One wonders why it took three weeks for this information to surface:

FRESH CLUES REVIVE FOSSETT SEARCH
(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#196230)
Search crews looking for adventurer Steve Fossett, who vanished
while on a pleasure flight more than three weeks ago, now are
working with fresh leads provided by the U.S. Air Force, the
Associated Press

(http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/n...vefossett.html)
reported on Wednesday. An analysis of radar and satellite images
has picked up what might be the track that Fossett flew. "It gives
us an idea, if it's him, what direction he was going," Gary Derks,
the state official in charge of the search, told the AP. Derks
said the new search area stretches about 100 miles to the
southeast from the Flying M Ranch, where Fossett took off on Sept.
3, crossing remote areas of Nevada and approaching Death Valley
National Park in California. "There's nothing definite, nothing
concrete," Derks said. "These are just some hits that we want to
track."
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