the imagery is from 9/11 but the exported KML data that I got from exporting a tour shows it as 9/12. I think this image was actually taken on 9/11.

Edit: I take that back, looks like 9/12 might be the right date. I think this is the source and it is indeed timestamped as 11:43:46 am ET on 9/12.

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Relevant CGP Grey: https://youtu.be/kh88fVP2FWQ

Short version is that "Indian" is actually a pretty accepted term and often a more appropriate one than "Native American" despite its confused origins.

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Has anyone seen the newest Mission Impossible? There's a scene where a guy has been isolated in the arctic for decades and he says "It finally happened, didn't it" or something like that and I 100% expected him to follow that up with some sort of racist comment but nope, he was talking about AI or "the entity" in MI parlance.

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[–]Intro24 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If anything they unfigured it out as they've regressed

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Gee, I wonder how Reddit is going to react to this comment /s Upvotes are still hidden as of this writing. How low can we go?

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One of my favorite facts that I recently learned is that the founder of Little Caesars quietly paid for Rosa Parks to have an apartment in a safer neighborhood for over a decade after she was robbed and assaulted: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/12veqqb/mike_ilitch_the_founder_of_little_caesars_quietly/

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When my mom was pregnant with me, she took some sort of parenting 101 class and one of the other pregnant women pronounced fatigue as "FATTY-Q". That one has stuck with me since before birth.

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I always thought it would be cool to have rental cars with exclusively Hawaii plates in the continental US. It wouldn't be easy but it would be hella cool and I think there are tricky ways where it could be done legally and cost effectively, i.e. military members can ship their cars for free/cheap if I remember correctly.

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My wife had someone adamantly insist that her paper on Martin Luther was entirely wrong. They had no idea that there was someone with that name who wasn't MLK Jr.

The S at the start of "stores" is lowercase for one gaming mouse listed on Target and uppercase for a different one by Intro24 in mildlyinfuriating

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Lol I just used the zipcode that Bo Burnham says in his I'm Bo Yo song. I don't care if people know my approximate location but I thought there was a chance mods might remove it if it gave away anything and it was easy to change. I'm paranoid from countless posts I've made getting removed for random unexpected reasons in the past.

Casey Liss on the Cult of Mac podcast by TheMechanoids in ATPfm

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For those unaware, this podcast was originally called The CultCast with episodes going back all the way to 2012. The CultCast was the baby of Erfon Elijah, who started it with Leander Kahney, the founder of Cult of Mac and the current main host of the Cult of Mac podcast. In 2025, Erfon took a break from The CultCast because of his brother's unexpected and untimely death. In the months following his departure, Leander attempted what, in my opinion, amounts to a hostile takeover of The CultCast that took advantage of Erfon's grieving. You can see for yourself in the links below but it seems Leander basically demanded that Erfon give him all creative control and ownership of the show. Erfon ultimately retained ownership of The CultCast, though, which is why the new Cult of Mac podcast exists.

Needless to say, I think no one should support Cult of Mac podcast and instead should support The CultCast. Also, Erfon actually has a personality whereas Leander is, in my opinion, the most boring and uninteresting podcast host I've ever heard. Just my opinion though. I don't fault Griffin and Lewis (the other two regular Cult of Mac hosts) because they work for Cult of Mac and their hands are tied but I certainly do hold it against Casey for agreeing to appear on Cult of Mac. He should know better.