45Yrs Underground

[RangerBob]

In the area of curiosities, I have just recovered this device from where the USAF entombed it in 1969. I'll let a few folks guess as to what it is before I spill the beans. For scaling, it's about 10ft long, 8-12in in diameter, and maybe 400lbs. I have named it 'Jed'. Next week I will try to recover Jethro and Elly May.

 

[Coffey1]

Some kind of ground penetrator.

 

[Jeepsinker]

Seismic sensor?

 

[NYC M923A2]

Is it a flux capacitor?

 

[ralph3162]

Part of a bunker buster maybe.

 

[Jeepsinker]

No bunker busters 45 years ago.

 

[Coffey1]

It looks like water jets on nose cone.

 

[Alexsha]

No bunker busters 45 years ago.

45 years ago a bunker buster was your bunker buddy's bad gas. :-/

 

[Flyingvan911]

A possum launch tube?

(I couldn't get the possum up from my smart phone.)

 

[Warthog]

Remember this in the Military Radios and Other Electronics.

It is a Underground Nuclear Weapons Explosion detector

 

[DrillerSurplus]

I vote for the seismic device=maybe some sort of extensometer. The 3 winged centralizer at the top & bottom have a surface designed to grip on something and look like they can move in & out of center section- maybe to connect with the inside of a hole drilled into rock. The drilling company I worked for installed a bunch of instrumentation in 800' deep holes for a project that went from San Diego up into Canada. However, they were cemented in, not removable like this device appears to be.

 

[BillIdaho]

So they were placed in strategic documented places, and when later found miles away melted,



they determined a nuke went off?

Brilliant!

 

[Jeepsinker]

Well a nuclear explosion detector would be a seismic sensor so..... I'm thinking this is what they buried to let people in bunkers know that everything topside is now gone.

 

[Warthog]

My guess was a WAG. No telling what it is.

 

[PowerstrokeNC]

Temperature sensor

 

[Tin Medic]

Looks similar to an ADSID IGLOO WHITE sensor (Air Delivered Seismic Intrusion Detector).

 

[PowerstrokeNC]

Well Packer

 

[VA 5Ton]

It looks like a larger version of the sensors we dropped along the Ho Chi Minh trail as part of igloo white.

 

[sigo]

Glacier movement sensor?

 

[swiss]

Replacement metal to be used 50 years later for driveshafts to replace those that were bent and broken by GL. Man our military can plan ahead.