Wonder how many have caught this...

I always wondered why K's satellite view (when he looks up his old girlfriend in Truro, MA) locks on the west end of Cape Cod, and not on Truro at the northeast tip of the Cape.

An easy explanation: It always does that automatically for that - um, "zone"? - before shifting to Truro (while our POV is on K himself in the next shot).

Still, why bother with expensive special effects for an arbitrary location in the first place?

I sensed hidden symbolism there. Maybe something no one's yet noticed! (Or bothered mentioning anywhere. Unless I missed it here.) Too much time on my hands anyway...

It was tricky - no, impossible - to match K's Cape Cod to Google Earth's Cape Cod. The perspective is different.

K's tilted view is a magnification from thousands of miles up. The same view on Google Earth has an "eye altitude" of nine miles or so. It's too foreshortened, like looking at a chess board from the edge of the table. Everything's distorted. There was no way to simply superimpose K's rectangle on the G.E. map, using G.E. drawing tools.

Still with me here? Good.

So I did it the old-fashioned way: Sketch K's rectangle by eye using landmarks. (A giant sand-pit north of Forestdale helped immensely.) The result was a decent duplicate, considering the low resolution of the movie map.

Look what I found!

K's targeting-rectangle centers on empty acreage inside Otis Air National Guard Base, on or very near two small shooting ranges. OK, somewhat relevant, but a bit of a stretch.

But two miles to the NW, still inside K's rectangle, is a giant missile-tracking radar, a.k.a. Cape Cod Air Force Station. Which is also home to the 6th Space Warning Squadron since 1977, one of whose tasks is to track all known Earth-orbiting obects... or any new orbiting objects. (Official mission statement.) Coincidence? I wonder!

Woohoo!

Wait, it gets better!

With plenty of time left on my hands, I ventured further afield. An online item about the history of Otis had a bit about a National Guard base established in 1938, long before Otis was even thought of. Congress tried to shut it down a few times. It survived all attempts, evolving into a sprawling training center almost precisely five miles south of those two tiny shooting ranges.

The name of that training center?

Camp Edwards!

Coincidence?

Gedouddahere!