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New Leads in Fossett Search

US Air Force imaging experts have a new lead in the search for adventurer Steve Fossett. After scanning radar and satellite images, an official working on the search says his people have picked up new clues to Fossett's location. Ground crews as well as search aircraft will be checking an area stretching 100 miles southeast of the Flying M Ranch.

Very close to the ranch is Walker Lake and the adjacent Hawthore Army Depot. Also to the southeast of the Flying M Ranch--at about the far end of this 100 mile tract--is the Nevada Test and Training Range, home to Area 51 and other military installations.

Meanwhile, hopes for finding Fossett hang on some new technology. The Civil Air Patrol--which now only has two planes involved in the search--is using a special cameras called ARCHER and FLIR that can detect subtleties the human eye can't. But no signal has come from Fossett's on-board safeguards, a emergency locator transponders on his plane and in the Breitling watch he's probably wearing.

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Search for Steve Fossett Scaled Back

The Super Decathalon Fossett was piloting

The Civil Air Patrol searching the Nevada desert for Steve Fossett has called off its search. After setting out on Labor Day in a light airplane, Fossett disappeared, and despite a massive search has yet to be found.

Local authorities have been looking for the lost adventurer for weeks, in an area double the size of New Jersey. A police spokesman told the AFP news service:

The Civil Air Patrol feel that they have completed their search of 98% of the ground that needed to be covered.

The CAP will keep two aircraft on stand-by in case any new leads surface, and the National Guard will continue to fly search missions, as will private aircraft operating out of Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch. Amazon and Google are still working together to provide satellite images to people who want to help with the search.

Go straight to the Flying M Ranch Map.

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Steve Fossett Search Map

As the search for millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett enters week two out in Nevada it looks like you (a.k.a TIME's person of the year, a.k.a generator of content) are being asked to help -- from your computer that is. Google Earth released new, up-to-date images of Nevada maps, enabling users to search from their homes and notify rescuers in Nevada of any potential leads. Google says the plane Mr Fossett was flying would appear as an object about "21 pixels long and 30 pixels in wingspan".

Thus we have embedded a new map above, with the projected Fossett search area for you to zoom in, zoom out and zoom around on. At least six old crash sites have been discovered since Fossett went missing on September 3. He set off in a two-seat Bellanca Citabria Super Decathlon from the Flying M Ranch for what was to be a three-hour trip.

Flying M Ranch Map

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Millionaire Adventurer Steve Fossett Goes Missing In Nevada Desert

American adventurer Steve Fossett was reported missing on Monday after failing to return to the airstrip he took off from at a southern Nevada ranch while piloting a Bellanca Citabria Super Decathalon light aircraft. He was flying solo. Teams are searching the areas of his likely course as we type, though a flight plan was not submitted prior to take off.

Steve took off from Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch, roughly 70 miles southeast of Reno, and the missing millionaire was scheduled to scout possible locations for a planned attempt on the world land-speed record later this month.

Fosset's adventure travel escapades include the world's longest uninterrupted flight, 26,389.3 miles aboard the Virgin GlobalFlyer back in 2006, and the first solo round-the-world in a balloon flight in 2002. He also set a world glider altitude record of 50,671 feet over the Andes in 2006.

Flying M Ranch Map

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