BURIED BENEATH ARCTIC ICE, A SECRETIVE UNDERGROUND MILITARY BASE EMERGES IN NEW RADAR IMAGES

When it first appeared in their radar images, NASA scientist Chad Greene and his team of engineers weren’t sure what they were seeing.

Flying above northern Greenland in a Gulfstream III in April of this year, Greene and his crew were monitoring radar information collected from the ice sheet below when, about 150 miles east of Pituffik Space Base—formerly Thule Air Base and still the northernmost installation operated by the U.S. Armed Forces—they spotted something unexpected.

The aircraft’s radar system had detected some kind of structure buried beneath the ice.

A remote U.S. military base once used as a top-secret testing site for the deployment of nuclear missiles from the Arctic, Camp Century was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers within the Greenland Ice Sheet in 1959. Remaining in use for less than a decade, the base was decommissioned after just eight years and abandoned beneath Greenland’s frozen landscape.

Also known as the “city under the ice,” this forgotten Cold War relic consists of a network of tunnels hewn into the near-surface portions of the ice sheet. Today, the remnants of the secretive base lay hidden beneath close to 100 feet of snow and ice that have continued to accumulate since it was decommissioned.

https://thedebrief.org/we-didnt-know-what-it-was-at-first-buried-beneath-arctic-ice-a-secretive-underground-military-base-emerges-in-new-radar-images/