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Old 04-25-2018, 06:13 AM
 
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Far west of Interstate-15 between Conrad and Shelby, the remnants another facility from the Cold War era sit abandoned. The Perimeter Acquisition Radar (PAR) started as part of President Richard Nixon’s “Safeguard System,” a project designed to build perimeter defenses for the Air Force bases in Great Falls, MT and Grand Forks, ND.
The site broke ground in 1970, but a treaty signed between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1972 allowed only one of the Safeguard sites to be built. The North Dakota facility was much further along than the Montana site, which was subsequently suspended. Most of what was started was bulldozed and covered with prairie grass.
Today, only the enormous concrete first level of the unfinished PAR building rises above the plains, resembling Montana’s version of Stonehenge.

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Old 04-25-2018, 07:56 AM
 
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
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<thumps on google> First you have to figure out that in google's mind, Ledger is a town and Hausser Road belongs to it! And it thinks the "exact" location is 48.287701,-111.342278. (Well, earlier today it thought some location south of Great Falls was over in the ocean off Africa, so....) Seems I was one intersection to the east.

Anyway, if it's the thing that when you zoom in all the way, it looks like a calculator... rectangular pond across the road... no wonder I couldn't see it, it doesn't look that big on the overhead. There are barns nearby that show up bigger. Must be something about that newfangled aerial photography... "objects on ground are larger than they appear".
It now has a name on the map, "Safeguard Montana Complex" and someone took a good picture of it:

https://plus.google.com/photos/photo...10053480817234

The Google map link also has some other pictures of the artwork (using the term loosely) that's been added, and from up on the roof.
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