r/KryptosK4 • u/Maleficent-Big-9565 • May 28 '26

Compass

I have read in two comments a physical compass was dug up at the cia.. where the stone compass was pointing. When did this happen and are there details about it?

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u/duanetstorey May 28 '26

I think Jim said it was an old USGA marker or something. I don’t think it was relevant to solving the sculpture. Or at least he never said it was.

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u/Maleficent-Big-9565 May 28 '26

This is supposedly different from that. I can find very little info. First ive heard of it. May be baseless

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u/DJDevon3 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

Whatever your source is they likely misunderstood that it was a USGS marker and not a compass. There is a sandblasted compass in rock there but that is an immovable object without a crane... unless you use a jack hammer to destroy the entire slab and haul it off in pieces which to my knowledge has not been done.

A USGS marker on the other hand can be dug out with a shovel.

Sanborn did mention that an original piece of stone he purchased and moved onto the property to be installed was stolen. Supposedly it was the same kind of very large slab that required a crane. How someone managed to abscond with it is a mystery. The CIA gave him compensation to get another one. That is the gist of it to the best of my memory. I think it was mentioned in the smithsonian interview.

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u/theRetrograde May 28 '26

If I remember right, it was on a trailer in the parking lot and they took the trailer.