A Google Earth Find I Couldn't Pass Up!

[@Google]

Glad we could be a part of this find 🔎

[@RemoteTrooper]

Thanks for the amazing platform that brings us to these cool places!

[@duckonquack0o013]

Note some things can be under the dirt

[@3ATTR1X]

Old cyanide dump, leaching pool 🤔

[@einfynn]

the legend themselves

[@madcatmk213]

is this the oficial

[@MySpaceKayakingGuy]

Old Water Storage Pumping House and down hill sloped trench for water pipelines to the Ready-mix Concrete Plant in Sloan. Removed whin on site well was put in Sloan. Was up and running when Las Vegas was under construction 1940s - 1960s.

[@jaydeedub]

Bingo!

[@Ron-d2s]

This comment should be pinned.👍

[@david-evans22]

Nope, impossible... That stretch of railroad was completed in 1906 and runs over the "trench"... Also the rock walls inside the hole are fossilized, they've been exposed forever. This is a prehistoric meteor strike that was recently excavated. Another thing is that historical aerial imagery shows this hole and tail but no concrete plant in 1965.

[@richspillman4191]

@@RenaeThomas-j7r Yahttzee!

[@jakedode]

​@david-evans22 you literally have other people in the comments who live near Sloan telling you what it was. And you're convinced a meteor did this?😂 meteors don't roll on the ground... and zig left and right... they smash and splatter... There wasn't a well near Sloane, there was a well up near the mine, they ran a big pipe down to the town, they built a well in town, they took the pipe away....

[@rossmacintosh5652]

As others have said, it's water storage infrastructure. The building was a tank. It was roofed to prevent evaporation or contamination. It appears the water pipe leaving the tank drained by gravity as there's no pump house. The pipe needed to extend from below the tank so, in the vicinity of the tank, the pipe was quite deep. From that elevation it needed to flow downhill. Since the tank was relatively high verses the pipe further from the tank, the trench only needed to be deep near the tank.

[@doskraut]

The old building was a water reservoir and the cut was for the pope to Sloan Limestone Quarry to the south and looks like around 1970-80.

[@danielcarter305]

Oh, see, here you go, that fits perfectly. I just figured it was an old collapse mine.

[@overtorquednut]

That trench is definitely an excavation, you can tell by the dirt piled up away from the sides.

[@jdd1777]

what was the Pope doing there?

[@flipfloppingwithMike]

@@jdd1777 That was pretty funny.😊

[@900108Chale]

@@jdd1777running out of followers/donors so Frank decided to do some prospecting…

[@mrskweky3176]

Have you folks seen Tremors the movie 🍿?

[@kypparmstrong2775]

It's what is left of Burts Bunker and the Graboid trail leading to it 😂!

[@thefunniestfarm4731]

@@kypparmstrong2775 LMFAO!!!!

[@ismewhat1234]

I was thinking the same 😂

[@vegasrider2246]

You beat me to it.

[@nekto34]

yeah the first one even set in Nevada. Really cool movie. Those creatures are dope and give me chills.

[@crazycaseyscustoms]

Hey man, I just wanted to say that I really appreciate your channel. Your videos have the spirit of my childhood in them. I grew up in a small Northern California town when you could still explore like this, and later moved out to the Northern Nevada high desert where it is still VERY much like this; exploring the desert is my favorite part of living in Nevada, and your videos are an inspiration.

[@RemoteTrooper]

I feel like Joe Dirt when he got the boeing bomb appraised

[@red7shorts]

😂

[@brianv1988]

You see the peanut that could be a space peanut😅

[@justins3810]

Haha! A giant piece of poopy!

[@900108Chale]

Bro, the adventure is what counts. Give us more! Make us think/speculate/guess/stumble/err and laugh while doing it.

[@pizzadude6615]

"I got the poo on me" LMAO. 🤣🤣🤣

[@markellsworth7393]

That is where Superman's capsule came to rest

[@LenLindsey]

if you look close enough, its a trench that leads back to American Eagle Ready-Mix Sloan Plant.

[@erikhockom7531]

I'm not sure if youre serious if they are related but it sure does align quite well and would make a lot of sense..

[@jaydeedub]

That was my assessment as well and this helps validate it. Good eye.

