Can You Spot the Hidden Cell Towers?

Holy Crap! They could put these things anywhere and spy on you! Do they even have to tell you they are building them?

I’ve seen the palm tree ones, I knew something was going on!

Cell Towers in Church Steeples?!! My God (literally)!! How much do churches make to sell out like that.

Has the world gone insane? :)

Yeah these things could be doing anything hidden all over our towns.

the towers in the churches is just wrong. Worship our Digital Jesus!!!

That is nuts! Stop the madness! Do they need to be disguised as anything but what they are? IT is frightening to think what else may be hiding out there!!!!

don’t believe everything you see in pictures – are they all really cell towers?

just wait for the first lawsuit from someone who gets cancer from one of these disguised near their home and they didn’t know it was there.

But what else can you do, we need ellphones and it looks better than if it was just a tower. I just wonder now what else is disguised besides towers, cameras?

There’s a Palm tree Tower here in Phoenix. It was being built in an area where cell phones died behind one of the businesses here at 44th street and Indian School Road.

Wow this is very intresting. Never know when and where your being watched. How cool and scary. Rita

I’m glad they’re hiding them – good riddance to these ugly towers.

The church steeple is a bit strange though.

You are full of crap. That is not true!!

They just give the church a generous donation and they don’t think twice about putting it up.

ZOMFGWTFBBQH4X!!!!!!! U MEEN THEY MAKE TREEZ NOW???????

Great idea. Whoever thought of that should keep up the good work. Like it or not towers are useful and necessary to our way of life. They are here to stay, so might as well make them blend in.

Those are just a bunch of picutres of trees and buildings. Cell towers are not like that.

Rick

There are a few of the fake pine trees near here (picture of one beneath the church, second row left). I’ve got to say, I think the other hidden towers are clever, but the pine tree thing, it’s just moronic. The picture here doesn’t look quite as bad, but when you see one of these in real life, it looks amazingly out of place – not to mention it only has fake branches at the top of the “tree”. They even placed one in the middle of a field. I’m all for hiding them, but I’d prefer them hidden in a way that’s not too insulting to intelligence (such as the other pictures)

I’ve seen one of thoesd tre ones, xcept it was a pine. looked to smooth to be a real one, plus they had a babed wire fence round it.

my comment is simply to request that you all just stfu already.

Dude there is one in my town, and it sticks out and it makes me laugh, it is like 100’ hight than all the trees and looks pretty good except the metel coming out the top, i like the chruch, on more reason i am not going on sunday, avoid cancer

i think they should just build a massive tower. or maybe a couple smaller ones that would stretch to the heavens. 4 or five miles tall. that would solve all reception problems.

I’ve seen the pine tree one along I-89 in New Hampshire. In the middle of my hometown, two churches have cell towers in their steeples. At my old church, they paid for the renovation of the steeple, including RF-transparent materials, and also pay rent to the church. Hopefully they also install shielding so they don’t irradiate the sanctuary . . . Another company paid to rebuild the press box and light towers at my high school football stadium, adding cell towers.

Better than looking at an ugly tower. They’re here to stay. Get used to it.

I wish power lines could be hidden as well

I like the idea above about hiding power lines too!

creepy creepy creepy

i have been collecting cell tower photos for a little while now. i even have one from Jamaica!

http://www.elguapo5000.com/photo-gallery/faketrees/images/index.htm

We have one down the road that is in a fire tower. You’d never know unless you looked real close.

Yeah these things could be doing anything hidden all over our towns.
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Yeah – like making your mobile phone work for example!

The trees generally look like WC cleaning brushes. Here in the UK they hide cell sites in the illuminated signs at gas stations … then forbid users to use their handsets in the forecourt!

I am so sad that people are so ignorant about the real risk this antennas pose to their health. I specially sad about the lost of value for life!

A very good source for information on health issues associated with cell phone towers is the Wireless Action Network of New Mexico, which maintains this blog:
http://wireless-action.blogspot.com

I build cell towers, change out servers, and put up lighting systems. The only way rf (radio frequency) can affect you is if you stand in front of an active antenna. Most of the towers in cali are hidden because of the environmentalists, who of course use cell phones. People want the newest technology just dont want to know how it works. Look for the new cingular UMTS phones thats the upgrades ive been doin for the past year. Enjoy my work Erik Olson

I like the whole antenna on the church thing. It helps the church out financially. I think the fake tree thing is plain ugly... they stick out like a sore thumb. Cell phone carriers are doing a good job, just look for existing high structures and lease them out.

The story on cell towers seems to be that human behavior can be influenced by certain wavelengths - in the 3-20 Hz range. Feelings of well-being come when exposed to some wavelengths, rage and fear are engendered at other wavelengths. It's a way to control the minds of the whole population.

This could explain why they are going to such lengths to hide these things.

I have one of these near rockaway Nj.I always wonderd what it was for.The tree looks so fake.Like a paper tree.

Near me, they built one in a Veteran's cemetery.

wow, there seems to be a lot of paranoia here, mind control, being watched, spies, cancer.

