Cloud busting

Menwith Hill, Yorkshire..
First saw this a couple years ago when we drove past it on the way back from a day out.. and I meant to go back for a photo. Cant get as close for a pic anymore due to the tree's that surround it growing that much taller, so took this from up a hill. Oooh, and our neighbour protests here often !

These domes are 'radomes', that are built to protect radar antenna's from the elements, or just to conceal whats inside from public view..!
(I think its that bit that makes me play the x-files theme tune in my head, lol.)

This is the Wikipedia gump:
"RAF Menwith Hill is a Royal Air Force station near Harrogate, North Yorkshire which provides communications and intelligence support services to the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The site contains an extensive satellite ground station and is a communications intercept and missile warning site and has been described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world"

Taken on Saturday, no time today!

[Pamela Fillhouer]

interesting..... great shot of it. thanks for sharing.

[andy c]

Snap... We both had radar themed pics today...

[Melissa Pike]

They look like giant golf balls. Neat shot!

[Constance Brinkley]

Very interesting to see. Learn something every day on the site. Creates a sci-fi look. Nice capture.

[Yoella Offir]

They look suspicious. Especially beside your innocents cows. But they akso look interesting and kind of strange and funny in this picture.

[Richard Tyson]

Nice shot. I don't know if I've ever seen it before.

[Rachael]

Very strange place, but they have a great bowling alley there, if you know someone who can get you in past security as their guest!

[Anthony]

looks crazy! they provide intelligence from the inside of that?! :P

[Vanya]

The truth is out there :) We have similar scenes in the countryside around Cambridge and didnt know they had these anywhere else :)

[cglist]

Very cool-looking!

[*lacey*]

Awesome!

[Michelle Blanchard]

They are pretty cool looking. I've never seen anything like it.

[Lauren Dahlhauser]

woah... really neat shot... I've never seen anything like it!!
(haha woops. Michelle and I said the same thing :P)

[Cherrill]

My other half works in radar, so to speak, and tried to explain the inner workings.......they're still golf balls to me!! :-) Cloud busting....what a brill song!

[Rachael]

Yeah, I went in a few times with a friend who worked there. It was pretty cool, but it's slightly scary to meet men with guns everywhere.

[Tanya]

Very X-files- can just see Mulder having a field day with this! Does it cause interference with the car radio?

[Karen Hofmann]

Wonderful! I agree they look just like golf balls LOL! We have a few of those here and one of them is painted to look like a basketball with our local team name on it LOL.

[Sarah-Jane]

This is so cool...