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ID Large lit ground object in KY/TN?
Here's the story: we were flying American Airlines from St louis to RDU
(Raleigh/Durham) last night (12/27, about 9:30 CT. About half way through the flight I noticed a large shape outlined by lights, oriented east to west. The lit outline looked like this. ************************* * * * * * * * * *************************** (connect the dots) The point was to the east, the southern part (below the point) looked bigger than the part north of the point. It was to the east/northeast of a sizable town and looked to be about the size of small town, there were no lights visible within the shape so it probably wasn't a mall or the like. I'd guess it was near Bowling Green KY, but I could be 100s of miles off. Like most pilots here, I can usually identify objects on the ground, but this one has me puzzled. Are any local pilots able to identify it? Thanks |
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ID Large lit ground object in KY/TN?
"Tony" wrote in message Here's the story: we were flying American Airlines from St louis to RDU Sounds like you were looking at a prison complex. I used to instruct years ago here in Mass in an area with two distinct prison complexes fairly close to one another,and your description fits the bill.. Based on a quick bit of research, I'd guess you were looking at the Green River Correctional Complex in Central City, KY, about 45 miles NW of Bowling Green. |
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ID Large lit ground object in KY/TN?
"John Gaquin" wrote
I'd guess you were looking at the Green River Correctional Complex in Central City, KY, about 45 miles NW of Bowling Green. Google-Earth confirms that! Bob Moore |
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ID Large lit ground object in KY/TN?
I'd guess you were looking at the Green River Correctional
Complex in Central City, KY, about 45 miles NW of Bowling Green. Google-Earth confirms that! Coordinates please? I looked at Central City and didn't see anything such as Tony describes... |
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ID Large lit ground object in KY/TN?
In article .com, John Clonts wrote:
I'd guess you were looking at the Green River Correctional Complex in Central City, KY, about 45 miles NW of Bowling Green. Google-Earth confirms that! Coordinates please? I looked at Central City and didn't see anything such as Tony describes... I do. Go to: http://maps.google.com Enter as search terms: green river correctional complex, central city, ky Click on 'Search' Site is flagged as point 'A' Zoom in a few levels (2 or 3) It's NE of the city. Pretend you're looking at a pentagon that's also pointing NE. One of the two 'top' sides of the pentagon is surrounded by a road; that accounts for lighting along that side. The other top side appears to be surrounded by water, and is probably why there were not a continuous unbroken string of lights there. Google Maps reports the Lat/Lon (of what I think is the entrance to the property or the road that leads to it?) as 37.30 deg N, 87.12 deg W. -Dan |
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ID Large lit ground object in KY/TN?
"John Clonts" wrote
Coordinates please? I looked at Central City and didn't see anything such as Tony describes... N 87 degrees, 06 minutes, 50.64 seconds W 37 degrees, 18 minutes, 53.25 seconds Bob Moore |
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