They are just phone masts, disguised so people don't moan, if you're worried then stop using you mobile phone.

yeah i'll just stop using my mobile phone...its that simple
in fact i won't even expect transparancy and decency from my government
I'll roll over and die
there is no military industrial complex, there are no health issues concerning technology, there are no internal surveillance spies, unions were never any good anyways, they don't promote cyber ears and eyes for the poor crippled people to get us used to the idea, my new cell phone brain transponder is just great...only I get a headache when I don't buy stuff or if I question my diminishing rights or if I want a real education,
cancer shmancer I'll just pay the one big corporation that gave me cancer to cure it for me...thus enslaving me with debt so I'm too scared to make a peep about real and apparent health/societal issues!

technology doesn't hurt anyone ever...hasn't that been made plain by our beloved sponsors?

if they are going to do this camoflage spelling...well I don't know...maybe they should put a big CT symbol on the

The ones in the UK look hilarious and you look at them and think 'what the h**l are they?!?!?!?!?!??? (:-{'

I work in this industry, designing how the equipment is installed for them. The author of this article should have posted a photo or two of standard cell towers for comparison. They aren't pretty.

They also aren't put up in secret. When a new tower is built it has to go through zoning approval and any residents in the area are informed about the meeting to discuss a new tower-building proposal. Most towers are installed in commercial areas, away from residential areas (though it is sometimes a necessity, otherwise you wouldn't get a signal at home). In most cases, people don't even show up to these meetings to argue against them. When people do show up to complain, it's not about the radiation or the reception, but about how it will look. These "stealth" designs are around to keep people happy, not to try and sneak something by the public. In most cases, when antennas are installed on buildings they are simply painted to match the color of the building. That's all it takes to keep most people from even noticing them.

There are hundreds of thousands of towers across the United States. All you have to do is look around. Before I started working here I either didn't notice them or didn't pay attention to them... just as most of you have probably also done. Now I see them everywhere I go. The only way to stop the radiation is to completely ban cell phones, eliminate all cell phone companies completely from the country, and stop all local Television and Radio broadcasts.

There are rules and regulations about how much radiation each antenna can emit and how close they can be placed to residential buildings. The radiation levels aren't dangerous except at close range (and directly in front of an active antenna)... a distance that is exceeded by the height of the tower. So, the danger levels (decided by the FCC or some other ruling body) are never exceeded any place that the public has access to. If you're worried about cancer from the build up of low levels of this radiation over time... YOU'RE TOO LATE! Most of these towers have been around for 10 years or more. Only recently have the stealth towers really gotten creative like the examples above.

Besides, You might already have cancer from radiation, dozens of different types of foods, second hand smoke, etc. Life gives you cancer, so quit worrying so much about it and move on with your lives.

Also, I have never seen a camera installed on any of the 1200+ sites that I have worked on. Your government uses satellites and traffic lights for that sort of thing.

All these hidden towers are creepy. They track your movemnt w/these. Maybe they are setting up infrastructure to chip us and control us. sound crazy but look what man has done to himself throughout history. u think we are beyond control? beyond evil designs? dont be so naive.

we lost our civil rights, we are illegally occupying an innocent nation, we have a rogue president and phony elections. the media is owned by 6 people. and you think conspiracies dont exist? ever heard of project for a new american century? false flag terrorism? if i told you 9-11 was self-inflicted would you at least launch a real investigation? if it were a lie, why would the gov\'t block all attempts at getting real testimony, under oath by our leaders? because they know the truth will come out and they dont want to have to admit under penalty of perjury their participation.

ever wonder why the president has a record number of signing statements? why the republican congress has launched a record number of filibusters since the dems took control? why aren\'t the anthrax attacks being fully investigated? they were against key members of the democratic party. what? that wasn\'t a terrorist attack on American soil? everybody thinks we were hit only once on 9-11.

nobody remembers that real people died in the anthrax attacks and guess what, nobody has been held accountable, yet on the same day of the 9-11 attacks, all the major media outlets already had, prepared, a list of the hijackers with photos and everything. you think all this doesn\'t add up, then you are in denial. me, myself, i don\'t trust any of these bastards. may they all have their day in court when we get a dem prez (not clinton) who will actually go after these criminals against the nation. the first clinton didn\'t go after all the criminals in the reagan and bush admins, and look what happened. bush 2 installed all these guys into his cabinet and voila! instant war criminals and war profiteers.

the nation is in debt to a bunch of chinese communists and middle easterners who are buddies with all these corporatists in the bush admin. these cell towers are very much creepy because of their dual use possibilities. bush signed an executive order making himself supreme ruler in the event of any crisis foreign or domestic that he can declare without any agreement with the other two branches of govt. he holds the football, nukes, national guard, pentagon and even our energy policy under his thumb.

