The title of the link is: "Cold War spy satellites were calibrated with marks in the Arizona desert."
And it's technically true. They were calibrated with marks in the Arizona desert. Just not those big crosses.
> While a few sites are listed inside Arizona—near Fort Huachuca and Luke Air Force Base—they are comprised of the tri-bar optical test pattern used by the US government since the early 1950s, not 60-foot-wide concrete crosses.
The author says that, but he admits he's also not an expert and more of an arm-chair historian. So his analysis might not be correct either.
It could all be false flag stuff:
•They actually were used for this stuff, but don't want to admit it.
•They weren't acctually used for this stuff, but want to make people think they were.
•They were designed for one purpose, built and paid for by that purpose, but then ultimately piggybacked being used by other services with plausible deniability.
I don't think anyone is particularly concerned with putting out false info for 1960s-era spy photography anymore. But I could be wrong. Or simply part of the coverup operation.
And it's technically true. They were calibrated with marks in the Arizona desert. Just not those big crosses.
> While a few sites are listed inside Arizona—near Fort Huachuca and Luke Air Force Base—they are comprised of the tri-bar optical test pattern used by the US government since the early 1950s, not 60-foot-wide concrete crosses.