[@jandraelune1]

Not a crash site, that isn't how impact ejecta lays out, shallow impacts of this angle would just reflect off hard surfaces. The piles on the sides indicate it was dug out. The line is very straight at the start, but it does curve in smooth long curves as if made for a railway line which ends at ' Southern Nevada Paving '. edit: Followed a line I found going east from that point, it is no longer followable once it hits ' W Cactus Ave ' almost 4miles away. Looks very much like a dig out for an old small railway. On google Earth older images the line continues to an intersection of ' Blue Diamond Hwy ' and ' Hualapaui Way '

[@red7shorts]

In 1965 on the Historic Aerials map, the paving company wasn't there but the site in the video was. Doesn't look like that's what it was for if it was man made.

[@jaydeedub]

You're right on the money, imo.

[@danielcarter305]

To add to the impact facts, a meteor impact at a shallow angel would have left an oval shaped crater. Not something that looks like it was dug out.

[@martenkahr3365]

It was a water pumping station and pipeline for the concrete plant in Sloan that was shut down (and all the metal scrapped) when a new pump well built on factory grounds made this distant one redundant at some point in the 60s.

[@sergio_nomada]

looks like a pipeline for the "water tank" that you saw

[@weldenjon]

Aa others have commented the structure looks like it was intended for water storage. The trench looks excavated albeit long ago. The rock is caliche. It is a sedimentary rock but it is very hard. I think of it as nature's cement. But it is highly errodable once exposed to the elements which is why you see the weather pattern on the rock walls of your meteor trench. But that is my guess without actually being there. Interesting find! Thank you for posting. I just don't think a meteor would just coincidentally land and make a trench to a water storage tank that was well coincidentally nearby.

[@dawnr9158]

Great exploring in the desert. Cool finds!

[@vegasrider2246]

Congratulations on 40,000. 🎉

[@RemoteTrooper]

Thank you!

[@herbieschwartz9246]

I have seen similar abandoned water systems made for railroads back when locomotives were steam powered. The ditch may be the pipeline trench to/from the railroad siding at Sloan where there was a well that produced low quantities of water.

[@goldcountryruss7035]

You will find a water tank and a stream bed created by water overflowing the tank & flowing downhill. Probably from an old mine. If you dug out the bottom of the tank you would find an inlet & outlet.

[@markiusgalfordii9248]

It's old construction site for water storage. Those piles on the side where their gaps is where the escobar or the digging team left the left over dirt after digging

[@rastaralph7154]

It looks like a gold mine to me 👍💚💛❤️

[@JRose342]

0:05 that gray area on the right is the Sloan limestone quarry. If you follow the trench from the structure you visited, it leads right to the quarry almost exactly 1 mile downhill

[@dannyboy6754]

I agree with the water storage facility. The dirt/gravel looks like it was dug by hand. Thank you for sharing. The road sure got nuts. Stay safe out there everyone 😊

[@corm7538]

@15:10 The first thing that popped into my head when I saw that cactus or whatever type of desert plant that is was, ohh look it's the Statue of Liberty...lol

[@TheMattC9999]

I'm thinking the building may have actually been a water storage tank and the trench was where they were going to run the pipe out of the tank. Did you see if there was a hole in the side of the structure that the trench was on?

[@finaloption...]

I was just waiting to hear the Brrrrrt of one of those A-10s buzzing ya. 😮

[@bluepen61]

Remains of Warehouse 13 after the TV show was terminated.

[@patrickmcdonough5311]

The Show isnt determinatet never ... But this aspaktation say. You now what is?!!!

[@davidspencer7718]

The wood post with the rocks around its base: that is a mining claim.

[@jayollie3504]

Wouldn’t be a meteor, it wouldn’t dig out that path and put a pile on one side, it would hit and be short dig, if skimming the top it wouldn’t dig it would make a dent and fly out further away from the trajectory speed. Look almost like a tractor was moving backward digging a trench placing soil on the side as it went

[@galevelasco]

Geologist will know what this is. You need one of them those guys

[@karenharker2356]

We now live in Wisconsin, but we previously lived in Henderson, NV for 20 plus years. My husband worked for Las Vegas Paving, who does or did much of the Road work in the Vegas Valley. He said that this was more than likely and excavation/ test hole to find areas of which they could extract gravel to use in the Paving process. it was very common.

[@dezrtrat702]

It almost looks like an old plumbing trench. And that building may have been used to store water so if it points towards anything significant like an old foundation then that’s what I would guess. But meteor sounds cool, I’d be metal detecting or have a strong magnet on stick

[@terryhydlauff3875]

Great what if but I'm going with the water storage and pipe line.

[@jimariola1062]

You need magnet to see if there is magnetic rocks.

[@redlight722]

It’s a mine. The wood post had the mine claim papers on it once. Sometimes you find them in a cigar tin nailed to the post.