America is dying a slow death under these republicans and their enablers, the ignorant, hateful voters who would rather interfere with a womans right to choose or who is marrying who, than to go after torture memos, blatant war crimes, war profiteering, illegal violations of the constitution, unnecessary death of our precious troops, the murdering of hundreds of thousands of iraqis and countless other crimes and high crimes and misdemeanors that are very impeachable. talk about double standard, hypocrisy and evil. keep sleeping. you will lose much more than your jobs and homes. you have already lost your rights. keep sleeping. keep denying. it\'s worked so well for you so far. look how nice everything is. are you fearful of losing your job yet? your home? afraid to quit and look for another job? but the economy is so strong, and we are all doing so well! nobody\'s slaving away all week and getting less pay. bills arent skyrocketing! the free market is regulating it self so everybody go home and be happy. you don\'t have bone crushing debt! banks would never raise your credit interest rates to 30 percent for almost no reason. they didnt lobby for that little gem in congress for almost 20 years to not be able to do it. bush gave these guys everything. in fact, the lobbyists authored all key legislation and regulations that our stupid congress passed. and its not just the republicans, its spineless dems too! weak against a president with a 30 percent approval rating LOL! only because theirs is even lower! cowards!

so if you think that these towers cannot be used for anything else but cellphones, i got a couple of towers in manhattan to sell ya.

You may have a complication with your medication.

Back 8 years ago, we used Grain Silos for towers throughout western Oklahoma and parts of Texas to bring high speed wireless internet to rural areas. The business plan did not support having to build new towers and many of those businesses would still be using dial up! It also allowed young internet related companies to do their start ups in small towns with low overhead. It was really good for rural Oklahoma.

The guest who commented on April 2, 2008 mostly ranted about government conspiracies and political generalizations. Whether even half of it had any merit or not, made sense or not, or was even on topic doesn\'t matter because everyone is entitled to their opinion. Normally, I\'d completely ignore a post like that... in this case, I\'ll ignore about 90% and and chime in about the practicality of the 10% he was talking about cell towers:

Can you be tracked by cell towers?
Yes. If your cell phone is turned on and within range of a tower, the company can narrow your position to the nearest tower easily... it\'s even possible to track you to within a few feet using triangulation IF you\'re in range of 2, 3, or more towers. (more than 3 is pretty unlikely since most companies share towers and try to build as few sites as possible while maintaining solid coverage.)

Government agencies can and do track criminal suspects through their cell phones... when they have access to enough info about the suspect... with help/permission from the cell phone companies with a warrant and special permission. This combination of factors doesn\'t come up very often so it\'s not a common practice. Based on your above statements, you no doubt believe that the government frequently (if not continuously) does the same thing without permission or authorization.

I would highly doubt such a claim. The wireless companies are already pretty busy maintaining and upgrading their systems. It would be extremely difficult for anyone in the government to gain access to the system without them knowing about it and you can bet each company would complain publicly if they were forced to comply to giving the government full access to their systems, especially since such broad governmental interference isn\'t legally authorized.

So,I guess that leaves us with the potential for secret deals between CEOs and top secret branches of government. Even with the right combination of hush money, blackmailing, and sweet deals with the company(s) in question.... thousands of the regular employees would have to know about or at least notice what was going on. Have you heard anyone speak up? Have there been lots and lots of mysterious deaths among wireless company techs? I don\'t know but it\'s quite a stretch of the imagination.

It\'s also pretty impractical to track everyone all at once. Can you imagine the data involved in 200 million wireless devices being tracked simultaneously minute-by-minute!?! It\'s not impossible but it would cost about the same as the entire current tower system did to build in the first place. \"Sure Uncle Sam, we\'ll double our expenses in an already cut-throat market just to help you find out how often Suzi Jones goes to the supermarket for your own fiendish plans.\" That\'s exactly what I would say if I was an already over-paid CEO with nothing much to gain from the deal and plenty to lose... but I\'m not most CEOs.

I have a few questions of my own on the topic: Why would the government even want to know the exact location of every US citizen at a given moment? What do you have to hide and/or why do you care if the government know when you\'re at home and when you\'re at work? (they can probably find you either place 80% of the time anyways) How would the government know that it\'s you carrying around the wireless device in question and not your wife, teenage daughter, best friend, or random cell-phone thief? When will the microchip implants be installed, birth? How will they be powered, bio-electrical energy from the human nervous system? Have they found a safe place to put them that won\'t show up on X-rays and CAT scans (or be ripped out by the magnets in MRIs) or will they just blackmail doctors to delete and/or ignore them when they do show up?

Americans (some more than others) are highly suspicious of the government and it\'s vast powers. I don\'t know why we\'re not just as suspicious of the major corporations with similar power over our lives. The government, in general, is too slow and bureaucratic to accomplish the evil (and beautifully cinematic) schemes that we\'ve come to fear even half as efficiently as some of the massive corporations out there potentially could.

There\'s plenty to fear out there, at least spice up your paranoid little lives by picking something new to fear every once in a while. Don\'t be so boring and stereotypical.

By the way, Santa Clause knows when you\'re sleeping AND when you\'re awake. You better get started on making some bombs and walking up to the North Pole to take care of that creepy old man once and for all!

[The country might be in bad shape but I don\'t really believe there\'s an evil master plan behind it all. Even if things get much, much worse around here, it\'ll take something pretty devastating to make us as bad off as most African or Asian countries. To think, all this paranoia over something as mundane as basic wireless infrastructure!]