Mysterious area for 8 years was forgotten by Google Maps

Tonopah (USA) is the area that made netizens around the world tumble recently when it discovered that this area image was not updated in . 8 years on Google Maps.

More specifically, the area is located just over 100km from Region 51, famous for alien plots.

Usually, according to the information on Google's blog, most US satellite images will be updated about every three years. Therefore, with the Tonopah area up to 8 years without being updated, it is really 'strange'.

Many conspiracy theorists believe that Google deliberately hid images in this area. In particular, Tonopah is also a weapon testing ground located in the Naveda desert region in the United States.

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The test area of ​​Tonopah (USA) is rumored to be related.

The incident will probably stop at rumors until an engineer named Dhruv and writer Brendan Byrne have gone . hiring a collection of Tonopah satellite images from Apollo Mapping company for nearly $ 2,000 to Verify why Google did not update the image of this area.

However, in this special 'image rental' clause, viewers are required to be in the same organization or in a company, so Mehrotra and Byrne have recently been able to attract more viewers who seek to circumvent the law. by organizing an event to invite anyone interested to see. To see, these people had to write a commitment to document that they were temporary employees of a non-profit art and technology research center to view satellite imagery legally.

Mehrotra and Byrne initially questioned the fact that images not updated by Google were 'censored'. However, as soon as this information appeared, a Google spokesperson contacted the Motherboard to provide information on why they updated the image of the Tonopah testing ground so slowly. The fact is simply because they . don't care. And soon, Google also updated on Google Maps with the latest images in this area available from October 2017.

Google's move to prove that this big man has nothing to "hide" like rumors. However, conspiracyists still . have not believed that "something is wrong" or "what is happening" because it is so close, a military area is considered the most mysterious. planet.

Region 51 is an isolated area on a large desert area of ​​Nevada state, 134km north of the city of Las Vegas. Zone 51 was established under the direction of US President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) in 1955. Around 920 km2 of this area emerged a series of rumors concerning the encounter with UFOs and outsiders planet.