Conspiracy

NASA scientist photographs secretive 'city' hidden beneath Greenland's ice

By T.K. Randall
December 8, 2024 ·  11 comments

A UAVSAR radar image of the facility. Image Credit: NASA If we told you that there was a secret base hidden deep beneath Greenland's ice sheet, your first instinct would likely be to dismiss the idea out of hand as conspiratorial nonsense, but this abandoned military complex is in fact the real deal - a genuine 'city under the ice' that was abandoned by the US military back in the 1960s.

Captured in the above photograph recently by NASA scientists who had been studying Greenland's bedrock using radar instruments, the base - known as Camp Century - was a secretive Cold War facility built into the ice as part of a wider effort to install a vast network of nuclear missile launch sites for use against the Soviet Union.

Consisting of 21 tunnels stretching over 9,800ft and powered by a nuclear reactor, the facility operated from 1959 to 1967 and was hailed as a successful demonstration that ice-cap military and scientific outposts were a realistic and affordable option.

In the end, though, plans to expand the base's operations had to be scrapped when it was determined that the ice was not as stable as first thought.

Even though the base's reactor was removed when it was abandoned, hazardous materials were left behind and these still pose an environmental risk even today, especially as the ice continues to break up."We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century," said NASA cryospheric scientist Alex Gardner who was part of the team that spotted the base.

"We didn't know what it was at first."

The radar images are particularly interesting as they provide a unique view of the facility.

"In the new data, individual structures in the secret city are visible in a way that they've never been seen before," said Chad Greene - also a cryospheric scientist.

You can find out more about Camp Century in the documentary below.


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