Project Skydrop Found!
The treasure of Project Skydrop has been found! The treasure hunt by Jason Rohrer and Tom Bailey has ended.
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At 5:19 PM on October 1 a person is seen reaching down to pick up the gold sculpture that was sitting on the forest floor. The total value of treasure at the time was over $100,000 – including the growing prize bounty.
Searchers had been hiking all over the Northeast US trying to discover a gold treasure about the size of an ice cream cone since September 19th when the hunt was first announced.
Jason Rohrer was surprised it was found without the hunt releasing clues that provided more identifiable features in the aerial images to match to a map. It was believed, by Jason, that it was nearly impossible to be found without the use of those clues or to be found any other way.
However, there were many who were searching off trail near the Wendell area– the believed location – at the time of discovery.
The reason is because on the morning of September 25th pockets of rain moved through the shrinking red circle – the search area.
With live feed cameras on site of the treasure, updating at 15-minute intervals, this weather data could be compared to the treasure site, and when it became wet.
At 9:45 AM the leaves on camera by the gold sculpture were dry. At 10 they were wet. At 10:15 they were more wet.
I myself had this weather data. Shown below. Unfortunately, for myself, we chose to search Savoy and Mohawk this past weekend – those areas had still been in the circle where a pocket of showers moved through as well at that time.
But the circle kept shrinking, and then with additional weather data, the weather basically pinpointed the treasure’s location – the area near Wendell.
It is not impossible to find something when out searching for it. People search for morel mushrooms, deer sheds, and other things all the time. And find those things.
At the moment, it is unclear exactly what clues the finder used to discover the treasure. But the fact is many were searching in the area with only weather data, and if he wouldn’t have found it, others could have using the clues given by the weather and the shrinking circle. The aerial images would not have been needed.
You can find a treasure with determination, belief, intuition, common sense, eyes, legs, boots on the ground, and a paper map.
(Updates as more news comes in will be made to the above article) – Discussion on Discord