[@kmrskates]

Most common explanation is water erosion: a stream: either natural or human altered/pumped. Its a slow, gradual downhill from the tail to that building

[@SurfCityBill]

i didn't think a meteor but I was leaning toward a fault line. But the water storage pumping house explanation solves it for me.

[@david-evans22]

People are saying it's a water flow but the hole is undercut into rock and just ends at a rock face 5:43 There are no tooling marks from man, it's too clean for TNT and water isn't doing that. I would say a prehistoric meteor strike.

[@ALCRAN2010]

The only objective known to man that could cause this is one known as the super man. The building was a holding area while he recovered from kryptonite toxicity. I affirm.

[@overtorquednut]

You've been exposed to too much hollywood slop, meteor impacts are always circular no matter what angle they impact at.

[@albopicklemcnicol1682]

Yo, how the actual meteor, if it was one, has skimmed the ground and as the guys said, turned, curved and moved across the landscape.. it kinda doesn’t make any sense. Sure a water line would make sense, if the age of erosion wasn’t apart and clearly visible, how it is here. It’s so odd, I’ve got no clue, other than the examples given.. maybe some geological movement or instability, release of pressure; now the water flow idea could just be the one on the nose. Just it’s all kinda abrupt, oddly placed and old; like is it older than 20 years, yeah; 40, yeah. 60? Hmmm, it’s a head scratcher because things kinda stick out, and other things don’t, such as the entire structure, suddenly stopping, also the ejecta is spread about the place like it could’ve been put there or shifted n lifted rather quickly, more instantaneously.. If the guy could source down local government plans or company’s that existed in that area, to background check, that would be interesting and helpful. It would be even more beneficial, if there’s some local news paper, that may talk about some sorta action that was happening or take out, by that way. I do believe that with this is.. it’ll be terrestrial but, could be E.T.

[@TheMattC9999]

Dude like 3 comments above lives there and was living there while it was in use told you exactly what it was and you're still talking about it's a meteor strike. Wow man, just fkng wow..,..

[@cldus7442]

it's literally just a water storage facility for construction from the early-mid 40's. There was a pipe in there. The rock was most likely blasted out rather than drilled

[@MooseKnuckle1]

It is some kind of very old man made structure. You can see the stacked block that thing is huge. This is the true old world

[@debe.1868]

I totally agree 💯. Old world building. They are everywhere if you dig down into the ground in a lot of places. IMO.

[@donscheid97]

Graboids for sure. That "Deviled Egg" rock looked like a thunder Egg split in half, thrown out by volcanoes, a rock shop could tell you and probably make an offer for it.

[@megs4193]

Don't feel stupid, that's what it looked like on google earth, and it is odd, and i think you're right, it could've been a meteor ❤❤❤🙂👍🦘🇦🇺🦘.

[@treasuretom13]

Trooper what type of bike have you got?

[@RemoteTrooper]

It's an Aventon Ramblas

[@karenharker2356]

We are very familiar with Sloan Canyon, it was one of our many favorite areas to go rock hounding in.

[@jayc2469]

Similar storage for the Trinitite, gathered at the Trinity Test Site in NM but this is empty and uncovered

[@JoseSilva-ip5xi]

A million thanks for your great leadership.

[@ronaldss859]

Are used to be with 152nd tactical air command in Reno National Guard. They used to give us whatever information we wanted at the time they had F4 phantoms and they had cameras on nose of the plane. Anyway, they can give you records back because they used to spend most of their time mapping Nevada .. Just a thought . We used to use them for a four wheeler trip

[@dezertraider]

VERY VERY STRANGE,,GOOD FIND,THANK YOU

[@EthanEWise]

Thank you for the video. Not a crash site . It's man-made.. like a ditch or water collecting trench. Also if you look past the structure, to the left, there's more earth moved there with a couple mounds.

[@NorthwestBronco]

If you had to choose one electric bike for exploring. Which one would you choose?

[@Colorado_Native]

That is an UFO's storage shed and summer cabin. C'mon man. Even Sleepy Joe knows that.😮

[@Kalikus808]

Clearly isn't crash markings. Part of it is probably water drainage from that building. The rest is probably a boundary line/fence between properties. Interesting, but nothing substantial.

[@ronwade2206]

I say you're right, it was a meteor but was excavated. Hence the abandoned building

[@david-evans22]

Thank you, I feel like at this point comments are getting regurgitated. If you really watch when he's exploring the hole, it's dead on an ancient meteor strike that was unearthed.

