Well done! Let's hope this yields some results.

Well done Frank et al-don't know whether this was due to the 'collective gripe' going on the forum or whether it was just a time delay problem in collating and obtaining the data from other sources.

Anyway-good news we can all now continue with our assistance and hopefully come to a successful conclusion

38°27'20.55"N, 118°27'44.31"W Possible?

Don't know if this is possible, but one assumes that this area has already been swept by the SAR teams.

It would be extremely useful if they could upload (or make available) all the sites they have looked at so far, so that we can quickly exclude these from our deliberations.

Don't know if this is possible, but one assumes that this area has already been swept by the SAR teams.

It would be extremely useful if they could upload (or make available) all the sites they have looked at so far, so that we can quickly exclude these from our deliberations.

thnx for the info on the update frank;-)

I verify all posted coord. if its something i will post back so others will know location
if nothing i wont post
it might help

tdfusa@bellsouth.net

A few things that caught my eye in the northern zone of the latest imagery:

38.51885, -118.40641

38.49404, -118.45891

38.48617, -118.43193

Here is a target. It appears UNDER water, has cirrect length, and there may be scarring on reiver bank, due East of the target.
Dave Reason, Jr.
Wichita, KS.
38°49'21.07"N, 119°19'44.28"W

These didn't come up as my hits but I always look around near my assignment.

The first four are most likely terrain.

But the fifth is intriguing. It looks like a delta wing shape.

38°15'26.45"N 118°30'18.90"W

38°15'3.24"N 118°31'0.27"W

38°15'2.73"N 118°31'0.66"W

38°15'6.91"N 118°30'17.25"W

38°15'18.14"N 118°30'16.25"W

See the link for my location 'hits'. #10 is from the new image.

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mike_in_katy/My SF Locations.kmz

I tried to sign-up at the Amazon sight and couldn't. It occured to me that Mechanical Turk might be taking advantage of this infortunate situation just to make a buck (or get new customers).

It would be much simplier if they would just say "here's the image, here's our email, have at it!".

Check this out....

38.471540,-118.409067

38°26'40.45"N Latitude
118°29'10.06"W Longitude

Looks like a crash site

View around 1500 ft. Color looks more like the surrounding earth, but the shape strongly resembles that of a plane.

37°59'44.37"N 119°26'55.62"W

In case we do find potential sites, how do we officially report them?

38°31'52.46"N 118°24'4.74"W
38°31'44.66"N 118°23'52.68"W
second opinion please ---

Please have a look at coordinates:

3810'11.90"N
11924'21.35"W

rgrds
Patrick

Bravo to your interest in finding Steve. If you are looking for locations on the Digital Globe imagery that come from the "Turk", it designed to spread us out and make us look systematically. I'm surprised that if you are looking at the same instructions that I see (on stevefossett.com) that you aren't reporting coordinates in decimal degrees (rather than dms or decimal minutes, or whatever). Let's be consistent, so we don't have to do extra conversions and make mistakes! Also, send the "points of interest" back to the Turk so that the search crews can check them out.

My observations from a humble beginner.

A tutorial and example of how to look would be nice but perhaps there is no good way to learn other than through trial and error.

Make sure to use the current overlay/layer.

Some of your objects are big.

Check out - 38 53' 35.41" -118 49' 13.17"

This is supposedly a confirmed site of an old crash. From the forum site -
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/999457/Main/992512/

Turn on your "scale legend" and watch how close you have to get before you see anything.

two locations using the latest overlay -

38°23'51.79"N 119°11'28.09"W

38°23'58.85"N 119°11'32.45"W

At 37.9984 -118.426 I found what might be a fuselage at the end of a straight line path cut thru the brush near the top of a hill. Off to either side of the skid path looks like what might be wing struts. I had been given a HIT about a 1/4 mile NE of here. I replied to that HIT, so I hope the SAR folks will actually read it and look at it rather than just pass over it since no one else probably responded to that HIT.

Is it me or is Turk showing the old data as a visual now and then you turn on the new imagery? I think the other locational tiles were in the new then compared to the old?

