{"id":7856,"date":"2016-10-14T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7856"},"modified":"2016-10-18T14:02:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T21:02:43","slug":"xs-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/14\/xs-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"X’s In The Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"

from NPR<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Decades-Old Mystery Put To Rest: Why Are There X’s In The Desert?<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0DANNY HAJEK<\/a><\/p>\n

Pez Owen was joyriding in her Cessna airplane when she first spotted a giant X etched in the desert. “It’s not on the [flight] chart. There just wasn’t any indication of this huge cross,” she says. Chuck Penson\/Pez Owen<\/em><\/p>\n

Pez Owen was flying over the desert in her single-engine Cessna airplane when she spotted a huge “X” etched in the desert below. She says it was the strangest thing.<\/p>\n

“It’s not on the [flight] chart,” Owen says. “There just wasn’t any indication of this huge cross.”<\/p>\n

Then she spotted another one.<\/p>\n

“There had to be some reason,” she says. “So, of course, I immediately thought I had to get Chuck in on this.”<\/p>\n

Chuck Penson is her former colleague from the University of Arizona. Penson worked in facilities, and Owen worked in the planetarium. Now, they’re adventure-seeking friends. That’s how Scott Craven from\u00a0The Arizona Republic<\/em>\u00a0described them\u00a0in a recent article.<\/a><\/p>\n

Their version of hanging out is exploring abandoned mineral mines and military radar bases. Mysterious X’s plotted in the desert was too good to pass up.<\/p>\n

“I was not going to rest until I knew what was going on with these,” Penson says.<\/p>\n

“It’s conspiracy theory stuff, you know?” Owen says. “It’s right out of the movies.”<\/p>\n

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