[@NewAmericanRevolution]

Uneducated people are hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣

[@david-evans22]

​@@NewAmericanRevolutionUneducated? Did you watch the whole video or are you just regurgitating comments? There are literally burms where the object curved on it's path... It fought gravity and lost on the slope where it ended at a rock face.... There's 5 feet of horizontal undercut at the end. It wasn't a water drain, it was a meteor that was excavated.

[@NewAmericanRevolution]

@@david-evans22 keep smoking whatever you're smoking that is clearly for water bud 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@NewAmericanRevolution]

@@david-evans22 @doskraut 3 hours ago (edited) The old building was a water reservoir and the cut was for the pope to Sloan Limestone Quarry to the south and looks like around 1970-80.

[@IamJaiG]

The cut is for pipeline placement to that abandoned water reservoir project. 😂😂

[@ismewhat1234]

I wish you had your truck since you're always on the bike now$$$$. Cool video hope you have a wonderful weekend 🌞

[@Vespyr_]

Keeps him in shape!

[@jaydeedub]

​@@Vespyr_ In shape?? It's motorized... He's in pretty good shape already though, more so than my old ass, at least.

[@SheilaINvegas]

@@jaydeedub he actually has to stay in great shape to be able to endure the grueling desert temps and terrain. Signed, his Mom :)

[@wishywashy1153]

That "crash site" was actually an abandoned pipe line construction. You can see the piles of earth next to the ditch.

[@Nancy-yd9ki]

I agree with the old rail line. I believe it may have served the Blue Diamond Gypsum Mine before it was rerouted.

[@fetchingphotos]

That was a fun one! I love a mystery!

[@sgtstryker1018]

Superman has arrived look for the Kent’s house some where near by. 😂😂😂

[@ashm3228]

I thought it was a swimming pool in the desert which would of been cool, but water storage space seems to be the legit answer here

[@johnwarner4809]

The water was pumped 4 miles up to this storage tank from a larger storage reservoir located at 8759 West Cactus Ave in Las Vegas. The water remained in this tank until needed at the Sloan Ready Mix Plant.

[@ronaldohagenow1467]

If it were a meteor a Geiger counter would pick it up. Due to the molecular structure of the rock.

[@TheAverageYouCuber]

My thoughts exactly, if it was radioactive it may very well still be! In either case this site warrants further investigation! It's an interesting one, there's definitely a story behind the indentations upon the ground as to suggest an aerial impact of some kind!

[@kittiescorner222]

Glad you put safty measures in place.

[@whatfreedom7]

The rocks were clearly piled off the the side of the dug trench. You don’t want to pile them right next to it due to rain washing it right back into the trench.

[@TheMightyCookieShow]

Is this some type of an electric powered bicycle that you're on?

[@marceyvogt2007]

Fascinating. I hope someone can confirm what it is. Let us know please. Thank you William.☮️💖🎶

[@arbarb7204]

Thoroughly enjoyed, take care too buddy.

[@MCGA2025]

It appears to be a grade that falls away from the square structure and since the tail is not straight then erosion has caused the linear scar.

[@thra5herxb12s]

The dirt is very clearly piled up in heaps and not swept to the sides like in crash site.

[@imanoppressedamerican]

At 4:51 when you have the pool to the right and the trench to the left? To the left of a trench is a pile. There was a track code digging right there. Where it stops is where the track hoe found whatever they were looking for.

[@autisiens]

Makes me the think of Einsteins thought experiment of riding a beam, well done, I feel like I have rode in on the object ❤

[@TheBuell49]

You are my favorite on Utube

[@RemoteTrooper]

That means a lot, thank you!

[@grrfy]

It's where Kal-El 's ship landed of course.

[@LynnDepuy]

It looks like a large trencher that had conveyor belts dumping the diggings on both sides of the trench. I base this on seeing like a flat bottom.

[@Drobium77]

Looks like a drift mine

[@dirtysteez1569]

It’s all man made for water …

[@jamesmorton8431]

The gaps between the piles & the hole is where the excavator set to dig said hole…

[@bjmartin5225]

So were was tail of the ditch . They were using gravity to fill the tank as you pointed out the ditch was deeper by the tank . That might of held a water pipe that’s why the tank is so deep .

[@Flyboy7688]

This is on the departure from Las Vagas McCarren international airport.

[@jayc2469]

I'd stick a Geiger Counter in the hole and/or a metal detector!

[@JoseSilva-ip5xi]

Keep the excellent work SIR.

[@patrickmcdonough5311]

The dino Transformers are real now ...! That is a magical real nowledge and hidden from humans

[@Vostok7]

100% a dig for a pipeline and the "building" is a water tank. Soon as I saw the "trail" turn, it makes no sense for it to be some sort of natural strike. It looks "old" because it's probably 60-70 years old and equipment marks have long since washed away. There's no way a meteor strike would create nice piles of rock just a few feet from the trench, that's 100% manmade.