I meant shouldn't Turk be the way it was the new SAT image in the tile then compare to old in GE? It's now backwards I believe the old imagery is in TURK and you have to look at every one in GE instead of magnifying the browser to 190% for example?

Saw a site that listed the coodinates of the ranch that Fossett left from. The nearest airstrip to their coordinate is at: 38°36'42.39"N, 119° 0'4.42"W

This looks like possible debris from a crash:

38.466568,-119.119949

38 28'55.67 N 119 24'18.23" W Check it out!

Thanks
Amber

curious what the coordinates were from where he took off at and in which direction he was seen flying?

Interesting symbol here (petroglyph?) Looks like it's on the older imagery though.

38.487167,-119.022446

If the Turk imagery looks wrong, click the link on the right again. I think there's new imagery around the airport.

interesting object 38°23'59.24", -118°58'31.61"

After playing with My Places and shuffling folders, etc, Search area is very fuzzy. As GE goes to the DG area, two files are not found: 00.kmz and 02.kmz. Red Borders are gone, and second area - long rectagular one SE of main area - is also gone.
What have I done?

look at 38.5394333,-118.477466
it looks like it could be a debry field.

Coordinates now including the degree character:

38°10'11.90"N
119°24'21.35"W

38°28'15.05"N 118°55'15.76"W
possible plane?

Looks to be a plane down in 38°17'18.16"N, 119°15'13.79"W, and another (slightly less plane shaped) one close by at 38°17'22.65"N, 119°15'11.49"W.

Both spots appear to be on a dry lake bed (which is flooded in the old data) so perhaps Fossett set down to examine the terrain and for some reason was unable to take off again.

Why is the shadow of this jet blue ?

38 30' 17.77" N

119 09' 30.31" W

Searchers and Posters:
please remember to check your numbers before posting.
U should have 4 sets of numbers for lat. and long.
it makes it easier to verify findings.
thanks

tdfusa@bellsouth.net

38°10'37.79"N 118°33'2.36"W

That looks interesting to me. Anyone else think so?

If we know the color of his plane, can't we filter the sat images.
There has to be a graphics program that will
filter for color..

Here's another interesting object: 38°26'4.72"N, 119° 0'37.44"W

Where can we report these? What if this is Steve's plane???

I am sure you all have already figured this out but as a suggestion, it helps to rotate the image by using the compass rose on GE untill the image is rightside up. I do this by rotating the image untill the shadows are directly below (toward the bottom of the screen) the trees or buildings and it helps to better discriminate between terrain and man made objects.

Hope this helps.

"38 28'55.67 N 119 24'18.23" W Check it out! Thanks
Amber"

looks like a SAR plane in flight.

steve's plane is 2 colored. blue with white stripes on the wings.

image of the plane: http://stevefossett.com/pics/latest_news_page/SuperDecathlon.jpg

May be plane at
38.4665314863, 119.120495803
anyway intriguing crass-shaped object

38°47'43.07"N 119°10'54.39"W
Please look at this coordinate. There is an object with sharp edges that is not visible in base Google Earth imagery.

38° 2'23.95"N 118°25'42.89"W

Noticed this:

38 deg 31 min 21.28 sec N

118 deg 59 min 45.70 sec W

Elev. 845' on GoogleEarth

38°31'13.00"N 118°58'36.51"W

Have found two white spots
38' 43" 45.92N 118' 58" 10.85W
38' 43" 42.92N 118' 58" 07.08N

View at 1000ft or you will miss them.
Fits all criteria/timings etc but north of Search zone. Have tried to pass it on. :-(

Comments?

Put these into the "Fly to" box on Google Earth:

38.392760,-119.103150

(PS And can someone explain why my pointer gives different co-ordinates when I hover mouse over the area?)

Pls check it:
38.642921,-118.879662

I reported it on Amazon

38°35'46.58"N 118°58'32.72"W looks interesting.

I have been feverishly working on the case of Steve Fossett's disappearance and have come up with an area that I have defined just east of the original search area and just west of the newly defined search area. I have a saved Google Earth image with push pins that include my logic for putting the area just in between the other areas.

I used both Google Earth and Flight Simulator Ten (FSX) to come up with my findings, and I'm convinced that Steve may have actually been heading for either R-4811 or Alkali Lake after he ran into trouble (based on the camper's comments).

