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I have had access to many excellent aerial photographs of the Superstitions, many taken by myself from very low altitude. What you describe would show up like a big red flag. Many others have spent time taking the same type of pictures over the years.
Having said that......anything is possible. Strange that you saw the funnel from a plane at a much higher altitude, and it has remained hidden from much closer inspection. Seems to me that Glen Magill mentioned a dissapearing pit up on Bluff Spring Mountain. Joe
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© HI spiny butt, I certainly hope that they aren't Cholla. heheheh
Seriously, up at Tayopa, a prominent sign for one of the major deposits was a sun / circle on a cliff?? I must have looked for it for over a year. I questioned all of the Indians and lumber people in the region, no-one had the slightest idea of what I was talking about or had seen anything resembling it. The map was 100% correct in all other details, so, this sun / circle had to exist.
One day I was looking at a picture of the area, when I decided to start to separate the colors of the picture for better contrast, when I reached a certain frequency it suddenly penetrated the foliage that covered the area and there, as clear as possible, was the sun / circle. It was so obvious that one wonders how it could have been missed for so many centuries.. It was sooo big that simply standing on it would not give you a clue, a classic case of not seeing the tree because of the forest.
What they had done was to draw the sun / circle on the steep slope just in front of the small cliff. They did this by simply scraping out a circle down to bed rock perhaps 200 feet in dia with the lines perhaps 25 ft wide. One coming up the barranca in the right direction could not miss it, particularly in those days.!©
Incidentally no - one knows where it is except me and my family. snicker.
Don Jose de La Mancha