[@cowterminator]

Looks like someone mined what's called alluvial gravels back in the day. No clue about the structure. But that all looked like round river rock but a dried up channel

[@aztjdriver]

It looks like rain catchment to me it’s in a low place and looks like rain could be captured from a large area. It had a roof to slow evaporation. The cans that looked like paint buckets could have been lard cans.

[@NBC_NCO]

Looks like a water storage system and a drain. Some of the rocks look like they were stacked. If it was a crash. Look for evidence of burning, charing melted rock, and / or glass.

[@danielcarter305]

Dude, it's just a collapse or open stope of a mine. The structure was probably a mill at some time. A meteor would have left an oval shape crater if it struck at an angel.

[@StubbyPhillips]

We didn't get a good look at the end of the reservoir where the pipe that was in that trench used to connect.

[@fishingguy541]

If you look on Historic Aerials:Viewer, The 1965 picture is interesting🛸

[@RemoteTrooper]

I never knew about the historic aerials website, how cool. I also noticed on the USGS topographical map the location isn't marked as a mine or prospect.

[@markbliss7810]

My son works at the Holcim quarry just below the structure. He said it was explained to him it was a water tank that gravity feed water down the mountain to the north west, a gypsum mine. The 1965 photo shows a much smaller structure.

[@steves7896]

@@markbliss7810 This is correct.

[@maplebitmap220]

Oh man... i feel like that was a crash site and that is why they built the little building there also. For when they were checking it out. So they could have some cover from spying.

[@OtherACTION]

This was possibly man-made, meteors do not make long bending tails in the ground. Even if it was a meteor then you would have found the hole having molten qualities as it would have been a few thousand degrees as it came into the atmosphere and crashed there. You would also be able to find some glass formed by the extreme temperatures from the meteor. After using Google Earth to look through historical imagery, that hole most likely was made around the time of the construction of that building possibly from the late 70s to mid 80s or possibly even earlier as the earliest image is June 1977 in this area. Judging by the number of mining claims in the surrounding areas, that area would have had a lot of traffic.

[@kennymosireland7069]

Ok there's a giant building..it had a roof, but ware did you get in once the roof was on??

[@caroleehall3461]

The old Spanish Trail is in that area with very deep ruts of wagon wheels which eroded over time

[@caroleehall3461]

In a small plane from the air, it is very visible still. Pretty sure that’s what it is

[@sundust8786]

Where Superman landed when he was a baby 🤔 Really cool find though.

[@robertlyman9789]

I wonder what kind of GPS that would show your position with a google map view?

[@danweiss1371]

Dude, it’s really wishful thinking that it’s a crash site. Them rocks would be watched while there not in perfect piles along the trench. I’m glad you got out there and explored it. It is cool but it’s no crash site. And that is a water storage concrete building. You don’t think the UFO was aiming for the water storage tank? I’m really not trying to pick on you or anything like that sometimes we wanna believe something so much. It’s hard to see what’s in front of us. Good video and I did appreciate it.

[@MikeFixesThings2]

Something crashed there then cartwheeled out of the slot and was embedded into the ground. Then the authorities built that structure around to to conceal it and study it. Once done studying it they removed the roof to lift it out to transport it elsewhere.

[@user-wp6lh7rp2v]

Very Good Mr. Mike Pretty Close you are..keep that line of thinking..!

[@joedirt5521]

Should have explore the pile or hill in front of the Building, maybe those are the meteor that made all that

[@thestrikingtruth7]

What was that @ 1:40? A ghost wolf or something? 👀

[@user-no1cares]

Good eye! Hell was that?

[@DSC-i5i]

A bush ?

[@OutbackOverlanderG2]

I think its a thing that was for doing stuff. Its important as you can tell, by the way it is.

[@900108Chale]

You found Santa’s private stash. Rudolph told me so, you know drunkards can’t keep secrets.

[@texasgal3903]

Rough terrain to ride a bike on! Those kinds of things are always a conundrum!

[@susiearviso3032]

I can't believe he rode a bike on this terrain.

[@joelcqql]

That was a really cool video! I read in your comments that you should scan the area with a metal detector. That is a really good idea and might help solve the mystery because meteors are made up of iron. I have a few metal detectors if you want to check it out.

[@mikeycraig8970]

Pipeline to something. Pipe would've been where the 'meteor' indentation was. If it was anything else, it wouldn't be on google maps.