Please email directly if you would like a copy of the image I've defined that include my reasons why I think he can be found where I've indicated.

I hope this helps find Mr. Fossett.

---Dean Ceran

38° 9'54.52"N 119°21'19.28"W

HOW DO WE REPORT COORDINATES THAT ARE NOT FROM AMAZON TO THE SEARCHERS/ANALYSTS?
Is anyone related to the search investigating these posts?

Possible crash site and debris field?
38°48'8.16"N 118°50'17.97"W

FL188, I contacted the search organization to let them know about the discoveries being made at Google Earth Blog.

I have been re-checking all coord. posted.
also have received numerous emails from individuals for rechecks.
Any coord. that are posted that have ANY value for further research I will repost findings and pass on to my contact at the search command post.

remember to post 4 sets of numbers for each lat. and long.

thanks

tdfusa@bellsouth.net

38°48'15.27"N 118°57'50.07"W

38°28'35.549"N, 118°41'03.77"W could be the light could be an aircraft, not sure if this is within the search images though ?

38°49'17.09"N 118°58'34.16"W -

38°40'55.52"N 118°54'12.62"W

38°26'5.17"N 119° 1'39.56"W

38° 8'44.53"N 118°27'12.97"W

38°26'53.64"N 119° 1'12.73"W

38°28'34.38"N 119° 0'4.54"W

38°29'11.96"N 118°59'38.89"W -

Looks also sike a crash site... two straight
??wings?? and rest of something with row in sand and dust after impact lat= 38.8467243199 lon=- 118.627082856

Bright white shape (wing and fuselage?) on mountain side.

38.45797, -118.88041

Stabbing at thin air here, I came across this in his flight-path:
38.517684,-118.874962

Also these were on the Amazon Turk. I'm 95% sure they are on the old imagery but they sure as heck look like planes.
38.464000,-118.823804
38.457397,-119.023084

When are we going to get the imagery for the mountains southwest of Hawthorne? Seems kinda key.

T shape item at 38.219376,-119.639053 Google Earth; not sure what it is.

Check: 38 28 23 44N, 118 49 26 41W

This looks not like a plane, but like LETTERS: ?
38 26 48 92 -- 119 17 32 67

did he have a parachute? maybe he had the chance to use one..so maybe we also should look for "help" signs..

good luck

38.4731541602N, 118.823978685W Clearing with small white object on east side.

38°24'34.39"N 119° 1'30.81"W

Check: 38.239975,-119.569016, left bottom corner

Okay, with hundreds if not thousands of eyes looking for him (in the air, ground, via satellite imagery), wouldn't it be possible that because it was such a nice day, that he might have gone off the "projected path" and take a round about path? I can't help but think everyone is so concentrated on looking "inside the box" that he may be right outside it. He's an adventurer/explorer; wouldn't that make sense? That said...I found something that looks like wreckage of some sort that slid down part of a mountain at:
39 26 00 59 N and 120 02 55 66 W

Greetings from Texas!
If you would like to see a plane in an inappropriate place...I think I might have found the needle in the hay stack! I used Google Earth instead of Turk. At first I found what looks like a plane on Paoha Island Coordinates 38°00'55.50"N, 119°01'53.39"W. You can copy and paste then zoom in real tight. You will see a "plus" or 4 rt angles or possibly a plane on land about 2 plane lengths from the North shore. It is hard to tell if it is a plane.
I was pretty excited about that, but then God, in all his mercy...well, check it out for yourselves and let me know what you think. I believe there is no question.......June Lake submerged plane Coordinates .... 37°47'28.04"N, 119°04'04.66"W
.....

D Dearinger: June Lake: It is a plane, but it could also be a reflexion from a flying one?!
That's why someone should set up a webpage where all findings are collected, structured and commented...
Everyone is posting coordinates but there is no feedback at all. What do you think? Does this make sense or is there alreay a page I don't know

I have a a good suggestion, and i hope u will pass it on.
A sattelite image for mining purposes only can look selectively for large hunks of metal on the ground.
His engine could be found probably and differentiated form most other sites quickly. He hasnt been found yet cause the wreck is likely disguised a bit. There are specific satellites used for mining that take images using special filters looking for minerals. This is how this should proceed. pass it on

D,
I have to agree, this looks exactly like a submerged plane, but it is also extremely visible from altitude. You would think surely the search planes would have spotted it and already checked it out... If not, it needs to be.
JR

In regards to it being a reflection... It can't be a reflexion or we would be able to see the aircraft in flight. Since this is a satelite photo, both would be in the picture...

JR

Re: the plane "in the water"

See the blue shadow above the plane? The plane is flying low over the water and the tip of its shadow is visible just in front of the nose of the plane. All through these images there will be planes flying, always with the blue shadow above it in the image. The reason for the blue color has something to do with the way colors bend around an object in the sunshine, but it's a good indicator of a flying plane and not one on the ground or under the water.

Please look at 37 34 06 25 N 117 39 41 97 W.

There is an image of an airplane in a ravine that measures the 22 feet 11 inches and seems to be on its back with the bottom of the plane facing up. (Wings are pointing North to South, with rear of plane pointing west. If you also look just above the image to the left, there seems to be the image of a person walking. Steve Fossett was searching for flat desert areas to test his cars and would most likely have been in this area.

latitude..38*42'34.40"N longtitude..118*52'33.35"W Range..97m Heading..2.000000* Tilt..54.000000*

Hi
I have found a plane, but am a noob please check ,i am sure it's a plane.
38°41'54.31"N, 119°02'14.47"W

Peter

39° 2'50.77"N 118°17'57.57"W

38°50'22.75"N 119°27'13.01"W

39°14'30.06"N 119°25'0.84"W

39° 9'52.08"N 119°16'30.41"W

When I review this area there are a lot of symbol-like items around it and several things that could be from some type of plane.
Looks like an X in a circle: 38°31'39.73"N, 38°31'39.73"N
Nearby, this looks like 3 Xs: 38°31'37.12"N, 38°31'37.12"N
Unusual shading: 38°31'37.12"N, 118°53'1.96"W
Another X with something planelike near it: 38°31'37.88"N, 118°52'47.80"W
Looks like a large cross, the center starts about here: 38°31'31.47"N, 118°52'53.84"W

On the most recent overlay, nearby “Anita for Tash” wrote: September 17th, 2007 at 2:08 am . . . looks like there is something there and when I viewed the hit on Mturk, there seemed to be an X nearby at 38.5254°, -118.881°. Coordinates: 38° 31"31.44'N, -118° 52"51.60'W; Decimal Degrees: -118.881,38.5254

see at : 39°12'59.25"N - 118°31'03.63" O..!!??

38 29'11.78N 118 27'04.00W

38 37'48.39"N, 118 44'14.47"W

Definately a plane, can't tell if it's floating or flying

I hope you know the majority of the sat views were before steve went down feb 4, 2007.
makin fools of you all and gettin ready to spend steve's money. bs from ps He's in California anyway...

38 50 50 06 N. - 119 10 45 47 O.

38 32 48 38 N. - 119 44 32 51 O.

38°40'3.44"N 118°50'22.39"W What is this Please look about.tks

***IMPORTANT***

Looking at Google Earth at location 38°26'15.41"N 118°32'19.73"W with overlay DG_60cm, I located some strange shapes, not on basic Google Earth. they are also in GeoEye_Delivery4, with exactly same position but some image alignment offset 338m ~ 5°

There are not only one, but several as shows images attached. I personally flagged 4 parts, all white.

Zooming and processing the biggest one, it appears clearly some blue pixels on top of the shape that could belong to Decathlon wings.

What can be confusing is that some other yellow parts are also new some hundreds meters south east
A big yellow shape originally present ( 38°26'10.50"N 118°32'15.38"W) disappeared in new images and 2 other smaller same color appeared ( 38°26'11.03"N 118°32'16.33"W and 38°26'11.66"N 118°32'15.78"W ) . At the same time, another white shape ( 38°26'10.83"N 118°32'15.25"W) appeared, all those stuff less than 200 meters from clearly identified ones.
Using Google Earth to figure this out, it is possible that the plane at high speed oblique N W trajectory having stroked the original shape could have broken it in 2 shapes, while spreading debris ahead on a 200 m area 35~40 m lower that this initial impact point.

This is located apparently inside U.S. Army Ammunition Depot, what could explain that nobody could reach it because area is probably closed and although located along a road ( that could have try to reach Steve in an attempt to land more safely ), it may have been completely ignored because no patrol ever gone there.

Hope it helps

38°30'29.61"N
119° 3'22.77"W

someone please go to these coordinates and check
out what is there
37degrees58.349 N
118degrees32.879W

38.233722 N
119.412219 W Elev 8465

White, aircraft shaped object, too rectangular to be natural. Largely intact. On the side of a ravine. It sure looks like the right shape, but maybe too intact to be a downed aircraft. Perhaps someone else with more experience can check it out.

38, 25, 35, 24 N by 118, 44, 10, 50 looks like a plane

38°24’54.22”N, 118°47’0521”W is a good could be. It looks like it made a hard touchdown then went down the slope about 255’ WEST (NOT east as I wrote in my last comment)
did a 180 and came to rest. Looks like the wings are crumpled. It also looks twisted near the tail.

Investigate Backwards on this one:

He did not have his Cell Phone
He did not have his Watch GPS
He did not have the ELT activated

3 major points

Here ya go, as a risk manager and a good one I would suspect there were some out of the ordinary incidents happen to cause this loss.

It usually takes more than just one incident or action to cause a plane to come up missing. Think about it people.

What is it that has not been told about this incident?

Why due to past experience and previous type attempts for land speed records do you need to go look for a spot on MEMORIAL DAY? Why do you need to look for a flat spot at all. How many times were vehicles ran across the Desert for testing?

The story does not match his character. No Cell Phone? No GPS? No ELT activated. and a Gazillion people on this planet looking. No contact with Reno Departure or any FSS? Hint - He always had a radio and used it regardless.........I bet I can find out what did happen.

I believe I may have the answer? This is not a 911 Conspiracy Theory or Pulling Building 7 or anything like that. As Columbo always said "UH By The Way I have one more question?" Look at one incident on what did happen then rule out what did not happen. What did happen is he got in a small Airplane and left the Hilton Ranch. 'Flying M" or what ever you want to call it.

John Browning RENOFLAMES41@aol.com

what is the object at this coordinate
37.972007 -118.549934 it measures the right
size and sure looks like a plane to me.

This is it: Plane is located on the southwest perimeter on top of a sand bar in Walker Lake. Image can be zoomed to 10 feet and encompass the entire frame. If plane was in flight, there would be nothing but a white blob.

38° 37'48.39"N, 118° 44'14.46"W

38.6301083333,-118.73735

11928259942452682.kml

What if our friend Steve - got tired of the glamor and risk taking and just wanted a rest .. and wanted to "get lost" - so did anyone check the fueling stops - like Las Vegas - etc ??

This Google Earth is fantastic. Will read..

Regards to Steve where ever he is and let us know You are OK./JSm N3RF Chm SRL and LSRF

I saw something looks like a airplane on two different spots. Maybe you have checked them already: 41°02'52.48 N / 115°16'48.16 W and
37°53'11.34 N / 118°19'09.72 W

I did n't find this cordinators on an other comment. I know that they are outside of the seaching fields, but it's not sooo far.
There is still hope!

Regards and good luck.

Tess

Walker Lake, about 2 miles South of the official search circle has been mentioned by several psychics as well as at least one experienced local pilot and was apparently searched with sonar.
So, it is probably hard to imagine that the clear angular light blue spot in the center [ 37°52'26.36"N, 119° 9'52.40"W ] as well as a bit of similar light blue along the near shore [ 37°52'29.27"N, 119° 9'52.66"W ] connected by a vague (disturbed sediment?) trail, starting well before the shore spot and then curving toward the central object, could be Steve Fossett's plane.
Moreover, since this lies outside the official search area the imagery might of course predate the disappearance date....
Yet I was unable to find any other reports covering these spots and hope someone either knows the date these GE images were taken or has access to some other method of verification.